my opinion matters

Okay, so I was wrong before about the site for the reserach blog for my class. The actual blog is here http://www.daytonstories.org/childhood/ - enjoy! It’s apparently a group blog where all six members of my group will be posting their research progress. Sounds cool enough. Tomorrow I’m going to try and get to the archives on campus to do some actual research that will actually count for something – here’s hoping. So far the quarter seems like it will be fairly easy – I’ve pretty much picked my topic for my 700 paper, which is the thing I was the most stressed about. I’m going to keep up with my research on the pledge of allegiance and the addition of the words “under god” – I used to hoenstly believe that it didn’t matter what you wrote a paper about as long as you got it done and got an A. I now know that you won’t be motivated to do ANYthing for a paper or a class if you aren’t at least a little excited about the subject – and I am DEFinitely excited about this. I’m hoping to do so

So winter classes started yesterday and I’ve already had two classes: Family & Gender in Modern American History (the one I need the blog for) and Museum Administration & Collections. Tonight I have Historical Methods from 6-935. I always think those classes are a good idea and I swear I always regret it. But ah well, if I’m going to graduate at the end of the summer I have to take whatever’s offered whenever it meets. It’s okay so far – lots of papers, same as usual. The only thing I’m not looking forward to is the exams – I honestly believe that graduate students shouldn’t have to take exams. But whatever. I do what is asked so I can get my diploma, which is really all that matters at this point. In fact, I have some reading to do for tomorrow’s class – it’s a mixed undergrad/grad class (the family & gender one) and I feel bad for the undergrads because it’s more work than most 400 level history classes at Wright State – well… not really, but it seems that way, anyway. I