"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, February 9, 2011

Take Home Tests

~Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
~R.H. Heinlein

I have, laying on my desk, the first tri-term test for my American Literary History class. It is killing me.

It's a take home test that I haven't even begun to study for. I've been trying to catch everything else up! The whole idea of a take home test is interesting to me. Because it's all based on honesty and trust. I read the instructions and after I type up and print out the test I am to handwrite on the bottom of the last page that as a student at BYU I did it honestly, etc...

And it's not that I want to cheat. It's just this urge to flip through the packet. I might have to hide it from myself until I do it tomorrow or Friday! But it's like a bomb sitting there. Watching me. I don't know. Our teacher told us about a student who got the test one time and started flipping through it right in front of him. Haha, they said it's cuz they weren't listening. I would have done it out of... not habit... that's just what you do when you get a packet :)

Anyway, off to read for my British lit rolling final tomorrow. And the nightly homework. And the ten minute presentation I have next week. Not liking that class so much...

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