a QLS creation
I truly do not understand how some people rise to a level of managment. My recent experiences absolutely baffle me. I have encountered some of the most immature, vengeful behavior from people who carry such a title. I’ve made decisions and am taking steps to better my situation. I’ve shared my story, as objectively as possible, and have enlisted the advice of colleagues, friends and family.
Some things will be different, and soon.
I’ve been dancing more regularly in the last few week, espcially since I started the 3 classes. Dancing about 3 nights each week, and I’m feeling really good about it. In fact, I’m feeling much better about dancing than I am about school. But then again dancing’ isn’t as mentally challenging as school, it’s just a lot of fun and really good exercise.
Friday’s class is really challenging but that is also a lot of fun because it’s relearning some of the things I already know, but in a dirrerent manner…a more deliberate manner.
Looking forward to putting it all together!
Monday is my dad’s birthday but my brother and I (well mostly me) decided that tonight would be the best night to take him to dinner since Monday nights are bad for traffic and I have dance class. It was nice. We went to Cafe Corleone; it’s the place we seem to go to for all family dinners, these days. The food is fantastic, my dad knows the owner, and it’s just an all-around comfortable atmosphere, not too fancy, not too plain. Just a nice little mom-n-pop restaurant with real food, prepared with care by the chef/owner. He always makes something special for my dad too; tonight it was a bean and pasta soup, and in its simplicity, it was really tasty…something I could see myself making at home, ’specially on a night like tonight when it’s cold and rainy.
Yeah, this class really sucks!! And it’s not even interesting. At least the classes last quarter were interesting and the professors were interesting. Quantitative methods, my ass!
According to her calcualtions we should be studying 16 additional hours per week, outside of the 4+ that she keeps us on Thursday nights. I could see an additional 8 hours… NOT 16.
Anyway, mid-terms coming up in a couple weeks… also got a paper to write and I’m supposed to be grasping this data analysis crap. We’ll see.
I’m not much of a fighter, especially when it comes to dealing with people who I don’t have an interpersonal relationship with. I often avoid confrontation and in doing so, I think I come across as someone who can be stepped on. I do however, have my limits and I’ve recently found them with a situation in my professional life. But what I’m not sure of is, should I fight the fight, or let it go and just make every attempt to move on from this phase? I’m not sure what pushing-back will accomplish.
It looks like quite a nice day outside. I wish I felt up to getting out of the house, or even just getting out of bed. I went down stairs for a while, but my head started to hurt real bad again, so I came back upstairs and got back into bed.
Seems like it would be a nice day for a ride…what with the sun and all.
Not much to report. Work and school are, well… work and school. Fortunately, my supervisor understands my need to work locally, at least one day a week. I plan to make Friday’s that one day since my Cal Poly class is on Thursdays and the professor keeps us pretty late; I’ve been getting home at 11pm or after.
Today has been a bust, so far. I’d planned on reading all day but I’ve got a pretty nasty headache. I hope it goes away soon, aside from reading, I’m supposed to meet a friend for dinner and then go dancing.
Tomorrow night we’re going to see Stompy Jones, they’re playing at a restaurant out in the San Fernando valley; I’m looking forward to it.
Yep, it’s a tough class. Spurious relationships, confounding variables, mean, median and mode, R-squared…etc., etc. I know these things mean something, and that I should understand what that something is, but I don’t. At least not yet.
She didn’t give us a break until close to 9pm and I’d had to go to the bathroom so bad that I eventually had to just get up and leave the class…even when people started doing things like this, she didn’t cue in to the fact that we needed a break.
On a side note, she reminds me of my grandmother; her build, her hair, even some of her speech patterns are similar… I wonder if she’s originally from New York.
well, it seems as though i will be needing some sort of caffeinated drink in order to get through the next 10 thursday evenings. not only does she give us an abbreviated break (10 min), but then she keeps us until about a quarter after 10pm when the class is supposed to let out by 9:50 with at least a 20 minute break. aye ya!!!
aside from the extra long class time, the subject is interesting and on the plus side she says she will not have us doing calculations (or math of any sort) we’ll have the program (SPSS) do all that stuff for us. thank gawd! math is not my strong point and that was one of my major concerns for this class. it does promise to be challenging, she moves quickly from one topic to another and speaks a bit too softly in a room with 25 humming computers, that makes hearing her sometimes quite challenging.
also, she scared the bejeezus outta me when she started talking about plagiarism… she made me feel like i might have done it (unknowingly) in the past. the way she describes it, it seems almost anything could be construed as plagiarism. yikes!! but then i thought that if i’d done it in my papers last quarter, dr gossett would have caught it, i mean he should have caught something like that. i can only guess that she was really just trying to scare us in an effort to really drive the point home. k, point taken, not that i would have ever considered partaking of such an activity.
10 weeks to go
school, that is. tomorrow night. and i’m not looking forward to this class. oh well, i’ll survive, at least it’s just one class this quarter. i started reading the text; the intro chapter makes it seem like the book and class won’t be excruciatingly difficult to get through.
it won’t be. i got through last quarter with 2 classes, i’ll get through this one with one class.
stay tuned my friends, there’s more to come