Blog 75
Dear future English 110 takers,
To sum up this class- to sum up any English class- to sum up college education- to sum up your life- you get out of it, what you put into it. 99% of the students taking this class are not English majors (good choice ;)) which means there is a LOT you can learn about your writing. Your teacher, whether your smart enough to believe it or not, ACTUALLY knows what he or she is talking about. He/she has way more experience writing than you, so if you want to improve, you actually can. All you have to do is get off your butt and do something. I know that seems strange. So if you want your writing to improve, practice good writing for your blogs and turn in only your best writing to your teacher. I’m not saying I necessarily did all those things, I’m just saying that’s how you can get the most out of this class. And I can’t speak about how having better writing can help every other area of your life, but people keep telling me that, so for the purpose of this letter, we’re going to assume it’s true. Advice for the blogs, yes they’re a lot, but one at a time will make it better, and always try to work ahead, because you will forget at least one day, trust me, you will. And for the science-fiction, it’s not for everyone. Try to like it, but if you don’t, it’s only 11 weeks, so just make the best of it, it won’t kill you.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Blog 74
Blog 74
I don’t think my opinion has changed about science fiction at all. I didn’t really like it before. I just thought it was weird, unrealistic, and scary. And that’s what I think now. Most science-fiction, has a lot of violence, and the ones that don’t are just really terrible. I watched Angel and Buffy for my ARP, and they weren’t scary, well most of the time, there’s this episode of Angel that still kind of freaks me out. But anyway, those shows aren’t scary, but they are just TERRIBLE shows. I understand what Leslie was trying to do, science fiction has strong messages so it will be easy to base a paper off of it, but I think there are a ton of other types of medias that have those strong messages. I’m just glad we didn’t have to read about science fiction, reading is hard enough for me to ‘get into’, but when I can’t relate at all, it’s nearly impossible. When we read Brave New World, it was kind of weird, but I pushed through, until I got to the part with the Indians, and then I was like, “WHAT THE HECK?!” I just can’t relate to that weird stuff going on, I guess that’s the analytical side of me, I just don’t believe it. And a lot of science fiction are just overdone that they seem SO cheesy. I like Harry Potter though, but that’s the only nearly science fiction that I like. But I think Harry Potter is more fantasy. But still, I was never really into those kind of books growing up, I just like the ones that were about girls my age going through things that I was.
I don’t think my opinion has changed about science fiction at all. I didn’t really like it before. I just thought it was weird, unrealistic, and scary. And that’s what I think now. Most science-fiction, has a lot of violence, and the ones that don’t are just really terrible. I watched Angel and Buffy for my ARP, and they weren’t scary, well most of the time, there’s this episode of Angel that still kind of freaks me out. But anyway, those shows aren’t scary, but they are just TERRIBLE shows. I understand what Leslie was trying to do, science fiction has strong messages so it will be easy to base a paper off of it, but I think there are a ton of other types of medias that have those strong messages. I’m just glad we didn’t have to read about science fiction, reading is hard enough for me to ‘get into’, but when I can’t relate at all, it’s nearly impossible. When we read Brave New World, it was kind of weird, but I pushed through, until I got to the part with the Indians, and then I was like, “WHAT THE HECK?!” I just can’t relate to that weird stuff going on, I guess that’s the analytical side of me, I just don’t believe it. And a lot of science fiction are just overdone that they seem SO cheesy. I like Harry Potter though, but that’s the only nearly science fiction that I like. But I think Harry Potter is more fantasy. But still, I was never really into those kind of books growing up, I just like the ones that were about girls my age going through things that I was.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Blog 73
Blog 73
Exam time! I never really studied much for final exams in high school. It was usually very studious so when it came to exam time, I didn’t need to study much, just maybe do some review problems to refresh my memory. Well that’s how it was my senior year, when my hard classes were only math and physics. In those technical classes you can get away with just understanding it the first time and then only review for the final. Spanish and biology were different. You actually had to get out those flash cards and remember the stuff again. But now in college I think I have to study! Not even that much though because I only have 2 exams, math and engineering. Engineering was laid out pretty well so our 2 midterms covered everything, and the topics built on top of each other, so the first midterm seems really easy now! Math is different though, each chapter was pretty different. We studied summations and then parametric and polar equations, and now we’re on 3-D vectors! 3-D vectors are so hard. I can’t imagine it at all! And we’ve never been tested on it before and compared to the other topics in class; I’ve never learned anything about it. The last time I did vectors was sophomore year and it was only 2-D it we didn’t do much to it. So I’m kind of nervous about that… and it’s frustrating because by teacher posts reviews and solutions to those, but the solutions are sometimes wrong, I hardly understand the material, but I know it’s wrong. Oh well. I’ll make it through.
Exam time! I never really studied much for final exams in high school. It was usually very studious so when it came to exam time, I didn’t need to study much, just maybe do some review problems to refresh my memory. Well that’s how it was my senior year, when my hard classes were only math and physics. In those technical classes you can get away with just understanding it the first time and then only review for the final. Spanish and biology were different. You actually had to get out those flash cards and remember the stuff again. But now in college I think I have to study! Not even that much though because I only have 2 exams, math and engineering. Engineering was laid out pretty well so our 2 midterms covered everything, and the topics built on top of each other, so the first midterm seems really easy now! Math is different though, each chapter was pretty different. We studied summations and then parametric and polar equations, and now we’re on 3-D vectors! 3-D vectors are so hard. I can’t imagine it at all! And we’ve never been tested on it before and compared to the other topics in class; I’ve never learned anything about it. The last time I did vectors was sophomore year and it was only 2-D it we didn’t do much to it. So I’m kind of nervous about that… and it’s frustrating because by teacher posts reviews and solutions to those, but the solutions are sometimes wrong, I hardly understand the material, but I know it’s wrong. Oh well. I’ll make it through.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Blog 72
Blog 72
Here’s a bit from my survey paper. Yes. I had to write a paper for survey class. I know, it sucks.
I’ve always known I wanted to be a chemical engineer, I like chemistry class, math, and I like to solve problems. However, I never really thought about what kind of specific job I would want. After doing some research, I decided I don’t want to be working in a laboratory, or in a factory, or with medicine. So what was left? Research and development. This field basically means making products better. More specifically, research and development engineers invent, reapply, develop and deliver breakthrough products, process raw materials, and packaging technologies that change the consumer market. This could be done in several ways, like by talking to consumers, creating faster processing time, create a brand new product, or making packaging more efficient. The specific area I would like to work in would be talking to consumers.
Talking to consumers is more specifically called a product development engineer. This job requires talking to consumers and translating their needs into effective product designs. This would create innovated strategies that are consumer driven and would be done by using quantitative and qualitative modeling tools to define consumers’ needs.
This is the ideal job for me because I love helping people and doing things that make sense. When I’m talking to people about their wants, desires, and needs, I’m going to make sure there is a product for them (within limits) and then after that I’ll be creating a product based on that. Any job’s purpose is creating something for the consumer, but this is a “hands-on” experience. I will actually see what the consumer wants, not my boss coming to me telling me we need a new product; it’s me actually seeing that people want a product like that on the market. Also when creating a product, it isn’t blind, I can use the ideas of the consumers and just make it real. Not only would I make products that one consumer wants, but I would use charts and graphs to summarize what the whole population wants.
Here’s a bit from my survey paper. Yes. I had to write a paper for survey class. I know, it sucks.
I’ve always known I wanted to be a chemical engineer, I like chemistry class, math, and I like to solve problems. However, I never really thought about what kind of specific job I would want. After doing some research, I decided I don’t want to be working in a laboratory, or in a factory, or with medicine. So what was left? Research and development. This field basically means making products better. More specifically, research and development engineers invent, reapply, develop and deliver breakthrough products, process raw materials, and packaging technologies that change the consumer market. This could be done in several ways, like by talking to consumers, creating faster processing time, create a brand new product, or making packaging more efficient. The specific area I would like to work in would be talking to consumers.
Talking to consumers is more specifically called a product development engineer. This job requires talking to consumers and translating their needs into effective product designs. This would create innovated strategies that are consumer driven and would be done by using quantitative and qualitative modeling tools to define consumers’ needs.
This is the ideal job for me because I love helping people and doing things that make sense. When I’m talking to people about their wants, desires, and needs, I’m going to make sure there is a product for them (within limits) and then after that I’ll be creating a product based on that. Any job’s purpose is creating something for the consumer, but this is a “hands-on” experience. I will actually see what the consumer wants, not my boss coming to me telling me we need a new product; it’s me actually seeing that people want a product like that on the market. Also when creating a product, it isn’t blind, I can use the ideas of the consumers and just make it real. Not only would I make products that one consumer wants, but I would use charts and graphs to summarize what the whole population wants.
Blog 71
Blog 71
I forgot to blog yesterday! I remembered over and over again, and then forgot! And then I remembered this morning that actually didn’t, darn it!
To be complete honest, I didn’t pay attention much to this episode. Not because I did not want to give it a chance, I actually did. But I’m not into that kind of violence, or science fiction. It just gets me queasy and sick to my stomach. And at the beginning in the club, that was so freak, with all those bright lights and screaming. And then at the end, the guy kills that girl! I have a problem separating television from reality, so this episode was pretty bad. I just think, oh no! he just killed her! And it’s like I’m almost there and saw it for real and that she really died!
But at the beginning Zoe got into a fight with her mother. This is tough. Mother-daughter relationships are so volatile. They can be fine one moment and terrible the other. But it seemed like this one was pretty bad most of the time. The fight started because Zoe doesn’t want to do what her parents want to do and her mother thinks she is ungrateful. Apparently they donate a bunch of money to her school and stuff, but it means nothing to her. And it really shouldn’t. Her mother thinks that Zoe has EVERYTHING she could ever want, but apparently not or she wouldn’t be acting out. She probably wants a caring mother that actually cares about her.
I forgot to blog yesterday! I remembered over and over again, and then forgot! And then I remembered this morning that actually didn’t, darn it!
To be complete honest, I didn’t pay attention much to this episode. Not because I did not want to give it a chance, I actually did. But I’m not into that kind of violence, or science fiction. It just gets me queasy and sick to my stomach. And at the beginning in the club, that was so freak, with all those bright lights and screaming. And then at the end, the guy kills that girl! I have a problem separating television from reality, so this episode was pretty bad. I just think, oh no! he just killed her! And it’s like I’m almost there and saw it for real and that she really died!
But at the beginning Zoe got into a fight with her mother. This is tough. Mother-daughter relationships are so volatile. They can be fine one moment and terrible the other. But it seemed like this one was pretty bad most of the time. The fight started because Zoe doesn’t want to do what her parents want to do and her mother thinks she is ungrateful. Apparently they donate a bunch of money to her school and stuff, but it means nothing to her. And it really shouldn’t. Her mother thinks that Zoe has EVERYTHING she could ever want, but apparently not or she wouldn’t be acting out. She probably wants a caring mother that actually cares about her.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Blog 70
Blog 70
Remember at the beginning of this quarter where we were actually excited to blog and we actually had stuff to talk about, not anymore! Oh well, in less than a week we’ll be done, forever!
So I talked to my RA today, one thing about my roommate situation. We’re not having any fights, but we just don’t ‘click’. This is mainly because we speak different languages and have very different social circles. So what I’ve been thinking is that we should just separate and put all of our stuff in each of our rooms. We have two rooms, why shouldn’t we take advantage of that. No one likes to share space, unless it’s cheeper or something. But it really doesn’t matter. I know this will be ‘frouned upon’ by some, but I don’t see why. We understand that we have many things different. We don’t fight at all. Why shouldn’t we just be a little bit happier with our own space? So I was afraid of asking my roommate about this because I thought it would come across that I don’t like sharing space with her, and that I don’t like her. I like her fine, we’re just not close at all. So I overcame this by just asking her if she would be happier if we each had our own room, and she seemed very excited! I mean after I explained it to he twice and she actually understood it. So I wanted to talk to my RA about it to make sure we weren’t breaking rules, and I think we’re good! So I’m excited for next quarter!
Remember at the beginning of this quarter where we were actually excited to blog and we actually had stuff to talk about, not anymore! Oh well, in less than a week we’ll be done, forever!
So I talked to my RA today, one thing about my roommate situation. We’re not having any fights, but we just don’t ‘click’. This is mainly because we speak different languages and have very different social circles. So what I’ve been thinking is that we should just separate and put all of our stuff in each of our rooms. We have two rooms, why shouldn’t we take advantage of that. No one likes to share space, unless it’s cheeper or something. But it really doesn’t matter. I know this will be ‘frouned upon’ by some, but I don’t see why. We understand that we have many things different. We don’t fight at all. Why shouldn’t we just be a little bit happier with our own space? So I was afraid of asking my roommate about this because I thought it would come across that I don’t like sharing space with her, and that I don’t like her. I like her fine, we’re just not close at all. So I overcame this by just asking her if she would be happier if we each had our own room, and she seemed very excited! I mean after I explained it to he twice and she actually understood it. So I wanted to talk to my RA about it to make sure we weren’t breaking rules, and I think we’re good! So I’m excited for next quarter!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Blog 69
Blog 69
I have completely run out of things to talk about for this blog. But here goes my best. I woke up today surprisingly rested for the amount of sleep I had gotten. It was like I was actually excited to go to class, that was really weird. But then by 8, I crashed, and I am still up and so tired. I’m going to bed soon after I finish this. I have my lab practical tomorrow for engineering. Tonight there was a review session. It was really annoying because our GTA kept saying that we should go and then we’ll do fine on the test, but there wasn’t anything posted anywhere about what was actually covered. So she wasn’t just suggesting we go, it was basically like go or study EVERYTHING covered in labs. I wish they would have posted the power point somewhere online. So then when I looked online to see where the review session was going to be, and the power point said Caldwell 200. So I showed up there at 6:30, and the door was locked. There was another kid there confused, and I texted one of my friends and realized it was in Campbell 200. At the time I thought I was just being an idiot going to the wrong place. I even joked to my friends about it, this silly thing me and this other kid did. But then just now when I got back, I checked it again, and it actually did say Caldwell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so angry. They’re going to hear about this in my weekly journal.
I have completely run out of things to talk about for this blog. But here goes my best. I woke up today surprisingly rested for the amount of sleep I had gotten. It was like I was actually excited to go to class, that was really weird. But then by 8, I crashed, and I am still up and so tired. I’m going to bed soon after I finish this. I have my lab practical tomorrow for engineering. Tonight there was a review session. It was really annoying because our GTA kept saying that we should go and then we’ll do fine on the test, but there wasn’t anything posted anywhere about what was actually covered. So she wasn’t just suggesting we go, it was basically like go or study EVERYTHING covered in labs. I wish they would have posted the power point somewhere online. So then when I looked online to see where the review session was going to be, and the power point said Caldwell 200. So I showed up there at 6:30, and the door was locked. There was another kid there confused, and I texted one of my friends and realized it was in Campbell 200. At the time I thought I was just being an idiot going to the wrong place. I even joked to my friends about it, this silly thing me and this other kid did. But then just now when I got back, I checked it again, and it actually did say Caldwell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so angry. They’re going to hear about this in my weekly journal.
Blog 68
Blog 68
I forgot to blog yesterday! So here it is now, late, before English class. So I’m pretty excited, I just got back my engineering midterm back and I got a 91% when the average was a 85%. I don’t want to seem like a nerd for bragging about it, but it’s kind of exciting. And it was hard when I was with my friends because they’re all in the same class as me and I don’t want to be rude bragging about it. So here I am now because none of you are in my class! It is really wet outside. I didn’t have my umbrella and I walked all the way to south campus and then to the union. My feet were soaked and my hair enjoyed that extra washing. So while eating lunch with my friends, we were giving one of them a hard time because he hasn’t asked this girl out yet. They have been hanging out a lot, holding hands, and even kissed, and he keeps saying that it’s assumed they’re dating. Even more, it was her birthday yesterday; there isn’t a better opportunity to ask someone out than their birthday!
So today is my boyfriend’s birthday. I got him a stuffed koala, but I wanted to surprise him with something else. So I thought about making brownies for him, but I don’t have any pans, oil, eggs, bowls ect. So I wanted to bring up our best friend. He’s home not doing anything so I thought it would be fun for everyone if he came up. So he’s currently on his way up and I’m really excited. I’m really bad at keeping secrets.
I forgot to blog yesterday! So here it is now, late, before English class. So I’m pretty excited, I just got back my engineering midterm back and I got a 91% when the average was a 85%. I don’t want to seem like a nerd for bragging about it, but it’s kind of exciting. And it was hard when I was with my friends because they’re all in the same class as me and I don’t want to be rude bragging about it. So here I am now because none of you are in my class! It is really wet outside. I didn’t have my umbrella and I walked all the way to south campus and then to the union. My feet were soaked and my hair enjoyed that extra washing. So while eating lunch with my friends, we were giving one of them a hard time because he hasn’t asked this girl out yet. They have been hanging out a lot, holding hands, and even kissed, and he keeps saying that it’s assumed they’re dating. Even more, it was her birthday yesterday; there isn’t a better opportunity to ask someone out than their birthday!
