What are you smoking?, BLAZE WITH MAWAH

Sooo yesterday was our last class...booo hooo (hahah JK) no acually I most likely will not see a lot of my fellow students that were in that class

The group I have been waiting for finally presented.  LEAGALIZING POT, WEED, BUD...whatever you call it. IT SHOULD BE LEGAL.

ANYWAY, I really really exjoyed their video.  I have to say all of the points that they brought up were extreamly logical.  I acaully found myself arguing with a friend about pot being legalized using the information I learned from their presentation. 

The fact that Americas most asked question to president OBAMA was the legalization of the "drug" was extreamly interesting.  He ended up not answering it.  I really liked how the group showed these activists opinions as well as showing obamas speech on the matter. 

As most people know I am all for the legaization of the drug.  If something like Alcohol and ciggarettes are allowed to be leagal (well for those of 19 or 21)  Shouldnt something as harmless as pot be leagalized?  Think about it how much court time and jail time are people forced to spend each day because they were in possession of the drug or they were high., THATS OUR TAX MONEY!!! NO FAIR!!!!  We house so many criminals in the United States who were found guilty of possioson or under the influence of weed.  This is rediculous. To spend time in jail just because you wanted a good time?  It's not like you shot and killed someone?

I don't know about you but I have never heard of anyone getting high then killing someone.  It just does not happen because when you smoke you are way too lazy to plot a crime.  You just sit there and zone out, laugh at everything, eat a lot, and most likely experience the best sleep known to man kind.  If people can use it for medicipal perposes then the drug cannot be that dangerous. 

In fact there are plenty of studies that says that Pot is not at all addictive.  At least not physically.  Now if it is legalized I do not believe that it should be smoked every day.  But, that is just stupid. 

A recent study that was used in the video that the group used said that 90 percent of American population has at one point experimented with the use of the drug.  IF that is the case, the people who enforce the penalties are the ones that are penilizing society for using it.  This is just hypocritical

In conclusion (not that this was a formal paper or anything) weed should be legalized because it would not only help our economy but it would chill out those who enforce the drug possesiion and use by pulling the stick out of their...you know what!
;-D

We are almost outta here!

Wow, this semester flew.  It is strange to think that finals are next week. I mean, where did the time go?  I am not complaining because I am happy it went fast but seriously, I can still remember the first day of comp class like it was yesterday.  We had to ask a partner is we are more like a monkey or a kitten.  I believe I choose kitten because I love nothing more than napping.  I acually have a major problem, I enjoy napping so much that I cannot bring myself to study for finals!
   Yesterday we presented out project to the class.  I was so worried the video would not turn out very good.  But honestly, the video was the best.  Even the students enjoyed it.  I have to say, the video was hard to make because I do not know how to edit and so I had to leave that up to Chad.  Not knowing how the video would turn out was very anxiety prevoking.  I was extreamly satified with the results.  Its weird how we spent a good part of the semester planning out this video and how quickly the deadline approached. 
   I can honestly say the comp class was one of my worries this semester.  I worried because we as a class had to make the deadlines for everything.  When I do not have control or deadlines set in advance I tend to freak out.  Even after we made the deadlines I worried about how we were going to get all of this work done.  We did it.  And it was a sucess. Now we only have to make it through finals, and we would have survived freshman yeah! YEAHHHH!!!!!!

That wasn't bad at all, In fact It was good

Ok, So yesterday afternoon our class was required to go to this composition reading in the sub instead at class.  I had mixed feelings about it through out the day.  Honestly my first thought was awsome we do not have class!!  But then the reality sunk in that I was going to have to drag my ass to the other side of campus and sit through a boring poetry reading (HEY don't judge that was what I was expecting!) 
     Anyway once I got there I had found out that I had missed the most reacent reading session and needed to wait for the next one.  WELL THAT SUCKS now I need to sit here and do nothing for about an hour!  So me and Victoria went to the bear cafe which I acually had never been too and found out that it was extreamly chill there. I sat on the computer and played on Facebook, which is the best way in my mind to pass time.  I could have very well started studying for finals BUT WHY WOULD I DO THAT?!

