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12/8/05

The paper is coming slowly but surely. Today was gorgeous. No matter how much I complain about winter, overall it's a wonderful time of the year. The cold is just the nasty side effect to the beauty.

12/7/05

5 hours of Chemistry study again. Tommorrow I don't have any classes, so after running all the errands I have do (including looking at an apartment :) ) the day is devoted to the English paper.

12/5/05

First day of study week. We'll see if I can survive. There's just way too much going on, not to mention studying for chem for 4 hours will kill you.

12/4/05

Today's concert was wonderful! Everything went as planned. It was a hectic day, but over all wonderful. I got to see my parents, and they were smart enough to drive up before the snow started. Last night was beautiful. My next door neighbor Katie and I went for a walk at 1 in the morning, and the snow was glistening awesomely.

12/3/05

Today was rehearsal for winterfest. 400 people on a stage singing under lights is just too many. Lets hope that tomorrow's concert goes as well as the rehearsal did.

12/1/05

First day of December and snow make it a good day. Throw in the fact that the Chem 14 exam was exceedingly easy, and that makes for a wonderful day! I've never been a huge fan of cold weather, but when the snow is newly fallen, it's beautiful and makes the freezing of your limbs worth it.

11/29/05

Today was a very busy day because I just have too much to do. This week is going to be another long one. I have an econ exam tomorrow and a chem 14 final on Thursday. Studying and writing that paper... here we come!

11/28/05

Thanksgiving break was lovely, and it was nice to be home, but home holds way too much drama. It makes me happy sometimes that I'm not back in high school because I really can't handle it. This really is my home now.

11/19/05

This was a weekend of culture, and of culturing Robin. Jen, Katie, Robin and I went to see "Into the Woods" tonight. I found out that I'm not a huge Sondheim fan, but overall it was very good. The cast was wonderful, and the intonation was almost exact which is something that rarely happens in non-professional productions. We then watched Phantom of the Opera, which makes me mad every time. I've seen the show three times professionally, and the movie is horrible compared to the actual show. They removed a lot of the singing parts and they even changed some parts. So "grrr" to you Mr. Webber.

11/18/05

Went to the opera tonight with Robin and Jen. It was wonderful and kudos to all those people who performed. My apologies to Robin who I happened to leave behind at the dorm and who was forced to run to the music building. My bad. I haven't been to the opera in a very long time, and it was lovely to hear. The music program here at PSU really is wonderful.

11/17/05

Tonight, I watched the movie Anatomy with a bunch of my friends. It was really creepy. It was about doctors, more importantly the AAA, injecting a solution into a person's blood stream. This injection turned the person's blood into rubber. The doctors would then dissect the human alive. Because their blood was rubber, the body would never break down. Thus, the bodies would be immortalized. The bodies were then put on display in the cadaver lab in the medical school. It was incredibly disgusting, and I now believe PghFf to be crazy for wanting to go into medicine (he was in attendance).

11/16/05

Wow, the chem exam that we took on tonight was incredibly hard. I swear I had never even seen most of the stuff on it. I know I did horrible, but in talking to my friends, it seems as if everyone did. I did not expect this test to be hard, but still I studied immensely for it. I hope that I can do well on the final to bring my grade back up!

11/8/05

I've been debating if I'm going to center on a certain aspect of the death penalty debate or not. Becuase of it's contriversal-ness (sorry, I know it's not a word), throwing religion and what the different ones think of religion might take away from the paper. If for not other reason, than the different religions would have to be explained to help the audience understand what type of people we're talking about.

11/6/05

So far I have commented on DaLiBlog and BoreSta. I hope it's okay if we comment on ones that have more than two already and we can comment on more than two, cause there are some amazing topics out there!

11/5/05

I am so excited about this topic. There's information about Pennsylvania on some of the sites and in some of the books. I think that I'm now mostly going to center my paper about convincing voters in the state of Pennsylvania to support the death penalty. There were 231 people on death row in the state of Pennsylvania as of January of this year and no one even knows about it!

Pennsylvania Statistics

And if you still aren't convinced or have some questions:

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If anyone can think of any amazing counter-arguments for my topic, please let me know. I'd with my paper I'd like to clear up any misconceptions about the death penalty, and I already know quite a few of you have them, so anything helps. Thanks!

11/3/05

I started reading the books I got from the library today. I never knew how many points there were in the cases of both for and against the death penalty! There are ideas of how religions view it, and therefore what their followers should believe, as well as multiple cases where race was the reason of the death. The race part is amazingly not just in the days where that was an issue. Never has a black man who killed a white person not been put to death when in certain states which very much support the death penalty. It's astounding and sad. Havn't we overcome that yet?

