Current Mood: Snooty

Gah! Rememberthemilk.com doesnt have a plugin created for Wordpress users. Such a disappointment. I only signed up for it to see if theres a way to post it in Wordpress or any blog website. I dont use Google calendar or iphone (I dont own one :eek: ). So I guess I’ll have to continue my quest for a good “to-do list” web app that I can use with Wordpress. There is a plugin similar to it but it’s not even compatible with the latest version of Wordpress. Boo…

Current Mood: Guilty

Happy holidays to all! This holidays has been not so good. Every day is the same. I take daily naps which causes me to sleep late like 3 am-ish. It’s horrible because I know that once school starts I’m going to have to change my sleeping patterns. Speaking of school, I got excellent grades. I got my first A+ in university (math). Everything else was A, A, A- and B. B being the marketing which I thought I got a C in. I really thought I did bad there. Thank goodness for the holiday miracle. :love1:
It’s boxing day tomorrow and I really want to go shopping on the 28th. Visit Bath and Body Works since I’ve heard some great sales there plus they have some awesome cremes that smell great. I guess once school starts I really should start shopping since the entire 2009 may be sales galore due to this “recession” whatever that means. But honestly I really should start saving. I’m going to have to pay off my student loan when I finish in a few months. And life is being a suck with all this personal issues & the economy. Meh, I do hope it gets better soon. Even though I like seeing the gas price go down, it’s also affecting the non-drivers too.

Current Mood: Pissed

So my 3rd exam was today and I was late. I didnt get up early so I was late. When I got there there was no left over desk or chair to sit on. I’m so livid. How could the university assign a room for a class of around 20 (instead of 80ish) a room that doesnt even have enough desks and chairs?! Also the TAs didnt even grab extra tables and chairs when they knew that the only girl in the class is missing?! Utter disappointment. I honestly would complain if I knew who and where to complain to. There were also 2 guys who were also late that also had to find a desk and a chair. The 2nd guy had to get one from another class where another exam was happening. I dont blame the class for being pissed but honestly, it’s not our fault. It’s the stupid university who is too damn lazy to get a decent room for us. So enough of that, I left the room 1 hour later after realizing that I dont really care about this exam anymore. I know I’ll probably get at least a B in that course considering how I did all labs and about around a B in the midterm. So even though I arrived late due to not having a desk/chair, I still finished way ahead of the class.

On tech news, Wordpress 2.7 is coming out tomorrow (Friday). Since I dont have much plans, I plan on upgrading alot of the Wordpress scripts that’s used to run this blog and the various fan sites I’m running. It tooks like it’ll have some nice features and nifty Javascript scripts in it.

I cant have it both ways. I dont even know if I can tolerate the having to work and going to school at the same time. I had a horrible summer this year. I barely did any “me” time and here I am complaining about it. I had a fulltime job, part time job and took an online accounting course this past summer. My body and mind was all blown out. As soon as my full time job ended, I went right through school. So now all I have is this part time job thats also going to end soon and full time school. I know that I should start looking for another part time job soon since I need to get the money flowing in my pocket but I haven’t really looked. Sure I’ve applied to various work study jobs in my university which was giving out 2 resumes but that was it. Nothing really. Also I’m not even sure if I want an IT job. I might just want to work for Chapters or Coles where not much IT is in the job. Simply said, I have no motivation to search for jobs. I guess I’ll have the motivation as soon as the contract ends in my part-time job. Then I’ll go into panic mode and start looking like there’s no tomorrow. Also ever since school started, I’ve become relatively lazy and I’ve lost my ability to program… I’ve been doing PHP in the summer that that’s all I could code. No C. No Java. Now that I have to relearn C, I am so screwed since one of my courses requires to code in the language. I hate C with a passion and I dont get why its creators never made it user-friendly…. Ugh.. Enough ranting. See ya later.

Current Mood: Okay

This week has been so crazy. Both good and bad. Let’s start with the bad. Well I wanted to sign up for an online summer course for this summer. I heard marketing was a great & easy course to do in the summer. 3 of the guys in the class signed up for it already. So when I was in the Registrars office they said that it’s already full. :irked: Apparently, I had to go to the office and ask (nicely) to let me in. I find it so ridiculous to have a class online and have it full. Hello?! It’s an online course how can it be full? It’s not like I’m physically sitting in a classroom. I’m going to be in my home desktop doing the work. Totally boggles my mind how my school works. Sometimes it’s crap sometimes it’s pretty good. So the girl said ‘No sorry. If its full we cant do anything about it’. She said that they dont want more people in that course maybe because the professor thats teaching it only wants to mark a certain number of assignments. Are teachers becoming that lazy now?! So that totally ruined my week. I was so desperate to get into that class. I highly doubt that someone is going to drop it since it’s an online course plus I heard it’s super easy. So I went home felling all upset then I just decided to sign up for accounting instead of marketing. It’s an online course too. Only bad thing about it is that it’s more expensive than marketing. I dont get why that is but instead of $494 it’s $539… :x I really didnt have a choice but to take it. So I signed up the next day and got in. It only had 7 spots left. I was very lucky. Now I gotta get that money to pay for it. So that’s my summer plans. Going to work full time, doing an online summer course and also doing a part-time job. I really hope I can do all 3 this summer. I never really go to summer vacations like some people. I’d rather work and earn my money for school. The bank has informed me that they plan on freezing my line of credit since they think I’m finished school. Clearly, I’m not done. I really dont want to have to use that line of credit anywhere since I dont want to be in debt…

Now for the good part, I did well on my multimedia test. I got 86% which is an improvement from my last midterm mark which is 56%. So yay me!

Current Mood: Depressed

I would think that after a week of having a crappy week I would get a break by at least starting off my week right. (did that make any sense?) But no I didnt. Monday was so crappy. I started off with an interview that I know I didnt get. The only thing that I hope is that my php script, which I finished in 10 minutes instead of 30, can save me and see them that I do know my PHP and that I was just nervous in the interview, which happens all the time when I have one. I’ve had so many interviews already and my nervousness never seems to go away. :irked: They offered the online test on a Mac notebook. :sowhat: I was not impressed because I dont know how to use Macs. The only time I ever used one was probably 4 years ago. I was bored and wanted to try it out. I felt real stupid using it though because it doesnt have the same keyboard as regular pc. During the beginning of the test, I thought I was pressing cntrl+c when it actually was fn+c. :no: Then when I stood up to call the interviewer, I tripped on the cord and almost dropped the notebook. Talk about bad luck… :ashamed: That’s gotta be one of the most memorable interviews I have ever had. To add to the horrible day, I just found out that I got 50% in one of my midterms… I didnt think I did that bad. My expectation was 70%.. :banghead: Class average was 27/30… This definitely gives me a reason to do really well on the 2nd midterm. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day..

Current Mood: Bored

So I landed myself another interview this Monday with a certain University (no not my university, I already attend and work there). One thing that surprised me is the 30 minute PHP online test that goes along with it. I’m not exactly sure what kind of test it is whether it’s multiple choice or write a PHP script for 30 minutes. Either way I have to “study” the language and practice programming on Sunday. This obviously ruins the entire plan of studying my midterm on Sunday but I really do not have any choice. Because of this interview I also have to skip 2 hours of Philosophy. I dont mind being away for 1 class but this is 2 hours I’m going to miss. Plus the professor takes up attendance that is worth 10%. :no: I guess I wont be getting a perfect (and easy) 10%.

Random: Love is having a shared identity with someone else. If we are to have this shared identity, then we are no longer an independent being. Therefore we are no longer autonomous. Humans cannot be happy if they lose their freedom.. Therefore love is destructive… :? That’s what I’m learning in philosophy… It’s interesting to learn but articles are sometimes hard to comprehend.

Current Mood: Depressed

I had another interview today from ‘the’ company. I wont mention where only because it’s a rather large company. It went well. Nervous as usual. Oh well. I really hate behavioural type of questions though. The interviewer said that I’ll be hearing back from them on the 20th which I hope is true. I really hate waiting for statuses. If I didnt get the job, you should tell me asap so that I dont have to worry if I got the job or not. I hate the wait and contemplating if I got it. :embarass:

It really doesnt worry me (yet) that I havent found a job. I know 2 people that I’ve already had offers (and accepted them) but oh well. I guess it’ll hit me once April starts and most of my friends have jobs except for me. I really need some money though. Not from a part-time job but a full-time job in the summer… :irked:

Current Mood: Bored

I’ve finally got my HP laptop fixed after many rants on how crappy their laptops are and how inadequate their help desks are. It turns out the motherboard needed to be fixed. It wasnt because the adapter was broken (which was the first guess) or the battery (2nd guess). It was the motherboard. I shipped it on Tuesday and I just got it back last night. I admit, I am pretty impressed since it didnt take them a week like the agent said it would. I guess due to Xmas coming up they didnt want to fix any laptops during the weekend but instead spend time Xmas shopping? lol So now I’m going to try not to screw up the laptop again. I’m also glad that I finished all my Xmas shopping. I dont have to shop for alot of people so I’m happy with that. I have to buy myself lots of Xmas shopping after the holidays where everything is going to be on sale (and hectic). :slant: I didnt realize how difficult it was to find foot scrubs or foot lotions in stores out there. I had to go to practically every store in one of the largest malls in Toronto and I didnt find any! I just went to the local drug store 10 minutes away from my house and found it there… :sowhat: Waste of my time.

Oh yeah one last time I have to say about the horrible prof I had last semester. He states in his blog that he gave one student an F for failing to take the exam. It turns out that the student did take the exam. The prof just misplaced the exam paper. Once he found it, the student ended up getting a B… What kind of teacher loses an exam?! :devil: Useless.. I know that he’s not perfect. He is only human. But dont give them an F without actually speaking to the student. There are reasons why those exam invigilators take attendance during the exam you know. So you can use it to track down if there are any students who didnt take the exam… Ugh, useless.. Definitely useless.

Current Mood: Okay

As expected I did horrible on AI. I really wanted to at least get a C on this but I didnt. Ugh. I did pass though so that’s good.. I suppose.. But on a lighter note, I got an A on my introduction to database. I was surprised about that. I didnt expect to get a good mark since I did poorly on the midterm. But I guess the main project and final boosted up the mark hence an A. :jump: I’m satisfied with my mark despite the AI mark. It’s my lowest thus far. I dont think I will be posting it when I send out my resumes when I apply for the upcoming internship in the summer.

