Rhonda Does Research

Monday, January 30, 2017

A Cooling Mess

Mixing an RPG with Match-3.

Please consider this an addition to my introduction, since I didn't cover much about myself last time. The basic facts are in my profile, but I just realized that I haven't updated it for a while. I live with my father and my older sister. My mom died a couple of years ago, and from then until recently, I've been a hot mess: I couldn't focus or concentrate on anything, and my grades dropped almost as low as they could go. Lately I've been doing better. Anyway, if you see me zone out for a bit in class, it's no big deal now.

On a less depressing note, one of my brothers got me hooked on a game last Thanksgiving, and I spent most of my free time over winter break playing it (Marvel Puzzle Quest--be warned, it's really addictive). Maybe that's why I'm coming out of my funk. Could video games be therapeutic? My sister won't try it, which is too bad, not because she's depressed, but because I really want somebody who plays it to talk to and compare notes with.

The rest of my life is pretty average/typical.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

I'm back, and checking out the syllabus for my English class

To me, a community college student, this seems a bit excessive.
Student Union at Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, the largest student center in the world. Photo taken April 22, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I've just been on Blackboard, looking at the syllabus for English 102. The first class is this coming Friday, and I wanted to get an idea of how much work this is going to be. It looks like a lot-- six projects, including a research paper. At least I've got the course schedule now, so I can do some planning, which I hope will help. I'm really tired of falling behind and having to work on stuff for school in marathon sessions (bingeing on homework? Not fun).
The first project is a blog, so this one should work. I hope it'll meet all the requirements. I'll check back Monday to see if anything else is on the Blackboard for this class.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Hindsight is a Bummer

Bummer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Well, I can't sleep. As usual. I was thinking about the next paper (last project, yay!), which is a very short essay to go with my portfolio. For some reason (and no, that's not an invitation for everyone to analyze me), I have trouble writing anything at all complimentary about myself or anything I've done. I'm supposed to be evaluating three of the projects: the research proposal, the definitions essay, and the research paper (this one, I don't even want to think about, much less write about). Now that I look at the proposal, which I wrote 12 weeks ago, I think it looks pretty bad. I didn't have any grammar errors or anything like that, but my ideas seem kind of half-baked, considering what I actually did for the other projects. It looked a lot better back when I wrote it.