A busy week

The past few days have been crazy busy for me. On Monday I had to write a response to a hypothetical situation. It was pretty difficult because the hypothetical situation was complicated and tugged at both my brain and my heart.
On Tuesday I had a midterm for my abnormal psychology class. I didn’t really study for that test. I just did the review and read it over once or twice. It wasn’t to hard which was good. I probably got a B on it. After we finished the test we had to wait for everyone in our groups to finish so we could discuss our powerpoint presentations that are due in a little over a week. I found out that my group is not the only one who hasn’t done shit. You are meeting on Thursday to work on it so hopefully we will finish it.
On Wednesday I had my speech class. we didn’t really do anything but takes notes about friendships. What makes a healthy friendship, how to end toxic friendships etc. We watched a few clips from the show Seinfeld. We also discussed our upcoming term papers that are due in a few weeks. The one I am doing is about friendships and how they vary. I have to watch several movies and use those as examples along with professional journals.
Today I had my philosophy class. We watched Star Trek. It was the episode about Data and wether or not he had a right to make his own choices. I am not a fan of Star Trek but it was a pretty good episode. When then applied it to what we were discussing.
Ok well now I am done with classes for the week that means my spring break has started woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Birthday, Precious, and Midterm

So Tuesday was my birthday! I can honestly say that I do not feel any older but when I think about it I can’t believe I am 20 years old. I am no longer a teenager!
Since it was my birthday I decided to skip class, it wasn’t a big deal because we were just watching a movie that I have already seen. Around 5pm my grandparents came over and we had cake and ice cream. Nothing big because we still are going to celebrate over the weekend. I didn’t get to see my mom that day but she did have flowers delivered to me, they were very pretty.

Yesterday I had to go to my speech class. I filmed my drive to school because I made a deal with some other people to do it. It was a pain in the butt to rig my camera to stay attached to my passenger head rest. But it came out alright I think.

When I got to class we found out we were watching the movie Precious. I wasn’t looking forward to watching it because I have always been the type to cry during sad movies. To my surprise I only welled up twice. If I was home alone I probably would have full on cried like baby lol. I have to say it was a really good movie and was very intense. The scenes between mom and daughter had me on edge and scared of what might happen. Of course we have to do an assignment about it. I think it is going to be about the communication between Precious and her mom.

Today I have a philosophy midterm. I have to say school is kind of kicking my butt. I am sooo tired and my brain is overloaded.

Explaining bad behavior

Yesterday in my speech class we had to write a journal about attributional patterns and how we explain the disappointing behavior of our friends compared to how we explain the behavior of someone we don’t like.
I personally often dismiss the bad behavior of a friend by saying something like “oh, she is having a bad day or week”. While with someone I dislike I contribute their behavior to them just being mean people. I believe I do this because I want to see the best in my friends. I am the one who picked these people as my friends, if they are mean people then what does that say about me.
When someone I do not really care for does something that is mean, disappointing or cruel than I usually say it is because that person is just a bad/mean person. I think people do this because we want to justify not liking someone. It is a lot easier to not like a person when we actually have a reason to dislike them. It is also a lot easier to say negative things about people we don’t like or even know. For instance, we see someone speeding down the street. Most people just assume they are speeding because they are impatient and have no regard for the safety of others. However, if a friend of ours is speeding somewhere then we are more likely to say something along the lines of “oh, she must have an emergency” or something like that. When it is people we care about we are pretty much willing to make up any excuse possible to make them look good.