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12/9

I love snow and the huge snowball fight last night. Although I am just more sick than I as before it was still amazing. Last night I went to the dance team formal and it was alot of fun. The food was delicious so it made matters better. I have to go study for a final that is today but I found this. Isn't that awesome news! Ok bye

 

12/6

My new favorite show is Law & Order:ANY because All of the cases are interesting. I used to watch this show alot but I stopped over summer. Since I am up every night between 11-1 I watch it. In other new, I FINISHED MY PAPER! It is about time, it took me so long. Now I just have to butcher it so it makes complete sense and proves my point. This week I started studying for my World Religion test on Friday because I have to go to this formal for the dance team on Thursday night. If I would have known that my test was on that Friday I would have told her that I cannot go. She is my friend from home so it should be fun, but I will have to come back and study some more, though. I was talking to my mom today and nothing is new at home but she said seems so excited me and my sister are coming home next week. I cannot wait. My two friends from homea already have countdowns in their infos until the day that I come home. I know it is alittle weird. I have to go and study. In the news: This guy is an idiot. He beat his stepdaughter to almost death. She is now in a coma and he wants to pull the plug. Sounds like a Terri Schiavo case right? No. He is not the legal guardian, he never formally adopted her. He married the girls aunt, who adopted the girl after the girls mom ran off with some guy. Wow that is hard to understand. If he pulls the plug and she dies, he would be a murderer. Good thing he thought things through.

 

12/5

Over Thanksgiving break I saw the movie "Rent" and never posted anything about it. Well, I thought it was ok. I thought the music in the actual show was amazing. Everyones voices were outstanding. I was really impressed with Taye Diggs and Rosario Dawson because they actually sang for the movie. I could have watched it blindfolded and enjoyed it just as much. I am not saying that the movie was not good, because it was, just the music shined alot brighter then the acting sans singing. The one thing that I did get from the show though is the quote "No day but today." This quote is so true. Yea, I miss home and my friends from there and stuff but I am now at Penn State, nothing compares. I do not want to sit around thinking about home when I could be embracing everything up here. I only spend less then four years here. Compared the the 18 years that I already spent at home and the years when I am done, that is nothing. Moving on. All of my friends are leaving earlier in the week next week. I wish my final was not so late. My dad is coming up to pick me up and then we will get home around 8 on Thursday, I CANNOT WAIT!! In other news, I started back on this old workout plan I had yesterday and I really like it. I like changing things up sometimes. So the Titanic split into three parts instead of two????

I have to finish my paper and read alot more.

 

12/2

This is alittle much. The reason that students do blog, not only because teachers make them, but it relieves stress. It lets college students vent some steam off or get some things off their chests. Now we have to be careful what we say on blogs and facebook so we do not get in trouble. Facebook is for other STUDENTS to look at and find people that they need/want to talk to. Plus, it is a good distraction. Speaking of, I have to change my picture soon. I am so happy that it is the weekend. Tomorrow I am sleeping in til 5 p.m. because today my friends decided to wake me up at 9. I didnt have class til 10. How annoying

 

12/1

I cannot believe that it is December already. That means that I go home in 2 weeks! My mom is excited for some reason although she just saw me one week ago. My final is only one page from being complete then of course ALOT of revision. I like writing papers and then fixing them; I think that they turn out better. I found this article in the paper today about abortion. They are trying to get rid of partial birth abortions (which are gross). I am not sure if I am including that in my final yet. Maybe I will touch base on it. Last night I had to introduce my friend at her sorority thing, it was fun then we went to their friends after. I am so tired, exhausted, I need more days off. Thanksgiving break was filled with me doing things for my family. I did not mind but I still did not get to rest.I am going to fix my paper and start on an Seminar project.

 

11/29

Not only was that game last night disgusting, so is the weather. I hate walking outside in the rain and I hate carrying around an umbrella because my shoulders get soaked anyways. Well, today in econ we got 2500 extra points and that pushes me up to an A. Which is good but I still have to do really well on the final and that Gen Ed project that we already turned in. For tomorrow I have alot to do. I want to finish my final tonight for English and I have to do that homework. I have to re-read for religion just to make sure I understand everything and also read for Econ and Bi Sci. I want to get a head start on everything so I do not have to cram at the end. Good news! Only 2 more weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I know, all of those exclamation points were necessary) I also HAVE to go to the gym. I was in a bad mood/sick since Saturday but after the gym yesterday I felt ALOT better. I skipped 3 days last week and I felt lazy and skinny. I have alot of work to do plus I have to take a nap. There has not been alot of good news recently. Seeya

 

11/28

That was disgusting.

 

11/28

I hate when I am late to class. This morning, though, I had a good reason; I woke and felt like dog crap. This week is going to go really fast because of this final draft. Although I am almost done with it, It needs alot of fixings. I want to study progressively so when I get so excited to go home I will not forget EVERYTHING for the final. I have to get a B on the religious studies final to get a b in the course (which I'm ecstatic about) and I need an A on the Gen Ed project to get an A in Econ!!!! IM STOKED. Since I dropped math I can focus on my other subjects more. I have so many ideas for this final but I do not know if I can incorporate everything. I went to my advisor today and she advised me to pick a major. I want to do Broadcast Journalism but its really hard to get into that. I also like Marketing (I know not even close). I want a good career and I am nervous about the journalism.