I still havent finished my Xmas shopping. I have my sister, mother and friend that I got for Secret santa left. I already know what to get her so it should be okay. Anywho, I was watching this tv show and it was about hating Toronto. In fact the title of the show was ‘Let’s hate Toronto’. I honestly did not know the rest of Canada hated us. I know that we’re not that nice. Believe me, I know how rude Torontonians are… Every person that’s not from Toronto that I’ve asked what they think of us. Rude is one of them. The first time I heard that I was offended but since I hear it more now, I dont mind it. I agree. We are rude. It’s not something to be proud of but it’s the truth. It doesnt really surprise me… :slant:

Current Mood: Depressed

Argh :banghead: I really want to comment on my prof’s blog since his post is just so damn arrogant. If you dont know what I’m talking about, I blogged about him in here. I wont post his url since he’s got a tracker which will lead to my site ranting about him. So basically in his latest post, he states that he was disappointed at how poorly his students were on the final and that simple questions couldnt be answered. He also states that out of the 50 students, he thinks that only 5 probably read the book and knew what the hell was going on in the course. I have to admit. I dont think I did too well in the final. I just wish I had more time to study for it. But it was a tough exam. I’ve never felt so clueless in an exam for a long time (aside from the one I had the day before). Even the smart students in the course have low expectations after the final. Some guy who normally wants A’s just wanted ‘to pass’. I do too. I just want to pass but at the same time, I want a B. Now after the final, I’ll probably just get a C. :weeping: This will definitely lower down my GPA plus all the other finals that I did horrible on. I guess after I see my final marks, will definitely depress me. It’s to be expected that it’ll lower down the GPA. This will force me to study my arse off next semester which I heard is worse off subjects than the Fall.

Current Mood: Okay

So here’s the plan for the next semester, sit in the front of the class to prevent distractions from those who site in the back. Well not really the front but more like 2nd or 3rd row. Take notes by hand not computer notes. I admit ever since I bought my first laptop this semester, it’s been difficult to pay attention since I can just go to facebook or hotmail whenever the lectures get real boring. But what I noticed that if I do write down my notes, I tend to pay more attention to the lecture no matter how boring the material is. Of course, I cant say the same thing if I did not have enough sleep the night before. Hence the French Vanilla / Hot chocolate that I would have to purchase 10 minutes before the class will have to do. Also, this would save ink cartridges since I wont have to print as many notes. Only print the necessary ones! :wink: Unless the lectures are basically copy-the-notes-in-the-white/black-board-otherwise-youre-screwed class, then I am writing down the notes in a loose leaf paper, from then on. I also noticed that I’m going to have 2 labs in the next semester, so that should be great since labs are great for extra marks! I did miss labs this semester. I wish we had them in courses like AI. That definitely would have boosted up the midterm. Speaking of which, I only have 2 exams left: AI and some other hard course. It’s exams like this that I wish it was multiple choice in AI. I really could use it. I have about 60+ definitions that I have to memorize by tonight in AI. I dont think my brain is big enough for that much information. :banghead:

Current Mood: Stressed

So I had my first exam today and I didnt really study as much as I should have last night. So I came sorta unprepared. Oh well. There was some hard questions that I didnt expect. The prof didnt teach us how to use those sql commands so I didnt know how to use them. I went totally beserked trying to figure out how to query the statements. But finally my 2 hours was up so I couldnt figure how the correct sql query. Meh. :freak:
On a crazy note, I’m staying overnight in school on Friday to study for philosophy. Why? The philosophy exam is on Saturday. Crazy I know. Who has exams on Saturdays? I think this is the first time that the school has put exams on weekends. I am not impressed with the time. I dont mind going to school on Saturday for an exam but why have it so early? Therefore, I am staying over night on Friday to study on it. It works out well since I have an exam on Friday 3 pm. It’s going to be pretty weird sleeping on the work couch. I dont usually like to sleep in places other than my bed but this is because I’m desperate. Hopefully this will be the last night that I’ll be doing this. It’s kinda like camping.. but in school.. and by myself.. :no:

Current Mood: Tired

Ugh have you ever sent an email that came out so wrong that you wish you could undo it? It just happened to me tonight. I wrote an email to members of a group project and one of the members got so upset that he told me off. He called and ranted on me on why I did that that I should not have written that on the email. The more he explained himself the more I agree on it. A part of me still disagree with him on another issue but he was right that I never should have done that at all. It’s terribly embarrassing. I dont know if I could ever face him tomorrow in school without feeling all weird and guilty about it. I wrote the email after hours of frustration on what he wanted me to do an hour ago. I guess I wanted to make him suffer just as much as he’s made me suffer. I’m pretty vindictive like that. :devil: I have learned one thing though.. I could never work with him.. We just clash.. It’s continually annoying.. Sadly I have no choice since I’ll be in class with him for the next year and a half… Ugh this really stinks..

Current Mood: Tired

After hours and days of writing my essay, I’ve done one thing over and over again. Get distracted. This is why I need to be locked in a white room with nothing but my notes for the essay, a pad of paper, pen/pencil, table and a chair. I admit I dont usually get distracted this easily. Normally with all the noise and a tv in front, I can write a paper hours non-stop. Now with all the mess in my room, a desktop in front of me, I can just as easily go to facebook, check emails, go to msn and surf before I can even concentrate on whatever it is I am doing. :sowhat: Clearly this sucks. Next month once exams starts rolling in, I cannot be here. I can no longer concentrate at home because there’s my sister constantly yelling and a desktop pc that will tempt me to go to the sites that I usually go to.
I am clearly doomed… :ashamed: Speaking of which I don’t think my essay will end up being 10 pages as required by the prof. I always do this. I end up writing 2 pages short of what’s required. Last time I wrote an essay I ended up writing 6 pages instead of 8. That was after coming up with so-called clever ways to make it longer. Change the font, change the size, change the margin.. Still it was not enough. It’s happening again. I wish I had a class where there was no requirement on how long an essay has to be. That would make my life a tad easier… Therefore I don’t have to worry that it’s too damn short. :irked:

Current Mood: Stressed

Ha thanks to all concerns about my issues with HP. Unfortunately I have given up in calling them every day. I am way too busy with school and I honestly dont know when I’ll be receiving my adapter. So much for that 1 year warranty which is completely useless…. My plan b consists is after this semester I’m going to go back to the store where I bought my laptop and get it fixed there. I did pay an extra 2 year warranty (which I almost refused). That should be enough time for them to fix my laptop before I start second semester.

Speaking of school, I really should be doing my assignment since I have 3 due next week. It’s just that that’s all I’ve been doing the entire week that I’m feeling lazy so I’m just in here playing with my laptop and playing the games that came with it. Technically I’ve done one of them just have to do some final touches. The other one is being worked on by someone. Yes I am a bad person for letting him do all the work but I have loads of assignments as it is. Plus after next week I have a 10 page essay that I have to do. I really should get that started this weekend… Argh… I’m in panic mode now…

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So my 1 month old HP laptop decided to not charge my the battery. Every time I attach the laptop battery it doesn’t charge at all. It continually states that the adapter is not attached thus its not charging. So I had to call HP today to get it check out. I thought it’s the battery since the adapter is working fine if I attach it (without the battery) but the agent from HP said that it’s the adapter so they are sending in a new replacement. I spent one hour with them and thats what they came up with. Ugh. Thankfully I don’t have to pay anything. But really.. Only a month and already problems with my laptop. I’m so sad and disappointed.. Now I know not to buy a HP laptop in the future.. :no: Thank God I still have this charger so that I can use it to and from school. I just cant use the battery with the laptop.

So this month is filled with midterms. Due to that, I’m behind in my Philosophy reading which I didn’t want to since I like that course. I already missed 1 class since I slept in. :irked: Now I have to ask someone for notes. Artificial Intelligence is being difficult. Too much memorizing for the test on Friday. Then I have 3 more and also I’ll be handing out candies for Halloween which I don’t want to do since I have a test a day after that I have to study for… I dont mind handing out candies but this year I do since I gotta study like mad. :weeping:

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So currently I am taking an Artificial Intelligence course this fall. Unfortunately it is my 2nd hated course this semester. The prof knows what he is talking about but the material is so boring that I am not interested in listening to him. My mind just dozes off and wanders on my issues about school. So today one of the guys in the class pointed me to the profs blog. I will not post it in here nor will I not post his name in here. He said that in the prof’s blog he rants about how he does not like women. Apparently, he also stated in his blog that women in computer science are a bunch of idiots. I’m in the computer science program and this of courses pisses the sh*t out of me. Honestly I have not read this blog. I didn’t read the entry where he called computer science women as idiots. Also in his blog, he insults women who poker.. Also calling them idiots. I dont want to have to waste my time finding which entry he was talking about women in computer science. I just hope I’ll survive his class without throwing books at him. :x

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So I bought my Philosophy book 2 days ago and I have not heard if it’s been processed or what not. I got the confirmation email but no status on whether they’re in shipping mode etc. Then today I googled around and found that Google books has the full version! :eek: First of all, I didnt even know that Google has a Google books. Second, I didnt know my book would be there. I am so sad since I just paid around $27 Canadian on the book and I havent even heard if its going to be shipped soon…. So much for not buying too much books as it is. But really so far I’ve only purchased around $40ish worth of books which is not too bad. One book I found online and others I borrowed or I dont need books.

This week has been an easier week that last week. Thankfully, my mood last week did not continue. I’m in the mood to learn. And slowly going to that school mode again. It was just that monthly visitor.. That’s all it was…

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Alright so thank God my first week for school has ended. The past entries which was typed from last week stated that I WAS excited about school. Well now I’m not so happy about it. This has probably been the longest week ever. Its not the fact that I can no longer sleep in. It’s just that the people that I hang out with in school is in other courses therefore when group project comes, I dont have partners. I would have to ask other strangers if I could be in their group. I shouldnt complain about that but it’s tough when people that they hang out with are automatically their partners. These people are strangers to me, I would have to play nice and get on their soft side so they agree to work with me. It really sucks. I hate school now. I shouldnt be complaining this early since I have months to go but I needed to vent this out. Then also the classes I’m taking sucks big time. The subjects dont interest me (we have to take them.. no choice). I only have 1 good prof unlike 2nd year. The one with the good prof, the material is not exactly easy to understand either. Books, I have to buy one book (which is ok) but I wanted to use my friends book. The prof changed books so I cant even do that anymore. Then my liberal, even though the prof is supposedly really good, the material is really dry. Plus we have to write a 10-page essays and a presentation. I hate essays. I could barely write 5 pages! And I also despise presentations since I dont like to speak in public.