   SO finally the time came to gather into the reading room.  I cursed under my breath as everyone including myself piled into this tiny room and waited for the "torchure" to begin.
  SO the first reader in my opinion was very hard to follow, he spoke about somthing that had to do with a charecter in a movie becoming a man by loosing his virginity and taking some ladies.  So i quickly stopped listening because as soon as I hear anything realated to sex I start to not want to hear it because to me it is awkaward.  He read fast but the words he used to describe the film made me cringe because the images of sex he portrayed through words were just too vivid.  Kudos to him not being able to say the words, vagina, penis, penitration and viginity all with a stright face and in a serious manner. 
     Now the reader that caught my attention the most about a lady who wrote about the movie "click"  I believe her paper was called "Point and click"  This caught my attention because not only was this a movie I have viewed and enjoyed serveral times but I never realized how much symbolism is in the production.  When I saw this movie I did notice it was not going to end happily with light hearted comedy.  Instead it ends very sad.  The woman described this film as a "heart wrenching tale that teaches us all in the end to appreciate life and live it to the fullest."  I never realized how the movies lighting starts out in a very well lite nice setting but as the drama moves outward the scences become darker and more depressing.  Being that I never realized this aspect of the film I acually went back to watch the movie later that evening.  (For real I have it in my dorm)  I was suprized of all of the aspects of the film that she discussed in her paper that I never acually realized
    Lastly, the final reader wrote about the movie 28 days.  Now this movie acually scared the crap out of me when I first saw it when I was fairly young.  SO being that I had experienced the terror of this movie her introduction automatically had me hooked.  I do not remember exactly the decriptive words but I could acually see in my mind that scenes as she described them.  I know I sound like a wimp when I say this but I acually witnessed goosbumps when she spoke about the man puncturing the zombies eyeballs into the socket.  (YUCK)  One of the things that I really found intriging is how she was able to keep eye contact with her audience throughout her presentation.  I know that caught my attention because as she read about every drop of blood and scream of vain described made her piece seem even more passionate and intense being that her eyes met with mine.  Her voice literally stuck in my brain which helped me concentrate on every minute detail she expressed.
  To finish up here I thought that I would say that I went into this composition reading seminar thing with an extreamly closed mind.  Thinking that it would be long and boring.  I seriously thought of the stereotypical poetry readers that spill all of their deepest feelings as tears roll down their face.  I thought OH MY GOSH PLEASE KILL ME!!!!  My mind set was very quickly changed after the first reader finished and I was automatically intrigued by how fabulous theses readers presented their papers.  The lesson I learned is you need to go into all aspects of college with an open mind, Not just for the grade but for the fact that you may acually like what you will learn. I may acually consider attending next year!


by the way I found this video and thought it was funny and kinda related to 28 days. check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsGe7-XXQ-8

Kutztown STATE university becoming PRIVATE?!! SAY WHAT!

In class we discussed the budget cuts which may or may not be happening next semester.  This discussion upset not only myself, but a lot of the students.  The sad thing is this was not the first class it was discussed in.  I actually found myself bitching about how awful life would be if Kutztown became a private university.  The cost of school is already ridiculously priced which is one of the many reasons I decided to come to a state school.  I am an Elementary Education major.  My parents and I discussed why it would not make sense for me to go to a private institution for my major.  If I become a elementary school teacher I would not be making a huge amount of money.  Which my parents explained to me did not make sense to get my education at Salve Regina, a private school in Newport NJ.  This made me upset because I loved everything about the school. 

            Now that Kutztown University may be forced to become an Private institution the tuition will be priced significantly higher. Not only does this suck for me because I will no longer be able to attend school here but it sucks for the teachers that will most likely be let go.  How can one professor get to know each and every student personally if we are going to be shoved into huge lecture halls all the time and not have a voice.  One of the other reasons Kutztown’s education was attractive to me was because unlike most state schools the student teacher ratio was significantly different.  I knew for a lot of general education classes I would be in a lecture hall but I also knew that there would be time for me to be in classes with a smaller population. If I wanted to be a number instead of a name I most likely would have gone to Pen State! 

