Blog 75

                Dear English 110 student.  English this year was probably a lot different than any other English I’ve ever taken.  The fact that it was based off of science fiction already made it a bit strange.  If you absolutely hate science fiction, then I think that your mind may be changes, because science fiction entails so much, and it can be pretty cool.  In the beginning you will have to watch an episode from a list of science fiction TV series every day, and then blog about it.  Watching TV will basically be your homework.  Blogging everyday will get a bit annoying at times, especially since it must be at least 250 words.  Eventually you will have to write a paper on the TV series you have been watching, and blogging will turn into whatever you want.  At first, all of this will seem extremely pointless to you.  It almost seems like it is a waste of time, but it helps you in a way that is not easily recognized at first.  Towards the end of the year, blogging 250 words will be a piece of cake and writing will seem a lot less intimidating to you.  You will learn to analyze different television shows and compare them to real life.  You should listen to the teacher during class time, because the structure for writing a paper is very specific.  Take advantage of the extra credit opportunities.  There are many of them, and it can change your grade completely.  Try your best to have fun with the two papers you have to write.  Especially the second one since it can pretty much be about anything.  Try to have fun in the class, and I hope you do very well.

Blog 74

                I honestly cannot say that I enjoy science fiction any more or less now than when the class first started.  I never really disliked science fiction at all, it was just normal.  My uncle loves science fiction.  Sy-Fy is probably one of his favorite channels.  I would sit down and watch science fiction every once in a while, but it’s not like I ever anticipated a show or movie that was on Sy-Fy.  I especially hated the movies where there were big killer animals.  My dad and I call them “smart animal movies” because it seems as if the animals are actually very intelligent and they do things like trick the humans, in a way that many people cannot even think of, just so that they can kill them for no reason.  I really do not like those movies.  When we first started, I watched Buffy as my TV episode.  I started out by not liking it that much, but then it came to a point where I actually enjoyed it if I had to watch it.  When we watched BSG and Caprica, I enjoyed the episode, but I never thought that I would definitely not like it.  Basically my opinion on science fiction has not changed.  I feel like if a good enough movie comes out, everyone can like science fiction.  The movie Avatar was a science fiction movie, and people loved that, so I guess if the plot is good enough, then anyone can enjoy science fiction.  In conclusion, it really was not bad at all.

Blog 73

                After this blog, I will only have 2 more to go.  It feels good to finally be done with blogging.  I’m not sure if I will ever come back on to blogger once I am done the blogs and comments and what not.  Some people absolutely love blogging.  I can’t say I am the same way.  Every once in a while it wasn’t too bad though.  If I have a good topic to blog about, then I can run with it.  This year I think the blog that I enjoyed the most was the one where we read a couple commonplace articles, then blogged about it.  My article ended up being about how PETA is a horrible organization, and I agreed, so I just went off on a rant about them.  It was kind of nice speaking my mind about them, but at the same time, I did not want to offend anybody, because I know that there are a lot of PETA lovers out there, but I just have my own personal opinion about them.  Blogs definitely got a lot easier than the first time we started doing them.  I remember the first time it seemed like typing 250 words every single day of the quarter was going to suck, but now it takes 2 minutes to reach the limit, and it is not hard at all.  It made writing seem a lot less intimidating.  I still don’t think it should have been everyday though, but now what does it matter?  It’s over, and we all benefitted from it in a way.

Blog 72

                So it feels good that classes are over.  The quarter definitely flew by.  It’s kind of bitter sweet that time moves by so fast in college.  It’s nice because you know that the classes you can’t stand will be over soon, but it really sucks because college is a lot of fun, so you don’t want it to go by too fast.  At least that’s how I feel about it.  Classes ending is good, but the studying for finals that we must do right now isn’t so good.  It’s all I have been doing this whole weekend.  I am more worried about my psychology final, which really shouldn’t be that bad after I study and prepare myself for it, I just think it will be a lot tougher than my math final, which I have tomorrow.  I need to take a break now from studying.  That is why I am doing this blog right now.  I also want to take a short nap and stay up late studying tonight.  I can stay up pretty late since my math final is not until 5:30 tomorrow, so I will have plenty of time to sleep in, and to get an extra review in.  We just found out that Ohio State will be playing Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl this year.  We better crush them.  I will be upset if we don’t, I know that they are a good team, but I also know that we are a lot better.  I am ready to win this Sugar Bowl.  LETS GO BUCKS!!

Blog 71

                The show Caprica today seemed to be pretty good.  I was a little bit distracted for most of it, so I do not completely remember the entire thing.  All I really know is there is a husband and wife, and they have a girl that likes to misbehave.  I’m not actually 100% sure if they were actually husband and wife, but there was some type of romantic relationship between them.  There must have been a lot of tension inside of the family, because when the lady slapped her daughter when she was misbehaving and talking back, it seemed as if it hurt for the lady to do it.  The girl went on to say that she would regret that for the rest of her life.  I pretty much tuned out after this, but tuned back in a certain moments.  I am not sure if I am correct, but I think the lady disappeared later in the episode.  I’m not sure where she went, but I don’t think it was a good thing.  The holographic place that the girl goes to seemed pretty cool.  A lot of it was kind of weird, like how you could just shoot random people.  I thought it was especially weird when she said you can shoot your friends if you would like.  That just seemed kind of wrong to me.  It seemed like a pretty fun dance party, but at the same time really raunchy, like all the naked sluts walking around wanting sex.  I understand it was just a hologram, but still, just a little weird.  From what I saw, it seemed like a good show.  I might watch it one day to see how it is.

Blog 70

                I am about to leave in two minutes to go to our last English class.  It feels kind of good knowing that the quarter is ending.  English seems like it is going to be a very easy day, and I am looking forward to that.  Now that the memos are over with I can work on revising my Commonplace paper, and commenting my but off so that I can get to 160.  It shouldn’t be too hard though.  I think I need to do 55 more.  That can take me two nights if I want it to, because sometimes I will sit in front of the TV and just go down the list and read, and comment everyone’s blog for a solid hour.  That kills about 25 comments right there, then I am pretty much half way there.  It’s nice that we just get to watch an episode in class today.  It seems like it is a time to just sit down and relax, because as soon as I come back from class, it’s time to get right back in to work mood.  I think today is my busiest day of the week.  I must work on revising this paper, and I have to study for a test I have tomorrow.  It doesn’t seem too bad, but I am only running on 2 hours of sleep from last night, and about 6 hours of sleep from the past 2 days, so staying awake and focused will be a challenge in itself.  Well it’s time to go to class.  I am not looking forward to the cold walk.