One good thing did come out this week though. I finally bought myself a laptop. It’s one of those fancy HP that has a twisty monitor. It’s only 12″ so it’s really tiny and cute. It has a built-in webcam and microphone. I still need to install linux on it for school and I’m having a hard time doing that. I can either install it in the same hard drive as my windows (partition is a scary thought in case I screw up) but I heard that there’s a possibility that the Vista bootloader will fail. I dont want another burden already! :x Or I can remote desktop to my own linux box at home. Or use a virtual machine to install the O/S. :slant: So those 3 are my choices. Right now I am rooting for choice #3.

Then another thing that just came to my lap is this new part-time job as php/mysql developer for my university. I start next week and by then I hope I’ll have some kind of idea on what the application that the university is about. So I’m a busy beaver as it is. This is what I wanted during my 1 year hiatus a year ago from school, the busy-ness. But I did not want this feeling of uncertainty with classes and what not. i have to stop being so miserable and just get it over with.. Another thing that really got to me today was when I was talking to a classmate and she mentioned that she is taking Robotics. She said that theres no midterm & final in the class and its only pure evaluation. I asked her if its a mostly older students there. Then she said ‘What do you mean? We are the older students.’ It really shocked because I completely forgot that she’s right. We ARE the older students now. 3 years ago, I was so scared as a newbie and as a new student in university. Now there’s no one to be scared at. It’s like we’re almost there. Well not me since I have 2 years left but yeah. It’s crazy. Before when I went to a lab and saw an unfamiliar face, I automatically assumed that they were 3rd/4th yr students. Now I cant even do that anymore. I can now assume that when I saw an unfamilar face that it’s either a 1st/2nd year student. :sowhat: Crazy.

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I finally got a sneak preview of my Fall 2007 schedule. It turns out Food, Place & Identity has a really hard-marker prof. So I’ve been looking to change that for the better. I might take Geography of Toronto which sounds interesting and I have read (from ratemyprofessor.com) that the prof that is teaching it is good. 8-) Now I cant change my schedule yet until next week. I am a bit excited that I’m going back to school after a year of working full time for a great oil company. As a co-op (intern) student, I got to experience what it’s like to work. One of the things I’ve learned is that I am NOT ready to go into the work industry. Not ready into the ‘real’ world! I am looking forward to school and dont wanna work yet… ;P I did get to save up some $ for this falls tuition and paid off some debts. With whatever $ I have left, I hope to buy myself my first ever laptop. I’ve been asking around for a good laptop brand. People didnt really like Dell. Some had mixed feelings on Toshiba & HP. But everyone so far has had nice things to say about Macbook. I dont want Macbook pro since it’s too big. I want a tiny 13″-15″ one. We’ll see. If I do get it, I’ll show it off in here. :cupid:

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Not rich, not poor enough
Middle-class students often don’t qualify for government loans
Too rich to qualify for full student loans but too poor to pay the tab themselves, Canada’s middle-class students are being squeezed into troubling debt and daunting work schedules to cover the cost of higher learning, a new study shows.

With a $10,000 gap between what the average post-secondary student earns each year and what they pay for their education, middle-income students often must take out pricey bank loans and jobs that eat into their studies, warns the study by the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation on the cost of higher education in Canada.

This “middle-income crunch” means students in families earning $50,000 to $75,000 a year are almost twice as likely to borrow from the bank to pay for school as classmates whose families earn less than $25,000 a year, said the report.

And they are half as likely to have a government loan with its lower interest and gentler payback terms.

“We’re concerned at this tendency to take out private loans; it means the system of student aid the government set up is not enough to cover the costs students have to pay,” said Norman Riddell, executive director of the foundation, which provides scholarships and studies higher education costs.

“There is a danger the middle-income families are getting squeezed as costs go up faster than inflation.”

The report, released yesterday, says a full-time post-secondary student needs on average $14,500 a year for study-related expenses, yet the average student earns only about $4,500 a year.

When a student loan goes beyond $10,000 a year, the chances are 30 per cent higher the student will not complete the program,” said Riddell.

Working middle-class
The report also shows that among students who start the school year with no intention to work, 60 per cent of those from middle-income families end up working for pay, compared to 40 per cent of the lowest-income students.

Source: Metro News

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Today I had a day off from my job so I went to my university to deal with my financial issues. They’re charging me around $3000 for tuition even though I’m not in school. $2500 for this winter. I am working this winter so I dont understand why I’m getting charged. The rest of the $1000 is my fault and I dont blame them for that. I dont really check my email and thats what happened.I have no choice but to pay that $39 interest, $750 coop charge and $300-ish health plan that I dont really since I already have insurance from my dad. So yeah the school really has it bad for me for they keep charging me useless crap. The $2500 will have to be dealt with later on because apparently, I was suppose to drop those courses since I’m not going to be in school for the winter but really. I didnt have to do it for the fall why do I have to do it for the winter? :mad: I’m so pissed about that. They tell me this now? Ugh now I have to pray that the school does not charge me with interest since I havent pay that $2500.

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Ryerson sent me a letter stating that I’ve been recognized as one of the top 15% in Computer Science. I guess thats in the entire Computer Science in Ryerson. Thus they are inviting me for this Golden Key International Honor Society. Kinda like an Elite club I guess for geeks and nerds. lol :embarass: Membership is by invitation only. Members have perks like scholarships. They get a personalized Golden Key member card and job opportunities from various companies (like IBM and Scotiabank) who sponsor them. Honeslty there would so many members in this club that even if I tried out for a scholarship, I wouldnt get it. So furthermore, they have a celebration in November if I want attend. Cool, I thought, until I read the brochure… $90 fee… :irked: I thought it was free. I guess all they wanted was my $$…

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Havent written here much.. Exams been taking over my life once again.. I am still sick. Been sick for more than a week now.. I’m constantly bringing water bottles and boxes of kleenex during exams.. I’ve only had one trouble when some person in charge in the exam room didnt allow water bottles. I was not impressed. I told him that I was sick and that I needed it so he said ‘Well we have a water jug there and cups that you can use.’ I didnt like that answer. Their water was cold but I had no choice. I guess same will happen tomorrow since the management exam will held in the Metro Toronto Convention Center. I heard they are pretty strict there. No water bottles and especially no other stuff just the necessities like pencils, erasers, calculators and pens. That means no tissue boxes for Vanessa. :weeping: I guess I’ll have to pack alot of kleenexes and stuff it in my pocket or something… That’s the only problem.. Runny & stuffy noses. I’ve almost stopped coughing.. Not so much of that. It’s just the nose..

p.s. I slipped down the stairs a few days ago & it was only 3 steps.. That’s 2 times now.. Now my bum hurts… :sad:

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Right so course selections in RyeHigh is in the works. I havent decided on what courses to take. I really wanted to take Philosophy of Love and Sex or maybe Psychology of Love and sex but both arent offered next year. I am not impressed. :mad: Ryerson should offer all courses that they state in their course calendar. Maybe they couldnt get a professor for it, I dont know really. So I’m stuck with these other non-interesting courses. So I looked at the other psychology courses and there were some that was semi-interesting but since I didnt have a prerequisite for a lower level psychology, I’m not allowed to take it. Another disappointment.. :irked: Ok so I got the other philosophy courses to take. Not all of them stick out in my mind but I will have to choose eventually. I just hope that when I go to the actual class I wont regret taking it.

Right so I got 84% in management!!!! Complete shocker. The prof had reduced it so that it is out of 68 instead of 75. I guess I wouldve gotten 76% if it was 75 but I am really happy. Baseball is starting out soon. Training is this weekend and I’ll get to see the people that I worked with. I havent seen them since beginning of October. It’s going to be so weird. Also I’ve quit my retail job. I cant have 2 jobs at once next month when finals are coming up. I might come back in May if I dont get a co-op job.. Which by the way I’m starting to get all bitter about since most of the people I know have jobs… :look:

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Wow long time no update. This week has been so horrible for me. Yesterday I had a test and a quiz. One after another. I know I bombed the statistics quiz since I didnt study for that because I studied more for my CPS590 midterm which was worth 35% while this quiz is 2.5%. Right it was also raining yesterday. I’m not really suspicious at all so I decided to dry off my umbrella inside the building. I opened it because I didnt believe in those things. Then a guy from school said that I shouldnt have done that since it’s bad luck… Well I brushed him off since I dont believe in those superstitions in fact, I’ve opened an umbrella numerous of times before. So then I did the quiz and it was difficult for me since I didnt really study plus I didnt get the job from HOOPP which I thought I did since my interview went well. So that upset my day. Then today I just got my CPS406 midterm mark which is work 25% and that too I did horrible on.. 57%.. :weeping: I almost failed.. It was so pathetic.. I thought I was at least going to get 75% but I guess not.. Next week another midterm on management and I want to get at least 75% on this since I like the class. Then the week after that is another statistics midterm… I’m going to be so tired…

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Yesterday was a long and tiring day…. Had a midterm for Software Engineering which I am so not confident on.. It was the most disorganized midterm ever. The prof was late and when he came, he had the students come and get the bubble sheets.. He didnt put it in the desk and have us exit the classroom like how they usually do it. Imagine 100+ students in one room.. That was the scenario.. Everybody was sitting so close to each other, you can hear them breathe.. :slant: Right so that was that.. Then we had this assignment due on 12 pm which we had to cram in 1 hour and a half. But we finished all of it. Then after that, had a job interview with HOOP. That went well. It was so bad.. The job is for more than a year so I wont be going to school for that long. I wont get to see the boys so that kinda sucks. But all is well. Everyone will be graduating at the same time.. Well almost everyone.. At 5 pm, I had to work. I wasnt suppose to but the girl called in sick. I still made my goal though even though it was a bit busy around 8 pm.

