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Page history last edited by PBworks 18 years, 3 months ago
August 31, 2005

 

Mmm... What I'd do for a Grilled Cheese right about now... The grilled Cheese Sandwich that is in my mind right now is one of those picture perfect ones that you'll never find. It is golden brown and nice and crispy, it even has those grill lines on it... The cheese just perfect screaming "EAT ME!"

Wow, my first blogg I always told myself that I'll never be one of those people that write down what they did or how they sat around and were depressed all day so they decided to tell everyone about it on their online journal. But as of now I have no choice... So, I guess I should start off by saying my name is Dave and live in Shunk hall. My major is Mechanical Engineering, not because I want to be an Engineer or anything... It's just the only way that it might be possible for me to work for a car company and test drive cars. That's all I want to do... If that doesn't work out I'll still be an Engineer, so whatever.

I ate in the West Commons for the first time today, and wow, people in Pollock are getting screwed over. We've got like Tator tots and Chicken Fingers, they have there choice of Chinese, Pasta, or steak. And it still amazes me how freshman who live in East gain alot of weight when they've got the the worst food and the farthest to walk to classes. It must be a combination of the Creamery Ice cream and the Beer. And it's only a matter of time before the girls are coming to classes smelling of condoms and beer and the guys coming to classes reeking of cologne.

 

September 1, 2005

 

It's General Tso's Chicken Time! Wow, when I woke up this morning I was thinking I’m kind of in the mood for Chinese food. Sure enough Pollock Commons came through with the General Tso’s Chicken. I said Screw limiting myself… I’m going all out. I went through the line and asked “Can I have a full plate of rice and general tso’s chicken.” I got half a plate! ...I was pissed, I got the rest of my food, sat it down and walked though the line again… yeah, this time they gave me the full plate. I ended up eating a plate of general tso’s chicken, a half plate of general tso’s chicken ( the rest of the plate filled with the pasta), a bowl of beef noodle soup, two grilled chicken breasts, and bowl of jell-o. Now that’s a feeling of satisfaction.

Is it wrong that I have a girl that I can’t stop thinking about? ...What if I’ve never met the girl? ...Yeah, I know kind of weird but I’ve seen this girl this girl twice and was amazed every time. It’s not just that she is beautiful, because plenty of girls at Penn State are, but she has the coolest eyes I’ve ever seen. Something about that just makes me want to at least meet her, because I feel that if I didn’t I’d be missing out on something. Damn it, I just realized that she could just have colored contacts. Now that just ruins the entire thing, but now there’s even more of a want to meet her and find out if that’s really her natural eye color. If anyone knows who this girl is let me know if it’s real or not before I make an ass out of myself trying to meet her. I will leave whoever is reading this with a quote: “Lloyd Christmas: When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her. Harry Dunne: That's a special feeling.”

 

September 2, 2005

 

Well, Today I started off my day by stumbling down the hall at 3 in the morning trying to find the bathroom to take a piss. Then tried to go back to bed, but ended up laying in bed awake waiting for my alarm clock to go off. What a great way to start a day off. I couldn’t eat breakfast this morning because I was still feeling full from eating so much last night. That reminds me of one of my friends that went to beach week with me. He woke up the one morning and was still drunk from the night before, he didn’t sober up until about 2 pm that day. He told me “I was so scared, I thought I’d be drunk forever.” Haha…now that’s funny.

I think I have a problem with eating to much, or maybe just not knowing when to stop. Yesterday when I ate all of that food I didn’t feel full after it all, I still was hungry for more. I mean I felt my stomach pushing out, but the rest of my body was saying …Mmm how about another sandwich. I’m fairly skinny, but eating like this 3 times a day is making me paranoid that I’m going to end up gaining 20lbs by the end of the semester. Anyways… I’m excited about the Penn State game and then to have Monday off too… That’s almost too much fun for one weekend.

 

September 5, 2005

 

This weekend I spent some time thinking of what I could possibly write my self narrative on. I was thinking of past events that would be exciting enough to take up 2 pages. After one crazy night I decided I had to write my self narrative about that. I only had enough room to fit the high points of what happened that night, which may have been for the best. Although I would’ve liked to tell about the two fights that nearly broke out when the beer was taken inside and people were told that it was gone and they should go home.

