Category: Academic

Instructors Becoming Sedentary

Often times during an academic semester students and instructors get burned out and need a break from this, but usually it isn’t a month into the semester. I am having such a problem with my creative writing instructor this semester. He seems to never do anything. If assignments are supposed to be due on a […]

Creative Wrting Kicking My Ass

During my first semester of Creative Writing, I felt a great energy behind my writing, one which doesn’t seem to exist right now. Maybe it is the absence of the literary high I got from reading the techniques of Robert Olen Butler, as he showed how to obtain the power to extract with great accuracy […]

The writing proccess?

After working on my novel outline that I was having difficulty with for several hours over the weekend, I finally submitted it, but I have just determined that it completely sucks, and as a result I am going to write a new outline and try to create a more interesting story with better characters and […]

Welcome to the Universe

My Astronomy course started yesterday and so far I’m excited. The course structure and the text book are based on Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos“. Before yesterday, I had heard of Sagan’s work, but I’ve never seen “Cosmos”. For the first class we watched the first episode of “Cosmos”. We were supposed to review the syllabus, but […]

Facing Challenges in Creative Writing II

I am presently faced with one of the most intellectually difficult assignments I have ever had to take on. I have to create a plan for a novel. First of all, my writing process doesn’t know what “plan” is. I have always written stories from start to finish, following the action of my characters in […]

Final Grade – ART131

My Gaston College course, Drawing 1 (ART131) closed this evening. The final grade for the course is: A Images of my work will be posted here during the post-semester blogging period.

New Policies Are Annoying

This week I found out that CPCC and Gaston College are both using a new policy regarding their electronic course registration systems. In previous semesters, the registration floodgates opened promptly at 12:01am on the day of first allowed registration. For spring, new policies exist….6am for Gaston and 7:30am for CPCC, who the fuck is awake […]

Spring 2008 Schedule Forming

Campus Reg ID Course Code Course Name Days Time Location Instructor CPCC 19411 ENG-126 Creative Writing II Online Online Online Bostian GC 006853 ART-132 Drawing II MW 19-21:46 CVA 5 Biggers UNCC 20427 ARTC-2171 Ceramics Handbuilding TR 14-16:50 Rowe 192 Tweedy So far I have picked 3 courses for spring. I am continuing Creative Writing […]