Boring and tiring day.. I slept early..as in 12 am.. :embarass: Next week will be just as hectic.. :headache:

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Please do not continue if you are easily offended… Things I learned in Management today.. How to win in any Microsoft game (such as Solitaire, freecell etc) without even trying, open an envelope with a cheque inside, make counterfeit money and the rest are just not as interesting. Right so the only thing I’ve tried is the Microsoft one.. Just search for ‘Windows XP tricks’ there should be some interesting ones there. Nothing illegal of course. As for the counterfeit one, I dont know how my prof knows it but he was telling us a way to make counterfeit money. I would never try it since I dont know where to even get the materials. The cheque one is just bizarre. I barely understood the instructions. So yes very interesting class.. :grin:

Now off to the depressing part, I have a statistics midterm tomorrow and I am so scared. I’ve never been any good in statistics unfortunately. Probability is probably my main weakness.. :embarass: I really hope I know what I’m doing tomorrow.. Then next week is reading week. For American readers, that is Spring Break. It’s not even close to Spring in here since it snowed last night then freezing rain stopped by to make the road all slippery and mucky. :irked: Next week, I’m also removing the last wisdom tooth in my mouth. Everytime I go to the dentist, she’s always harassing me about when I plan on removing it and what not so finally I made an appointment for reading week. Why not? I hope I get better on time before I start school and work. :smile:

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Good news and bad news today… Good news is I had an interview from Kraft Canada today. It went okay but I’m not quite sure whether I got the job or not… Thats another story.. :shhh: Another good news is I got my statistics quiz back today. I really thought I got bad like maybe a fail but I didnt.. :jump: I got 12/15.. I’m very happy about that. The TA is pretty cool except the guys in the class is giving her a hard time.. Right so on with the bad news, I had a management quiz today that I didnt study on since I was stressing about the KC interview last night. So after the stats lab, I had a really short and quick study. Nothing really went in my head so I hoped that I would do okay. Management class came.. I thought the quiz consisted of 5 questions since it was 5 marks.. But… It was only 1 question worth 5 marks.. I was not happy.. I got it wrong because I wasnt thinking… So thats like 0 out of 5.. First quiz in management and I get a zero.. Thats the only thing we’ve done so far in management. So right now I have a zero in management.. How disappointing.. Thats exactly why I am not in business or management or IT since I’m just unfit to be managing business.. Hence computers.. Hence math..

We’ll see how well I do in this course..

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The one thing that I hate about moving to a new house is the mails that take forever to get here. I’m talking about the mails that I get from Toronto Blue Jays… I took the advice of my supervisor when last year on how to let them know of a new address change. I took her advice, called the phone number and left a little message. I thought they got it ok since I didnt hear back from them about any conflicts. They didnt change my address.. They keep sending my mail to my old house. Luckily, the post office forwards the address to my new address.. The only bad thing is.. It takes forever.. Mail that is sent in December, I only got them this month. :mad: So mail that I got about going back this season as an Usher, I just got them a few days ago.. They want to hear back from me by January 31st… :sowhat: So that means, I have to go tomorrow to Rogers Center and send them all the files that I signed so that they can process it.. It wouldve been nice if I had received the letter weeks before the 31st.. If I got the letter in February, they would think that I didnt want to come back when I did.

On the brighter side of things, I caught up with my homework in assembly language.. All I have to do is do Stats.. Not a big fan of stats.. :bored:

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Since I’m now admitted to co-op, I wanted to apply for this job in Kraft Canada. They didnt alot of qualifications and some knowledge of SQL is an asset which I have. The job posting was online until January 17. So I decided to apply. I fixed up my cover letter and resume. Then I wanted to get my marks from my first year term. I know that I had written that on a piece of paper somewhere. I couldnt find that piece of paper. So I decided to get it online… Unfortunately once the website loaded, I wasnt allowed to log in since the system is only open until 9 pm…. :banghead: I only have my second year Fall 2005 marks.. Kraft Canada wanted all marks so far.. So that’s one job down… :weeping: I’m definitely disappointed… I could’ve just as easily gotten that job since there wasnt alot of requirements needed… They even had 2 positions for it… I guess it wasnt meant to be… Hmmm…

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I just want to wish everyone a very very Merry Xmas!!! Last night was great not because of the presents but because I got to see my final marks. I didnt do as bad as I had expected but I’m a bit sad about my math marks. I know 100% that before coming to that algebra exam, I was getting around an A. Since the exam was so damn hard, it fell. So I ended up with a B+ at the end. A bit disappointing but I’m sure I’ll get over it. Then the one of the stupidiest class was my best mark, an A. I didnt expect that at all. :???: Basically my marks are in order:
Communication B-
Digital Circuits B
Algebra B+
C Programming A-
Smalltalk A

Which at the end is a 3.33 GPA for the Fall 2005 and overall since first year 3.2 -ish. Best Christmas gift ever is the fact that I still have the marks to go into co-op (and the fact that I earned those marks.. except for algebra.. :sowhat: ). I’m so excited… All I have to do now is fix this website which I plan on putting in the resume that I do own a personal webpage and the actual resume.

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So last night I went out with my highschool girlfriends who I dont see often because of school. We are busy girls and it’s tough when you dont see them all the time like you used to. Had dinner.. We did wanted to do something after but there was nothing in the area. :slant: We’re also planning another outting before school starts but not to be pessimistic and all but I doubt it’ll happen. Planning last night was already hard enough… I will post photos maybe later on.. But you know me, it takes me months to update the gallery even though I have loads of photos lying around in my hard drive.

So apparently the school had accidentally posted the final marks before the official release date 2 nights ago. It was online for 40 minutes then took it down since it wasnt the official date. I didnt know about this but one of my friends buddies just happened to go online and saw that her marks were posted…. :weeping: Too bad I didnt know of this earlier.. Not that I wanted my marks before Xmas but I just wanted to know if I passed my communication class… I know that will hurt my GPA like there is no tomorrow

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Right I didnt think I would have to go to school tomorrow since I wanted to study for algebra.. :read: But since there’s a chapter that I totally do not get.. I have no choice because I know for a fact that he will put a lot of questions based on that chapter. The exact same thing happened in the second midterm, he gave us a hint that there will be alot of chapter 3 section 5 and that chapter wasnt covered in the lab so obviously people wouldnt study it. So I studied it like theres no tomorrow and as expected 80% of the questions in the midterm was from 3.5.. Thus the class average was 44%… That’s a fail.. And because I studied like there’s no tomorrow, I got 88%. ;P I’m so happy about that.. Now this final.. Will be the worst of all since the chapter that he did during the last week of school is so damn confusing and useless.. Example in Finite Field = 2, 1+1 = 0 therefore 1 = -1.. Dont ask. I just wanted to show why this last bit he taught may screwup my belief system that 1+1 =2 not 0… :???: But whatever, I’ll try my damndest dammit!!! I can’t wait for this Thursday since thats my last exam for this semester then I get to rest..

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Alright so unlike regular cellphone users out there, I dont turn on my cellphone all the time. It could be off for weeks (unintentionally) and there would be messages there waiting for me. I would check them like weeks later. Yes, I’m a bad cellphone user. I’m probably one of those people who shouldnt have a cellphone. So the same thing happened this time. I just turned on my cellphone after a long time of being off. Theres 4 voice mail! :eek: I check the first one and its from work. The voicemail was sent on Friday November 25 and today is December 2.. It’s a message stating they need me to work at another location if I can on November 25.. Of course since I didnt listen to the message until now, I couldnt call them back in regards to whether I can work or no… This is where I worry a bit.. Because I worry too easily. Am I going to get into trouble when I come in to work tomorow? Hmm I dont even know..

On the happier note, I got 44 out of 50 on my Algebra test. I’m so damn happy about that. That’s 88% :grin: . I’m so proud of myself since the class average was 44%. Then on the other side of the spectrum… Today is the last day of school before exams.. Monday is my first exam.. I’m so scared since there’s so many definitions that I have to study. I really hope my boss doesnt schedule me this Sunday. I will not be a happy camper.. :irked:

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Alright so this week is pretty damn fucking hectic I cant wait for this semester to be over and done with. First of, I have this 2 assignments due this Tuesday and another 2 this Friday. The first 2 is a group assignment which consists of the same people except for one of them. I dont like C programming. That’s a given to me. I dont want to have to deal with that language ever in my life. After this semester I hope that that is it for C. So 1 guy says he’ll do the whole C assignment.. Then another guy said he’ll do it. So the first guy said that he and the 2nd guy made a dealthat the 2nd guy do C and the first do the SmallTalk assignment. SmallTalk is another computer language. I would rather do that one than C. So considering how guys have huge egos up their asses both guys decided that they want to do the assignment all to themselves. Personally I think that they dont trust us women. Just because we’re women that doesnt mean we dont know anything. :pissed: Then last night I talked to the 2nd guy and asked me how the C assignment was going… I was pretty surprised because I thought he was doing it and that he had made a deal with the first guy… Apparently thats not true.. They didnt make any deal at all… :no: Fuckers…. Now we are totally screwed over… So I emailed the 2nd guy and told him to send me the SmallTalk assignment since I want to do it while they decide on how to do this stupid C assignment. I swear next time I work with big-headed guys I will have to remind myself that I wont let them do it all… :mad: It’s definitely frustrating when people say they’ll do something when it turns out its totally wrong.. Talk about miscommunication… This adds to the other stressful thing that I’ve been dealing with which cant be mentioned here.. Yet..

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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :jump: I just have to add that since today is definitely one of the best days ever! To some people it may not be a big deal but it definitely is for me….. It started off as me getting a 94% in my assignment for CPS311 (which is a difficult course) and then finding out later on that I got 22.95 out of 30 in the midterm test for that same class. The test was out of 50 so that wouldve meant that I failed but the Prof was nice enough to make it out of 30 since it was a difficult midterm test. And I know that most people failed. The average was 19 and the lowest mark was 9.9… So I’m definitely relieved that I was over the class average and that I didnt fail like I thought I did.

