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Finals week 2012, or a Chiara Ferrari rant.

it's that time of the semsester & hopefully I'll do alright.

My next final can be taken anytime between now & my birthday.
I don't know how I did on my research paper, My Little Brony, but Bowser seemed to be approving. She was nice to me as I handed it to her. Well, unless I fail my portfolio review (next semester) I won't have to worry about taking classes with her again. I hope she leaves for a few years. I've discovered something, when she's not teaching, she's nice. But if you're her student... She is the equivilant of Bowser from Super Mario Brothers. During the semester my new friend Chris & I started calling her Bowser. it's better to just call her that. Unfortunantly, she is the one teacher whose subject matter finds its yes, ms Ferrari I did NOT misuse the apostrophe. -.-;;*sigh*  way into my research paper on Foundation by Issac Asimov.  

 I'm just having a bit of trouble finding out exactly what Dr. Asimov's thesis is. From what I've read, ONLY THE FIRST BOOK OF THE TRILOGY, The future can be predicted yet the accuracy of that prediction cannot be 100%, also for every crisis there is but one and only one solution.

Foundation is a social political or soft sci fi, space opera novel. It's a really good read
Hari Seldon, the inventor of Psychohistory, reminds me a lot of a human version of Ambassador Sarek, Spock's Vulcan father.

It's in the mannerisims he uses when discussing future-to-him events in the holographic projections set to play at certain times during the millennia of chaos he predicted.

12/18/12

Took the final for Sci-fi this afternoon, so technically all I have left to do is finish up this blasted paper and then I'm done!!!

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