Friday, April 18, 2008

Happiest time of year

This makes my year. I simply love blossoms on trees, especially when I can gaze up at the silhouette of the branches against a blue sky.


What a wonderful world God has created! It almost helps me forget about finals...and final projects...

Eric and his sister Jessica had a Russian choir concert tonight. They did a great job, and it was also a nice break from working on projects. Eric and I got ice cream at the Wilk after and life was wonderful :o)

Back to the grind; I have a couple projects to finish tomorrow by late afternoon!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Dear professor,

I'm sorry for spamming you with e-mails asking lots of questions. However, I must defend myself by presenting my reasoning in this public forum also known as my blog.

Your class is ridiculous. I have not spoken to a single -- that means not one -- student in your class who has not expressed confusion about what is going on.

Several have even expressed having a strange feeling that they know exactly the same amount of information now that they did the first week of the semester, which seems unusual to me considering our wells of knowledge should have been enriched and replete by this point.

Now normally, when a few students complain I understand it's probably their own fault and they probably didn't try hard enough, but when the entire class feels confused, there has to be some sort of problem with the course or the course instruction.

This, my dear professor, is why I felt it necessary to send you four or five e-mails today inquiring about how to do different aspects of the silly final project you yourself have declared "frustrating." In fact, you should be glad I'm still trying -- lots of other people have just given up.

Sincerely,
Cindy

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Food for thought

It's important to remember that there is good news in the world, too. These two articles about autism were beautiful proof of that, as well as the fact that people can make a difference in their worlds. These two mothers have accomplished so much and I really love their stories. Hope you enjoy them as well.