Then last night, I had heard from one of the stores that I went to have an interview for on Tuesday & Wednesday. She had left a message saying to call her back. I wasnt sure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. I did give her my reference and I didnt think that was good enough for her but if she needed a second reference she wouldve stated that in the voice mail which she didnt.. So I was pretty nervous on calling her today since I didnt want that to ruin my day if I didnt the job… So after math… After not understanding -26 mod 17.. :freak: I finally called her and expected the worst news that she had wanted a second reference. All I know is that if she decided to not hire me, she wouldnt call me at all. So I called her and she told me that I’m a part of the Smart Set team!!!!! :jump: I’m so damn excited that I’m no longer jobless starting at Monday. I’m finally working in retail. It is only a seasonal job but I do hope to stay a little longer. She had stated that if I do well, I might stay longer. ;P The only bad thing about starting on Monday is the fact that I have a test on Tuesday but I couldnt say to the opportunity. I definitely couldnt… I dont know what to expect since I’ve never worked in retail except for selling food. But yeah.. I’m so lucky that I got this and we’ll see on Monday how this turns out.. :grin:

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It was raining cats and dog today so basically at 10 am it looked like 7 pm. :slant: It was a shitty day and I think it was a sign because I had a job interview today… It went okay except for the end when she asked me for a reference. I gave her that and she had asked for another one… I didnt have a second reference. I couldnt even get a first one… Now I’m in shit. I’m in real desperate help considering how I cant contact Blue Jays since the baseball season are now over… This really sucks.. So there goes a job opportunity for Christmas. It does suck ass… :no: The other interviews that I went yesterday was a-ok. The first one was the worst yet since it was a group interview. I didnt expect it to be one so I know that I didnt get that job anyway. There was 3 of us and one of the girls totally kicked our butts. She had worked for Royal Bank & Hudson’s Bay Company (a department store). Her answers were excellent and once the interviewer hears a good answer.. what else is there to say from the other 2 applicants?? :look: The second one was a little better. She was nice. It was one on one except I felt that I was blabbing a bit. I hope that I get a call from that one. I really dont know what to expect. It’s been nerve wrecking these past few days and all. I’m glad I’m over with the interviews. If I dont hear from all three of them by Friday then I’m off to another job hunting day probably on Saturday. I’m not sure yet…

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I didnt get a chance to go to my 8am class today because I had to go with my parents to see the lawyer that’s helping house with moving to this new house. I didnt really mind missing the class since: 1) it’s an 8 am class.. I dont want to wake up at 5:30 for that 2) the class is so damn boring 3) the prof really sucks and I cant understand his accent sometimes. So that’s it. I also missed my math tutorial and another computer class which I didnt mind so much. I got to school at 12 pm to attend this co-op information session. For those who dont know what it is, its basically a part of my program where students work as an intern for their field. The thing that worries me is the GPA part. The requirement to go is you need to have a 3.0 GPA by the end of this Fall. I had that GPA last year in my first year and I dont know if I can pull it off this year… I’m really worried about that. Going to university or any type of school does not guarantee that you’ll get a job in your field. That is one of my fears. So going to co-op and having a job in my field while in school is a great opportunity for me. But if my marks are shitty then I’m screwed. :sad: IBM is apparently one of the employers for the co-op program. There’s CIBC (Canadian Bank) and Siemens (phone company) was one of them. I dont have to work in some big shot company since alot of my peers will want to go for that. I dont want alot of competition. If I get accepted by a company, I would be okay with that. :smile: Speaking of work, tomorrow is one of my last few days for Blue Jays. Sunday is the last day. I hope everything goes well and I find a new job right away. I hate being jobless. It makes me feel so.. useless. Having a job is like my safety net…

That’s about it for now. Have to eat dinner.

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I’m starting work again tomorrow and I really dont feel like going. I only have 1 class tomorrow from 9-12 pm then I got work at 6 pm… What the hell am I going to do between 12 through 6??? I wish I could go home and sleep but I dont want to waste bus tickets since I’m really tight with money right now. So I gotta come up with something to do to kill time. I could do my homework but thats right.. I dont have any books yet.. Duh!!! :irked: I found one of my books online so I could read that crap… But the rest of the books I have yet to receive since I bought them online. I didnt want to buy 100+ books. The books online most likely cost me under $50 canadian each (including shipping & handling). The down side to that is the fact that I gotta wait for the damn book to get here since it’ll probably take forever to be here.

Speaking of financial issues, I paid my school over 2 grand for my tuition on Friday since Friday is the last day. I look at my account online and it states that I havent paid that 2 grand.. I read over the instructions in my bank online and it states that it takes about 1 business day which means by tomorrow it’ll be processed… It better process or else I’m gonna start yelling at the bank. :mad:

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School’s finally started for me today… I had 2 classes. Computer course and linear algebra. My Comp course prof was this Russian guy who has a thick accent. We had expected a female prof since that’s what it says on our schedules online but there was a change.. So we’re stuck with him. Saw the same old faces and most probably only 2 new males in the class. Not even cute ones… lol. :rude: I’ve already ordered the books for those 2 classes online. One was from Ebay so I hope to win that book in 5 days and the other I ordered from Amazon for less than $20. :grin: I’m very happy about that. I hope to get those books within this month.

As soon as I got home, the house didnt have any power. That was at 3 pm. I slept and woke up at 5 pm and still now power! :mad: I was not amused. The electricians didnt get the power running until 8pm. Imagine that! I dont know when the electricity lost power but I’m sure it was before 3 pm. I’m so glad I’m leaving this house because it’s so damn old! :snooty:

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So I finally got to see my Fall 2005 schedule for school. I also got to see the most dreaded numbers in the world, my tuition fees. There’s nothing like seeing a bunch of 4 digits numbers before school starts… It really does suck. I’m more and more in debt each year… Yes I’m ranting about it all over again just like I did last year… So I gotta find a job asap before I die of debt. I’m all depressed now until something/someone makes me laugh and forget about my debt issues.

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I just heard that one of my previous Professors from my university committed suicide in June. I didnt even know of this until tonight when a friend told me. This is a total shock since he didnt seem like the suicidal type. He taught Physics and you can even read my rant about that class when I took it in here (Scroll down to Sept. 30). I guess something must have happened that had made him snap and be all depressed.

That’s it.. for now..

For fanlisting owners, have you ever asked an owner to another fanlisting and thought that they were somehow related but actually they dont? It happened to me a few minutes ago… :embarass: Oh well…

Tomorrow’s my sister 2nd birthday but we’re celebrating it today. I do plan on uploading all photos soon including the past photos that I had to remove. I’ve been too lazy to put them up but since I now know how to do a batch upload in 4images, it should be in no time.

Nothing much is going on except for work. Something tells me I’m suppose to get a letter from school in regards to tuition and stuff. I havent gotten any at all. Not that I’m looking forward to school but I dont want to be charged extra late fees for not paying the damn tuition early. :no:

Anyway that is it.. I might post the photos tomorrow or something.

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Hehe. I just got my marks yesterday. Ive been waiting for them for so long now since I thought I did real bad in my sociology final for not studying. I was working the night before and felt really tired so I just read the chapters (the chapters which I photocopied). It turns out that I did real well , surprisingly… :grin: I got an A- in Java…. No more java for me!! Got an A in C/Unix programming, B+ in sociology and math. That A and B+ in sociology surprised me like I said didnt study for the sociology final and C programming is one hard course. I heard 1 person failed in Java though. He had straigt A’s in the other courses but F in Java. He was angry considering how he had an A before the final but the rule (somewhere in the java course notes) says that you have to pass the final to pass the course. I guess I did well on the final… which again surprises me since it was difficult. The thing that I’m curious about is… how i did on the final exams. I only know that in the C final exam I got a 15/16. My GPA for this first year is…. (drums… lol ) 3.24!!! :jump: I never thought I would achieve that in college/university considering how I was totally whining last year how it was so hard (I was in a different school then. Im glad I had transferred somewhere else now). I have to decided whether I want to take co-op for 2nd year or no. I think it will be more expensive and harder work. I just dont know whether I can take it or pay for it. So I need to talk to some guidance counsellor or something. :smile:

Anyway that is it and hope everybody has a great weekend.

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I finally finished finals today… Im so happy and relieved that I dont have to deal with school for a few months. Suppose to work today but had a day off because of that sociology final. I didnt really study… :embarass: I kinda read through the chapters and sorta tried to remember the bold words and definitions.. I dont think I did too well on it. On the other hand, I got my essay back from that which I did with a partner. We got a 77% which isnt too bad. I didnt expect an A+ or anything since I know that Im not very good at writing essays (bad grammar… read the entries to see more bad grammar lol ).

Nothing much is going on besides all that crap. I have work next week which I believe is against White Sox. Oh yeah and at last nights game, I was booed. This stupid guy was cussing at the Tampa Bay players who was practicing in front of us. He was yelling and standing up so I ran down to get him and to tell him to sit. Then all of a sudden, I hear boos. I thought it was for the game but apparently it was for me since I told the guy to sit right before he was about to ‘moon’ them. :butthead: :irked: I could care less whether they boo me when I get home but if he had the chance to pull down his pants, he would get kicked out and I dont want that to happen. People pay to watch these games and I wouldnt want them to leave feeling all angry because they had been kicked out of the baseball game. Its okay to be angry because your team lost but any other reasons besides that is not a good reason to be kicked out. I want fans to have fun and you can boo and heckle to players telling them that they suck but pulling down your pants to moon isnt okay. :snooty:

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I have a final this Thursday and I should be studying…. Why? Tuesday and Wednesday is baseball game (again :sowhat: ) and I dont get home until 12 am during those days.. So yeah today is my only day off until that horribly boring final on sociology. It’s all multiple choice though which I hope isnt too hard…

Oh yeah after work yesterday I saw my first Blue Jay player walking in the stadium to go home. :smile: I did the ‘double take’ look since I wasnt sure whether it was really Orlando Hudson. He was dressed in all white, baggy pants and sweater. As a person who works there, Im not allowed to talk to any Baseball players. If they say ‘hi’, I can say hi back not I cant have a full on conversation with them. I would if I was allowed but supervisors are always there so… I cant really do much.

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So today was the last test not the last exam.. Those are next… The test was alright not too hard or easy. But what makes me angry is the part where after the test, I have to stay later in the school because my partner and I have to work on the same Java assignment that’s torturing both of us. It wasnt my idea to do this on a Friday night. I would rather do something more productive than do some stupid assignment on Friday. I suggested to him a day before that we work on it on Saturday the whole day because I know that we will get alot of things done. But since he has other things on Saturday then we’ll just do it on Friday night after the test where I am tired… :irked:

Unfortunately once we tried working on it, he didnt have alot of progress on the assignment. The file that I sent him to work on it was working fine… It was alot more progress that what he showed me tonight. I couldnt fix his file so I decided to work on my copy instead. Mind you this is both of our assignments but my copy was way better. Instead of working on it as a team, I had to work on it myself while he goes off and talks to his buddies. :sowhat: That didnt make me happy. I know I didnt contribute alot on this assignment but when I am, he goes off to lala land. So I left.. I didnt say bye to him or whatever.. Why would I want to stay if I’m just going to work on it alone? I dont care if I dont finish this assignment. I hate it. I am willing to risk losing that 10%.

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Today is officially my last day in LS the ice cream store. :jump: Then next week I am off to a brand new environment which means brand new ramblings in here. I hope not to complain about stupid dumb ass customers who cant speak english and who bitch how the ice cream are too expensive. The French Crisp lady came by today and I told her that the store is closing and how today is my last day. She was so sad about it that she even wanted to give me a going-away card. I told her its alright and that she didnt have to. I remember her promising to give me a slice of her homemade French Crisp ice cream cake… :-P But she never did. She probably forgot…

Three more weeks of school left then exams!!!! :weeping: Still have assignments due which arent done yet… I dont think one of them will be done… Unless some miracle happens.. *coughjavacough* :sowhat:

Forgot to put this but hosting is open!!!! Lost a hostee today :sad:

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I’m pretty much running out of patience when it comes to this java assignment that I’m working with with my partner … Got the errors fixed and now we’re working on another part. Yes, I whine about my school problems in here and you people who read it dont know what the heck I’m talking about but oh well. Nothing else to blog about so why not I’ll blog about school.

