Finals AND a wedding? (Morasa S.)

It's bad enough that finals put so much stress on college students, but in addition to that stress, my cousin's wedding date that has been planned for over a year now has fallen right in the middle on my finals. On Saturday May 9th is his wedding and I have a math final the day before and a chemistry final the day of! I'm not quite sure how I'll have time to take my exam saturday morning and take a 4 hour trip back home and try to look descent enough for the night. I guess that's the consequence of being a biochemistry major and deciding to go to school 4 hours away from home. To be honest, I would rather just do really well on my exams more than anything else.

They Say, I Say Chapter 5 Exercise 1 (Morasa S.)

Julie Charlip refers to the views of others in the excerpt and distinguishes her views from theirs in particular ways. She begins by quoting Marx and Engels that "Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other--the bourgeoisie and the proletariat." She voices her own opinion by stating, "If only this were true," in which she uses the technique of stating one viewpoint and disagreeing with using her own view. The passage then switches to where Charlip mentions that she asked a sociology professor his thoughts on the shrinking middle class. In this second instance, however, she does not immediately follow the professor's answer with her own opinion. Rather, she proposes a series of questions to get the reader thinking. Following the questions, she makes a general claim of what many Americans, and even her father would think of those situations. The passage is concluded with her own voice that she "always felt that we were in some no man's land, suspended between classes, sharing similarities with some and recognizing sharp, exclusionary differences from others." Charlip uses the technique of stating the views of others and then proclaiming her own.