Blog 69

Apparently it might snow today and possibly on Thursday also.  I am kind of excited.  I kind of like the snow.  In my opinion, it is a lot better than it just being frigidly cold for no reason at all.  Snow is nice.  It increases the scenery, and it has the potential to be a lot of fun.  I remember when we were young, whenever we saw that it was snowing, we all hoped that we would have a day off from school.  If we did get off from school, we didn’t sleep in, or take the time to get caught up on homework like we do now, we went out and played in the snow.  It was a lot of fun.  Sledding was the best part.  I remember sledding for as long as I could until I basically just got too cold.  My brothers and I always went to a pretty big hill to sled down.  It was better than what most people are used to.  One time, a couple of our friends took us to a GIGANTIC hill.  When they first told us that we were going to their hill to sled, we were skeptical, because we already went sledding on one of the best hills, but the hill they showed us blew it away.  I was probably no older than 10 at the time, but I still remember that day being the greatest sledding experience I have ever had.  I remember it being so tiring to walk back up the hill.  The hill was so tall, and steep, that if we made it all the way down to the bottom of the hill while still sitting on the sled, then you accomplished something.  Now that I think back on it, I kind of want those days back whenever it snows.  That’s why I like the snow.  I hope it snows sometime soon.

Blog 68

I cannot begin to describe how busy this week is for me.  Right now it is 3:30am and I am blogging.  I know that I will be up all night studying for a psychology quiz that I have tomorrow.  I just got finished with a math lab that is due tomorrow morning.  In addition to that, I have to rewrite my Commonplace paper for English, complete the memos, comment my butt off, prepare a 3 minute presentation for Thursday morning, remember the lyrics for a three minute song by Friday, study for a pop quiz on Friday morning, and look for a house with my friends before the quarter is over.  This does not include the addition studying I need to do for all of my finals.  It seems as if professors just love to pack on a lot of extra work at the end of the quarters.  I don’t understand why they seem to do this.  It’s like they don’t realize that we have other classes going on, and the professor in that class is doing the same exact thing.  It’s brutal.  I’m very tired since I have been up since 5am this morning, and I don’t plan on going to sleep tonight.  Tomorrow I think that I am going to pull another all-nighter, so it’s going to total two in a row.  Thursday night I might get to sleep, but it’s not going to be as much as I would like to get.  I am not looking forward to it.  It does give me something positive to look forward to though.  I just know that it will feel that much better when I finally do complete everything and I get to go home for the first time for winter break.  I am definitely looking forward to the relief I will experience, right now, I just have to take it one step at a time.

Blog 67

Finally!  This is the blog that will have me all caught up.  I was kind of worried I wouldn’t have enough things to talk about, but it really wasn’t hard especially since I started on blog during the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Chicago Bears game, and one after the game, that the Eagles unfortunately lost.  It feels good to be caught up, but I still need to do a lot of comments, so I am not quite caught up.

Today was a pretty relaxed day.  Besides blogging I didn’t really have too much to do over the break.  I did miss my Psychology class on Wednesday, so I do have to read up on what I missed, and take notes.  My grandmother sent me a 100 dollar check today, so that made me happy.  She sends all of her grandchildren checks once a month while we are in college.  Her only rule is that we contact her when we receive the check.  It’s her way of keeping in contact with us.  It’s especially good because she lives in Washington D.C which is 3 hours from where I live.  It isn’t as easy to keep in contact with her as if she lived really close.  I also have to give my other grandmother a call.  She lives in Florida, which completely sucks.  She is my favorite relative, and it sucked when she moved all the way down to Florida.  She used to live right by us, but since she is Jamaican, she doesn’t like the cold and never got used to it, so she wanted to be somewhere where it was warm.  At least I get to go to Florida each time I see her.  I need to give both of my grandmothers a call right now and see how they are.

Blog 66

Well the Philadelphia Eagles lost.  It was really close though.  I’m still proud of the team for playing a good game.  I know that they are still one of the best teams in the NFL.  If we played the Bears again, I think that we could take them.  Although we are now tied for first, with the New York Giants, I think that we will still finish the season in first place and go onto the playoffs.  I think that we have a squad this year to win the Super Bowl if we keep up or good work.  I really like Michael Vick on the team.  He is playing great this season.  He is a lot better than our previous quarterback Kevin Kolb.  If he was still playing, I strongly believe we would have a losing record, let alone being in first place in the division.  I’m kind of upset about this loss, but I know that it didn’t hurt us too much.  I think everyone in my dorm now knows that I am an Eagles fan since I can root for my teams a bit loud when a good or bad play occurs.  I know that people quickly found out that I am a Phillies Phan when the MLB playoffs started.  I love my Philadelphia teams.  What can I say?  I love watching sports.  It makes me want to go out and play them, but that’s not hard when you go to Ohio State.  They have a ton of recreation sports for people to get involved in.  I am looking forward for baseball or softball to get started.  I will definitely join that.

Blog 65

I am watching the Eagles vs. Chicago Bears game right now, and it really is not looking too good for us right now.  It really does not look like the Eagles are playing that bad; I just think that they need to figure out how to run the right plays.  They are not completely out of the game though; they just need to convert all of their drives to touchdowns.  Our offensive line needs to get better, because Michael Vick does not seem to have much time in the pocket at all.  They have also been playing us really deep so that DeShawn Jackson can’t burn people down the field like he normally does.  Michael Vick threw his first interception of the season today. It hurt us a lot, because the interception was thrown in our end zone.  This game could be a lot different.  He has been playing great this entire season.  So far, he is arguably having the best season out of any quarterback in the league.  This is an important game for the Eagles, because if they lose, then they are tied for first place in the NFC East again since the Giants won earlier today.  I am also a huge Green Bay Packers fan they lost today.  The Bears are in the same division as the Packers, so if they beat the Eagles today, then that puts them in first place in their division ahead of the Packers.  I would definitely like to win this game.  It is very nerve racking.  I’m hoping Philadelphia can pull it off.  I think they can.

