Fuck this shit.
Organizing Your Outline
Once you have determined all the important topics to use in the paper, it becomes time to decide in what order you will present the topics. It is best to start with very broad or general topics, working down to very specific topics. Most topics will have subtopics embedded within them. You will also need to think of how you will make the transition between topics. As you are ordering the topic cards, think of how you will explain the transitions and note these ideas.Once you have determined all the topics that your paper will address and have organized them in a sequential order, it is time to build the outline. Just like your paper, your outline needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the beginning your task is to orient the reader to what is going to be presented. General statements are needed telling the reader what will be said and how it is organized. Without these general statements of what is to follow, the reader may become lost. In the middle, which is the majority of the outline and paper, your task is to present the information to the reader. In the end, your tasks are to summarize the main points and arguments that have been presented and state any final conclusions.
It is important to organize your topics thematically. In other words, cluster topics of a similar theme together. This helps the reader follow your argument. For example, a paper discussing consumer decision making might have the following major themes: 1. The normative rules of consumer behavior; 2. The descriptive theories of consumer behavior; 3. Reasons why consumer behavior deviates from the normative rules; 4. Implications of these deviations; 5. Ways to improve consumer decision making; 6. Conclusions. Within each of these major divisions, you will have several sub-themes.
I am so angry right now.
I do this all the fucking time, and guess what? It’s called PLANNING. I’ve done it ever since I was 14, and I have my own way of jotting things down and organizing my thoughts.
Secondly, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU MICROMANAGING ME ON PLANNING?
WHY DO I NEED TO HAND IN A FUCKING PAPER ON PLANNING THE WAY YOU WANT TO FUCKING SEE IT? Why the FUCK would I need to make my planning typed out in complete fucking sentences in font size 12 Times New Roman double spaced and all that fucking shit? I DON’T FUCKING TYPE OUT PLANS THAT CONSUME 48 HOURS OF MY TIME. That’s for writing the FUCKING PAPER!
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT ME TO HATE THIS COURSE MORE THAN I SHOULD BE?
12 hours before the exam is not a good thing
p(depressed|+ test) = p(+ test|depr) p (depr)________________
p(+ test|depr) p (depr) + p(+ test|not depr)p(not depr)
… WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS
Stream of Consciousness
I want to play Wrath of the Lich King so bad right now 
I’ve already reserved my name for my Night Elf Death Knight - Khall, except that some stupid dwarf hunter stole it, so now I have to put a funny looking ‘a’ in place of it. I guess it was either her or Raphaeis, since Elera is a holy pally, I thought her boyfriend being a DEATHKNIGHTZOMG was a really nice contrast to the relationship. But once I saw that frost was the way to go for DK tanking, Khall was the perfect choice, really. She’s always been the wielder of ice and death in my head, and for her to be a frost mage (wearing cloth!) didn’t seem to be a fit for her brash and hardy personality.
… Yeah, I don’t think that made any sense to y’all at all. xD Yes, I have 15 defined characters in a fantasy setting in my head ever since I was 14, and I just applied their personalities into WoW. It’s nice to see my characters take a visual form, at least, since my ‘novel’ is pretty much in bits and pieces of visual imagery, rather than a cohesive story. I still think Viri is my favorite character though - she’s so bubbly!
I had Wrath delivered to my aunt’s house, because I sure as hell don’t want to wander into ghetto territory to pick it up, so I can’t play until I visit her on the weekend.
In other news, Disneyfied.net now has a forum! I think after what, a year since that DD fiasco has passed, it might be time for a fresh attempt. 
Go go go and join!
Midterm for Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making tomorrow, and I hate that course with the very depths of my soul. I don’t know if it’s worth putting in effort for this course anymore; I’m just so disillusioned with it. It doesn’t quite help that this is an honors course either, plus I bluffed my way through the last assignment that we did - it’s really not helping that the brief I offered has really nothing to expand on for a 12 page research paper.
H508
I do not like Psych H508. The structure of the course is very much the opposite of what I prefer to do in Psychology.
1. It has math and statistics. The more you throw numbers at me, the more likely I’m going to disengage. To answer your question, yes, I have never read the results proper in any research article I’ve studied throughout my 3 years in university so far.
2. It has details. I’m a very “big picture” type of person, and going into excruciating detail about your experimental methods and types of tests to administer and then giving me an assignment to figure out what the independent/dependent variables are is not the way I work. I like to see discussions and implications thereafter and talk about them.