 

 

11/27

I cannot believe that break is over. It flew by so fast that I feel as though I never left this chair. I had a great time at home, though, it was nice seeing my family and friends. Christmas break will be better because I will have more time to do the things that I need to do and see more people. This weekend my best friend broke up with his girlfriend so it divided my group of friends. Two nights ago, I stayed home with my one friend and last night I went out with my other friends. This morning I get up to this message, "Thanks for choosing them last night." They are like depressed or something. I do not know what to do about them. Two weeks of classes and one week of finals and I am home again. I cannot wait! I saw RENT this weekend at the movies. I never saw the real Broadway show but the movie was not very good. I could have watched it blind folded and enjoyed it just as much. Rosario Dawson and Taye Diggs (?) can act and sing really well, I was impressed. Idina Menzel, also from Wicked!, did ok. Her song was not that good, though, high pitched.I have alot of work to do.

 

 

11/25

Break has been great. I was right, though, I did nothing yesterday but ENGULF food. I ate so much that my mom wanted to throw up she said. I cannot help it, when there is good food, I eat. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I cannot believe that we only have two more weeks of class left after we come back to PSU! It is outrageous.

 

11/19

I cannot wait to go home for two reasons: my eye is still irritated and I cannot wait to ENGULF food. Eating tops my list of favorite things to do. This year will be especially great because I have not had homemade food in while or my grandmas cooking in about 3 months. I also cannot believe that we only have about three weeks of this semester left. It is surreal. It seems that just yesterday I was leaving home and saying bye to everyone. Going home is going to fun yet annoying. I am going to love seeing the people that I haven’t seen in a while but I am not going want to have to leave again, just kidding. College is amazing. Every time I blog about going home, I reflect and I don’t know why. My eye is still red for some reason but I don’t know why. Last night was fun there was about 1 million people that stayed in my room???? I have to go watch the game.

 

 

11/17

I do not understand why I do some of the things that I do. I stayed all last night helping some girl with her Economics project and I studied for my bisci test this morning and it was really hard especially because I was really tired. My eye is still pink but I HAVE to go to the Gym otherwise I will feel like shit,more. My younger sister got accepted into Pre-Med here. She was excited and almost cried my mom said(who was probably hysterically crying) but she is not sure if she wants to come here or not. I will just have to do some convincing when I go home. I CAN NOT WAIT TO GO HOME!!!! I am going home Monday. I am working, though, but I need some money!!

 

 

11/15

Here is why I suck..

 

I DEFINITELY HAD PINK EYE, plus I failed a math test.

 

11/14

Wow, it’s been a while. I have been extremely busy for some reason recently, no time for myself AT ALL. This week I have about 7 million things to do so I am calling it hell well. I have the English paper to finish, math test tomorrow (that I still have a lot of studying to do), an econ project and homework due on Thursday, a BiSci test on Thursday that I will probably fail anyways, and three million pages to read for seminar. So much stuff to do but the reward will be great, THANKSGIVING!!!!! I LOVE THANKSGIVING, probably because I’m fat and love to eat but I don’t care. This weekend was fun but now I am tired and don’t feel like doing anything. My math test is at six tomorrow so I have a lot of time to study but as soon as I am done with that I have to study for bisci, oh well I’m over it. I talked to my entire family today I felt like the phone was getting passed around the table. This is because I am the loud obnoxious one in my family and now it is really quite and they miss me. My sisters don’t admit it but they love me haha. I have been trying to upload a picture of my pink eye but I don’t remember how to do it! I’m going to keep trying though. Oh, another thing, I had pink eye and it sucked because I look like a dork with my glasses! Once again, I am over it. I have to study for math

 

11/06

I have been searching for some type of article to post pertaining to abortion. I read alot of articles but found this one to be the most interesting. I just wanted to inform people how abortions are performed. This article is unbiased, just the facts.

 

Well, the Steelers just won because they are sweet. Bach did not do too well and it was really annoying. My best friend from home came up and so did my younger sister. They both seemed to have a good time except my friend got sick. He's over it though. I had alot of work tonight but I do not feel like doing anything. I have to watch TV, though, I need to relax and take it easy for a few hours.

 

I also commented on BensBlog and CarzKim around 5 o'clock.

 

11/03

I forgot I had to post what I am proposing:

When CarzKim and I began discussing our final projects. I really was not sure what I wanted to do at first, but eventually decided on abortion. I figured that since it is such a controversial issue with such wide variety of people, it would be a good topic for a final paper. The issue has always come up in important presidential campaigns and in churches and schools everywhere. The problem with abortion is people do not understand whether it is murder or not. I plan on clearly defining abortion from points of views from a wide variety of people. A major stance on this subject has been taken by the church that is strongly against abortion because of evidence found in the Bible. In the bible, though, there are also alternate views on the same subject. I think it would interesting to see what the major fuss is about after I have broken it down into smaller pieces.