11/2/05

My proposed topic, after much deliberation with my group and my roommate is the death penalty. This is a very difficult topic, and I'm interested to see how I deal with it. I'm not taking the usual point of against, I'm taking the pro-death penalty option. Wish me luck!

10/29/05

Yesterday’s game was amazing. There are no words to describe the emotion that filled that stadium. I almost cried when we won, just because everyone was so happy. The game itself was also amazing. Both teams played really hard, but in the end, of course, we came out on top.

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10/27/05

Thought of by Pierre-Paul Grasse in the 1950's, stigmergy was used to explain how insects communicate, especially termites. Stigmergy was described how the building of th nest is achieved by the colony as a whole, and the termites know by instinct what to do because of what the other termites are doing. Some people believe that this concept would explain everything from evolution to artificial intelligence.

10/15/05

We lost today. That's about all I have to write. It was depressing, enough so that my friend and I actually cried. The campus, made up of those of us who are still left, went completely silent. It is as though someone died, and in reality I guess something did. Our undefeated streak is now gone. I don't really want to talk about it any more. It's just too sad. Here's your cause for the loss. Those stupid refs gave Michigan those 2 seconds that they didn't deserve. If they hadn't been given those, we would have won. See... causals are everywhere.

10/14/05

I think that my 3 friends and I are the only people left on campus. We went for a walk this evening, and no one is here. It's really odd and really quiet, but it was good. It reminded me why I love a big campus.

10/13/05

Since I already started with the eating disorder edits, I thought that I'd stay with the topic. This was taken from BensBlog

As I was looking through the paper today, I came upon an article in USA Today titled “Michigan lawmakers tackle kids’ obesity.” The article talks about the high percentage of Michigan kids being overweight. In lieu of this, the state Senate Health Policy Committee is trying to pass a bill that would require public schools to adopt nutrition policies aimed at better student health. In this article they are aiming to try and stop obesity by requiring a healthy and nutritious diet, which states that Thesis: due to an unhealthy diet, kids become obese. So, due to an unhealthy and poor nutrition Michigan’s children are becoming overweight and obese. The audience that this argument is directed to are those people concerned with the America’s obesity problem and parents of children who are obese. While poor nutrition and unhealthy diets are causes of obesity, they are not the only causes. There are many other reasons for a large percentage of Michigan’s kids being obese. The lack of exercise is one of these reasons, which can be caused by television and video games because they are both sedentary activities and do not require movement. Another reason Americas children are obese is the large amount of food that we as Americans eat. We consume large meals and also allow the children to do the same causing them to become obese. While nutrition and a proper diet are important, they are not the only reasons to help prevent obesity. To help stop this problem in today’s youth, there needs to be a well rounded program that has exercise and gives the children a proper and nutritious diet. I believe that today’s youth have a lack of exercise and our doing more sedentary activities, such as playing video games or watching TV. If parents where to have their children to participate in a sport or a moving activity, obesity would be lowered throughout America.

10/12/05

The following was taken from SteffyLynn blog.

Thesis: Media influence causes anorexia. I found many resources that show this. In the one website I looked at they were talking about how we are always exposed to the media. If we turn on the TV, watch a movie, or look at a magazine we are bombarded with this idea that you need to be super skinny to be happy and accepted. This is the website I found some of my information on www.raderprograms.com/media.htm. Children as young as elementary get concerned about their weight because of the media. I also found information on this website www.anred.com/causes.html. There are other cause of anorexia but “Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.” --Clare Boothe Luce, American author and diplomat (1903-1987). There was a study in 1999 about girls who were never exposed to the media who lived on the island of Fiji. They thought the ideal body was “round, plump, and soft.” After being exposed to TV and watching shows like Beverly Hills 90210 38 mouths later they showed to have signs of eating disorders.

10/11/05

Mean Police

 Necessary  Force?

These articles are about something that all students who went to the game and stayed until the end witnessed. The claim is made in these articles that the police's use of force and over-excessiveness of pepper spray was needed to control the crowds, and keep people off the field. It was made because so many people were upset and/or injured from these "control techniques". The target audience is the students, because we were the ones affected by it. I don't believe that the police's use of that much force was warranted. Yes, they wanted to keep people from rioting, but everyone just wanted to be down there to celebrate with the team. The punches that were thrown by not the students, but the police, went overboard. That sort of violence was not necessary at all. People who weren't even trying to get onto the field were also affected by the pepper spray which was being sprayed into the crowd. There was no reason for the police to be as cruel as they were, no matter what they were trying to prevent.