So today is my boyfriend’s birthday. I got him a stuffed koala, but I wanted to surprise him with something else. So I thought about making brownies for him, but I don’t have any pans, oil, eggs, bowls ect. So I wanted to bring up our best friend. He’s home not doing anything so I thought it would be fun for everyone if he came up. So he’s currently on his way up and I’m really excited. I’m really bad at keeping secrets.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Blog 67
Blog 67
It is cold! So I bought season football tickets, I only went to 3 of them, and I never stayed past half time. This time we would’ve have, the game was actually interesting, and it was Michigan, but it was too cold! I couldn’t feel my toes. That’s my worst spot for coldness, by toes. I have terrible circulation, like most girls, but I have gloves on my hands, but my feet hardly have anything! That and my butt always gets really cold. Basically my whole legs do. I want to invest pant jackets for my legs. Or I want to lose like 10 pounds so I can wear leggings under all my pants. Old Navy was actually selling long underwear, and I was really close to buying a bunch. I still don’t get why it isn’t more acceptable for people to be wearing multiple layers on their legs. I mean sometimes I walk out with 5 layers on top, and just one on the bottom! That doesn’t make sense. It should be more equal. But yeah girls always get way colder than boys, I think. There was actually this thing about it on the news. Like women need to get their reproductive parts way warm so every other part gets cold. And it is proven that we have much poorer circulation than men. I don’t get it. I’m just sitting here typing, and it’s a good temperature in here, my arms, legs, and face are fine, but my fingers are freezing. It’s like I always need to wear gloves.
It is cold! So I bought season football tickets, I only went to 3 of them, and I never stayed past half time. This time we would’ve have, the game was actually interesting, and it was Michigan, but it was too cold! I couldn’t feel my toes. That’s my worst spot for coldness, by toes. I have terrible circulation, like most girls, but I have gloves on my hands, but my feet hardly have anything! That and my butt always gets really cold. Basically my whole legs do. I want to invest pant jackets for my legs. Or I want to lose like 10 pounds so I can wear leggings under all my pants. Old Navy was actually selling long underwear, and I was really close to buying a bunch. I still don’t get why it isn’t more acceptable for people to be wearing multiple layers on their legs. I mean sometimes I walk out with 5 layers on top, and just one on the bottom! That doesn’t make sense. It should be more equal. But yeah girls always get way colder than boys, I think. There was actually this thing about it on the news. Like women need to get their reproductive parts way warm so every other part gets cold. And it is proven that we have much poorer circulation than men. I don’t get it. I’m just sitting here typing, and it’s a good temperature in here, my arms, legs, and face are fine, but my fingers are freezing. It’s like I always need to wear gloves.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Blog 66
Blog 66
Anyone else hate that feeling when you’re in bed and you realized you forgot to blog? Yeah that just happened. So I went black Friday shopping, but not on Friday, we went on Thursday. A couple of friends and I got together Thursday night to tye-dye some shirts, and then we went to Walmart to get a wii remote and Mario cart for wii. The only other game system I’ve had was nintentdo 64 and I loved Mario cart, so I figured it was a good thing to buy for wii. And I do like it, some of the tracks are the same, but I’m still adjusting to getting control of the remote. So we ended up going to Walmart 2 other times, after the third time we wanted to just stay up until target opened at 4. I realized Old Navy was already open by 12:30, so we went there. I just got a jacket and waited in line for an hour and a half. It was crazy. So then after standing so long we wanted to sit down. The only place open was Burger King. They had free coffee though, that was nice. We went in Best Buy next, I didn’t get anything, we just wanted to see the craziness. They only let in so many people at a time. So then we went to the mall. By then it was 9, so after we were done, I went home, but my friends continued on to the outlet malls north of us. Then we slept.
Anyone else hate that feeling when you’re in bed and you realized you forgot to blog? Yeah that just happened. So I went black Friday shopping, but not on Friday, we went on Thursday. A couple of friends and I got together Thursday night to tye-dye some shirts, and then we went to Walmart to get a wii remote and Mario cart for wii. The only other game system I’ve had was nintentdo 64 and I loved Mario cart, so I figured it was a good thing to buy for wii. And I do like it, some of the tracks are the same, but I’m still adjusting to getting control of the remote. So we ended up going to Walmart 2 other times, after the third time we wanted to just stay up until target opened at 4. I realized Old Navy was already open by 12:30, so we went there. I just got a jacket and waited in line for an hour and a half. It was crazy. So then after standing so long we wanted to sit down. The only place open was Burger King. They had free coffee though, that was nice. We went in Best Buy next, I didn’t get anything, we just wanted to see the craziness. They only let in so many people at a time. So then we went to the mall. By then it was 9, so after we were done, I went home, but my friends continued on to the outlet malls north of us. Then we slept.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Blog 65
Blog 63-65 pt 3
That’s what I’ve got so far. I think I have a lot better paper/argument than before. In other news, my mom, now an empty nester, got a wii for the family, so it will stay at the house. Yeah I know wii came out like 5 years ago, but we’re a family of all girls… so now we’re catching up. She just has the sports games and doesn’t even have a second controller. That’s what I’m going to do tomorrow, black Friday shopping! I’m going to get her some games and more controllers, either target or walmart. I also want to go to bath and body works and victoria’s secret on black Friday. My roommate is from China, and she’s going to Chicago, and she’s probably going to go shopping tomorrow, and I’m afraid I won’t have a roommate anymore. Black Friday is crazy, but crazy fun. Later on tonight I’m going to tye-dye Ohio State shirts for the game. Luckily Walmart is open today so I can get dye. So when I came home, my mom got this necklace of just buckeyes because she was wearing an Ohio State shirt at work and someone gave it to her, and then she gave it to me. I’m going to try to make something out of it, I’m just letting my creative juices flow right now. Also, I want to make a bunch of snowflakes for my room to hang from my ceiling, like we did in first grade, it just seems like fun.
That’s what I’ve got so far. I think I have a lot better paper/argument than before. In other news, my mom, now an empty nester, got a wii for the family, so it will stay at the house. Yeah I know wii came out like 5 years ago, but we’re a family of all girls… so now we’re catching up. She just has the sports games and doesn’t even have a second controller. That’s what I’m going to do tomorrow, black Friday shopping! I’m going to get her some games and more controllers, either target or walmart. I also want to go to bath and body works and victoria’s secret on black Friday. My roommate is from China, and she’s going to Chicago, and she’s probably going to go shopping tomorrow, and I’m afraid I won’t have a roommate anymore. Black Friday is crazy, but crazy fun. Later on tonight I’m going to tye-dye Ohio State shirts for the game. Luckily Walmart is open today so I can get dye. So when I came home, my mom got this necklace of just buckeyes because she was wearing an Ohio State shirt at work and someone gave it to her, and then she gave it to me. I’m going to try to make something out of it, I’m just letting my creative juices flow right now. Also, I want to make a bunch of snowflakes for my room to hang from my ceiling, like we did in first grade, it just seems like fun.
Blog 64
Blog 63-65 pt 2
and going back in time allows him to move on his tangent path like nothing happened. So I can continue to relate this to teenagers, because it is often during this time where they need to try out different ideas. During this development they are making decisions about sex, alcohol, drugs, friends and any beliefs on religion or politics. While defining themselves in these changes, they need to try them out and get that closure before they are able to move on. Unfortunately, unlike Angel, teenagers do not get the forgiveness of time travel and they have to face the consequences of their actions. But teenagers have to make a decision like Angel about whether they want to keep doing the new thing like drugs or alcohol. And if they changed and reasoned that they don’t want to do it anymore, then they have the closure. Finally, for the scene (not quite sure where I’m fitting it in) I’m going to use the one where Angel meets with the Oracles and asks to be turned back. This is the critical moment where Angel has changed and has had closure and is ready to move on. The oracles are tentative at first, thinking he should just enjoy what he wanted, but then they realize that he is a higher being for wanting to change. He is a higher being because he has developed his reasoning skills and therefore realized he can’t have both, and would rather be a vampire. So yeah,
and going back in time allows him to move on his tangent path like nothing happened. So I can continue to relate this to teenagers, because it is often during this time where they need to try out different ideas. During this development they are making decisions about sex, alcohol, drugs, friends and any beliefs on religion or politics. While defining themselves in these changes, they need to try them out and get that closure before they are able to move on. Unfortunately, unlike Angel, teenagers do not get the forgiveness of time travel and they have to face the consequences of their actions. But teenagers have to make a decision like Angel about whether they want to keep doing the new thing like drugs or alcohol. And if they changed and reasoned that they don’t want to do it anymore, then they have the closure. Finally, for the scene (not quite sure where I’m fitting it in) I’m going to use the one where Angel meets with the Oracles and asks to be turned back. This is the critical moment where Angel has changed and has had closure and is ready to move on. The oracles are tentative at first, thinking he should just enjoy what he wanted, but then they realize that he is a higher being for wanting to change. He is a higher being because he has developed his reasoning skills and therefore realized he can’t have both, and would rather be a vampire. So yeah,
Blog 63
blog 63-65 pt 1
Oops, forgot to blog yesterday, I’ll just make this a threefer. So I’m home, and I was just working on my ARP. I love being able to just turn around and look at how cute my cat is and pet her whenever I want! Anyway, so I’m doing a lot of work on my paper because I’ve changed my argument now, and I think it’s a good one. It about how people change. In Angel, he changed from wanting Buffy so then deciding that after he actually got Buffy, he actually wants to be a vampire instead. Ideally he would want both, but that won’t ever happen, so he changed from wanting her to wanting to be a vampire. I’m comparing him to people and why do they change, but change is too broad. So after doing some research I decided that Angel changed in his reasoning and his cognitive skills developed. For my real world connection then, I’m comparing Angel’s situation to teenagers. Teenagers are the ones that change the most over time during those years, especially their cognitive development. So I’m saying that Angel changed over time, but he can’t go back to the way before. He’s changed to think and reason differently and he’ll never go back to the other way. But in the episode, they change time! The Oracles allow Angel to go back before he became human and before he could be with Buffy. This time travel allows Angel to receive the closure he needed
Oops, forgot to blog yesterday, I’ll just make this a threefer. So I’m home, and I was just working on my ARP. I love being able to just turn around and look at how cute my cat is and pet her whenever I want! Anyway, so I’m doing a lot of work on my paper because I’ve changed my argument now, and I think it’s a good one. It about how people change. In Angel, he changed from wanting Buffy so then deciding that after he actually got Buffy, he actually wants to be a vampire instead. Ideally he would want both, but that won’t ever happen, so he changed from wanting her to wanting to be a vampire. I’m comparing him to people and why do they change, but change is too broad. So after doing some research I decided that Angel changed in his reasoning and his cognitive skills developed. For my real world connection then, I’m comparing Angel’s situation to teenagers. Teenagers are the ones that change the most over time during those years, especially their cognitive development. So I’m saying that Angel changed over time, but he can’t go back to the way before. He’s changed to think and reason differently and he’ll never go back to the other way. But in the episode, they change time! The Oracles allow Angel to go back before he became human and before he could be with Buffy. This time travel allows Angel to receive the closure he needed
Monday, November 22, 2010
Blog 61
Blog 61
So this being beat-michigan week, there are a lot of exciting things going on like the pep rally and block parties ect. Well there was a crafts night that we wanted to go to, we thought it was tonight, but it was actually last night. That was kind of upsetting when we found that out. So then we decided we’re going to make tie-dye shirts while we’re home for Thanksgiving. So there have been posters up for a north commons block party the whole past week advertising free food and corn hole. Unable to decide where to eat, we decided to check that out first. We headed over to Royer Activities Center and just went inside. We found the pizza and… a bunch of people with name tags…? We were confused. There was no tailgate party. It was a meeting about climate change. And we just took their food without going to the presentation. I decided that should be something everyone does during college. Just take food from something that you didn’t even go to. So then we were still hungry and wanted to go to the union to the pep rally to get that free food. We got there by 9:30, and apparently college pep rallies aren’t like the ones in high school that take 4 hours because by the time we got there, just 2 hours after it started, it was completely cleaned out. So then we got ice-cream at mirror lake. And I want to add that I LOVE all the signs that have the M’s crossed out. It makes me want to change my name to Aggie.
So this being beat-michigan week, there are a lot of exciting things going on like the pep rally and block parties ect. Well there was a crafts night that we wanted to go to, we thought it was tonight, but it was actually last night. That was kind of upsetting when we found that out. So then we decided we’re going to make tie-dye shirts while we’re home for Thanksgiving. So there have been posters up for a north commons block party the whole past week advertising free food and corn hole. Unable to decide where to eat, we decided to check that out first. We headed over to Royer Activities Center and just went inside. We found the pizza and… a bunch of people with name tags…? We were confused. There was no tailgate party. It was a meeting about climate change. And we just took their food without going to the presentation. I decided that should be something everyone does during college. Just take food from something that you didn’t even go to. So then we were still hungry and wanted to go to the union to the pep rally to get that free food. We got there by 9:30, and apparently college pep rallies aren’t like the ones in high school that take 4 hours because by the time we got there, just 2 hours after it started, it was completely cleaned out. So then we got ice-cream at mirror lake. And I want to add that I LOVE all the signs that have the M’s crossed out. It makes me want to change my name to Aggie.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Blog 60
Blog 60
So I tried to use the CABS busses last night at 2:30 am because it was late and cold. So I texted osutrip and it said that no times were scheduled. I checked 3 other stops on the route and they all said that no times were scheduled. So I waited a little bit, but then I decided to walk it, thinking that there actually weren’t any busses coming. After walking like 3 minutes, I saw a bus approaching. I turned around and ran trying to catch it, but I couldn’t. I’m just so mad at the CABS busses. I like them because they’re easy to understand, and that you can text to see the next arrival, but I wish it didn’t lie like that. Yeah there weren’t any times scheduled, which I guess means that the computer data system isn’t working, which I don’t know why it doesn’t just stay on. But at least they could know if a bus line is actually running and then reply that the bus is running but it is unknown when it is coming. I would like that better. At 2:30 am I don’t care how long it will be until the next bus, I just don’t want to keep waiting thinking that it’s going to come when it isn’t. And it’s also annoying with CABS is a bus will come 10 minutes before it was scheduled to come. That was one specific time, but there have been many times where I leave my dorm knowing I have 4 minutes, and then the bus already comes and goes before I get there. That’s really frustrating. So the CABS busses are nice, I’m just realizing that they are not really reliable during the evening hours.
So I tried to use the CABS busses last night at 2:30 am because it was late and cold. So I texted osutrip and it said that no times were scheduled. I checked 3 other stops on the route and they all said that no times were scheduled. So I waited a little bit, but then I decided to walk it, thinking that there actually weren’t any busses coming. After walking like 3 minutes, I saw a bus approaching. I turned around and ran trying to catch it, but I couldn’t. I’m just so mad at the CABS busses. I like them because they’re easy to understand, and that you can text to see the next arrival, but I wish it didn’t lie like that. Yeah there weren’t any times scheduled, which I guess means that the computer data system isn’t working, which I don’t know why it doesn’t just stay on. But at least they could know if a bus line is actually running and then reply that the bus is running but it is unknown when it is coming. I would like that better. At 2:30 am I don’t care how long it will be until the next bus, I just don’t want to keep waiting thinking that it’s going to come when it isn’t. And it’s also annoying with CABS is a bus will come 10 minutes before it was scheduled to come. That was one specific time, but there have been many times where I leave my dorm knowing I have 4 minutes, and then the bus already comes and goes before I get there. That’s really frustrating. So the CABS busses are nice, I’m just realizing that they are not really reliable during the evening hours.
Blog 59
Blog 59
I watched Harry Potter! I didn’t go to Easton because I was up late and didn’t wake up until one. And then the game started and then I got really tired and took a nap. Then I ate dinner and saw Harry Potter. I didn’t really do much today, but I think we all need those kind of days to “catch up.” Saturday is like my catch up on sleep and relaxing, and Sunday is my catch up/get ahead on homework day. Sundays feel so weird though, no matter what, they always feel dreary and gloomy, like it’s a forced homework day.
So I saw Harry Potter! It actually was better than I thought. I think because it is in two parts, so it was actually thorough and correct. Also, I haven’t read the book in over 2 years, so I don’t even remember the specific details that the movie omits. I only remember vague parts of the big things, and then I’ll remember how the scene ends half way through it’s over. So the movie is fun in that way. And I think for a fantasy/science fiction movie, it is extremely funny. The creators are so cleaver in making such a dressing story comical. They really play on the sexual tension and ignorance of the teenage characters. It’s almost like watching a sit-com. I always laugh whenever someone tries to get something by saying, “accio ____” and then it doesn’t work, and then they’re always frustrated. It’s like, well duh it won’t work!
I watched Harry Potter! I didn’t go to Easton because I was up late and didn’t wake up until one. And then the game started and then I got really tired and took a nap. Then I ate dinner and saw Harry Potter. I didn’t really do much today, but I think we all need those kind of days to “catch up.” Saturday is like my catch up on sleep and relaxing, and Sunday is my catch up/get ahead on homework day. Sundays feel so weird though, no matter what, they always feel dreary and gloomy, like it’s a forced homework day.
