My Education Experience

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

What I Liked

I loved taking The Cold War in Southern Africa, a seminar with Dr. Bethany Spektor. What I loved most about the course was that it was a course about Africa. During my school experience, Africa save for Egypt was barely mentioned. I knew very little about a continent that I am finding to be rich and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Things I Did Not Like

Last entry I mentioned that I wanted to write a reflection of this past semester. My plan was to blog about the whole semester. Before I sat down to write this entry on Sunday night, I got to thinking. Did I really want to regurgitate what had happened during the semester? Besides, what I had stands... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

No Word Yet

Dr. Spektor has yet to get back to me about Monday's missed oral presentation due to depression. If I had to guess why she has not gotten back to me, I would say that she has been too busy to check her e-mail. With thirteen twenty page papers to grade and this week having been the last week of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Things Are Rough

On Saturday I was ready to conquer the world. I would show up to my final seminar on Monday. There I would give my oral presentation on my twenty page paper and listen to the presentations given my peers. I would then leave the class, feeling proud at the hard work I put into this final course... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Why Worry?

The only thing standing between me and my history degree is Monday's oral presentation on my twenty page paper. The oral presentation has been a source of great apprehension for me, which I have detailed here and there over the last few weeks. The concern expressed was not rooted in a concern about... Sign in to see full entry.

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