velociraptor52
13 December 2009 @ 09:49 pm
Shiny icon... :D  

Just showing off my newly made icon :) as you can probably tell, I liked the SyFy channel's Alice. Purely because of Hatter, though.

(And I saw him in Primeval first and thought he was cute there. So I'm feeling sort of selfish/possessive/typical fangirly when I see how much others liked him in Alice and all I can think of is that I thought he was cute/hot before them when I watched Primeval.)

But yes, marval at my new icon :/ it may replace my Doyle icon.

Speaking of non-icon/Hatter, it's been raining almost non-stop since last week. I like the rain. But it makes me feel lazy/sad. I miss the sun and the warmth. But the cold makes it seem more winter-y.

I'm hoping it'll continue with this weather when Christmas comes around. I like it.

("It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.")

Anyways, more on my icon-making list: a new Dollhouse (Victor) icon, maybe a new Doyle icon, a Fargo icon from Eureka (maybe), and I've been watching the Muppets lately, so maybe a Gonzo icon just because he's my favorite. It's good to have random icons.

Thank God last week of the semester!! (It deserves multiple exclamation points.) I just need to survive the finals and then school will be over until February. But oh my god no more math! I am so happy I can't describe how happy I am. Or maybe I can. All I know is that it's like I'll finally be free from a figurative jail filled with numbers and integrations and whatnot--and I will be so relieved. Somewhere along the line math became less fun and more like a chore I have to do. I liked when it was fun :/ algebra was fun. Pre-calculus, so-so. Calculus--pure torture. So I will be practically weeping (not really thought) with joy on Wednesday night when I get out of class and realize that I have battled math the last and maybe/hopefully final time.

To get away from the topic of school now, Dollhouse lately? OMG. That's about all my mind can express when I watched it live last Friday. Well, first my mind went all "........." and then it slowly comprehended what had happened and what I had just watched and then I walked around in a zombie/Active like state for like an hour after that. Either way, it's so so so so so so good right now. I can't stress how so good it is, but it so is :P it's darker than Firefly and I love it and it's moving completely fast right now and I think I may need to marathon when season 2 comes out on DVD but it's so awesome. It's on the level of Angel awesome. And Angel's right below Firefly. So Dollhouse is moving up in the list at the moment.

( Dollhouse thoughts )

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velociraptor52
06 May 2009 @ 08:34 pm
 

So I've just been living under a rock, as far as Livejournal-ing is concerned.  I mean I browsed my friend's list and everything and still read, but as far as writing an entry was concerned, no.

Life for me has been busy.  Last month.  I'm thinking May will be easy-going (thank God!) than April (a.k.a. month of sleep deprivation).  I am just so happy the musical is finally over.  Now I have my life back.

And Tuesday nights back as well.  And Saturday nights.  And after this Sunday morning, chapel choir will be over, so I'll have Sunday afternoons back.

(And I got a D on my last math test, damn it.  There was material on there that the teacher covered on the day I skipped class.  And that material made up the bulk of the test and me=not knowing it=fail.  Although there are two more tests left in the class and more homework to be turned in so I think I can still get an A in the class *crosses fingers*

*also decides to kill calculus, stabbing it in the back in an 'Et tu, Brute?' sort of way*)

Because calculus is simply driving me crazy.  I liked pre-calc more.  Calculus is too...calculus-y.  And derivative-y.  ('y' being pronounced as 'e', not 'y'.)

I have so many episodes of Dollhouse I need to give my thoughts on.  I'll probably do that this Saturday/Friday.  (OMG Friday :( Dollhouse season finale.  And it better be season, not series.  Seriously.  I have grown attatched to the show and I'll really be sad if it gets cancelled.)

I haven't seen HIMYM in AGES.  Wow.  I'll probably watch the season finale to see what happens with Barney and everyone, but any other episode I'll catch up via DVD.  I'll also catch up with Castle via DVD, some NCIS episodes via DVD, and...other shows via DVD.

(The shows that I currently watch live are NCIS, Deadliest Catch, and Dollhouse :/ I think that says something about me, though I'm not sure what...)

Last Friday I checked out some books from the college library for the first time.  This was my thought after walked away with four books (three for research for an essay for my anthrpology class; 1 for fun.  Yes, reading Daily Life in Chaucer's England I consider fun reading): "Wow, I feel like a real college student."

Yeah, I actually thought that.  But seriously though, they didn't kill me for checking out books!...not that I thought that was going to happen to me, but I thought they wouldn't let me check out books or my ID card wouldn't scan or something bad would happen that would prevent me from checking out books.

I am the world's worst person-who-thinks-that-something-bad-will-always-happen sort of person.  I always just worry about everything and always think that something bad will happen in situation or something.

Lately I've been buying all these books that were recommended if one liked The Dresden Files series--they will be referred to as 'recommendation books', because I bought them on recommendation--and I was planing on reading them.  Then my mom decided to read them :/ I'm also the world's worst materialistic person; if I buy something with my own money, it's mine.  And I want possession of it.  I'm okay with it if my mom reads the books first, but the...the thing that gets creased is getting creased first not by me :( I miss creasing the book first.  (Is it called the binding or something?)

(I am also the world's worst owner of books--The Three Musketeers is falling apart and I need a new copy; Storm Front is...loved too much, and so I bought the first three books of The Dresden Files again.

Just for the free poster :D but because they're also the cool Chris McGrath covers and the first book was getting really...old, for lack of better term.)

At least I have enough books to last me for the next five years.  I have so many I need to read it's not funny...

Okay, onto math homework!  Or reading and sleeping.

And speaking of books, as an afterthought, my mom hasn't even finished Turn Coat, the 11th Dresden Files book.  She doesn't want to finish it.  'Cause she's afraid Thomas will turn evil at the end.  *sigh* eventually I need to read it and eventually she'll have to finish it, so I think she's just reading the recommendation books I bought to not finish Turn Coat.

(And what's more, she's liking the recommendation books.  Yesterday I went out to buy a sequel to a first novel she had finished in one day.  Another thing I want: summer.  Time off to read.  Of course, when I read, I like taking my time.  She just speeds through the books.)
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velociraptor52
06 February 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I'm still alive!...  
 I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.
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velociraptor52
06 February 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I'm still alive!...  
 I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.
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