So I saw Harry Potter! It actually was better than I thought. I think because it is in two parts, so it was actually thorough and correct. Also, I haven’t read the book in over 2 years, so I don’t even remember the specific details that the movie omits. I only remember vague parts of the big things, and then I’ll remember how the scene ends half way through it’s over. So the movie is fun in that way. And I think for a fantasy/science fiction movie, it is extremely funny. The creators are so cleaver in making such a dressing story comical. They really play on the sexual tension and ignorance of the teenage characters. It’s almost like watching a sit-com. I always laugh whenever someone tries to get something by saying, “accio ____” and then it doesn’t work, and then they’re always frustrated. It’s like, well duh it won’t work!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Blog 58
Blog 58
Finally the weekend! I don’t have any homework tonight, which is amazing. I kept trying to nap today to get myself caught up on sleep, but I couldn’t fall asleep. If I’m not REALLY tired, it’s hard to take naps because my mind keeps wandering and I keep thinking there’s something better I should be doing.
I’m excited because my friends from high school might be visiting this weekend, or next weekend. He goes to SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. He’s one of only friends from high school that didn’t go to Ohio State. It’s weird that even though he was apart from us for a couple of months, I feel like we all will be able to pick right up where we were before.
Tomorrow I’m going to go to Easton to do some holiday shopping before black Friday. I’m also going to see Harry Potter while I’m in Easton too. The past 2 movies I’ve seen the midnight showing, but I didn’t this year, mainly because I had a midterm this morning. But really it’s because I’m not as excited about the movies anymore. They are just so different from the books that the movie’s aren’t enjoyable. Like for the 6th movie, I was so excited. But after watching it, although enjoyable, I just am disappointed about how it lacked to meet my expectation. I guess that’s the thing with most books turned into movies, they just never meet your expectation. The best book turned into movie, by far was Holes.
Finally the weekend! I don’t have any homework tonight, which is amazing. I kept trying to nap today to get myself caught up on sleep, but I couldn’t fall asleep. If I’m not REALLY tired, it’s hard to take naps because my mind keeps wandering and I keep thinking there’s something better I should be doing.
I’m excited because my friends from high school might be visiting this weekend, or next weekend. He goes to SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. He’s one of only friends from high school that didn’t go to Ohio State. It’s weird that even though he was apart from us for a couple of months, I feel like we all will be able to pick right up where we were before.
Tomorrow I’m going to go to Easton to do some holiday shopping before black Friday. I’m also going to see Harry Potter while I’m in Easton too. The past 2 movies I’ve seen the midnight showing, but I didn’t this year, mainly because I had a midterm this morning. But really it’s because I’m not as excited about the movies anymore. They are just so different from the books that the movie’s aren’t enjoyable. Like for the 6th movie, I was so excited. But after watching it, although enjoyable, I just am disappointed about how it lacked to meet my expectation. I guess that’s the thing with most books turned into movies, they just never meet your expectation. The best book turned into movie, by far was Holes.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Blog 56
Blog 56
sometimes driving all the way down there every year. I know it’s family so I should be willing to drive, but most of them haven’t ever seen my house, when I’ve stayed at there’s for weeks at a time. And my family isn’t wealthy enough to purchase plane tickets all the time (which would be nice) So I think for this year, I just want to stay in Mason. I don’t get to see my mom or my sister often. And my sister isn’t going down at all and my mom is only going down for a little bit. I feel like this is now the transition where I don’t get to see my extended family very much because whenever I have breaks I just want to stay home and be with my immediate family. It’s kind of weird to think about that transition though. So I’m excited for break. I had a 3 week break before school started but after work ended, and it felt like forever. So I hope this break will be the same, but I very much doubt it.
I watched glee tonight. I was pretty good. When I saw the preview for it last week, I though the substitute teacher was phoebe on “Friends” but it wasn’t… oh well, it was still good. Will’s wife freaks my out though, she’s like the person I hope I never become. Oh and mini glee cast was SO cute. I watched the little ‘behind the scenes’ of it on hulu. It was neat, I want a mini-me!
sometimes driving all the way down there every year. I know it’s family so I should be willing to drive, but most of them haven’t ever seen my house, when I’ve stayed at there’s for weeks at a time. And my family isn’t wealthy enough to purchase plane tickets all the time (which would be nice) So I think for this year, I just want to stay in Mason. I don’t get to see my mom or my sister often. And my sister isn’t going down at all and my mom is only going down for a little bit. I feel like this is now the transition where I don’t get to see my extended family very much because whenever I have breaks I just want to stay home and be with my immediate family. It’s kind of weird to think about that transition though. So I’m excited for break. I had a 3 week break before school started but after work ended, and it felt like forever. So I hope this break will be the same, but I very much doubt it.
I watched glee tonight. I was pretty good. When I saw the preview for it last week, I though the substitute teacher was phoebe on “Friends” but it wasn’t… oh well, it was still good. Will’s wife freaks my out though, she’s like the person I hope I never become. Oh and mini glee cast was SO cute. I watched the little ‘behind the scenes’ of it on hulu. It was neat, I want a mini-me!
Blog 55
Blog 55
Here are my two blogs really fast! So I forgot to blog yesterday because, well I just forgot. So here’s my two. I realized last night in bed and I was debating getting up and doing it when I was nerdy enough to do the math in my head and realized that if I got up that moment, I would only get one eighth of a point back. That’s when I realized that it wasn’t worth it, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. So now I want to write fast because it’s 2:51 AM and I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow still so I won’t be able to take a nap. Actually I’m not very tired right now which is weird. I think I tapped into my 6th energy source already. So I was trying to finish everything, and I realized I needed to do two more blogs. So my friend offered to do one of mine. Before you go all “academic misconduct” he accidently deleted it so I couldn’t even use it. But he did read his to me. It was about college. How we all have to do so much and just jump through little hoops for the teachers and all our degree says is that we can work hard. There are some not so bad parts too though.
Anyway I don’t know what to do for Christmas. All of my extended family lives in Florida, and it gets really annoying
Here are my two blogs really fast! So I forgot to blog yesterday because, well I just forgot. So here’s my two. I realized last night in bed and I was debating getting up and doing it when I was nerdy enough to do the math in my head and realized that if I got up that moment, I would only get one eighth of a point back. That’s when I realized that it wasn’t worth it, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. So now I want to write fast because it’s 2:51 AM and I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow still so I won’t be able to take a nap. Actually I’m not very tired right now which is weird. I think I tapped into my 6th energy source already. So I was trying to finish everything, and I realized I needed to do two more blogs. So my friend offered to do one of mine. Before you go all “academic misconduct” he accidently deleted it so I couldn’t even use it. But he did read his to me. It was about college. How we all have to do so much and just jump through little hoops for the teachers and all our degree says is that we can work hard. There are some not so bad parts too though.
Anyway I don’t know what to do for Christmas. All of my extended family lives in Florida, and it gets really annoying
Monday, November 15, 2010
Blog 54
Blog 54
The weekend = fun. This week = not fun. That’s how I feel about it. Yeah, no week is ever really fun, but his one is particularly bad, mainly because I have everything due at the end of the week. In my survey class, I have the 6 quarter projection project and a “library leap” assignment, both are due Friday. In English we have the commonplace essay due Thursday. In engineering I have a lab report due Thursday, and I have a math midterm Friday morning. Last week was pretty easy, so I should’ve done more and less procrastinating, but really I don’t have that strong of a start on anything. I’ll be relaxed after Friday evening though. And I got a printer, but it’s from 2003 so I can’t install the driver for it, so I have this bulking machine taking up my top shelf and it can’t really do anything….
Despite all the stress of this week, I’ve remained pretty calm. I have no idea why. I’m usually freaking out about everything, but I guess after being in college, where there’s actually constant stuff to freak out about, I’ve realized that freaking out doesn’t help anything. But it is only Monday. I’ll see how the rest of the week goes. I’m sure by Wednesday evening when I go to bed I’ll destroy anyone that crosses my path….
So I’m going to go to bed soon (hopefully). I only got 5 hours of sleep last night so if I want to make it through tomorrow I should try to get some sleep. It was particularly frustrating when my roommate went to bed before me and got up after me. I hate when that happens…
The weekend = fun. This week = not fun. That’s how I feel about it. Yeah, no week is ever really fun, but his one is particularly bad, mainly because I have everything due at the end of the week. In my survey class, I have the 6 quarter projection project and a “library leap” assignment, both are due Friday. In English we have the commonplace essay due Thursday. In engineering I have a lab report due Thursday, and I have a math midterm Friday morning. Last week was pretty easy, so I should’ve done more and less procrastinating, but really I don’t have that strong of a start on anything. I’ll be relaxed after Friday evening though. And I got a printer, but it’s from 2003 so I can’t install the driver for it, so I have this bulking machine taking up my top shelf and it can’t really do anything….
Despite all the stress of this week, I’ve remained pretty calm. I have no idea why. I’m usually freaking out about everything, but I guess after being in college, where there’s actually constant stuff to freak out about, I’ve realized that freaking out doesn’t help anything. But it is only Monday. I’ll see how the rest of the week goes. I’m sure by Wednesday evening when I go to bed I’ll destroy anyone that crosses my path….
So I’m going to go to bed soon (hopefully). I only got 5 hours of sleep last night so if I want to make it through tomorrow I should try to get some sleep. It was particularly frustrating when my roommate went to bed before me and got up after me. I hate when that happens…
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Blog 53
Blog 53
So today I want to rant about adults. My weekend at grand nationals was fun. It was at the Lucas Oil Stadium (where the Colts and Bengals played today). So at the end of semi-finals, one of our friends left to go sit with his girlfriend that is still in high school and had to sit in a certain spot. He also didn’t have his phone (it was dead because he left his charger at home). So after awards were over, we decided to stay where we were thinking that it would be easier for him to find us than the other way around. He knew where we were and we didn’t know where he was. So we just stayed in our seats, at the very top. The seats were pretty much empty. And then this guy that worked at Lucas Oil, at the bottom of our section, yelled up at us, “HEY, GET OUT OF HERE!” Like we knew we were doing something wrong and he needed us out that second. They needed to make sure everyone left for finals, but that wasn’t for another 2 hours, and we were only sitting there less than 10 minutes after awards concluded. So we left without any problems, but I just couldn’t believe how rude he was to us. I think it was because we were teenagers. If we were adults, maybe old people, he would’ve come up to us and asked us nicely to leave. You don’t yell at adults. But because we’re teenagers he thinks we’re up to no good and needs to yell at us. Believe it or not, there are actually teenagers that try to do the right thing, but sometimes they don’t know they’re doing something wrong.
So today I want to rant about adults. My weekend at grand nationals was fun. It was at the Lucas Oil Stadium (where the Colts and Bengals played today). So at the end of semi-finals, one of our friends left to go sit with his girlfriend that is still in high school and had to sit in a certain spot. He also didn’t have his phone (it was dead because he left his charger at home). So after awards were over, we decided to stay where we were thinking that it would be easier for him to find us than the other way around. He knew where we were and we didn’t know where he was. So we just stayed in our seats, at the very top. The seats were pretty much empty. And then this guy that worked at Lucas Oil, at the bottom of our section, yelled up at us, “HEY, GET OUT OF HERE!” Like we knew we were doing something wrong and he needed us out that second. They needed to make sure everyone left for finals, but that wasn’t for another 2 hours, and we were only sitting there less than 10 minutes after awards concluded. So we left without any problems, but I just couldn’t believe how rude he was to us. I think it was because we were teenagers. If we were adults, maybe old people, he would’ve come up to us and asked us nicely to leave. You don’t yell at adults. But because we’re teenagers he thinks we’re up to no good and needs to yell at us. Believe it or not, there are actually teenagers that try to do the right thing, but sometimes they don’t know they’re doing something wrong.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Blog 52
Blog 52
I can’t download the thing that installs the printer, and the printer in my dorm is very unreliable. So I want a printer, and I also want one that can scan/copy and one that can print nice photos on glossy paper. I’m a big photo fan, and I think it’d be cheaper to print from home than snapfish and definitely Walgreens. But I haven’t done any research yet, not like I have with computers. But right now I’m thinking Cannon. I still have to look at ink prices between brands, but any suggestions let me know.
So when I was home I met my sister’s boyfriend. His name is Matthew which is confusing because my boyfriend’s name is Matt. Oh well though, we don’t see each other that much. My sisters is 23 and she works for P&G but despite working for a big cooperation, is very indie. And she met someone that is just as indie as her! She’s in to Infomania on Current TV and The Books and old time movies. I’m just happy she met someone like her because I was convinced there was no one out there for her. :P So I’m excited to see where they go.
So now we’re driving to Indy to watch the marching band competition on Saturday. That’s why I wanted to do my blog now, because I knew that I would be too busy watching bands to have to worry about this! And I kind of like writing a freakishly long blog once and not have to worry about it for a while.
I can’t download the thing that installs the printer, and the printer in my dorm is very unreliable. So I want a printer, and I also want one that can scan/copy and one that can print nice photos on glossy paper. I’m a big photo fan, and I think it’d be cheaper to print from home than snapfish and definitely Walgreens. But I haven’t done any research yet, not like I have with computers. But right now I’m thinking Cannon. I still have to look at ink prices between brands, but any suggestions let me know.
So when I was home I met my sister’s boyfriend. His name is Matthew which is confusing because my boyfriend’s name is Matt. Oh well though, we don’t see each other that much. My sisters is 23 and she works for P&G but despite working for a big cooperation, is very indie. And she met someone that is just as indie as her! She’s in to Infomania on Current TV and The Books and old time movies. I’m just happy she met someone like her because I was convinced there was no one out there for her. :P So I’m excited to see where they go.
So now we’re driving to Indy to watch the marching band competition on Saturday. That’s why I wanted to do my blog now, because I knew that I would be too busy watching bands to have to worry about this! And I kind of like writing a freakishly long blog once and not have to worry about it for a while.
Blog 51
Blog 51
So I think I want to get a Sony Viao. What bothers me is that salesmen will only say good things about their products. I went to Wired Out, and they only have Dell’s and HP and when I asked about Sony’s, he’s like “they’re horrible” So yeah…. But the Micro Center guy said they were good, so I’m going to go with that. But now I have to actually decide what kind I want. I might go to Micro Center again to make sure what I’m going to order is exactly what I want. I probably going to spend around $1,500 on it, so I want it go count.
So I was talking to my mom about computers, and she saw one online, an HP that was a pretty good deal, she kept talking about it. I kept saying that I didn’t think I wanted it and I was still looking. Well when I went home, my mom showed me that she just bought the laptop, and had it there! She said either I could use it or she would or she would return it. I ultimately decided that I wanted to keep looking and get my own computer.
So now I’m also looking for a printer too. I want one for Christmas, because I don’t have one and need one for college. I’ve had many annoying memories trying to print things using Uniprint, but Uniprint kind of stinks.
So I think I want to get a Sony Viao. What bothers me is that salesmen will only say good things about their products. I went to Wired Out, and they only have Dell’s and HP and when I asked about Sony’s, he’s like “they’re horrible” So yeah…. But the Micro Center guy said they were good, so I’m going to go with that. But now I have to actually decide what kind I want. I might go to Micro Center again to make sure what I’m going to order is exactly what I want. I probably going to spend around $1,500 on it, so I want it go count.
So I was talking to my mom about computers, and she saw one online, an HP that was a pretty good deal, she kept talking about it. I kept saying that I didn’t think I wanted it and I was still looking. Well when I went home, my mom showed me that she just bought the laptop, and had it there! She said either I could use it or she would or she would return it. I ultimately decided that I wanted to keep looking and get my own computer.
So now I’m also looking for a printer too. I want one for Christmas, because I don’t have one and need one for college. I’ve had many annoying memories trying to print things using Uniprint, but Uniprint kind of stinks.
Blog 50
Blog 50 (and 51 and 52)
So forgot to blog last night. You’d think that with the day off I’d have plenty of time to write 250 words, apparently it’s harder though. So right now I’m going to right all 3 of my blogs continuously, one for yesterday, one for today, and one for tomorrow. Hope that’s alright.
Yesterday I woke up in my own bed. It was really nice. I have a queen bed at home, so I appreciated it compared to my twin bed at college. Before college I would sleep just on one side of my queen bed, but that night I took up the whole bed, I’ve never done that before. My mom said I looked funny.
Yesterday I had lunch at Skyline, because I never get to eat there at C-bus. Skyline is a Cincinnati thing, so it’s not really around. It you’re not familiar with Skyline, it’s a chili place. The most common thing is a “3-way” with noodles, chili and cheese. My favorite is a cheese coney which is a hotdog and bun topped with chili and cheese.
After lunch I went to Micro Center (a needier Best Buy) and looked at their lap tops. I don’t know if anyone else is like me, but I hate dealing with sales men. I always get so intimidated, I’ve gotten better though, because they actually are there to help, and they actually know what they’re talking about, and they’re not overly pushy. So the guy recommended Mac’s and Sony’s. I definitely don’t want a Mac, I don’t like the operating system.
So forgot to blog last night. You’d think that with the day off I’d have plenty of time to write 250 words, apparently it’s harder though. So right now I’m going to right all 3 of my blogs continuously, one for yesterday, one for today, and one for tomorrow. Hope that’s alright.
Yesterday I woke up in my own bed. It was really nice. I have a queen bed at home, so I appreciated it compared to my twin bed at college. Before college I would sleep just on one side of my queen bed, but that night I took up the whole bed, I’ve never done that before. My mom said I looked funny.
