08/28/2011

One final week.

That is how much time I have until the fall term begins. It has been a relaxing month, one I am going to miss. Because of not having classes, i know my stress level has decreased dramatically. I still am struggling to balance my schedule. I know my family is important. And they do come first. Yet there are times when academics ends up at the top. 

I am back at the same spot I was during my undergrad. Balancing schedules that is. I remember struggling with the idea of focusing on homework then I’d get A’s and wouldn’t be up to my eyeballs in debt. Yet if I worked all the time, I can pay for school, but my grades could suffer to the point I thought it wouldn’t be worth the money I invested into my education. In my senior year I figured it out. Finally balanced work with academics and had a social life. Not only did I find the balance, my grades improved, but so did my finances and the social life grew.

Now I find myself in the same situation. This time the social life includes and is predominately my family. So now I got to work on regaining what I had figured out 8 years ago at the beginning of my senior year in my undergrad.

Onto other news. I have had a jackass of a professor. He didn’t teach much of anything during the hermeneutics course this last summer. The guy’s a joke. I spent hours on end working on both a Greek text and Hebrew text giving my first stab in writing exegetical papers. Find out afterwards, the Greek text the professor assigned is one of if not the hardest passages in the new testament to translate into English. And he assigned this passage to those who have just had intro to Greek courses?

Earlier this week we (the class as a whole) got a generalized email slamming the class. Frustrating thing is he sent this to the class as a whole. of course he couldn’t share individual information (FERPA reasons). But the way he approached it was that we should have done better. On a classmates paper (classmate told me this) the prof commented on how the student spent a week on the paper and didn’t have a good grasp on the Greek language (like the rest of the class) much less on the English language. The thing is, this student and I have had the same amount of exposure to the Greek language: 10 weeks learning the damn language and another 10 weeks in a practical readings/translation course. So all in all, two quarters of Greek. Duh!

As far as this student’s English Grammar? his sister is a n English professor  at a college and she edited his papers for Grammar. This herm prof is nuts! Besides he was dryer than Ben Stein’s role in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Glad I have a week left to re-relax and enjoy my family before classes hit.