Update: End of Quarter

Well...It's been a while since I updated and it's mostly because it's the same thing and it's just been crazy.

I finished classes on Thursday and next week is finals and the 21-25 is Spring Beak. Most of my classes are finished. I took my coastal zone law final two weeks ago (was due the 1st). I got it back on Monday and I got a 92! The 2nd question I kind of bombed on, but I did very well on the other two questions. The 1st question I missed 2 points and the 3rd question I had more than a perfect on, which I'm confused about. Our final said it was worth 40 pts and I got 41...So...I'm not sure what happened there. Anyway, it all worked out to a 92 point wise, but whatever. Since I did the rewrite on our case brief and got an A on that, I'll get at least an A- in the class, but we'll see what she does to participation. Granted, half our class dropped by the end (almost half when the final was given out) so maybe we should all get brownie points for that. In addition, I think I'm one of the few in the class (that are left) who kept their grade as letter grade and not pass/fail (some people changed that before turning their final in). So...I don't know. I some how take these classes everyone drops! It's like cost-benefit analysis last quarter when the class went from 45+ students down to 9 by finals. It was ridiculous! This class was like 30 down to 10, I think. My enviro institutions class was at 12 and went down to 9. So...I've had some very small classes of late.

Anyway, environmental institutions is almost over. Had our presentation on Thursday and our paper is due on Monday. So got that, but my work is mostly finished for it. Not sure what I'll get in the class. I think I'm pulling, right now, a B+/A-. I think it'll come down to the paper for what he wants to give me.

Conservation planning is finished. Turned our final paper in yesterday (Friday) and had our presentation on Monday. We kicked butt because we changed our objective and did all our modeling in 2 days (Thurs/Fri) before our presentation so our professor was very impressed with us since we were first to present on Monday and the last she heard (the Wednesday before) we had nothing to show and had not modeled anything to that point. So...We rocked it! This grade will be dependent upon our final paper, but I'm thinking an A- at least. I'd be surprised if I got less than that, but who knows with our final paper. We've had very little graded and our final paper is worth 40% of our grade so it'll be dependent on that.

Environmental international law is still going along even though the class ended almost 2 months ago. That's basically done and we all agree that we'd be surprised if everyone who turned something in just didn't go ahead and get an A. We've gotten NO feed back on the thing we turned in last time and it's basically like "uhhh...what is there to grade us on?" So...I'd be surprised if I got less than an A for this class.

And last, but not least, GP. *sigh* The short of it: we're in editing. Our poster and brief have not been made yet and those drafts are due the 18th, but our final paper is due the 18th so our main focus has been that. Unfortunately, we've had a hiccup with one of our groupmates and it's going slow on certain parts of the paper. It's stressful, but at least we're getting close to being done. We also got an extension to have our report printed after Spring Break since we knew we weren't going to get it done in time to be printed and bound by the 18th. In addition, the copy we turn in has to be signed by everyone and we have a funky schedule where one person will be here the 18th and one is leaving the 17th and we'd have to pre-sign and then make sure the printer remembered to swap out signed sheets with non-signed before binding and...I just decided they offered us the extension to print so we will take the extension for the print job. (It's not preferred we turn the print copy in later, but it's okay if we ask for it ahead of time.) Our paper is 175 pages (so far) from cover to end of references (includes two appendices) and we're still missing a few pieces (e.g., executive summary hasn't been written and we haven't put our flow charts into one appendix). I think 250 (or is it 200?) is our absolute max they allow and I'm pretty sure we'll be fine. I can't image writing that many more pages since I think we have maybe 5-10 more since the flow charts (3 pages) and the exec summary (2 pages) is the last big pieces we have to do. Oh well, the important thing is we're almost finished. It's a little stressful, but at least all my other school work will be completed come Monday and I can concentrate on GP and what needs to be completed. But we are in the homestretch!

Saturday the 19th (day after our GP paper is due) Melissa, her boyfriend Kyle, and I are going to Santa Anita! Oh yeah! Soooo excited and they're both relatively new (Melissa's been to a racetrack once) so it'll be fun. It's also the Saint Pat's Pitch that day and you can sign up to throw a horseshoe and if you get a ringer, you win $1mil! (Totally not doing that myself.) And it's also a giveaway day. You get a BBQ apron. LoL It's not special at all, but...hey...it's a freebie! We're going to try and make it to the track tour too since I missed most of it last time and they've never been. We'll see how we succeed.

Anyway, with that, I'm off to watch How to Train Your Dragon. :) I bought the soundtrack (finally) the other day and I love it and I still love the movie. Time to relax! Oh...movie updates. I've watched like 3 movies since my last movie update, but I'll have to remember hard what those were and update later. I watched The Illusionist (animation foreign film in the Oscars), Unknown (Liam Neeson), something else I can't remember, and I did finally watch Monster vs Aliens which is a few years old animation film now. LoL