            Lastly, most of the professors here on campus take pride in their work.  If a lot of them get cut what is going to happen to the teacher that did nto get cut?  Chances are they are going to have to work triple as hard to grade papers due to the bigger class sizes.  It is not fair that education needs to be cut.  I feel there are many other places that we can cut the money.

            I will not be attending the rally being held to protest the cuts however I know my prayers and thoughts will be with those who are being affected by this stupid and selfish new law. 

Music and studying? How is this an experiment!

Hello everyone!  So I was doing homework the other day, Just studying some note cards for my history exam.  Now usually I would study with some classical music in the background but this time I wanted to conduct an experiment.  I wondered if instead of listening to only classical music maybe it would benefit me to listen to rap or pop.  So I turned my Ipod on and put it on shuffle.  I not only realized that when my ipod is on shuffle it sounds like it is having a seizure but I found it extremely difficult to focus when the songs had words.  Instead of focusing on the facts written on my cards I found myself wanting to sing along or even dance to the music.  This was distracting and I was not able get much accomplished.

            In a recent video we watched during class a nureo scientist put people in an MRI and had them try and rap or play jazz music on a key board.  This experiment was interesting because he compared what the MRI’s results were and how they differed from one another.  I do not remember the exact results but I remember that I did not care for this experiment.  There were too many varying factors. 

            For one, I know when I go in an MRI I am not at all relaxed.  The environment is annoying and extremely claustrophobic.  Therefore that would affected his results.  Another contributing factor is that he only studied 2 different genres on music.  In my opinion there were many others he should have added to the experiment.  And lastly, it annoyed me the most.  I believe he had more rappers than jazz players.  How can he even call that a valid and successful experiment without testing the same amount of people?!!?

We are all creatures of habit

We are all creatures of habit in this very organized world.  At college we are forced to go to the same classes at the same time on the same day of the week.  This can make our daily schedules become monotonous very quickly.  Heck, even the food in the cafeteria and the student union building is the same every day.  I decided when I went home this week for my “spring break”  I was going to try and make my schedule as different as possible not only from my days at college but from how it was when I was home last semester. 

            At first I started out with instead of hitting the snooze alarm when it was around noon time to get up from my nap I just got right up.  Next on a normal day I would have gotten right in the shower instead I went downstairs to brush my teeth.  On a normal day I would have brushed my teeth in the upstairs bathroom but instead I moved all of my toiletries to the downstairs bathroom.  This was annoying at first because I wanted to use the upstairs bathroom then I would realize quickly that all of my stuff was in the other powder room.  Now usually I would go out and get my morning donkin donuts coffee but this week I decided to attempt to make my coffee at home not only for this project but to save money.  It worked, well, once I figured out how to use the coffee machine and it didn’t taste too bad.

            Next I changed the way I bathed. Usually I would take a bath and not wash my hair at night and then shower in the morning.  For this week only I tried changing it around.  Honestly, it did not work too well because I couldn’t stand going to bed with wet hair and then waking up with it looking like a poodles fur.  So I quickly went back to my routine.  I also took time to go to the mall by myself instead of calling friends to go with me.  To my surprise I enjoyed this a lot more because I did not need to go to stores I did not want to go to and lie and give good opinions on ugly clothes.  It was very…relaxing!  I think that from now on I will try and go shopping solo. 

            I most likely could have made a few more changes but like I stated before we are all creatures of habit and we will eventually flow back to our normal everyday schedule.

I have Blog fever!

