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This is the last blog, FINALLY. Tonight, as I sit up and re-read every chapter in my chemistry book, I am going to write about what you should know about this English class. This English class is not for people who want to skim by and pass with an easy A. This English class is not for people who do not have DAILY internet access and time to type at least two hundred and fifty words. This English class is not for those of you who get easily irritated. This English class is not for people who are taking other difficult courses and don’t have the extra time to make all sorts of corrections and meet all sorts of deadlines. This class is for people who are good at English and love to write. This class is for people who know how to be timely, compelling, and relevant. This class is for people who understand the difference between an ARP writing style and a CP writing style. This class is for people who will try and try again after they are handed back poor grades that can be revised. In this class, I learned how to write a CP paper, and I learned about an online publishing website called Common Place. I learned how to write formally yet informally, and reach out to grab the readers interest. Before, I only knew how to write big picture, data backed ARP papers. Yes, I could grab the reader’s attention, but was it really relevant to the average reader? No. This class taught me how to connect to people like me, looking for something really worth reading about.

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This blog is about how this class has made me think differently about science fiction. Before this class, science fiction was slightly interesting in mainstream horror movies and crazy documentaries. However, it didn’t really make much impact on me. When I thought science fiction, I thought of the Sci Fi channel and how I can’t stand watching it anymore because they only ever play ridiculous low budget monotonous horror films that are completely unrealistic and predictable (wow that was a long sentence). After I did the analytical research paper for this class it made me analyze science fiction a little more closely. I wrote that research paper about an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was parallel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. So I did all of this research on resuscitation and re-animation and found some crazy stuff! I found out that doctors are forced to resuscitate even when it is hurting the patient more and unneccesary, and I also found out that a soviet doctor actually brought a dog back to life. I mean, this dog was dead AND decapitated! It was dead for a while, not recent, and it had no body whatsoever! It definitely really made me think about what’s out there and what the government’s top scientists could be doing. This soviet built a heart/lung machine and was able to make the dog blink, sneeze, lick its nose, try to wiggle its head, and move its ears…with no body. After this class I realizes science fiction is less “fictional” than I thought it was.

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I am seriously running out of things to type in these blogs. Not to mention I keep turning them in late because I am usually so busy it doesn’t cross my mind. Anyway, I suppose I’ll talk about my day. I woke up pretty late today because I was at my friend Abby’s house pretty early this morning. I just couldn’t leave, it was too much fun. My friends Ben and Gage were there, and when they are together it’s literally like watching stand up comedians. If I didn’t know any better I would say they were lovers because they are SO in sync. So I woke up around eleven thirty and lazily watched tv for an hour. It’s like I just didn’t ever want to leave my bed so the good feelings could never end ha-ha. When I finally did get up my boyfriend picked me up and we decided to go explore Cost-co for this amazing sushi platter we got there last time. We ooo-ed and ahh-ed at the cheap television sets and looked for lots of crazy goodies to eat and play with, and then we went to the fish isle. Unfortunately the day before they had a big expo on the sushi platters and they of course sold out. We settled for a little pack of sushi that wasn’t as good and went home to eat them. We also bought Avatar (the special new edition) and started to watch the first half of that. Then at four I had to go to work where I led shift and my boss understaffed me like a jerk. Now I just got home from work and am freezing and covered in snow (its 11:28 pm). However, I am very happy because I am eating sushi and my boyfriend is coming over to watch the rest of Avatar with me!

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Yesterday I got to see some old friends that I’ve really missed. I mean I used to see them every day and before last night I hadn’t seen them for around four or five months. It was funny because I had complete other plans for the day and never expected to meet up with them. My boyfriend and I spent the day together and watched a couple movies, and then I told him I would hang out with his friends later that night. There was supposed to be a get together at his friend Josh’s house but it suddenly got cancelled. So of course the group of boys comes to my house and asks if we can move the party there. I spent hours upon hours moving all of the furniture and cleaning the house the day before, so I really wasn’t up to a bunch of people trashing my masterpiece a day later. The boys got really agitated and left to go scavenge for something to do after I said no. My boyfriend stayed with me and was perfectly fine, but I honestly thought it was pretty shitty of them to just ditch him like that. So we went to the mall just to walk around and get out of the house and my boyfriend ended up buying me a sweet phone cover I really like and then continued the amazingness by taking me out to dinner. At this point I was completely content with the day and very happy with him but something better happened! My friend Abby called and invited us to HER new apartment for a reunion/party with pretty much all of my favorite people. So we went there without my boyfriends loser friends and had a great time with some super sweet kids (well adults…). Hooray!

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I have so much homework tonight! I don’t even know how I am typing this blog when I should be working on my chemistry. I’m trying to finish lab nine and ten, one of which is a full report. I have had to do my calculations over three times in order to figure out what I was doing and I still have to finish problem set eight. I have no idea how to draw these molecular orbital diagrams yet I have four pages of just that. I am so tired already and I really just want to go lay down. My brain is really fried, I don’t know what I can fill up this space with. The individual memos that are due tomorrow don’t make much sense to me. I understand what we are supposed to do but I don’t get how someone is supposed to fill up more than a page worth of single spaced critique about a less than three page paper. It’s even harder when you got a good paper that doesn’t need much critique! So I’m just going to submit my first attempt, because I don’t really have anything to add to it. Oh my god I think this is the longest problem set we’ve had all year! Just when I think I’m getting close to the end there is so much more work to do! Ok, I’m at two hundred and thirty words, only twenty more to go! I feel like teen mom on MTV is getting faker and faker. There is more drama that seems really unrealistic now. I guess that’s what pays. Finally 150 words! Bye!