The Penn State game was awesome, I was in the student section right in the middle of the huge S. I always wondered how they got people to form the S, now I know they just give out different colored shirts for everyone to wear. Free T-shirt!

Today I have officially gone on a diet that I will not keep. I’m not going to limit the amount I eat. I’m just going to change what it is that I eat. I figure I can still eat lots of food just so it’s good for me. So in a sense I’m still going to be overeating but it just won’t be so bad for me. Hey, it sounds good in my head so that’s what I’m going to do.

 

September 6, 2005

 

Yesterday I was sitting in my dorm just doing some homework and I started to hear some really loud music from outside my window. I was thinking wow, that’s a really loud sound system for a dorm room. After listening for a while I was convinced that it wasn’t someone’s sound system and there had to be some kind of band somewhere. I said screw the homework and went outside to explore the music. I followed it all the way down to the South Dorms where I discovered a band called Cool Ethan. Then I noticed a huge table of food, I looked around and didn’t see anyone paying. I grabbed a plate and jumped in line, after talking to the guy in front of me I realized that the South Dorms were having a beach party type thing. I probably wasn’t suppose to be there but that food tasted so good knowing that it was free and wasn’t for me. Then I called some friends that lived in Pollock in hung out ate some more free food and listen to some music. The Band Cool Ethan was really good they played covers from almost all of my favorite bands. Mmm… Free.

 

September 7, 2005

 

Maybe it’s just me but I think that there is entirely too many blondes at Penn State. Everywhere I look I see girls with blonde hair… I’m not against blonde hair, it’s just that it wasn’t always this way. But now it seems like everyone is trying to look like Barbie or something and bleaching their hair blonde. Oh and something else that’s really bothering me… Girls that wear those HUGE ugly sunglasses, what are they thinking? The only reasoning that I could come up with is that Famous people that are trying to go out with out being recognized by the public wear those huge sunglasses and try to look ugly. Girls this is not what you should copy, it’s not the next fashion trend handed down from the famous. They do this to try to not look like the famous star that they are. And if girls are wearing the glasses because they just don’t feel like taking the time to put on make-up and they don’t want to look ugly… I would suggest a paper bag for them to put over their head, because the Sunglasses are the worst choice you could make. And while I’m on this rant I might as well just put it all out on the table. I’ve seen the worst combination of turn offs all at the same time by a huge number of girls. Sweat pants, Huge Sunglasses, and Smoking… Some girls must actually think it’s attractive or make them look hot in that lazy way or have some reason for it. If anyone knows why, please let me know, because I’ll always wonder about that.

 

September 8, 2005

 

Last night for some reason I can’t remember I was on eBay searching for something. I ended up seeing these little motorcycles called Pocket Bikes. I liked them so much I bid on three different ones. It never occurred to me until this morning that I could end up with three motorcycles. I was winning the auction for all three bikes until late today when someone out bid me for one of them. It was my least favorite bike luckily. This got my mind thinking and so excited to ride one these things around. After doing some research I realized that with some bolt on parts these things can go 60 mph. The more I think about it the more insane I realize it would be to be going 60 mph on something so small.

I’ve always wanted to buy a motorcycle, but my parents are completely against the idea. I had a plan to sell my car and buy a motorcycle while I was at Penn State because my parents who use to live a few miles away from Penn State moved to Pittsburgh. My plan was going great until my brother decided to tell my parents I was thinking about buying a bike. I got a call from my father saying that if he finds out that I bought a motorcycle that I can forget about him paying my tuition. So, a motorcycle was out of the question, but a pocket bike… it’s not a motorcycle, but still should give me some thrill and be small enough that I an keep it in my dorm room. Haha… Cheers Mate!

