Things I Need To Do.

Motivation and Emotion

It’s hard to annotate every little reading I have to do. Looking at the syllabus, it looks like he wants us to read The Unquiet Mind over Spring Break. I remember I read all the readings in that one book in one day, before the first exam. It shouldn’t be that big of a hassle to read the corresponding material before each class.

Socialism and Communism

Eaton, Political Economy, Chapters 1, (2), 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
Selsam and Martel, Marx, Engels, Lenin Reader, pg 17-63, 98-137, 183-223, 248-274
Sommerville, Philosophy of Marxism, chap 1,2,3,4,5
Hobsbawn, Age of Empires, chap 1-2, 3-7 (However, we’ll be reading most of it in the coming weeks. Same with the sister book, Age of Extremes 1-2

Metaphysics

Loux, Metaphysics, A Contemporary Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6
Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (always nice when your professor’s name is on the book you’re using), Metaphysics: The Big Questions (He explained that they have an entire “Big Questions” series.), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 19, 34, 35, 36, 37, 5, 6, 14, 15, 12, 13

Expos 2

I need to finish this second essay, which is a couple weeks past due. Then revise it and hand in a final copy. I can have this all over and done with, if I want it to be. There’s a two-page preproposal essay which she wants. Which will basically say what I intend to write my research paper on. I’ll probably be aiming to do that for Thursday, because I need to finish that second essay before I’ll have more of an idea what I want the longer paper to be about.

Computer Architecture

I never bought the book for this class. So often, I’ll buy 100 dollar books, and never use them. I’m beginning to wonder if I should have gotten it. Yet. Yet, it’s all in the lecture notes, which are online. I’m just so lazy. Lazy. *rolls eyes*

If I just took shifts at the library, none of this would happen. I’ve never bothered to look at exactly everything I need to do. I can do all of this, if I make myself. I can do it, one hour library sessions at a time. Well, maybe. I hate getting all optimistic and then having that pang of apathy. *laughs* I know how I am over Spring Break. I let old habits dictate that I will “do nothing.” Of course I will see Cliff. But I would be a fool to not try to gain a reprieve. It is far from too late.

“What do you intend to do next semester, about your classes?” – Professor I had last year
“Focus on everything at once.”
“No, no, if you do that, you’ll overwhelm yoruself.”