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Jul. 25th, 2024 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
areolasToday was my last class meeting!!!!! It was a surprise announcement, since we still are in session next week technically. But he's giving us Tuesday off to work on our last homework assignment and Thursday is our final exam (online, at home, open book). Tomorrow is my last lab and then I'm FREE! For three-ish weeks. My last assignment is very close to being done, there's one more element I can't quite get working. I'm hoping in lab tomorrow I can get help from my TA with it.
I'm irritated I filled out an OMET for my professor but not for my TA - his is a separate job and should also stand under review. I had a lot to say about how his teaching style could be worked on and improved. For one thing, read the assignments and understand them before the moment you are in front of us. He was constantly telling up wrong things and correcting us for things that were not part of the assignments as written. Second, telling students "oh this part is so easy" is not encouragement and especially not when we're struggling. Hearing where we're struggling and following it up with "this part is so easy" doesn't help, it just makes it sound like what we're struggling with is easy, and we're dumb to struggle with it.
Anyway though! Tonight I'm going to prep for dnd this Saturday (we're getting so close to done with Curse of Strahd, which makes the rewriting I was doing of the sessions on here even harder lol). I'm excited to finish but nervous. I need to make sure the final battle is worth all the build up. I'm still inexperienced in regards to that, and I just want everyone to feel satisfied in the end. They're going to the Amber Temple next which is also a ramp up in combat, so if I can make that compelling I'll feel good. I just think that like..... the book as written is often not very good, and so I'm doing the best I can with what I was given.
Ideally I get my homework finished entirely tonight so I don't have to get help from my TA, JUST have to run it by him and get final approval.
After that, Elden Ring. i finished Horizon Zero Dawn and described it as the world's okayest game. It was fine. It was fun to play. It was pretty. It didn't make me like.... feel much. It didn't inspire an emotion in me lmao. The big twists I saw coming miles ahead.... but it was ok.
Elden Ring is.... an obsession. Full blown. There's no part of me that ever expected I would like a game of this style. I basically always wrote them off bc it didn't even look fun and people who played them just liked to suffer. But it's SO good. It's so pretty, I can see the creators' visions of finding beauty in the grotesque. The fighting is challenging but it's not punishing. It's fun. Finally getting past a boss is so rewarding. Exploring is so fun. I love it. I can't get enough. My eyes open in the morning and I think about how i want to play Elden Ring.
Big week next week! Hozier concert monday night. I took off Tuesday to recover & took off Weds and Thurs as well for my exam.
oh I finally replaced my falling apart brown boots. the replacements are okay, but not nearly as cute. I'm upset.
I'm irritated I filled out an OMET for my professor but not for my TA - his is a separate job and should also stand under review. I had a lot to say about how his teaching style could be worked on and improved. For one thing, read the assignments and understand them before the moment you are in front of us. He was constantly telling up wrong things and correcting us for things that were not part of the assignments as written. Second, telling students "oh this part is so easy" is not encouragement and especially not when we're struggling. Hearing where we're struggling and following it up with "this part is so easy" doesn't help, it just makes it sound like what we're struggling with is easy, and we're dumb to struggle with it.
Anyway though! Tonight I'm going to prep for dnd this Saturday (we're getting so close to done with Curse of Strahd, which makes the rewriting I was doing of the sessions on here even harder lol). I'm excited to finish but nervous. I need to make sure the final battle is worth all the build up. I'm still inexperienced in regards to that, and I just want everyone to feel satisfied in the end. They're going to the Amber Temple next which is also a ramp up in combat, so if I can make that compelling I'll feel good. I just think that like..... the book as written is often not very good, and so I'm doing the best I can with what I was given.
Ideally I get my homework finished entirely tonight so I don't have to get help from my TA, JUST have to run it by him and get final approval.
After that, Elden Ring. i finished Horizon Zero Dawn and described it as the world's okayest game. It was fine. It was fun to play. It was pretty. It didn't make me like.... feel much. It didn't inspire an emotion in me lmao. The big twists I saw coming miles ahead.... but it was ok.
Elden Ring is.... an obsession. Full blown. There's no part of me that ever expected I would like a game of this style. I basically always wrote them off bc it didn't even look fun and people who played them just liked to suffer. But it's SO good. It's so pretty, I can see the creators' visions of finding beauty in the grotesque. The fighting is challenging but it's not punishing. It's fun. Finally getting past a boss is so rewarding. Exploring is so fun. I love it. I can't get enough. My eyes open in the morning and I think about how i want to play Elden Ring.
Big week next week! Hozier concert monday night. I took off Tuesday to recover & took off Weds and Thurs as well for my exam.
oh I finally replaced my falling apart brown boots. the replacements are okay, but not nearly as cute. I'm upset.