 

September 9, 2005

 

It’s Friday night and I’m sad to say I don’t think I’m going out to party tonight. Tomorrow is going to be taken up almost entirely by the game and then I’ll probably want to go out and celebrate our WIN tomorrow night. Last night I didn’t go out to party, but I didn’t get much sleep either. I went to bed late and woke up around 4:30, then managed to sleep for another hour or two before waking up again. I don’t know why I’ve been having so much trouble sleeping, probably because I’ve got so much stuff on my mind. I don’t know if anyone else ever has this problem, but sometimes when I lay down to try to go to sleep I just start thinking of things. The harder I try to think of nothing the more things start popping into my head. I can never remember how I got to sleep or what I was thinking about when I’m lying awake. I find that I can get to sleep if I work out and am exhausted and just drop over or if I’m drunk and just drop over. Other than that I’m thinking, thinking probably about how I’d like to sleep. I’m sure I think of other stuff like what’s going on in my life and what I hope to do in the future. I need some sleep.

 

September 12, 2005

 

I was just pranked by a robot on IM. It got me pretty good. My friend from down the hall admitted to doing it and told me about it. I am now addicted and am currently pranking 5 other friends as I type. Go to imprank.ebaumsworld.com and fill out the stuff and then wait until it is done talking to your friend. That was my laugh of the afternoon. It turns out that I won both motorcycles on eBay and one is already being shipped. I am extremely excited for this. In High School I worked on my car every weekend and I have been having withdraw not being able to work on anything. This should hold me off for a while. I’ve already found performance parts and modifications that I can do. I plan on rigging a NOS tank to my motorcycle using a CO2 tank from paintball. I’m also planning on adding a 4 speed kick shift transmission, should be a challenge since no one makes one for the bike and the bike is so small to begin with. Well I’m off to Wal-mart to buy a helmet and knee pads for when I wreck. Wish me luck

 

September 13, 2005

 

Last night everyone on my floor was watching the Eagles game as I was attempting to read my Chemistry book and do the homework. A lot of people were drinking while watching the game but there was a kid that was walking around holding a beer in the hall. That was one of the dumbest things you can do in a dorm when you’re drinking and trying not to get caught. Sure enough a RA from another building came up to our floor to walk around. The guys saw her and invited her in because they said she was hot. Then she saw all of the alcohol and they got busted for drinking. So the lesson here is one don’t walk around in the open with alcohol and second don’t invite an RA into your room when you’re drinking, even if she is hot.

A girl came into my room last night and asked me for a massage, I said sure because she was kind of hot. After massaging her back for a while she asked me if I would massage her butt. That took me by surprise, I believe it was the first time a girl had ever asked me to massage her butt and was serious about it. I guess all of the muscles in her legs were sore from horse back riding all day trying out for the jumping team. I ended up massaging her legs, then back up to her back when the RA came to my door and told us to turn our music down. You should have seen her facial expression when she walked in and thought she had walked in on a sexual act. Haha…maybe next time she’ll think twice about walking into our room.

 

September 14, 2005

 

Last night I did something that I’ve been kicking myself for ever since. I got an IM and opened the link in it with out even really thinking about it. Yes, it was a virus and yes the virus is still on my computer. Luckily my roommate has two computers so I get to use one of his until I get mine fixed. Usually when you get a virus you just run a virus scan and it removes it. I have it so much worse, I have Trojan. This is a virus that acts like a parasite that attaches it self to anything it can and it was programmed to shut down my computer as soon as I open any virus scanning programs. My computer would also restart every 3 or 4 minutes making it kind of hard to get anything done in the way of removing a virus. After hours last night and a few hours today I think I have almost the entire virus off of my computer. Although the virus left some damage, most of my programs have to be reinstalled and most options on my computer have to be reconfigured.

But on a good note my first pocket bike arrives tomorrow, I have to say I’m excited. Not only to ride it but to start modifying the bike. I’d rather work on something like a car or a bike rather than go out and get drunk any night. That’s got to say something about me.

 

 

September 15, 2005

 

Last night I decided to drink with my roommate, because a good friend doesn’t let your roommate drink alone. And of course I didn’t have class until 1:25 today. But last night I did something I probably shouldn’t have, I talked to my ex girlfriend. That was my first mistake, my second mistake was telling her what I really thought. Although I did hold back from calling her fat and making fun of her because she has a boyfriend that 27 when she is only 18. She went as far as telling me that I was lonely for telling her everything. I will never take advice or criticism from her since her life in my eyes is horrible. She doesn’t really talk to her parents which led to her having emotional problems which led to her smoking pot everyday which led to her getting fat which then led to her dating a 27 year old guy. In my head you’ve got to be a complete loser if you’re 27 and you started dating a girl that was in high school. I mean wow, I’m surprised he still doesn’t live with his parents. Enough on that.