Blog 64

Yesterday we beat our rival, Michigan.  Ohio State played well.  It was a good game for us.  When it started, I was actually kind of nervous since.  We couldn’t score.  It looked as if Michigan was going to score before we did, and when we finally did score, Michigan quickly responded and scored.  It was nerve racking.  Of course since Ohio State was clearly the better team, we scored again, and again, and didn’t let them score anymore.  I really wanted Dan “Boom” Herron to break the school record for longest returned run.  I was told today that it would have been a school record.  I still do not know what the penalty was during the run.  It could have been holding, but the penalty was enforced at a weird spot, so I’m not sure if that is what the penalty was.  It felt really good to beat our rivals the way we beat them.  There was a lot of trash talking to the Michigan fans that were there.  A couple of my friends said that they felt bad for them because Ohio State fans were trashing on them so bad, and usually I would too, but I understand that it is the biggest rivalry in sports and it is out of fun.  I also know that if the game were at Michigan’s stadium, and OSU fans were there, there would still be just as much trash talk against people wearing OSU apparel.  The game was a lot of fun, besides the cold.  At one point I was so cold I just wanted the game to end, but it was definitely worth it.

Blog 63

I am trying my best to get caught up on these blogs.  It has been difficult to blog over the Thanksgiving holiday, especially since I was at my friend’s house and not mine.  I am still thankful that she gave me a house to go to for the holiday.  It was something else I could be thankful for on Thanksgiving.  The family was really nice and I had a good time while I was there.  I would like to reach all 75 blogs so that I can get all of the possible points of extra credit.  I also have to catch up on my comments.  I want to get the maximum amount.  Does anyone know how many she is allowing?  I want to say 160, but I could be wrong so I don’t want to do too little, but I don’t want to do 200 if it’s only 160, because that is just a waste of my time.  I need to start re-writing my Common Place paper if I want those extra credit points.  I know that I am on the bubble from getting an A in the class.  Since it is my first year at The Ohio State University, my GPA will be fresh, so I want to start out really strong so that I build a solid foundation.  I am so happy that there is no final in this class, but revising our papers act as a replacement to the final, so I need to try to take it just as serious as if it were an actual final.  I need to work hard.

Blog 62

                Wow. I really need to get caught up on my blogs.  I’m still on blogging about Battle Star Galactica.  I thought that it was pretty good.  I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.  It was more like a movie than a T.V series.  I kind of missed the beginning where it explained the background, but I was able to figure out what was going on.  It was pretty suspenseful at times.  The Cylons seemed kind of unstoppable.  I know that it would be frustrating to kill one only to find out that it wakes up in another body.  It must also be frustrating to know that they look just like humans so no one can really tell who is real or fake.  The ending kind of freaked me out when we found out that there was another Cylon on Battlestar Galactica that no one knew about.  It was completely unpredictable for the viewer to see that coming since the girl had a romantic thing going with one of the crew members.  Although I do like unexpected twists such as the one at the end of the show, I did not like this one because I know that I will never find out what really happens.  Will they find earth?  Will the Cylons destroy Earth?  Will the humans figure out there is another Cylon aboard the ship?  I’m not sure.  It was also interesting to see the sub stories within the plot, such as the Captains relationship with his son.  All in all, it was a good show to watch.  It kept me interested.

Blog 61

                On Thanksgiving, blogging is not what I want to be doing right now, but it’s whatever.  Thanksgiving dinner was delicious obviously.  I was feeling stuffed earlier, but now that I let my food settle for a little bit, I am ready for a 4^th round.  My favorite part about Thanksgiving is all of the food.  It is my day to eat as much good food as I possibly can.  The family that I am staying with for the Thanksgiving holiday is really nice.  I liked meeting everyone.  I am having a lot of fun here.  Yea, I still wish I could have gone home, but it’s really no big deal.  I would much rather have Thanksgiving with another family so that I can jump in Mirror Lake for the first time, and go to my first Ohio State vs. the University of Michigan football rivalry game.  I really do like seeing my family though.  Usually my family from Washington DC comes over to my house for thanksgiving.  That part of my family is from my Dad’s side.  He and my two aunts are really funny when they are together.  They like to make fun of each other a lot, and when they crack their jokes, they have me laughing pretty hard, plus I just enjoy their company.  I would have also liked to come home because my older brother told me that our house looks different in a way, but he wouldn’t tell me why it looks different,  he just wanted me to see it, so I am kind of anxious to know what he is talking about.  It’s probably something stupid.  Oh well.  Tomorrow will be my first Black Friday morning shopping session, so we’ll see how that goes.

Blog 60

                I have some catching up to do with my blogging, but I am not going to do it tonight.  I will finish when I get back to OSU.  I was originally supposed to go home, but I found out it wouldn’t have worked out for me to make it home.  At first, I was supposed to leave Ohio State on Wednesday morning and return to OSU Friday evening.  Turns out the person who I would be riding with decided that she wanted to leave on Tuesday night.  This would not allow me to jump in Mirror Lake (which was probably the best night I had at The Ohio State University so far) Luckily, I found someone else who would have been able to give me a ride to my house, and I would just go back that same Friday in time for the Michigan game, but on Tuesday I was informed that the person was staying until Sunday, and I would not be able to go to the game.  I had already paid a lot of money for my ticket, so it made no sense for me to miss the game, and lose all of the money, but at the same time, I did not want to stay at OSU through Wednesday night, and Thursday.  I was faced with a difficult decision, but it looked like I was just going to have to stay.  Thank God my one friend heard that I basically got screwed for my Thanksgiving plans, and invited me to her house.  That is where I am now.  Her family is really nice, and I am ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow.  I will still get to go to the game on Saturday, so everything worked out for the best.  For now, I’m going to sleep and waking up to a nice Thanksgiving day.

