My college experience?!?

Animal house is defintely nothing like my college experience and probably not like many other people's college experiences either. In the movie the boys never did school work and their grades were slipping and they were failing out of college. I work very hard to try and do well in my classes. Their top priority in college was girls, drinking, and goofing off. My main priority in college is my grades and doing well with my studies. Yes I do, do my share of partying but not to that extreme.

Animal House

The movie I chose for this project is Animal House. It is a classic funny movie and as soon as we got this assignment I knew that was the movie I wanted to do. It's about 2 freshmen boys who are looking to join a fraterity but all the decent fraternities turned them down. Finally decide to go to one particular fraternity and it happens to be the worst house on campus. They knew they could get in because one of the freshmens older brother was in the fraternity years before. The rest of the movie is just fun and games amongst the fraternity brothers. Crazy drunken nights, parties, getting girls, doing drugs are just some of the many things that go on in this hysterical film.

Just 1 week...

Ok my birthday is in about a week. I am so excited because I will finally be legal. Yes people, I will finally be 18. I am still a baby and I've waited too long for the day to come. I am one of the only college students left to turn 18 it's depressing. In NY schooling is much different then down here. Down here the cut off for school is like August in NY its december so if you were born at all during that year you can start school even if you start school younger then everyone else. That is why I started college at 17. One of the biggest disappointments is that I miss voting by one day. ONE LOUSY DAY! My birthday is Nov 3rd and election day is Nov 2nd. It upsets me a lot because my vote could possibly make a difference especially in the presidental race.

Bienvenido a Miami

Ok yes so my first real trip to Miami was this past weekend and all I can say is Wow! I went to Miami last summer strictly to check out a couple schools but other then that I didn't really experience the city of Miami much at all. This weekend my roommate and I decided to take a trip down there, strictly for fun. She has some friends that go to UM so we were going to stay with them and check out the city.
This city I always thought was probably overrated. NO WAY! It is not overrated at all. It is a beautiful city with nice malls, clubs, bars, beaches, people... everything is great. The weather is gorgeous (although most of Florida's weather is) and the people here are gorgeous as well. I would like to go again soon because 2 days was not enough for this wonderful city.

I guess I thought wrong...

Blogging is fun. I thought it would be easy but I was wrong. I actually find the assigned blogs easier then the blogs am I supposed to write myself. I can't come up with topics and things to discuss. There's nothing I feel that strongly about, not enough to write a blog. For example I'm writing this blog about the blogging idea because I have nothing better to write about. I'm at a mind block with blogging... HELP!

Oh what to do?

What to do what to do? I'm sick of people telling me its ok i'm still young. I hate not knowing what i'm doing with my life. I hate not knowing what will come after college. Life was so simple. AFter elementary school is middle school, after middle school is high school, after high school is college... then what?? I'm used to running my life on a schedule and how can I do that if I can so confused about my future? I know I want to stay within the health care field possibly physical therapy or nursing. I'm not really interested in being a doctor. It's very frustating because not knowing what I want to do slows things down. I don't know what classes I should be taking or what path I should be following toward my career and life beyong college.

Ya'll come back now!

Politeness... isn't it nice? I mean I can walk out in the middle of the street and the cars will stop for me. In NYC, i'll except to get hit. The patience, concern, and kindness down here is very different then where i'm from and honestly I can't tell if its good or bad. Would you believe me if I sometimes I miss the rudeness? I miss fighting with a random person in the street or yelling at crazy drivers or bumping into someone and now having to say your sorry just because that's how everyone is up there.
One thing that makes me angry down here is how slow things move. Well maybe it's okay on some days like those days I am very tired and I can walk slowly and think slowly. In NYC if you don't walk fast enough and keep up you'll be trampled on and no one will care. I like fast paced though people are antsy to get things down so lines move faster, cars move faster, things are faster.
But for now slow paced is okay. Here at college it's as if i'm on a long vacation from home but it's college...

As they fell...