I decided that I can make a good situation out of any problems that I’m given. For instance, my motorcycle was delivered but I can’t get it because it’s on the bottom of the pile and they haven’t sorted it yet. I turned it around looked at it by saying if I would’ve gotten that motorcycle then, then I wouldn’t have been able to do my chemistry homework before class because I would’ve wanted to ride my motorcycle. All problems can be looked at in different ways, then you’re asking yourself… are these really problems at all? It is a problem if you let it be a problem… It’s all in your head. So to the people out there who think that they’re so messed up and have problems… Keep taking your pills.

 

September 16, 2005

 

Yesterday I was a good day. I finally got my motorcycles, the feeling I had was better than any Christmas morning. Then came assembly, my room mate is the kind of person who just rips stuff open throws it together and wants to use it right away. I am a bit more careful wanting to open it carefully not to damage the bike or lose any pieces. I started to get irritated when he started ripping open and unpacking the second bike when I was still getting the first one out. That kid has got to have ADD or something. Even when he’s in my car he’s always messing with something whether it’s putting the windows up and down or messing with the buttons on my dashboard. I was so happy when him and my friend left to go get gas for the bike, it gave me time to set up the bike and be sure that nothing is going to fall off after the first ride. They came back and we were good to go. By that time I had a crowd of people on my floor eagerly awaiting this miniature bike to see what it could do. I carefully filled the gas tank spilling gas all over my hand. I tried starting the bike three times, then realized that I had the kill switch flipped. I tried once more and the engine came roaring to life. I was surprised by the deep rumble that came from the exhaust. I jumped on the bike and rode away. The bike is slow starting off but then quickly picks up speed until you it becomes fast enough that you don’t want to move an inch fearing you’ll lose control. Incase you were wondering, yes I did wreck the bike and yes I was bleeding. After a few fixes the bike will be ready to go again. I plan to video tape my next wreck so that I can have something to laugh about while I’m healing.

 

September 19, 2005

 

My weekend consisted of Homework, Game, Then more homework. I guess I just have to get use to the fact that I’m not going to be able to go out all the time like other people can. Someone told me that it doesn’t matter what your major is you’re just taking General Education classes right now so you have no excuse. She was right that I am only taking General Education classes right now and am not taking any Engineering classes yet, but her general education classes didn’t include, math 140 or chem 12, so I didn’t want to hear it. My math teacher just writes random crap on the bored and doesn’t do a very good job of explaining anything. And my chem class I have been teaching to myself by reading the book and asking other people because my teacher is that bad. I hope I’m able to keep up with the work load for now and in the future. I guess time will tell.

 

September 20, 2005

 

I read and added comments to GoodFoodDefinition

 

 

September 22, 2005

 

GratePhish: hey my name is mitch im in ur english class, can u tell me how to edit someones thing

BLUTO360: I couldn't figure out how he did the italics

GratePhish: ya but how do u even get in someone elses shit

BLUTO360: you just click on there blogg, go to there definition paper, then click edit in the top left corner

BLUTO360: then i just did type your comment

BLUTO360: and it makes it bold

GratePhish: it asks for their wiki password

BLUTO360: WeArePSU

GratePhish: ooo alright

GratePhish: thanks man

BLUTO360: no problem

My IM conversation about the paper.

 

September 23, 2005

 

Today might have been one of the worst days that I’ve ever had. Last night I was sick and took some stuff for my cough and sore throat. I didn’t feel it working after like a half an hour so I took more. The feeling I got was the feeling of intoxication. When I finally decided to go to sleep I just crashed and instead of falling asleep I fell into a state of numbness. I couldn’t fall asleep and had to keep moving because my body just had a weird feeling like it was numb all over. In the morning my day wasn’t bad until I started drinking Ice Tea. I almost never drink caffeine so that when I do it really hits me. After English I had math class where I took a quiz, I was so nervous and hyper that I couldn’t think. None of the problems were working out and I started to panic because I was running out of time. Then to make it worse my friend called my phone 4 times in a row when it was on vibrate to make me lose any thought that I might have had. My fingers are crossed for getting any points at all on that quiz. I’m still sick, I have so much homework and studying to do, but hey things could be worse.