How many of you guys thought the same thing that I thought when we were told we were required to write a blog?  “Great! One more thing I am required to do that I need to keep up with,” is what I was thinking.  I honestly want to say, I hated the idea that I needed to post blogs for a grade.  I had no idea in any way how to even create a blog much less how to write one!  The anxiety of having to figure out how to work blogger scared me to death.  I felt stupid!  Here I am a girl who loves to write in her journal and enjoys writing in her free time (I know I am a loser, DON’T JUDGE ME) and I have no Idea how to create a blog.  As time went by I wrote blog after blog, (ok, this is only my 4^th)  but the point is, I did not want to blog.  One time I even went to my friend and complained to her that I didn’t know how to blog and thought about just not doing it.  I really do believe that the word blog scared me because I had no idea what it meant. 

            To move along in my story, I finally created my blog, and spent about 45 minutes typing up my new post only to find out that on tumblr I was unable to copy and paste!  So here I was cursing at the computer close to tears from frustration when I finally gave up and took a nap.  I procrastinated a few hours I believe until I realized maybe I should try another blogging website.  That was when I found blogger it was so easy all I needed to do was create an account then there is a button that says create new post.  I felt as though the world was lifted off my shoulders.  Awesome!!! I finally figured it out and it only took me a few minutes!  I had spent so much time procrastinating and being “scared” of trying something new with my writing that after posting one entrée I felt sudden relief. 

            As I go on with posting blogs now I find myself related my blogs to a lot of the same stuff I write in my journal.  The only difference is that I somehow need to relate the majority of my entries on topics discussed in class.  I believe that I am starting to really enjoy blogging and in a sense I feel stupid that I was so frustrated with the idea of it being a graded assignment for my comp class.

Working in a group is good way to make new friends!

Ok, so my previous post was on the topic of working in groups.  This post is very similar actually.  It is about how I enjoyed working in my group.

            I am a very social person, anyone who knows me even if they are not my close friends will tell you that I am an extremely social.  Therefore I really liked getting know my group- mates. (IF that is even a real word)  Anyway, I learned something different so far about each of the people in my group.  Kevin is an art major and really enjoyed taking photographs of the butts around campus to post to our Facebook group that we are using to raise awareness on the issue.  Nick is a great addition to our group because I know that since he is an art major he will be very handy with drawing posters or any visual aspect of raising awareness or in our presentation. 

            Victoria was actually a friend of mine before we were paired together for the project.  In fact, I believe she was in my summer connections group.  Her and I got to know each other more closely through this product.  She is very good with social networking and enjoys working on Facebook.  Therefore we all agreed that she would be good at creating our Facebook awareness group.  She really came through by not only typing up the group informational paragraph but she invited a whole bunch of people from Kutztown University to join the group. 

            Chad is an extremely creative human being.  He not only came up with our local issue topic but he is the one person who got everyone together for our meetings in the library.  This is excellent because if it weren’t for him being extremely organized and finding the time to take down everyone’s contact information we never would have been able to get together to write our proposal.  Chad also wrote out the questionnaire and took the time energy and patience to hand them out to students around campus.  This is great because I know in my busy schedule I never would have been able to put as much time into handing out questionnaires and waiting for them to be filled out. 

            Now, I know you all are most likely thinking, she is babbling on about what the other people did and did nothing to contribute.  I actually wrote the introduction and conclusion paragraphs as well as helping word the body paragraphs found in the proposal.  I enjoy writing so I was really glad my group assigned my job to be the editing and putting together of the proposal.

            All in all, I believe that we all put our hidden talents into working together and making out proposal the best it can be.  As well as we all became friends in the process.  Think about it, I never would have become friends with these people if I didn't have comp class with them or was paired with them in the project.  I believe that with all of our uniquely creative ideas put together we can perhaps create a very interesting, yet professional, final product and presentation.   

Do you like or dislike group projects?

Hi everyone

Ok so since we are all working on a group project this semester I thought I would share my ideas on the topic.  Well, let me first start off with I really dislike group projects.  They seem to be difficult because not only do you have to work together to get a good grade but you must find time in each other’s schedules to meet.  Half the battle is picking a date or times to gather everyone.  This can be challenging because we are college students and we all have different schedules.  Think about how much it stinks to miss your one and only program on television one night just to meet with your group!  I ask to watch one show a week (for me..it is Grey’s Anatomy) and I don’t enjoy having to miss it. 

