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Remember that test I took for Biology lecture last week, the one I was so damn nervous about? Just got my first progress report from my teacher; it and a 9 question assignment are the only grades counting so far, even though I've gotten full credit for the TOTE assignment she mentions. Functionally this means I can't have missed more than one or two questions on the test; it was only 54 weighted questions, and with the TOTE I guess I'd land at 100% grade if the term ended right now. Needless to say, it's a nice boost to the day.

Uncut from PCC email -

	PCC Course Progress CRN-13758
From	")'>Leslie Chao
Date	Friday, January 30, 2009 2:41 pm
To	")'>Josh Byram

Dear Josh,

I want to congratulate you on your progress in Cell Biology for Health Occ CRN 13758.

Current Grade is A

This is my personal message to you. This is the only portion of this message that is not automated so please disregard any messages outside of paragraph. This grade includes only the lecture portion of your grade and it includes the first exam and the first assignment. TOTE points are not included and will not be included until the end of the quarter if you are 2% away from the next higher grade. Congratulations, you are earning a 98% in this class so far. Keep up the excellent work.

Sincerely,
Leslie Chao

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Tomorrow I'll be giving an impromptu speech in my Speech class. According to the instruction, the impromptu speech is supposed to be more of a way of segueing from a random phrase or question to a prepared speech. We'll see how the segue part of the equation works out, but I thought it might be appropriate to share the rough version of that speech with you folks.

"xxx makes me think about marriage. Actually, pretty much anything makes me think about marriage right now, as I've just gotten engaged. The point is, I've been thinking a lot about what marriage means to me. I've been married once before, actually, a little over a decade ago, but I've come to realize that what marriage meant to me then isn't what it means to me now.

People get married for a variety of reasons; some get married for family, some get married for religion, some for legal reasons, some just do it because they're in love. The first time I got married, it could have been said to be a combination of the last two. I was in California in the Navy at the time, met a girl, fell madly in love, and had to ship out back to Japan a month later. Things happened quickly, and we ended up eloping just to get things done fast enough to matter. We spent half an hour in filling paperwork and saying 'I do' in black jeans and T-shirts. I headed back to Japan, and Jessie came over with the Navy's blessing a month later.

At the time, marriage represented a way for me to keep Jessie in my life, and to show her that I cared enough to do so. Our relationship was very intense, and I knew, without reservation, that this was what I wanted to do. There was no pressure from family, friends, or church - no one knew what was going on but us. I'd seen a lot of friends in boot camp get married to one another just for the benefits; for those that aren't aware, Uncle Sam doles out a lot more if you have a wife or husband - your tax dollars at work. That wasn't it either, although it did make some things easier, later. At the basic level, this was a way for her and I to become 'us', forever, no more and no less. As it turns out, due to a number of very tragic circumstances, forever lasted about three years - she passed away on January 24th, 2001, and a very big part of that 'us' died then too.

I've spent a lot of time working through that, both on my own, with the help of professionals, and with friends. Anyone who has lost someone will tell you that you never really get over the loss, but you can learn to cope with it to some extent. A couple of years after Jessie passed, I met someone new, Eden. In a matter of months she became one of my best friends, and we ended up sharing a lot of things - feelings, thoughts, wishes, or just whatever was on our mind at the time. A lot of what we talked about was Jessie; what she meant to me, what I did wrong, what I did right, what I'd do differently. Eden really helped me to rebuild my self image into a person I can stand to be, and even like sometimes.

Our relationship has matured in fits and spurts over the years; most of the time we haven't been sure ourselves where we fit on the relationship scale, although we've known that we've cared immensely for each other from the start. Out of the six or so years we've known each other, we've probably been a formal 'couple' for perhaps three of those years, and we've been pretty happy at that level.

Recently I've decided to go back to school, and to transfer to OIT in Klamath Falls in September, to get a degree in Medical Imaging and start a new career. I can honestly say that 90% of that decision is because of Eden, although I'm not making that choice just for her. What I mean is that she's helped me to find a dream again, a vision of what I want my life to be. That's why I've asked her to marry me, and why my definition of marriage is different now. Marriage doesn't just mean 'us' together, it doesn't just mean showing her how much I care. It means a future together, a merging of our families and a family of our own some day. Marriage is a way of declaring that the future has meaning, has hope, and that we can't wait to get there."

