New House

At most schools students have to stay in the dorms for two years. Here at Ball State, we are not forced to and can choose whatever you want to after your freshman year. Weather it is a house, apartment, or going back to commuting a lot of different options are available. For me, my two other team mates, and our two friends on the softball team were interested from the very beginning in getting a house for next year. Our team mates all have houses. The field hockey house on Neely, and the softball house are all the popular places to hang. Well, for the past two weeks the five of us have been looking for a house. We would make appointments for the weekend on Monday, but by Thursday would get a call that a lease was already signed for the house. We got really nervoud about loosing time to find a house, even though we thought it was so early. So, finally, this past week we all found a house! It is perfect, and all of us agreed on it. It is neat and just our style. We are extremely excited to move in in August and make memories together as our friendship builds at this house on North Calvert.

World Series

With the World Series kicking off and game 2 done, it is all even at this point. The Yank's won one and the Phill's are right up there with them. 1-1, who will win next? While watching my friends who are obsessed with the Phillies, it makes me think about my hometown baseball team, the Pirates. With 17 consecutive losing seasons now, it has been awhile since we have even come close to the World Series. With that said, I have been accustomed to cheer for my old home town team, BoSox. Also while watching these games, I wounder who do people here in Indiana root for? Since both teams that I would like to see in did not even make it to the Series this year, I am simply cheering for the Yanks to make my friend upset. So far it is working.

Missing it?

Being away from home and coming to college, do you miss home? This past weekend was parents weekend and I saw a lot of families being reuinited. At the end of the weekend, tears and hugs were exchanged and the families were seperated. One thing that I could not get out of my head though, was a certain thought. "I bet that family only lives about one hour away!" My whole family has not been out here once yet, while there other students are too close to their home. I miss it, but guess that a lot of kids really do miss their family, regardless of how close they are.

Pet Peeve

Everyone has that one thing that makes them tick. That one thing that bothers them and really gets on their last nerve. For me, that one thing is lieing. I can not stand people that lie to my face about something. Recently I have had a couple of people just lie to me, assuming that I would not catch it. I find it belittleing to my intelligence and just annoying. Tell the truth. I am not talking about little white lies that bother me, not little fibs that someone says to get around something. I am talking about big things that I could easily find out about. Things that people would tell me the truth about.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

-Honest Abe

Malawian boy builds his own.

In Malawi, Africa William Kamkwamba always wished to power his village with free resources. He was determined to change things for his village after horrible times so he has developed five windmills. He was kicked out of high school due to inability to pay school dues, so spent his times in the library researching. Now, he has helpe his village tremendously. The windmills now generate electricity and pump water to north of the capital. Everyone thought that he had gone crazy with his original idea, but he proved them wrong. This got the attention of Al Gore who was impressed with his green work in society. A book was also written about him by Bryan Mealer of Texas. I am very impressed by Williams determination and drive to do this for his society. Obviously, politicians and educated people have recognized his efforts and I think that it is a great sign of things to come. To take advantage of this technology along with the fact to never give up, a lot can be achieved.

Karimi, Faith. Malawian Boy Uses Wind to Power Hope, Electrify Village. New York. CNN. 2009.

Daily News

Every morning that I sit down and eat breakfast, I read our Daily Newspaper. As I flip through the pages and read the story, one thing seems to remain the same. Since the first week of school and I started reading it I feel that every article is negative. Wether it be Homecoming week or sporting events, the articles seem to belittle and tear apart whatever topic the writer is talking about. I mean, I understand that it is not all perfect, but do we need to degrade a sports team every time it loses? The writers need to understand that many readers are taken back by the articles. I am even repulsed at times by the content and material within these articles.

I am not saying that I could do a better job by any means, just suggesting that they could lighten up a little bit with their vocabulary and word choice.

Peoems

The Never Ending Dream of Life

"I had a dream it was a vision no it was a fantasy but deep down i know that last night i had a dream i dream about the never ending dream of life a dream that goes on for eternity the only one dream the last and first dream but i had a dream the dream of a never ending life i dream of life i dream of eternity but now i know that the dream is a fantasy i try to belive that i had a dream but i dream of a never ending life i dream for eternity." -keisha lenn This poem is something that I have always loved. I really enjoy reading it and love its meaning. Dreaming is something that we do every night and dont always take the time to think and reflect on them. I like the symbolism that Keisha takes by having the poem be one big run on sentance, showing how the dream goes on and on. How it was a dream of never ending life.

Peer Review

The one question that I am finding really helpful with the peer review is the question "Are you convinced of a significant interpretation of the song, independent from the book?" I really think that this is big because in my analysis, I wanted to make sure that the reader was convinced. With this question it really helped me see what I need to work on in order to convince the reader. I will really pay attention to the comments that my peer reviewers made in order to improve my paper.

Differant College Life

Coming into college there are a lot of expectations that kids have. The new friends that will be made and the knowladge that will be gained. For me, arriving to campus two weeks before everyone else made me more settled in and I had a good amount of friends, all on the field hockey team. Since then, I have gained a couple of friends but socializing is not my top priority right now. I do not get to go out every weeked like the others in my dorm and defanitly can not drink. However, I wouldn't change any of it. I love my team and the immediete friends that I made. After season though, I am interested to see how my social life grows.

Major Change

During our senior year one of the hardest things that we had to decide was where we would be attending college. After that decision was made, we then had to decide what our major would be. For me, I thought that I always knew what I wasnted to be and what I wanted to do with my life. Since as far back as I can remember I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. I love kids and everything that the education field had to offer. During my high school years, I volunteered after school with children and was convinced that this was my calling. When I arrived to my first class in edel100, it was a lot differant than I thought. Also, when I look around and see what other students majors are, it makes me wounder. I have never really investigated other majors. Needless to say, now I am. I am not giving up on this major but dropping it for now. I am officially undecided and hope to know what I really want to do by the end of this semester.