 

 

 

 

11/03

I pretty much suck at life, for real. I am running on 5 hours of sleep in the past 3 days. I have been studying and trying to get all of my homework done. I don’t understand how all of my floor can go out all of the time and I never can because I have so much work. Another thing is I think I should major in failing tests because I am really good at it. I should be doing better then I am. Ill get over it as soon as I get the 700 tests I took this week back, then I’ll be back to sulk some more. Anyways, last night while I was studying for Econ, some girl works for PSNTV and she is majoring in broadcast journalism and I want to as well. I asked her about what she does there and she told me that is a news anchor. I think that would really awesome to do. She said I could go next time. I think it will be a little weird to go with some girl I don’t know but I’m over it. I have to take a nap then go to eat in WEST because it is about 7000 times better then east. BYE

 

 

11/02

This was taken fromLetsTalk

As my October 1 blog mentioned, I cannot believe how quickly the months fly here. By the time this month is over, Thanksgiving will be here and gone and we will be on the heels of Christmas break. The reason that I completely ripped this out of her blog was because the same thing happened to me the other day at lunch. Every Sunday my sister, Anna, and I go to church then eat in Pollock commons. This week was extremely weird because I said to her, “An, I cant believe that it is almost November, October went so fast.” This is weird because, although it felt like the week before, in September I said to her, “I think October is going to go extremely slow.” Wow was I wrong; October flew by so quickly I cannot believe it. Although I think November is going to go more slowly because we get a small break towards the end of it and that will also wrap a lot of things up for this semester, which is also weird. My friend and my small sister are coming up this weekend. Sorry I am just rambling.

 

 

10/31

I have not blogged in a while because I do not have much to say. I have been bombarded with so many different things that need my attention and this week is just a continuation of that. I have not been to the gym since Friday, it hurts. I called home today and talked to my mom as they were eating tacos. For some reason, my younger sister LOVES tacos, so my mom makes them every Halloween. I then called my sister to ask her a question and she was trick-or-treating. I wish I were young again so I could go too but then come back to school because high school was not as sweet as college, just alot less work. A year ago today I remember I got accepted to Duquesne University (in Pittsburgh). That was my second choice WAY after Penn State. It wasnt practical for me to go there because I do not know what I want to do with my life and because Duquesne is such a small school it probably would not have had something that I like. It was alot closer to home as well. Dont get me wrong, I am EXTREMELY happy with Penn State but Halloween just reminds me Duquesne for some reason! HAHA I dont know. I just finished my paper and was about to post it and realized that I have not posted in a long time so I thought I should. Once again, just rambles about nothing. My friend is coming up this weekend and I need a ticket. I think I may have found one but I am not sure. Tomorrow I have a test and I just started studying. I just cannot study for BiSci for some reason. OH, I just got my first A in religious studies and I was thrilled. It was an extremely hard test on the Great Religion in China. I have to go study but I wish I was out like everyone else. GO STEELERS!

 

10/26

I dont know why I'm posting this but here is a new enthymeme.

Enthymeme: “Because your name is Giovanni Graziano and you are italian, you are catholic”

The assumption is all italians are catholic

I am italian

Therefore Im Catholic

- The assumptions are false, for you don’t have to be Italian to be catholic

lol

 

10/21

Dictionary.com defines plagiarism as "a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work or the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own." In other words, stealing written work because someone is lazy or does not know how to properly cite it. Plagiarism can have severe consequences because it is cheating. Plagiarism can be detected really easily because there is a program that a professor can submit the work and it will search to see if any part of the writing was taken from anywhere. If it comes up with something, that work better to be cited on the works cited page. A huge problem with citing works is that students sometimes do not know what needs to be cited. Paraphrasing a written work is still plagiarism even though someone changed the words around. If someone is caught plagiarizing they could be suspended, kicked out of a class, or even school.

 

 

 

10/20

Sampling and Stigemergy-

I figure without class tomorrow I can get most of my work done today and get it out of the way for the weekend. When I first read the syllabus I had no idea what to do but CaitSky helped me out. I first read the Sampling and Stigmergy article first about West Coast and East Cost feuds. That was interesting but everyone knows that because Tupac was dead Notorious B.I.G. would be next. He probably knew too. I don’t think rap music is all about street violence but it’s understandable because that is what most artists grew up on and were around. I do not think that it is true about rap music persuading a person to do violent things, that’s just a stereotype. The violence has stopped a little bit I think but, then again, I don’t listen to rap a lot.

 

 

Blogging Soldiers-

The next articles I read were the blogs from the soldiers in Iraq. I didn’t understand a lot the lingo; I guess its army-talk or just common sense that I am not picking up on. There was a lot of sad/depressing things in these blogs; for instance,  Back to Baghdad could have done anything in the army and picked an extremely hard job. He had to endure a lot of pain that he probably would not have had to endure if he would have picked something else. The Mesopotomac was really interesting because the most of the reason that he joined the army was to have his college loans paid off and the army denied him of that. I would have been extremely pissed, he even served more time after he found that out. I would have tried to quit right then and there. Another sad part of Mesopotomacs blog was that a guy doing the same job and working less time was making a lot more money than him. The saddest part of the blogs, though, was Dwayne Harris. I could never imagine going to Iraq and leave my family like that, I guess he had no choice. As I was trying to find the page that I was supposed to be reading, I came across a page about the draft. I have heard over and over again how people would like to reinstate the draft. I would have a HUGE problem with that. There is no reason for us to reinstate the draft. Supposedly, we are coming to the end and should be out of there by next year. I read an article a few weeks back about how they are going to start thinning out the troops. Now I hear they are adding thousands more in the fall. This entire was is so frustrating.

