So, I've been participating in National Novel Writing Month in hopes of writing an entire 50,000 word novel before the end of the month. Today is day 10 and instead of writing this blog post I should be adding words to today's word count. But, I wanted to take a minute to update this blog with an update.

A few months ago this blog transitioned from a sci-fi analysis and fan blog into my personal writing website. A place to send people who are interested in learning about me as a writer. Also, I have hopes of using this blog as a way to keep track of my writing pursuits. I'd still, of course, love to keep it updated with sci-fi stuff, so I think that will continue to be a big portion of what is posted.

I don't own very many movies, but the ones I do own are pretty special to me. I recently made a YouTube video of my movie haul, but I thought I'd post about them here too. So here is a list of my movies with my very short review of each one.

Another semester has come and gone. I actually struggled a lot this past fall which made the semester really difficult. I felt so overwhelmed with the workload and at one point fell super behind in both math and physics. Nevertheless, I did do pretty well in those classes and in my other classes as well. For the spring semester I have signed up for only three classes as a way to give myself a small break and hopefully regain some confidence.

Here's a video of me discussing my fall semester.

oops. The spring semester proved to be hard work and it it certainly evident in the lack of posts on this blog! I started out strong and then around spring break my determination withered away into nothing and I stopped doing homework and started watching a lot of Netflix. As a result, the last few weeks were a tornado of unworked homework assignments and final papers. Now that it is summer, I feel renewed in the sense that school seems like a fun thing again. I can't wait until fall! Anyway, I did pretty well in my classes but not as well in some than what I had hoped for. I made a vlog about my semester which I'm going to post here instead of writing out everything I've already talked about on camera.

This semester has been a lot. I think I'm about half way through as of right now. Most of my classes this semester have two midterms each and I just took the first ones. I'm not too confident in Calculus II and I'm kind of upset about it.

This semester was a pretty good one. I was a bit nervous at the beginning, mostly because I signed up for chemistry and the lab. I may love all things STEM but I've always had difficulties in chemistry. However, I put in a decent amount of studying and ended up doing pretty well.

I also took calculus which I was REALLY nervous about. Calculus is something that is vital for my major and I knew that this semester would be super important in seeing if I actually have what it takes to major in physics. I studied the most for this class and it really payed off. During the semester it felt like a true sacrifice to spend all my weekends and evenings doing practice problem after practice problem... but it was worth it. I consistently aced each exam and understood the topics easier that I had thought. I'm glad I put in the effort and made that foundation quite strong before I move on to the next levels in the math sequence.

Overall it was a great semester and I can't wait to take physics and calc II in the spring!