Blog 59

                I just got done watching the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the New York Giants game.  I don’t know if anyone watched, or even cared about the game, but it was an insane one.  It was about as nerve racking as the Ohio State vs. Iowa game yesterday.  It was another one of those games where it came down to the last minute.  Just like the Bucks, we were up at one point, but then in the 4^th quarter we let the other team take the lead.  Luckily, just like Ohio State, we were able to score again in the last minutes of the game to take the lead.  It was then up to our defense to secure the win.  It was a nail biter.  The weird thing is, just like how DeVier Posey dropped a perfectly thrown pass in the end zone, so did an Eagles wide receiver.  It was probably easier to catch than Posey’s, because the Eagles receiver wasn’t even moving.  Literally, my 7 year old cousin would have caught the pass, but unlike Ohio State, the Eagles let it happen TWICE!  It was definitely a frustrating game.  It really doesn’t matter now though, because we still pulled out with the win, and now we are in first place in the NFC East division.  For those of you that do not know, the Giants and Eagles are in the same division, and they were both tied for first until tonight, so it was a pretty important game.  I’m proud of both of my teams.  GO EAGLES!  GO BUCKS!

Blog 58

I am watching this Ohio State vs. Iowa game right now, and I am very frustrated.  Although we are winning 10-7 right now, we should be crushing this team.  We are not playing like we know how to play.  I am not really that worried though.  I think that we will pull ahead by a lot pretty soon.  Our offense really needs to step up.  We got this though.  We have the best team.  GO BUCKS!!

                Today Mack Hall and Canfield Hall made t-shirts for the Ohio State vs. Michigan game.  I had a lot of fun making one.  The entire basement was filled with spray paint fumes.  We had windows and fans going, but people still did not want to be down there for very long because they started getting headaches.  There is going to be this barbeque and since we made the t-shirts, we get to skip the line, so it should be nice.  Starting tomorrow, Michigan week is in full effect for me.  I am ready.  I am also ready to go home for Thanksgiving.  It will be nice to see my family and have a nice home cooked Thanksgiving turkey meal.  I’m making myself hungry right now.  I already eat a ton of food, but on Thanksgiving, it’s going to be a different story.  I will probably gain 10lbs on one sitting, but on Friday, it will be time to come back to Ohio so that I can witness Ohio State trash on Michigan.  I cannot wait for the game.  We need to win this one first, cause now it’s 10-10, but we got this!

Blog 57

                Today I basically slept.  I was so tired from such a busy weekend.  It felt good to relax a bit.  I got to hit the gym to lift, and to play a few games of basketball.  It was a good time.  It was freezing cold outside today.  When I walked passed Mirror Lake, I cringed to the fact that on Tuesday I will be inside of that lake with weather just as cold, or colder, but I am definitely looking forward to it.  It is going to be a good time.  I plan to be in and right out though.  I live in Mack Hall, which is right next to Mirror Lake, so I am kind of lucky.  I plan on sprinting back to the dorm and hopping right in the warm shower.  I feel bad for the people that live off campus, and might have to run all the way back to their houses, or apartments.  I think that everyone will enjoy it, and will think it was worth it though.  I am so ready for Michigan week.  I plan to get it started my making t-shirts tomorrow at my dorm.  It will be a lot of fun.  I can’t wait to crush our rivals, but in a way, I don’t want to completely crush them, because I want it to be a fun game, like Penn State.  I paid a lot of money for my ticket also, so it won’t be worth it if everyone leaves at half-time because we are winning by so much, but I know that the first half will probably be insane.  We need to beat Iowa first though, then we can move onto beating Michigan.  GO BUCKS!

Blog 56

I submitted my paper into Carmen at 11:41pm tonight.  I wasn’t really rushed for time or anything, I was just reviewing all of my work and correcting mistakes.  I think that I did pretty well on my paper, but it depends on what Leslie Chambers has to say about it now.  This paper was definitely a lot better than the Analytical Research Paper.  I liked this one more because it was more on what I wanted to write about.  I somewhat enjoyed writing this paper.

It feels like my weekend has started.  I think that this was my most hectic week since I’ve been here at The Ohio State University.  I had so much to do.  I almost pulled two all nighters in a row, but only pulled one because I had to be up at 5am to work out the next morning, so I wanted to get some rest.  It was a struggle staying awake in my math class this morning, especially since I was so tired from pulling an all-nighter, and having such a tough workout for PT this morning.  My butt and legs are very sore right now.  I actually love it.  Being sore is something that I like.  I guess because it shows me that I am getting better.  I know that my muscles will build up to be a lot stronger than they were before, so I don’t mind it.

I need to catch up on these blogs.  I decided to take a couple days off so that I could spend some more time studying, and doing other work.  It’s bed time.  I have to be up at 6am tomorrow.  Can’t wait! =[

Blog 55

                It’s 5am and I am blogging, not because I am up this early to go to PT or anything, because I do not have PT on the Wednesdays, but just because I am plain busy.  This is a clutch example of how busy I am this week.  I was working on a paper and presentation that I have to do for Air Force ROTC.  It’s due on Thursday in the morning.  I wanted to work on this and get it done because I know that I will spend a lot of time tomorrow and possibly Thursday working on the common place paper.  I feel a lot more stressed than I think I should be.  This happens to me a lot.  It feels like I have so much to do, but in reality, I really don’t have much to do at all.  Also, a lot of times I will think that something will take me very long to complete, so I stress about it, but when I am done, it didn’t take much time at all, but the worst is thinking that something will not take long at all, but it ends up taking up the entire night.  I’ve never taken a 5 hour energy shot, but I have one waiting for me for tomorrow morning.  I’ll have to see how well it works.  Today my roommate, two friends and I went to the RPAC to play basketball, and completely owned the court.  We played straight for 2 hours, because we didn’t get beat.  Near the last game, we were really tired and pretty much didn’t care if we won anymore, so we lost, thank goodness!  I am extremely beat now, so it’s time for me to go to bed!