On the bright side, training for usher’s is next week. I’m very much excited/nervous about it.

Nothing much except I want spring to be here already so I could buy that jacket from H&M I’ve been drooling on.

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Alright from now on, I will stop calling other women bitches. lol. And I laugh… But I am serious about stopping it though. Why do we even call each other bitches? Some its for jokes. Hell I do it to my buddies when I was in highschool. In fact Im sure everyone in the whole entire school called each other bitches.

Today in Sociology, we were talking about gender inequality. Not just gender inequality for women but men too but I wont talk about the men’s side. The women’s side definitely sticks out in my head. My prof stated that it took women many years to finally gain some respect in society. We fought the right to vote, the right to be our own persons and the right to wear pants dammit. Yet once we gain all that… we throw it all away and call each other bitches.. :irked: Women are 10 times more likely to call women bitches than men calling women bitches… Interesting isnt it? What is a bitch? Female dog… What is man’s best friend? A dog…. Thus a bitch is a property of men… I didnt even realize that until my prof said that in todays lecture.

Another thing that’s interesting is why do women have to pay taxes for feminine products like tampons and pads? We have no choice when it comes to buying those things. We kinda have to…. Why is it that women have to pay more for the same pants that men buy? Why do I have to get charged more for a trim for my hair while men dont have to pay as much?

Here’s an article I read based on that
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I just had another test tonight. It went okay except for 1 question which I didnt get…. It was basically looking for a pattern and finding the formula. :irked: Before the test, I wanted to get some gelato which is sorta like ice cream. I had the chocolate one. Unfortunately after the test, I had a little tummy ache. I’m guessing its the ice cream. Maybe it was old or something because it definitely made me sick after.

Before the test, I was studying with these guys. Being in computer science in all, it is filled with guys where there are rarely women. So being the only girl in the study area, I was the butt of the joke yet at the same time laughing at their jokes and what not. Watching them do goofy things makes me laugh… I know this is basically a useless thing to say but give me credit since I did go to an all girls school. Starting talking to other guys who I didnt use to talk to and stuff. Talk to the cute guys (the only cute ones in the class). Meh. That’s it. I have work tomorrow which is a bitch but oh well. :slant:

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There’s 1 more test coming up tomorrow. I had one today as well and it was a bitch. It was alright. It wasnt easy/hard its just that now I have to study for another test. :irked: Then I thought I had sociology today then I didnt since somebody had left a note on the door that class is cancelled at 3pm but there’s no class at 3pm. The class is at 2 pm. :freak: So I skipped and went off to the computer labs and tried to study for Unix/Linux test.

I got my Sims Vacation on the mail today. Bought it from Ebay. Got it for $7-ish Canadian (eh?!) including shipping and handling. I am still waiting for Sims Online, Livin’ Large & House Party to be here.

Got work tomorrow. I dont know how to tell her that I’ll be leaving by the end of the month. I will definitely stay for Easter since the store will be busy during that week.

Argh. Thats it.

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If I had known that Wordpress had a 1.5 version then I wouldve upgraded it last week since last week was my spring break or what we Canadians call it ‘Reading Week’. A week used to study :read: which I did until it got to Thursday and Friday. Basically I got sick of studying so now I’m lazying around. It might bite me in the ass tomorrow since I have a test first thing in the morning. I didnt study much because I was again lazy and I didnt really feel like it.

For those we were so curious onto my response to the fact that the bearded lady hitting on me, I pretended like I didnt hear it and just said ‘hi’ to the next customer. Thank God there was other customers there besides her. lol :smile:

I’m currently watching the Oscars right now and I just feel so sorry for people who won but gets cut off before saying/finishing their speeches by the damn music. I wish they didnt do that. I also noticed that the theme for the dresses are black… Did someone die or something?

Bleh nothing much to say except good night @–

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Alright so I had called my partner and told him that somebody supposedly begged me to be their partner and he said its fine for me to be with this new partner. Partner for the assignment not anything else! lol. :-P Anyway, I just finished watching The Notebook. It’s such a sad/romantic movie. I havent cried so much while watching a movie since The Passion of the Christ which made me cry about 98% of the time. The Notebook only made me cry aout 70%. When I first saw Ryan Gosling from Breaker High, I thought he was the biggest dork ever but in this movie, he impressed me. He’s not such a bad actor. Rachel McAdams is great as Allie. I love that girl. She’s awesome and a great actress. She was great in Mean Girls. I thought her acting was so much better than Lindsay Lohan’s acting skills. :slant:

That’s it right now.

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Yesterday was the study session with that dude I was talking about in my previous entry. It started at 11:30 am and suppose to end at 5:30 pm since we had booked a study room for those hours only but we ended up staying there until 9pm without have any lunch or anything. I’m surprised that we had alot done except we didnt get a chance to finish it since our java program kept on crashing… There’s obviously wrong with our coding and all which frustrated both of us… :irked: So we just left it at that. We might work on it again I’m not sure.

I also have this dilemma about this damn assignment. The thing is I already have a partner for this assignment and its not this guy but when I helped him yesterday, we had so much done compared to what me and my partner have done so far… In fact my partner plans on putting most of it together himself. So.. Should I tell him that I cant be his partner anymore since I feel bad about not doing anything and tell him that I’ve found somebody else? or just keep being his partner? Hmmm…. :sad:

I dont know what to do.. We’ll see…

Today’s another week of school. Sociology was my first class today. This time the prof actually showed up unlike on Thursday. Thursday was a total waste of my bloody time.:irked: Anyway the class wasnt all that bad at all. The midterm and exam will be all multiple choice which is bad/good. Bad because I know that there will be some tricky questions. Good because I dont have to write an essay. The other stuff that we have to do are in-class group assignments and a group research assignment. Mostly group shit which make sense since it is a sociology course thus socializing with others. The pro about the in-class assignment is the fact that it is 7 groups of 6. There’s 2 girls in my group which includes me. 4 guys. I didnt mind that since my program (Comp Sci) is mostly guys. But 2/4 guys are good-lookin’ :grin:. Hehehe. I might just have fun in this course getting to know them and stuff. But I fear that they are younger than me. I hope not. Most of the first-years are either 17-19. I’m 20. I dont want to be dating some younger dude. But we’ll see.

So this tsunami thing is unfortunate. I just wish people would stop counting the toll of how many people are dead but rather start memorizing those phone numbers to Unicef or Red Cross. Those are the only numbers that we should remember. @– Another beef that I have is this whole donation thing, I’m not saying that I donated alot of money to charity (I only donated $1.50.. I am a student so I’m broke :rude: ). But why does a natural disaster have to occur in a country in order for people to donate? I think we should donate everyday regardless of whether there’s a hurricane, tsunami or a damn flood. Canada does have enough money to donate everyday it’s just the whole way of sending the money that’s causing a problem. But all of a sudden we can donate because of that tsunami thing? That’s just my rant for tonight. :look:

A miracle just happened a few seconds ago. I checked my mark and I got a C in Physics!!!!:hyper I’m so happy. I thought I would get around 50’s but I guess not!!! Math was a A- and Philosophy was a B-. Philosophy was also surprising considering how I got around 60’s in the tests which is a C? So maybe my essay was around B’s? Who knows? I dont care as long as i pass. Then tomorrow I’ll find out my next semester courses and plan out when I can and cannot work. So passing in Physics is probably one of the best Christmas presents I’ve received this year. I’m still in awe about that. :glasses

I didnt get a whole lot this year. Mostly cash except for a real leather purse from Danier Leather from my mom and the Sex and the City Season 5 dvd from my brother. That’s it nothing much I guess.:bigmouth

That’s it and I hope everybody is having an awesome holidays.

I’m officially finished my first semester as of yesterday. I’m quite happy about that. :hyper Math exam was a bitch. It started of as me forgetting my student card. Normally they wouldnt let you write the exam unless you have your student id because people in the past have paid people to write the exam for them. They were really tight about that in my previous university now it isnt. I got lucky I guess. All I needed was an identification so it was me that is writing an exam. Then the actual exam was pretty difficult as well. I did realize that 2 of the questions looked very familiar. Then it dawned on me that they were the homework questions. This is the second time that this has happened to me on an exam. On my calculus exam on April had some questions that were also in the book. This time it happens again. The worst part is I didnt do the questions when I was studying because I thought it was too hard. I hit myself in the head regretting myself that. If I had only written the ‘hint answer’ in my formula sheet then at least I had known what to do. :paperbag I’m so dumb sometimes. Whatever. It’s all in the past. I should be relieved that I am now done this stupid school for a few weeks. Then on January I’m on to some new subjects with the same people. I do hope that I’ll have the same classes as the people I have met in school.

Today I went shopping with my mom and baby sister. I didnt get a chance to buy anything just window shopping and what not. I did find this real nice winter boots from Town Shoes. I hope to buy it soon even though its over $100+. :rosiecheeks I also stopped by La Vie En Rose which is a lingerie store. If its one thing I’m addicted to is shopping for panties. I hate shopping for bras but I shopping for panties. Not thongs, panties. There’s a difference. The store always has a sale on their undies. $10 for 5. I always find over 10 that I like. But this time I restrained myself to not getting any since I have way too much panties… lol. Thats enough information already…..:shhh Maybe I’ll come back there or something after Xmas…:winktongue

So my mom finally has our Xmas tree up. She had made the silver ribbons herself and bought the silver ornaments last year after Xmas because it was on sale. If you want to see what it looks like without the lights, here it is. Aside from that I just finished my Philosophy yesterday this morning at 1:30 am. I’m a little nervous though because I have to upload my essay to Turn it in to check for Plagiarism. They scan 20,000 essays that gets uploaded everyday to check if the student plagiarized. I cited every quote there is and added a bibliography so I hope everything will turn out okay. After all, technology isnt 100% perfect so it’s possible that Turnitin could falsely accuse a student of plagiarizing… I wouldnt want to be that student..