Yesterday I had lunch at Skyline, because I never get to eat there at C-bus. Skyline is a Cincinnati thing, so it’s not really around. It you’re not familiar with Skyline, it’s a chili place. The most common thing is a “3-way” with noodles, chili and cheese. My favorite is a cheese coney which is a hotdog and bun topped with chili and cheese.
After lunch I went to Micro Center (a needier Best Buy) and looked at their lap tops. I don’t know if anyone else is like me, but I hate dealing with sales men. I always get so intimidated, I’ve gotten better though, because they actually are there to help, and they actually know what they’re talking about, and they’re not overly pushy. So the guy recommended Mac’s and Sony’s. I definitely don’t want a Mac, I don’t like the operating system.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Blog 49
Blog 49
Home! If you’re trying to get extra credit for comments, then you probably know that I went home today. My first thought when I went home was, my house has a weird smell… It’s strange how something we’re use to and so familiar can seem so strange after a couple of weeks. I don’t think I could commute from home (not that I’m close enough) but my cats are too distracting. One of my cats rubbed her hear against my computer screen for 5 minutes, and then she laid down on my butt, and now she thinks my laptop case is a wonderful place to lay…
One of the things I like about going home is going shopping with your parents. I just got back from Kohl’s (We saved more than we spent, yippee!) it wasn’t a big event; it was more of something to do. I got a shirt, hat, and some socks.
Shortly after submitting this blog, I’m going to go to Sonic! I don’t know where it’s from, but there isn’t one on campus (that I know of). If you haven’t been to Sonic, you need to. The best thing about it is that it’s open until midnight- which is a big deal. The only places that are open past midnight where I’m from is Walmart and UDF. So it’s nice to get a cream slush without getting out of the car every once and a while. Plus, the Sonic I go to is right by Walmart. This makes an easy answer for “what do we do next?” When hanging out with friends. One time, we saw these people park at Sonic in a Walmart shopping cart!
Home! If you’re trying to get extra credit for comments, then you probably know that I went home today. My first thought when I went home was, my house has a weird smell… It’s strange how something we’re use to and so familiar can seem so strange after a couple of weeks. I don’t think I could commute from home (not that I’m close enough) but my cats are too distracting. One of my cats rubbed her hear against my computer screen for 5 minutes, and then she laid down on my butt, and now she thinks my laptop case is a wonderful place to lay…
One of the things I like about going home is going shopping with your parents. I just got back from Kohl’s (We saved more than we spent, yippee!) it wasn’t a big event; it was more of something to do. I got a shirt, hat, and some socks.
Shortly after submitting this blog, I’m going to go to Sonic! I don’t know where it’s from, but there isn’t one on campus (that I know of). If you haven’t been to Sonic, you need to. The best thing about it is that it’s open until midnight- which is a big deal. The only places that are open past midnight where I’m from is Walmart and UDF. So it’s nice to get a cream slush without getting out of the car every once and a while. Plus, the Sonic I go to is right by Walmart. This makes an easy answer for “what do we do next?” When hanging out with friends. One time, we saw these people park at Sonic in a Walmart shopping cart!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Blog 48
Blog 48
My current frustration is Excel. It stopped responding 5 times, so I’m going to go with that’s a sign that I should stop doing homework. And I have no problem with that.
So this has been a really easy week for me. Thursday are my really tough day, I have math due and lab reports. But conveniently, we have Thursday off, so I can relax. And our paper isn’t due until next week too. But I know I should be trying to do some homework now, but it’s really hard. I’m going to try to do some homework when I’m home though (YAY!). When I’m home though, I already have a list of things to do. I need to get my hair cut. I haven’t done that since last April… So it’s kind of gross now. And I’m going to do laundry. I need to wash my sheets so I might as well do all my laundry for the week to save me $5. And then I’m going to go to Micro Center (a needier Best Buy) to look at computers. I’m only going to be home one night, but I’m so excited. My mom is taking the day off tomorrow to get her car maintenanced and then coming up here when she’s done and we’re going to hang out (weird?) until my boyfriend is done with his last class. I have an easy day tomorrow because I have no survey recitation, also thanks to the holiday.
And today in English was boring but interesting. I enjoyed reading about people’s papers and critiquing them, but by the 7th one, I was beat.
My current frustration is Excel. It stopped responding 5 times, so I’m going to go with that’s a sign that I should stop doing homework. And I have no problem with that.
So this has been a really easy week for me. Thursday are my really tough day, I have math due and lab reports. But conveniently, we have Thursday off, so I can relax. And our paper isn’t due until next week too. But I know I should be trying to do some homework now, but it’s really hard. I’m going to try to do some homework when I’m home though (YAY!). When I’m home though, I already have a list of things to do. I need to get my hair cut. I haven’t done that since last April… So it’s kind of gross now. And I’m going to do laundry. I need to wash my sheets so I might as well do all my laundry for the week to save me $5. And then I’m going to go to Micro Center (a needier Best Buy) to look at computers. I’m only going to be home one night, but I’m so excited. My mom is taking the day off tomorrow to get her car maintenanced and then coming up here when she’s done and we’re going to hang out (weird?) until my boyfriend is done with his last class. I have an easy day tomorrow because I have no survey recitation, also thanks to the holiday.
And today in English was boring but interesting. I enjoyed reading about people’s papers and critiquing them, but by the 7th one, I was beat.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Blog 47
Blog 47
So I need to get a new computer soon. The once I have is refurbished and under $300 and a Toshiba, and 17” so it’s not very nice and extremely annoying to carry around. I didn’t get this laptop for college though. I got it at the beginning of my senior year. The desktop I was using I had for a while and my mom was tired of fixing it. Oh and my mom is very good with computers, which is nice. When I was 12 I got my first computer, but I wasn’t just a spoiled brat, she built it herself and I helped so it was cheaper. No, she didn’t build each individual piece of the hard drive and such, but she ordered all the parts and put them in and then put all of the software on it. At the time I didn’t know how smart my mom was with computers compared to everyone else’s parents. I’m probably one of the only kids of our generation that doesn’t have to explain how to use a computer to their mother- but don’t worry, I still have to teach her how to use her iPhone. So anyway, she was getting tired of fixing my desktop so she just went out and got me a laptop. But now, after having it one year, I’m ready for a new one. Note: I’m not getting a Mac so don’t waste your time trying to sell me one. (A couple of my friends have them and I don’t hear the end of it- there are actually good PC’s out there believe it or not)
So I need to get a new computer soon. The once I have is refurbished and under $300 and a Toshiba, and 17” so it’s not very nice and extremely annoying to carry around. I didn’t get this laptop for college though. I got it at the beginning of my senior year. The desktop I was using I had for a while and my mom was tired of fixing it. Oh and my mom is very good with computers, which is nice. When I was 12 I got my first computer, but I wasn’t just a spoiled brat, she built it herself and I helped so it was cheaper. No, she didn’t build each individual piece of the hard drive and such, but she ordered all the parts and put them in and then put all of the software on it. At the time I didn’t know how smart my mom was with computers compared to everyone else’s parents. I’m probably one of the only kids of our generation that doesn’t have to explain how to use a computer to their mother- but don’t worry, I still have to teach her how to use her iPhone. So anyway, she was getting tired of fixing my desktop so she just went out and got me a laptop. But now, after having it one year, I’m ready for a new one. Note: I’m not getting a Mac so don’t waste your time trying to sell me one. (A couple of my friends have them and I don’t hear the end of it- there are actually good PC’s out there believe it or not)
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Blog 46
Blog 46
Right now I’m watching The Office on Netflix- season 6. For some reason I only like watching The Office on Netflix, or when I can watch them back-to-back. I never really got into watching it each week on NBC. I’m going to go home this Wednesday for the first time this quarter. I’m super excited! This sounds lame, but I really miss my cats. I know I should miss my family more, but really, you can’t talk to your cats on the phone. It would be horrible if I couldn’t talk to my parents on the phone, or if they couldn’t visit me, but I can’t do that with my cats. So judge me if you want, but I really miss my cats. I’m going home because we have Thursday off, YAY, and this weekend is bands of America grand nationals in Indianapolis. So a couple of us from marching band at Ohio State are going, as well as a friend that goes to Bowling Green is meeting us Friday here, and we’re going over to Indy together. So we have to go back to Mason to get a car so we can go leave Saturday morning. So we’re going back to Mason Wednesday night, and I’m really excited to have some home-town classics like Skyline and SoHo hibachi grill.
So tonight we ate at our first ‘official High Street’ restaurant, Panda Express. It was pretty good. I liked the fried rice and orange chicken. American-Chinese food isn’t too bad.
Right now I’m watching The Office on Netflix- season 6. For some reason I only like watching The Office on Netflix, or when I can watch them back-to-back. I never really got into watching it each week on NBC. I’m going to go home this Wednesday for the first time this quarter. I’m super excited! This sounds lame, but I really miss my cats. I know I should miss my family more, but really, you can’t talk to your cats on the phone. It would be horrible if I couldn’t talk to my parents on the phone, or if they couldn’t visit me, but I can’t do that with my cats. So judge me if you want, but I really miss my cats. I’m going home because we have Thursday off, YAY, and this weekend is bands of America grand nationals in Indianapolis. So a couple of us from marching band at Ohio State are going, as well as a friend that goes to Bowling Green is meeting us Friday here, and we’re going over to Indy together. So we have to go back to Mason to get a car so we can go leave Saturday morning. So we’re going back to Mason Wednesday night, and I’m really excited to have some home-town classics like Skyline and SoHo hibachi grill.
So tonight we ate at our first ‘official High Street’ restaurant, Panda Express. It was pretty good. I liked the fried rice and orange chicken. American-Chinese food isn’t too bad.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Blog 45
Blog 45
So my boyfriend and I have this plan, to eat at every restaurant on High Street between Lane Avenue and 11th Street. It all started when I realized that swipes really suck. We’re spending (or I am at least) $9.60 on each meal, but each meal costs less than $8, besides traditions. So next quarter, to save some money, I want to pay most of my meals with buckID cash. And then I realized that all the restaurants on High take buckID, so why stick to campus food when I can eat anywhere I want? I know campus food isn’t that bad. I personally love the PAD and Mirror Lake. (I’m not a big fan of Market Place because it’s pretty busy most of the time.) But I know there are good choices. It’s just High street is a lot closer to me (in Taylor Tower) than any of those good places. And when people come to visit me, I can actually suggest a good place to go to that they haven’t been to. Also, High street has a lot of foreign food that I’m especially excited to try. We haven’t been to many places yet, just Donato’s, Noodles and Company, and Canes. I tried Cane’s for the first time tonight. I know it’s an OSU tradition, but I wasn’t that big a fan. The sauce was okay, just really peppery. I wouldn’t be totally against going there, but I wouldn’t suggest it. So our plan is to eat at all the restaurants besides the ones on wheels because that’s just crossing a line.
So my boyfriend and I have this plan, to eat at every restaurant on High Street between Lane Avenue and 11th Street. It all started when I realized that swipes really suck. We’re spending (or I am at least) $9.60 on each meal, but each meal costs less than $8, besides traditions. So next quarter, to save some money, I want to pay most of my meals with buckID cash. And then I realized that all the restaurants on High take buckID, so why stick to campus food when I can eat anywhere I want? I know campus food isn’t that bad. I personally love the PAD and Mirror Lake. (I’m not a big fan of Market Place because it’s pretty busy most of the time.) But I know there are good choices. It’s just High street is a lot closer to me (in Taylor Tower) than any of those good places. And when people come to visit me, I can actually suggest a good place to go to that they haven’t been to. Also, High street has a lot of foreign food that I’m especially excited to try. We haven’t been to many places yet, just Donato’s, Noodles and Company, and Canes. I tried Cane’s for the first time tonight. I know it’s an OSU tradition, but I wasn’t that big a fan. The sauce was okay, just really peppery. I wouldn’t be totally against going there, but I wouldn’t suggest it. So our plan is to eat at all the restaurants besides the ones on wheels because that’s just crossing a line.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Blog 44
Blog 44
My title is: Marriage is the New Young
Remember back in high school, that first day? You hesitantly step off the bus and look around, the building towers over you. Squeezing through the front door, you hope to find your locker with ease. Upperclassmen wiz by you with years of experience, and eventually you make it. Books in hand and bag in locker, you set out on a quest to find your first class. Walking nearly a mile, you see those golden numbers by the door that signifies that you’ve made it. You stumble inside and the cacophony from the hall way leaves you. You look around at the young faces like you, just as frightened. Half the seats already taken, you pick one at random. You look over at the person you’re going to be sharing a desk with for the next 3 months. “Hey, they’re kind of cute,” you think.
The rest of the semester becomes a blur. All you think is, “this person is great; they’re perfect for me.” You go on your first date, and quickly it becomes ‘Facebook’ official. After two months, you’re convinced. You plan to marry.
Teenagers are constantly getting married, and for good reason. You’re head-over-heels for them, right? Why wouldn’t you want to spend the rest of your life with them? And this way, you know you always have someone with you in case that pimple gets abnormally large.
My title is: Marriage is the New Young
Remember back in high school, that first day? You hesitantly step off the bus and look around, the building towers over you. Squeezing through the front door, you hope to find your locker with ease. Upperclassmen wiz by you with years of experience, and eventually you make it. Books in hand and bag in locker, you set out on a quest to find your first class. Walking nearly a mile, you see those golden numbers by the door that signifies that you’ve made it. You stumble inside and the cacophony from the hall way leaves you. You look around at the young faces like you, just as frightened. Half the seats already taken, you pick one at random. You look over at the person you’re going to be sharing a desk with for the next 3 months. “Hey, they’re kind of cute,” you think.
The rest of the semester becomes a blur. All you think is, “this person is great; they’re perfect for me.” You go on your first date, and quickly it becomes ‘Facebook’ official. After two months, you’re convinced. You plan to marry.
Teenagers are constantly getting married, and for good reason. You’re head-over-heels for them, right? Why wouldn’t you want to spend the rest of your life with them? And this way, you know you always have someone with you in case that pimple gets abnormally large.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Blog 43
Blog 43
I’m really glad this is a ‘blog about anything’ they’re my favorite, although it’s hard to think of a topic sometimes.
So I’ve been thinking about long distance relationships lately. I’m not in one or anything, but two of my friends were dating for 2.5 years, and just broke up. And for a relationship that started in high school, that’s pretty long. The girl was a freshman and the boy was a junior. When he graduated he went to Notre Dame, and she stayed in Mason (near Cincinnati). It was pretty clear they were going to break up, just a matter of time. I realize this is pretty pessimistic though. Anyway, what I can never understand about long distance relationships is why some people stay in them. I think there are two different types. The ones where it’s clear that the couple will be back in the same location. An example would be like a summer away at camp, or a semester abroad. These would still be difficult, but it’s doable and definitely worth a shot. The other scenario is when there seems to be no shot of a future where they will be together again. An example is my friends where they’re going to go to different colleges and it becomes the question of how long will they put up with this? At some point, someone is going to need to make a sacrifice for the other one, and locate near them, but that’s a pretty big leap for a high school relationship in my opinion.
I’m really glad this is a ‘blog about anything’ they’re my favorite, although it’s hard to think of a topic sometimes.
So I’ve been thinking about long distance relationships lately. I’m not in one or anything, but two of my friends were dating for 2.5 years, and just broke up. And for a relationship that started in high school, that’s pretty long. The girl was a freshman and the boy was a junior. When he graduated he went to Notre Dame, and she stayed in Mason (near Cincinnati). It was pretty clear they were going to break up, just a matter of time. I realize this is pretty pessimistic though. Anyway, what I can never understand about long distance relationships is why some people stay in them. I think there are two different types. The ones where it’s clear that the couple will be back in the same location. An example would be like a summer away at camp, or a semester abroad. These would still be difficult, but it’s doable and definitely worth a shot. The other scenario is when there seems to be no shot of a future where they will be together again. An example is my friends where they’re going to go to different colleges and it becomes the question of how long will they put up with this? At some point, someone is going to need to make a sacrifice for the other one, and locate near them, but that’s a pretty big leap for a high school relationship in my opinion.
Blog 42
Blog 42
So as my schedule has picked up (this is my second night past 2am, and now I’m nearly reaching 3am and I have an 8:30 class tomorrow and I won’t be able to nap until after English- so I may seem a little dead…) I’ve been doing some pondering about the hours in a day, because most people are complaining that there’s just not enough time.
So imagine that the sun got hotter, the earth moved rotated slower and moved farther away from the sun. This crazy scenario is supposed to represent a world where the days are actually longer, let’s say by 4 hours. But there are still 365 ‘new’ days in a year and it’s the same temperature we used to, because I hate the cold. So there are 4 extra hours in every day. BAM! What do you do with them? Or what will the world do with them?
So everyone complains, “if only I had more time” but is that the real solution? I think, with extra time in a day, we’ll enjoy it for a while, able to sleep a little more, spend more time with the family, ect. But I think eventually we’ll all just cram a bunch of stuff into our day anyway. It’s like the world can’t be ‘easy’ or ‘relaxing’ because then how do we know who’s best? That’s what college has been teaching me. Let’s make this really difficult, so we can really see who will shine.
So this went from a kind of cool creative topic to me complaining about college. Great.