Update: Just finished giving the speech - turns out I was the first one up; no pressure there. I got an easy word to work with: school, which was easy to work into the introduction. It's amazing to me how much your perception of time warps when you're in front of a class. I originally clocked the speech above at 3.5 minutes when practicing it, not counting working in the word given, which seemed about right for a speech that was supposed to be 3 to 5 minutes. The instructor flashes how much time you have left each minute, which only increases my nervousness, and thus the speed of my speech. It seemed like I was going light speed, but I guess I really wasn't - I actually had to trim a little to fit everything in while I was up there. That means that you folks are the only ones to get the original, uncut version. Lucky you!

Update 2: Dr. Brennan graded uber-quick; turns out I got 100% on this speech, which is 2 for 2 in this class. Awesome comments too.

Eden has started a new blog specifically about us! There's not much there yet, but I'm sure there will be. Feel free to take a look.

http://joshandeden.blogspot.com/

Extra special notice!!! As of last night, I am officially engaged to Eden. We're not entirely sure of a date yet, but the wedding should happen sometime in the next few months.

Well, I've done it. Specifically, the application to attend OIT in the fall is in, and transcript transfer requests from PCC and PSU have been submitted to get them to accept me. I'll have to resend the PCC transcript again this fall to get the grades and courses for the prerequisites I'm working on now to move over, but that shouldn't be a big deal.

Talking to the representative from OIT at the PCC Transfer days event yesterday really didn't do much for me in terms of clearing things up as to how this is going to land, but it did give me a little information. Among other things, the rep made me aware of a presidential scholarship for transfer students for a few thousand a year. Right now I don't qualify for it, as it's targeted at students with a GPA above 3.3 (my PCC GPA is currently at 3.15, mostly due to a hiccup one term in 2003 that caused me to have to drop or fail almost all of my classes that term). Ideally I'll be in that range once my PSU grades and the grades for the next two or three terms at PCC are taken into account, and will be able to apply. There's also a "preview" day on Saturday, April 18th this year to get familiar with the campus and so forth - I'm not sure I'll attend, as it's a five hourish drive each way and I don't know if it'll be all that useful to me (my time with the rep here was perhaps 8 minutes to exhaust her relevant knowledge), but it's worth knowing about.

I also got my first grade back! The quiz in Algebra, that I forgot my darn calculator for, landed at 34/46, an A. Given that the teacher said the class pretty much bombed it, that feels pretty good. We'll see how it goes from here, but it feels like I'm getting back in the groove, mathwise. I'm going to enjoy it as much as I can now, because the next section will be Trigonometry, and that never actually made sense to me.

Other than the Transfer days event, yesterday was a relaxation day of sorts. Eden, Cassie, and I grabbed breakfast/lunch at Ikea (darn good prices for edible food), then got out of town and headed to Multnomah falls. There's been a lot of stress going on recently for all three of us, and it was good to unwind a little. Eden and I tend to head out there or to the coast every couple of months at least. We need to find some new destinations in range, but this has served us as an outlet for years now. It's just nice to be away from the city.

Well, my the final two classes of last week were a bit different. My Biology Lab focused on the 15 second discussion of the scientific method we had in class as part of the chapter one overview. We spent the three hour period going over safety (don't drink/eat in the lab, if you get anything in your eyes, wash em quick!), devising experiments to determine the contents of a "black box", and familiarizing ourselves with measuring equipment. I gotta admit I was a little disappointed; I don't really know what I was expecting for a first session, but I was hoping for things to be a bit more interesting. The fact that our next class will focus almost exclusively on how to use a microscope is not encouraging, but hopefully the sessions after that will prove interesting. My fellow students seemed a little impatient with the whole thing, and I guess I can't blame em.

The speech course on Saturday was also a bit outside the parameters I expected. The actual teacher was not present, so his "best friend" came by to monitor the class. Don't know why he was gone, don't know if his friend was an actual teacher, etc. etc. Functionally the class was: your syllabus is available online (I can't get to the section of PCC where it's located at the moment, I'll be addressing this later today in the lab at RC), I don't have a copy; this is your book, it's neat because the chapters are so short; find a partner and be ready to introduce them next time you come in. Not the most impressive presentation. I'm hoping that this just signifies that the instructor was caught flatfooted by something and had to pull last minute resources just to make sure that someone was actually there.

