Getting a grip
Okay, I think I have more of a handle on myself today. I have finished one assignment and am slowing working my way through the others. I have a pretty good (read: fuzzy) idea of the topics I'll be writing term papers on. I finished the readings and even went ahead on one. Right now, I am diligently reading an introductory book on linguistics so that I'll have a freaking idea of what's going on. It's really very interesting and thank goodness, a lot of it overlaps with psychology, so even when I'm totally, totally lost, I look and oh goodness, there's a breadcrumb (read: psychological term I recognize). Case in point: in my Foundation of Language Acquisition class, we're doing a presentation on behaviorism, which is my fave perspective in all of psychology and what do you know, all the stuff I learned back in high school in IB Psych is still useful. Thank you Ms. Faitel, wherever you are. Okay, enough wasting of time. I'm also going to try to finish my intro book and also a book on language error analysis, a paper on performatives and maybe, must maybe, get a jumpstart on my annotated bibliography entry for my Cultural Impacts on Teaching English as an International Language class (say that seven times fast). Man, I still totally miss MUIC, though. Will that ever wear off? I hope I'm not sounding too tense anymore; I was tense, totally tense, tight as a coil tense, but I think I'm doing okay now (thanks for your concern, Junie!)
Final thought: Whistle while you work. :wink: