Is it even luck?

I don't know that that's what I'd call it.

Regardless, I just got out of my Media Writing Final....yes the course I loathe the most, which I found hysterical cause my Cult. Diversity prof continually encouraged me to take a course like that or become a journalist.

So, because I loathe this class, and make absolutely no effort whatsoever, I wasn't surprised to find myself let's say, a little more than lacking, the motivation to study for this final. My procrastination actually steam-rolled right over my intent to study, and I didn't. At all.

Even after I got out of my Cultural Diversity class (which was awesome btw, I love that teacher, we got pizza for lunch during break. Imo's..mmmm) and had an hour to spare. I got on Myspace, checked some e-mail, but did not study. I just told myself, whatever, there's not much to study about how to write. You're told to do it, and you do. That's how it goes. Besides, I figured I'm already gonna fail this class, at least I know that by showing up and taking the final I'll get a much better grade than if I just completely skipped it.

An idea that I actually entertained, if only in my head, for a few seconds.

But after writing my final project this morning in about an hour this morning before class(it was supposed to be a feature article with 2 sources, and due to lack of time, and simply interest, I decided to write an Op.Ed. piece about whatever the hell I wanted to write about), I decided that was enough avoidance of the class, and so it was that I found myself sitting in front of a computer (we were in a lab for the final and just had to write 3 assignments given to us, and print them out for the teacher right there)at 2:00 for my Media Writing Final.

Surprisingly I was much more interested in the crap we had to write for the exam than anything all year, and one of the assignments was a Press Release for the December Calendar of the Webster Film Series, which contained (nearly) all movies that I had seen, so it was effortless to add in some sparkling descriptives and just enough hook to make the movies seem interesting (even if they weren't) to get readers to come. The rest came along okay, although I felt like I was going to fall asleep near the end, writing my own final.

And on the way out, the teacher handed us back a bunch of the assignments throughout the year, including the Final Project that we turned in at the beginning of class--he'd gotten mine graded. I was like, hmmm, do I even wanna look?

Well, whattya know, that S.O.B. gave me a B! His comments consisted of telling me it was a difficult grading situation because, although he thinks it would make a great commentary piece (cause it is) for the Journal, and in fact encourages me to send it in to them, it doesn't have all the ingredients for a feature approach, includind 2 sources (which I knew I didn't include anyways). What the hell is that about? I even purposely do the assignment wrong and I get a B?

Which I was really excited about, untill I read the grades back from the rest of my crappy articles all year to find out I had A's and A-'s...then I was like, dammit he shoulda gave me an A on my final project then!

Alas, maybe I won't flunk this course after all. In fact, I'm actually considering doing the extra credit to make up for the articles I simply never turned in.

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