{"id":103,"date":"2017-02-22T16:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/?p=103"},"modified":"2017-02-22T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:26:40","slug":"im-late-again-but-wait-there-is-more-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2017\/02\/im-late-again-but-wait-there-is-more-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m late again. But wait! there is more this time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome Back to \u03a3\u039d\u0396\u03a6. I won\u2019t even bother to apologize this time because I think it will become a common thing for me to get delayed. So I will really only write for the blog when I have free time. This week I had some free time because I didn\u2019t have Math homework, courtesy of the Midterm for this class that was this week too.<\/p>\n

At least all my efforts are being worth, I had only good grades until now. Even on my Beatles class Midterm, I that I thought I had done horrible because I forgot some of the names of important people. I\u2019m really very bad with names. Is not that I don\u2019t care about the person, is just that I\u2019m very bad at memorizing at all. If I can make the thing I\u2019m trying to memorize have some sense, it should be ok for me to record it. But names are very hard to give a meaning. Luckily I learned a great technique for memorizing peoples name at my rhetoric class. On one of our first classes our professor made us stand on a circle and we had to say a characteristic that begin with the same first letter of our name. Also we had to repeat the name and characteristic of the people that spoke before us. So, in short, when I meet someone new now, I create an adjective for him\/her on my mind.<\/p>\n

Now that we are speaking about rhetoric, I think it is important to share my experience with this class, because it\u2019s one of the hardest classes I have and is mandatory for all new first year students. Well, some students already took rhetoric on high school, like most of my friends, so they are pretty comfortable about it. Still, you can find people like me, who didn\u2019t even knew the meaning of rhetoric when I went to my first class. It is the class I did more work so far, not because it is difficult. But because I have to do things I never did before, like these things that professors and students call \u201cpapers\u201d. I had never written a paper before in my life. I wrote essays yes, but nothing with the format of a paper, with all its formats exigencies and citation quotes formats. Nevertheless it is a work I\u2019m happy I did. I mean, I recognize its importance and I\u2019m happy I did it. Obviously my paper is full of mistakes, but I\u2019m glad I made them, (as long as they don\u2019t interfere too much with my good grades), because that way I will learn better, which is my main purpose here.<\/p>\n

You see, whenever I get an exam back the first thing I do is to go over my mistakes. Usually I find mistakes that I did by distraction. One time I was in a rush and calculated that 5 times 6 was 36, you can imagine my reaction when I saw that after receiving my grade back. Still, sometimes I do find problems that I got wrong because I did a horrible mistake and, when I do, I fell very happy. I guess those are two of many of my guilty pleasures: Understanding the subject being discussed on class, and being able to detect my mistake and learn how to correct it.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s all I had for today, But I still feel guilty for not being able to post on the blog, and because of that I will put a bonus today, one beginning of a short story I had to write for my Fiction writing class. I hope you enjoy. See you next wee\u2026 Whenever am able.<\/p>\n

(the story have no name, I\u2019m sorry)<\/p>\n

Julia finally took a seat on the kitchen table after preparing breakfast for her daughter and husband. She stared at the empty chair on the other end of the table while playing with her hair. With the other hand, she grabbed her piece of bread with butter and started to eat. They are quite late tod<\/em>\u2026 She was thinking before Tom appeared on the room. \u201cGood morning my darling,\u201d he would usually say. \u201cThe food smells good\u201d. But nothing came out of his mouth. He sat on the chair next to her and opened the newspaper, protecting himself behind it. Julia wanted to see the face of her husband and not the picture of a \u201cmissing child\u201d on a page of the Chicago Tribune. She waited. Is he not going to say anything?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHow are you darling?\u201d She finally said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood, good\u201d He answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid something awful happen on today\u2019s news, for you to be so quiet?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot on the news, no\u201d Tom said while closing the paper.<\/p>\n

He smiled at her. But something was different on his smile; He smiled like one of Julia\u2019s student\u2019s about to receive a grade when they weren\u2019t sure whether it would be an A or an F. Usually it was a F. <\/em>She took her cup and noticed she forgot the coffee. \u201cOh silly me, I forgot the coffee, I will make some more\u201d. Julia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo no no, sit my darling, I will make the coffee\u201d. Tom said.<\/p>\n

He put his hand on her shoulder, forcing her to sit down. He got up and started to make the coffee. Julia was amused by how her husband seemed quite unworried about his job this morning; he never had time to do anything before going to work.<\/p>\n

All her thoughts went away when she saw a portion of a piece of paper coming out her husband\u2019s pocket. Was it an envelope?<\/em> Tom came back to the table. \u201cIt will take about five minutes for the water to boil\u201d. He said. The same smile was on his face, but that\u2019s not what was concerning her anymore. When Tom mentioned time, Julia looked at the clock and realized that her daughter was late. \u201cChristine!\u201d She shouted. \u201cYou are going to be late for school\u201d. Silence was here response. The same silence that had been filling the house the entire morning, silence that was a new guest on the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she\u2019s not awake by the time the bus arrives,\u201d She said. \u201cI\u2019m not driving her to school\u201d. Tom\u2019s smile vanished from his face when she spoke her daughter\u2019s name. So he got a F, <\/em>Julia thought. She knew something was different, something was wrong. \u201cWhat\u2019s the matter?\u201d she said. Tom looked at the table; he got up to finish the coffee. But before doing anything he took the letter out of his pocket, weld back a tear and put the envelope in front of her.<\/p>\n

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