Blog 54

                My dad texted me yesterday to tell me that he and my younger brother were going to the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Washington Redskins game tonight in Washington DC.  That is a huge deal.  It’s a conference game number one, and Donovan Mcnabb is playing for Washington, but he just got traded to Washington from the Eagles this past year.  It is a game that everyone wants to see.  To top it all off, my dad sent me a text today to tell me that he has 5^th row seats right next to where the players come out on to the field.  He told me the price he got the tickets for, and it was not expensive at all.  My dad was born and raised in Washington DC.  He said that he had a childhood friend hook him up with some good tickets to the game.  It’s kind of funny how it works out because earlier in the year my dad was talking about how he really wanted to go to a Redskins game.  My high school was raffling off Eagles Redskins tickets and my dad entered.  He was really excited that he could win, but he lost, but it turned out to work out better for him because he still got Eagles Redskins tickets, in better seats, in Washington territory.  It is probably good that he won’t be dressed in Washington gear, because Philly fans don’t tolerate that.  My brother is dressed in Eagles apparel, but I think he will be okay.  Everyone else in my family is an Eagles fan, so my dad is alone on this one.  GO EAGLES!

Blog 53

                So I like classical music. I have actually been listening while I have been doing my homework.  After lifting, it always feels nice to relax and do homework.  For some reason I feel like I am a lot more productive after I work out, so when I have a lot to get done, I like to make sure that I get a good lift in before starting all of my homework.  Classical music seems to sooth me and makes it so that I concentrate better.  I believe that it has also been proven to make people remember things a little bit better, so I thought that I would give it a try while studying.  I think the main reason why I like classical music is because I used to play in the band up until 9^th grade.  I stopped because I wanted to do other activities such as track.  I do not regret quitting, because I was good at track, and I liked it a lot more, but I do hope to one day pick up my saxophone again and get good at it.  It’s been five years since I’ve touched it.  I also like classical music because it seems like I can always put a story to go along with the music.  It has different expressions and feelings that go along with it.  Now I’m not saying I listen to classical music often. I barely do.  It’s not like I have any songs on my mp3 player.  Actually, if you heard my mp3, you would probably think I was the last person to like classical due to all of the hip-hop, and dance music genre my mp3 player has.  It’s just that if I hear classical music, I enjoy it.  Everybody has something that they enjoy that most people can care less about, and I enjoy classical music.

Blog 52

                The Ohio State vs. Penn State game was insane!  It was an epic comeback.  I was a little bit worried in the beginning that we were going to get beat.  I was confident the whole time though because I know that Ohio State is a way better team than Penn State, but also very nervous because it isn’t easy to make an 11 point comeback from a team that was crushing us in the first half, then take the lead, and maintain it, but Ohio State did.  When we had the first interception that put us ahead by three points, the stadium was going absolutely nuts.  The stadium was extremely loud.  Interceptions won us the game, and made the stadium go crazy.  Boom Herron had a great game in my opinion.  I loved being in Block O, and I am looking forward to being in Block O for the Michigan game also.  Next year I’m going to try my best to get Block O tickets.  I am the type of person that likes to go insane during games through cheering, chants, songs, and just jumping around going crazy, so Block O is definitely the spot for me.  I was happy that the Ohio Stadium stayed packed the entire game instead of everyone leaving during halftime since we are usually up by 30 at that time.  It was definitely the most fun game this season, my voice is gone, and I cannot wait for the Michigan game inside of the Ohio Stadium.  GO BUCKS!!

Blog 51

                So I just gave Pandora a try for the first time.  I always knew about it, but I never really listened to it because I had another online music station I listen to.  I usually listen to accuradio.com.  if you have never heard of it, I highly recommend it.  You can listen to whatever genre you want, and each genre is split into about 6 subgenres to give you the music style that you really want to listen to.  I also listen to partymusicleader.com which I HIGHLY recommend if you like dance music like me.  This Pandora thing is great though.  I’m upset I haven’t ventured to the site earlier in my life.  I already made myself a few radio stations.  I had to start with dance since there is no genre of music that will pump me up more than dance music.  Basically, I’m happy I finally ventured to this site.

                Right now I am inside of Mack Hall, sitting in my friends room bored.  Its 11:44 and we are still trying to figure out if we would like to go out or not.  The campus isn’t really going crazy tonight, and we don’t feel like walking outside in the cold and not being able to find something to do.  We did find a small party, but it’s mostly just chilling and what not, so we are not sure if it will be worth it.  I’m just looking forward to the Penn State game tomorrow.  I plan on tailgating before the game and having a good time with my friends in Block O, so I definitely have something to look forward to.  Also I found a Block O ticket for the Michigan game, so I’m pretty excited about that.

Blog 50

What a fail at being productive today.  I planned on studying a lot and getting ahead on homework and what not.  Even in my last blog I said that I was going to take advantage of this day off.  Needless to say, that plan failed.  It felt like the day just flew by.  It really wasn’t my fault though.  I had a lot of random stuff to get done.  It was one of those days where you look up at the clock, and you become shocked by how much time passed in what you thought to be an hour.  There is still some time to get some studying done, but I have to be up at 5am tomorrow morning, so I am just going to go to bed.  I have a lot of time to spend studying and what not during the weekend.  Today my friend who lives in the dorm said she will sell me her Penn State Block O ticket for 40 dollars.  I thought that was a really good price.  It’s Block O number one, and it is the cheapest Penn State ticket I have been able to find so far.  I went on the page “Class of 2014 at Ohio State” on Facebook and said I was looking for a ticket.  People messaged me that they were selling them for $50 or above, so I started to feel like I would have to throw down at least $50.  Everyone was selling student tickets in section 31-38B, one kid even said he was looking for $90 for a ticket in 36B.  He said he needed to get rid of it tonight.  I thought that he was insane to even try to sell that ticket for that much, so I offered $40 and said if he could find someone who would buy it for more than that, then fine, but if not, then I have $40.  It doesn’t matter now.  I got a ticket in a way better spot, for a better price.

