Education Major Sucks

I've always really had a distaste for most of the professors in my education department. They are a huge factor in my back and forth decisions in my major, I'd like to be a teacher but the thought of dealing with them for four years was enough to end it for me. They are nice women, but I think that they have ill feelings toward secondary ed majors and I don't think that most of their classes do a lot to help me understand what I will be facing in a high school classroom. But senior year, by far has been the worst. I mean, I was told that I need to "uglify" myself for student teaching. Apparently I will be too distracting. Really? Seriously??

Now there is one in particular that seems to have picked out me and Luna. SO FRUSTRATING!

They are a waste of my time. There is only one that I have any confidence in whatsoever. This blog will surely be turning into a place for me to vent my frustrations about the education department...

Oh it's been awhile...

So I've blogged a little since school started right? But not anything substantial... And we are severely lacking in the photo department!... Ok ok I'm on it...

First of all, I am suddenly a senior. And I'm 22! That sounds so old to me right now. Not like senior citizen kind of old, but adult kind of old. My friends are off getting real jobs, buying homes, getting hitched, and I just want to stay in school forever... 

I'm also suddenly a first time renter! Also weird. Hermione and I are working on the house, it's not fantastic, but it works for us. And us living together is not bad! I was worried we'd end up fighting, we are so different. But it works for us, we have our own little system and we recognize that the other is different. So far so good!

And one more, I'm suddenly almost a teacher! What? I know. Crazy. Expect mucho student teaching and education degree posts, most of them complaining but whatev... 

And I will end this on a good note! I took this picture this weekend at the Apple Festival in Kendallville! There will be a rather large post on that later... This picture is just to show that my new camera can take flower pictures! I am super psyched by this news. 

Craft of the Weekend!

Thanks to this lovely post at Apartment Therapy I was supplied with a fantastic procrastination project for Sunday! 

Meet my new felt pillow!

It's not quite this:

But hey I didn't have enough felt!

This project was kind of labor intensive, I mean tracing 30-some circles and cutting them out is no small task! Not to mention you have to put a hand-stitch in each individual one, and then stitch them individually onto the pillow! BUT, it is super easy, like you can't mess this up. It's great for people like me who use these tedious tasks as excuses to watch She's All That and Notting Hill all day. It was a pretty fantastic day... 

Disgruntled Education Major

Grades returned to me today:

Two A+'s in POSC 236

92% on gigantically intimidating test in a 300 level constitutional law class with hardest prof on campus...

Two A+s on papers in a 400 level philosophy class

And the pièce de résistance?

3 grades in the B- to B range in education classes

Really? Seriously? I can get fantastic grades in incredibly hard classes and can't even pull a B+ in ed classes? Whaaaaaat???

I could just hurl with the injustice of it all.