Hey girls!

                It seems like with each week I become more and more stressed out. This coming weekend I'm away visiting a friend at university in Halifax so I'm trying to get everything done before that. Unfortunately, looking at my next week it's pretty difficult to get everything done. I have a film midterm on Monday, a math test and physics test on Tuesday and a mechanics midterm on Saturday (way to ruin my weekend right?). One of my friends is throwing a party on Friday night and I really want to go but with my midterm the next day I had to make the responsible (but by no means easy) decision to bail on the party. I'm definitely looking forward to going away this weekend and visiting my friend but I'm going to be doing work while I'm there to prepare for my tests and do some assignments.

                I just handed in my first physics lab yesterday and there was so much preparation for that. The graph itself took the most time of anything. In order to make an appropriate graph you have to know the error on each measurement, plot the errors, find an average point and the minimum and maximum slopes. It just seems like a lot of effort to make a graph in my opinion (even though I know it has to be included to be accurate). The calculations weren't as bad once I got into them but they definitely looked daunting when I was looking at how much I had to do. I think I'm finally starting to understand math (LinA looks like child's play next to this semester's math) which is good since I have a test next week but also it puts me in a better mood and I'm more inclined to do it if I know that it's not going to cause me copious amounts of frustration.

                Last weekend I was in Toronto for my first training session of my summer job. I went through 2 days of sessions teaching me how to talk to customers, how to estimate, organization, how to use their database and we haven't even touched financials yet (there's another training session at the end of February to talk to us about that). It was definitely a lot to take in but the opportunity sounds amazing and I met so many cool people. The drive up to Toronto was a little bit awkward and kind of quiet (I was driving up with 4 people I hardly knew) but by the time it came to drive home everyone had warmed up to each other and we couldn't stop talking (the drive home seemed significantly shorter than the drive there).

                Because of all that's been happening, both me and my roommate were feeling a little overwhelmed today so we went to the gym and I felt so much more relaxed afterwards and I could concentrate much easier (exercise is KEY at university). With everything that has been going on, I really needed a break from my everyday life. In the past week, two of our good friends have broken up making things awkward, my roommate has been asked out twice by different people, I've gotten more schoolwork than ever before in my life, there have been a few little fights and I've been travelling. I was telling my sister about all of this and she said that we should have our own show on MTV called Carleton Shore with all the drama and events we put up with - I definitely agree! Comment if you have any questions / comments!