"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, March 8, 2010

Happy Monday

~The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

~Dale Carnegie


Today has been a pretty great day! For a Monday with a lot of tests and stress and homework this week, I was kind of surprised. Though, I have found Mondays aren't too bad because I can get all the easy things on my to-do-list done and by the end of the week the harder things are left-which isn't so fun :)

We reviewed for my Elang. test-which I am so not ready for. I have never spent so much time reading a usage dictionary-something I didn't even know existed until three months ago-I know, kind of sad for an English major. Even worse for an Editing minor (though in my defense, I haven't declared my minor yet...) I was surprisingly calm preparing for and taking my French oral exam and feel like I at least did better than last time! And then I took my French written test. ~sigh~ those are rough. But I am extremely glad I studied the vocabulary, it was very useful.

I loved studying outside! It was so pretty and sunny and chilly (breezy, which is, in my mind better than being really hot). And I could even hear the birds chirping :) I honestly don't know where this good attitude came from but I kind of like it!

Now, on to my hours of studying and reading...
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