 

September 26, 2005

 

I’m glad I survived the weekend full of studying and sickness. I’m feeling much better now, but I’m not quite over what I have yet. I’ve been doing a lot of revising and editing on my paper, hoping to get a better grade than my last one, or at least get a bad grade for better reasons. This week is going to be rough with two exams on Wednesday and another math quiz on Friday. Sometimes it sucks when it feels like I’m the only one doing homework or studying. Everyone with Business or communication majors are out partying during school nights and I can’t even free up one night during the weekend. But as always say it’s going to pay off in the end when they are the manager of some store in the mall and I’m a Mechanical Engineer working for a major car company.

 

September 27, 2005

 

I love the rain, but what I love even more is going for a run in the rain or right after it rains. I decided to go for a run last night because the temperature and humidity was perfect. It was going to be a great run until I fell. Note to self, metal grates are slippery when wet. My feet slid out from under me and I ended up busting my chin open and ripping a chuck out of me knee. I was mad because this happened at the beginning of our run and it was so nice out. I was mad enough to get up and finish running the 2 miles. My friend told me the bleeding wasn’t that bad so I wasn’t worried about it. When I got back to my dorm, got into the light, and looked in the mirror I saw that my shirt had blood all over it, and I had blood running down my leg. The shirt looks cool enough that I’m debating whether I should wash it or not. When I was walking around the halls someone saw me all bloody and asked what happened. I said “If you think I look bad, you should’ve seen the other guy.”

 

September 28, 2005

 

Today has been a great day so far. I got plenty of sleep so I felt rested. It was cold out meaning the ragweed is dying and my allergies are starting to go away. I felt fairly confident about my two exams that had that day. Right now it is 3:30; I finished my sociology exam and feel pretty good about it. I am studying for my chemistry exam at the moment. To tell you the truth I’m excited about tonight’s dinner. It’s the X-Games dinner, with the EXTREME roast beef sandwich and EXTREME jell-o or something. It doesn’t matter because I’m always excited about eating and if they say it’s extreme then that’s something to be excited about. Well it’s back to studying for now, I’m sure I’ll post how I did on my exams when I find out.

 

September 29, 2005

 

Last night the EXTRME roast beef may have been a little bit too extreme for me. I was impressed at how much effort they put into this X-games theme for dinner. The extreme Slaw was extremely bad, the extreme roast beef sandwich was like an entire steak on a bun. When you’re just entering they had Sobe, a extreme drink for everyone. It either had lots of sugar or caffeine, possibly both, because during my chemistry test I sat shaking. Caffeine tends to hit me pretty hard and when you’re taking a test, the last thing you want to be is giddy. So I’m blaming the extreme dinner for the results of my chemistry test. It’s just starting to sink in that my four years here are going to be rough and if I plan to do well at college I must be willing to put in the hours of tedious studying.

 

 

October 2, 2005

 

Life is like a dream. Life is like a dream because dreams use people and things that you’ve done and seen before in your life. Life is like a dream because dreams are something that happen during your life. Life is not like a dream because dreams contain things like flying, falling off of a building and living, and things that aren’t possible in real life. Life is not like a dream because you can not plan a dream. Life is not like a dream because life has progression while dreams are random. For Life to be like a dream to be true, your dreams must resemble life in some way. The hidden meaning is that in order for life to be like a dream either your life is exotic and random, or that your dream is very life like and realistic. Life is not like a dream because one is actual things that happen the other is your imagination at work. Life and your dreams may be similar at times, but your dreams far exceed the things that you are capable of doing in life. Things that you do in a dream have no consequences while things you do in life obviously do. The things you do in life will affect the outcome, while dreams you can die in a dream and then the next day have another dream where you’re fine again. Life is not like a dream.

