Wednesday, May 12, 2010

summer

summer is three days away for me and it sometimes feels like it is fall outside. So far I have planned three trips but I do not know how well they will go since I am low on money. Last year my family didn't take a vacation but this year both sides of my family planned one and they both some how fell on the same week so now someone has to cancel and make a new date. Of course this cant be simple and there has to be a family feud over it. I just know that I am for sure going to Cancun mexico for a week. I have never been there before, the last place I went was Jamaica about six year ago with my moms side. That was a lot of fun but i didn't know how hot and humid it was going to be. Now i know why people there don't wear a lot of clothes. Every time I took a shower I would dry off then wait like five minutes and dry off again because of the sweat. We had a lot of lizards in our room that would crawl on the ceiling. My mom is deathly scared of snakes so every time she would see one she would think it was a snake and have a mild heart attack. I hear in mexico there are a lot of lizards but its not as humid a Jamaica.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Papers

It seems like most classes don't make you write one paper till the end of the year. Every time its about three weeks before finals and all five of my classes have one due the same week. I procrastinate so this is not easy for me. I have had a lot of papers that are almost the same thing. When i went to Carbondale, I wrote almost two papers a week and since I was taking my general classes the teachers had the same papers. I don't know if it is plagiarism if I use part of one paper for a paper in another class. I don't think it should be plagiarism because plagiarism is taking the words from another writer, but i would be taking words from myself so i don't think it would be but i don't want to risk it. I would say that it would be frowned on because they want u to try but if i already thought of it and took the time the first time then it should count. This could be avoided if professors had some kind of database that showed what other teachers were assigning but I am sure most students like how it is.