Heartbreak, and I'M A FREAKING GENIUS!! :D

Hello everyone, Juliet again! :)

Several issues I want to talk about today. But first:

So I heard from my roommate that a girl sitting behind me in my philosophy class last semester had briefly dated this one guy, but he dumped her :( Anyway, now she was just very sad, and just wanted a guy who wanted to be with her, aww.

Then recently, she got all happy again because she apparently got a crush on this other guy, thus getting over her old heartbreak. My roommate and I were happy for her, and when my roommate asked who she liked, she said "Charlie".

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CREEPY CHARLIE??? WHAT???? WHY??!? Anyway, continuing:

So she went out with him and a bunch of friends, apparently. They got drunk, and apparently she confessed to Creepy Charlie her feelings for him. He told her that he had had feelings for her for a while, and they made out.

The next day, when the girl talked to Creepy Charlie again, he said that he never liked her, and he doesn't remember kissing her at all. Now she is, of course, very upset again. Jerk.

So. Make of that what you will. Moving on:

Art class turned out to be just as intense (if not more) than I had originally imagined. As you guys may know, for our last class had to have our charcoal still-life drawings about 60% completed by next class (which was this past Monday, yesterday). So I worked really hard on mine, getting mine done more like 85%.

When it came time for the second art class of the semester, we first had to each individually walk to the front of our room, displaying our piece, and have our classmates and the professor critique it. There were a handful of students who did not spend much time (if any) on their drawings outside of class, as they were still just pencil outlines so far. A girl who volunteered to be first was one of these few, and man, the professor just ROASTED her. She said that she didn't have respect for art, that this was unacceptable behavior that WILL NOT be repeated, etc., right in front of the whole class. I don't think that I was the only one who felt very awkward witnessing this. The few students who were yelled at held their ground very well, but I felt like if I was in their shoes, I would have probably been fighting back tears by now.

I went last (classic Juliet), and luckily the professor offered me a rare smile. When she asked everyone to critique it, right away this one girl said "That's your piece?" and I replied "Yeah..." and she said "As soon as I walked into the studio and saw it this morning, I started fangirling like crazy!" So that made me feel good. Of course, the professor had to bring me down by saying "But you are going to add detail to the flowers of course, am I correct?" Bahh. There was a reason that I ignored the flowers- there are so many! For next week, we have to have that drawing completely finished, as well as a complimentary color watercolor piece (that we haven't even started in class) completely finished. Too much work :( Oh well.

I also had my first astronomy test today. I'm not sure how well it went; hopefully I did okay. There were a lot of questions that were not on the study sheet, which is annoying. Most of the questions were essay answers. One of the questions was "What two elements are stars mainly composed of?", which wasn't on the study sheet. All I could think of was Hydrogen, but then Helium came to mind. I was like Helium? That's random. But I had no other ideas, so I just wrote it down. Afterwards I looked it up, and it turns out I was right!!! YESSS!!! Good job, brain. I have no idea how you knew that.

Right after this, I had a quiz in Shakespearean English. The professor read the questions aloud, and we had to write down the answers. The professor had just asked "Which character was added to the film that was not included in Shakespeare's written play?" when a guy walked in late. When he sat down, he raised his hand politely, and when the professor said "Yes?" he said "Bottom's wife!" The professor, annoyed, said "This is a QUIZ! You're not supposed to say the answer out loud!" and he replied "Whoops, sorry, I didn't know that we were taking a quiz." We all laughed a lot, and she had to come up with a new question.

Anyway, when she asked "What animal did Puck ride on during the beginning scene of Act 3?" I was stumped, not remembering Puck riding on anything. Lion? No, I would have remembered a lion. Maybe a horse? But I don't remember any horses in that scene... All of a sudden, the word "turtle" just appeared in my head. Just the word; I couldn't even picture Puck riding a turtle. Turtle?? That's random, I don't remember any turtles! But I don't have anything else, and I'm running out of time...  So I wrote "turtle". When the professor read aloud the correct answers, and she said "turtle", I was like "I'M A FREAKING GENIUS!!! THANK YOU, BRAIN!!!!" These moments almost never happen to me, haha.

Side-note: My English professor is pretty funny. I always write down little things that she says. A few examples:

"Somedays, you just want to see things blow up. It will make absolutely no sense.. in the most beautiful way."

"He's a soul-sucking pit of weirdness."

Also, when she was grading our papers, she told us: "You guys are all doing really well. I'm impressed. But you guys have to stop doing well." When we were confused by this statement and asked her to elaborate, she told us that if everyone in a class is doing well, even if they deserve good grades, the administration gets suspicious of the professor inflating everyone's grades, to make his/her students happy. Then the administration might step in and either fire the professor or make the curriculum much harder, so people will receive lower grades. Apparently the whole point of Ivy League schools is to challenge students, and if you are getting As then you are apparently not being challenged enough. Stupid, I know.

Sorry for the long post, I just suddenly had a lot to write about (as you can see). Have a good week, guys!

~Juliet, the girl who typed 1119 words on a blog instead of writing 800 words for her paper due Wednesday ;)