So today I thought I would go to my Professors office hour and ask for help in my math assignment. I didnt because I got tired. I didnt get enough sleep last night and I was practically sleeping in the bus and subway today. The subway ride was alot faster now that I had slept through it. :rosiecheeks Back in highschool, I didnt think I would ever sleep in the bus or the subway but now that I’m in university, I can practically sleep anywhere! Even in class (especially in Philosophy)! :sleep I tried to be as awake as possible. I was a little bit awake. I knew what was going on but some parts just wasnt getting to me at all… Shame.. Then today we also got our tests back. I did ok I guess. I had wanted to get more but I’ll be ok with my mark. It wasnt even a B…. :look But definitely better if I had stayed in UofT. :slant Thats a fact..

So tonight a new show is up. It’s like America’s Next Top Model but for men! :winktongue Yummy.. There will be alot of hot guys!!! It’s on at Bravo at 8 pm and 10 pm Eastern. He (look below) is one of the contestants… Who wouldve guessed that he wasnt straight!!! :eek Shame….

So physics is being a pain in the arse right now. Not because I couldnt do a question but because I just received an email back from one of the professors saying how I have problems in math than Maple. Maple is a program that we use to do physics quizzes and what not. Ok maybe I have problems in physics not problems in math because I’m 100% sure that I can do so much better in Calculus than Physics. Physics is one of the worst subjects taht I have ever taken.:slant It’s such a pain in the arse. :butthead So yeah thank God I wont be mark on that one but the one that I just sent in tonight will be…. I dont think I will do very well except for the second question… :confused

So today I was 5 minutes late for physics. I thought about not coming if I was going to be late then show up an hour later because the prof once told the people who were late last week that if they are late again, he will pick on them and go up in front of the class to do a physics question. So knowing that I was definitely nervous plus I also had a feeling that he would call me no matter what. So I read in the subway. Read the book and tried and I mean really tried understanding vectors and acceleration. It wasnt easy considering how I had my walkman on. :lol2 I know it’s not exactly a good way to read. So yeah, I was late and I wasnt the only 1 but guess what? He was already writing the question and when I sat down, I havent even finished copying the question when all of a sudden he calls my last name. So he calls me because I was next on the list not because I was late. I didnt know what the fuck to do. Really. Most people would probably think that the question is so damn easy. So I did what a regular person would do, write the formula. d = 1/2at^2 + vt right? So I plugged in whatever went in there. Then he stops me once I get to the calculating part. He asks me about drawing the coordinates and I did so. When it came to doing the y coordinate of the theta then I lost it. I didnt know what the hell to do. He helped me though and practically answered the question for me. He wasnt a jerk like how he was to others a few days back. So I guess he was in a great mood or something. Of course, the other people that answered (which were all guys) knew what the hell they were doing. I think the prof likes me. Not likes me like that. But he’s extra nice to me because I’m 1 out of the 7 girls in the class. :rosiecheeks So I dont know if I got a 0 or a 1. He didnt say. I didnt really care if I got a 0 because there’s not alot of difference from a 0 to a 1. After that, I thanked him. Thanking him for doing the question for me and not humiliating me in front of the class…. :smile

I hate being a girl. You get all depressed for no valid reason. Like how i am right now. I’m depressed and down but I cant see a reason why. There is a reason but it’s nothing to be depressed about really…:slant I had met a friend today and I felt like I wasnt myself around him. I didnt even introduce him to another one of my friends. Bleh. I guess I couldnt get around to it. :look

Nothing much is going on except for school. Tests and midterms are coming up in 2 weeks so I’m writing my notes like mad. Again physics problems… bleh…

I actually had a life today. Went out with a few of my buddies to see Resident Evil 2. It was bloody awesome. I loved it! I love Milla and damn she kicks some major ass. I hope they make a third one but I doubt it. Concerning how they blew up the City Hall (aka Umbrella) it was great! Hmmm then I was thinking.. Who would win? Alice or The Bride? I’m talking about the old Alice though. The Alice before she became all abnormal at the end. I dont know really. Both are great actresses and characters. Must put Milla as one of my fave models/actresses together with Thurman, Theron and Jolie. :bigmouth Now all I have to see is The Forgotten. :smile

Anybody know physics? I need mad help. I havent done physics in practically more than 2 years and when I did it on highschool, I was so horrible at it. I got a bloody 60%!!!:angryfire Anyway, even the easiest concept I dont get. Some people find it so easy that its common sense but dammit I dont have enough common sense. Thank god Physics isnt an ultimate requirement for my program. I just want to get a damn 50% and I even doubt that thats attainable. :weeping

Hmm… Well I think I’m going to start Will and Grace now that Friends, Angel and the other cool shows are now gone. :sad Tomorrow is the Survivor premiere and again I will watch that. As for school, I’m so used to the fact that I’m one of the 7 girls in my math and physics class… :jump I wouldnt say that I’m lucky but more like special. If you think about it this way, these guys should be lucky that there are girls in their class for they probably wont get laid for a long…..while. We are talking about computer science guys here. Nerds per say. Yes I am a nerd also. :read There are probably only 2 or 3 cute guys in my program and 1 isnt even in 1 of my class… Boo! :weeping Oh well…. I’ve also paid full in my tuition and I’m even more in debt.. Bleh… That’s it for now.

Again another school day. It wasnt that bad except for 1 thing. I had to go to the bank today to deal with my financial issues for school. I thought that I was going to be mad late. Late like 30 mins late! When I got to the classroom, nobody was there. So I thought that maybe I was in the wrong class but it was the same number as they put in the schedule. So I met a friend of mine and she went with me to the Dept. of Math/Physics/CS to ask a few questions. So it turns out that the class is suppose to be a lab.. Well I didnt know that. I think they should put that in the damn schedule in the first place. :irked Then another thing, people in math, physics, engineering or comp sci program cannot change their schedules because of restricted rules since there’s too many students enrolled in those programs. I thought that was so damn unfair…:slant So basically I’m stuck with a 6-8pm class on Monday and I cant have a day off on Thursday like how I wanted it to be. :weeping I do hope that I can sneak into a class where they dont take attendance so instead of showing up in the 6-8 class, I can go to the ones earlier. Another thing that I also found out is that I am allowed to have 3 classes instead of 5 for the fall. I have 4 right now and I want to drop 1. I would have to think whether I want to drop PHL 101. I guess i will have to check out the class tomorrow and see if its any interesting or not. :look So after all that talk with the Dept, my friend went to treat me to salad king because its almost my bday. :bigmouth It was so damn good but a little expensive. :drool I got the Mango Chicken with medium spicyness. You can ask what degree of spicyness you want in your food. Medium was enough for me. My friend on the other hand had like 10 chilis.. That’s too spicy for me. :hot So she was awesome for treating me. I might go back there someday whenever I feel like gaining weight or something.. I was so full after I had that meal.. Mind you there was no desert or drinks. I only had water. Then after that I went to class where it was boring a bit… Then went to be my first bus pass!!! That will definitely save me some dough for sure…. That’s it for now.. Tomorrow is physics and philosophy..:yuck

Well tomorrow is again the beginning of school year for me. It may be the last.. I dont really know exactly. I had a talk with my mom about my current financial situation today and she decided that I forget the $200+ loan that i can get from my govt. Sure why not. It’s not like I can gain anything from it right? I dont know… So she also thinks that its a good idea to not pay my full tuition this friday and just be charged with interested every damn month. i dont know how thats a good thing but she would rather have that happen. Seriously i think that that is so dumb to be in even more debt than i already am…. ugh.. but i dont know… i find my life so hopeless everytime the subject of $$ comes up. All I Know is that i want this school year finish up so I could work full-time and drop out of college. College sucks ass.:angryfire

Today work was alright. Then again work tomorrow. Monday is labor day then Tues is the first day of school. :yuck I’m not all too excited about it but I am a little nervous though which I find odd because I wasnt nervous last year when it was my first year of college. I think I’m nervous this year because it’s a new school and I have to start all over again with making new friends. :rosiecheeks I only have 1 class though which I find a waste of time because why go to class if you only have 1 class which is 2 hours? Then again it might be a good idea to come early to beat the line to get one of my books. :sowhat I do hope that the line wont be too long. Anyway, nothing else is going on. Again another pointless blog.:look

You wanna know how poor I am? Today when I was walking to the bus stop, I didnt have enough change for the bus fare. I was practically 2 cents short. So I decided to ask some stranger while walking to the stop. As I was walking I saw this woman so rather than asking her for 2 cents, I asked her for 10 cents. I didnt want to use pennies so thats why I asked for 10 cents. It was pretty weird asking a strange woman for $$ but hey she gave it to me anyway. It’s not like I looked like a bum or anything. :lol2

Today I got my first gmail account. Yes, I’m part of the “kewl” crowd now. I also got 6 invites which I might offer to my coursins first. :winks Then today I went to school to get my schedule and my $200 loan from the govt (which I’m still bitter about). But I didnt get the documents for my loan because my course load wasnt 100%. It was 55%. I didnt know that my transfer credits would accept my loan. So I had to go to the Dept. of CS and ask how to add more courses. Believe it or not, I needed more courses. I didnt want to but I had to. :slant I was actually fine with having only 3 during the fall for I wanted to work to pay off my debts but no.. I had to have 5 courses to get that $200… Damn fucking govt… I swear they are off to make my life miserable. So I had to find 2 more courses which was not so easy at all because most of the courses where 100% full. I had to keep trying and trying then finally I found one stupid Philosophy course that I so did not want to take and it had 1 available seat. I now I am taking 2 Philosophy courses. :confused I am planning on dropping it if I find anything else available but I cant really do that until Tuesday or something. I dont have 5 courses yet. I only have 4… So.. I have to go back to school either on Thurs or Fri to again… search for more courses where I can squeeze myself in…. If I dont find anything else.. I’m screwed.

Guess what?! :jump I just got a raise from work today. I dont know how much it is and I should find out by tomorrow how much it is. All I know is that its more than 0.16 cents lol. :lol2 Well it might not be alot to others but right now its good enough considering how I am in a huge debt to the govt, bank and my parents. And yes, I am going to school for my parents have contribute to some of my tuition. I did pay most of it thanks to my credit line. I didnt want to have to come to that but I didnt have any choice for I have already made a down payment of $1000. :sowhat The raise will be effective by the beginning of September which I cannot wait to see. I wont be working as much also since school is starting on the 7th… which I’m not looking forward to…

Another good news also, the school granted my transfer credits so that means less subjects to take this year. :sly

Thats it and I am off to bed. :sleep

So today was my last day of summer school. Today was my exam and I am sure that I failed it. I would be surprised if I ended up getting over 50% as my final grade. I didnt really study last night because I had alot of things in my mind including my college situation… Anyway, I am glad that today is over then I can go on my 2 week vacation!!! lol :lol2 I did bring my digital camera though and decided to take some pictures of the school buildings which is definitely a must-see. I had wanted to talk some pictures of the flowers in the campus but I wasnt in the mood of taking pics of pretty things. I did take a few only. Most of the pics are the colleges in my school.