10/10/05

Just Don't Do It

I found this contriversal article in the US News and World Report. Although it is a touchy subject, the article was very well written. Thesis: Sex ed increases abstinence in teens. In this article, they made the claim that sex education classes are increasing the rate of abstinence in our teens. The target audience of this artice being the parents of the children who are recieving this supposedly "life-altering" education. The claim is being made because it truly is a very contriversal subject amoung the parents and instructors at public schools. In my opinion though, I don't think that it is making that big of a difference. While learning such subject matter and the reasons against it in class are informative, I still think that peer pressure and just sheer desire will cause the disturbing amount of sex going on amoung teens in America to continue. I also believe that if a teen has enough will-power to withstand all that, no amount of education is going to change their mind. They would have already decided to stay abstinent until marriage, and they will do so. Children hear it enough from their parents and their religious role-models, they do not need it brought into the school environment. The argument could also be made that just talking about it in class makes it more acceptable. In our parent's day, even mentioning sex was taboo, but now it's openly discussed, perhaps because of those programs. For goodness sake, I just wrote an article about sex ed in this blog, that anyone can read. Who's to say that it wasn't done because I learned about sex infront of my peers in high school, and am now comfortable talking about it?

Counter Argument: Fear of HIV, society is changing

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10/9/05

Yesterday’s game was amazing. There are no words to describe the emotion that filled that stadium. I almost cried when we won, just because everyone was so happy. The game itself was also amazing. Both teams played really hard, but in the end, of course, we came out on top.

I think that the cops got a little out of control at the end of the game. Yes people tried to rush the field, but they only wanted to celebrate with their team. The pepper spray and the beating up of students by the cops was a little overboard. The amount of cops downtown after the game was also astounding. Never in my entire life have I seen that many policemen. But, evidently it was a good thing, because nothing terrible happened.

Oh, just thought I should write for those of you who read this religiously. It may seem that I don’t write very often, but I put all of my blogs into Microsoft Word before I post them, and then I post them all at once. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

10/8/05

GAME DAY. And there is absolutely no way that we are going to lose. I hope. I have faith in our team. I just hope that the rain slows down, or stops by the time that the game actually starts. I’m headed to a few tailgates and then to stand in line. It is going to be an amazing time, even if we do lose.

10/7/05

I received absolutely no sleep last night. But I did have a good time. Just watching people was worth going out. I also remembered why I hate rain so much. It is because you get wet. And when the weather is like it is now, you not only get wet, you become very cold. By the time I was done with work today, I was completely soaked, and miserable. I changed 4 times today, and now I REALLY need to do some laundry.

10/6/05

Today was one of those days. Everything that could have gone wrong did. I couldn’t sing right, the girl who cut my hair deserves to die a long horrible death, and I had auditions which didn’t go as well as I wanted them to. But I guess we all have those days. This one was just the ultimate bad one. Still, my friends Laura and Ty and I are going out tonight, so maybe it will get better.

10/5/05

Well, Wednesdays are as crazy as Mondays. I am amazed I survive those days of the week. Think about it, 1/7 of our lives are spent on Mondays. There is nothing worse, unless of course your Monday schedule is the same as your Wednesday. I did start two more routines today though. Jen and I go and get bagels and cream cheese everyday after calculus. And Kelley and I go to the creamery after Discantus, after 3 straight hours of singing, to get milkshakes, so we can sing again.

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9/29/05

While I look forward to singing in Chamber Singers every week, this rehearsal was a bit to be desired. I was still not too happy from the chemistry exam, but I figured that singing would cheer me up- it usually does. But no such luck today. The entire choir (all 16 of us) were just off today, and couldn't sing anything correctly. Tone was horrible, pitches were just not there, and even Dr. Kiver stopped us and said something about it. It was just horrible. Lets hope that tomorrow goes better, and that I am in a better mood.

The day is still not over though. I still have my four hour chem lab from 6:30-10:30 tonight. I hope that the play for Outlaws tonight is a comedy, because I could really use one right now.

9/28/05

Today was the day from hell. I had two exams and a quiz. I aced the quiz (or so I believe). But the exams were another story. I don't know what I recieved on my Economics exams, but I think I did okay. Perhaps a B or a C. The chemistry exam was another story. I will not reveil what I recieved, but it wasn't good. So my friend Katie and I had a good cry and took a nice walk all the way around campus. It still wasn't the best, and I seriously comtemplated changing my major. But I will just say that it was my first exam in college ever, and an overall grade of a B or C in Chem 12 will be acceptable. This is college, as I've been saying all week, and it is extrememly different from high school.

