Day Seven – A short trip down memory lane

For those who do not know me well, I would like to come clean. I am an internet junkie.  My low numbers of blog posts up to this point aside, I am addicted to the internet (a point reiterated by the quiz I took in our text book.  We are talking about internet this week. (At least while we are not taking a midterm.)). I spend hours each week day on perusing my friends’ pictures on facebook, reading new blog posts (though not writing them…), talking on Skype or otherwise being unproductive. (In my defense I have yet to fall into online gaming (though I have watched The Guild which I’ll admit has tempted me to start). I have a feeling if I ever start, I will never emerge from the digital world. But then, I could be like JEFF BRIDGES!). I also follow several of my friends and acquaintances (and several complete strangers) on Twitter, which brings me to (one of) today’s: Happy Moments! My friend had a tweet today which mentioned a teacher giving her a sticker on a homework assignment which reminded me of Latin. Short story told below.

Once upon a time I was a college senior who needed 9 more credit hours to graduate but a minimum of 24 hours to fill. After pondering which superfluous classes I should use to fill my schedule, I decided to take Latin. Being the nerd that I am, not only did I do the homework (which I didn’t need to do since I was taking this class credit/no credit), but I also put stickers on each assignment I turned in as an encouragement to myself (plus I had have an abundance of shiny, star stickers (which I didn’t think to bring to Vietnam with me.)). I also put them on my quizzes. One day, however, I forgot to bring my stickers with me to class on a day we had a quiz. I was saddened but still managed to finish the quiz with my usual bout of excellence. After class, I promptly forgot about the lack of sticker on my quiz and went about my day. I was pleasantly surprised the next class period when Prof. Awesome Voice Tetlak returned my quiz to me with a sticker on it!

I would like to end this post with a shout out to Dr. Patricia Burton who put stickers on all exceptional tests she returns to her students. Zayıflama hapları