 

 

October 3, 2005

 

Today I was shocked when I found out that I had to have a paper written by Tuesday night. Some might think, oh well you have two days to write that paper, you should be able to easily do that. It isn’t that easy when you have hours of homework from all of your other classes also, as well as several more hours of studying for two up coming exams. Not only does this paper have to be written very shortly, if it doesn’t follow this analogy theme the exact way our teacher wants it, we might as well just not write the paper. Yes I know that we have been talking about this paper for a week, but we couldn’t get started on the paper until today, because no one knew what the paper was exactly supposed to be about until today. This paper is going to be so difficult for me to write because of the time crunch and stress level that I’m at currently.

 

October 5, 2005

 

I guess I’m kind of a Pocket Bike Dealer now. A while ago I bought two pocket bikes accidentally and I decided to keep one and try to sell the other one. I was having trouble selling it until I put it on StateCollege.com. I sold the bike the next day. I kept the add on there and have gotten at least one e-mail a day about the pocket bikes. This could turn out very good for me. Or I could order a bunch of pocket bikes and get stuck with them. I’m hoping they sell like I think they will. Pocket Bike anyone?

 

October 6, 2005

 

Well again I got another e-mail saying they want to buy a pocket bike, but the time period in which I can sell them is rapidly decreasing. As soon as it’s winter, no one is going to want to buy a bike that they can’t ride for a few months. Tomorrow I have a full day’s schedule then it’s the weekend! The Ohio state game should be pretty crazy. I really hope Penn State wins because it’s going to be televised and they’re going to see all of the students rush the field and try to run by the cops. The cops all have these huge cans of tear gas for crowd control, but that’ll only work for the first 50 people. After that they might as well just join in trying to push down the goal post.

 

 

October 7, 2005

 

The excitement is building, the game is only hours away. Last night we went to Damon’s for wing night with a few friends. My friends decided to drink since it was Thursday and I got to drive. Of course the waiter knew my friends were drunk as soon as he came up but he was a cool guy with a Mohawk. After we came back we decided to watch the family guy movie. People came into our room, then more and more people just randomly arrived. We had 12 people in our room watching the movie until it froze up and stopped. Then half of them left and we started another movie, fight club. I tried not to fall asleep because Michelle a girl that I’m starting to like was there. She’s a girl that is hard to read, I think she likes me but she likes to play hard to get and not lead people on. I ended up falling asleep half way through and woke up at the end, but they people had already left. I had plans to walk her back to her dorm in East.

 

October 10, 2005

 

Causal argument

Some PSU freshmen drop out because of a sudden gain of freedom. Freshmen at PSU drop out not because of too much school work, but from not being able to control themselves. In high school students stay in school and usually do well because their parents control a large portion of their lives. Once a student is in college and is no longer living under their control then they are free. This is what gets the students in trouble, having too much freedom. At PSU you can party and drink every night of the week, most students do not because they have some control over themselves. They are able to make smart decisions for them selves and limit the amount they party or fun they have in order to get the things done that they need to do. This problem is almost always with freshmen initially until they understand the amount of work that is expected from them. Once students are able to limit their freedom themselves they have a much better chance of succeeding in school. The sudden gain of freedom causes PSU freshman to drop out.

 

October 11, 2005

 

Causal argument #2

Thesis: Freshman do poorly on math exams because they under estimate the amount of preparation they need. Expination Many freshman do poorly on math exams especially their first one for each class because they are use to the tests in high school where you could do the homework and not study and still end up with a good grade. High school go you use to doing a practice work sheet the day before the test that has all of the problems on it but just with different numbers. College has problems that you’ve never seen before expecting you to use the different concepts that you’ve learned previously to solve the problem. They really test your understanding of the concepts and push you to be able to solve problems with the tools you have learned instead of memorizing the steps to complete a specific problem. Freshman must be willing to put in the extra hours of studying to be able to fully understand the concepts before sitting down to take an exam. This is not high school anymore, you must over estimate on studying to survive here.

Countrer-arguements: Different people have different needs in studying. Class size.

 

October 12, 2005

 

Causal argument review of JeN14Blogs

Thesis: Teen smoking will cause health problems later.

Arguments: Smoking is bad for you, teens start up because of parents, friends and peer pressure. Kids just want to fit in a feel cool so they smoke. Teen smoking is a huge problem because they get addicted at an early age, then it is so hard to quit.

