{"id":846,"date":"2009-03-06T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-03-06T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T18:37:47","slug":"busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"busy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/images\/busy-rs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re busy when your mom calls you at work wondering how things are going.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t called my parents since school started.\u00a0 Due to the time difference the only time I can call them ordinarily is on the weekend, but my weekends now are spent studying, writing and meeting with groups (for school).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next five weeks are going to be the worst.\u00a0 I have a test or a paper (or both) due each week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a test (or two) and a paper (or two) back in each of my classes now though, so I suppose I can update anyone who wants to know on how I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly I&#8217;m having a much harder time with the non-math class.<\/p>\n<p>In Quant I got a 100% on the first test and paper.\u00a0 I got a 91% on the next paper, but was informed I could redo part of it to receive a higher grade.. I&#8217;ll know if that worked next week.<\/p>\n<p>In Organizational Behavior I got an 85% on my first paper and a 90% (curved!) on my first midterm.\u00a0 From what I hear the average is that one student in the entire class gets an A each term in Organizational Behavior.\u00a0 Apparently I won&#8217;t be one of them.\u00a0 The midterm was probably the second hardest test I&#8217;ve ever taken (second only to the GMAT) and was basically a memorization test of all the material we&#8217;ve covered (which&#8230;is a lot!).<\/p>\n<p>So, my goal is to get an A in Quant and a B in OB and I think that will let me keep my 3.5GPA required to keep my scholarship&#8230; But the test this coming Tuesday in Quant looks like it is going to be very tough&#8230; so&#8230;. we&#8217;ll see&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I need to take a break, though, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/wizard2\/wagner\/MovieReviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">this <\/a>for a laugh.\u00a0\u00a0 I wish I didn&#8217;t have to study so hard this weekend, I&#8217;d be out enjoying a <em>complexed <\/em>movie like Watchmen.\u00a0 &#8220;<em>when there is action, there is action<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; <strong>SOLD!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more info on the man who is sure to replace Roger Ebert any day now click <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=12931297\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(and no, he isn&#8217;t 22&#8230;and some other &#8220;facts&#8221; stated are up for debate as well)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;re busy when your mom calls you at work wondering how things are going.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t called my parents since school started.\u00a0 Due to the time difference the only time I can call them ordinarily is on the weekend, but my weekends now are spent studying, writing and meeting with groups (for school).\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}