Final Papers

My final papers will be the death of me! I only have one exam, and it's a take home exam...which is great! Except that I have a minimum of 50 pages to write. Plus the one final, which is composed entirely of essay questions. Make it 52 pages.

Great.

The first ten pages are due tomorrow (three pages down...seven to go!), the rest on Monday. But hey, I'm done in a week!

Besides, I'm a Creative Writing major...this should be easy for me, right? Wrong. Creative Writing apparently does NOT equal essay writing.

Awesome.

It's okay though. I've got this!

Back to work. Good luck to everyone else who has finals coming up! And I hope you have somewhere around 50 pages less writing to do than I do.

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Trees and People (again)

Last weekend when I had my revelation about people and trees, I thought heavily about the different kinds of trees people can be. For example, a friend of mine and I don't get always get along, but last weekend I started thinking of her as a dogwood tree. Dogwoods are small and fragile, and they do not compare in height or age or wisdom to most other trees, like a tall pine perhaps. At first I thought, 'well, that makes sense. She's not on my level,' imagining myself as the taller tree. But then I realized that it isn't height, age, or wisdom that defines a tree as good or bad. Dogwood trees are small, but they certainly do not lack in beauty or brilliance. It was unreasonable of me to compare a pine tree to a dogwood. Like they say, it's like comparing apples and oranges.

Take a few minutes to think about yourself and those around you as trees. What kind are you? How does looking at people with all the magnificence of their tree-self help you accept people as they are? It helps me a lot. Try it.