follow a plan.

so there is this little handy thing on the library website called the assignment planner. 

it is very helpful. you just type in a start date and a finish date for a paper you have to do, and it will give you a day by day plan to finish it on time. it will even e mail you a little reminder deal. here is my plan for my 15 page paper due april 30th. I want you to know i am ahead of schedule. but look at the last day. 

Starting on: 3/2/2009
Ending on: 4/30/2009
According to the dates you have entered, you have 58 days to finish.

Want to try a different date?
Start Date: - -
Due Date: - -





Step 1 By Tue Mar 03, 2009: Get Started
• Understand your assignment (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Plagiarism - What is it? How do I avoid it?

Step 2 By Fri Mar 06, 2009: Topics
• Select a topic (Purdue University)
• Refining your topic (Duke University)

Step 3 By Sun Mar 08, 2009: Plan your research strategy
• Do some general web searching - not Library-related
• Determine what sources you are going to use
• Work out the technical details

Step 4 By Tue Mar 17, 2009: Find Resources
• Journal and Magazine Articles
• Scholarly Journal Articles in a Subject Area
• Books
• Websites (that are relevant and authoritative)
• Other resources
• Use Refworks to organize and cite your references

Step 5 By Mon Mar 23, 2009: Evaluate Resources
• Evaluating websites
• Evaluate non-web resources

Step 6 By Mon Mar 30, 2009: Write working thesis
• How to Write a Thesis Statement (Indiana University)
• The Thesis Statement (University of Richmond)
• Examples: The bad thesis statement and the better thesis statement (University of Pennsylvania)

Step 7 By Sat Apr 11, 2009: Write 1st draft
• Keep careful notes, with source clearly indicated
• Essay-Writing: the Essential Guide (.pdf) (University of Leeds)
• UW Planning and Writing a Research Paper (University of Wisconsin)

Step 8 By Sun Apr 19, 2009: Additional Research
• Take a look at that assignment again
• Have you met the minimum resource requirements?
• Did you get enough scholarly, peer reviewed, or refereed sources?
• Do you have evidence to support all of your main points?
• Need help finding more stuff? Talk to your Subject Librarians

Step 9 By Tue Apr 28, 2009: Rewrite & revise, placing paper in final form
• Don’t forget to use RefWorks to create your cite list/bibliography. Review that plagiarism information.
• Proof-read and revise your assignment (Purdue)

Step 10 By Thu Apr 30, 2009: Reflect and review
• Bake a cake for yourself

are you kidding me?!?! It is TELLING me to bake a cake for yourself?!??! HECK YES I WILL. i mean, i would anyways but now that it is on this plan, and i have to abide by it, right? 

so come april 30th find me. i will have cake. 

that is all for now. 

roar.

today was a great day. not only was the weather INCREDIBLE. it was also tiger woods comeback day. i celebrated by watching it illegally on my computer. thank you smart people who stream it on the web from tv at this site

not only did tiger win his match, he played great. but my favorite part were the ads. (I am an advertising major, so this is okay.) watch and enjoy.

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tomorrow becomes the death of my law of mass comm grade. otherwise known as our first test worth a lot of points. i am currently "studying" with people right now, but really i am informing you on tiger woods instead. so i hope you all enjoy. 

vicks vapor rub.

i wish i had some vicks vapor rub right now. a.k.a i am sick.

not fun. 

the last post i talked about baking. here is what i made recently. if you look closely you can see the resemblance to a carmel delight girl scout cookie, but in bar form. if that is what you see, then you are correct. because that is exactly what they are. 

on other notes, jon mclaughlin concert. lets just say, future husband, if you read this ever. you better be able to play the drums. or the piano. or both. just sing to me. 

here is to being emo. love all. 

bun in the oven coming soon.

as i am sitting here "studying"  i decided that after college, if i can't find a job-which, according to many articles and professors, i wont, i am going to go to pastry school for a year. what are your thoughts?

i'm putting it out there, but sometime in my life, i would love to take classes. maybe it won't be when i graduate, but down the roa

d when i have a family and make my own little bakery in my kitchen. that would be awesome. 

anyways. surprise party went so great. he

re is what my mom looked like when she walked in. thanks to mimi my grandma for the photography. 

she was so shocked and cute. 

i loved it. 

bun in the oven bakery-coming soon....?

birthday madness.

today is my friend mara's birthday. you all should go and wish her one.

this morning when i woke up, i saw it was snowing outside and decided not to go to class. but it was trick snow, its not even cold out. God is funny.

last night, i made mara a cake. i am slowly figuring out that baking is one of my passions and i can't wait for next semester when i get to bake all the freaking time. especially when i am

a)stressed

b)sad/depressed. 

c) there is a special occasion. 

so if you ever want something baked, make me feel like the above and maybe you will benefit. 

anyways, this friday is the 13th. which is also my mom's surprise birthday party, which i am throwing for her. she turned 50 and has no clue what is coming her way. hopefully i will get some great pictures and share them with you lucky people. 

well, i must attend P and D. give kappa a ring and i will answer. 

peace.

birthday maddness.

dear weather.

lets just say this weather is awesome. does that mean that i went out and enjoyed it. nope. sure doesn't. it just made walking to my car 10 times better. 

this past weekend was..a new experience? don't know how i feel about it. 

next weekend=craziness. happy 50th mom, i am sure there will be a post about it. don't think i am talking about my valentines day, because there is nothing fun about that. i don't want to talk about it.

i wish i had something fun to talk about, sorry i don't. 

smooches all.