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Ski teaching is canceled today due to the heavy rains at the pass, so I'm going to spend today doing homework and cleaning instead!

Classes are going good. I have English 247, Nutrition 245, and Math 100B. English is nice because it's only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 to 10:40. My teacher is a really funny lady who swears a lot, so of course we all like her. There's probably about 25 people in the class. Nutrition is a class of about 100 people. The stuff we're learning now is pretty much common sense stuff, like don't eat too much butter and sugar and red meat yada yada yada. Eventually we'll get into more interesting things.

And then there's math. Where do I even begin. I know I'm not the best mathematician, but I think I need to be in a different math class. I'm in this one because I did horrible on the math portion of the SAT, but that doesn't mean I need refreshers on how to add 4-digit numbers. Honestly, that's all we've been doing so far. We're going over how to add fractions and how to find the area and perimeter of a rectangle. The whole class I'm just sitting there thinking how did I end up here?? In senior year of highschool I was in Advanced Algebra & Trig, and now I'm learning the same elementary stuff I learned in 4th grade.

I feel that this is a good example of how SAT scores don't necessarily show a student's full potential. SAT day wasn't the best day for me. We got up at something like 6 in the morning on a Saturday to go take the test in the middle of nowhere because there was nowhere closer to our house to take it, so I was all tired and not at all in the mood to take a test. The writing portion was first and I got that out of the way quickly, but by the time we got to the math section (which I think was last or second to last) I just didn't care anymore. I just wanted to go home, go back to bed, forget the SAT even existed.

But once I pass this Math100B course, then I'll be free to take Math 101 and then since I'm an English major I don't have to take anymore math! Woooohoo!

Speaking of major, I think I'll go to the English department sometime next week to get an application for declaring. Then I have to get into the teaching program and do West-E and West-B tests and personality tests and make a teaching portfolio and student teach and blargblargblarg.