Counter Argument: Smoking is not a problem unless you are directly affect by it, it is their life to waste not yours. Smoking calms some people down and makes them who they are. It is considered a right of passage into adulthood when you are a teen. It is the persons decision to smoke or not smoke.

 

October 13, 2005

 

Causal argument # 3

The 11pm curfew for junior driver’s licenses saves lives. By keeping young drivers off the road after 11 pm it may save their life. This keeps young drivers from possibly falling asleep at the wheel or from coming home in the middle of the night after a party. Most drunk drivers are also on the road after 11 pm. Young drivers are not as experienced in defensive driving meaning watching out for unusual driving characteristics. A counter argument is that some accidents are caused by teens racing home trying to make it home before 11pm. But I believe it saves more lives than it hurts.

 

 

 

October 14, 2005

 

 

 

Causal argument #4

Studying causes students to do better on exams in college. By studying a student reviews the material that could possibly be on the exam to make sure it is fresh in their mind. They also go through the material and clear up anything that they might not have fully understood. This will help you succeed on exams by allowing you to fully understand the concepts to be able to answer and fully explain harder problems. A counter argument might be that if you don’t understand the material, looking over it again isn’t going to help you. Yet, studying before an exam is proven help and is recommended by all.

 

 

October 17, 2005

 

Stigmergy

In a society individuals work as if they were alone or nobody was standing over their shoulder watching them. But they are all together working for something much greater. There is not real form of communication but things are still communicated and understood. If something needs to be done or built they group together and accomplish the task. Each worker has their own tasks to do for the whole but when something needs to be done the workers can change tasks and roles to accomplish a task. When Stigmergy is defined in this way then it directly relates to humans in society, they do what they have to survive and work for the greater good of society.

 

October 18, 2005

 

Evaluative Arugment

http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/impreza_wrx_sti.asp

The 2006 Subaru WRX STI is a performance car. It is a performance car because it contains a 300 horsepower turbocharged 4 cylinder. It also has a manual intercooler sprayer for use to cool the intercooler during high performance driving. The STI also has a 6 speed manual transmission mated with the powerful engine. The car is also equipped with Subaru’s famous all wheel drive system for maximum traction control. The car is used for rally car racing.

I believe that this argument proves that it is a performance car.

 

October 19, 2005

 

Ionic Breeze® Quadra® 3.0 air purifier isn’t quiet, it’s silent! Cleans and circulates air electronically without a noisy fan!

World's first and only air purifier that cleans and circulates air electronically in total silence.

Proven effective room air purifier is totally silent.

Circulates air electronically, without a motor or fan.

Traps airborne pollutants on stainless steel blades.

No filters to buy or replace. Rinse or wipe blades clean.

Neutralizes household odors.

Cleans 24 hours a day on just 6 watts.

Attractive, lightweight housing.

 

The Ionic breeze claims to be an amazing purifier that will circulate and clean your air without fans. They say that it’s silent and implying that all other brands use fans and are noisy. They make a good argument saying that it is very energy efficient, silent, and smaller than the other brand and may still do a better job. They don’t use any statistics or any proven results to prove that it even works or can compare with others making for a good counterargument. They do not explain how it works creating confusion and doubt in a consumers mind. This is an OK argument but there is a lot of counterarguments for their few arguments.

 

October 20, 2005

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078841.stm

Smoking is bad for your brain.

Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh looked at how the cognitive abilities of smokers and non-smokers changed over time. They found smokers performed significantly worse in five separate tests. On this occasion they underwent tests to evaluate their non-verbal reasoning, memory and learning, how quickly they processed information, decisions about how to act in particular circumstances and construction tasks. Current or former smokers were found to perform less well in the tests even after factors such as childhood IQ, education, occupation and alcohol consumption were taken into account. The effect appeared to be stronger in current smokers according to the study. "Contrary to what many people commonly believe - that smoking may help brain function, it is in fact more likely to wreak havoc with brain cells and IQ. “Any teenager tempted to smoke should heed the message that it really is dumb to take up this noxious habit."

