First year? Check.
Posted on: April 24, 2012 at 8:55 am. 1 comment
As of last thursday, I am officially done my first year of college. I will get my marks back later this week but I’m pretty sure I did awesome in the majority of my classes *knocks on wood*. The only one I was iffy about was my spanish class, but I ended up getting 100% on the exam because it was the biggest derp exam of life.
Now that I’m done school, I’ve just been working. As of Wednesday, I have two jobs. One full time and one part time, though the part time will only be for another 2 weeks until my 2-week-notice kicks in. So this week I have 25+ hours at the full time job, and 30+ the part time one (seems very part time, eh?). Wednesday will be my first official day, starting at 8am and I’ll have to be at the grocery story for 4-8. And there’s about a half hour drive between the two so… should be a fun day!
I’m quite excited for my new job, because I’ll be working with one of my best friends! She’s been doing (paid) co-op there for the past 4 months, and has the next 4 months as well. It’s a soil/mulch company, and since it’s summer they need more help and asked her if she knew anyone that was looking for a full time job for the summer. I’ll be getting 50+ hours a week, and after 44 you get paid overtime. It’s a lot of just office work, calling customers to let them know when their trucks of dirt are coming (over 100 calls a day) but it’s still going to be better than my current job as a cashier. Even though my current boss is pissed that I’m leaving, and I was worrying about that, but I realized it’s not really my problem. I have worked there for almost 2 years, get paid minimum wage and they basically treat me as their slave. They are understaffed and always refused to hire more people, and we all get overworked because of it.
But considering it’s taken me almost a day to write this post, since I kept getting distracted… I’ll end it here. I will try my best to blog as much as possible this summer, but I don’t know how I’ll handle 10 hours of working every day. We’ll see…
1 comment Tags: College, Friends, Life, Money, New Job, School, Work.
Almost the end…
Posted on: April 18, 2012 at 11:59 am. 1 comment
I am almost done my first year of school. I have one day & two classes left to finish. The other 7 are done, but for tomorrow I have an exam to study for, and two projects to (start/)finish. I am beyond excited to be done, even though as soon as I’m done I’ll go back into working- and may even end up with a full time summer job somewhere new, but I will post more about that later. I apologize for my complete lack of blogging. School has been taking up time. Work has been taking up time. Life has been taking up time. My life is…. well, kind of a mess right now. Not really in a terrible way. I am not the same person I was even in January of this year, and I don’t know how I feel about that. I am happy, but I am not. I have too much stuff to do to explain it all right now, but I just wanted to post that I am alive and well! But I will be better tomorrow afternoon.
I should be working on my projects now, but instead I’m procrastinating and browsing Geek Toys 2012. It’s a pretty awesome site filled with Petsmart coupons, Amazon promotional code and many amazing, cheap products. I already found something that I want to get my mom for christmas, and the prices are great! But alas, it is 11:59 and I told myself that I’d start all of my projects at noon so here I go…
1 comment Tags: Blah, College, Geek Toys, Life, Paid Blogging, School.
The Geek In Me
Posted on: March 13, 2012 at 9:34 am. 0 comments
I am a true geek at heart. I don’t always express it, and sometimes (usually) the country girl in me shines a whole lot more, but I will always be a sucker for something geeky (especially guys, but that’s a whole new topic). So I was pleasantly surprised when I came across a site filled with Geek Toys. I spent way too much time looking at all of the cool things they showcase on the site, and finding a ExpressCopy promo code. I should really be getting ready to go to class, but instead I’m sitting here looking through hundreds of gadgets that tickle my geek fancy. I know I would definitely be buying the Photoshop Shortcut Keyboard Decals if I hadn’t just purchased $63 worth of stuff online yesterday.
As a (future) graphic designer, printing is something that I’ll be doing for the rest of my life. For school projects, we have access to state of the art printers but when it’s a personal project, the 123 Print promotional codes found on Geek Alerts will really come in handy for me. You can get free shipping, $10 off, and many other coupons all in one place! Be sure to check it out if you need any printing done.
0 comments Tags: Career, Design, Geeky, Paid Blogging, School.
Red River Blue
Posted on: February 9, 2012 at 3:04 pm. 2 comments
Out of my 9 classes I have every week, I’ve been to 3 this week. Tuesday morning, I went to school and all was dandy. While driving to school I started having stomach cramps, and by the middle of my first class they were so bad that I felt like I was going to throw up. I was going to stay until after my Spanish class and then go home, but they got too bad so I left after my first class since it ran late and I was going to be late for Spanish anyways. So I went home, and spent the day curled up in bed watching Friends for the rest of the day.
Wednesdays, my sister and I go to school together. I usually drive, but I got her to because I still wasn’t feeling 100% because I’ve have the start of a cold all week now on top of all my pains. So I went to my two morning classes, and after sitting for lunch for an hour we decided to just go home and not go to the rest of our classes. I had two more, but one we never do anything and the other the teacher had told us we could do the class from home since it was just a work period. I already had all of my work done & handed in, so there wasn’t much point to going anyways. So we went home, and I watched some more Friends and started season one of The Voice, because I love Blake Shelton (team Blake, woo!).
Today, I should have gone. I also usually go with my sister today, but she didn’t have to go so I just ended up… not going. My first class, he always puts the lectures online so I can just follow along on my own time and finish the project at home (half of the period is usually just a work period anyways). The second class, is pointless. It’s all about Corel Draw, which is a program I already learned how to use in high school. He’ll e-mail out the files so I’ll just get them and figure out what I need to do. I’m not really proud of my self for not going to my classes because I want to do really well… but I’m so tired of my classes this year. Two of them are just based entirely on learning one program per course, Dreamweaver and Corel Draw. Both are programs that I learned in high school so sitting in the classes just gets boring. Two classes (with the same prof) are just him talking where he gives us the powerpoints so I can read them at my own time. When I AM in class I just end up on Tumblr not paying attention anyways, and then I go over the powerpoints on my own after.
My photography class so far has been super boring, and we aren’t even taking pictures yet: we’re learning how to use a tripod and how to work a camera. I have my own camera and my own tripod, so I know how to work them… Yes, it’s a different camera but it still has a lot of the same features and settings so it’s not rocket science for me. It’s easy, and boring. I believe we actually start taking pictures next week, so I’ll go. But sigh. I was looking forward to that class so much, but it’s SO basic and SO boring.
At this point, I’m only in school because I know I NEED the education to get a job. My teacher before told me multiple times that I could easily be working instead of in college, but people won’t hire you without that certification. I mean yes, I’m learning a few new things but it’s honestly not enough to keep me motivated. Last semester, I only missed ONE class. I know that I’ll end up doing well in all of my classes (hopefully my Spanish class too) because I do the work and get it on time but it’s just so…. boring. I put everything off because the work, to me, is so easy that I just DON’T want to do it. It’s hard to get the motivation for it when it’s so basic and ‘follow these steps exactly and hand in your result. If it’s 1px off, you get a mark off’. Only now are we finally starting to get to actually fully CREATE our own projects. There are 3 classes that I’m liking: one where we’re designing our own action figure packaging, one where we have all kinds of projects where we get to design our own notebooks and notepads and other things and actually PRODUCE the items too, so we can use them. The last is a photoshop one where I am learning a bit, because the prof. is new but is showing us a lot of different things than the other ones do.
And my Spanish class is just a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I’m dedicated to putting in the effort for that one. When I’m not dying of pain, that is.
