Rachel
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Hello my name is Rachel Mander and I have been going to Robert Morris College in Springfield, IL for the past year. I started out at RMC by taking running start classes during my senior year of high school and I still haven’t left yet! I enjoy watching movies and actually doing homework. Yea I know its lame but I love to learn. I am also the number 1 fan of the ST. Louis cardinals. I will be going to lots of games so you will here all about them. In my spare time I am usually either doing homework or working. I work 2 jobs one at Robert Morris and one at a Hardware store. Which is very hard! Well I hope everyone enjoys reading my blogs. Go eagles!
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hum class
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I really love going to Robert Morris. however, sometimes i wish i could pick my hum classes from a big list. this quarter i am taking two classes that have nothing to do with business and are starting to bore me to tears. one teacher told me that her hum classes are different because she tries to make the things she is talking about relate to the students in the class fields of study. i didn't get lucky...i didn't get her as my teacher this quarter. so right now i am going whatever i can to stay focus in my classes. this week a girl that i know who is about to start college in a few weeks asked me, what advice i had for her to make sure college went well for her. i told her she had to be mature enough for college. go to class, listen, and do the work. as long as she does all those things she will be fine.
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stress or life
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This blog will be in reference to the last blog that I wrote. My father, after reading it, informed me that it was too negative for his taste. He took the blog as if I hated school. This was the complete opposite of what the blog was about. When I wrote my last blog I was stressed about school. The workload was becoming unbearable and to my dismay, I have found that it has not gotten any easier. I guess that is the price you pay to walk across that stage. However, even though it is a lot of work, it is all worth it in the end. Knowing that I am well on my way to reaching one of my dreams is enough to make me tolerate all the hard work. My dad always says “it’s not what your doing tomorrow its what your doing right now”...at least I think that’s what it is...but anyway. To me it’s what I am doing right now so I have a better tomorrow. Life is a scary thing. It is filled with tests, homework, and lectures. But what I think is even scarier, is that I am quoting my dad. Many people growing up all think that only they know what is best for them. I cannot count how many times I have rolled my eyes when my dad gives me one of his world famous quotes. But now that I am older I know that what he has been saying is actually right. why can't I be that 16 year old girl again that knows that all she wants to do is sleep in. Rather than be the almost 20 year old girl who knows that she can't sleep in because she has to conquer the world that day and do homework or go to work (that’s an inside joke for my dad)! There is a time in everyone's life where you have to decide if you are going to pick stress over life. The people who choose stress are the ones who are perfectionist. But they never get to perfection because no one is perfect. Then those people are found sitting complaining about life’s troubles and they wait for the problems to fix themselves. The people who choose life are the kind of people who take problems head on, discuss them, and fix them so they can move on to the next phase in life. Why dwell over problems when you can fix them! So it is time to choose are you going to let stress take over? Or are you going to let your life be the best it can be. So dad I think when I wrote that last blog it was during a really hard time in my life. I fixed the problems and now I have moved on. Why else to you think I gave you that weird look and said, “I don’t remember writing that”. I reacted this way because I have moved on. The blog was not meant to be negative and nor do I hate school. It was just a way for me to discuss something that I was going through so I could move on. |
Well school has just gotten 10 times worse! I just started the fall quarter and all ready I am sick of it! My classes are all very hard and I with work I am cannot figure out when I am going to have the time for a second job. what’s bad is I need a second job just to make ends meet...so it comes to which is more important school or living...with gas prices and my car payment and school payment it has just gotten too hard and I am trying to do it all and it is turning into one big mess. I have been trying to cut corners ever way I know possible...but at work I am not getting as many hours due to lack of people to call and it is really hurting me...I know though that I have to get a degree or I will be a failure. I think what makes me more upset is that just to survive I have to have 2 jobs but someone else can live comfortably off of welfare and sit on their butts while I pay for their kids crap. Something that bothers me about welfare is the link card system...here ya go a card where you can withdrawal money! Take some go buy you beer, or drugs. But before I end I must say I have seen people who are trying to make it and who use link in the correct way. |