I had my first quiz in Algebra this morning; forgot my new(ish) TI at Eden's this morning, so there was a little scrambling there. Fortunately it was very much a "show your work" type of thing anyway, so that worked out, I think. I know I got the right answers, and I'm fairly confident that I illustrated how I got there sufficiently. The new subject for the day, finding interest, made immediate sense to me, so I'm in a pretty good mood about my direction in the subject. It's very odd, returning to it after really not having any significant math courses in a decade or so.

I checked in with financial aid advising yet again this morning, and while it looks like everything finally matches up between FAFSA, PCC, and US Bank, I'm going to have to talk to my parents tonight about a loan against my loan. The financial aid officer here at Cascade finally did me the courtesy of letting me know that it will probably take 4 to 6 weeks from this point to actually be disbursed, although she can't see any reason why it wouldn't be awarded. Since the due date for tuition is this Friday, that's a problem. She said that I wouldn't be disenrolled for non-payment for quite some time and that they have some leeway to waive the late fee for payment (once), I'd really rather just start out on the right foot. I did make sure that simply paying the tuition outright wouldn't prejudice my future status with FAFSA (it was filled out as non-dependent) and wouldn't affect getting the loan. Functionally what should happen is that I'll get tuition paid on time, then have the entire loan amount refunded to me since all fees/tuition have already been paid, which'll mean that I can then immediately pay the parents back. Fun, fun.

Other than the traffic, I'm kind of liking the morning portion of my schedule. It's kind of nice to have a built in break of sorts between the two classes at Cascade to just relax a bit, and maybe work ahead.

Well, after having had 2 days in class so far, I think this is going to be doable. It's readily apparent that there are going to be some difficulties involved, but they're within an acceptable range. My classes at Cascade campus land me on the road during both the morning and evening "rush hour". The morning is fairly well locked up all the way in; on Monday I don't think I topped 20 miles an hour. I tried sleeping over at Eden's to come in from Vancouver on Wednesday morning and that was a little better, but I think I'll need to make some adjustments there too - I actually ended up getting up after Suzanne had left but before anyone else was really up, which meant no shower but I got to school almost an hour before I needed to be there, which was actually kind of nice. Coming back to the west side isn't too horrible - the I5 is already locked up but I can use back streets to dodge that. Eden gave me a route from Interstate Avenue that I promptly forgot - still got home, but ended up going through central Portland rather than landing on the 30. I'll have to work on that. In any case, highway 26 was still moving by the time I hit it on both evenings. I end up with about enough time for a shower and a hurried meal before heading over to Rock Creek campus. I guess evening classes are pretty darn popular there, because it takes from 5:30 to about 5:55 to drive the 2-3 miles from my apartment to campus. Go figure. My remaining trips this week shouldn't be too bad, as they're both single class days at Rock Creek.

As to the actual classes, well, it's been educational . Algebra is kind of comforting, in that I seem to remember/understand most of it, although I could swear I've never seen the quadratic formula before. I can apply it, but it really feels like a brand new equation, which is a little disturbing, in that I remember solving these kind of problems before, just don't remember how. The other problems given during the teacher's little pretest sorted themselves out from memory nicely though. By the way, if you're ever in need of a quick graphing calculator and don't have one handy, check out the freeware app GraphCalc (http://www.graphcalc.com/). My TI got here today, so I'll be using that for homework later to remember how it actually works in preparation for the quiz on Monday.

Writing class has been very straightforward thus far, although it seems like there's comparatively little reading and writing going on in class - too much time doing things like relearning how to cite quotations properly. I'm sure that'll change some as time goes on. My Biology teacher is very interesting. The first class she seemed to be going light speed, but kept on saying that we'd come back to this concept or that concept in later classes, which makes sense since the first chapter is an overview, but still, it made taking notes very difficult. She did post the lecture online beforehand, but that's the only classroom thus far that doesn't have a working wireless router in range. The second class was much more comprehensible, in that I'd printed the lecture beforehand to write notes on and the subject matter made more sense. The chapter was on very basic chemistry, which was a little fascinating, as I have not taken any kind of chemistry before and the concepts seemed to fit together pretty well. The only stumble came up in a discrepancy between the book's description of the relation between valence shells and orbitals (subshells), which the teacher said was wrong. Wikipedia agrees with her, so I'm going with her explanation on the test.