 

 

10/19

ClusterDiscussion1

 

Evaluation of MTV

This article demonstrates a good evaluative argument. Although it is really old because I only heard of and never seen any of the shows mentioned, it still is a really good article. This student that is writing this is evaluating the ever-changing MTV. This student claims that MTV no longer plays any music on MUSIC TELEVISION and just plays shows such as The Real World, The Jon Stewart Show, My So-Called Life and Beavis and Butt-head and when they do play music, there is no one actually playing instruments it is just videos. This writer demonstrates his point well but it doesn’t make complete sense. This article can still be applied to today because a lot of shows on MTV no longer play music and if they do its just in the background. There are not a lot of shows on prime time hours that are strictly bands or singers playing instruements of singing. The only time that MTV does play music is on shows such as TRL and late night shows which just show music videos. The only counter argument I can think about this article is: doesn’t this person realize that MTV knows what they are doing. These shows that they are playing instead of music videos, such as that Jessica Simpson reality TV show and Laguna Beach attract more viewers then the actual music would. Maybe they are just trying to keep attracting people to watch this channel. In the long run, though, they could be losing viewers that strictly watch the channel for the music aspect of it.

 

 

10/18

Evaluative Article

I had a really hard time finding an evaluative article for some reason. After I did finally find one, I realized that almost every article was opinionated in some way or another according to the writer. In the case of the article mentions above, the writer (Richard Benedetto from USA TODAY) suggested that the videoconference between President Bush and the soldiers was staged. This article suggests that they handpicked soldiers from Iraq and told them what to say and gave them the questions before President Bush asked them to them. They also supposedly gave the soldiers a prepared answer and distributed the questions to the appropriate people. At the end of this article, it is clear that this was rehearsed with the soldiers, but why would they have to rehearse any of the questions they could have just talked about other things to really personalize President Bush. The writer also mentions that they were free to say whatever they wanted, but that wasn’t what the rehearsed. This article is clearly against president Bush and giving the impression that the writer is also against him. Besides criticizing Bushs’ approach with the teleconference he also throws in the fact that less and less people like what Bush is doing. This writer is evaluating the situation but also is throwing in his own feelings about Bush. I understand that they may have had to set up things according to the telecommunication devices but they did not have to give the soldiers the questions and make them rehearse there answers before going live. They should have let the soldiers talk, not President Bush, to let the American People really see what is going on over there. We did not need President Bush stressing his points and try to make himself look better.

 

 

 

10/17/05 – Stigmergy Remix

Pierre-Paul Grasse introduced the concept of stigmergy in the 1950's by describing it as an indirect communication-taking place in social insect societies. Grasse originally defined Stigmergy by studying the reconstruction of termite nests. He showed that the regulation and coordination of the building activity do not depend on the workers themselves but is mainly achieved by everyone in the nest. A stimulating configuration triggers a response of a termite worker, which repeatedly transforms the configuration into something else, forcing the termite to keep doing different things. Grasse's concept of stigmergy was attractive and stimulating but has been overlooked by students of social insects because it left open the important operational issue of how stimuli must be organized in time and space to allow perfect coordination. Although the concept of stigmergy is vague, it is a profound concept, the consequences of which are yet to be explored. stigmergy is very important because of the potential for our better understanding of the evolution and maintenance of sociality in animals, from communally breeding species to highly eusocial insects. This concept may also play a roll in other fields, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, or the social, political and economic sciences, to which its relevance is intuitively obvious. The aims of this special issue pertaining to stigmergies dealing with Artificial Life are: to provide a wide variety of readers with an overview of what is known about stigmergy in such various contexts as ethology, distributed problem-solving and robotics, also giving the opportunity to new developments in this studied to be presented even if they were not in this particular scientific community.

 

10/16

I went home this weekend. I really did not want to go home but it seemed as if everyone else on campus was and I figured I should, too. On Friday I went out with my friends to a casino and lost money but it was fun (Not losing money, but gambling and going there was fun). Seeing my family was also cool because last time I went home everything was so hectic, because of homecoming, this time is was relaxed. I was really excited to come back but the trip took four hours so it was really annoying, but I got over it. I sometimes hate leaving home because my mom and grandma get so upset, but like I got over the car trip, so will they. Going home this time just reminded me that we only have 5 weeks of class until Thanksgiving and I LOVE THANKSGIVING. I love seeing my family that I don’t always see and I LOVE eating! I have a lot of homework to catch up with.

