Shakespeare, Blackboard, and Heaters... It's been a fun week

So things just got so much better this week. First I spent 3 hours on an assignment for a class that 1. We didn't even have to hand in, 2. The professor didn't even talk about it, and 3. There was no real reason why we had to do the assignment. I love Shakespeare, he was a wonderful writer and I love reading his work, but this class is killing me. For one thing we do pointless assignments like rewrite the entire index of his plays in chronological order. The book we're using for the class had them categorized into comedy, history, and tragedy. Which with Shakespeare seems a little weird seeing how some of his plays can be put under more than just one of those categories. So instead of just using the index how it is the professor asks us to use that index and re-list all of those plays chronologically. Which takes a while when there isn't a clear date on when certain plays were actually written by him and instead there are a couple possible dates on them. Just makes me love this class so much more. I'm also convinced that the professor teaches with the assumption that we have read all of these plays before. We haven't actually read any of the plays. He asks us to read certain soliloquies from plays and then lectures on the entire play. -_- Needless to say this is the most annoying class right now. If I can handle doing it, I may spend part of my weekend reading through a bunch of Shakespeare.

For UConn people you'll understand the frustration behind this. UCC has it's own version of HuskyCT called Blackboard. For those who don't know what HuskyCT is, it's UConn's way of trying to help our professors give us information, post announcements, power points, give us assignments, etc. without having to spam our wonderful huskymails. It is pretty much the easiest thing to forget about checking on a regular basis. So I have that, except for UCC and I also got a separate UCC e-mail that I'm supposed to check on a regular basis, so that makes 4 e-mails and Blackboard... not really making things seems much easier. I know I probably shouldn't do it but while that e-mail account exists I might as well forward everything to an e-mail account I remember to actually check out of habit.

So in quite a few ways UCC is turning out to be similar to UConn, it's fantastic really. (I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible)

This whole heater thing is apparently a point of interest for some so I ended up asking the guys what they did. First off there's a switch on the wall above the desk (at least 5 feet away from the heater) that kind of has a box of its own with a little red light on it. You flip that switch so the red light is on. Then you go to the heater which has 2 switches and 2 dials (there's a picture of this somewhere). You turn the dial all the way on the left to the number 4. Then you flip the switch to the right of it to the 2 dots instead of the 1 dot. I really don't know how else to really explain that, except I'm pretty sure that at some point I flipped the switch the other way. I really have no idea what that does. Then there is the dial to the right of that with a bunch of numbers on it. Don't touch it. I don't know what would happen if I decided to turn it and I prefer not to find out cause if something goes wrong I don't want to have to deal with fixing it. Then there is the switch to the far right that you just slide all the way down. Once all of that is done the red light on the heater turns on and you get heat. Honestly it is the most ridiculous thing I believe that I have ever tried to understand. Most heaters have temperature settings and an on/off switch. It is aware though of the temperature in the room and it turns itself off and on to maintain whatever setting it's at. Sometimes I turn it up to 6 on a really cold day but I usually leave it at about 4. Lately the weather has actually been really gorgeous and I know that at home it has been full of snow, ice, and for some, no school. I'm just hoping that if it decides to rain this weekend it doesn't also decide to add thunder, lightning, and wind so that a group of us can finally head out to Blarney Castle. Which I was looking at the tradition of kissing the stone. You are held by a really old man, bend over backwards, and lean over a huge space in the castle wall to kiss the stone. Oh and the stone is also located at the very top of the castle. So while we're all hanging upside down to kiss the stone we might get a great view of the ground below us. It'll be great!

With Love Always