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This week has been so crazy because of the studing, for my three tests, my paper for english, and work, and then also having a social life. First of all i had my rough draft due for my english research paper due on monday, and then i have a chemistry midterm on wednesday, an exam in calculus on thursday, a group quiz in physics on thursday, a solo quiz in physics on friday moring, and on top of all this i have to work every monday and wednesday and every other sunday. I am very stressed out this week, but i am getting through it, and mainly right now the only thing i am nervous about are my physics quizzes, because i need to get at least an average B to move up from my failing grade in the class right now. If anyone has any advice, feel free to write me a message.

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Our new assignment got me thinking about some topics that would interest me and i would want to write a 7 to 9 page paper on. My roomate suggested talking about fashion throught the decades, which i would love to write about, but during class i found that it had to be a contemporary public issue. While talking to my group i came up with some research topics that would fit with the criteria and would interst me. First of all smoking, either the health affects or the smoking ban that has come into affect and the controversy on this. Also, stem cell research and cloning, or the ever more popular cell phone and the health effects. As of right now i do not know what i want to write about, i will have to think it over a little more before making a decision because i do not want to put all my time into one topic and get bored of it in one week.

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I was pretty excited after my thursday classes, because i had a group quiz in physics in the morning and we new how to do everything and was able to finish the whole problem with twenty min. left to spare. I then had my first calculus midterm, which was pretty easy or so i thought, i think i should get an a because i was able to check most my answers and they seem to have worked out. If this is true it will be my first A on a midterm so far in college. But then i had physics this morning where i had to take a solo quiz. I am really bad at physics i have decided and none of it makes sense. I answered all the questions so hopefully i will get some credit and all i want is to not fail this quiz because i have to make up for my F on the first quiz. But the quiz is over and when i am done writing this i have no homework for the whole weekend, so am totally forgetting about physics and i am going to have a lot of fun this weekend so i do not think about it!!!!

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I just started my facebook and i'd have to say it is kind of creepy. Why do i want to know what everyone is doing every min. of the day and i definetaly do not want people to know my every step. I like that only your friends can veiw your website and everyone must be accepted as your friend before they can even see anything besides your picture and the school you attend. I never had a myspace but all my friends did and it seems like you can personalize that more than a facebook. My friends would have backgrounds with music and tons of photo albums and just random things on their website, like a fridge with magnets that anyone can write notes on. I have not spent much time looking at the whole website, but if anyone knows how to personalize your facebook let me know and try to explain it to me in a comment!

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I took honors physics in high school so i figured the beginning of my physics class here would be review and hopefully somewhat easy. I was wrong!! I do not understand anything that is going on and my TA does not speak english very clearly so it is hard for me to try and ask for help because sometimes she just doesn't understand what i am trying to ask. My thoughts about physics being really hard was strengthened when we got our first test back. My score was forty four out of 100. That is probably the worst score i have ever gotten on a quiz throught school. I did not think i did that bad, but my lecture teacher graded our personal quiz and he graded pretty hard, but my TA graded are group quiz and she graded really easy because we ended up with 21 out of 25 on the group portion when we only finished one third of the problem, but i am not complaining. I now know that i need to study more for the next quiz and if anyone is in Physics 1301 and wants to put together a study group before our next quiz i would be happy to join.

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I thought the group discussions on our paper went very well. I got a lot of feedback on what I need to improve and what was good in my paper. My group told me that my summary was good but i need to separate my feelings about the subject from the summary and also talk about emotional appeal and other rehtorical views that Bush used. That was the first time that I actually used a group revision discussion to my benifit. In high school we would have our peers read it over, but no one really took it to seriously and you really did not get many specifics, all the comments were "your paper is good" or "you need to add a little more" just about a broad subject. Hopefully because of this group discussion i get a better grade on my paper, i am not the best writer and English is probably my worst subject. So i guess i will see!!!

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Ok, what happened to the weather! Just a couple of days ago the temp. was in the sixties and seventies. Now, it feels like it is thirty degrees outside with the wind. Yesterday it was raining and I thought it looked like snow because it was not falling straight to the ground, it was swaying from side to side a little. I am not good with winter, but i guess i am used to it because i have lived in Minnesota my whole life. I hate winter because i hate wearing jackets and i always wear flip flops even if there is snow on the ground, my feet get a liitle cold but oh well, i hate wearing socks! The one good thing is i like to wear sweatshirts and be comfortable sometimes, but that does not make up for all the negatives. I feel that my mood is better when it is sunny and warm outside. I guess i am looking forward to spring now cause i do not see the temperature getting any better. If any one could tell me if the cold weather started this early last year would be great, cause last year I swear September was at least warm?

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