Wednesday, January 08, 2003

What we had to do for Chem was go over the multiple choice part of last semester's final, correct errors, answer all the questions, and then turn it in for a daily grade tomorrow. Arrgg. My brain feels like its been on crack. I have been looking at numbers and formulas for the past 7 hours. dah. On the day of the final on the...uh...20th of December...we only had 50 minutes to complete the multiple choice section and for the rest of the time we had, we worked on the written part of the exam. If it took me 6 hours to complete a 25 question test, damn, i dont think I'll be taking the AP this May. The thing is, Ronnenkamp made the entire exam exactly like the AP, that it was so unfamiliar to me and i freaked. Well, at least i got a B for the semester. I was afraid that I wouldn't pass, but i did...Hooray.

I haven't stopped my Josh Groban listening since last night. *sigh* I just can't get enough of his voice.

Oh, today, in English class, we read a excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton, titled "Temptation of Eve". That's exactly what it was. The novel surrounds the psychological mind frame of fallen man when choosing good over evil.

I was really interested in the style of writing that he put forth. He made the event seem so existent and like it had happened in reality. It did. However, the author puts forth a great deal of detail and emphasis on the sneakiness of the serpent and the ignorance of Eve that it gives depth to the process of how man fell. It really helped me to understand the situation as a whole, from both perspectives, Satan's and Eve's. I think that's what makes a good novel as well as a great author. The idea of bringing words into life, really cool and neato.

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