Ah, the time has come to move on from this class (thank GOD). I don’t think summer could have come at a better time honestly. I’ve been counting down the weeks till we were done and it seemed to drag on forever. The last three weeks have been an absolute brutal nightmare because I’ve been waiting for it to just end already. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the class and the teacher, I just hated the work. I mean, I’ve never had to spend sooo much time on just one class (maybe biology). At first, I was in a complete panic stage because I just couldn’t quite figure out how to work through it all. I was so overwhelmed that I actually cried one week because I thought there was no way I could get it all done. It’s so funny because I looked back at that week and thought to myself “this is easy, what was my problem?” it’s definitely a class that you have to adjust to and make tons of room for but I got used to it and never panicked again. I’ll admit, I am definitely not a big fan of literature; actually, I really hate it. I hate everything about it. And when Jennifer introduced our week one schedule and that letter we had to write about how much literature meant to us and what we can learn from it I thought “you’ve got to be kidding me. I hate literature, there’s no way I can tell her how much I like it and what I can learn from it.” The answer, for me, is still zippo. I still hate analyzing literature and poems, but this class taught me how to and I’m grateful for learning. I mean, I really hated this class in the beginning but I just knew I wouldn’t pass if I didn’t give it a chance and take it seriously. So I did, and it really wasn’t that hard because Jennifer made it so easy to follow. Without the homework helper and her, I never would have had it easy because I’m such a scatterbrain. I think the way Jennifer had it all set up was brilliant; I’ve never had a teacher who was so helpful and involved with the entire class. I really appreciated that part, every week. It’s getting really hard to type the rest of this because I got acrylic nails done a few weeks ago and they’ve mutated into talons. I swear, my nails get stuck in the keyboard. Anyway, and now I shall say FAREWELL to the rest of you. To my regulars, I love you all and your righteous comments. To the rest of you, you really missed out because I’m a genius. Lisa, your blog was always one of my favourites. Penniless and Jessica, you too. I’m going to go out on a limb and say I’ll miss the blogs and my favourite people. You people were fantastic, and I know you’re all just dying to kick off the summer so TTFN ta ta for now!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Auf Wiedersehen Mein Die Kollegen! (i bet you didn't know i was German)
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Finally, the last blog responses. I only had a few students’ blogs who I followed this semester to keep things more simple. I commented on yours a few times during the course because you always did you blog earlier in the week than other students did. I liked that because I wanted to get as much work done as early as possible, and you made that achievable by posting before Friday most or maybe all of the time. As you said in your blog the last few weeks seemed to last forever, I cannot wait for summer break. This class took a lot out of me because of its massive and never ending workload. I’ve never done so much work for a class in my over 60 units completed. But it’s almost done and I can see the end and almost taste the time off and the laziness that follows. I noticed in your blog that you said you’re going to miss the blogs, that’s kind of brazen of you, but you can always keep doing them. Maybe do them on topics your interested in at the time. In the end I enjoyed your blogs and congrats on finishing this class. Have a great summer.
ReplyDeleteLet me just tell you girly, you’re crazy, lol. I hate to say it but I had almost the same feelings in the beginning of the class. I don’t quite despise literature as much as you do but I did have a hard time adjusting to the amount of work in the class each week. I am a full time student, a single mother, and I work so you can only imagine how hard it was for me to make all the time necessary to complete our weekly assignments as well as all the other homework I got from my additional classes. I have taken online classes before and there was not nearly as much work! But I did enjoy the class a lot and really like Professor Gross as a teacher and the way that she arranged the class. I am not going to lie there were a few assignments I did not complete and Professor Gross was nice enough to let me have the chance to make it up. I am sorry to hear that you hate literature so much and I hope for your sake that you don’t have to take a whole bunch of English classes in the future! I do share the sentiment of being glad that the semester is almost over and that we will have a little bit of a break! I hope that you have a good summer girly and that your finals aren’t too bad.
ReplyDeletehaha, thanks. I'm going to miss your blog too! I'm so very grateful for this thing just being over though so it's bitter sweet. I think we were all pulling our hair out lately and are finally breathing a sigh of relief. During the first weeks I was pissed most of the time like 'what the hell does she expect?" But yeah, now looking back, I didn't know how easy I had it. It sucks that you don't like Literature but I'm glad you have the guts to be honest about it. I generally really like reading it but my God do I hate analyzing it. If Jennifer hadn't forced us to do it over and over I probably never would have even tried lol. Now I'm a reading fiend but honestly, the reason I like it so much is because no one is grilling me about it afterwards. I hate feeling like at any second I'm going to be quizzed, haha. Well I'm going to miss ya Mad Cat Lady but enjoy your summer and keep being yourself, it's the best thing you could do! Good luck with those acrylics, I hated doing those when I did Beauty school a while back, such a pain! And the upkeep was ridiculous! But to each his own. Best of luck in the future.
ReplyDeleteI totally can understand how you hated literature, but for me I actually learned to appreciate the fact that it does in many cases mean something. I went through a lot of stuff with school and personal issues this semester and I think many of the literary themes that we had to cover actually helped me. Let me just say that the Love and Hate one spoke volumes, as did the Innocence and Experience one. The most important and best aspect of this class however, was the fact that we all had such a connection to each other, mainly in terms of the fact that we had to do all of these blogs and al l of that Discussion Board work, I really feel that I would not have gotten much out of the class if we had not have had to interact with each other. This is making me realize that the best classes that I have ever taken were classes that make you interact with each other. Like with the Peer Draft Reviews, I really felt that we helped each other to become better writers, I know for me, it was so helpful to have other people look over my paper and critique it. So all I can say now is I hope everyone does well with everything in the future and hopefully we all get the best grade in this class!
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