Homecoming

I can't believe that it's homecoming week next week. I can remember all of high school how excited I was for homecoming, all of the spirit days, and special events to look forward too. Being at Ball State is great, but I think that I forgot what it's like to be a freshmen. I mean you feel like you belong here, but a lot of the events and stuff you feel left out. You don't know exactly where to go, or what's fun, or even where the best free food will be? I think that homecoming will be very exciting next week, but I hope to be able to feel as if I fit in.

Song Analyzing

When choosing a song to analyze, I thought that it would be tough. Then I started looking for songs, and noticed that almost every song that I looked at had a hidden meaning, that was just waiting to be brought out. I love country music and with country there is so many elements to so many different songs. It was actually really neat when printing off my lyrics for the song I decided to analyze, well I haven't yet decided, but I think that it's a great start. My song is "Already Gone" by Sugarland, trust me look up the song and you will uncover so much about it. I think that maybe I will start looking and printing off lyrics to songs more often to really understand the song, it's actually pretty neat!

Crossroads

When asked what was the first thing that came to mind when you here crossroads. I'm not going to lie I thought of Brittney Spears movie and how terrible it was, but then I thought about that movie and it totally made sense why it was called "crossroads." When trying to think of a song that symbolizes many different crossroads, I'm having trouble finding one that has more then one big decision to make. I think that many country songs have crossroads in life and the different crossroads make sense. So for right now I think that I'm going to try and focus on country songs, and take those songs apart before picking one exact song to elaborate on.

Ishmael Beah

I was shocked after experiencing the author speaking the other night. I was moved by the words that he said and the way that he said them. I could not believe where he had been and how he was able to talk about what he had done without being chocked up. It had to have taken him so much and he had to give all that he had to the support groups that he had after experiencing the war. My favorite part though of the presentation was when he was saying in almost a joking matter about how when he wanted to leave the country, and the people wouldn't let him because he was missing two documents that they needed. I also thought it was funny how when he did come to America and the school he was going to attend asked for a report card after knowing what he had been through. It really shows growth as a person to be able to look back at those type of situations and find something out of them, that won't depress you as much as you already are. I think that I could honestly listen to that man speak forever

The Helpful Peer Review

I have never had a peeer review, such as the ones that I did in class. I think that knowing all of everyones responses will make me a all around better writter. I have always struggled with writing, and editing my own papers, so having someone or mulitple people help me was a very new, but great experience for me. I think that I will maybe always use the guidelines that were given for this paper to edit, because it was a review sheet that you could use for many diffrerent papers. I'm excited to use it again!

An All Nighter

I never really believed people when they would complain about pulling an "all nighter" because they had so much homework. Well since being in college I have only experienced this once, I highly doubt that I will ever do this again. I realized around 4:00 in the morning that "Gosh college is a lot harder then high school." I wasn't expecting such a work load, I mean I knew that college wasn't easy, but I didn't think that it would come down to this. I think that from now on I have to get ahead and stay ahead, because it seems like with college classes your really "right on track" but if you are at that point your actually behind. There is no right on track method, I already tried. So the next thing on my to do list, is make a schedule and stick to it!

A Lasting Frighting Memory

It was a few days before Christmas, I was ten years old and I loved Christmas so much. I woke up one morning rather early feeling a little sick, I figured it was because I was outside the day before in the soft powder like snow. I went and told my mother that I wasn't feeling very well, and she saw my calmly looking face and she felt my forehead. Sure enough a fever, and not just any fever, a fever that my mom though we should go to the hospital. I wasn't worried, not because I was going to the hospital, but that fact that I would miss our Christmas dinner and events at my grandparents house. My parents rushed me to the hospital, it seemed as if this was going to take forever and all I wanted to do was go home so I could get ready to go to grandma and grandpa's. We waited back in the office waiting to see the doctor, I never really liked being in any type of hospital of any kind, except when class was to boring and I would go to the nurses office, but that's beside the point. The doctor finally came in to check on me, and what do you know. I have scarlet fever, luckily at the technology level that we are at now and that we were then, I was able to recover. That day I was hot, then cold, and repeated tha process to feel that way for a long time. That day I was told that I couldn't go to my family Christmas that night, that I was very ill. Hearing this of course made me in rage, happily my grandparents had me over earlier that day to have my very own Christmas. I was so sad that day, but then when I think back on it, it makes me realize that it's not only a holiday, that you should always appreciate your health and the love that you are given.

college life

It's been two weeks, that I have been living and attending Ball State University. Up until the football game tonight, the reality of college didn't sink in exactly, but then at the game with all of the screaming red wearing fans I felt a part of it. I felt apart of the University and was at a football game, which makes me feel at home because I'm familiar with it. It was also nice to get out, a little even it really was on campus. I have been so mentally and physically exhausted that I haven't done much, I'm just trying to adjust to all of the new experiences and new ways of living my life. I think that it will only get easier as time goes on, and I will adapt more. Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying Ball State, it's just a different chapter in your life that you need to learn how to handle and take care of on your own. I know that I'm capable of become a successful student, make some friends, and make many memories that I will carry with me for my entire life.