 

 

 

 

 

10/11

Causal Argument

This article is another health article but I find that these are the best to use. This article clearly states that the cholesterol rates have dropped significantly in recent years BECAUSE of the statin drugs, such as lipitor and zocor. The article fails to mention the fact that exercise and diet play a role. In the article they mention that people should still keep a healthy diet while taking the drugs but it doesn’t not mention anything about the assistance that diet and exercise have on cholesterol levels in patients. They are once again (like my last article) pushing the advancements in the medical field and there progress. The audience could be patients that are at the age that need to stat watching what they eat and maybe reevaluate there lifestyles.

 

 

 

10/10

THIS IS A GOOD WEEK, first Penn State beat Ohio State and now the Steelers just won as well. Ok, maybe this is just a good week for my favorite sports teams because it’s a really bad week for schoolwork. This week I have 3 tests and a paper due. I have read all of the information and started to look over my notes but I feel like I need to study A LOT more.

 

Causal Article

I found this article that really emphasizes a causal argument. This article describes that men’s cancer rates have dropped BECAUSE of early detection and people caring more about their diets, exercise, and weight control. But I think that many other things play a factor in this as well. I think that the doctors have better medicines and tactics to handle the cancer after it is found. I also think that there is a lot more awareness programs out there that help people recognize there own illnesses. This article is directed for more adults then kids because they are more susceptible to these illnesses. Not saying kids cannot, but it’s more prone to adults. This article really also shows the death rates of cancer victims declining so it also could be used as an article to inspire and inform people to stay healthy.

 

10/9

LAST NIGHTS GAME WAS ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING! It was by far one of the best times ever here at Penn State. The atmosphere was AMAZING. Camping out and getting rained on and pushed and punched (exaggeration) was completely worth it. We had seats in row 6 and 7 but I think anywhere in the stadium would be absolutely amazing. Rushing the field was also amazing and all the cops and the fire-extinguisher size canisters that shot the pepper spray 50 feet were also sweet. The most amazing thing about last night was the mass amount of cops down at Canyon Pizza last night. I could have sworn the entire FBI, CIA, and PSU police were there; it was just amazing. Moving on, this morning I went to church again, it was decent the preacher was good today and so was the music. I was really tired though because I only got 13 hours of sleep in 4 days. I am debating whether I should go home this weekend, a lot of my friends are going home, and not a lot is going on up here. So I still don’t know. I have about 700 tests this week and have to go study some more.

 

 

 

10/6

I think that the only reason that I blog closer to the weekends is because nothing really happens during the week and everything is really repetitious. But this week has been different. My roommate and I plus 10 other people have been camping out at the stadium since Tuesday. It’s really annoying because I have to sleep in this small crevice of the tent and today a wet crevice because of the rain. Wednesday wasn’t that bad because it wasn’t raining but I didn’t bring anything but a blanket and its concrete so it was really hard and uncomfortable. Last night was a different story though; it rained last night and started to drip into the tent. It was miserable, my socks, my blanket, and pillow were soaked this morning. I probably got 3 hours of sleep on Wednesday night and about 2 hours last night. So I am EXTREMELY tired. There were a lot of people there and Cold Pizza was/is there and now its on TV. I seriously think that Penn State has the best fans ever! So much determination and support for our school, its great. I can’t wait to take a nap today after my three classes!

 

10/2

Well I don’t know why I post blogs on the weekend more then the weekdays, I guess just because it’s more convenient and I have more time or because I don’t feel like doing any of my other homework. Well, I went to church this morning at the HUB. I didn’t go to church up here yet and it was annoying because I ALWAYS went to church at home. The HUB service was really nice; it was similar to the church that I go to at home. The music was really good and so was the sermon. Then my sister and I went to lunch at Pollock commons. It wasn’t very good because my cereal was soggy by the time I got to my seat and the sausage wasn’t cooked, I still ate it though. I have a lot of homework to do today, papers to write, and tv to watch.

 

10/1

I cannot believe that it is October and that we have been here over a month already. Time flies when your having fun or being pounded by work, either way its gone fast. Today is another game and I’m excited especially because “they” say it should be a close game. The games are fun but get boring sometimes in the fourth quarter after we PUMMEL the other team with no problem (exception of last week). I talked to my mom today and nothing interesting is going on at home either. Except my high school team is undefeated. On my blog the other day I said this I am starting to realize that I need to go to bed earlier because I am always so tired during class, well it happened again and I slept right through math and English. I didn’t mind missing math because I took the class last year but I get lost in English sometimes. I have to go paint my chest.

 

 

9/29

I am starting to realize that I need to go to bed earlier because I am always so tired during class and I cannot wake up for class. The problem with that is I cannot go to bed earlier because I am always up late doing homework. The only other thing that I do during the day is lift, sometimes. I try to go to the gym everyday but it doesn’t always work because I always have so much work to do. I am a procrastinator but at all times during the day in some way or form I am doing something for school. The fun part of college is gone and the 6 hours of homework is continuing. I got my paper grade back today. I was satisfied with my grade because I picked something really difficult to define. I did my best, that’s all I can do. I have an econ test today, I heard it wasn’t too hard but I still have to study more. Last night I went to my friends’ dorm to study for about 5 hours. I’m nervous because this is the first big test. I have to study.

 

Kids were panicing, mostly because of the ideas they were coming up with in their own heads, because they were not given the facts.