So as my schedule has picked up (this is my second night past 2am, and now I’m nearly reaching 3am and I have an 8:30 class tomorrow and I won’t be able to nap until after English- so I may seem a little dead…) I’ve been doing some pondering about the hours in a day, because most people are complaining that there’s just not enough time.
So imagine that the sun got hotter, the earth moved rotated slower and moved farther away from the sun. This crazy scenario is supposed to represent a world where the days are actually longer, let’s say by 4 hours. But there are still 365 ‘new’ days in a year and it’s the same temperature we used to, because I hate the cold. So there are 4 extra hours in every day. BAM! What do you do with them? Or what will the world do with them?
So everyone complains, “if only I had more time” but is that the real solution? I think, with extra time in a day, we’ll enjoy it for a while, able to sleep a little more, spend more time with the family, ect. But I think eventually we’ll all just cram a bunch of stuff into our day anyway. It’s like the world can’t be ‘easy’ or ‘relaxing’ because then how do we know who’s best? That’s what college has been teaching me. Let’s make this really difficult, so we can really see who will shine.
So this went from a kind of cool creative topic to me complaining about college. Great.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Blog 41
Blog 41
Today was quite stressful with computers. It started when I tried to do part of my lab on inventor to test model stress on an object, but the stress analysis tab wasn’t there! It took me like an hour and a half to figure it out. And I emailed my GTA, and all she said was, “Well the directions say go the experiment then click stress analysis” yeah, I read that. I could’ve figured that out if I HAD the tab. Luckily I finally figured it out, and it took me 10 minutes to collect data. Then my computer. It decided a couple of days ago it didn’t want to connect to osuwireless. I thought it would pass, but it didn’t. So I call the help desk, they get me a new password, and then I had to wipe away my old pre-existing account. But when I tried typing in my password, it wouldn’t work. So now I have to take it into buckeyebar tomorrow. Fun.
Tonight we ate at Noodles and Company. And it was VERY nice for many reasons.
1) It was close. Closer than ANY campus location. I live in Taylor Tower.
2) There was no line
3) Someone brought us our food and we didn’t have to wait around for it
4) When we were done eating, we didn’t have to clean up.
5) The food tasted good.
So now I’m going to take a shower. It’s after 2am and I’m taking a shower. I feel like a college kid.
Today was quite stressful with computers. It started when I tried to do part of my lab on inventor to test model stress on an object, but the stress analysis tab wasn’t there! It took me like an hour and a half to figure it out. And I emailed my GTA, and all she said was, “Well the directions say go the experiment then click stress analysis” yeah, I read that. I could’ve figured that out if I HAD the tab. Luckily I finally figured it out, and it took me 10 minutes to collect data. Then my computer. It decided a couple of days ago it didn’t want to connect to osuwireless. I thought it would pass, but it didn’t. So I call the help desk, they get me a new password, and then I had to wipe away my old pre-existing account. But when I tried typing in my password, it wouldn’t work. So now I have to take it into buckeyebar tomorrow. Fun.
Tonight we ate at Noodles and Company. And it was VERY nice for many reasons.
1) It was close. Closer than ANY campus location. I live in Taylor Tower.
2) There was no line
3) Someone brought us our food and we didn’t have to wait around for it
4) When we were done eating, we didn’t have to clean up.
5) The food tasted good.
So now I’m going to take a shower. It’s after 2am and I’m taking a shower. I feel like a college kid.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Blog 40
Blog 40
So today was kind of strange. It started when my alarm was set for 8:15 on my phone ( Iphone 3G) and it went off at 7:15, one hour early. This continued for all my other alarms, and I was so confused why my alarm read 8:15, and my phone clock said 7:15 and why the alarm was going off. I kept thinking about daylight savings time and what if I actually was going to miss my class. After my third alarm went off at 7:50 when I didn’t need to be up for another hour, I was quite frustrated, I struggled falling back asleep. I told my friends this, they didn’t believe me. So we, “performed” an experiment. Set one 2 minutes ahead, it didn’t go off. Set one for an hour and two minutes ahead, it DID go off. They were convinced my phone was mess-up. So then I got home and did some research. It seemed like a popular thing that’s been happening to people. They say it’s a little ‘bug’ and some people have been going off an hour late even. So I guess I’m thankful that didn’t happen to me because I had a quiz this morning that was pretty easy so I didn’t want to miss easy points. So I kept reading, and someone said it happened because the alarm setting was set to happen every day verses a one day or ever four or five day occurrence. Like what anyone else would do, immediately I tried it. AND IT WORKED! For some reason, having it set to not every day, works. But still, I’m a little afraid about tomorrow morning waking up in time.
So today was kind of strange. It started when my alarm was set for 8:15 on my phone ( Iphone 3G) and it went off at 7:15, one hour early. This continued for all my other alarms, and I was so confused why my alarm read 8:15, and my phone clock said 7:15 and why the alarm was going off. I kept thinking about daylight savings time and what if I actually was going to miss my class. After my third alarm went off at 7:50 when I didn’t need to be up for another hour, I was quite frustrated, I struggled falling back asleep. I told my friends this, they didn’t believe me. So we, “performed” an experiment. Set one 2 minutes ahead, it didn’t go off. Set one for an hour and two minutes ahead, it DID go off. They were convinced my phone was mess-up. So then I got home and did some research. It seemed like a popular thing that’s been happening to people. They say it’s a little ‘bug’ and some people have been going off an hour late even. So I guess I’m thankful that didn’t happen to me because I had a quiz this morning that was pretty easy so I didn’t want to miss easy points. So I kept reading, and someone said it happened because the alarm setting was set to happen every day verses a one day or ever four or five day occurrence. Like what anyone else would do, immediately I tried it. AND IT WORKED! For some reason, having it set to not every day, works. But still, I’m a little afraid about tomorrow morning waking up in time.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Blog 39
Blog 39
Happy Halloween!
So last night we stayed up later than usual, and we were walking around at 3 am, and we realized it’s very entertaining. First of all last night was because people were dressed up and you could guess who they were. Also, you could judge all the sluts that like to take full advantage of Halloween. Secondly it was fun to guess if people were drunk or sober. Or maybe the question was how drunk? So if you’re not into the party scene and enjoying judging others, you may want to try this.
So I’m listening to band music. This weekend I’ve been a pretty large band nerd especially. I’m listening to Symphonic Songs for Band by Bennett!
Last Thursday night my sister came from Charlotte to stay the night, and then went to Cincinnati to visit with the rest of my family. And then I guess last night she partied with my other sister and one of her friends, and her friend (Sara) left her purse in my sister’s car! So my sister stopped by again this morning and I had to run out and get it from her. So tomorrow, my other sister from Cincinnati is driving up with Sara to get her purse. And then I’m going to show them my room and we’re going to get dinner at Noodles and Company. I told my mom this story and she said that was quite ditzy of Sara to do that, I enjoy my mother sometimes.
Happy Halloween!
So last night we stayed up later than usual, and we were walking around at 3 am, and we realized it’s very entertaining. First of all last night was because people were dressed up and you could guess who they were. Also, you could judge all the sluts that like to take full advantage of Halloween. Secondly it was fun to guess if people were drunk or sober. Or maybe the question was how drunk? So if you’re not into the party scene and enjoying judging others, you may want to try this.
So I’m listening to band music. This weekend I’ve been a pretty large band nerd especially. I’m listening to Symphonic Songs for Band by Bennett!
Last Thursday night my sister came from Charlotte to stay the night, and then went to Cincinnati to visit with the rest of my family. And then I guess last night she partied with my other sister and one of her friends, and her friend (Sara) left her purse in my sister’s car! So my sister stopped by again this morning and I had to run out and get it from her. So tomorrow, my other sister from Cincinnati is driving up with Sara to get her purse. And then I’m going to show them my room and we’re going to get dinner at Noodles and Company. I told my mom this story and she said that was quite ditzy of Sara to do that, I enjoy my mother sometimes.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Blog 38
Blog 38
Marching Band! If you aren’t a fan of marching band, you may not like this post….
So right now a couple of friends and I are watching two different marching band competitions online. One is in Atlanta and the other is in San Antonio. We’re not that big of nerds. Or maybe we are. Let me explain a little bit. So where we’re from, Mason, which has a growing marching band. We already have a nationally known concert band, for about 6 years now. Our next goal, is to get a nationally known marching band. 5 years ago we tried marching ridiculously hard music while marching terrible drill. 2 years ago we got a new music and drill writer. So, just graduating we are kind of into music. We can watch it online on the Fan Network website. This weekend is regional weekend. The last regional competition Mason did, they won. So we’re excited to see how they do tonight, even though they probably won’t win because there is a lot of competition. The goal at the end of the season is to make it into finals at the grand nationals in Indianapolis in a couple of weeks. They only accept the top 12, and we were 22 last year. So there still isn’t a big chance we’ll make it in this year, but it’s kind of what we’re going for. And at this competition today in Atlanta, where Mason is competing, there are a couple of bands that have made it in recently. And the thing with marching band judging, is that it’s completely subjective. The judges are afraid of giving a “good” band a low score. And equally afraid of giving a “bad” band a high score. So it is definitely about getting a name for yourself as a band.
Marching Band! If you aren’t a fan of marching band, you may not like this post….
So right now a couple of friends and I are watching two different marching band competitions online. One is in Atlanta and the other is in San Antonio. We’re not that big of nerds. Or maybe we are. Let me explain a little bit. So where we’re from, Mason, which has a growing marching band. We already have a nationally known concert band, for about 6 years now. Our next goal, is to get a nationally known marching band. 5 years ago we tried marching ridiculously hard music while marching terrible drill. 2 years ago we got a new music and drill writer. So, just graduating we are kind of into music. We can watch it online on the Fan Network website. This weekend is regional weekend. The last regional competition Mason did, they won. So we’re excited to see how they do tonight, even though they probably won’t win because there is a lot of competition. The goal at the end of the season is to make it into finals at the grand nationals in Indianapolis in a couple of weeks. They only accept the top 12, and we were 22 last year. So there still isn’t a big chance we’ll make it in this year, but it’s kind of what we’re going for. And at this competition today in Atlanta, where Mason is competing, there are a couple of bands that have made it in recently. And the thing with marching band judging, is that it’s completely subjective. The judges are afraid of giving a “good” band a low score. And equally afraid of giving a “bad” band a high score. So it is definitely about getting a name for yourself as a band.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Blog 37
Blog 37
Note: if you are choosing to read this blog, I may seem kind of whiny.
So I just finished my paper, which is a big relief. Especially because I started it today. It’s uncanny how easy it is to find a study place on a Friday afternoon. And writing this paper was really hard, especially because I kept changing my topic, so I’m expecting a really poor grade and I know I have to do a lot more with it. I didn’t mean to wait until today to actually start writing my paper, it just happened this way. I just had a pretty stressful week. It was probably because I didn’t do much homework over the weekend, but every night I was doing about 4-5 hours of homework, so I don’t know what you think, but I think it’s not slacking. It’s just I had a lot on my plate. I had 2 lab reports due in engineering. They weren’t full reports. One was revision from our first one, and the other was just a worksheet. Even though they weren’t “full” ones, they were still time consuming. And then this morning I had a midterm in math. It was over series and sequences. I don’t know how many of you have had a class in those, but they’re a pain, and for me the hardest thing to understand. Math comes pretty easily to me, but I still had to actually study for it. So my Starbucks Frappuccino is wearing off now and I don’t know how far I’ll make it until I just fall asleep…
Note: if you are choosing to read this blog, I may seem kind of whiny.
So I just finished my paper, which is a big relief. Especially because I started it today. It’s uncanny how easy it is to find a study place on a Friday afternoon. And writing this paper was really hard, especially because I kept changing my topic, so I’m expecting a really poor grade and I know I have to do a lot more with it. I didn’t mean to wait until today to actually start writing my paper, it just happened this way. I just had a pretty stressful week. It was probably because I didn’t do much homework over the weekend, but every night I was doing about 4-5 hours of homework, so I don’t know what you think, but I think it’s not slacking. It’s just I had a lot on my plate. I had 2 lab reports due in engineering. They weren’t full reports. One was revision from our first one, and the other was just a worksheet. Even though they weren’t “full” ones, they were still time consuming. And then this morning I had a midterm in math. It was over series and sequences. I don’t know how many of you have had a class in those, but they’re a pain, and for me the hardest thing to understand. Math comes pretty easily to me, but I still had to actually study for it. So my Starbucks Frappuccino is wearing off now and I don’t know how far I’ll make it until I just fall asleep…
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Blog 36
Blog 36
I look out into a sea of empty tables, which one to choose? There are some by the window, that’s nice. But it’s farther away from me. Some empty tables sit before me, mocking me with filth. There’s a couple sitting by some over there, but they could be too loud. They could inturrupt my dinning experience. I feel the food in my hands getting colder, desperately waiting to be eaten. If only I could decided on a table. I’m not OCD or ADD, just indecisive. What if I pick the wrong one? If I pick this one, would that one over there be better? Would I have had a better time at that one? These thoughts will filter through part of my mind, while the other side is screaming at it to shut up. IT DOESN’T MATTER, I say. But deep down I still think it does. Quickly I sit down randomly and eat my food.
Imagine you’re given $100 to spend in a mall. Great, right? Not quite. You only have $100, but what to spend it on? Fashion that none of your friends will understand, or that new ipod nano? Everytime we’re given something good, it turns evil and betrays us. You would walk down the mall, gazing at each window, deciding, is this worth it? Grace washes over you and you wonder whether you should purchase something for someone else, but the question still comes in, what? There are billions of choices in the mall? Should you purchase 400 gumballs? Or that one “big-ticket” item? What would be the best for your money? You finally find something, but can you find it cheeper somewhere else? Maybe then you could get two things. Your greed and efficiency would work evily together.
I look out into a sea of empty tables, which one to choose? There are some by the window, that’s nice. But it’s farther away from me. Some empty tables sit before me, mocking me with filth. There’s a couple sitting by some over there, but they could be too loud. They could inturrupt my dinning experience. I feel the food in my hands getting colder, desperately waiting to be eaten. If only I could decided on a table. I’m not OCD or ADD, just indecisive. What if I pick the wrong one? If I pick this one, would that one over there be better? Would I have had a better time at that one? These thoughts will filter through part of my mind, while the other side is screaming at it to shut up. IT DOESN’T MATTER, I say. But deep down I still think it does. Quickly I sit down randomly and eat my food.
Imagine you’re given $100 to spend in a mall. Great, right? Not quite. You only have $100, but what to spend it on? Fashion that none of your friends will understand, or that new ipod nano? Everytime we’re given something good, it turns evil and betrays us. You would walk down the mall, gazing at each window, deciding, is this worth it? Grace washes over you and you wonder whether you should purchase something for someone else, but the question still comes in, what? There are billions of choices in the mall? Should you purchase 400 gumballs? Or that one “big-ticket” item? What would be the best for your money? You finally find something, but can you find it cheeper somewhere else? Maybe then you could get two things. Your greed and efficiency would work evily together.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Blog 35
Blog 35
On Commonplace, I read the article titled, “Diversity or Discrimination?” It was about the various diversity efforts on campus, but really they are discriminating the majority. The author stated that before we can have true diversity, we have to treat everyone equally. This is a very good point. Everyone is trying to get strait to diversity because that’s what attracts the people with the money, but really it should be about equality. I think all races can relate to this article, but I think I can in a couple of ways. First, I live in Taylor Tower, and I’m pretty sure ALL the Chinese people (the ones that JUST came from China) live here, and my roommate is from China. So this is like the learning communities around campus that the author talked about. I see why someone decided to put all the Chinese together, but it’s probably a lot worse for them. I don’t know about all the Chinese here, but my roommate doesn’t have that good of English. I mean it’s far better than any language I can learn, but it’s not perfect. She will ask me questions what words mean and it’s hard to have a simple conversation with her ever. So I know what it’s like to be across the world and just want to see something familiar, but I think it would be better if they would meet other people that spoke English. Another example comes from home. I was in band, and there was a group of us that are all attending Ohio State. One of us got LOWER test scores and lived in a NICER house. He is African-American; can you guess which one isn’t paying for tuition?
On Commonplace, I read the article titled, “Diversity or Discrimination?” It was about the various diversity efforts on campus, but really they are discriminating the majority. The author stated that before we can have true diversity, we have to treat everyone equally. This is a very good point. Everyone is trying to get strait to diversity because that’s what attracts the people with the money, but really it should be about equality. I think all races can relate to this article, but I think I can in a couple of ways. First, I live in Taylor Tower, and I’m pretty sure ALL the Chinese people (the ones that JUST came from China) live here, and my roommate is from China. So this is like the learning communities around campus that the author talked about. I see why someone decided to put all the Chinese together, but it’s probably a lot worse for them. I don’t know about all the Chinese here, but my roommate doesn’t have that good of English. I mean it’s far better than any language I can learn, but it’s not perfect. She will ask me questions what words mean and it’s hard to have a simple conversation with her ever. So I know what it’s like to be across the world and just want to see something familiar, but I think it would be better if they would meet other people that spoke English. Another example comes from home. I was in band, and there was a group of us that are all attending Ohio State. One of us got LOWER test scores and lived in a NICER house. He is African-American; can you guess which one isn’t paying for tuition?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Blog 34
So I’ve changed my APA paper yet again, so it’s now about Buffy and Angel’s relationship and how their love can’t conquer all. I’m going to try really hard not my let my paper sound mushy though. But I’m looking at young relationships and why they don’t work, basically that people change over time. So I really like the idea of a satire paper, so one of the ideas I have is saying the right age to get married is at 14. I like the idea of a satire because it catches the attention of our generation with a little attitude and humor. So with a satire, it’s pretty simple, but I would highlight reasons to get married at 14 that really are reasons why the youth is dumb and think their high school relationship is going to last.
