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.

blog 63; friends

I don’t think I can pick one friend to talk about for this whole blog. I don’t really have one best friend. I have a lot of friends that I would consider my best friends. They are all considered my best friends for different reasons. One of my friends that I have probably known for the longest is John. Me and him have always liked to do the same things, listen to the same music and have the same group of friends. Right now he is in college in Montana and he is thinking about living there year round now so he will be able to apply for in state tuition later. Because of this, it will probably be a while before I see him again which sucks. Another one of my good friends is Collin. Collin is always down to do anything. If it sounds fun or we can figure out a way to make it fun, he’s all for it. Through him I was able to meet Jacob. Jacob has a really nice house so it’s no surprise that everyone is always over at his house. People just come over randomly and don’t really even ask. He always says that he doesn’t care who comes over and most people just walk right in without ringing the door bell or telling him. It took me a while to get used to doing this. Hopefully over spring break ill be able to see them all again.

blog 62: favorite place

For this blog, we have to write about what our favorite place is. This place is a lot different than what it would have been if I was asked this question a year or so ago. Now that I have been away from home for so long, I am starting to miss it. I miss having a room all to myself, my own shower and bathroom, and home cooked food. Don’t get me wrong, I love college and everything about it but I guess when you are away from something that you spent 18 years of your life with, you start to miss it. So because of that, I would have to say that right now, that is my favorite place. There is no other place like it and no other place that can compare to it. Even though this feels like my home now here at Ohio State, it will never feel as much as my home as my actual home does. Another one of my favorite places is going out on the lake with some of my friends. There is nothing like a warm summer day out on the water without a worry in the world. That is one reason why I can’t wait for it to be summer and warm out again. We would go out to the lake almost every weekend and just hang out. I could spend the whole day on a boat out on the lake.

blog 61: stories

1. When I was really young and in pre-school, like every other kid, I loved recess. Every day all the kids would sprint outside to get a ball or bike or whatever else they wanted. There were a lot of kids and not enough things for everyone so it was a mad dash to get out there and get them. Well one day, I decided that I was going to be in the front of the line that way I would be sure that I would be able to get outside fastest and get what I wanted. When they teacher opened the door, I sprinted outside and almost got a bike when suddenly I felt a push. Someone had pushed me from behind and I fell to the ground. When I was little I had to wear glasses and somehow when I fell, the glasses got shoved up and the right side got shoved into my skin right where my eye brow is. I had a huge gash and ended up having to get stitches.
2. Two summers ago when I turned 18, a few friends of mine were bored during the day and decided to go get lottery tickets. We ended up all pitching in and buying 5 of them. On the first four we didn’t win anything more than a few dollars but on the 5th one, we scratched it off and ended up winning $5,000. We couldn’t believe what happened. We went back in, cashed it and split it up between all of us. We were all pretty happy.
3. One time my family and I went on a cruise in the Caribbean. One place that the cruise went to was Costa Rica. I ended up getting to go zip lining in the rain forest there. It was really cool to be able to do that.

blog 60: word

I have no idea which word to write about or how I am going to write about it for 250 words.  There are so many words in the English language that it is hard to pick out one.  As I sit here trying to think of one, none really stand out to me.  But I guess since were in college, I'll talk about the word college.  This word can bring about many different emotions based on the age group that says them.  With younger kids, this word can cause fear or anxiety in them when they think about leaving their parents and going out on their own.  They might get worried when they realize that
they won’t be able to rely on their parents anymore and they will have to make their own decision.  It would also cause emotions of excitement in some kids.  For some, they can’t wait to be on their own and away from their parents.  Then for people around our age, it can causes
emotions of stress because of how much work college is.  Even though it is stressful and lots of work, it is still real fun to be here.  I think that for older people, the word college makes them reminisce and think back on all the fun and things they did in college.  I always hear my dad saying he wishes he was back in college and I'm sure a lot of other older people are just like him.

blog 59 major

My major is mechanical engineering.  Since both my dad and grandpa were engineers, I grew up hearing them talk about it all the time.  After hearing them for years, I started to get interested in it.  I always knew I wanted to be an engineer so it wasn’t hard to me to decide once I came to college what I wanted to major in.  So far I have only taken one class that has to deal with my major. The rest were math classes, chemistry classes and some GEC’s.  Good thing my major only requires me to take two chemistry classes because I am horrible at chemistry.  I am so lost in that class right now but I only have one more quiz and a midterm and then I’ll be done with chemistry
forever.  My major also requires me to take a lot of math classes.  Slowly the math classes are getting harder and harder.  Somehow I need to get pretty good grades though because apparently it is
pretty hard to get into my major.  The advisor said they are very selective.  This kind of worries me.  If I don’t get in, I'm not sure what I will do.  I don’t know if it would be better to try and re-apply later or to switch majors.  If I tried to apply multiple times and I didn’t get in, I don’t even know what major I would switch to.  The only other one I can think of would be business.  Hopefully it won’t come to that though. 

blog 57 dream

I have always wanted to become rich enough to where I didn’t need to worry about money. I don’t want this just so that I can buy million dollar cars and yachts; I want to be a multimillionaire because that way I would be able to live comfortably.  Sure it would be nice to have a huge house, nice cars and all that but I think it would be even better to just to be able to do anything you want.  I would be able to have any job that interested me.  I am a big fan of cars and love being around them, but unless you are really good at what you do, there is not much money to be made in that field.  But if I was a multimillionaire, I would be able to pursue this job since the amount of money I would be making wouldn’t matter.  I would be doing what I love.  Also, I think it would help to enjoy life more.  You wouldn’t be constantly worried about when your next pay check is coming in or if the stock market is going to go up or not.  You could focus on the more important things in life like family and friends and not worry about the rest.  Unfortunately I don’t see this dream of mine ever coming true.  Maybe someday I’ll get real lucky in the lottery but otherwise I think I’ll be just like everyone else.