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the best present I’ve ever been given was my iphone,  Given to me when I was a junior in high school for Christmas.  My mom surprised me after my faithful phone of 3 years broke and I was without contact with the outside world for about a week.  As soon as I got the phone, I felt so awesome because this was back when not many people had iphones.  I remember going to school the next day and feeling like the coolest person in the world because I had the hottest piece of technology.  My mom was so cool for abut 6 months after that for giving me an awesome gift.  Ummm there’s not much more to talk about so I guess I’ll talk about how beautiful it is outside.  I’m on the oval and there are so many people! There are dogs, frisbee-ers, people doing gymnastics and a tight-rope walker! I can’t believe how many people are here.  The animals make me want to have an animal of my own next year! I have a little kitty names lily who I’m almost tempted to take to school with me next year because she’s so cute! I’m not sure if my mom would let me so maybe I should just smuggle her in my purse or something out of the house… I haven’t really planned this out yet, but I’m gonna try as hard as I can to make a pet next year possible.  Wish me luck!

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I’ve only had two jobs because my parents believed that my number one job is being a student.  Thankfully they believed that otherwise, I feel like my grades would have gone down.  My longest job I’ve had is working a McDonald’s unfortunately.  Surprisingly, 1 in 4 Americans have worked there and therefore, I am not going to be surprised if any of you have worked there.  Honestly I can say that I hated working there.  It was awful, disgusting, intense, and at times degrading.  Not only were the people you worked with idiots, but also the bosses were power hungry and the customers treated me like sh*t.  (can I say that?).  Let’s start with the fellow employees I worked with; most of them were high school drop outs who literally partied and did drugs all day long and came to work under the influence of god knows what.  Most tried very hard to feel accepted by asking if I wanted to have “some of this or try a puff of that,” and I obviously said no.  I’m not trying to be mean, but a lot of the people there just weren’t worth even remembering.  Next, the bosses that I worked under were just crew members promoted.  I think it’s great hat they have been in my position, but after promotions, they weren’t trained to be good managers.  Consequently, they did not know how to treat their employees nor did they care if they insulted you.  Lastly, the customers treated me like I was worthless because I worked at McDonald’s.  If I would mess up (which happened a lot, I’m only human) I was yelled at by the customers who felt empowered because they were in their car and had momentary courage to yell at someone because they could just drive away.  They knew I couldn’t say anything back so they would just antagonize me and belittle me.  I hated working there also because the work was very unclean and labor intensive.  Cleaning bathrooms and washing the floors is not what I signed up for and it was incredibly gross that I was expected to go back to handling food afterwards.  Overall, I have to say it taught me how to deal with different types of people,  but I definitely say that I will never work for McDonald’s again because I’m going to get an education so that it’s not necessary to work there.

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One culture that has intrigued me since I was younger has always been the German culture.  My family is half German so obviously my family is richly influenced by the Germanic traditions.  We always hide the pickle in the tree, we put our shoes out on St. Nicholas day, we make all the traditional foods, etc.  In eight grade, the students could pick which language they would like to study and naturally I chose to study the German language.  I loved it because the Germanic language is very similar to the English language (it was very easy) and also, some of their towns have been around for thousands of years and their buildings are still structurally sound.  It really makes me wonder why our dorms have to be remodeled after only 40 years of use.  Also, they have parades where they wear special costumes every year and that really intrigues me because I always wondered how they began those traditions.  I don’t really have much more to say about Germany just because I stopped learning about it when I came to college.  I really wished I would have continued and gotten a minor, but that was simply too much work.  So now, I’d like to talk abut palmer fest and the craziness that was entailed.  The people who go to OU are nuts and start drinking at noon! I’ve never seen more alcoholics in my life.  Also,  three of my friends got arrested.  Safe to say, it was a good weekend J