It is assumed that the kids were panicking because they were not given the facts.

You don’t have to know all of the facts to panic about something.

You don’t have to panic just because you don’t know the facts, you could panic over something else.

 

9/26 Enthymeme-

He said how he was super lonely because he was so much closer to people at McKeesport

It is assumed that all people that are close to people from McKeesport are lonely.

You do not have to be far from McKeesport to be lonely

You don’t have to be lonely because you are far from McKeesport, anyone can be lonely.

 

 

 

1. First, you need to have the following ingredients: sliced flat bread (any kind), sliced cheese (any kind), a stove, a pan, and a spatula

2. Open the bread bag and grab two pieces of sliced bread take them out and close the bad so the bread doesn’t go stale.

3. Spread a thing film of butter in one side of each bread (it doesn’t matter which side)

4. Place on piece of bread butter side down on the pan

5. Place the desired amount of cheese, just so that it fills from side to side.

6. Put the top piece of bread with the buttery side facing up on top of the cheese and other piece of bread.

 

7. Turn the stove to a medium heat

8. Let the grilled cheese sit until you hear the pan sizzle a little and then flip the grilled cheese with the spatula to see if the sandwich is a light brown color

9. Let the other side brown just like the opposite side

10. Turn the stove off and take the sandwich out

11. Eat it

 

9/25 (cont.)

This is what I find mere minutes after I posted my final definitional argument paper.

 

 

9/25

I don’t know why I just don’t blog when I get back to school but I guess I just want to get some stuff done before going back. My mom had my younger sisters’ family birthday party three weeks early because my sister and I were not going to be home until thanksgiving, it was nice because I got to see some people I wouldn’t see for a while. Last night was really annoying. None of my other friends came home so it was just a few friends and me, that stay at home and go to school, that were home. We went to go see a movie “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” It was really really interesting, not scary at all. It’s a movie based on the trial of the priest who performed the exorcism not just Emily Rose. Its really good for someone who likes Law & Order. I have to study tonight for my first world religion test; I think it’s going to be really hard.

 

9/23

Today was really annoying. I didn’t plan on coming home until thanksgiving but my plans changed drastically this week. On Monday my mom called me and told me I have to go home this weekend because my sister was on homecoming court. It’s not that I didn’t care that she is on court but I did not want to go home. I expected to leave sometime Friday, I was wrong again. The ceremony was today and my mom and dad did not want to miss it so they decided to come get my sister and I last night. I got home around six and had DELICIOUS chicken parmesan. Then we went to the school, which I also didn’t like because a lot of people I did not want to see were there, to watch a parade that my sister was in. Today we went up to the school again to watch the actual crowing and she didn’t win. I went home for nothing. It was nice seeing my family but it was still really annoying.

 

 

9/21

I just read one of the worst things I have ever read, Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time is one the greatest songs of the past 25 years. That song is/was terrible, it is definitely not the 10th best song for 25 years. I completely agree with 1-5 and number 8 but the rest are terrible. Hit Me Baby One More Time does and In da Club do not even come close to comparing to Thriller, whoever made that list needs to be fired! Just my opinion. Anyways, I am completely done for today. I need to relax

 

 

9/20

Nevermind.

 

 

 

9/19

I usually like to read news from my hometown, Aliquippa, PA so that I know what is going on. I love to know what’s going on even if I am not there. The only problem is the Beaver County Times (where I live) is slow to update its news, so I read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Today I decided to read stuff other then the scholastic sports, local news, and headlines; I read international. I never usually read the international section but something caught my eye today. North Korea pledges to drop nuclear programs at arms talks. The reason that I found this so interesting was because I always felt that North Korea is a huge threat to the United States and felt that we put it on the back burner to Iraq. I think that Bush (finally) took a step in the right direction with solving an issue before it erupted back in our faces. With talks that we may resolve any issues with North Korea is a huge deal. Although we are still in Iraq and probably still in North Korea, we are moving in the right direction. Now that we almost solved a problem in North Korea lets focus on getting out of Iraq! Wow! That was really political.

 

 

 

 

9/17

Today is the big game and I can’t wait. My friends and me are painting our chests to spell something out. I don’t know what yet because two weeks ago we paint “GO PSU” and last week we painted “WE ARE PENNSTATE” but that was too long. This week, hopefully, we just paint “GO STATE,” its short and right to the point. I studied for more world religion right before I went out last night for about an hour and a half; I’m really beginning to understand it. The Beaver Falls vs. Center game was cancelled last night due to rain, its gong to be replayed tonight! My best friends younger brother is really good and he is only a sophomore, he’s gong to go Division 1. I’ve recently just been ranting on recent blogs because I have been running out of stuff to talk about but I guess it’s ok? One more thing, nobody cares about Britney Spears’ baby.