                Another reason I do not particularly care for group projects is that there always seems to be one person who is so much more committed to doing a lot of work while others stand around and watch.  This is not fair for one person to have to stay up late finishing up a paper while the other students involved can go to sleep and not have a worry in their mind.  Think about a time you were assigned to work in a group of people you did not know.  You always have the worry that this person isn’t going to lift a finger or even worse be overly committed to the project and make you look like you have not contributed. 

                These are only some of my worries I have when I need to work on a project with someone.  However, there are a few pros that go along with working in a group.  I know I met my best friend in 8^th grade because we were paired together to do a project together.  Being paired with people you do not know is not necessarily a bad thing, I mean, you get to meet new people and that is a bonus.  Another reason some people like group projects is because the work can be split up evenly so neither one of the students in the group needs to as hard.  This is very time consuming to alter a plan on who is doing what but in the long run it may conclude worth it. 

                Lastly, I would like to point out that the project we are working on in class I am actually enjoying.  I feel that Professor Morris has tackled the anxiety of us feeling we may be doing all the work while others sit and watch.  I like that we need to state our contributions we made to create the group at the end of the projects.  This most defiantly allowed me to feel like we will be forced to all do the same amount of work and that our grades may all be different from one another’s. 

                All and all I have mixed opinions on working in groups however, I must say this project has gotten me to branch out and think of new ideas on how to bring awareness to tackling theft on campus.  I think that this Comp class is very different than other classes on campus.  Instead of watching a movie and being told to write a paper on it, instead, we are being forced to really tackle a local issue.  This allows us all to think “out of the box” and soon enough our creativity levels will rise.

Let's Disinfect the KU please and THANK YOU

Hi all!  OK so for my first blog I thought I would expand on my idea about my local issue.  I had chose to “disinfect the school.”  No one in the class wanted to choose this as their topic other then myself but I would like to expand on the idea.

                How many times has the girl down your hall gotten sick?   Then, magically you catch the bug they had within a few short days.  Everyone knows that being sick in college sucks!  You have to miss class and any activities you had planned for that day (or week). I believe that the spread of illness could be decreased if the school had people come in and vacuum/ mop the floors in our dorms.  Think about how many germs are lingering on the floor of your dorms.  You walk on your floor after using the restroom and most people wear shoes in your dorms!

                Another idea I had was to have a laundry service on campus.  No one likes doing laundry, it takes so much time and energy to sort and wash clothes then transfer them into the dryer.  So what if we had a laundry service on campus?  This would also provide jobs on campus; they could charge a small fee for doing each load. 

                Lastly, in the computer labs they should have disinfecting wipes available for students use before and or after they use the computer.  Think about how many people have been on that computer! You have no idea where their hands have been. 

                Think about how many objects we come in contact with that have been touched by other students!  It is nauseating to think about how quick viruses and other illnesses spread throughout campus!  Sure, people can say you won’t get sick if you keep your self clean but lets get real diseases and illnesses still get spread everywhere!!!  I believe that with a little more effort in being careful of what we touch we can help stop the spread of illnesses around campus.

                To add to this blog, my roommate had to leave this week because she caught the flu.  After she left, me being the germ phobic freak I am, scrubbed the dorm clean with Lysol and Clorox bleach.  I actually caught one of the custodians in the hall way and asked her if it would be possible for me to borrow some chemicals to clean up my room.  Sadly, she said no because it is against school policy to give out such hazardous chemicals!  I was thinking, “Are you serious!? I went down to Dixon Market and picked up a bottle of bleach, you cannot get any more hazardous then that!” 

                To make a long story short I cleaned my room all night long and even aired the room out so I didn’t die from inhaling all of the retched chemicals. I am not saying that my roommates illness could have been prevented, but I think that it is wrong that I had to take the responsibility to scrub down the room myself. 

                Anyways, I am sitting in my extremely clean safe haven of a room and feel somewhat accomplished that I had to so all the work myself.  I just feel that the school should take some responsibility in helping students keep their rooms clean.