If I happened to not be in a humorous mood, I thought of a more serious paper topic. This would be answering the question whether younger or older couples are happier. I would probably take the side of the younger because I think it is more commonly believed that older couples are happier, maybe not though. But I think this topic is interesting because really which is happier? Younger couples, not married, just in high school live a stress-free life comparably. They don’t have bills to pay or the pressure to keep their job or worrying about their security. For the younger couples, it’s their parents that worry about that. But then what about the older couples? They live a stressful life worrying about kids and jobs and the future. So is “young and in love” always the best?
If I happened to not be in a humorous mood, I thought of a more serious paper topic. This would be answering the question whether younger or older couples are happier. I would probably take the side of the younger because I think it is more commonly believed that older couples are happier, maybe not though. But I think this topic is interesting because really which is happier? Younger couples, not married, just in high school live a stress-free life comparably. They don’t have bills to pay or the pressure to keep their job or worrying about their security. For the younger couples, it’s their parents that worry about that. But then what about the older couples? They live a stressful life worrying about kids and jobs and the future. So is “young and in love” always the best?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Blog 33
Blog 33
When I get up in the morning, I like to watch some TV while I eat my breakfast. This morning I watched “When Harry Met Sally” This is an oldie but goodie. Warning: it is a chick flick. For some reason, the baby boomers take all the good chick flicks or romantic comedies in their generation. I’m not that savvy on the subject, so I can’t name all of them, but “When Harry Met Sally” is definitely a classic and so is “Sleepless in Seattle”. Both are Meg Ryan movies, but “Sleepless in Seattle” is not very good. It’s about this creep girl that falls in love with a man (Tom Hanks) over that radio, and then they end up together. I love a good romance story, but I just can’t get caught up into that, it’s just not believable. “When Harry Met Sally” isn’t much better if you think about it. Harry is an ass at the beginning of the movie and he and sally are friends, then suddenly he changes and wants love. This is just giving girls false hope that their best friend that “seems” like he doesn’t like her, will one day just wake up and realize they should be together. Not very realistic. My favorite that the generation took was “You Got Mail”, another Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. This still isn’t very realistic, but at least it’s cute. Ryan owns a small bookstore that goes out of business by Hanks giant chain bookstore down the street. The ending? They fall in love. Shocker. Yeah I like to get lost into a good chick flick and think it’s true, but then I come back to reality and realize it’s very far from actual life.
When I get up in the morning, I like to watch some TV while I eat my breakfast. This morning I watched “When Harry Met Sally” This is an oldie but goodie. Warning: it is a chick flick. For some reason, the baby boomers take all the good chick flicks or romantic comedies in their generation. I’m not that savvy on the subject, so I can’t name all of them, but “When Harry Met Sally” is definitely a classic and so is “Sleepless in Seattle”. Both are Meg Ryan movies, but “Sleepless in Seattle” is not very good. It’s about this creep girl that falls in love with a man (Tom Hanks) over that radio, and then they end up together. I love a good romance story, but I just can’t get caught up into that, it’s just not believable. “When Harry Met Sally” isn’t much better if you think about it. Harry is an ass at the beginning of the movie and he and sally are friends, then suddenly he changes and wants love. This is just giving girls false hope that their best friend that “seems” like he doesn’t like her, will one day just wake up and realize they should be together. Not very realistic. My favorite that the generation took was “You Got Mail”, another Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. This still isn’t very realistic, but at least it’s cute. Ryan owns a small bookstore that goes out of business by Hanks giant chain bookstore down the street. The ending? They fall in love. Shocker. Yeah I like to get lost into a good chick flick and think it’s true, but then I come back to reality and realize it’s very far from actual life.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Blog 32
Blog 32
Today I ate at a traditions dining place for the first time. I got brunch at Baker Commons. Baker Commons is pretty hard to find. Baker Hall is pretty larger, and also hard to find. I was confused when the east and west lobby look exactly the same. But Baker Hall shouldn’t have been hard to find. Not with the address which we had. We were stuck using just our internet phones and not using our heads. With the address we should’ve looked at the number and realized they were going down so we needed to keep going. We were confused why our phones said we were in the right spot though. This reminded me of high school when we use to use our calculators for everything. Then we had this one teacher that made us not use it, and how difficult that was. She would always ask why we put negative values for distance, and then get upset when we told her that’s what our calculator said. Anyway, back to the traditions dining, it was okay. I think I like mirror lake café or the PAD better, but it’s not terrible. I would like to go to a different one every once and a while and stock up on chocolate milks. Those are my favorite.
On a different note I was thinking about these blogs. I don’t want to complain about them, I just think I would hate them less if the assignment was 7 a week instead of 1 a day, so we would be able to procrastinate every once and a while and still get full credit. Or even maybe 1750 words per week where the blog about anything could be accumulative, because sometimes I have more to say some days verses other days.
Today I ate at a traditions dining place for the first time. I got brunch at Baker Commons. Baker Commons is pretty hard to find. Baker Hall is pretty larger, and also hard to find. I was confused when the east and west lobby look exactly the same. But Baker Hall shouldn’t have been hard to find. Not with the address which we had. We were stuck using just our internet phones and not using our heads. With the address we should’ve looked at the number and realized they were going down so we needed to keep going. We were confused why our phones said we were in the right spot though. This reminded me of high school when we use to use our calculators for everything. Then we had this one teacher that made us not use it, and how difficult that was. She would always ask why we put negative values for distance, and then get upset when we told her that’s what our calculator said. Anyway, back to the traditions dining, it was okay. I think I like mirror lake café or the PAD better, but it’s not terrible. I would like to go to a different one every once and a while and stock up on chocolate milks. Those are my favorite.
On a different note I was thinking about these blogs. I don’t want to complain about them, I just think I would hate them less if the assignment was 7 a week instead of 1 a day, so we would be able to procrastinate every once and a while and still get full credit. Or even maybe 1750 words per week where the blog about anything could be accumulative, because sometimes I have more to say some days verses other days.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Blog 31
Blog 31
I usually don’t talk about my day because my day is usually boring and uninteresting. But today, I think, my day was actually interesting. So I woke up at 10 and once I was ready I tried to get lunch. I learned that it’s hard to find a place to eat on Saturday’s or even on game days. Originally we wanted to go to the PAD, but they’re closed. So we thought we’d settle for North Commons, but they were closed too. We thought we’d try Oxley’s Café on our way to the stadium, but SURPRISE, they were closed too. Finally we went to the RPAC. Then we went to the BOILER game. This game wasn’t very interesting. But I liked it better than the last one I went to because I could actually sit down some of the time. We decided to leave after OSU got 28 points because it was pretty much a shutout from there, and we had places to be. We took a trip to Easton Mall. I’ve only been there once before during the summer, but this was the first time traveling by bus to get there- and really the first time using the COTA busses in general. Getting there and back was pretty simple, thanks to IPhones. It’s really easy to just put it into Google maps to find how to get to the destination. I’m sure without the IPhone, it would’ve been much harder. At Easton my favorite part was getting YagÓ§Ó§t for the first time in over a month. If you are unfamiliar, YagÓ§Ó§t is a delicious frozen yogurt place. I got their specialty flavor, pumpkin. Absolutely wonderful.
I usually don’t talk about my day because my day is usually boring and uninteresting. But today, I think, my day was actually interesting. So I woke up at 10 and once I was ready I tried to get lunch. I learned that it’s hard to find a place to eat on Saturday’s or even on game days. Originally we wanted to go to the PAD, but they’re closed. So we thought we’d settle for North Commons, but they were closed too. We thought we’d try Oxley’s Café on our way to the stadium, but SURPRISE, they were closed too. Finally we went to the RPAC. Then we went to the BOILER game. This game wasn’t very interesting. But I liked it better than the last one I went to because I could actually sit down some of the time. We decided to leave after OSU got 28 points because it was pretty much a shutout from there, and we had places to be. We took a trip to Easton Mall. I’ve only been there once before during the summer, but this was the first time traveling by bus to get there- and really the first time using the COTA busses in general. Getting there and back was pretty simple, thanks to IPhones. It’s really easy to just put it into Google maps to find how to get to the destination. I’m sure without the IPhone, it would’ve been much harder. At Easton my favorite part was getting YagÓ§Ó§t for the first time in over a month. If you are unfamiliar, YagÓ§Ó§t is a delicious frozen yogurt place. I got their specialty flavor, pumpkin. Absolutely wonderful.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Blog 30
Blog 30
I just watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” This is a must see movie if you managed not to see it yet. I like it a lot but it’s definitely not my favorite. I think it relates to guys more than girls. I think some part of every guy wants to be Ferris Bueller for a day. I can’t really relate to it that much because my high school started at 7:15 every day so my day off would include sleeping until noon, and then just chilling for the rest of the day. I wouldn’t want to be running around the city, except I wouldn’t mind Chicago. Chicago is one of my favorite cities, except it’s on the more dangerous side, but every big city kind of is. I like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” because it highlights some of the land marks in Chicago. The last I’ve been to Chicago was for a Wind Symphony trip when I was a sophomore. It was the best trip we’ve gone on during my years in Wind Symphony. It was just so relaxed, we could do whatever we wanted, and we were treated not like freshmen. We got to go to the Chicago Art Museum, and we saw that one piece that Cameron stares at forever.
Watching that movie again reminded me of other movies I should see again that are great. One of them is “Pleasantville”. This is about a teenage boy and girl going into the TV and becoming a part of a 60’s sitcom is black and white. As the boy and girl bring their current aged mishaps into the 60’s sitcom, color starts to emerge and the town is turned upside down. Definitely a must see!
I just watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” This is a must see movie if you managed not to see it yet. I like it a lot but it’s definitely not my favorite. I think it relates to guys more than girls. I think some part of every guy wants to be Ferris Bueller for a day. I can’t really relate to it that much because my high school started at 7:15 every day so my day off would include sleeping until noon, and then just chilling for the rest of the day. I wouldn’t want to be running around the city, except I wouldn’t mind Chicago. Chicago is one of my favorite cities, except it’s on the more dangerous side, but every big city kind of is. I like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” because it highlights some of the land marks in Chicago. The last I’ve been to Chicago was for a Wind Symphony trip when I was a sophomore. It was the best trip we’ve gone on during my years in Wind Symphony. It was just so relaxed, we could do whatever we wanted, and we were treated not like freshmen. We got to go to the Chicago Art Museum, and we saw that one piece that Cameron stares at forever.
Watching that movie again reminded me of other movies I should see again that are great. One of them is “Pleasantville”. This is about a teenage boy and girl going into the TV and becoming a part of a 60’s sitcom is black and white. As the boy and girl bring their current aged mishaps into the 60’s sitcom, color starts to emerge and the town is turned upside down. Definitely a must see!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Blog 29
Blog 29
So I kind of have a while to go on my paper I feel like because I haven’t really established my real world connection yet. Luckily I feel like I’m pretty close to my argument, it’s just once I have my real world connection I’ll be able to define it more clearly.
So I’m still dealing with Angel and how he went from getting a chance of a lifetime to be with the love of his life Buffy as a human, to returning to be a vampire. This is quite odd behavior so I decided to look at it a little closer. I went from thinking that the writers thought it was bad for people to return to who they were, to saying it’s good for people to return to who they are.
So the first part of my argument is that people sacrifice the thing they want most to remain the same and to keep their identity. The second part of my argument is asking if this is bad. Is it bad to make sacrifices and to stop the personal growth? I’m hoping I’ll be able to find some research about personal growth and when it’s important of necessary and when it is good to stay the same.
So for my real world example, I need someone or group that sacrifices something in order to remain the same. I’ve looked at devoted high school athletes that get injured, but they didn’t want to get injured so they didn’t really sacrifice anything. I’ve looked at women who get a ton of plastic surgery; they sacrifice their self-esteem to appear young. And I’ve looked at workaholics. They sacrifice their family in order to perpetually work, but I don’t know how much that affects their personal growth verses general quality of life.
I think workaholics are my best real world example, but I still don’t think I’ve found the quintessential example for my argument yet.
So I kind of have a while to go on my paper I feel like because I haven’t really established my real world connection yet. Luckily I feel like I’m pretty close to my argument, it’s just once I have my real world connection I’ll be able to define it more clearly.
So I’m still dealing with Angel and how he went from getting a chance of a lifetime to be with the love of his life Buffy as a human, to returning to be a vampire. This is quite odd behavior so I decided to look at it a little closer. I went from thinking that the writers thought it was bad for people to return to who they were, to saying it’s good for people to return to who they are.
So the first part of my argument is that people sacrifice the thing they want most to remain the same and to keep their identity. The second part of my argument is asking if this is bad. Is it bad to make sacrifices and to stop the personal growth? I’m hoping I’ll be able to find some research about personal growth and when it’s important of necessary and when it is good to stay the same.
So for my real world example, I need someone or group that sacrifices something in order to remain the same. I’ve looked at devoted high school athletes that get injured, but they didn’t want to get injured so they didn’t really sacrifice anything. I’ve looked at women who get a ton of plastic surgery; they sacrifice their self-esteem to appear young. And I’ve looked at workaholics. They sacrifice their family in order to perpetually work, but I don’t know how much that affects their personal growth verses general quality of life.
I think workaholics are my best real world example, but I still don’t think I’ve found the quintessential example for my argument yet.
Blog 28
I forgot to blog yesterday because I WENT TO SEE AZIZ!!!!!!! It was really funny, and the opening comedian Dan Levi or something was quite funny too. The only thing about this experience, is that I realized how much I hate waiting in lines. That would be my only complaint about Ohio State, it’s that I don’t like waiting in lines. I like the big school because of all the opportunities, and you’re going to find something you like here, it’s just I hate crowds. Most days it’s not a big deal. I just try not to eat at crowded times, but last night, at an event that popular, it was pretty crowded. The other thing about Aziz was the venue… We were just in this giant room with a lot of chairs. I guess that’s probably the biggest place they have to hold people, but still it would’ve been nicer to be in a more auditorium setting. And then with being in a big room with a bunch of chairs, the seat number and row didn’t matter, it was just first come first serve, and we didn’t know that. There was this very big line, and we didn’t know it was happening so we chilled in the student organizations room in the Union- which is a very cool place if you haven’t been there. So we try to get into the grand ballroom, but it’s roped off, so we go back downstairs, outside, walk to the end of the line, to just walk back inside, go up the stairs, and get back to the ballroom. That was kind of frustrating. So next time I do an OUAB event I’ll know there IS going to be a line, so I should get there early if I want good seats. Overall though, like I said, it was very enjoyable, and I’m glad I went.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Blog 27
Blog 27
Glee. I’m running out of things to talk about, so I’m watching Glee right now. It’s a re-run tonight, which is kind of annoying. I hate it when all week you’re looking forward to a new episode of a certain show, like Glee, to only find out when you sit down that it’s just a re-run. So I haven’t been a gleek all along. I don’t actually consider myself a gleek right now, but I do enjoy watching the show. I’m in band- or was at least in high school, so I have a great appreciation for music. I don’t miss band a lot, but I still do a little. I won’t ever go out for The Ohio State Marching Band because I’m not that athletic, and that’s too much work. And I might do a concert band, but I hear those are really hard to get into. I don’t think I would have too much of a problem getting into one if I tried to over the summer and kept playing, but I haven’t really practiced since last June. I play trombone, a brass instrument, and brass instruments really require a lot of muscle in the upper lip. Since I haven’t practiced since June, it will take a lot of work to come back to my level of playing, so I don’t really want to do that. I could join a more relaxed concert band, but that would be just too different from my band back home that was super serious. So I think I’ll just settle for an athletic band, besides I think it would be weird if I didn’t know how to play my fight song.
Glee. I’m running out of things to talk about, so I’m watching Glee right now. It’s a re-run tonight, which is kind of annoying. I hate it when all week you’re looking forward to a new episode of a certain show, like Glee, to only find out when you sit down that it’s just a re-run. So I haven’t been a gleek all along. I don’t actually consider myself a gleek right now, but I do enjoy watching the show. I’m in band- or was at least in high school, so I have a great appreciation for music. I don’t miss band a lot, but I still do a little. I won’t ever go out for The Ohio State Marching Band because I’m not that athletic, and that’s too much work. And I might do a concert band, but I hear those are really hard to get into. I don’t think I would have too much of a problem getting into one if I tried to over the summer and kept playing, but I haven’t really practiced since last June. I play trombone, a brass instrument, and brass instruments really require a lot of muscle in the upper lip. Since I haven’t practiced since June, it will take a lot of work to come back to my level of playing, so I don’t really want to do that. I could join a more relaxed concert band, but that would be just too different from my band back home that was super serious. So I think I’ll just settle for an athletic band, besides I think it would be weird if I didn’t know how to play my fight song.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Blog 26
Blog 26: Scheduling
I’m writing about this because that is what’s currently on my mind. If I were not typing this blog right now I’d be working on my scheduling stuff because I schedule tomorrow. I schedule tomorrow at 5:15 which is earlier than most people because I’m in honors, but it’s later than a lot of people in the honors. Early scheduling for honors is nice because we schedule early, obviously, but it’s still hard because most of my classes are FEH based so their honors, so I’m competing to get the seats in classes against people that have their window open earlier than mine. Also for scheduling, I’m going to schedule my friend because his window opens at 4, but with marching band he’s not free until after 6. So I said I would schedule his classes to make his life a little easier. Neither of us has had to schedule classes yet because we’re in FEH and apparently all we had to do was circle what math class we wanted and what science class we would take based on how many science credit hours we got. I got out of 3 different science classes so I originally wanted to take Chem 122, but it was already full, so I decided to take this credit instead and get a GEC out of the way. So my friend, when he has to schedule for the spring, will be really confused and behind everyone else. So now that my blog is finished, I’m going to go investigate this scheduling thing.