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                Wow. I am EXTREMELY happy that we do not have classes tomorrow for Veterans Day.  I can use a day to just relax and get some extra studying and homework in.  I usually have physical training for Air Force ROTC dark and early on Thursday mornings, but it is canceled for tomorrow so I won’t have to wake up at 5am to go work out.  I actually can’t wait to get caught up on my studying and what not, because this is the time when I need it the most.  Obviously it’s not something that I am going to enjoy a lot.  I would much rather be doing something a lot more fun than studying in my dorm,  but it is time that I really do need.  I am trying to make epic comebacks in all of my classes.  I am doing pretty well in my classes, but I know that I can do better.  The past exams that I had in my other classes went pretty well, and I would like to do even better on the upcoming assignments and exams so that I can finish with a really strong grade, and in this class, I can take a lot of advantage of the extra credit opportunities to boost my grade.  Especially since this is my first year at Ohio State and I start out with a new GPA, I would like to give it a nice solid foundation to start out with.  Next quarter is going to be a difficult one anyway, so it will be best to get really good grades now while I still can.

Blog 48

                Today I played basketball and soccer with my church youth group.  It was pretty fun.  I was happy that I could actually go out with them and have a good time, because I don’t have anything else to do today, besides this blog.  The feedback that I got today was pretty good, but the thing is the paper that we had to fill out did not have a section where we could say whether or not we agreed or enjoyed the common place paper that we were reading.  I know that there were a few common place papers that were well written, but I could care less about them, and I would never take my own time to read them on my own.  Others I thought were extremely interesting and I wanted to read on.  If anyone read my paper and would like to give me some feedback on it, please do.  I value the opinions of my classmates who have read my common place paper, because it is intended for an audience, not myself, so whoever read my paper can give me some valuable feedback as to what an audience is looking for.  I also think that the more students that like my common place paper, the better the chances our professor will like what she is reading and give me a better grade.  The title of my common place paper is “Simple Steps on How to Conquer the World” If you remember this paper, please comment and give me some feedback on how you liked it.

Blog 47

Last night I figured out that I might be able to go home for Thanksgiving.  My friend and I went down to the 2^nd floor of Mack hall and there was a map of the United States, and each person from the second floor placed a sticker with their number on it on top of the place where they live.  Below the map was a sheet of paper with everyone’s names on it matched up next to their number, so you can figure out where everyone lives.  While looking, I found a sticker that was pretty much right on top of my hometown, so I looked to see who it was, and it ended up being someone that I knew.  I let her know that I live in that area.  We started talking and she asked me if I am going home for thanksgiving.  I told her that I was not because it is too far for my parents to commute in order to pick me up, and drop me off.  She then told me that she was going home for Thanksgiving, and she has a car here, so she could just give me a ride home for Thanksgiving if I wanted one.  So just like that, I can possibly go home for thanksgiving now.  I’m still not sure what I want to do.  My roommate did invite me over to his house, so I could always go there, but it would obviously be nice to see my family and friends from home again.  My parents would still have to make a small commute since the girl still lives an hour and a half west of me, but that really isn’t a far trip at all.  It’s kind of cool how things worked out starting from just looking at a map of where the 2^nd floor people live.

Blog 46

                This weekend I took a chill pill.  It was nice.  It felt good to just relax a little bit for a full week.  And I don’t plan on going out till at least next weekend, so it will be two weeks since I went out to party.  I still had a ton of fun this weekend.  Most people didn’t go out this weekend anyway.  It was really cold out, so people didn’t want to go out and freeze.  Especially since there wasn’t much going on, people did not want to go out and just walk around in the cold all night looking for something to do.  I know there were a few things going on, but nothing too big.  I feel like winter quarter is going to be pretty dead.  It’s probably a very good thing for me, because I am taking a lot of pretty difficult classes.  Chemistry, Math, and Engineering, plus 2 ROTC classes, and a GEC which shouldn’t be bad at all.  I will have to wake up at 5 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6 on Fridays for ROTC, so it’s probably a good thing winter quarter will be dead so that I can get some more studying in.  Sometimes I like to be busy though.  Being productive at times can be enjoyable, but productivity to the point where you are not stressed out, because there is nothing worse than that.  Unfortunately, college has a lot of stress involved with it, but it’s worth it being here.  I love college, especially The Ohio State University.

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                The fact that we can do a lot of comments for extra credit is a great way to get a good grade in this class.  I don’t know if our teacher knows how much I am going to take advantage of the extra credit.  My analytical research paper will be taken care of in the extra credit I receive.  I think that I am also going to rewrite both of the papers.  I mean why not?  It’s a good way to get the points back.  Since we are in college, I feel like every point is so crucial!  It can set our whole lives straight, or possibly completely trash it.  Before people went to college just to get a step ahead of their peers who decided not to go to college and start working, but now almost everyone who graduates high school goes on to get a college education, so how do you get ahead of them?  You have to strive to be the best.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying everyone should go to college, in fact, some of the most successful people in the world do not have college degrees.  Such as Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs.  I think what everyone should have is a plan though.  Now I know that some people are still trying to figure that plan out, but as long as you are in a position that is preparing you for something that you will be happy with doing, then I think you are in a good place.  As long as you are on a path to figure out what that plan may be, then I personally think that you’re doing a good job at whatever your doing.  A lot of people don’t, and I hope that one day they will find their plan.

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                I got a pretty good feedback on how people liked the title of the common place paper that I made up.  A lot of the feedback was good, but a lot was not so good.  Most people that did not like the title of the paper said that it was too assertive, which I agree with.  I made it up off of the top of my head when the teacher told us to come up with a title.  I didn’t like the Titles that they suggested, but a few gave me some good ideas.  Instead of “Change Your Life”, I’m going to change it to something similar to “Simple Steps on How to Conquer the World” I like this title because my topic is on hard work and dedication and if someone uses it correctly, then they can do anything they want, so I might as well set the bar high in the title.  Below is my new and revised introduction, including my new sentence.