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Today is a great day because I finally get to speak my mind on my blog! The topic for today is to blog about a family member.  I think I’m gonna blog about the most amazing woman I know…my MOM! Seeing as it’s almost Mother’s day, I have been thinking about her a lot more lately.  She’s amazing in everyway possible.  I don’t know of anyone who works harder than she does.  When I was in elementary school, she switched form working regular hours at the hospital to working the night shift (11-7) to make more money and also to be able to attend after school functions and be home when we got home.  I can’t think of a more selfless thing because a lot of the times, she hardly got enough sleep at night due to her prior obligations ad the fact that she had so much to do.  Other things that I love about her are that she attended every single one of my softball games growing up.  She was my rock, my biggest fan and also my encouragement.  It meant so much to me that after I made a great play, or hit a homerun I could look over to the stands and see her face smiling at me.  I think that it’s obvious that I love her, and that is why I hope to be similar to her.  I’m hoping to follow in her footsteps someday and become a nurse, which is why I’m in the nursing program at OSU.  I got in about 3 weeks ago and she was the first person to know.  She is the most important woman in my life and I love her so much!  

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I ALWAYS mess up commas, colons and semicolons! I have so many thoughts bouncing around in my head at all times and I just don’t know when to break up the ideas.  In my heading, I just thousands of thoughts just rushing, rushing, rushing when I’m writing a paper and I just don’t know how to organize all of my ideas into structured, intelligible ideas.  So anyways… I have nothing else to talk about except that I’m at Ohio University right now because of Palmer fest! If any of you don’t know what Palmer fest is, it’s a huge party in Athens.  OU have a street named Palmer and every year, they close down Palmer Street and the entire student body parties on the street.  The police every year have to be very careful otherwise the partying can turn into a riot.  A lot of times, the party ends in someone lighting a couch on fire.  AS you can imagine, the party is then shut down by the cops for fire hazards and also the party normally gets too out of control.  I’m really, really, really hoping that I get to witness the epicness of Palmer fest before it gets shut down because it’s a legend.  This is one of the reasons why OU is known for being a party school.  I know I got really off topic, but I was so happy to have the freedom to write about what I wanted to talk about.  Hope you all have a great weekend!!!! J

blog #38

blog 38

have you ever felt that you’re just too stressed out? Too stressed to eat, too stressed to think, too stressed to SLEEP? If you are among the millions of American teenagers either in college or entering college, then you know exactly what I mean.  Its hard to describe the feeling, but stress can be as noticeable as weights physically being pushed down on your shoulders and chest.  It’s like no matter how hard I try, there is always something there, bothering me, nagging at my thoughts, robbing me of my complete blissful apathy.  Personally, I can truthfully say that the only time I don’t feel stressed is on summer break, winter break and also spring break.  Other than that, I have papers, quizzes and midterms on my mind creeping into my non-school social life.  The stress lately is getting to a point that I feel that no matter how hard I work, how long I study or how much I care, the results will always be the same and that I will be a huge failure.  But where does this stress stem from? What makes students feel as if the have to perform so well and place their bodies under strenuous amounts of anxiety? The answer is a combination of parents’ and societal expectations.  Everyone is expecting the next generation to be way better, when in fact we’re all the same and our lives are placed on a pedestal that doesn’t belong there.

blog #37

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This blog is supposed to be a personal anecdote or a hypothetical situation that can relate to my commonplace paper.  My commonplace paper is about the changing society that places more stress on teenagers and college students in order to be more competitive.  I missed yesterday’s blog and today I’d prefer to write a hypothetical situation because I’d like to think that there is an end to the stress that college students are placed on, I’m somewhat hopeful that my own children won’t have to deal with the stress that I’ve had placed on me.  Although, I personally don’t see any end to the raising standards only because Americans are obsessed with competition and becoming better at everything they do.  And Americans were once the leader of our world in everything: technology, education, and in jobs.  Now however, other countries like Japan and China are becoming super powers too and are finally catching up to us when it comes to technology and possibly jobs, other countries (Japan and China included) are also catching up to America when it comes to education.   Most other countries don’t focus on educating everyone, but only educating those who seem to have high potential.  Therefore, they have a more balanced population and the competition isn’t too high.  But in America, everyone is expected to get higher education, which creates really high competition within our country, not to mention the competition between countries.  I don’t really see any hypothetical situation where America doesn’t have higher standards and yet doesn’t become dumber in the process.