Mifflin

Mifflin was pretty crazy, great to see so many old people i havent seen in forever. But back to reality, I have some stuff I need to do on my paper but I dont have a lot to do this week so I'm feeling alright. Good luck to everyone else.

Curves

In three of the classes I'm taking this semester, my professor has made it clear that no one in the class is doing as well as he/she would have hoped and that there will end up being a large curve on our final exam / overall grade. This seems to be a continuing trend in the past 3 semesters. As the classes get harder the curves become bigger and bigger. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the help, as does my GPA, but shouldn't some kind of change be made. If no one's doing well the professor either hasn't done a very good job of covering the material,or the exams are much too hard, most likely its usually a combination of both. Even though I hate to admit it, when I KNOW there is going to be a curve on an exam I usually try less hard in preperation for the exam, mostly because I usually do pretty well on exams and If I know theres a curve its enabling me to put less effort into it and still receive the grade I'm looking for. (Man what would rickert have to say about all this?)

Basically I think the biggest problem is professors are attempting to really push there students to learn, and then caving when they fail to meet their expectations. There are two solutions, cover the material slower, and more in depth to allow for some real learning and give a chance for students to do better on an "easier" exam. The other option would be to make it clear from the get go, that there will be no curve, that everything covered in class is going to be tested on, and force the student to push themselves and do well in a hard class. (or fail)

Some sort of debate on this topic could probably be pretty interesting if a few people chimed in..?

Yup

I think about thinking way too much. Lately I spend almost all of my time in my own head. Weighing whats important and whats not. The worst part is im terrible at it. At least I think I am.

The other day I read a quote by Jeffery McDaniel

Once
I dated a woman I only liked 43%.So I only listened to 43% of what
she said.Only told the truth 43% of the time.And only kissed
with 43% of my lips.Some say you can't quantify desire, attaching
a number to passion isn't right, that the human heart doesn't work
like that.But for me it does-I walk down the street and
numbers appear on the foreheads of the people I look at. In bars,
it's worse.With each drink, the numbers go upuntil every woman
in the joint has a blurryeighty something above her eyebrows, and
the next day I can only remember 17%of what actually happened.
That's the problem with booze-it screws with your math.


I feel like thats the type of shit running through my head all the time. but getting something like that written down just will never happen. Even this attempt at writing something feels nearly impossible but somehow I manage. I'm waiting til I meet that person who gets me, but I dont even get me.

I've got one, maybe two guys who know me so well they could probably do a better job of explaining me then I can. I like that, and I usually like image they produce. I'm not allowed to own a firearm. Thats fucked up.

School isn't for me. Ive learned a lot here. But the thing I really learned was how to drink, and that makes sense cause I learned from the best.

I've never been so close to someone that I literally feel there pain, but not just there pain, there joy too. I think I like that sensation more then my own pleasure. Ive had so much of it I dont even care about it anymore. Someday someone will make me care, if I give them the chance.

I feel like I spent my younger years numb, I literally dont remember any of my childhood. Where the fuck did my memory go. It used to be awesome.

Listen to me bitch about SB

So I didn't have any plans to go anywhere, which wasn't a big deal to me because I never do, but apparently 85% of my friends decided they were either going home for SB or some awesome vacation. Although I had limited friends that were still around I was going to make the best of it, and being 21 its not that hard to find a good time at the bars on the weekend, so my weekend went alright. Then the week rolled around and I had to work 4-10 M-F. Realllll sweet. But it gets better. I woke up wednesday with an unbelievable sore throat and no energy to move/work/do anything. So I had to call in sick to work two days in a row which looks terrible because they know its my SB. Now its friday, I'm doing homework for this class, then going to work. Then spending the weekend revising my essay because I couldn't do it the past two days. I guess there is more to bitch about but I feel like I've done enough already. Hope this at least brightened up everyone else's Break.