And these both leads to:
3. Clashing with the professor himself. What he asks for (and clearly prefers) is detail and statistics, both of which I am unable to procure effectively.
His lecture is slide after slide of graphs and tables and statistics, and - all the power to those who love math - I really can’t concentrate during that class. I’m just completely uninterested. Tell me what the definitions are, what they do, what controversy arises and I’m good! Don’t stick my face in numbers.
I know I’m not going to do well on this class, and I’m pretty prepared for it. I really am making an effort, but it’s just… excruciating to do this class. There’s just too much effort put into this one, especially since this is an area of psychology (conducting research, specifically) that I will never delve into.
ETA: Not to fucking mention that this is not the way I do research when I’m writing a paper. I look for the topic I want to write about first before going on a wild goose chase on articles. That way, I KNOW they’ll be relevant.
Goddammit.
I’m just honestly so close to dropping this course, I hate it so much right now.
ETA 2: It’s 5 in the fucking morning, and I’m two sentences away from being done. I have another damn midterm this afternoon, and goddammit, I would’ve studied for that if not for this fucking research paper (wtf, it’s not even the actual research paper - it’s an annotated bibliography and a summary) that ate away 8 hours of my life.
Boring boring boring
Nothing much has happened the past few days to warrant blogging, if you count attempting to read the original libretto of Don Giovanni (and wishing you knew Italian) instead of studying for the Behavioural Neuroscience exam tomorrow. And also, RPing.
Um…
Okay, Psychology fun fact time.
There’s this pathway in your head that’s called the Ventral Tegmental Area, where it control the sensations you feel when you get rewarded. Basically it’s an enormous feeling of pleasure. Or feeling like you’ve got an orgasm, or something.
Experiments have been done on rats that stick a little electrode in that area of the brain, so when activated, the rat feels pleasure. This activation is in the form of pressing a bar in the rat’s cage, and the rat is conditioned to press the bar.
This feeling is so pleasurable that rats will push the bar until they drop from exhaustion. Lactating female rats will neglect their offspring in favour of pushing the bar, even while her offspring screech in the background. Rats are even willing to cross an electrified field in order to get to the bar, just to activate that pleasure sensation.
Yes kids, that, in humans, is called addiction. So don’t do drugs. Chances are you’ll never stop.
(Alternatively, you can just have an electrode planted in your brain and you’ll never stop pushing the button. Whichever.)
Blah blah blaaaahh
I’ve been suspecting that I have delayed sleep phase syndrome, where my body clock doesn’t exactly like to go to sleep at 11pm, but I instantly fall asleep during the afternoon. It’s a horrendously annoying thing, especially during schooltime, where afternoon classes are the norm. Without some caffeine I can’t function in the afternoon, and sometimes caffeine doesn’t work too.
I’ve been trying out chronotherapy, so I’m extending my bedtime by two hours every day until the 11pm desired bedtime is reached. As of now, my bedtime’s 12pm in the afternoon… I have another 11 hours to go. Hopefully this’ll get my body clock functioning on US time.
Some time ago I asked if winter was really that bad. The answer is a resounding YES. There is a maximum of 6 hours of daylight on any given day, and you can bet that 5 of those 6 hours will be cloudy. You don’t see any sun at all, and it is, surprisingly, rather depressing. I remember reading up on seasonal affective disorder in NUS, where it states that some people get depressed during the winter because there isn’t enough sunlight, and I thought it was a whole realm of weird. But HEY, it’s true! WAO.
I don’t think I’m actually seriously down or anything, but it does sullen your mood a little, and you don’t really have much motivation to go outside. Not to mention that since I’m trying to change my sleeping schedule, I wind up sleeping through the sunny bits of the day, and I’m faced with pitch black outside for the next 16 hours.
I’ve been wasting my time slugging away on Kingdom Hearts, hoping to finish that game as soon as possible. Oh right, and art update (CS3 performs so much better on my computer than CS2 did). I’m still not getting hair at all, and I haven’t finished detailing the waves… although I think they look kinda fake and nothing can save it. But still! IMPROVING. EVERYONE SAID SO.
I think it’s kinda awesome to see works in progress. It’s fun to see where you started and how you’ve been trodding along so far. ^^ Let me show you it.
Original, Sketch 1, Sketch 2, and Sketch 3.
And most recent WIP:
