I came down with a cold starting monday... luckily, I am virtually better now.
Monday was good, it started off with meeting up with my partner for a presentation. I had finished my part up the night before, but we went over it and what not. Seemed like we were going to do a good job on it. After that I had class, which was good. The rest of the day I invested in reading, tons of philosophy, some research papers and a little bit for class.
Tuesday was dedicated to finishing up the last project of the semester! For scottish culture, Amy and Sogol came over and we got to working on it. We had to do a powerpoint slide with a voice over, pretty simple right? Well, I tried to record my segment over 10 times, no exaggerations there, and every single time it would say it recorded the entire part. But when I went to play it back it would cut off at random times. Never even got close to the full time. So, I had to download a program and play around with it and I finally was able to get my voiceover on the damn slide! Which means I am officially done with school work for this year! YEEES. Still have two tests, but studying for them and basically just learning - and learning is good, right?! :) Later tuesday night I ventured onto couchsurfing.org, a site in which over 1.7 million people are involved, offering their couches for stay for travelers. I found a guy in Berlin and messaged him, he say it was fine if I stayed there for the two days I'd be there! Free stay! And he is a cook, Free food!!!! What a deal. So, out of the 3 weeks I will be traveling, I have free housing for the first 17 days... I will probably go to couchsurfer again for the last 3 nights in rome as well. If that works out, I will have planned an eight country/three week adventure for 395 U.S. dollars. Insanity!
Wednesday I had class very early as always. After that I met up with Robbie and we went over the research project a bit more. And after that I actually met up with a girl doing her honors project and helped her out with that by participating in her experiment - she has been trying to recruit people since christmas! Still is under her 100 people mark, that is terrible. Her project was pretty interesting, it was about police line ups, I had previously watched a video two days before of a young person and of a young adult going through a school hallway, finding an open door and then taking some things. Now I watched two line ups, one for the young kids, and one for the young adults. I was able to correct say that the little kid wasn't in the first line up, and picked out the guy from the second line up. Which isn't the norm... and I can see why, that was hard! I think I cheated because I had thought about the video I watched a few times, rather then let it slip my mind... but I guess in a real life incident the person effected would be thinking about it more than I! Not to mentioned emotionally charged events commit to memory far better than just simply watching a video...
Anyway, after that, I went over my presentation I was about to give at 4 a few times. Gave a few mock runs of what I was going to say, then met up with my partner Ben, and we were off. I felt great when I started talking, my words were flowing well and I had complete control of the topic and audience. I probably talked for about 80% of the total presentation time... after we were done the professor asked if anyone had questions, no one did, and then she mentioned she didn't have any either, as it was one of the most thorough presentations she has seen thus far! We felt pretty good about that, especially since we were half of the normal group size of 4 people! :) "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it" - Emerson
I dedicated the rest of the day to studying for my exams, as I am going to be traveling for 3 weeks... my time to study is very limited. These exams are essay based, not multiple choice, so you really need to know your stuff... which researchers did what, whos theories are whos and so on. It'll be a challenge, but a good one. :)
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