That’s about it right now. Maybe I will blog in the weekend.. Most likely I will. :smile

I just finished my essay on the comparison between classical Hollywood cinema vs the art cinema. Art cinema meaning movies that are made in Europe. The one I saw was fairly good yet depressing. 2 of the main characters die… :confused Anyway I am fairly happy because I had started at 2 pm instead of 1 for I was interrupted with babysitting my little sister. It did went up to 8 pages unlike last time when it was only 7 1/4 pages instead of 8. I dont think I will do well in this last essay. I’m guessing around 60 percent for I am not very good with writing essays.. Hence the horrible grammar that you see in my entries. :rosiecheeks So tomorrow is that last day of summer school then off to exams on Thursday of next week. I have yet to write down and read all the articles that are in the course reader… Blah.. These articles are so long and boring though…. makes me wanna fall asleep…:sleep lol Anyway tomorrow I also plan on bringing my camera and taking pics of the flowers in school. I hope it doesnt rain…. Then this weekend another fun time at work. :bored Not only do I NOT get a weekend I also work 4 day straight!!! :angryfire I’m going to be so tired then I wont be able to do any studying. :headache Please pray for me. :innocent

Guess who’s sick for today??? uch Yours truly…:sad I dont know how I got this but I’m guessing its the weird chilly weather that we’re having here in Toronto. :slant I was basically sniffling and sneezing in class today more than usual and it was not a good thing. We ended up watching 4 short movies that were basically about Black Gays. The last one wasnt that bad for they were showing their butts and what not. :winktongue Also I had to go to the library and borrow a video for the last essay which is this foreign movie called Jules et Jim. It’s another black and white and found out that its about this love triangle. It even has the word menage a trois in the back cover so I hope this video is interesting…:hyper

Nothing much is going on except for the fact that I look forward to Thursdays, Saturdays and Tuesdays. Why? Thats when they show Big Brother!!! I’m a dork I know but there’s nothing else to watch alright? :rosiecheeks I do hope that Scott gets the boot tonight. :smile

Apparently, I am majoring in math, minoring in philosophy and also minoring in astronomy. :lol2 What a joke is that. I had to pick those 3 instead of computer science as my major because all students of UT had to pick a subject post whether you are staying in the school or not. Subject post is basically a fancy name for major/minor. You can either have 1 major which is called specialist in my school or 2 majors or 1 major and 2 minors. So I decided to do the last choice. I am majoring on computer science though but in another school which I hope to go to this sept. If i dont, I am stuck with math, philosophy and astronomy. Dont get me wrong, I like philosophy and astronomy was one of the most interesting classes i have ever taken but I just dont see myself doing that. Plus I’m horrible at arguing in essays in Philosophy class. Math on the either hand.. i didnt do too well but you know I would rather do math than write an essay.. That’s just the way I am…

As for the day today, I decided to skip Film Studies. :rude I noticed that i have never once skipped it so why not today. So a friend of mine went with me to go window shopping. There wasnt alot of things to go to considering how it was raining. :irked The day went fine for we went to places that i have never been and those where i havent been in ages. Nothing else has changed… Even though the stores had a sales, it was still expensive…:slant Then we encountered some weirdos on the street including this guy in Tim Horton’s who kept on staring at us and this homeless woman who was yelling at someone and following us. She scared the crap out of us. I was also saying to my friend that I want a male homosexual friend. I’ve never had a gay friend ever male or female. I want to see what its like to have a gay friend…. Hmm…:look I only know one gay person online but we barely talk…:rosiecheeks

Anyway that is it right now. I am off to finishing my task. :smile

Today we got a substitute teacher for Film Studies. I was surprised because our teacher never told us anything about him being away. Next week Tuesday he’s also going to be away. :sowhat At first this substitute was alright. His lectures were easy to understand and not boring compared to the lectures that are given by my regular prof. Then after we watched our daily movie, he started discussing the movie. Everybody in the class had to discuss or say something about it. We never do that with our regular prof so I was definitely surprised. He was asking people questions even though nobody raised their hand up. :slant But before that, we had a 10 minute break before the discussion. I was sitting behind him and as he was getting something from his desk, he looks at me and smiles. I smile back politely then he says “You know you were making alot of sounds in the background during the movie. You really felt the mood of the movie. Congratulations.” Mind you I wasnt really sure whether he said the last 2 sentences but I did hear a sort-of sarcastic congratulations at the end. I’m not sure whether he said that because I got up to go to the bathroom during the movie or because I slept half of the movie. I know that I dont snore… Unless I was snoring during the movie then he heard that then… I’m in shit but I wasnt really sure what he meant by that comment. :confused All I know is that he didnt give me a good vibe and I took it as something rude like “Shut up next time we’re watching a movie” or “Try not to sleep next time”. Anyway back to the discussion. He asked me a question and I answered it wrong. :paperbag Thank god I wasnt the only one that screwed up. :slant But still his questions made people pretty stupid. He didnt know that we never do this in class… So basically I hate the dude. Thank God he wont be our teacher forever. :yuck He’s only in for Tuesday and that’s it.

Aside from that, I bought a new backpack, memory card and sent in my financial forms. I even wrote a note on my hand to do those things. But I forgot to ask them information about the whole financial aid problems how $244 is not enough. Bleh. I think I might stop by tomorrow. :smile

Guess what?! The hard work has paid off.. For now anyway. I got my midterm test today and I got 73% which means its a B!!!! :jump I was so surprised with this because all I wanted was a 60% in this test. Thankfully I watched those movies before the test or else I wouldnt know how to answer the third part. Then now I have another essay due in 2 weeks. Basically it’s comparing 2 films by Anthony Mann. Both have to be in different genres. I have to compare the themes and styles. The essay has to be in less than 8 pages.. Bleh.. I have writing long essays. Then again it is a movie which means I have to take notes on every single detail which I hope will take up alot of space in the paper. :sly

On another note, I just read my email from a friend of mine. Her birthday is on the 18th and she’s celebrating it this Friday. It’s basically clubbing with her friends and cousins. I’m not sure if I will go. The club is called Intercourze… :yuck God knows that the hell that means :sowhat. I sorta dont want know. I have yet to know what kind of club it is. Let me know what I should do. :smile

I’m feeling evil today.. :devil Provance members who’re suppose to comment on this pathetic blog and didnt?! :snooty I will be reporting your bloody ass…. :sly Am I cruel or what?!

Anyway, back to normality. I’ve finally added a Random Info in the Me section. Went to work again.. today… Bleh.. Nothing new except tomorrow is library day where I get to watch movies and make notes about the damn thing… I dont really want to go though only because I know that it’s a total waste of my damn time but I gotta to if I went to do semi-well in Tuesdays midterms.. Bleh.. Im hella nervous about it. There’s so many definitions that I gotta memorize. It’s like a damn new language. I’m just real afraid about the essay part. I do hope that I can at least write some ideas down though. :sowhat

Today was pretty disappointing for me. I just got back my shot by shot first assignment from film studies hoping to get at least a 65% then it turns out that i got a 60%.. :sad That definitely sucks ass :butthead I was so upset with myself when I saw those dumb stupid errors that was so avoidable. For example, instead of stating cast shadow I put cash shadow. Damn microsoft word didnt even tell me. :sowhat Then I kept on mistaking medium close up or long shot with middle close up or long shot. I lost points on that. The only thing that I thought was great about the marking is that little comment “good” right next to my description of the musician always at the center of the camera. :slant I’m still upset about it. We also had a pop quiz based on the course readings. He did hint on reading those articles but i didnt read them until lunch time. Thank god i got 3/5. Thats damn 60%… I hate myself for being such a dufus sometimes.. :banghead

Thank god for the latest technologies these days… I removed this spyware program that i noticed when i got on my computer. These stupid searchit bars on the top of explorer is so damn annoying. :yuck Anyway, again there was a downtime on the site because there was a server change that I wasnt informed of. :sowhat But now everything is alright and I hope it’ll remain alright for the time being. Nothing much new is happening except I handed in my essay today before class and for those who were late got 5% off because they didnt hand it in time. I wanted to be early today because of that. Thank god I was 5 minutes early before the Prof asked for them. I also met one of my friend’s friend today and we talked in Tim’s. He was so talkative which was great because I dont really talk alot when I just meet new people. :bigmouth I’m not very quiet either but Im more discreet when it comes to that. So it’s good when you start the convo when you first meet me for the first time. I might have something to say in related to that but I wont be definitely quiet. :smile

Today I got the chance to read a whole lot of articles for my Intro to Film Study class. There is alot of reading in that class and every class we watch movies. Not regular movies that we see these days but more like in the oldies version. For example, in the first day of class we watched Winchester ‘73 which is a Western film that is black and white. I heard someone say that if a person who is used to colored films watches black and white, they wont enjoy the film at all. Well they were right. :winktongue The movie was so boring that I almost fell asleep. I admit the plot wasnt that bad but still. Then on Thursday we went to see North by NorthWest by Alfred Hitchcock which is a colored film made in 1959. The movie was rather long but the plot was great and there were some funny parts. The only movie that I am looking forward to seeing is Gingersnaps. :smile

I went online today to sign up for summer school & I find out that Pyschology of Religion was taken!!! :angryfire What is up with that? Who would have known that there would be alot of people wanting to take that course. Not to mention the perfect time table. I mean I dont have to wake up early because the class is at night… Argh.. I am so upset. :slant So I had to pick a new course and it was not easy because there was not alot of choices to choose from. Then at the end I ended up picking Film Studies. Sounds easy but we’ll see. Even though its a first year course it might be hard as hell. I know that based from experience. Then when I checked what time the class is, I was in shocked.:yikes Its every Tues and Thurs 11-4 pm!!! Can you imagine a class 5 hours a day talking about the same shit over and over again?! Hopefully we’ll just watch movies or something. That’s probably why its 5 freaking hours long. But I doubt it. I also hope that we get to go on field trips. :smile Ahh.. I can only hope…:look Anyway, the tuition that I have to pay isnt as high as I expected it to be. I hope it stays that way or else I will be broke. I have to pay by Monday though and pick up my damn invoice.. Grr.. I hate travelling far… :sowhat