Long day

Today was a pretty long day for me. I woke up and started doing laundry right away. I had a specific outfit picked out in my mind for today but half of that outfit was sitting in my laundry hamper.
After the laundry was finished and I had eaten breakfast/lunch. I took a nap. I've been having weird dreams at night, so they sort of wake me up in the middle of the night and it takes a little while to get back to sleep.

Anyway. In one of my classes, the instructor called a meeting with a select few of us in the class. He identified us as being strong students and wanted our help to figure out a situation. Currently in the class there are 10 girls that speak English as a first language. Then there are the international students who don't. There is a group work component to our class and for the most part groups have been chosen. But they were chosen by the students and apparently the International students want to work with us. I don't have a problem with that, as my group consisted of two girls from Saudi Arabia. It was a group I had worked with previously last semester and everyone pulled their weight for that occasion. So it was a good experience for me.
But others in that meeting today have had terrible experiences with working in groups with International students. They've had to do all the work and still ended up with the same mark as those that didn't put any work into the assignment. So they were frustrated.
And we had to figure out how to make things fair for everybody in the class for this project.  We ended up spending an hour and a half discussing this. An hour with the teacher there, and then when he left to prepare for the lecture we had that evening, we still stayed for another half hour to think of a possible solution.
It was a long drawn out process but I think we figured it out. Everyone will have to compromise in one way or another. I'm possibly going to lose my awesome group I had formed for this project.

Some of what we talked about had to do with the school being really slack with their admissions. Not everyone can necessarily go to Grad School. Some simply don't have the marks. But they get in anyway... why? Because of MONEY. The school I go to has become a business. They want more income so they'll take more students in. And sometimes with group projects, some people don't pull their weight (that most definitely includes NON international students too), everyone in a particular group for a project leaves with the same mark. And not everyone deserved that mark. But they find a way to still stay in the program.
In all honesty, I didn't think my GPA was high enough from my undergrad but I still got in. I'm not sure I would have at another school if I had applied. But since I did get in, I made sure to work my butt off so I could get good grades and feel like I've actually earned them.
But anyway. We had to think of a solution that would help the current issue we were having in that particular class.
Then we had class. Which wasn't too bad. But I was starting to get hungry.
And following this class I had to attend a seminar given by Dr. James Painter. A food psychologist, registered dietitian and motivational speaker. It was a great talk and made a lot of sense to me. I suggest you look at the documentary "Portion Size Me". It may just hold the key to losing and maintaining weight!
I didn't get home until after 8:30 tonight though. And I had left the house at 2:30ish. That's a long time to go without a hearty meal. I did have some dunkaroos, but that wasn't much to keep me full.
So it made for a long day.
I realize this post is all over the place. But I just felt like blogging tonight about something, anything. And what was fresh on my mind was today.

How was your day?