blog 70

For all of you about to take this class, the big piece of advice I could give you would be to get your comments and blogs done as early as you can. It’s a real pain to have to write the blogs every single night and same with the comments. So if you are able to get them all done before the end of the quarter, it will make life a lot easier. At first the blogs are kind of hard to write but after awhile you are able to write them in like less than 10 minutes. At the beginning of the quarter when I heard that the theme was going to be science fiction, I wasn’t too happy. I'm not a big science fiction fan and the thought of having to write papers about it, didn’t sound too appealing. But we did get to pick from a list of shows as to what one we wanted to watch. I decided to watch Dollhouse, it ended up not being too bad of a show. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’d watch it in my free time, but at least I wasn’t dreading it when I had to watch an episode. Another thing I would suggest is going to the writing center. Not only is it helpful, but it is also extra credit. So make sure you go there as many times as you can to get extra points.

blog 69

One culture that fascinates me is North Korea. I am interested by this society because of how cut off from the world they are. They have such a strict leader that the citizens there can’t really do anything. I don’t even know if you can visit the country if you aren’t from there. I'm not sure why you would want to anyway. But I remember watching a show on MTV called The Vice Guide To Everything. In this show, the host visited North Korea. He said it took over a year to finally convince the North Korean government to let them come. The show showed how crazy it was there. He was never able to leave the guy that guided the tour the whole time he was there, which was a few days. Apparently North Korea has all these places devoted to tourism even though no one really goes there. The host talked about how he was probably the first person to go there on a tour for a long time. I wonder what the people of the country think. Do they like where they live or do they hate it? I wonder what I would be like to not be as free as we are here in America. We have so much more stuff here than they have there that I don’t think I could able to last long there. I think that North Korea thinks they are better and stronger than everyone else and they just need to take a step back and calm down.

blog 68

One thing that I am scared of is spiders. If I see a spider I don’t freak out or anything, I'm just not a big fan of them. I definably won’t be going to try and pick it up and move it outside. I will be stomping it with my shoe. I don’t know what it is about them that I hate so much. The thought of them crawling all over me gives me chills. Usually in the spring through fall, at my house we have one of the bug services come and spray in the inside and outside of our house to keep the bugs and spiders out. We live right in front of a few acres of woods so when we don’t do that, they become a big problem. Well one time, my parents weren’t home yet and I had to let the guy in walk him around the house as he was spraying. We got to the basement and there was one of the biggest spiders I have ever seen on the floor. The funny thing is, the bug guy actually yelled a little and asked if I wanted to go kill it. Of course I refused and upon talking to him I found out he doesn’t like spiders either. Kind of ironic since he works for a bug and spider service. Luckily though, after some convincing he went and killed it. Hopefully I won’t ever have to see another one of those really big spiders in my house again.

blog 67

There are a lot of things going on in the world that are concerning me. One of the major things is illegal immigration. America is full of immigrants and I'm not against that. What I am against are all the people that are sneaking into this country. All legal citizens work hard and have to pay taxes to help maintain the roads, for public schools, and to the government. But illegal aliens don’t do any of this. They get to work without having to give any of the money they make back to the government. We in turn end up having to pay when they go to the hospital without any insurance or when they get arrested. A lot of crime is done by illegal immigrants. I think that something drastic needs to be done to solve this problem. Our borders need to be tightened and there needs to be more of a punishment if illegal alien’s are caught crossing the border. Right now we just send them right back to Mexico and that’s it. They have no reason not to keep trying to come back in. If there was more of a punishment, then this would deter them from continually trying to come to America illegally. If they are able to go through the proper procedures to be in this country, then I am all for them being here. But until then, I think they should stay in the country they were born in.

blog 66

I'm not really sure how to blog about myself in a creative way. When it comes to being creative, I am horrible at it. While I am sitting here trying to figure this out, I asked my roommate what I should do and he said to write about how blogging about yourself is self centered and selfish. So since I don’t have any other ideas I guess I’ll write that way
Writing about yourself is very self-centered. I doubt anyone out there really cares what I have to say in this. Talking about me and what I am doing is probably the last thing you need to hear about. So by making you read through this, I am being self centered. I thought we already blogged about ourselves in one of the first blogs so why are we doing it again? This makes it even more selfish and self-centered. You all now get to hear about me twice. I could talk about where I grew up and what I did in high school but all that really doesn’t matter. My life isn’t that interesting that people are just dying to hear about it. I think this is one reason why I don’t get why people have twitter accounts. Do people really think that they lives are that important and that people want to know every detail about them? I can understand a celebrity having one but a normal person, I just don’t get it.

blog 65

If I could pick any time period to be born in I think it would be pretty easy to say that I wish I was born in the future. I think living in the future would be great. It’s hard to image what all new things there will be in the future. The world has come a long way in advancements over the years and it’s interesting to think how much further they will go in the next 50 years or 500 years. Maybe we will all be flying around in space ships instead of cars by then or jet packs. Either of those would beat a car or bus any day. I also wonder how advanced we will be in medicine by then. It’s likely that dieses like cancer will be able to be cured by then. Who knows, maybe in 500 years, people won’t even get sick any more. We will have a cure for everything. We will also probably live a lot longer. The age we die at has only gone up over the years so if it continues to do that, maybe will live to be close to 200 years old someday. That is a long time to live. You would be able to do so much since you would have so much time to do it all. If we lived to 200 would that mean that people would still retire around 50-60 or would they retire instead when they are like 100 or even older? I guess we’ll never know..

blog 64: mistakes

As I sit here trying to think about what the biggest mistake I have made is, nothing really comes to mind. I know I have made mistakes before but so far, I haven’t made any really big ones. I’ve had quite a few close calls but since they all turned out ok or I got away, I wouldn’t really consider them mistakes. I haven’t done anything that I really regret or wish that I could change. I don’t even regret all the stupid decisions I have made. From all those things, you learn stuff. I might not do them again but I am glad that I did at least once. I think that all the things that I have done so far have made me who I am today and I wouldn’t want to change any of that. Now looking back on all the things that happened in the past, it makes me smile. Remembering how much fun we all had and everything blocks out any regret. I might have regretted it at the time or a few days afterwards but now that I know everything turned out fine, I don’t regret anything it at all. But as I keep thinking, I guess I regret not talking to my grandparents as much as I should. They live out of town so we only go to see them about 2-3 times a year. Those 2-3 times are the only times that I talk to them. I should probably talk to them more because you never know how long they are going to be around for.