Shanks Blog:

Having never really read over a blog of any sort, (other then our classes of course) I wasn't sure what to expect. I really liked the layout that Shanks uses, blogs are an interesting way to provide information via text but make it incredibly easy to throw in links, photos, other topics and useful information all into one space. Sometimes it reads like a picture book with hotlinks in it. The blog I read by Shanks was FARO - heritage futures. I felt like this was a mostly academic blog, he makes a distinction in his blog stating "My long-standing argument that archaeology is as much about the future as the past." He then continues to dissect the details of the Faro Convention into highlights as he see's them. The way he lays out the highlights of this document lead me to believe that Shanks is using his blog for a more academic based viewpoint then just blogging about daily stuff.

I also read some blogs from Dooce.com and found that this really isn't the thing for me. I'm glad that this family does well for itself writing daily blogs, taking pictures, and maintaining a website but its just not for me, besides, this shit i do, think, and say on a typical day is much more interesting then most of the stuff I spent the last 20 minutes reading. Must be a family person thing or something.

DONE

Not Done!!!

Definitely not up to 8 pages yet. I have about 6 that I really like, however I'm having a hard time coming up with a controlling purpose. I'm not sure whether or not I should actually say something like "in this paper I want to ..." or not.

The other thing I'm having a problem with is whether or not I should stay neutral on my topic (net neutrality) or pick a side. The debate is very polarized and I will probably end up having to pick a side for the sake of my paper. 

so.... that's where I'm at?

Topic: Hip Hop

I'm doing my paper on Hip Hop and its relation to American culture. Hip Hop has had a huge impact on society and other aspects of American culture so I think if I get some strong sources ill be passing the paper.

-This link is to a song by Kid Cudi...good stuff.

umm yeah

So yeah basically 19 credits is consuming my lifeeee. but if you work hard you play hard and someday i plan to be a architect. so eyah, dont really have time to be chillin on this blog asking for opinions right meow. :-) hope everyone has a good day!

Writing the assingment for tomorrow

Hey, I need help getting other students perspectives on mass media connected with politics. Feel free to comment. Left-wing or right-wing I don't really care. Just want some ideas to research

WTF???

So I've been researching different types of sources for my research topic. (Social implications on viagra) All I can find is stuck up, boring, factual filled pages. I'm starting to think to myself f
*ck this topic. The only problem is I don't wanna re-research some bull...Where should I look to find better sources with more info? Or does this topic suck?

Hey Arnold

What ever happened to the show Hey Arnold? When i was in grade school I use to watch that show all the time. I was watching Nickelodeon last night and the shows suck, they need to put Hey Arnold back on the air because his football shaped head was funny too watch. Also the show DOUG, that show was the shit back in the day, i feel sorry for kids today because the cartoons today suck donkey dick.

Travel Plans

So I was thinking about it and I have not been on a vacation since I was like 13. (my parents despise traveling for whatever reason) So I decided I want to take a trip.... anywhere, and I literally don't care when. In fact there are no real details involved in this trip, other then I want it to be dirt cheap, there has to be some bars nearby where I'm staying, and I want to fly (Mostly because I've never been on an airplane, yea i know shocking right) I know about 5 or 6 other people who want to take this trip with me, so splitting two rooms at some hole in the wall motel will cost me next to nothing. My only problem is, sites like travelocity and expedia all want ME to come up with a date and destination. So if someone could answer any of the following for me I'd appreciate it.

1) are there any sites that would potentially... "create-a-trip" for me, that would be the best option
2)If such site described in 1 does not exist, does anyone have any suggestions, e.g. specific dates that are cheap to travel, specific places that are cheap to travel, or anything like that
3) any other kind of suggestions are welcome
4) If this trip interests you get a hold of me, the more the merrier (just be 21 or have a great fake)

English 102 drinking game

We should invent an online English 102 drinking game. Here's some ideas for rules.

1. If your discussion post gets a reply from a student, you take 1 drink

2. If your discussion post gets a positive reply from the teacher, give out 2 drinks

3. If your discussion post gets a negative reply from the teacher, take 2 drinks

4. Everyone posts their assignments as normal, then everyone logs on to D2L and drinks at 9:00PM on the assignment due date, according to the posts.

add some more rules here :D

Is anything being collected today?

Is an actual piece of paper with our keywords and controlling purpose and all that being collected at the end of the class today?

Mike Hock

I am now curious as to who mike hock is?