Today started off just like any normal day at sea. Waking up for breakfast and then heading to classes.

Global studies was uninteresting today, and everyone was too focused on studying for the midterm in that class. Since everyone on the ship is in that class, they do the testing very strangely. We have class like normal during class time, and then have the test in the evening. Today they decided to try something new with testing after how terrible the testing accommodations were with the map test. People with the last names starting with A-L would take the exam at 6:45pm in the Union, and M-Z would take the test at 8:15 in the Union. He reassured us that the test was not going to be very hard which was nice to hear.

Next was drawing and then religious studies. Not much to say about either of the classes today…..

After class it was time to study study study. So I did exactly that. Studied my booty off until dinner. Then I ate they lovely ship food…..not so lovely. Did I mention that they haven't served pasta with tomato sauce in days. Its getting a little irritating having cream sauce everyday. Anyways, then I got back to studying for a bit more before the test.

Both mine and Lindsay's names are early so we both had the first testing session. Now I have to say, that was one of the most ridiculously and obscure tests I have ever taken in my life. I walked out of the test and felt like I had failed it for sure. I stood outside the Union to wait for Lindsay, and I watched the people as they left the test. I have never seen such depressed and angry looks in my life. I was certain that we sat in the hall and talked about the questions and how random they were and how they did not cover the main topics of the class at all.

The next group then took the test and came out feeling the same way. But on top of that, it turns out that the second group was given the exact same test as the first group. So a lot of people went in knowing some of the answers to the test because they had been told by their friends or even overheard people talking about the questions in the hall way. This ended up being a huge controversy on the ship and tons of people (including me) were very angry about this. Turns out there were over 10 formal complaints filed just that night about the test.

After venting over the test for awhile it was time to meet up with my group to finish our group handout. Most of my group is great and we get along very well. But one person, who will remain nameless, is not a bit helpful and didn’t even read the book for the assignment. We all were not so helpful tonight though. After that test we all were somewhat zombies and kept getting off track. We finished what we needed to do and then had the snack for the night!

I always sneak my snack back to my room, even though your not allowed to take food out of the dining hall. I like to eat my desert in bed, its much more enjoyable that way! After eating all that sugar it was time to sleep!