I wanna Hippopotomus for Christmas....uhh jk.

If you wanna know what to get me for christmas I made my list public on Amazon, so you can get your ideas from there. Just search for my list using Jcarrc@gmu.edu.

A few notes to add to the list.
-The boots someone is probably already getting me....
-The soundtrack someone also may be getting me....

But other than that, have at it!

-Jenn

SORRY! I've been so busy!

AHHH sorry guys!

I've been so busy with school, and work lately that I haven't had time to breathe, let alone post. I've been working hard, but I dont know how i'm actually doing in my class. My professor seems to have a lack of knowledge in the area of what he's doing. >.< He's really smart, where he knows random facts about history, that no one would ever know, but he doesn't know when he set due dates for things, and he completely forgets about homework assignments, and things like that. I'm hoping that I get a good grade, but that's looking less and less likely as time goes on. I just have to hope that the website I'm making will be good enough to make up for some of the mistakes i've made in earlier papers.

I can't wait till thanksgiving. This year we're changing it up and heading to New Hampshire with my dad's side of the family. I've missed my cousins terribly, and am so excited cuz I get to see them more than twice a year this time! So next week i'll be working on my website, and going to New Hampshire, so I probably wont post for a while again.

Love you all!
Jenn

VOTE!

Yes I'm voting tomorow...and going to DC....and going to work

Busy day tomorow, but here's something to pass your time




I was laughing the entire time, especially since my last play i did was les miz

So I survived my trip to DC, and rode the metro all by myself!

I hate riding the metro, just so you know. Mostly because I'm scared that i'm going to miss a stop, or be on the wrong train....you get the point. But I survived and I had a great time!

Finds out we had to go to the National Gallery of Art. I went there when I was in 3rd grade, but now I get to apreciate it more, because I'm older and I actually understand what's going on lol. I had a lot more fun in the east building than the west building. The west building is more of the old fashioned portraits, and sculptures, and then east building is more of the newer, abstract pieces. And I'm sorry but Abstract, beats random portraits any day.

I found Nathaniel when I got there (he's a friend I made in my last class.) Now I kinda like Nathaniel, so we went around the museum together, and had a lot of fun looking at all the paintings and messing around with my camera. Though I didn't get to take many pictures because 80% of the artwork you can't take pictures of. If you want to see the pictures, go check out my facebook (Jenn Carr).

So all in all I had fun, but now I have to buckle down and write a paper about what I noticed and what I learned thats due on Monday. [sarcasm]horray papers...[/sarcasm]

See ya!

School is in Session Once Again....

-sigh-

I have to do homework again! Nooooooo -cries-.

Lol the class is fun though. I love my professor, though he is in no way better than Prof. GP. He's a history major, but he's not boring like most professors! We were talking about art today, and he was telling us all this intresting information about the Mona Lisa, and David, and also about the paintings in the Capitol!

Tomorow I'm headed off to some museum in DC. I don't remember the name, but I'm going with the whole class. HORRAY METRO! Here's hoping I don't get mugged. Ugh and I have to write a paper this weekend. >.< Busy week! But I promise I'll have pictures of the museum!

-Jenn

After the Break....

Ok, As far as I know my computer is back up and running. Wow that was annoying though. I lost everything on my computer, except my school work. I was smart enough to save all my school work on a portable hardrive, so that I didn't loose it. Right now i'm on my break from school, I get 2 weeks off before I start my next class (i'm on my second week). Thing's have been pretty cool though, and I'm surviving.

I've been planning on making a cello stand for me, because I've been playing to much not to have one. So I think I'm gonna make one myself, but now I just have to figure out the details of it. So thats what I think i'm going to do this week. Well that, and cleaning the house for my mom.

I'll be around, trying to post while I can!
Jenn

GAHH

Sorry guys! My computer decided that the hardrive wanted to fritz on me, so I had to get a completely new one. Right now I'm transferring everything to my new hardrive, so It may be a few days before another post.

Sorry guys!

Lovely day were having!

Hey! Sorry its been so long. I've been way busy with homework and helping around the house. Dad had his poker buddies over last night, and mom and I are still cleaning up from last night! It was fun though, and it was great to see some other people besides Cam, and Chris over :) I've been working feverishly on homework. The end of the tunnel is in sight though, my last class is on October 2nd. After that I get a week or so off, before the next part of my classes start. Its so close I can smell it, especially since tonight is the last paper I have to write for the class ^.^

In other news, I got my iPod finally! I am having SO much fun with this thing. Even though it costed me an arm and a leg, it was so worth it. I'm using it as a PDA right now, and I'm finally getting organized. I also am having fun because I can now get both my AOL mail, and my GMU mail in the same place, which makes it so much easier for me to check things in the morning. The most important thing though is that all my beloved music is on it. Ahh how I love my new iPod. Thanks to everyone who gave me Grad money, and giftcards because you definately helped me buy it!

Have a good week!

Sorry its Been so Long

Ahhhh... School just decided that it was going to get really tough right now. I have way more papers to write, and I'm juggling 3 long term assignments. And through all of this I'm working every day. >.< I'm barely getting breaks enough to write my papers, lol. I am having a good time though, i'm just a little tired.

Wow I had a horrible day today. The only good part about today is that I found an amazing parking spot. I woke up late, missed my first part of class. Because I woke up late, I never got a chance to eat breakfast, so going to school i'm already starving. Then I realised that I left my iPod at Harris' house. I'm not talking to him at the moment, because we need our space, and I tried to text him to tell him that I left it there, but he wont answer and probably deleted it thinking that I was trying to talk to him. Then I got to the second part of class, and then my computer wouldn't connect to the internet there. All the stuff I was doing in class was on the internet. Then I realised that I lost my jump drive that had all my website information on it. It was on my keychain but it must have fallen off somewhere (thank god I can transfer everything from the server to another jump drive I have...). So I was sitting in class, not able to really do anything and I couldn't leave. Then I got home and had 30 minutes to find something to eat (ohh nacho's such a healthy lunch...) and then go straight to work. Now its after work and I need to write a paper before I go to bed.

-sigh- today was a lonnnnng day

Hey Guys!

Now that the school year is really getting into swing, I've been getting a lot more homework. I found out that I am really not as great of a writer as I thought I was. I also found out that I can not for the life of me write an argumentitive paper. >.< Every idea I come up with is techniquely not an argument. I had to have my Professor practially hand feed me my argument for the paper I have to write today. This paper is going to take me so long to write, that I might have to skip work, which I hate doing. I'm gonna get in trouble for skipping work, and I know it. At least my mom is ready to tell Mr. B off if he yells at me because after all school is definately more important than work.

In other news, I'm looking foward to Sat/Sun because I'm staying over at my friends house. Why can't it be the weekend all ready? Or can it at least be thursday?

Ahh the wait is over

So I had my meeting with my professor, and I found out that I am in fact doing just fine it the class, and not failing at all. Thank god. In fact I have a B on my writing, and an A- on my participation. I was so happy, because like I said in my last post, I was terrified that I was failing because of my papers.

Other than that, I'm loving the no school on fridays. Today I went around and ran some errands with my brother. We went to GMU (So he could get his paycheck), to the bank (so he could deposit his paycheck), and then I went to go get some gas. Also today I bought an iPod touch from walmart. So the giftcards everyone gave me, have now been used. It helped alot and knocked the price by $71.00 . I got the ship to store option, so I didn't have to pay for shipping, and I also get 3 cases, protective films, and ear phones included in the price. Thanks everyone for fueling my electronics fix. :)

Have an amazing weekend!

Hola!

I'm getting some time to write, because I dont have class this afternoon! Well thats lovely, but at them moment i'm unable to get to my car because it is POURING rain outside. And because I commute I have to park way far away. I really didn't feel like walking in the rain to get to my car so I'm waiting in my mom's office until the rain stops so I can go home. ^.^

I'm having a lot of fun in my classes, but the only thing I'm worried about is my writing. My professor gives us grades on our papers, but doesn't show them to us, SO at the moment I Have NO idea what my grade is. I find out on thursday, but I really dont want to wait that long. All the comments she has given me on my papers is telling me that I get the gist of it, but I don't completely have the ideas. That bothers me, because I really want to get it right.

So i'm waiting impatiently for my grades on Thursday. I probably wont update till then because I have lots of reading to do, and I also have work.

See ya!

Before - After

Before:

Ok this has NOTHING what so ever to do with school.

I dyed my hair this morning with Kaycee and I absolutely LOVE it! It took us about 3 hours to finish it, But I think it was well worth it. What do you guys think?

AFTER!!!!!

Working hard, or hardly working?

I just finished my 3rd paper in less than two weeks. Phew! I'm becoming a paper writing machine. Though this one was really hard because it was an argumentitive paper. I'm horrible at arguing, so of course I had issues with this paper. But I finished it anyway, so thats good!