After class I made a compromise with myself and went to study at the Circled by Hounds show over at Biddy's. I think I confounded the girls by having my head in a book (rereading the first two chapters of Biology) for most of the show, but it was worth it, because it was pretty relaxing and I got to hear their new member a bit. It's kind of interesting, in that I wouldn't have associated a flute with their music at all before, but he melded extremely well. If you haven't heard them before, do yourself a favor and at least click the link - they're great musicians with some incredible energy in person. (For perspective, their last two CDs are litterally the only music I've bought since high school - I'm the kind of guy that normally lets Pandora figure out a background for me when I feel like music)

Well, it'll be time to head to the Lab section of Biology (with a different teacher) here in a couple of hours, so it's time to move on to more productive things.

Winter 2009 Books (Out of Pocket)
$068.20 : BI 112 - Campbell - Biology: Concepts and Connections
$011.10 : BI 112 - Briggs - Cell Biology for Health Occupations: Lab Manual
$105.25 : MTH 111C - Connally - Functions: Modeling Change
$000.95 : MTH 111C - Staff - Math 111C: Supplemental Problem Sets
$044.85 : SP 111 - Grice - Mastering Public Speaking
$061.05 : WR 121 - Eschholz - Language Awareness

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$291.40

Winter 2009 School Charges (Due 1/16/09, Loan Pending)
$0025.00 PCC Application Fee
$0033.00 All Day Parking Permit
$0028.80 Student Activity Fee
$1260.00 Tuition
$0012.00 Lab/Class Fee
$0081.00 Technology Fee

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$1439.80

Winter 2009 Auxiliary Costs (Out of Pocket)
$38.95 TI-83 Calculator, Ebay

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$38.95

OIT Application for Fall 2009 (Out of Pocket)
$50.00 Application Fee
$4.00 Transcript fee from PSU
$3.00 Transcript fee from PCC

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$57.00

Total Damages Thus Far
$0291.40 Winter 2009 Books
$1439.80 Winter 2009 School Charges
$0038.95 Winter 2009 Auxiliary Costs
$0057.00 OIT Application for Fall 2009

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$1827.15

BI 112 - CRN 13758 - Leslie Chao

• 00/70% Lecture Section
  
  • 117/120 points Exam 1 (Drop Lowest Score)
    
  • 000/120 points Exam 2 (Drop Lowest Score)
  • 000/120 points Exam 3 (Drop Lowest Score)
  • 010/10 points Assignment 1 (Drop Lowest Assignment)
  • 000/10 points Assignment 2 (Drop Lowest Assignment)
  • 000/10 points Assignment 3 (Drop Lowest Assignment)
  • 000/10 points Assignment 4 (Drop Lowest Assignment)
  • 000/10 points Assignment 5 (Drop Lowest Assignment)
  • 005/5 TOTE Extra Credit [Not counted yet]
    
  • 127/280 Graded Points total (130 Graded possible so far)
    
• 00/30% Lab Section
  • 12.08/25% Quizes (Up to 6, drop lowest) [Calculated 29/30 out of 60 final points]
    
  • 9.38/25% Post lab Homework (Post lab, 8) [Calculated 15/15 out of 40 final points]
    
  • 00/10% Lab report
    
  • 6.11/15% Pre lab assignments (9) [Calculated 11/12 out of 27 final points]
  • 7.81/25% Microwords + Practica (8) [Calculated 12.5/15 out of 40 final points]
    
  • 35.38/100% Possible [37.92 percent recorded so far]

00/100% Total
Score so far 96.52% - Grade A [(127/130) * 0.70 + (35.38/37.72) * 0.30)]

MTH 111C - CRN 11651 - Holli Adams

• 08.60/12% Test #1 (48/67)
  
• 00.00/12% Test #2
• 05.67/06% Quiz #1 (Lowest Quiz is dropped) (34/36)
  
• 05.35/06% Quiz #2 (Lowest Quiz is dropped) (45.5/51)
  
• 00.00/06% Quiz #3 (Lowest Quiz is dropped)
• 02.91/06% Writing Assignment #1 (16/33, rewrite)
  
• 04.95/06% Writing Assignment #2 (33/40, rewrite)
  
• 00.00/06% Writing Assignment #3
• 00.00/06% Writing Assignment #4
• 00.00/20% Project
• 00.00/20% Final Exam

27.48/100% Total
Score so far 76.33% - Grade C [27.48%/36%]