A regular day of sophomore year of high school,9/11/2001. Its about 8:30am and i'm going to my first class: gossiping in the halls, messing around with friends... into class I go come out about 45 minutes after that and everyone is in a fury. "Hey one of the twin towers fell..." I'm going yea right very funny. Out the window, being that I went to school directly across the river from Manhattan, I can see one building standing, when normally out that window there were two. Smoke everywhere the smoke came as far as us. Teachers were freaking out, people were crying in the halls, I didn't even know what to do. I knew my uncle worked in the world trade center and I started freaking out. EVeryone was on their cell phones no one was in class except to watch the buildings. As I stand there, I witnessed the second building falling. We all stood there in disbelief. No one knew what to say or how to react. From our window down below you can see swarms of people crossing the Queensboro Bridge since walking was the only way out of Manhattan and that was one of the only bridges not closed off. At this point, school was cancelled and everyone was trying to figure out how they were going to get home with no MTA. Luckily my dad works not to far from my school and he was able to pick me up, but words can not explain the traffic. What normally took a half hour to get home took 2 hours there was pure chaos in the streets.
After getting home, I discover my uncle was off today. Out of everyday to be off he didn't have to go to work that particular day. Is that luck or what? We so thankful to hear such a thing but the band news was that my other uncle is a fire fighter/paramedic and he was down at the sight. That made us very concerned because along with civilians, rescue workers were dying on the job.
In the end he was fine but not to say his partner was, or his ambulance, or many of his buddies he went through the fire academy with, friends from back home. It was a sad day for everyone. A day I will never forget. The day I watched the towers fall...

32, 68, 49... hut hut!

Alright so that title didn't make much sense basically what i'm trying to say is football is difficult. Coming from the north yes we like football but Yankees is New Yorkers pride and joy and basketball is what the northerners enjoy playing the most. My high school didn't even have a football team. I went to my first football game as USF's home opener 3 weeks ago.
So I know nothing... absolutely nothing about the sport. Doesn't mean i'm not trying because I am. I go to the games (which is difficult enough) I watch the cheerleaders, marching band, mascot, do the wave a few times... oh football? Wait is that why i'm here? Get the idea? I can't focus on the game because I can't follow along all of a sudden people are standing up yelling and screaming well thats my cue to stand up yel and scream unknowingly. Don't get me wrong its a great social event.. tons of people, good food, halftime shows, oh yeah and of course the actual game of football.
I'm learning as I go along. This past game I actually embrassed myself because I finally decided hey i'm going to try and learn and focus on the game. The ref made some terrible calls one of them being unecessary roughness, which then caused me to get very angry and I stood up and yelled "what kind of call is that? Why are you making things up? The whole game of football is just unecessary roughness might as well ruin the sport ref." Little did I know that was a real call and people around me were laughing. Hey I tried and see what I get?!?! Whatever until the next game...

This is my roommate... you can just call it Mold!

Living on campus is such a great idea. No where on the resident forms did it tell inform me that it is possible to be paired up with MOLD! Ok my apartment is moldy and you know what its has been making me very sick. I've had this terrible cough for 3 weeks now and it just won't go away. The mold cleaning idea has been put off and put off tomorrow maintanence should be coming in to clean it up before I cough myself to death. Should be at class tomorrow, if i'm not we will all know why.. because I rolled over and died because the mold has infected my room and my life... NOOOOOO!!!

our university community

I'm not sure what the actual assignment is so i'm doing it on the Marshall Center and its community. The website, http://ctr.usf.edu/mc/default.asp, shows a bright, friendly webpage of events at our school and how to get involved. The opening page shows homecoming. The community tone set is one that can be understood and liked by everyone. This page has everything from basement band series to multicultural activities. It shows the diversity of our school and how it tries to connect with everyone on campus.

Pro-abortion... waiting for the republicans to attack!

Ok yes I am pro-abortion or baby killer what some like to call. I feel it is the mothers choice to do what she wants with her baby. I am pro-choice. You want to kill your own baby thats your problem. It is nobody else's business if you do so because that was your decision for your own flesh and blood. Now if it came down to it would I be able to? I'm not so sure cause i've never been put in that position but I would like the options.
I am writing about this because of visual rhetoric. As a native new yorker, a common flier you received while walking down the busy streets was anti-abortion junk; pictures, quotes, articles, etc. It is irritating yet those visual images remind in my mind. I am pro-abortion becasue of the idea of choice but i'm not fond of the images thats for sure.
Why I chose to discuss one of the most controversial issues in society today is beyond me. I know i'm going to get a million and one bashing comments... haha.