I'm still waiting for a day that I can go to the Aquatics Center (aka THE POOL!). I want to try it out. Apparently there are 2 pools, one olympic size and another recreational one. Swimming laps in a pool, is so much more fun than working out for me.

This friday i'm changing my hair again! Its going to be red, but fully red this time. Last time I got highlights that were red, so I could keep my blonde. This time I'm going to be more daring and go all out. Kaycee is coming over on friday in the morning to help me with it. Turns out no school on friday's comes in handy!

Week 2

Well my second week is going about as well as my first week! I'm having so much fun at school, except for all the reading >.< Oh well, I'll live. My brother started school today, and he's really nervous about Geometry. I dont blame the poor kid. I plan to help him if he wants it, though I dont know what kind of help I am, because I almost failed Geometry too.

Labor day the family decided to go out on our boat. We anchored right on the water infront of the fort and ate our lunch/dinner (it was around 4:30), and then we headed up to Occoquan for some icecream. The trip took a long time, mostly because we left at 2, which is kind of late. When we were finally heading back, it was almost pitch black, and we couldn't see anything except for the flashing bouy's telling us where to go! We got Very lucky there were no logs on our way back, because on the way there we were doging them left and right.

All in all it was a fun day. The only problem was we got home around 10pm and I had a paper to write for the next day. Oh well, I learned my lesson. Thats what you get for procrostinating!

Labor Day Weekend

Wow, my first week in school and I already have a 4 day weekend!

Alex starts school on tuesday. Don't tell him, but I will seriously be laughing at him when he has to get up at 5:30 to go to school, because I dont have to get up untill 8! Though knowing him, he's going to be really loud in the morning and wake me up >.<

Nothing has been really going on lately, and I'm not sure we're doing anything tomorow for labor day. I'm going to have to convince them to do something! Other than that there's not much else to report.

Clearing things up

Wow. My first week of college is over, and I had such a great time!

I wanted to clear up somethings about NCC. NCC stands for New Century College. Basicly its like a college inside a college. I wanted to major in education, but unfortunately Mason only has a Masters program in Education. What they did to counteract that problem (because so many people want education as a major) is they basicly combined the bachelors and masters program into one big bit. So in theory I can get my masters in 5 years, instead of the conventional 6. This would be good for me, because (at least in VA) its impossible to get a stable teaching job with only a bachelors. And of course I want to go straight into teaching!

Well college life is very intresting. I'm used to getting up around 5:30 every morning to get to school on time, but now I dont have to wake up untill around 8:30! Its such a treat. I also love going to the dining hall (Caio Hall), to eat lunch durring my classes. Its so much fun to people watch! And the fact that its all you can eat, for one meal! The only problem with college so far is the homework >.< There is so much stuff I have to read, and I have like a 4 page paper every week. I totally wasn't expecting that.

I really miss all my cousins, and I wish I could have another family party to get everyone down here to visit. Orrr I was thinking I could make the trip to PA to visit Gretchen. Maybe Mom and I need to have a mother, sister, daughter day. Lol

Hemlock Overlook

So, I'm on my third day of college, and so far it's been a blast. I love going to class, and working with the other students. My program is kind of complicated, but it gets easier to understand as you go through it. Basicly I have one class that starts at 10am and goes to 12pm. Then I have a break for lunch, and we resume at 1pm and go to 3pm. In a way its like highschool, but I'm getting way more out of it than I would any normal class. NCC is a very hands on type of program.





We just went to Hemlock today (Yea I Know! It's my third day and i'm already doing field trips!). I had so much fun at Hemlock. We did this thing called Total Team Challenge where we went up 3o feet in the air and had to manuver around this ropes course, while our team mates below basicly held together the entire thing. It was an amazing trust activity. Then we did a game called Toxic Waste, where there was a bowling ball, on a stool in the middle of a box that was 5x5 feet. You had to get the bowling ball in a box, without touching it, or the ground around it, and you could only use the tools that they gave you. My team ended up not finishing it, mostly because we spend to much time thinking and not enough time doing, lol. The last thing was called Life Line, and you basicily had to balance on these ropes, and go along a course and both your team and another team had to get to the other side, going in opposite directions. That was a Really fun one too, because I got all the way across! It's a lot harder than it looks.





I didn't get any pictures, because my camera is still at work >.< I left it there for testing and haven't gotten it back yet. So these pictures are pictures I found on google, and are not me...

Total Team Challenge: TTC

1st Post

Hey everyone! I decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon. This is going to be a blog about my life, and what goes on in the days of a college freshman! I'll be posting soon, so keep an eye out!

-Jenn