               

You are in the middle of a long and tough race called life.  It’s very early in the race, and you are at the point where your next few steps will pace the entire rest of the race.  You are in high school, you’re working hard, and you got good grades.  You got involved in everything you could possibly be involved in that wouldn’t affect your grades in a negative way.  The things you were involved in, u also thrived in.  Second to no one is the mindset that you had, and now it’s your senior year.  It is now time to take a big step and move on to college.  You already got into each college you applied to so now all you have to do is choose the one that you like the best.  It’s that easy.  You know which one you want, and you envision yourself there having a great time and striving to be the best there, just like how you once did in high school.  The only problem is the one college that you really want to go to turn out to be out of reach for your family.  Your parents just cannot afford it.  Not only can you not go to the college of your dreams, but you are forced to go to that safety school.  This is a school that you really do not want to go to.  You really only applied to this school because they sent you a free application in the mail, and when you actually get to that college, you hate it.  That’s a rough start to the race, right?  It was for me.

Blog 43

                I had my PFA test today for AFROTC. The PFA is a physical fitness test where you are ranked on how many push-ups and sit-ups you can do in a minute, and how fast you can run a mile and a half in.  It was my first time doing it.  I haven’t been to many sessions where I got to actually workout because I didn’t have my physical in earlier in the year, so I only got to work out once, do a practice PFA test, and the other days were light workout days because we were preparing for the test.  I think that I did okay on the test.  I worked as hard as I could.  I am a little upset with how many push-ups I got, but it wasn’t bad.  Since I haven’t been able to go to PT often, I know that I can a better score the next time we have the test, I’m not worried about it.  The test is extremely important because it ranks you against everyone else in the program, and your ranking can decide your career in the Air Force when you enlist, so this test is one to take seriously.  There is a maximum score you can get, so my goal by the end of this year is to max the score so that I don’t have to worry about someone doing better than me on the PFA.  I am also now motivated to get an outstanding GPA cause that plays the biggest role in the ranking.  I’ve wanted to become a pilot ever since the first time I was in a plane in 3^rd grade, so I will definitely work hard for this one.  I will obtain my goals, and I will succeed.

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                This common place paper is a lot easier than the analytical research paper.  I fell like with the common place paper, I can write in whatever way I want to write in. I also feel like I can write about what I want to write about instead of about a Science Fiction show that is no longer on television.  Not saying I don’t like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I am saying that I would never want to write an analytical research paper on it.  I have a good set up for this paper.  I have my call to action and I know how I am going to argue it.  The target audience will be people around my age, so it’s going to be easy to write in a way that the audience can understand, because I just have to write like I am speaking to a friend or someone similar.  I also have a personal story that goes along with all of my paper, so it will work out good.  It will be timely and it can relate to everyone, so I think I have down all of the main focuses of the paper so far.  Does anyone know how long the draft has to be?  I heard that it has to be at least two pages, and that’s how much I have so far, but it I am wrong, please let me know so that I can add more to it.  It’s only 9:45, and I am extremely tired, so I am going to go to bed.  In college, that is an accomplishment in itself.  Nobody sleeps enough.

Blog 41

                I cannot stand working on something so hard, and not getting a good grade on it.  It’s even worse when you worked so hard, and thought you did well on it, but when you get the results, it’s disappointing.  At least when you don’t work hard, and your work reflects that, you know that’s what you deserved, and you know that you can just improve next time, but when you don’t know what else you can possibly do next time in order to get a better grade, that is what frustrates me.  There is nothing worse than that.

                I was up until 4:30am last night/this morning studying for a midterm that I have in psychology and a quiz I had this morning in math.  I think I did okay on the math quiz.  I still have to study more for psychology, which I have at 1:30 this afternoon, but I think that I pretty much have everything down.  I hope my hard work pays off for all of this.  Obviously I am tired, and I just want to sleep, but as soon as I get back from my midterm, I have to work on my common place draft, so I won’t be able to.  I also have a big test for ROTC tomorrow morning.  It’s a physical fitness test.  It’s a big deal, we have been waking up at 5am twice a week, every week in preparation for this test, so it’s something I definitely would like to do good on.  The leaders keep saying, “Get plenty of rest for the test.”  I think that they forgot that we are college students at Ohio State.  There is no way I will make it to bed by 9 tonight in order to get the recommended 8 hours of sleep.  There is way too much to do.

Blog 40

                Today I talked to a couple of people over the phone with two of my best friends, who live back at home in eastern Pennsylvania.  I came to the realization that these two people will probably be lifelong friends to me.  I’ve been in college for a couple years now, and I’ve been at a college farther than 2.5 hours away for about a month and a half now, and it’s amazing how we always stay in touch, of course it’s pretty much impossible to get away from people in today’s time because of all the social technology, such as Facebook, e-mail, texting, cell phones, webcam, etc.  The only thing you can’t do when you are away from somebody now, is make physical interaction.  When our parents were in college, they could only write letters, or use a land line.  They could actually get away if they wanted to.  This technology is the exact reason why I wasn’t afraid to go far away to college, number one because I knew I would make a lot of new friends here, and number two, I can always stay in touch if I wanted to.  I really wasn’t worried about missing high school friends, because the ones that you really want to always stay in touch with, you do stay in touch with.  Other friends, it’s no big deal, but one day if you would like to see what they are up to, just go on Facebook and write on their wall.  It’s as simple as that.  I mean yea, I’m looking forward to going home and actually seeing some of my friends in person, but I can definitely wait till December, which will be the first time that I go home this school year.  For now, I’ll enjoy my time at The Ohio State University!

Blog 39

                Everyone went crazy this weekend.  Today is Halloween and everyone is relaxing.  It really doesn’t even feel like Halloween because it is so quiet.  The whole weekend felt like Halloween though.  In college if Halloween is on a Sunday, then it’s basically like Halloween is a weekend long event.  Even though it is Halloween tonight, everyone is taking a break, and getting back to their school work.  Luckily I really did not have much work to do over the weekend.  This past week is a different story.  Today actually felt like a long day.  I liked it.  It felt like I actually had time to do things.  Usually, I feel like the day is just way too short.  I will be doing something, and I look up at the time and hours passed by, but it felt like minutes.  I also think that the weeks move by extremely fast, especially the weekends.  I don’t mind too much that the weekdays fly by during the school year, but when I know I have something due on Friday, and it’s Monday, then I know that I don’t have much time at all to complete it, cause the day will be here in no time at all.