 

 

 

 

9/15

I was reading some peoples blogs and realized that CaitSky is right. I realized that I need to go see my advisor that I can get on the right path to fit both business and communications. I ranted about this yesterday but it is still annoying that I don’t know what I want to do. If I knew I wouldn’t have to take useless classes. Anyways, the football team from home is playing Beaver Falls, if they win this, it will be huge so I can’t wait to here the results. My sister says she’s coming up here soon, she is a senior in high school and really cool so it will be fun. Today I was reading on ratemyprofessor.com about my world religion class and there were nothing but bad remarks about the teacher and tests. They said that the teacher was boring, I will admit its not upbeat and fun, but he’s not boring. As for the tests, supposedly, they are EXTREMELY hard and if you don’t memorize the book you will fail the test. So I took this into consideration and went down to the study lounge to study and re read to make sure I understood anything. 3 hours down, about 2 more to go.

 

 

 

9/14

Today went all right, my classes were really annoying though. I fell asleep in math class and must have been dreaming because I woke up hitting the girl and guy sitting next to me. It was ok though because they were both sleeping and I just woke them up and class was almost over. The only reason I took that class was because I am unsure of what I want to do with my life, either business or communications. If I decide to go into broadcast journalism then I don’t even need this boring math class but if I decide to go into marketing or something in the business field I do need it. I am so indecisive but this is one thing I wish I knew about my life. Oh well, I just ate dinner with my sister, which was cool. Although we go to the same school I see her rarely, I guess its good though.

 

 

 

 

9/13

I wander who is going to help Osama bin Laden? I understand that he is sick and the good Christian side of me should say just help the man. But what has this man done to us? Oh well, just a thought, maybe an argument? Anyways nothing is eventful except I found I new route to my classes today but in the snow it probably will not get me anywhere. My classes were ok, long, but ok. I still have a lot of homework to do but I have to go to Wal-Mart first. I haven’t been feeling to well lately, maybe it’s from the lack of sleep so I am going to go to bed earlier from now on, maybe. My friends and I just started a flag football team, which should be fun. Speaking of football, did the Eagles win? Just wondering, because I know the Steelers did.

 

 

 

9/12

I think there are some similarities and some differences between debate and dialogue. I define debate as something that is organized; both sides of the argument have completely opposite views on one subject. I think dialogue is just conversation between to people that may disagree on one subject. I also think that debate and dialogue are similar because in order to debate one must use dialogue. So although they could be considered completely different, in some way I think that they are intertwined.

 

 

 

9/11

Remix of BloNdie’s Final Narrative

There is really not a more "un-yourself" moment than when you are pretending to be someone else. I think that acting in my high school's musical my junior year, "My Favorite Year," was the most unlike I've ever been. I was cast as an old washed up, drunken, British actor. It was so hard to portray this character to the, I definitely don't see myself as a drunken old British man. Going on a stage in front of 700 people each night and leaving myself behind to become this complex man was perhaps one of the hardest things I've ever done. The acting itself was terribly difficult. After a ton of drama over who would actually have the roles in the show, I was cast as a lead. I had never held anything close to the lead in the past. I was in Ensemble A member, someone who sang on the side of the stage. In my freshman year in high school, I danced around as a Shriner in “Bye, Bye, Birdie”. Now, however, the director had given me- the inexperienced guy- the lead. Singing in front of people had never been a problem for me; I had been doing it since I could talk, but acting in front of an audience was close to impossible. I became incredibly self-conscious. I felt, as though everyone listening to me was judging my British accent, it was terrible. I am one of those people who could go in front of a group, or even in front of my friends, and make and fool out of myself. I eventually realized that when I was on stage, people didn't look at me and say "Look at Giovanni! What is he DOING?" They instead, hopefully, became sucked into the story line, and looked at me as the character I was playing. After four crazy months of rehearsal after rehearsal (sometimes nine hours a day), the show nights finally came. The entire cast, scared because it was opening night and no one thought they were prepared and didn't think that we could pull it off. My acting was alright, the choreography was perfect (the choreographer was a professional, although the dances were cheesy, they worked) and some of the cast didn't know their parts in the full cast numbers as well as they should have. We did everything we could and the show must go on. We had sold out every night, 700 seats a night at $6 a seat and people wanted a good show. They also knew that the director was the best around I waited off stage while the curtain opened, because I could not go on because my character didn’t enter yet, and sang the opener. The tension grew, but I knew that it would all work. To be honest, after walking onto that stage in front of the people and the lights and for one split second hearing MY accented voice came over the sound system I loved every second of it. I could tell my accent kept coming and going but I was so nervous. I tried really hard fitting in my character of Alan Swann and I did my best to portray this character to the audience. I couldn’t wait for curtain call; the sound of applause hit us like a wave. Every person in that auditorium rose to their feet, giving a standing ovation; and that is a feeling I will never forget. I do believe though that this was a great experience for me. Though this complete transformation of myself to someone else, I learned a lot about myself. The things, which were the hardest to become, I learned were the complete opposite of my strongest traits. At the end of the night, I had never been so happy to just be myself again. Walking off that stage gave me the power to be me, and not what I was supposed to become just off of the page of a script.

