Jaxon’s Blog

Okay winter term there were a few car in the parking lot but there seemed to be a lot of people here a school. This term is crazy all the parking lots are half filled after noon but there seems to be no body here. Whats the deal, I walk around the campus and there is no one, its like a big game of hide and seek.

Yeah, that lasted a whole week, and by the way most of that week I was asleep. Anyway now I’m back for a summer class that seems to take a lot of my free time. I’m getting lazy, or I’m getting a little bit of a thing called Lazy-ass-itous or LA for short. I am going to have to keep focused. This is going to be a great short summer term.

What is up with this weather, this campus feel like we’re back in winter term. We may have some sun for like a day and then its three weeks of crappy weather. It is depressing to go to school with the sun out, and as soon as you have some freedom the clowds come out and the rain comes in. I don’t know what to do if the weather stays the way that it is. I should just sign up for summer classes.

This is the last week of the term. The time of the year where you can feel like you’re free without really being free. Like a prisoner counting the hours left in his sentence. That’s how I feel at this moment. I’m ready to be done with this term it has been great but I’m closing the door on this part of my life. I’m getting ready to move on hopefully it leads to bigger and better things

There are just a few electives that I have taken here at Chemeketa that I enjoyed, because they were electives. I love humanities classes, and so after I filled my requirement for that area in my A.A.O.T I found out that I needed about twenty more electives credits. So then I started looking at the schedule to try and find which humanities I could take during that term. So in the past year I have taken a few anthropology classes and psychology classes that I didn’t need. I found those really fun and I walked away as a smarter person.

There are many student activities to get involved in here at Chemeketa. For most, getting involved with the school is how they stay sane. My first year here at Chemeketa I kept my head down, my focus was very clear to me: school, work, home. I didn’t want or try to get involved with any activities here on campus. After I got an idea of what school would be like, I saw all the ways to get involved. You could join a group, get a job at student life, or around campus. I’ve kind of slipped into a few activities around campus my second year. I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa, and also of Trio support services, and of course I’m a student ambassador. So even after my first year here and getting involved with nothing, I still found myself as a member of a few groups. It has made my college life better for the experience.

wow… We have something going on every other day here on campus. A few weeks ago it was cinco de mayo, this week it was chemeketa idol, the car show. Also the other dayy we had eye wide open, this was a protest to the war in Iraq. It seems that there is always something happing on campus that a large group of people would be intersted in.

“This is the end, my only friend the end.” I just had a chit chat with an advisor about classes and found out some very good news. I am almost done with all the classes that I need to take here at Chemeketa. I had plans to take classes over the summer and even the fall, because of the where I thought I stood. Since I have taken on such a class load this it is paying off. I should only have to take a WR123 and some sort of elective to finish up my A.A.O.T.

What The….. Do some teachers get together and asked each other what kids are in their class? “What students do you have in this class, oh good that kid is in my class too, let’s have a test on this day.” That way, if this kid is a slacker by nature he’ll have to work twice as hard to study in just a few hours to get everything done and actually study for the test. Then he goes to class and finds out that hey I’m a cool teacher and he didn’t have to study that hard in the end.
That’s the story of my Sunday and my Monday going to class and finding out that hey I know this stuff.

Have I ever taken an online class or hybrid here at Chemeketa? Yes I have taken a few hybrid classes here a Chemeketa. I enjoyed taking these classes mainly because of how the teacher set up the website and how it worked with the in class discussions. I liked how if you didn’t go to class you could read the notes online, or the book had the same information that was discussed in class or as the notes online. I also liked the fact that we had tests that you could take on your own time. The only thing is that you had deadlines that if you missed you’re out of luck. I had to keep track of the deadlines, and they never were put on hold. If we didn’t have classes for a week we would still have those assignments due when they were because we had the tools to teach ourselves.