                I’m watching the World Series right now, and it just isn’t interesting.  It kind of sucks that the Giants are winning since I guess I am a little bit bitter towards them for beating my Phillies, but it’s okay they will be back next year.  I really want to see Cliff Lee win a world series.  I like him a lot, and he did so much for the Phils last year, and the Rangers this year, so he deserves it.

Blog 38

It gets harder and harder to figure out what I am going to blog about when we get to blog about anything.  Honestly I do like blogging about anything than to have to blog about whatever the professor tells us to blog about, but it is a lot harder to think of something good to blog about.  Ever since my Phillies lost, there hasn’t really been anything extremely exciting on my mind.  Also, I need to start commenting more on other people’s blogs.  I was doing really well with commenting, then all the sudden my schedule got extremely busy and so I am a little bit behind.  I’m thinking 20 comments behind.  I’ll make a comeback though.  I want the extra credit points.

I am ready to have a lot of fun tonight.  Last night was kind of a bust I think, but tonight is going to be better.  I have a feeling.  I think yesterday my costume was a bit better, but today my costume will work out for me better.  Last night my friend and I decided to be fruit of the loom.  I was the grape, and my friend was a banana.  I just blew up a whole bunch of purple balloons and taped it to a purple shirt.  It was a good outfit it’s just that random people kept popping my balloons throughout the night like I knew they would.  By the end of the night it was just me in a purple shirt.  Tonight I am going to be a ninja.  It’s less original, but it’s something.  And it should actually last me the entire night, so it should work out for me a little better.  We’ll have to see what happens.  I’m just ready to have fun.

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                Today I had to finish my analytical research paper and turn it in.  To be honest, I’m kind of scared about it.  I’m scared because I know that our teacher is a tough grader.  I really want to do well in this class because I know that it will be one of the classes that I never have to think hard about in my life again.  If I major in engineering, what will it matter that I took English 110 in college.  I do understand that English is important to the communication from one person to another.  I would like to perfect my English skills so that whatever my job search is when I graduate college, I can be well rounded in whatever needs to get done.  It’s possible that I will be required to do a lot of writing with whatever my job ends up being.

                This week was unbelievably busy for me.  It feels like I made it through hell week.  I am extremely happy, and relieved to finally be done.  It was extremely stressful at times.  At times, I honestly did not think that I was going to be able to pull it off, but then again, I knew that if I kept working hard and did everything piece by piece, I would complete everything.  It’s the old question “Question: how do u eat an elephant? Answer: one bite at a time”  meaning you have to start somewhere, and eventually you will get it done.  I’m happy that I did.

Blog 36

                You worked hard in high school, you got good grades.  You got involved in everything you could possibly be involved in that wouldn’t affect your grades in a negative way.  The things you were involved in, u also thrived in.  Second to no one is the mindset that you had, and now it’s your senior year.  It is now time to take a big step and move on to college.  You already got into each college you applied to so now all you have to do is choose the one that you like the best.  It’s that easy.  You know which one you want, and you envision yourself there having a great time and striving to be the best there, just like how you once did in high school.  The only problem is the one college that you really want to go to turn out to be out of reach for your family.  Your parents just cannot afford it.  Not only can you not go to the college of your dreams, but you are forced to go to that safety school.  This is a school that you really do not want to go to.  You really only applied to this school because they sent you a free application in the mail, and when you actually get to that college, you hate it.  That’s a rough way to spend your first year in college, right?  It was for me.  Although I was in a horrible spot and it felt as if I downgraded from high school, I made sure it didn’t end this way.  I quickly started searching for ways to get out and go to a school that I would enjoy.  It wasn’t easy.  Sometimes it was almost like repeating the whole process over and over again, and still coming up with nothing, but now when I look back on it, I realize that it was the hard work and dedication that eventually got me out, and to a better college than what I originally wanted at first.  I learned quickly that with hard work, I can achieve greater things than I was originally striving for.

Blog 35

                I think that I might offend some PETA lovers with this blog, but this is just how I feel about the organization.  Today I read the article PETA: How the Messenger Kills the Message.  I honestly could not agree more with this article.  To be honest, I cannot stand PETA, and what PETA does.  In this article, the author goes on to talk about how she used to be a PETA supporter, but as time progressed and she saw the things that PETA gets involved in, she realized that the organization is pretty much insane.  She went on to explain the super bowl commercial that PETA made.  The commercial obviously did not get approved, but you can view the commercial here.  This commercial doesn’t even make sense to me.  I actually thought it was more funny than logical in my opinion.  There are girls on the commercial licking pumpkins and rubbing broccoli over their bodies, like some weird fetish, in order to say that animals should be respected like humans.  The funny thing is a more important species, a female human being, was disrespecting herself in the process.  Now she just looks like a slut on TV.  People may argue that Victoria’s Secret commercials are not much different, but the point is Victoria’s Secret is selling bras, not PETA.  There is a bit of a difference.  I think also think PETA stupid to think their commercial would get approved to be seen during the Super Bowl.  The reason I hate PETA is because of the way they do things.  Don’t get me wrong, in no way do I condone animal abuse, but don’t throw animal blood on celebrities who wear fur.  It doesn’t even make sense that they throw animal blood.  Don’t you have to kill an animal for that?  Does that not go against everything PETA believes in?  Another thing that I can’t stand is how PETA tries to make people, who are omnivores, feel extremely bad for eating meat.  That’s the way my body was made, to eat meat, so don’t try to make me feel bad for doing so, and if animals are the exact same as us, then go protest against lions for chasing down antelope and eating them alive.  Hey, at least when I eat meat, I make sure it’s dead on my plate.  Basically, it seems as if PETA lacks all intelligence in the way they go about doing things.  There are plenty of other organizations that are against animal abuse that handle themselves in a respectable way.  PETA has only made a bad name for themselves through their idiotic acts.

                Wow I wrote way over the required 250 words.  I guess I just like trashing on PETA.