March 10, 2015

 Thanks to the minor flood in the lab yesterday there were two giant fans blowing all day, one in the lab and one right outside in the hallway. It made things a bit breezy but I kind of liked it because of the white noise it created. Sometimes the silence is just too loud. It also blocked out a lot of the hallway noise which was nice for testing.

As for testing, we only had one real issue where one section of the test didn't load at all for a kid. And we weren't able to reset the ticket because there was an internal server error. The only other issue was an invalid ticket but I think that was because they were trying to use the wrong ticket. We're still doing way better than we were last year.

The last test of the day was a group of fourth graders and they all rushed through the test. It was incredibly frustrating because I kept reminding them to take their time and they said “okay” and then went back to rushing. They all took less than half and hour to read a couple long passages and answer thirty questions. One kid was done with the first fifteen questions in about five minutes which I know wasn't even long enough for him to read the main passage. They all needed someone sitting with them and forcing them to slow down because it was way more for me to handle.

When I wasn't testing I worked on editing photos. I also went and talked to the librarian about random stuff. Web Design will probably be my elective for the summer but I'm still gonna give it a day or two just to make sure.

Tonight I accomplished nothing. Once again. It's becoming a frustrating problem. Much like trying to get fourth graders with testing accommodations to take their time on a test. Right now I kind of want to make and record a presentation for my metadata analysis, rather than writing the paper, even though the paper only has to be three to five pages long. Whatever I decide I just need to pull the trigger. I am unable to put into words how frustrated I am with myself and my inability to do any work whatsoever. Something needs to change. I need to stop talking about it and actually do something. Story of my life.