9/27/05

My first year seminar is becoming a bit tedious. I have fun because I have made some friends in the class, but honestly. The seminar is supposed to be about engineering. All types of engineering are explored and I took this course to make sure that Chemical Engineering is exactly what type of engineering I want to be doing. But today in class we learned how to do the factor label method. I don't know about the rest of you, though I know a few of you are engineering majors, but we learned how to do that in my freshman year of high school. The class, though only once a week, and one credit, is completely pointless.

9/26/05

Well, I have made it through another Monday. Barely. I realized that I have a ton of exams on wednesday. By a ton I mean two, but I still don't understand why all the exams have to take place on the same day. One would think that the professors of the classes where most of the freshmen are would converse. But I assume that this is merely my high school thinking. I need to just face the fact that this is totally different and much more difficult.

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9/25/05

I did FreshSTART yesterday, and it was so much fun! For those of you who don't know what that is; it was an all freshman community service day. What my team did, I really didn't consider community service. We went to a national park and cleared plants that had been imported by birds from Japan. Although I did not agree with what we were doing, I made some awesome friends. Kevin and Joe were really fun, and they will be joining the ultimate frisbee team that my friend Katie and I started. So all in all the day was very much worth it.

9/24/05

It would be so nice to get some sleep every once in a while. I have so much homework every night and people are having problems, so I usually don't even think about going to bed until around 12:30. I also have an 8 am every morning except for Thursdays, so essentially I am up at 7 every day. I think that sleeping would be a good idea.

9/22/05

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9/20/05

Remember how I said that I love Thursdays? Well I love Tuesdays just about the same amount. Only a little bit less because I have an 8am. But it is probably my favorite academic class this semester: calculus. Today in calculus was HORRIBLE though. Most of the class, if not all of it has taken atleast a pre-calculus class before. Today (thank God) we started derivatives. Call me insane (though my roommate and neighbor agree) derivatives are a lot of fun. They are actually really relaxing. But back to the reason that class was so bad. We were learning the rules of derivatives- product, sum, etc- and the professor decides that it would benefit us to derive every single rule. We spent 50 minutes deriving 3 rules instead of doing all the rules AND some practice problems. It was only entertaining because George, Jen and I decided that writing random sayings that our prof was saying would ammuse us. GO CALCULUS!

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9/15/05

I love Thursdays. There are only two classes in my schedule and the first doesn’t start until 11:15 so I have plenty of time to sleep in. So of course going to bed early on a Thursday after I got all that sleep first thing in the morning wasn’t an option. My friends and I went to go see a play which our friend Peter was in. It was performed in the basement of the Art Building, and they fit about 50 too many people in the audience. But I think that was what made the play special. It was absolutely hysterical and was about cereal mascots living together in a house – in a Real World type setting. So if anyone wants to go… it starts at 11:15 on Thursday nights in the basement of the Arts Building. Best part of all… it’s free entertainment.

9/14/05

I got to salsa dance tonight. It was a very entertaining experience. Never in my life have I been the best dancer. I concentrate too hard on the moves that I make, making my dancing look choppy and uncomfortable. But in salsa, that seemed okay and I did well. I learned a routine. Salsa is one of the most suggestive forms of dancing, and therefore was really fun to learn. The music is amazing, and the whole dance is based around 3 steps, with a ton of turns thrown in and throughout. I was sore afterwards, because I used muscles that hadn’t been used in while, but I was definitely worth it and I would like to try it again sometime.

9/12/05

I think that both debate and dialogue are forms of argument. Essentially every time one participates in dialogue they are using their opinion in their speech, therefore having an idea with things to support it. Debate is a very structured argument. It is also very different from dialogue though, in the fact that usually in debate, sides of an issue are given, not chosen. In dialogue, you support your own ideas and points. But in debate you support the side of the argument that you are told to.

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9/11/05

I remember this day my freshman year. I remember walking into 3rd period math in Mr. Bednar's class and someone yelling from across the hall, telling us to turn on the TV. I remember watching in horror as the second plane crashed into the towers, and as the towers crumpled to the ground. I remember when we first got the news that the Pentagon had been hit by a plane, and that somewhere near Somerset, another plane was being driven into the ground by the passengers in order to save other lives. But this year, it seems that people have forgotten. There ARE still people fighting in a distant country in a war that began over this day 4 years ago. I have friends risking their lives daily over it. And yet, on this, the anniversary of that day, no one holds a candle, or has a service in memory of. It's sad, for so many lives were lost on that day.

