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Smart Kids

Posted By Twyla on April 7, 2008 @ 9:13 am

I spent the entire weekend marking book reports written by my fifth grade students. They all did amazingly well and I am proud to be their teacher. I usually have a handful of really smart students each year, but this year they are all so smart that it is more of a challenge keeping up with them than having them keep up with me.

These kids are so brilliant that they could probably write an admission essay already to get into college. I have a really tough time trying to come up with homework to give them as they finish their work so quickly. I have started incorporating a lot more fun and hands on activities into the lessons to drag them out a little bit longer.

It is kind of funny because I was just reading a custom essay about children being smarter if they are not the first in the family. The funny thing is that none of my students are the first born in a family, so maybe there is some truth to this research after all. I never would have believed it before this point.




Easing My Way through College

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 5, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

Most college students just burn themselves out with all of the dissertation writing and assignments that they have to do.  Quite a few of the students end up dropping out and even though they don’t get a degree, and they still have to pay the tuition for the courses that they didn’t finish.

I always told myself that when I went to college I wouldn’t become a student like that.  In fact I had a game plan in place that would allow me to do some of my work and buy research papers if I felt too overwhelmed with the workload.  I thought this would be the easiest way to ensure that I would be able to finish my college degree and not go crazy in the process.

I was even able to find a company that sold custom research papers at a reasonable rate and using the correct dialect of English.  They were very good, and their writing style was very similar to my own so you couldn’t tell which papers I wrote from the ones I bought.

By buying the occasional essay, I kept my stress level down, and eased my way through college.




Being Honest in the End

Posted By Twyla on April 4, 2008 @ 5:33 am

During my first year of law school we were given a huge assignment to write a law essay that was going to take up a whole semester.  I was a little bit scared as I knew I would not have time to make a great because I also had a family to support and a mortgage to pay.

I looked into buying a great custom essay in handing the same as my own work.  I will have to admit that this was one of my low point in life and that although I am a lawyer, I am really not a dishonest person.

I did end up buying this essay, but it appeared to be more of a history essay than what I was looking for.  I threw it in the garbage and got busy writing my own.  In the end, it may not have been great, but it was good enough and that’s all that counts.




Going Back Ten Years Later

Posted By Twyla on April 3, 2008 @ 12:34 pm

I never actually thought that I would be in college. It is not a big thing in our family for someone to further their education past high school and my parents could never afford to send us anyway. But, here I am, twenty-seven years old and working on my very first college termpaper.

I decided that I would get student loans and go to school. My life was going absolutely nowhere and I had good grades in high school. I know the right thing for me to do was to go to college. In high school, I actually enjoyed writing research papers and I really missed the classroom setting.

I am excited about all of the term papers that I have coming up and I spend most of my time in the library. I really feel as though my life has a purpose again, and even though my parents are not impressed with my decision, I will make them proud in the end. I will be the first in my family with a University degree.




My Success is in the Name

Posted By Misty Mountain on March 24, 2008 @ 10:58 pm

For many years now, I have tried to learn how to play a musical instrument - any instrument - with little success.  Even something as simple as playing the recorder back in grade eight was a chore for me and was the reason that I failed band.

But the one thing that has remained constant is my willingness to try, try, and try again.  I don’t know how many different lessons and teachers that I have had over the years that have tried to help me play an instrument, but it has just been way too many.  So many in fact, that many times I have considered giving up, but I have continued to persevere on.

That is why today, everything seemed to come together in one fell swoop.  You see, while searching online, I came across the learn & master the piano course website.  There they promised a revolutionary method that would help even hopeless people like me learn how to play piano.

Well, it is worth a shot right?  I figure that based on the name, I am destined to succeed - I guess time will prove if I am right.




Knowing My Subject

Posted By Twyla on @ 11:28 am

I was studying the effects of hypnotism for a paper that I was writing for my psychology class. For my research, I decided that I would get myself hypnotized so that I would know exactly what it felt like and therefore, know more about what I was writing.

I decided to do a search on the Internet to get more information and was pleased when I found a hypnosis London website that had all of the information I was looking for. I decided that I would try and contact them and see if I could ask them a few questions for my research. They were very cooperative and I was glad that I had tried.

I looked through the yellow pages and found a local hypnotist. He agreed to hypnotize me for free and also let me do an interview for the sake of research. I did very well on the essay and the professor said he was impressed with the effort I put into know what I was writing about.




Cutting Corners for English Class

Posted By Misty Mountain on March 15, 2008 @ 7:48 am

I ran into a buddy of mine that I went to college with many years ago in a restaurant last night.  In fact, it turns out that he was the restaurant manager.  He had some time that he could sit down and talk so we caught up, but I had to ask him a question:

“What happened to you?”

You see, he was there until the third year and then he just disappeared half way through the term.  No warning and no goodbyes.  Up until yesterday I had wondered what happened, and I was finally able to get some answers.

He told me that he used to order custom written essays from a guy he knew in his dorm.  He paid the guy to write him unique book reports for him because he didn’t have time to write them himself.

Things were going great for him until the college found out that he would buy term papers.  At that point he was promptly expelled from college - and that was how he ended up in the restaurant business.

Finally the mystery was solved.




South Carolina Has the Perfect School For Me

Posted By Misty Mountain on March 14, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

With so many people getting excited about going to school, you would think that I would have the same sort of fever, right?

Well, not exactly.  You see, I am looking to go to summer school this year, but I won’t be hitting the books, I’ll be hitting the greens.

That’s right, I am going to Golf School.

Specifically, I am going to attend a South Carolina Golf School where I will be able to rub shoulders with some of the pros.  I am hoping that the golf instruction that I receive there will benefit me and lead to a win in the tournament that I entered in August.

So, no books for me, no college exams, and no headaches from studying for me this summer.  Instead I will be enjoying the sun and nature each day of class.  But, there is still a few months before I go to school and I bet it will be the most enjoyable learning experience I ever have.




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