SP 112 - CRN 13979 - Kelly Brennan

• 000/005 Library Assignment
• 010/010 Introduction Speech (2 min)
• 030/030 Impromptu Speech (3-5 min)
• 036/040 Tribute Speech (4-5 min)
• 000/080 Informative Speech with Visual Aids (5-6 min)
  • 00/30 Outline and Bibliography
  • 00/50 Content and Delivery
• 000/100 Pursuasive Speech (6-8 min)
  • 00/20 Outline and Bibliography
  • 00/80 Content and Delivery
• 025/025 Quiz #1
• 000/025 Quiz #2
• 000/025 Quiz #3
• 000/025 Quiz #4
• 000/035 Written critique of a speech
• 000/010 Perfect Attendance (Extra Credit)

101/400 Graded Points
Score so far 96.19% - Grade A [101/105]

WR 121 - CRN 17761 - Salomeh Moadab

• 00.00/05% Participation in class and group discussions
• 00.00/15% Journal (In and out of class writing)
• 13.95/15% Essay #1 (3-4 pages) [93%]
  
• 13.50/15% Essay #2 (3-4 pages) [90%]
  
• 00.00/15% Essay #3 (3-4 pages)
• 00.00/15% Essay #4 (3-4 pages)
• 00.00/15% In class final exam
• 00.00/05% 2 out of class conferences (1 before 4 week mark)

27.45/100% Total
Score so far 91.5% - Grade A - [27.45/30%]

• 01/05/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 2.1/2.2 (Not Collected)
• 01/07/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 2.3/2.4 (Not Collected)
• 01/07/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Eschholz, 1-33; Rosenberg, 621-623
• 01/08/09 [Returned, 3/3] BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Sci Inquiry due at END of session
  
• 01/10/09 [Returned, 10/10] SP 111 - Read Chap 1-3, 18; Speech of Introduction
  
• 01/12/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 3.1/3.2 (Not Collected)
• 01/12/09 [Returned, 34/36] MTH 111C - Quiz 1
• 01/12/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Erdrich, 625-629; Hayakawa, 611-617
• 01/14/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 3.3/3.4 (Not Collected)
• 01/14/09 [Returned, 1st Draft 16/33, rewrite due 2/8/09] MTH 111C - WR1
• 01/14/09 [Returned, 5/5] BI 112 - TOTE Extra Credit
  
• 01/14/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Hairston, 79-84; Flower, 88-90; LB Brief, 18-21 & 66-69
• 01/15/09 [Returned, 10/10] BI 112 Lab - Quiz 1
  
• 01/15/09 [Returned, 5/5] BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Sci Inquiry/Metrics
• 01/15/09 [Returned, 2/3] BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Microscope
• 01/15/09 [Returned, 4.5/5] BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Cheek cells (wet mount, stained)
  
• 01/17/09 [Completed] SP 111 - Read Chap 4-9, 10, 18
• 01/21/09 [Returned, 10/10]BI 112 - Assignment 1
  
• 01/21/09 [Returned, 117/120] BI 112 - Exam 1: Chapters 1-3
• 01/21/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 3.5 (Not Collected)
• 01/21/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Draft Workshop
• 01/21/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Murray, 104-108; Zinsser, 98-101; LB Brief, 27-40 (as needed)
• 01/22/09 [Returned, 10/10] BI 112 Lab - Quiz 2
  
• 01/22/09 [Returned, 5/5] BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Microscope
• 01/22/09 [Returned, 3/3] BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: pH
  
• 01/22/09 [Returned, 5/5] BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Protists (unstained wet mount, or prepared slide)
• 01/24/09 [Returned, 30/30] SP 111 - Read Chap 4-9, 10, 18; Impromptu speeches
  
• 01/26/09 [Returned, 48/67] MTH 111C - Test 1
• 01/26/09 [Returned, 93%] WR 121 - Essay #1 due
• 01/26/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Kakutani (handout); MacNeil, 537-540
• 01/28/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 4.1/4.2 (Not Collected)
• 01/28/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Lamm (handout); Irvine, 328-331
• 01/29/09 [Handed In] BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: pH and buffers
• 01/29/09 [Handed In] BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: DNA
  
• 01/29/09 [Handed In] BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Blood: Sickle cells anemia
  Prepared, 400x and 1000x/oil
• 01/31/09 [Handed In] SP 111 - Read Chap 4-9, 10, 18; Quiz 1, Chapter 1-6
  
• 02/02/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 4.3 (Not Collected)
• 02/02/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Draft Workshop
• 02/02/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Goldberg, 634-635
• 02/04/09 [Completed] MTH 111C - Problems 5.1/5.2 (Not Collected)
• 02/04/09 [Handed In] MTH 111C - Quiz 2
• 02/04/09 [Handed In] WR 121 - Essay #2 due
• 02/04/09 [Returned, Full Credit] WR 121 - Mellix, 203-212; Gonzales (handout)
• 02/05/09 [Handed In] BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: DNA
  
