Its becoming all to real

I just filled out my housing and first year seminar paperwork for college. I have spent 4 years in high school wondering who my room-mate would be in college, now I know his name is Aaron. I spent my whole school life wondering where I would be going, now I know it is University of Redlands. To be honest, I've spent my whole life wondering and pondering and observing, never once thinking of actually being there, but now that I am; that feeling of excitement is slowly being replaced, its actually a bit scary and daunting to know what lies ahead. There was a bit of safety in it not yet being a reality, still being a high school or middle school kid with more time to be at home. Now that I know exactly how much time I have left at home, it fills me with a ton of anxiety, its pretty weird. Believe me though, with all this said, I am super stoked to finally be going to college and to be able to enjoy what is coming, there is nothing like it, and I can't wait. I guess I'm just starting to understand the significance of all this too, and its pretty big.

What is up with the college catalogues

As we are doing our college catalogue power point, I am finding out the simple and well known truth about the catalogues, they suck. I cant understand a thing about them. I take that back, I understood the table of contents, but that was it. Once I was into the different sections, it felt like it didnt correspond with the title the information was under. Its not like im going to harvard or anything, why is this thing so confusing.

College food-pizza

In this blog, I am going to talk about the perfect college pizza. I personally am a plain cheese pizza guy, so I am not gonna be going crazy with toppings, but I will go crazy with other aspects. First, I need a pizza with a thin, crispy crust. I love that stuff. It needs to be a place that will deliver it to my dorm room in sufficient time for it to still be steaming hot, cause I like hot pizza. It also needs to be a lot of pizza for not a lot of money. After that, I guess the only thing left would just be to hope the delivery people are nice people, that would be an added bonus though.

bucket list

As I have read many peoples bucket lists and seen what their interests in life are through them, I have noticed that I have many of the same interests and desires as others. So I want to be a bit different with this bucket list. I swear its not laziness, this is my actual bucket list:
1. Find happiness
2. Never end the pursuit of happiness

Its pretty simple, but how I plan on living my life to the end.

creative blog 3

Its March madness time, a time where people fill out brackets and break down the seedings of title contending teams. There is much effort put into the picking of these brackets. In this blog, I decided to play it a bit differently. So far this year we have read "There eyes were watching god," "Pride and Prejudice," "Hamlet," "Heart of Darkness," "The Metamorphosis," and "The Stranger." If there were others, I don't remember, and just like the real tournament, if you cant be remembered, your not in the tournament. Just like the tournament, I am seeding these books with my obvious bias, but also a small portion of judgment being made based upon the class's response to the books as well. So, here are the seeds: 6-Heart of
Darkness, 5-There eyes were watching god, 4-The Stranger, 3-Hamlet, 2-Pride and Prejudice, 1-The Metamorphosis. Like the actual committee, I wont give any reasons for why I have these "teams/books" seeded where there are. I will give my potential upset picks though, they lie in seeds 3 and 4. So there's my bracket, now you get to pick em, and lets see how it all shakes out.

creative blog 2

Back to the idea of Conformity. As I sit in class, I notice the enormous emphasis on using the Internet to advance our learning. We are using vehicles such as blogs, chat-rooms, and cork-boards. This is all great stuff and makes what we are learning that much more enjoyable. One thing it makes me think about though is how big a role the Internet is beginning to play in our lives. I recently made a Facebook page. It took me longer than most to create one. So far it has gone pretty well with the people already on congratulating me for finally joining the club so to speak. One reason I never had one though was because I felt conformist if I did have one. This might just be an unfounded thought, but what if education, as it evolves into an Internet based institution, will be sucked into the vortex of cyberspace all together; and the Internet being the dominant force in education will be just as common place as people wearing clothes. Just a thought

creative blog 1

In class we have talked about two major themes of our world; college and conformity. One aspect I elaborated on a bit in my essay was that I have gone through an acceptance to conform to the "need" to go to college. I have never once questioned my parents or my teachers when college comes up in conversation. As I began this process of writing this essay, I noticed that I conformed to the social necessity to be a college grad as a means to be successful in life.