{"id":212773,"date":"2014-05-06T14:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/06\/im-gonna-talk-about-me-and-school-and-stuff\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:34:44","slug":"im-gonna-talk-about-me-and-school-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/06\/im-gonna-talk-about-me-and-school-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m gonna talk about me, and school and stuff. Below the cut so I don&rsquo;t bore ya&rsquo;ll.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>I flubbed this last school year. I failed spanish (twice!), withdrew from a half-semester because I just wasn&rsquo;t doing anything with it and I think I only got d&rsquo;s in the two film classes I did take. So&hellip;.this year was Not Good in terms of schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m 35. I go to Arizona State University Online because it lets me go to school and still work full time. I know how shitty the job market is, especially without a bachelor&rsquo;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>I had a long conversation yesterday with my school success coach (one of the reasons i like ASU). I changed my major to film and media last fall, and he wanted me to step back and took a look at why I did so poorly this year and what my ultimate goals are.<\/p>\n<p>I told him I want to go into screenwriting because Doctor Who (again) has no female writers. Because I&rsquo;d like the shows and movies I watch to pass the Bechdel Test now and again. And representation is important.<\/p>\n<p>My problem isn&rsquo;t that I can&rsquo;t do the work, it&rsquo;s that i just\u00a0<em>don&rsquo;t<\/em>. I&rsquo;m terrible about getting homework done and in a 7.5 week class that&rsquo;s an impossible situation. I&rsquo;ve always had that problem though, it&rsquo;s why I did so terrible in high school and chose the military after instead of college.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m done now until August. I just have to figure out what I need to do to stay on top of my classes and get stuff done like I need to. I feel like I&rsquo;m failing the responsibility test. I need to figure out how to use my time wisely so I can get the degree, so I can pursue the dream, so I can make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m gonna talk about me, and school and stuff. Below the cut so I don&rsquo;t bore ya&rsquo;ll. I flubbed this last school year. I failed spanish (twice!), withdrew from a half-semester because I just wasn&rsquo;t doing anything with it and I think I only got d&rsquo;s in the two film classes I did take. So&hellip;.this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/06\/im-gonna-talk-about-me-and-school-and-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2317,5447,12647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}