Betty White: Thank you for being a friend

Betty White seems to be the attention of everyone on the internet after her AMAZING performance hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. I almost missed it because for the most part, I could care less about SNL at this point unless its a rerun from the old days...when it was actually funny.

If it's not extremely apparent already, our generation can have really bad taste sometime. Is Andy Samberg really a better sketch comedian than Adam Sandler? Or is he just cuter?

Betty White was the funniest person, and by far the oldest, on the cast and stole the show.

My favorite parts:

• The Gingey Skit---like the old grandma in Wedding Crashers that said "he's a homooo!"
• The bit about Facebook in her monologue---"At my age, if I wanna communicate with my old friends, I'll need a Ouiji board!" hahaha and "There was poking, but it wasn't something you did on a computer. It's the kind of thing you did on a hayride...under a blanket..." Come on, admit it, sexual innuendos are ALWAYS funny, and being said by a grandma/grandma-aged woman=hilarious!
• MacGruber---normally I can't stand MacGruber. I didn't love it tonight, but I love that it was the first time I had EVER laughed at one of the skits. Maybe if she's in the movie, I'll see it.

And well, this didn't even have anything to do with Betty White; but the conversation about the error in the DOW was such a shot at how skewed our reality sometimes is.

"Really? When I go to delete a picture on Facebook, it says 'are you sure?' Is Facebook really more squared away than the DOW?"

"And really, one guy can do a million dollar transaction without it being approved by a manager but when I try to use a $50 at Starbucks it turns in to a 4 man operation?"

Hilarious.

For more of her best moments this weekend, check these out

And apparently, there are some unaired skits. I can't wait to watch them, but I'm making myself be productive and check it in the morning.

And then watch Golden Girls.

Thank you for being a friend!!!! :P

Five for Friday: Misc.

I'm trying to start this thing back up. Please let me be successful this time!
I'm going to keep this brief since I'm home for the weekend to unwind and am ready to get in bed already :)

With finals coming up (if you're not already done the semester...see this rant), maybe I should come up with 5 useful things to do this time of year.

1. Flashcards
I have always had belief in flashcards, but didn't use them personally much until I started taking Spanish again. I was starting out in an intermediate-level class but had forgotten a lot of vocabulary from high school (and don't get me started on grammar!) and now they are my key to studying. What was hard was keeping them organized by unit/topic while still picking out which words I still needed to learn. I bought a binder ring and punched a single hole in the corner of EVERY card so I could loop them through. It was so tedious and annoying! But alas, when I went to buy more index cards at the university bookstore, I found they now sold packs with the hole already punch and in a binder ring! SO happy! I'm also happy about the A that I got on my last Spanish test that I thought I would get a B- or C on. I didn't think I did well because I was so confused with the grammar topics and knew I would get a lot of points off in those sections. So what did I do? I took those flashcards everywhere with me! And they didn't get messy or lost or disorganized. So I was able to study my vocab inside and out and didn't get a single point taken off in the vocab sections of the test! I've found my new secret weapon, try it for yourself!

2. Color-coding

I know that I'm OCD and anal-retentive and a big nerd, but this can actually be useful. Here's some more about my Spanish class (these 2 items make me sound like a much better student than I actually am...). The flashcards for that last test? I wrote them all in blue pen. And the chapter outline I typed up? I made the font as close as I could to the color of the pen's ink, then just bolded it so that it was still easy to read. When I start going back to the material from earlier in the semester, I have 3 more colored pens (for the other three chapters that will be on the final!) When you have notes and books for every single class scattered across a table at the library that you practically live in, this nit-pickiness will come in handy! Plus...your notes and study guides will be cute!

3. Don't cram!

This one I'm good at, but probably only because I have a short attention span. Tons of sources say not to stay on one subject for too long, because you will just get bored with it (because it's not already boring?) But really, there comes a point where it's more productive to let it go. Have you ever had that feeling..."The more I study, the less I seem to know?" Well, now you know why. After a few hours of math, take a break from numbers and work on your English paper. Don't forget to walk around for 15 minutes or so in between so that you don't get too restless! Who knows...you might find a cute stranger or the cutie in the class that always seems to know all the answers. Bonus!

4. Utilize Others

It's only cheating if you get help from other people on the actual exam. Talking things out with a classmate can really help, especially with classes concerning concepts and ideas rather than facts. There are also a lot of sites out there now that can help you study without compromising your morals. Studyblue and GradeGuru are the two that I have accounts with. On both web sites users can upload notes and other study materials and file them away in to the expansive world of cyberspace. When you sign up, you enter your school and can then browse notes by class, professor, or department. Someone at my school also created a Facebook App called "Classes Connection" that can help you find the Facebook pages of your classmates to communicate with each other. Lastly, check out all that the library really has to offer. My school's library has a reserve room where professors can file old exams. The ONLY reason I passed my two semesters of chemistry was because my professor made the answer keys to the previous semester's exams in the library and online when you logged in with your student ID. Most professors probably change the exam more from year to year, but it will still help. But this guy used the same questions just changing numbers and elements etc. But the process to solve the questions (i.e. what formula to use and how to use it) was exactly the same, and that's the hardest part to figure out.

5. Sleep. Nuff said.

Summer? Why are you already here, but only for some?

One friend of mine is anxiously waiting his semester grades.  Another has moved into her campus's library for the week, after which she will be moving home.  A third is already in Israel!  But me?  I'll be here for almost another month. A MONTH!

Why do schools differ so much in schedules?  There's quarters, trimesters, winter sessions, some of which I don't even understand!  I like semesters...nice and simple.  And you know then when you're home that you're friends are too instead of being by yourself and bored out of your mind!

I'm one of those bored, lonely girls on my breaks.  My school has a "winter session"/mimi-mester for the month of January where you can take 1 or 2 classes...or have a winter break that lasts until February 8.  That sounded pretty nice to me at first, so freshman year it's what I planned to do.  But by New Years, I came to my senses.  What was I going to do for a whole month?!  I signed up for a class at community college to transfer over, and I still had WAY too much free time.  This year, I stayed at school to take one class (which I can't afford to do again) and worked 20 hours a week.  I liked it.  I was still by myself because even though a lot of students stay on campus for the session, none of my friends did.  But I LOVED the independence and "me"-time.  I actually went to the gym EVERY day, studied a lot, and kept my apartment clean.  NONE of that happens during regular semesters.

For a month, I was really happy with my school's unique schedule.  That is over now.

I want to be done!  These last weeks are dragging by like molasses (sorry for talking like an 80-year-0ld).  Summer is like a mirage...it looks close but when I think I'm there it's gone!  Like that Rugrats episode where they're stranded in the "dessert" (a playground basketball court)