"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

Friday, February 11, 2011

Is that really necessary?

~No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
~Thomas Carlyle

One test down, one to go!

I just finished my American Literary History take-home test :) It was pretty much horrible. I have to say the best thing was that my teacher is making our first exam (this one) worth half as much as the next two. WONDERFUL idea. Because you never really know what to expect on the first one :)

I just have such a hard time memorizing authors and the title of their papers and poems and pamphlets and articles, let alone knowing what sentence came from what. Really? Is that really necessary? I struggled in British lit last year because of this. Oh well, I'm not a test taker anyway :P

Now I'm off to eat lunch and study for my D&C test-another of those where I have to know who received what revelation in what town and why... based on the section number. Maybe I have the wrong idea of what life is like but won't I be able to look things up? Have to give a scripture in Relief Society and forgot my scriptures and no one else has them... no worries, I know Emma received the revelation in section 25 about blah blah blah! Haha, I don't even know if I remembered that right! And I think I'll be allowed to use a usage dictionary as an editor. Haha, if I have to remember all that crap I swear I'll die!
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