Plant your hope with good seeds

It's been really hard for me to focus today. Took me two hours to read 9 pages in a textbook.

My first exam is tomorrow at 12:30. I think it'll be fine. I'm not really worried about what I know or don't know. I'm a little worried about procedure though. I don't know what to expect when I get there. I know you have assigned seats. That's about it. Bring your own writing instruments and don't get there late and you can't leave until at least an hour has passed. This one is two hours. It's Film. We basically have to write two essays. I haven't written an "in-class" essay since high school. I'm a little out of practice. It's really not the same though because I already know what I'm going to have to write about. I'm psyching myself out. I've been doing that a lot lately. Need to chill out.

The only exam I can't really talk myself out of being anxious about is Poetry. She didn't say anything about the exam at all. So, all I can really do is go through my notes and try to remember everything. I guess that's usually how it goes though right?

We don't get our exam scores until they are sent to our permanent addresses in July. I think that is crazy. Especially for international students because it's a totally different system and you might feel like you did alright but in reality you really need to work harder, and you won't know.

Ah so Louise just came in and whenever Louise comes into a room we end up talking for like an hour. She's hilarious. But anyway, our deposit for the apartment is like a real deposit for a real apartment kind of. I guess they see how much electricity and heat we've been using and if we've used less than we paid for in our deposit, we get money back. That's awesome. They don't do that for Studville. Earlier today I was getting irritated because everything I wanted to use in the kitchen was switched off. There are little switches next to all the outlets so that you can turn the outlet off instead of actually unplugging things. That makes more sense now though. I'll start doing that.

It'll be good to get out of here tomorrow. Even though I'm just going from sitting in a room to sitting in a big room for a few hours. Hopefully someone comes to fix my light while I'm gone.