I’m writing about this because that is what’s currently on my mind. If I were not typing this blog right now I’d be working on my scheduling stuff because I schedule tomorrow. I schedule tomorrow at 5:15 which is earlier than most people because I’m in honors, but it’s later than a lot of people in the honors. Early scheduling for honors is nice because we schedule early, obviously, but it’s still hard because most of my classes are FEH based so their honors, so I’m competing to get the seats in classes against people that have their window open earlier than mine. Also for scheduling, I’m going to schedule my friend because his window opens at 4, but with marching band he’s not free until after 6. So I said I would schedule his classes to make his life a little easier. Neither of us has had to schedule classes yet because we’re in FEH and apparently all we had to do was circle what math class we wanted and what science class we would take based on how many science credit hours we got. I got out of 3 different science classes so I originally wanted to take Chem 122, but it was already full, so I decided to take this credit instead and get a GEC out of the way. So my friend, when he has to schedule for the spring, will be really confused and behind everyone else. So now that my blog is finished, I’m going to go investigate this scheduling thing.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
blog 25, coloring
Blog 25
Coloring. I like to color, a lot. I was really excited to go to college to color because apparently that’s what everyone does. I haven’t actually colored yet though. Mainly I don’t because I don’t have a printer. My mom figured that I didn’t need a printer in college, but I’ve only been here 4 weeks and I’ve already used $15 dollars. And that would be like $45 a quarter and $135 a year, so I think it would be wise to get a printer. But $15 sounds like a lot at $0.06 a sheet. Maybe that number is wrong. Anyway, I still think I should get a printer. So I haven’t colored yet because I don’t have a printer, and because I don’t have anyone to color with. Most of my friends are guys, and they’re not so into coloring most of the time, and my one friend that actually likes to color lives across campus. So hopefully soon I’ll start to color. I even brought coloring stuff from home. I have colored pencils and markers- fat and skinny, and crayons. So I’m pretty prepared. I could always just go to CVS and get a coloring book. But most coloring books are on that cheap brown paper that’s practically see-through and marker bleeds right through. I want to color because it’s a good productive relaxing thing to do. Also, I could mail one to my grandma or any other family member that wants one. Grandmas like things like that. So hopefully I’ll be on my way to coloring soon.
Coloring. I like to color, a lot. I was really excited to go to college to color because apparently that’s what everyone does. I haven’t actually colored yet though. Mainly I don’t because I don’t have a printer. My mom figured that I didn’t need a printer in college, but I’ve only been here 4 weeks and I’ve already used $15 dollars. And that would be like $45 a quarter and $135 a year, so I think it would be wise to get a printer. But $15 sounds like a lot at $0.06 a sheet. Maybe that number is wrong. Anyway, I still think I should get a printer. So I haven’t colored yet because I don’t have a printer, and because I don’t have anyone to color with. Most of my friends are guys, and they’re not so into coloring most of the time, and my one friend that actually likes to color lives across campus. So hopefully soon I’ll start to color. I even brought coloring stuff from home. I have colored pencils and markers- fat and skinny, and crayons. So I’m pretty prepared. I could always just go to CVS and get a coloring book. But most coloring books are on that cheap brown paper that’s practically see-through and marker bleeds right through. I want to color because it’s a good productive relaxing thing to do. Also, I could mail one to my grandma or any other family member that wants one. Grandmas like things like that. So hopefully I’ll be on my way to coloring soon.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Blog 24
Blog 24
Since in college, I haven’t had as much time to watch tv as I did in high school. Mainly because I had more free time in high school, but it’s probably because I don’t have a DVR anymore, that makes it harder to keep up with shows. Luckily in this age of time, most shows are conveniently online to watch past episode. Hulu.com has modern family and glee. And if a particular show isn’t on hulu, their network website will have previous episodes too. But some of them are weird and don’t let you watch the last one until the next one has aired. I don’t like this system, because if you get behind in the series, the only way to get caught up is to just miss one, watch the next one, and then go back and watch that one you missed. I find this rather silly because it makes it so difficult just to watch the show. I think the network websites should be trying to make it easier to watch their shows, not harder. I like watching shows online because it’s like a DVR, on my time and I can stop/rewind/fast-forward whenever I want. There are commercials online, but they’re not that long and their usually quite softer than the show. I think the volume change for online commercials verses tv commercials is very nice. And watching it online is like watching it on TV because I can hookup my laptop to my TV. The only problem with watching online is that the internet isn’t excellent here and my laptop is really slow, so I often have buffering problems. But it’s better than being tied down to my TV at a certain time every evening.
Since in college, I haven’t had as much time to watch tv as I did in high school. Mainly because I had more free time in high school, but it’s probably because I don’t have a DVR anymore, that makes it harder to keep up with shows. Luckily in this age of time, most shows are conveniently online to watch past episode. Hulu.com has modern family and glee. And if a particular show isn’t on hulu, their network website will have previous episodes too. But some of them are weird and don’t let you watch the last one until the next one has aired. I don’t like this system, because if you get behind in the series, the only way to get caught up is to just miss one, watch the next one, and then go back and watch that one you missed. I find this rather silly because it makes it so difficult just to watch the show. I think the network websites should be trying to make it easier to watch their shows, not harder. I like watching shows online because it’s like a DVR, on my time and I can stop/rewind/fast-forward whenever I want. There are commercials online, but they’re not that long and their usually quite softer than the show. I think the volume change for online commercials verses tv commercials is very nice. And watching it online is like watching it on TV because I can hookup my laptop to my TV. The only problem with watching online is that the internet isn’t excellent here and my laptop is really slow, so I often have buffering problems. But it’s better than being tied down to my TV at a certain time every evening.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Blog 23
Blog 23
Today is Friday. That is very exciting. I’m glad it’s finally the weekend, even though I’m going to be pretty busy because a friend from high school is visiting and my boyfriend’s parents will be visiting also. Next week will be nice though because I won’t have as much home work. This week I had a lab report due Thursday and this paper due today, it was a bit stressful. But it’s over now and I have some break. So I’m excited for next week because I have a lighter load and because AZIZ is next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m really excited for that. And I’m glad I didn’t have to wait in line too long to get tickets. I first heard of Aziz on Parks and Recreation. He’s pretty funny. Then I saw him on Funny People. This is a movie with Adam Sandler loosely based on The Great Gatsby. Adam Sandler used to be funny with movies like, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, and The Water Boy. His not so funny movies include Click, and Funny People. Clearly his ‘time’ is over since the good ones are the old ones. BUT, I saw Aziz on Funny People because he was one of the other comedians with Adam Sandler’s character. And then on Comedy Central I saw his stand-up comedian sketch, which was really funny. But then I watched Jimmy Kimmel with Aziz and he did the same jokes about his fat cousin! So I hope he doesn’t do the same thing this Wednesday.
Today is Friday. That is very exciting. I’m glad it’s finally the weekend, even though I’m going to be pretty busy because a friend from high school is visiting and my boyfriend’s parents will be visiting also. Next week will be nice though because I won’t have as much home work. This week I had a lab report due Thursday and this paper due today, it was a bit stressful. But it’s over now and I have some break. So I’m excited for next week because I have a lighter load and because AZIZ is next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m really excited for that. And I’m glad I didn’t have to wait in line too long to get tickets. I first heard of Aziz on Parks and Recreation. He’s pretty funny. Then I saw him on Funny People. This is a movie with Adam Sandler loosely based on The Great Gatsby. Adam Sandler used to be funny with movies like, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, and The Water Boy. His not so funny movies include Click, and Funny People. Clearly his ‘time’ is over since the good ones are the old ones. BUT, I saw Aziz on Funny People because he was one of the other comedians with Adam Sandler’s character. And then on Comedy Central I saw his stand-up comedian sketch, which was really funny. But then I watched Jimmy Kimmel with Aziz and he did the same jokes about his fat cousin! So I hope he doesn’t do the same thing this Wednesday.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Blog 22
Blog 22: Abstract
People fear changing that they hold onto their identity too long to enjoy the shifting world around them. In Angel, “I Will Remember You,” Angel holds too desperately onto his identity as a rescuer that he refuses enjoyment and returns to who he was. By showing Angel becoming what he’s always dreamed of to receive love from Buffy, returning back to a vampire, the creators of Angel are demonstrating that people hold tightly to their identity and will avoid personal change and miss out on the beautiful wonders of the world. Angel defines himself as a saver and helper, when he becomes a human he loses all of that and can no longer save Buffy or anyone else. When he becomes human his identity is lost and he blends into the normal world. He is able to receive love and taste but returns all of this because he is afraid of losing himself. Angel turns down a great opportunity to reinvent himself and experience the world in a new angle. Through Angel, the creators are showing that people refuse the changing world because they hold onto their identity too long. In looking at world examples of personal identity, Brett Favre comes to the surface. Favre was in football for many years and he’s at a point now where he should retire for good. Favre won’t retire because his identity it too attached to life as a football player and now he is missing out on great opportunities around him outside of football. If Favre were to let go of his personal identity he would be able to enjoy the world around him.
People fear changing that they hold onto their identity too long to enjoy the shifting world around them. In Angel, “I Will Remember You,” Angel holds too desperately onto his identity as a rescuer that he refuses enjoyment and returns to who he was. By showing Angel becoming what he’s always dreamed of to receive love from Buffy, returning back to a vampire, the creators of Angel are demonstrating that people hold tightly to their identity and will avoid personal change and miss out on the beautiful wonders of the world. Angel defines himself as a saver and helper, when he becomes a human he loses all of that and can no longer save Buffy or anyone else. When he becomes human his identity is lost and he blends into the normal world. He is able to receive love and taste but returns all of this because he is afraid of losing himself. Angel turns down a great opportunity to reinvent himself and experience the world in a new angle. Through Angel, the creators are showing that people refuse the changing world because they hold onto their identity too long. In looking at world examples of personal identity, Brett Favre comes to the surface. Favre was in football for many years and he’s at a point now where he should retire for good. Favre won’t retire because his identity it too attached to life as a football player and now he is missing out on great opportunities around him outside of football. If Favre were to let go of his personal identity he would be able to enjoy the world around him.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Blog 18
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs:
Basically a guy named Maslow created the “Hierarch of Needs” in 1943. It summarizes the basic needs of humans. It is most commonly presented in a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid are basic needs, and at the top there are more complex need of a person. As humans progress up the pyramid, the needs become more psychological and social. Near the top, the need for self-esteem and personal accomplishment become more important. Maslow liked the idea of self-actualization which is the idea of growing as a person to achieve individual achievements. Maslow believed that the types of need were physiological, security, social and esteem. These needs are deficiency needs (D-needs). The highest part of the pyramid is growth needs. Growth needs don’t come from a lack of something, but for the need as growing as a human.
To look at a way this relates to Angel, I’ll go through each need to see if it relates to way he acts. Physiological: well, he has food (even though as a vampire he doesn’t need it), water and air. So I don’t think this is it.
Security: Maybe. As a human he had incredibly less security than as a vampire. As a vampire, he could pretty much do anything. But now that he’s human, he’s just like everyone else.
Social: The difference between social and security pretty much explains Angel’s behaviors. When Angel is human he has the love he’s always desired for with Buffy, so this area is met. However, when Angel is human, he loses his security. So it looks like Angel acted the way he did because he lost the security he needed. This is interesting. I may have to re-think my thesis… This is how people get out of abusive relationships, they realize that they’ve lost their security and safety over love.
Esteem and growth: There isn’t really a need to cover these because it’s clear that Angel falls between the security and social needs.
http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/hierarchyneeds.htm
Cherry, Kendra. "Hierarchy of Needs." Ask.com:Psychology . N.p., 01JAN2010. Web. 10 Oct 2010..
Basically a guy named Maslow created the “Hierarch of Needs” in 1943. It summarizes the basic needs of humans. It is most commonly presented in a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid are basic needs, and at the top there are more complex need of a person. As humans progress up the pyramid, the needs become more psychological and social. Near the top, the need for self-esteem and personal accomplishment become more important. Maslow liked the idea of self-actualization which is the idea of growing as a person to achieve individual achievements. Maslow believed that the types of need were physiological, security, social and esteem. These needs are deficiency needs (D-needs). The highest part of the pyramid is growth needs. Growth needs don’t come from a lack of something, but for the need as growing as a human.
To look at a way this relates to Angel, I’ll go through each need to see if it relates to way he acts. Physiological: well, he has food (even though as a vampire he doesn’t need it), water and air. So I don’t think this is it.
Security: Maybe. As a human he had incredibly less security than as a vampire. As a vampire, he could pretty much do anything. But now that he’s human, he’s just like everyone else.
Social: The difference between social and security pretty much explains Angel’s behaviors. When Angel is human he has the love he’s always desired for with Buffy, so this area is met. However, when Angel is human, he loses his security. So it looks like Angel acted the way he did because he lost the security he needed. This is interesting. I may have to re-think my thesis… This is how people get out of abusive relationships, they realize that they’ve lost their security and safety over love.
Esteem and growth: There isn’t really a need to cover these because it’s clear that Angel falls between the security and social needs.
http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/hierarchyneeds.htm
Cherry, Kendra. "Hierarchy of Needs." Ask.com:Psychology . N.p., 01JAN2010. Web. 10 Oct 2010.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Blog 17 How to be Happy
How to be happy Blog 17
Everyone wants to know how to happy today. You can go to therapists and psychologist that are clinicians, but the author is a scientist psychologist, so she will just tell you why. The author believes that in order to be happy, we must be more like our inner animal or inner ape. To realize that we are what we are, and there are some things we can’t change. We shouldn’t be in denial or ashamed of our needs, but just accept them. Throughout time and evolution, men and women have become very different. In fact, most times men are more similar to the male in a different species than the female in their own species. One thing that separates men and women is their wants. Men are happy working all day achieving the promotion and working their butts of in the rat race. Men won’t be happy dropping out and raising their children. That’s what makes women happy. Men and women won’t be happy trying to act like the opposite. The author proposes killing all the feminists and stop teaching little girls they are inferior to boys and vice versa. The author continues to say live as you want, not as your told.
Well first of all I want to say I completely disagree with the whole men and women are completely different. Year there are differences, but who’s to say that we’re different because we eveolved that way or because since we were born we were told to live that way. I think the author’s argument just goes in a circle, because the way the author wants us to live is still the way we’re being told to live. Basically we’re being told to live both ways, so which way is right? But that’s a different debat. The point the author makes that I ACTUALLY like is that you should live as you want, not as your told. “Live as you feel like, not as you think you should live like. Your feelings are seldom wrong, because you are designed to feel certain way” This can be used to describe Angel’s feelings. He can’t deny who he is, as a vampire, as a protector. This is why he must return to who he is to be happy.
How to be happy, from the psycologists
"How to be Happy." Psychology Today. N.p., 07DEC2008. Web. 7 Oct 2010. .
Everyone wants to know how to happy today. You can go to therapists and psychologist that are clinicians, but the author is a scientist psychologist, so she will just tell you why. The author believes that in order to be happy, we must be more like our inner animal or inner ape. To realize that we are what we are, and there are some things we can’t change. We shouldn’t be in denial or ashamed of our needs, but just accept them. Throughout time and evolution, men and women have become very different. In fact, most times men are more similar to the male in a different species than the female in their own species. One thing that separates men and women is their wants. Men are happy working all day achieving the promotion and working their butts of in the rat race. Men won’t be happy dropping out and raising their children. That’s what makes women happy. Men and women won’t be happy trying to act like the opposite. The author proposes killing all the feminists and stop teaching little girls they are inferior to boys and vice versa. The author continues to say live as you want, not as your told.
Well first of all I want to say I completely disagree with the whole men and women are completely different. Year there are differences, but who’s to say that we’re different because we eveolved that way or because since we were born we were told to live that way. I think the author’s argument just goes in a circle, because the way the author wants us to live is still the way we’re being told to live. Basically we’re being told to live both ways, so which way is right? But that’s a different debat. The point the author makes that I ACTUALLY like is that you should live as you want, not as your told. “Live as you feel like, not as you think you should live like. Your feelings are seldom wrong, because you are designed to feel certain way” This can be used to describe Angel’s feelings. He can’t deny who he is, as a vampire, as a protector. This is why he must return to who he is to be happy.
How to be happy, from the psycologists
"How to be Happy." Psychology Today. N.p., 07DEC2008. Web. 7 Oct 2010. .