 

 

 

 

9/11

The game yesterday was awesome; we managed to get “WE ARE PENN STATE” painted on our chests. I was the A in state. Now instead of an S tanned to my chest I have an A. Moving on. My friends from home came up last night after the game. It was fun but also really annoying. For some reason this kid that I’m not really friends with came up with my two good friends. The kid that I’m not really friends with was so hyped to get up here and go out and party and my other friends just came up to visit. We were eventually going to go out but he was mad that he wasn’t at a party by ten o’clock. When we finally got to a party he was mad that it wasn’t a lot of fun so called other kids that he knew and left the party to go and find them. When the kids that he called didn’t go where they said they were he got even madder. We went to another party and he probably didn’t have a good time because he didn’t know anyone but everyone else we went with had a lot of fun. Except some girl I know puked on someone.

 

 

 

9/9

Today is two of my friends’ birthday; one of them is coming up here tomorrow. I haven’t seen my other friend for over 2 years. He used to live right next door to me but his family moved to Bel Air, MD in 5th grade. He goes to school at Coastal Carolina so I talk to him on the Internet more now. Today went all right. My Fridays are so annoying; I don’t even have time to get lunch because I go straight from 9 to 1 and the commons close at one. A good thing about this semester is I will now know how to schedule my classes for next semester. This semester I tried to schedule them all early so that incase I wanted to go home on Fridays, I could. Next semester I am scheduling all of them after 10:00. I thought it would be better to get them all done in the morning but I was wrong.

 

 

 

9/8

I was really annoyed today. My friend from home wants to come up this weekend because it is his birthday (I know it doesn’t make sense). He has not talked to me since I left for school now he wants to come up. So I talked to my other friend that wants to come up with him (that calls me a lot) and said he doesn’t really want to come up this weekend because there is a football game. I agreed but the other kid doesn’t care and wants to come up anyways. He used to annoy me at home and now I’m three hours away and he is still annoying. Oh well. Classes are going ok, better than last week. There is just so much stuff to do and no time to do it. I think that some teachers think that we only have one class. But that’s all right, its college. Today my one teacher thanked us for turning in homework, which was pretty cool. I’m tired but I need to do some more work.

 

 

 

 

9/6

I wasn't planning on blogging right now or today even, but Michael Jackson is a freak Why would he want to make a strip of land in Nevada a landing for E.T.s? Not to mention, I HIGHLY doubt that he was haunted by a vision after Princess Diana died? Don't get me wrong i think that Michael Jackson was an incredible performer and entertainer, now I just think he's weird, still an great entertainer, but weird. With all of these charges and stuff against him and moving to a country that I never even heard of? Oh well, my classes today went slow but well, I really like me econ 002 class. It's really interesting.

 

 

 

9/5

There are a lot of things about home that I miss, my friends and family, my own bed. But there is one thing I don’t miss my car. When I’m home I drive a 97’ Honda Accord. It doesn’t work really well but I still like it. With gas prices going sky high there is no way I would be able to afford driving around my small town. I understand that there is/was a possible shortage so the gas prices are high but I am glad I am away at school so I don’t have to deal with that just yet. Reading the New York Times now is sort of depression there is nothing but death, disaster, and some sort of trauma around the U.S. or world. On a lighter note, I got most of my homework done today and completely recovered from the game Saturday and last night! I also talked to my friend today and he may come up this weekend. It would be cool if he did but he would have to come up late Saturday because of the game. I don’t know about that.

 

 

 

 

9/3

Today was the first football game of the season and it was probably one of the best times I’ve had so far here at Penn State. It was so much fun I almost don’t care that I now have a “S” tanned to my chest, that there is nothing but ringing in my ears, or that my throat hurts when I talk. All that matters is that we won and that I made my first appearance on the Jumbo-tron! Other than the game, nothing has been different I still love PSU. I talked to my mom today and my sister made homecoming court so that means I have to go home that weekend. With her making the court, it really makes me think of how much fun high school was. Not that college isn’t as fun, because it is way more fun than high school but it’s a different type of fun, almost more innocent and less responsibility came with it. I really enjoyed my first week here I hope the next 20 some are just as good if not better.

 

 

 

9/1

I think it’s weird; weird to walk 20 minutes to class, weird to see so many people that I don’t know, weird to actually eat half decent food in the commons. College is so different from high school, different in a good way, though, its change. Today I had my third day of classes. It seemed longer then the other day because it wasn’t syllabus day. Tomorrow, I presume, will be the same. The weirdest thing about college is people go out at any time of the week at any hour. For instance, last night a few of my friends went to parties I stayed back to study. I was more prepared today but I still wanted to go out. Before I actually got to school people were telling me none stop, “You better have good time management skills” they were right. Prioritizing is a lot harder now than a year ago it makes me feel more responsible. I think this year is going to go well.

 

 

 

8/30

Well, today was interesting. I had four new classes right in a row. When I scheduled them I picked the building that were close to one another so that I would not have to rush across campus to another building, they moved buildings on me. I walked all the way from Rackley down to the new business building for a seminar. What a walk! I then had to walk back from the new business building to Chambers for my last class of the day. It was annoying but at least I’m done by 1 o’clock. The hardest thing today, besides the walking, was my math test. I didn’t remember any of the material that they focused on so the test was really difficult. Penn State is so much better then I even expected. I met a lot of cool people. I really like being by myself cause I live with 7 people at home, so being myself is really nice for a while.

 

 

 

 

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