This may not be the most interesting blog post, but I'm really excited about it.
I'm very excited about the club this semester. I mentioned that I was the vice president of the court reporting club. My friend, Celena, is the president, Kristal is the secretary, and Anne is the treasurer. Celena managed it get a bunch of stuff donated to the club. It's pretty amazing. She got pizza for the meeting, prizes for students who come, and a free stay at the Sheraton Hotel to raffle off. She even got a free writer for one lucky student to use the whole time they're in school. Anne is getting all squared away with the money and Kristal is going to get t-shirts made for us to sell as a fundraiser. (Any suggestions as to what they should say?) I just made a handout for our first meeting with all of the fun stuff we want to do. We're gonna have two guest speakers! I'm pretty excited about it.
Yes, I know I'm a dork.
Besides the club, I set my machine up right after I got home from school on Friday and I've practiced a few times this even though I worked long shifts every day this weekend. My motivation is improving. Hopefully, my speed will too. I'm hoping I pass at least a one-minute 140 test on Monday. Here's to hoping.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
congressional tests and club officers
Here I am day two, and I've decided that I'm going to write this entire blog on my steno machine whenever possible; it will give me a good reason to set everything up. I can be so lazy. Sometimes, I don't practice just because I don't want to take my machine out of my bag. How pathetic is that? I feel like I'm well intentioned but I have no follow through. I tell myself I'm going to practice a certain thing as soon as I get home, but after the hour drive, I always do something else. But now, I'm sitting here on my machine, I'm writing pretty slowly, but at least it's a start.
My cat is sitting here next to me staring at me. I don't think she has any idea what I'm doing. It must be nice to be a cat...I digress.
Yesterday, I mentioned different kinds of tests. Today in class we did a congressional test. Basically, it's a test that consists of a speech to, or by congress or the house of reps or the president or anything like that. It usually has very large words that seem to come very fast. There are good things about this kind of test, though. The main one is that only one person talks so I don't have to worry about putting a speaker change in there. Plus, California only requires congressional tests to be 95% accurate. It doesn't seem like a big jump from 97.5, but, I assure you, it is. Despite these two things, I did not pass my 140 test today. I didn't even pass the 130 test today. (Remember those days I told you about? Today was one.)
What I did manage to do today was meet with the club officers. I am now the new vice president of the court reporting club at Cerritos college. I'm pretty excited about it because the other officers are all friends of mine. In the past, most club officers have been high-speed students but, this year us mid-speed girls are gonna give it a go.
We are going to organize fund-raising and try to setup some fun things all the students can do. I think it's important to have a support system so, I really want to make sure everyone one knows that everyone else is behind them. It's easier to stick to personal goals that way. We also want to get some great guest speakers. Any ideas on who we should get to speak?
I'm still new to this whole blogging thing so it may take me a little while to get everything working. Please bear with me and let me know if there is something I should be doing that I'm not.
That's all for now, let me now how you feel about congressional tests. I used to say they were my favorite, but after today, I'm not so sure.
My cat is sitting here next to me staring at me. I don't think she has any idea what I'm doing. It must be nice to be a cat...I digress.
Yesterday, I mentioned different kinds of tests. Today in class we did a congressional test. Basically, it's a test that consists of a speech to, or by congress or the house of reps or the president or anything like that. It usually has very large words that seem to come very fast. There are good things about this kind of test, though. The main one is that only one person talks so I don't have to worry about putting a speaker change in there. Plus, California only requires congressional tests to be 95% accurate. It doesn't seem like a big jump from 97.5, but, I assure you, it is. Despite these two things, I did not pass my 140 test today. I didn't even pass the 130 test today. (Remember those days I told you about? Today was one.)
What I did manage to do today was meet with the club officers. I am now the new vice president of the court reporting club at Cerritos college. I'm pretty excited about it because the other officers are all friends of mine. In the past, most club officers have been high-speed students but, this year us mid-speed girls are gonna give it a go.
We are going to organize fund-raising and try to setup some fun things all the students can do. I think it's important to have a support system so, I really want to make sure everyone one knows that everyone else is behind them. It's easier to stick to personal goals that way. We also want to get some great guest speakers. Any ideas on who we should get to speak?
I'm still new to this whole blogging thing so it may take me a little while to get everything working. Please bear with me and let me know if there is something I should be doing that I'm not.
That's all for now, let me now how you feel about congressional tests. I used to say they were my favorite, but after today, I'm not so sure.
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