Winding down...

I love how the closer I get to the end of school year, the more stressed out I get.
It's getting hectic. In my classes, the library...the cafe.
We always face this rough decision-making process in ordering. We want to order more because we know we're going to get slammed the week(end) before finals, but we also don't want to over order because we don't know whether we'll be open during the summer to sell everything before it expires. And Mr. Peet has a standard that dictates the shelf-life of our beans (here's a hint: it isn't that long).

Siiigh.

I made the decision before Spring Break that for my final paper in 343 I'd write outside of my comfort zone because it was probably the last chance I would get to do so, (I'm taking pre-cap next semester. Everything I write about next school year will in some way benefit my capstone. It's just how it is.) So I chose to write about multiculturalism in education and where and how it should be implemented. BIG FAIL. I'm not interested in education, for one, if it applies to anyone under the age of 18. And I really don't care about researching why multiculturalism isn't applied to curriculum earlier. I mean, it is, but it's applied...superficially. Regardless, it was a headache and one-half.
Last night I made the decision to quit the paper and choose a new topic. My professor, thank God, agreed that I was torturing myself and allowed me to switch topics. Now I'm researching how media and Hollywood (mainly Hollywood) have created an image (construction) of inmates in the state of California and how this has effected their reception by society in CA - specifically in how legislation is created and how prisoners are treated.

Word.


....and yes, I'll probably be using the Stanford prison experiment. Go Zimbardo.