Almost done

It's finals week! I took my econ final on Monday. I think I did pretty good, but won't know until probably next week. I finished the test in just under an hour and was the second one done. Whatever that means. I am pretty confident of getting an "A" in this class though. A lot of people I've talked to don't seem to like economics very much. I thought it was interesting. But I think most things that I don't know are interesting. Funny how that works. I even got a book from the library about economics ("Freakonomics") and am reading it now. It's more about incentives and the things people do to get what they want (most of the methods covered are illegal). During the second to last class, we had a guest speaker. He talked mainly about Henry George and the Georgist theory of economics. Very, very interesting, especially his view on taxes. I'm now contemplating reading George's book "Progress and Poverty".

I am so glad that I'm done with my speech class. I still hate public speaking, but I'm probably better at it than I was before this class. The last impromptu speech turned out to be pretty easy. She gave us each three topics, two of which were based on out other speeches, and one that was a random topic. We had about 2 or 3 minutes to prepare and then give a 2 to 4 minute speech. My topics were: cars, motorcycles, USA. I combined cars and motorcycles and talked about the different costs between the two (gas, new purchase, insurance, and maintenance). It was really easy to do more than two minutes. I also got a much better grade on the previous speech (commemorative) than I thought I would. I'm positive I got an "A" in this class.

Tomorrow is my last scholarship class. I already know I got an "A" in the writing class and don't even have to show up. I'm also confident that I got an "A" in the other one, and only have one last assignment - goals presentation. I don't think I would have to do the assignment, or even have to show up, to still get an "A", but we turned in our notebooks last week so the instructor could grade them and I want to get it back.

I wish I could stop stressing out so much about my grades. I seem to do just fine, and frequently better than I thought I would. If I could just relax a little more I think it would help me a lot.

I have a three week break until the next term starts. I'm signed up for 13 credits and am having a hard time not signing up for another class. Maybe I will try to get in a one credit PE class or something.