9/10/05

Revision of CaitSky's narrative

It was November 4, 2003, a beautiful day in Mars. The first of the snow, I remember it was a bit early that year, had just fallen that morning. I was walking to third period, and asked the person (a friend of mine) who was walking next to me where my friend Dominic was. They, with a confused look on their face (Dom never missed school) responded that they didn’t know. I didn’t think anything of it, and continued through my day.

As I left period 8/9, I saw a group of Dom’s friends standing in the hall, and some of them were crying. I immediately walked over and asked what was wrong. I knew that I had to be something with Dominic and I began to think the worst. A friend turned to me and told me that Dom’s brother Tom had died the night before. I gasped and grasped for the wall.

I had been with Tom the week before, in his basement, laughing as he tried to teach me how to play pool. He promised that, although I truly was horrible (mostly true, but sometimes I tried to be bad at it) he would teach me how to play and I would eventually be wonderful. We had sat in his garage, on the heated floor, and talked for a few hours that day, and he seemed like he had it all together. I guess sometimes you just never can tell.

I asked how it had happened. I was told two scenarios. No one knew for sure, but the overwhelming conclusion was that Tom had killed himself, hanging himself in his bathroom. Dominic, one of my best guy friends, had walked into the bathroom, looking for Tom because they were supposed to go out together. He found his brother hanging. The gruesome story was just too much. I burst into tears. This young boy, only 22 years old knew what he wanted to do with his life. He had future, and he chose to throw it all away. My mind just couldn’t understand it.

I had never been one for guidance counselors or psychologists, so I continued through my day, fighting as hard as I could to stop from thinking about it. I walked through the door of my house when I returned and lost it. I ran to my room and cried for hours. How could he do this to himself? To his brother? To me? Some very interesting poetry came out of that day, some of my best, but nothing very kind.

The next day at school was even harder, because everyone now knew, though they only told the school that Dom’s brother had died, not how. I didn’t see Dom until the funeral three days later. I stood at Tom’s funeral, my best friend and my mother beside me, and friends from school around, and began to think. I didn’t hear the euology or the readings. I thought of Tom, his life, his dreams, and I prayed to God for his soul. My sadness turned to anger, and as I sang the songs his family had chosen for the funeral, I began to sob. Not from sadness, no, for hatred. I looked at his mother, his father, and his brother standing in the front row, his girlfriend of 3 years standing behind them (we had all expected a proposal of marrage any day), and I hated Tom. What right did he have to hurt these people who I loved?

I’ve gotten over my hatred. I now still love Tom as much as I did before he died. I learned something from that hatred and Tom’s death in general though. Suicide is never an option, because too many people are hurt in the process. If I don’t love myself enough to live (though I love life more than anything) then I should have the courtesy to live for other people.

I wish I had gotten to tell Tom how I loved him before he left us and I wish that we had known something was going on. No one, not his family, his friends, or his girlfriend knew that he was going through anything. There was no outward depression, nothing that anyone could have done. My note to the rest of you, if you are going through something that is as drastic as this, know that people love you, and don’t leave them behind.

9/9/05

I realized today that I had never actually introduced myself in this blog, and for that I apologize. My name is Katie Jane Roth, and I am a second semester freshmen here at Penn State, majoring in Chemical Engineering with either a double major or a minor in Vocal Performance (singing). I LOVE PENN STATE! From the moment I walked onto this campus 3 years ago for my tour, I told my parents that this is where I was going to go, and here I am! I grew up in the very small town of Mars, Pennsylvania, and went to Mars Area High School. Since I figured out that this class is mostly Pittsburgh Pride! most of you probably know that Mars is an actual place. Though it was small, I had some wonderful teachers and really enjoyed my time there. I was extremely active in choirs and community service there, and hope to continue that here. My parents are Jane and Bill Roth. Jane is the tax collector for Middlesex Township, and Bill is a telephone repairman for North Pittsburgh Telephone Company. I also have a little sister, Jennifer, who is a junior in high school, and who will (hopefully) be attending Penn State in two years with a degree in criminal justice. I have a 6 year old chocolate laborador named Chase Manhattan. If there is anything that you would like to know about me that was not included here, please leave me a note and let me know!

