finale

finale: the end, final movement, last

tomorrow is the official last time we all meet. wow, already this semester went by so fast!! who knew it would!

so here is some self reflection:


self reflection:
if i can choose one thing to redo this semeseter it would probably taking the wrong research class. Well i mean, it is the right class but the instructor for my history seminar class was a bit out of it. anyways, so last night i didnt get any sleep trying to fix and finish my research paper again. i ended up deleting half the paper, rewriting it, only to find that id delete it again, rewriting it once agian. thats how bad it was.

well here is the reason:
usually on a any paper we need something called sources but there are two types, called primary souce and secondary source. Primary source is something from that time period, place, etc (persons biography, picture, newspaper, articles...) while secondary sources are usually stuff that is written after that period (biography, textbooks, professor may be a secondary source, etc...) well, my instructor allowed us for our seminar class to pick our topics on whatever we wanted. (and here i thought, how easy!!) turns out other seminar instructors do not allow that, they have the topics.... Usually when a student pick their own topics, they end up having primary sources but no secondary sources, or the other way around. That is what exactly happened to me. I, of course did go and ask for help, however, my instructor told me that it was ok and i should continue. Well it wasnt. so last night i just looked up at other secondary sources that did not mention the person i wrote about and tried to stretch my paper to at least 15 pages. (I made fourteen and a half but i dont care at this point) so i stayed up till 9 in the morning, feeling nauseated from all the caffine i had consumed, walked across the campus with my whole body shaking, and i finally turned it in to the history department. UGH. worst thing ever!!



does anyone else in this class have their horror stories to tell? i hope no one had misguidance from an instructor like i have.

-charlene kim