Laziness at work

So recently I have been thinking about my job. I have worked here for over two years now, and have been awarded for my hard work a few times. But I was thinking today as I am trying to get someone to work for me, that I have taken classes for just about every person I have worked with when they have something come up. I understand that that happens, and I usually feel bad that no one else will take the class for them, so I take it. My boss even knows that if a class gets added late and he needs someone to work it, if I'm available, he calls me and of course I take it, because I always take it. I'm trustworthy and hard working, so pass the buck to Amy, she will take care of it. But as I struggle maybe once every two months or so to find someone to take one of my classes because something comes up, it makes me wonder why? Why won't anyone else take my class when I am always so willing to take theirs? Is it selfishness? Is it laziness? Is is just plain rudeness? I don't know, but it surely bothers me. Unfortunately it is just another unfair thing in my life that there is nothing I can do anything about.

Taxes

I actually thoroughly enjoy getting my taxes back. It is nice to get at least a little bit of the money back that the government takes. Maybe if I move somewhere else, the government won't be so up for taking my money without my permission. I will have to look into that.

Valentine's Day

So yesterday was Valentine's Day, and for probably the first time in my life I actaully had someone to spend it with. And it was really fun. I think if Valentine's Day were less focused on candy and flowers, and more on just spending time with those you love and care for, it would be a much better holiday and a lot less junk food would be eaten on it. Anyway, I learned this year that Valentine's Day can be fun, and it should be. That is the lesson of the day.

NIU Shooting

I really can't believe that so many shootings happen. Within the last year there has been at least 2 school shootings, and the one at trolley square. I don't understand what posseses these guys to just go and shoot people they don't even know. I'm wondering if there is research out there on these types of things.
Everytime I hear of a campus shooting, it not only makes me feel deeply sad for the students and families of that school, but it scares me. What if some wacko sees this happen, and decides he/she should do the same thing here at my school. That is frightening.
I was also wondering why all the shootings are always committed by males? I know that they are more aggressive and whatnot, but is it something about the male gender that makes them want to stop taking their meds, or to take revenge on someone?
Northern Illinois University, we are all deeply sorry and we hope that you will all recover from this.

Finals week, oh what fun...

So as finals week has just begun for the many unfortunate students attending BYU, I can't help but think, why? What is the purpose of having cumulative finals? Why aren't we just tested on what we learned since the last test? And if you are going to have a cumulative final, is it really fair that the last test in that class was only a mere 5 days earlier? As I am sitting here reviewing for a final while trying to make a good outline for another, I wonder why everything seems to come down to the final? I also wonder why my boss gives me all the work to do, and wants it all done before the end of the semester. There is no way in this world I can take all my finals, do well on them, and then get everything ready for the next semester at work all in a week. I don't mind doing the work after finals, but that just isn't going to fly, now is it.
I guess the purpose of this post is to say, I am supposed to be working at least 20 hours so that I can pay for tuition and food and what not, and at the same time studying/reviewing for my finals, getting enough sleep, eating well, doing some physical activity, and getting everything ready for Christmas. Is this even possible? No wonder I'm losing all my hair...

Trying to trick us?

I am baffled by professors who try to trick us on tests. By doing this I don't think that they quite understand that by doing this they aren't testing how well we know the information, but they are indeed testing us on how well we test. Now does this really make sense? I don't think so.

Life is Too Time Consuming...

So each day, I wake up early get ready to leave and am out the door by 7:45. I don't get back till after 6 or 7 most days, and some days as late at 10. I have no time for anything. How am I supposed to enjoy life when I'm stuck in the library for hours everyday, more than half of them working, and the other half trying to stay on top the mounds of homework that every professor gives me because each of them think that their class is the most important. Well I've got news for all of them, I will probably not use much, if anything, of what you teach me. At least this semester. What do they really know anyway. I get a grad student for a teacher. He doesn't know the subject fully because his emphasis is in just a small portion of the subject. So what does he do, he takes quotes and definitions out of the book, puts them on PowerPoint, and then expects us to sit there for two and a half hours while he requotes everything I just read. I'm paying good money to get a good education, why is this guy teaching? Why doesn't the university hire on some people who know how to teach, not just give your grad students free tuition if they will teach a class. Come on now.