9/8/05

Yesterday was a lot of fun, just because I got to see more people from summer. Just to let all of you know, coming to summer session was one of the best things I ever did. I absolutely loved it, met some of my very best friends, and got to know the campus really well. It was also really nice just to be relaxed, and only take two classes. Six credits for a whole summer might not seem like a lot, but it is only a 6 week session compared to the about 10 one we are in now. It is accelerated and you have class everyday, but you get to know you prof better because classes are smaller, and you get to kno your classmates really well. Moral of the story, come to summer session if you aren't interning this summer.

9/7/05

Went out with my summer friends and my roommate tonight. We just went to a lounge, got some tea, and ended up seeing the 40 year old virgin. I figured that I would hate that movie, and go figure, I did. It was truly comparable with Anchorman, another movie I hated. It's just not my type of humor. Oh well, everyone else that I went with thoroughly enjoyed it.

9/5/05

I wrote this for my seminar, and said to myself...why not post it here too.

Engineering is the combination of math and science to fix the world. It is creating, inventing, changing; all to make the world a better place, and enhance what we already have. There are varied types, touching all parts of industry, people, and the environment. With the wave of technology going as it is right now, engineers are the wave of the future. In generations those in the field of engineering will solve some of the world’s hardest and most pressing problems. The cures to cancer and AIDS will be discovered, computers will run the most intricate of processes, and planes, trains, and automobiles will be renovated to better suit people and the environment.

Now as to the reason that I chose this amazing field of study. I will start with the most obvious and most common answer; I’ve always been good at math and science, especially chemistry, and wanted a career that combines the two. I truly, at one point and time, have thought about majoring in everything. When I was young, my goal was to one day become a mail-lady. I then wanted to be a tax-collector (with a major in accounting) just like my mother. The next few years after that, my career choices flew. I wanted to save the rainforest, be a professional singer (well… some things I guess you never lose), major in agriculture, forensic pathology, be a doctor, teach piano, even to become a forest ranger. You name it, I probably thought about it as a career. And then my sophomore year, while I was still very much into the whole forensic pathology phase, I took both a chemistry class and an anatomy/physiology class. I hated anatomy. But chemistry was fun. It wasn’t what I was the best at, I had to work hard to be good, but it was extremely rewarding. At that point, after vast amounts of research, the same career kept coming into my mind: Chemical Engineering. It combined my math and my science, but would let me help people as well. I could become a research scientist, working in a lab to find cures. After quite a bit of deliberation I decided that was it. I would become an engineer, and Penn State would allow me the bioprocess option, letting me do exactly what I wanted to do 2 years ago. Sorry for the lengthy story, but the actual telling of why takes a little while.

9/4/05

Well I waited a little long to update, but it has been a crazy week. My current dilemma is trying to figure out what my friends think that I can do about their problems. Not that I'm not more than willing to listen and to comment, especially when it has to do with relationships, because that was always my position at home. But in all honesty, what am I supposed to do when my friend calls me at 2:30 in the morning, drunk, and tells me that she has no idea where she is. That friend of course is at the other end of the state, if not across the country. There is no way for me to be like, stay where you are, i'll come and get you. Because doing that would involve a 4 hour drive. It's a very worrisome ordeal.

I do believe that the relationship problems are the worst. I am in no way, shape, or form qualified to give any of the advice I do, but, as it happened like 5 minutes ago, when one of your closest friends from home says "like I know we can't date, but what do you think we should do?", what else is there to do? I comment, give what I would do in the situation, but it's not my job to control this girl's or that guy's life. I have my own problems, but along with my load of classwork, two choirs, parties (when I can fit them in), singing at mass, WEP, SWE, and Navs I feel as though I have to also solve everyone else's.

9/1/05

So, since I really have nothing better to write about, I will discuss something that started to irk me during Econ class yesterday. It's the simple matter of sitting down in a lecture hall. Maybe it is just the engineer inside of me, but doesn't it make more sense to file to the middle of the row of seats when you are the first person there instead of sitting on the end? It would solve so many problems.

I mean, who really wants to stand up to let someone slide past them into the row as the auditorium fills up? Doing this, if exercise is a problem for you, actually causes you to do more work because you are forced to move your table top and stand up to let that person squeeze past you. It is so much easier to just sit in the middle originally have have people sit down next to you. Not only that, but for those people who arrive late to class, it would be so much simpler to just see a seat at the end of an aisle, and just sit there, rather than searching the crowd for an empty seat in the middle of one.

So my advice for everyone, which will hopefully change how things are done, is to sit in the middle of the aisle when you arrive to a large class. Thank you.

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