"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


Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Small Talk

~Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worth while achievement.
~Henry Ford

Well, with two papers to finish tonight, I don't really have much creative-ness to put into this :) Sad day, I know. My one research paper's rough draft was due Tuesday...until I walked into class and found out it wasn't. They really need to do something about teacher's emails not going through. So, it's due tomorrow. And while I was grateful for more time, I didn't use it. And now it's almost eleven and I'm starting on those last three pages...and organizing and bs-ing so it sounds good enough :P

I do have to say, I was never really aware of how much of a blessing small talk is. I realize this kind of contradicts my last post, but it's more like, starting to talk about the assignment for class and ending up talking about more important things (or less, depending on how you look at it-things that actually pertain to life though). Like after French today, I was helping a girl in my class figure out what quizzes she needed to find and we ended up talking for forty-five minutes.

I'm generally so stuck on my schedule and doing what I'm supposed to, when I'm supposed to, that it's nice to get a break from my everyday routine. Things like study groups and that half hour of French speaking each week and getting together with my study abroad group... wow, all of those things have to do with French. Haha, I guess French is really good for me :)

Geez, I feel like I just ramble with no organization on here... maybe I'm saving it for my essays...

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