School.

I didn't think I'd ever say this but school started back up last night and I'm really happy it did, for several reasons.

I'm currently rocking a 4.0 (yes, that's right, write it down) and I'm excited to see if I can keep that up. This class (Communications) is hard. It's a lot of reading and essay writing, as well as working in groups. (Ugh)

I was looking over the course work for the next 5 weeks and this will be really challanging. The reading part I have down, that's easy. I can read until I'm blue (for the most part) and even answering questions about what I've read is relatively easy. The hard part (for me) is writing the essays. I don't feel I'm a very good writer so it's something I really struggle with.

I worked for almost 3 hours last night on homework. Now, granted, we have MWL homework. MWL stands for "My Writing Lab". Basically, you log into it, put in your instructor's access code (for the course) and it brings up about 5 writing assignments you have to do, all in different topics -- such as proper grammer, usage of quotations, semi colons, colons, etc. That's mostly what I worked on last night. We have 5 topics we have to do, our instructor recommends we do 1 each week. Well, because I want to, I did them all last night. The semi colon, colon and Parenthesis one kicked my arse. We have to get a 75% or above to consider it passing - you can retake each test up to 8 times, if you need to. I had to take that test 5 TIMES to get an 80%. Evidently, I need to go back and learn proper usage of colons, semi colons and parenthesis. UGH. All the other ones, I took once or twice and got a 90% or above.

I also did the first part of my reading and question answering. The second part, I'll work on tonight.

All of our reading and question answering is due by Saturday. MWL, essay & team work is due by Tuesday of the following week. So, I can spread it out. I'd like to get my reading and stuff done by Friday night so I don't have to spend all day Saturday doing it.

Sarah has been helping me a LOT with my essay writing. She lets me bounce ideas off of her and she proof reads all my crap, as well as makes suggestions. She's been a BIG help to me. It's nice to have someone I trust look at my stuff and honestly tell me what they think. (And believe it or not, she never tells me I suck!)

I'm proud of myself. I think it's a huge accomplishment for me to have a 4.0 in COLLEGE. Who knew.

Well, I'm off to fill out some paperwork (for school). :)