Grüp Projects

I hate group projects! The composition of a group is irrelevant, and my case is simple. Even a group with great friends still requires orchestrating schedules and allocating work, neither of which is ever readily possible. This week I had an Arabic presentation with another student (we met 15 minutes before class over breakfast), a political geography presentation to “Fix Iraq” (9 hours over two days with a group),  and today I met with a discussion-leading group for my WAGS course.

I just lost momentum on that rant, but the bottom line is I’m tired of group work. Beyond that, I have papers and presentations and finals galore marching up to greet me in rapid succession. From this Saturday the 26th I have 2 weeks of class and a week after that of finals before summer break. The amount of work that I have to fit into those three weeks is absurd, so I try not to think about it too much. Instead, I just look at what’s right in front of me. The next fun is a 10-page paper about border conflicts. After a hellish group project, it’s comforting to know that at the very least I will be able to just sit at a desk for endless hours and crank out a paper on my own terms. So in that respect this big paper seems a little more doable. And that’s the only assignment I’m going to mention because, in my new state of mind, that’s the only assignment I’m aware of! Ignorance is bliss!

Extra-academic activities this week were plentiful. The Mamajamas performed on Tuesday night for the accepted students evening, to much acclaim. We choreographed silly hip hop dance moves to “Baby When The Lights Go Out” and the crowd loved it. My prospie that evening was Tim (the successor of Tom!) who had already committed to Midd, so my job was easy. He was nice, but due to my orgy of work I was unable to spend much time with him, so I wasn’t as well acquainted with him as I was with Tom.

The Mamajamas also performed tonight at Relay For Life! I can’t believe it’s already been a year. I meant to help out organizing this Relay, and then I meant to be on a team, and then I meant to donate, but instead I didn’t do anything. Time seems to have given me and my restricted attention the slip. At any rate, the show was awesome. We premiered “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles, which was my first Mamajama arrangement. It was also Ali’s first solo and she brought the house down, it went really well and it was nice to have that musically rewarding / fulfilling feeling again.

After that I went to watch Sweeney Todd on campus. Shudder! Good movie, weirdo though. Now I’m hitting the sack to wake up at nine for four hours of bookstore work.