Friday, October 8, 2010
Blog 16 What makes people happy?
What makes people happy?
Most studies about people’s moods are focused on sadness verses happiness. More commonly people are focused on the weaknesses of people compared to the strengths. More recent studies though are trying to change the view on the subject, trying to discover what makes people happy. The happiest people spend the least amount of time alone and always strive for personal growth. They try to connect with other people and judge themselves compared to them and not to other people. Holidays bring this out the most in people. It is easy to recognize the people that don’t feel connected and don’t have a place for family and are missing someone. Some people can lose their job and still be happy, while others are always miserable all year long. It is believed that mood is affected by genetics only fifty percent. Everyone has a ‘set-happiness’ just like set weight. People can try to change, but changing in large leaps isn’t likely. Life satisfaction comes when people are distracted from themselves and lose track of time and where they are, it is when they go with the flow.
The author of this article is describing that people range in happiness and some of it is in our control. There are many ways to judge happiness and ways to change it. For Angel, life satisfaction relates closely to him with Buffy. He wouldn’t be able to just “go with the flow” if he knew Buffy was out there fighting by herself.
Elias, Marilyn. "Psychologists now know what makes people happy." USA Today 10DEC2002, Print.
Most studies about people’s moods are focused on sadness verses happiness. More commonly people are focused on the weaknesses of people compared to the strengths. More recent studies though are trying to change the view on the subject, trying to discover what makes people happy. The happiest people spend the least amount of time alone and always strive for personal growth. They try to connect with other people and judge themselves compared to them and not to other people. Holidays bring this out the most in people. It is easy to recognize the people that don’t feel connected and don’t have a place for family and are missing someone. Some people can lose their job and still be happy, while others are always miserable all year long. It is believed that mood is affected by genetics only fifty percent. Everyone has a ‘set-happiness’ just like set weight. People can try to change, but changing in large leaps isn’t likely. Life satisfaction comes when people are distracted from themselves and lose track of time and where they are, it is when they go with the flow.
The author of this article is describing that people range in happiness and some of it is in our control. There are many ways to judge happiness and ways to change it. For Angel, life satisfaction relates closely to him with Buffy. He wouldn’t be able to just “go with the flow” if he knew Buffy was out there fighting by herself.
Elias, Marilyn. "Psychologists now know what makes people happy." USA Today 10DEC2002, Print.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Blog 15 sources
Everywhere in the world there are innumerable amounts of stuff people want: cars, houses, that iPad, or even love. People chase all of these things, the things that will finally make them happy forever. Just take a walk in a mall, down a busy street or just watch TV for twenty minutes. There will be thousands of things that people want, but what makes them happy?
For my research paper, I’m going to explore the different reasons that make people happy and “at ease” with themselves. Angel can finally be with Buffy, it is what he wants, but in the end he turns it down because what will really satisfy him is to know she’s safe. So what puts the mind at peace if it isn’t receiving our wants? I hope to find the psycological reasons why the wants don’t satisfy us, and why we need more. I want to find what does make us turely ‘happy’ and at peace.
Possible sources include:
USA Today article- psycologist reseach about what makes people happy.
Elias, Marilyn. "Psychologists now know what makes people happy." USA Today 10DEC2002, Print.
Web article about psychology consumers realizing what consumers really wants.
"What the consumer wants." Consumer Psychology. N.p., 01JAN2010. Web. 7 Oct 2010..
The psychology of wants, interests, and attitudes
"The Psychology of Wants, Interests, and Attitudes." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 07 Oct. 2010
How to be happy, from the psycologists
"How to be Happy." Psychology Today. N.p., 07DEC2008. Web. 7 Oct 2010..
Maslows’ Hierachy of Needs-
"A Theory of Human Emotion." Classics in the History of Psychology. N.p., 01AUG2000. Web. 7 Oct 2010.
For my research paper, I’m going to explore the different reasons that make people happy and “at ease” with themselves. Angel can finally be with Buffy, it is what he wants, but in the end he turns it down because what will really satisfy him is to know she’s safe. So what puts the mind at peace if it isn’t receiving our wants? I hope to find the psycological reasons why the wants don’t satisfy us, and why we need more. I want to find what does make us turely ‘happy’ and at peace.
Possible sources include:
USA Today article- psycologist reseach about what makes people happy.
Elias, Marilyn. "Psychologists now know what makes people happy." USA Today 10DEC2002, Print.
Web article about psychology consumers realizing what consumers really wants.
"What the consumer wants." Consumer Psychology. N.p., 01JAN2010. Web. 7 Oct 2010.
The psychology of wants, interests, and attitudes
"The Psychology of Wants, Interests, and Attitudes." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 07 Oct. 2010
How to be happy, from the psycologists
"How to be Happy." Psychology Today. N.p., 07DEC2008. Web. 7 Oct 2010.
Maslows’ Hierachy of Needs-
"A Theory of Human Emotion." Classics in the History of Psychology. N.p., 01AUG2000. Web. 7 Oct 2010.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Blog 14 Angel and Buffy
I rewatched episode 8 of Angel, “I Will Remember You.” This is a great episode showcasing forbidden love and I just really like it. The theme I’m exploring is; what really makes us happy? And why do we want? To sumarize the show again, Buffy, Angel’s long time love returns. They can never be together though because he is a vampire but she is a vampire slayer. So Buffy comes to visit, and during their first conversation together, an intruder attacks and Buffy and Angel start a battle. The intruder, later to be known as a mortal demon, escapes and Buffy and Angel must fight him again. During Angel’s battle with him, Angel gets scraped on the hand and the mortal demon gets cut, and the demon blood mixes with Angel’s blood. After, Angel is mortal. Mortal demon turns him mortal, funny huh?
Angel and Buffy get what they’ve always wanted, to be together. During their time together Buffy says, “This is the first time I’ve ever felt this way...” Angel asks, “What way?” She replies, “Just like I’ve always wanted to, like a normal girl.” Buffy is happy, satisfied, to get what she’s always dreamed about. Angel realizes though they can never be together, “If we stay together one of us will end up dead. How can we be together if the cost is your life or the lives of others?” There are more demons coming and Buffy can’t fight them by herself. Angel approaches the oracles and demands that they save her. The oracles explain they can’t just give a life without taking one. He responds, “Take my life back.” They argue that what’s done is done, but then they realize, “This one is willing to sacrafice every drop of human happiness and love he’s ever known for another, he is not a lower being.” Time is turned back 24 hours so he can undo everything. Angel’s love for Buffy demonstrates that what makes us happy isn’t what we want. Then why do we want so much?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Blog 13 Buffy
I watched a random episode of Buffy today because I ran out of episodes of Angel on Hulu. This episode is near the end of the second season for any of you Buffy fans. The high school swim team is nearing state champs and won the district meet, so the state meet is kind of a big deal. Suddenly though, the best swimmers are dissapearing, turning into sea monsters. Buffy and her team were quickly on the case.
The running theme in this episode is doing what’s right. The swim team is kind of a big deal, so the athletes are “special.” One of the swimmers was failing a class, and Lily (I don’t know her character name, but I call her Lily because that’s who she plays on How I Met Your Mother) starts failing him because he never showed up. The principal confronted her and informed her that it’s her job to, “cut him some slack.” Lily was not so pleased, for good reason. Why do some people get special attention? Should people get some slack? What are the conditions for people getting this special attention? The color of their skin? Their IQ? Their family? Their pay? Their gender? Their accomplishments? These are some of the question I ask myself, because we see it all the time. One example comes to mind especially because our generations coming right after the Civil Rights Movement.
Buffy and her friends all feel this way about the swim team, they get special attention, and then they are disliked for it. Is that the line? Only when someone doesn’t like it? Or should it be something stronger than that?
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Angel Episode 8
Angel Episode 8
Buffy, Angel’s long lost love returns. Emotions quickly return, but they are reminded that they can never be together because he is a vampire and she is a slayer. In the middle of their first conversation, a demon warrior breaks throught the window and a fight begins. The demon gets away, and Angel goes on a mission to find it. His hand gets cut and draws blood, and the demons gets cut and his green slime gets into Angel’s hand, Angel is now mortal again.
Angel quickly discovers all the changes of being mortal like hunger, pain, and sunlight. He is faced with the question, “Now what?” He spent so long of his life dreaming that this would happen, and it finally has. What do you do when you get what you always wanted? Is it really what you thought it would be? Now that he’s mortal, he can finally be with Buffy. They enjoy the best day of their life together, getting what they only dreamed about. Buffy is faced with the same questions as Angel, is she really happy now?
The demon that changed Angel is back, and Angel must fight him, except now he is mortal and it is slightly more challenging. He is hurt in the process, and stays on the ground while buffy has to come and save him and kill the demon. After this, Angel realizes he has to go back to being a vampire. It kills him to do this, but it’s the only way to keep him and Buffy safe. He needs his power back to fight more demons to protect the public. If he decides to be with Buffy forever, he selfishly gives in to his own desires and ignores anyone else. Angel makes a sacrificial decision to forever stay as a vampire and never be with Buffy.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Angel episode 7
Angel Episode 7
This episode started with Cordelia going on a date with her prince. Doyle says money can’t always make you happy. Cordelia disagrees, but after her boring date with him, she realizes it’s true. At the end of the date, a demon attacks her and the prince, and the prince just runs away as Doyle tries to save her and kills the demon. The first thing he asks when it was all over is, “Are you okay?” Cordelia finds that she is now confused, not knowing what she really wants. She always though she wanted a big house and nice car, but now she wants an exciting man, that’s also brave.
Doyle’s long time wife, Harry, comes for the first time. She requests a divorece because she is planning to marry soon. Doyle is upset by this because the man she is marrying is also a demon like himself. Doyle always thought that when he turned into a demon was what kept their marriage from working, but really it was because he couldn’t accept himself when he did change. Throughout the episode, he decided that he wants to finanlly make Harry happy, so he gives his blessing and gets out of their way.
Cordelia and Doyle went through change in this episode. Cordelia changed who she’s looking for, and Doyle accepted his wife moving on. Up to debate for Cordelia, but both changed for the better. What causes change? When is it good to mold? Or better to stick to your principal? Cordelia and Doyle changed for the matter of love. Cordelia wants to find love and Doyle just wants his ex-wife to be happy.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Angel Episode 6
I watched another episode of Angel, and in this episode, they are back to helping strangers. The lady in distress is a cop. She's trying to catch a mass murderer who has many tricks up his sleeves. He manages to use his people on the outside, while he's in jail, to control the cops. His plan is simple but powerful. He hires a theripist that opens up all the cops to their emotional side. This affects the lady cop the most because of her deep emotional problems with her father. Cordelia in the begining gets upset with Angel because he is not emotional enough to ask nicely of her and Wesley to help him, and he didn't notice her new shoes. Later in the show Angel is also affected by the therapist and turns soft, and Cordelia wants him to switch back.
Opening up and owning your emotions is a very useful tool in life. It is good to sympatize with others and understand how they feel. However it sometimes isn't good at all. The cops need to be tough, it's apart of their job. After the therapist, they're so loving and thoughtful, they just let all the criminals go. This brings up many questions, when is it okay to show your emotional side? Is it ever okay to be tough? Why is it easier for Cordelia to be emotional verses Angel? Why are there such different people around? How much is controlled by our surroundings? Is Cordelia 'softer' just because she's a girl? Would the world be better if we were all nice?
Being nice is definitely a good thing, but in this world, you can't always be good. We would all like to think that goodness gets goodness, but that's not the case. There are a lot of terrible things out there that keeps us from being nice, and will be like that forever.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Angel episode 5
Angel episode 5
In this episode, there are no new characters that are in trouble and need Angel’s help. The people that need help are Angel’s two assistants, Wesley and Cordelia. Cordelia realizes there are cockroaches in her apartment, so she desperately needs to find a new one. This sounds simple, but she runs into more problems. After she gives in and lets Wesley help her find one, she gets the perfect apartment she always dreamed about. Soon though, she realizes that this apartment is haunted, and the old lady ghost is trying to kill her. Wesley runs into an old friend that isn’t so friendly. He has accumulated some debt to people over the years and it caught up to him in this episode.
Inherently, people are stubborn. Cordelia needs a new apartment fast, and Wesley can help her, but she wants to keep trying on her own until she can do it herself. When she realizes her apartment is haunted, she still doesn’t want to give it up, she screams, “I will die before I give up this apartment.” Wesley lives his life on the edge, in fear of someone finding him. Angel asks why he just doesn’t change, and Wesley claims his life would be too boring that way. Cordelia and Wesley struggle to change in this episode and listen to Angel. There are better ways of living out there, but they don’t want to find it. Especially, it’s bad when stubbornness risks a life, and for Cordelia and Wesley, that’s exactly what happened.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Firefly, revisited
Underneath people’s exteriors, there’s often a second side of them that comes through. Inara is a companion on the shuttle and she seems like someone who can’t do anything. But, when she goes and rescues Zoe and Mal from the sheriff, she shows a different side. She shows her status and her usefulness. When Zoe and Mal are caught and with the sheriff, you don’t think he’ll let them go, but on the contrary, he does. The sheriff and Inara do things that you wouldn’t expect their character to do. Why are people so dynamic? When do people show their second side? Is it wrong to stay the same or wrong to change? Characters and people are filled with different roles and facts that make them who they are. Everyone has a different background and experience that makes them special. The sheriff let Mal and Zoe go because maybe he once was on their side, or maybe he has a close relative that has had to deal with Niska. We don’t think there’s anything special about Inara, but she has to surprise a lot of people before and is use to is, and maybe this is really her. The sheriff and Inara show their second side when they’re under pressure in a delicate situation. Mal and Zoe’s lives were in their hands, and this is when they had to make an important decision. Sometimes important, character defining moments are made only when we have to, when someone’s life depends on it, but is that okay? Shouldn’t we always try to be like that?
Monday, September 27, 2010
Angel: episode 4
Angel: episode 4
I watched the next episode of Angel earlier today. This episode was about a young woman who was being stalked by a creepy doctor who can separate any limb from his body.
This first thing I thought about, was why this is the second episode in a row where the woman is in trouble and needed Angel’s help. There is a trend here where Angel helps only women, and the show displays women in a helpless way. But the Angel show is somewhat accurate. I’m sure most of the stalking situations are man to a woman. But it brings up the question, that there must be different stalking situations out there, Angel just doesn’t include it in the show. And Angel isn’t politically correct show, so it probably never will.
The second interesting thing was how the doctor separated his hands and eyes from his body whenever he wanted. He used his eye to spy on her, and his hands to choke the cop that was keeping her safe. He learned all of this being a doctor, and abused his research knowledge. I wonder if there are rules about this for a doctor. I’m sure there are, the way they have to document everything, but no one believed him his research, probably because it was science fiction. The doctor also abused his power as a doctor. He operated on this young woman, Melissa and then asked her out, probably the first mistake. Melissa agreed thinking she was lucky to be out with a doctor. There is a sort of safety and pride that goes with dating a doctor, and Angel makes you think twice about this.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Angel: In the dark
I just finished watching Angel, episode 3, In the Dark. I really liked it, better than Firefly for some reason.
In this episode, the focus was the ring, much like Lord of the Rings. I’m not a big LOTR fan, so I related it Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Like the Sorcerer’s Stone, the ring gave the wearer protection from any harm. So for Angel, the vampire, he could be in sunlight and staked without dying. This seams like an obvious thing to have and to want, but to Angle and Harry, it isn’t what it seems. Angel from the beginning knew he didn’t want it, this is a large character trait showing, and what makes him the hero of the show. He makes a sacrificial choice to destroy it, like in Harry Potter and LOTR (I believe.)
The mini story running through the episode involved a young woman whom Angel saved in the beginning. She was physically abused by her boyfriend and nearly killed. Angel got her to safety, but only for a short time. We realize that this young woman says she ‘jones’ for her boyfriend, because when they meet up again, everything is good, and she is happy. Every time though, things turn bad. Angel convinces her that she needs to separate from him for good. He explains that the harder it is right now, the happier she’ll be later and more likely she’ll get a real shot at love. This relates to the ring Angel has: Even though it will create happiness right now for a short time, ultimately it will only destroy you.
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Train Job
I just finished watching “The Train Job.” It was pretty interesting, sometimes more difficult to understand, but I’m still kind of excited to see the next one.
The most intriguing character right now is the crazy sister. I don’t quite remember her name, I’m not so good at that sort of thing. Anyway, I like her because we don’t really know everything about her. We don’t know what makes her tick- or what’s wrong with her. And at the end we know people are after her, but we don’t know why. That’s a really good writing technique, to give us only a little bit, so the viewers have to keep watching to find out more.
I also enjoyed this episode because the moral dilemma the captain had to face. Apparently they are thieves, so they are in the line of misdeeds. But in this episode they steal medicine from the ill for the ‘bad guy.’ They have to make a decision to risk their life or risk the lives of all the people that are sick. Ultimately, they risk their life. This is a very defining characteristic of the captain and co-captain. This shows the audience that even though they are thieves and ‘bad’ people, they are still the hero’s of the show and the people we root for in the end.
There are a group of interesting people on the ship and throughout the show we will see how each different personality interacts and is stronger or weaker together. In this episode, we see how the captain and hairdresser work together. There is obvious sexual chemistry, but they use that and their quick thinking to escape from the train station and travel forward.
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