• 02/05/09 [Handed In] BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Enzymes
  
• 02/05/09 [Delayed by Instructor until next week] BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Yeast (Wet mount, unstained) 400x and 1000x oil
• 02/07/09 [Completed]SP 111 - Read Chap 8-15; Tribute speeches
  
• 02/09/09 [Completed]MTH 111C - Problems 5.3/5.4 (Not Collected)
• 02/09/09 WR 121 - Agosin, 116-118; Cunha, 544-553
• 02/11/09 MTH 111C - WR2
• 02/11/09 MTH 111C - Problems 8.1/8.2 (Not Collected)
• 02/11/09 WR 121 - Axtman (handout); Kuttner (handout); Croal (handout)
• 02/12/09 BI 112 Lab - Lab Report: Enzymes
  
• 02/12/09 BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Diffusion and Osmosis
  
• 02/12/09 BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Pond plan (such as Elodea)
• 02/14/09 SP 111 - Read Chap 8-15; Quiz #2 Chapters 7-11
  
• 02/16/09 MTH 111C - Problems 8.3 (Not Collected)
• 02/16/09 WR 121 - Draft Workshop
• 02/16/09 BI 112 - Exam 2: Chapters 4, 5, and 10
• 02/18/09 MTH 111C - Test 2
• 02/18/09 WR 121 - Cross, 123-133
• 02/18/09 WR 121 - Essay #3 Due
• 02/19/09 BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Diffusion and Osmosis
  
• 02/19/09 BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Respiration
• 02/21/09 SP 111 - Library assignment due, Informative speeches
  
• 02/23/09 MTH 111C - Problems 9.1/9.2 (Not Collected)
• 02/23/09 MTH 111C - WR3
• 02/23/09 WR 121 - Birk, 351-359
• 02/25/09 MTH 111C - Problems 9.3 (Not Collected)
• 02/25/09 WR 121 - Library Visit/Find Articles; LB Brief, 425-445 (as needed)
• 02/26/09 BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Respiration
  
• 02/26/09 BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Mitosis
• 02/26/09 BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Onion Root and/or Fish Blastua
  
• 02/28/09 SP 111 - Read Chap 16-17; Quiz #3 Chapters 12-14
  
• 03/02/09 MTH 111C - Problems 9.4 (Not Collected)
• 03/02/09 MTH 111C - Project
• 03/02/09 WR 121 - Bring in Articles/Essay #4 planning
• 03/02/09 WR 121 - LB Brief, 446-478 (as needed); Lutz, 152-162
• 03/04/09 MTH 111C - Problems 9.5/9.6 (Not Collected)
• 03/04/09 WR 121 - Orwell, 138-149
• 03/05/09 BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Mitosis
  
• 03/05/09 BI 112 Lab - Pre-lab: Meiosis
  
• 03/05/09 BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Sordaria
• 03/07/09 SP 111 - Begin Persuasive Speeches
  
• 03/09/09 MTH 111C - Project Revision
• 03/09/09 MTH 111C - Quiz 3
• 03/09/09 WR 121 - Draft Workshop; LB Brief, 483-524 (as needed)
• 03/11/09 MTH 111C - WR4
• 03/11/09 WR 121 - Essay #4 Due
• 03/12/09 BI 112 Lab - Post-lab: Meiosis
  
• 03/12/09 BI 112 Lab - Microworld Opportunities: Chromosomes: Human or Insect (polytene), or other
• 03/14/09 SP 111 - Finish persuasive speeches, written critiques due
  
• 03/16/09 MTH 111C - Exam
• 03/16/09 WR 121 - Final Exam
• 03/18/09 BI 112 - Exam 3: Chapters 6, 8, 9, and 11
  
• 03/21/09 SP 111 - Quiz #4, Chapters 15-18
  

Good morning all, and welcome. This blog is intended to be something like a combination of reminder, reporter, newsletter, and semi-mobile guilt trip. To be succinct, I am using all of you as an encouragement to keep on top of things - I'm figuring that having my responsibilities visible like this will be pretty motivating. Ideally there will be some small items of interest here as well, but the primary purpose is simply to help to counteract my procrastinating tendencies.

In any case, feel free to follow along as I move through my studies. I hope to inform and entertain while I'm here.