 

I’ve always thought that smoking was dumb and now it was proven that people that smoke are dumb. This article proved that smoking is not only bad for your body, but for your brain. People who smoke have slower response, process, and decision times from those who don’t smoke at all. This slowing of response times could be considered and impairment in judgment. Almost like drinking and driving, but not as severe. So by smoking we are doing absolutely nothing good for ourselves and only destroying our body. Why do we continue to do this to ourselves?

 

October 21, 20005

 

The special assignement for friday can be found at SammichManSaltLakeCity

 

October 24, 2005

 

I guess our next paper is going to be a review of a song or a movie. I’m pretty sure that I’m going to write a review on a movie, but I’m having trouble deciding on what movie I should write about. There are a lot of good movies out there, but I’m not sure if I should really write a good review about a movie. I might be easier if I wrote a review on a movie that was horrible, that way I can pick it apart and warn people that it’s not worth your time to watch this movie. The next step is to find a movie so horrible that I would enjoy writing a review about. Possibly a realistic comedy, a movie that is so unrealistic that it is funny. An example might be cliffhanger when Stallone jumps up 10 feet vertically and pulls himself up with one arm. I’ll have to do some research before choosing a movie for this paper.

 

October 25, 2005

 

It’s October and it is snowing. No, I’m serious look outside. I’m mad because I’ve got a Chemistry test to study for so I can’t go play in the snow. And I brought my car up, but I didn’t put on my snow tires yet. I was planning on putting them on during thanksgiving, because c’mon it never snows in October. Maybe If I study all day I can waste and hour trying to make an igloo in the snow. Oh and if I made a good igloo I could study in there, so it wouldn’t be a complete waste of time. Wow, this Snowing in October thing should happen more often. It’s time to go steal lunch trays and go sled riding!

 

 

October 26, 2005

 

Today we went over how to do movie reviews in class. The class was hot and uncomfortable as usual. Today I found out that after I finish taking two exams today I have to start writing a paper that I have to have written by Friday morning! Yeah, it sounds like plenty of time, maybe if English was my only class and I didn’t have two exams to study for today. I now have 4 math assignments that are due on Friday, this paper, Chemistry homework, a presentation to start, and Chemistry 6 all for Thursday as well as go to my classes on Thursday. There goes having an hour of break just to relax after taking two exams. This sucks.

 

 

October 27, 2005

 

I’ve found out that there is no where in a 3 mile radius of Penn State to park your car for free. I brought my car up and wondered around for 45 minutes going on all the back streets I could think of trying to find a place that I could park my car that I wouldn’t get towed. They have every single side street and back street posted with signs saying you’ll be towed if you park here, or private parking. I finally gave up attempted to hide my car on a back street hoping that when I go back to it won’t have a ticket or be towed. Other than that I think I’ve decided that I’ll write my movie review on the movie Rounders. I love that movie so I won’t mind watching it again to write a review on it. I may have to write the review with out watching the movie again because of the crazy amount of work I have to do today.

 

October 28, 2005

 

I’m feeling so much better after getting my grades back from my Chem and Soc exam and finding out that I didn’t fail either of them. This gives me new hope for Penn State; with the right preparation anything is possible. I’ve done better on all my exams since I’ve stopped going out drinking on the weekends. I’ve actually had about the same amount of fun or more than if I would’ve gone out drinking. This weekend the drinking may be unavoidable considering that Phil Fest is in full swing. Our floor is having a 4 day party and it’s called Phil Fest because our friend Phil shattered his wrist months ago and had to have metal pins sticking out of his arm up until Wednesday. We decided to dedicate this weekend to him, there are multiple people that have pledged to have alcohol in their systems from 7 PM Thursday night until Sunday morning at 7 AM. This should be interesting.

 

October 31, 2005

 

BLUTO360: So, does anyone have any interests on the topic of the final?

K2 Boarder1409: I thought childhood obesity was an easy topic to write about and its kind of interesting i dunno

BLUTO360: that could work... I hate fat people

K2 Boarder1409: lol nice

K2 Boarder1409: wat else?

BLUTO360: I was thinking the future of alternate fuel vehicles, but that sounds like more effort than saying kids should lose weight

K2 Boarder1409: lol

K2 Boarder1409: thats a good topic though

jdbabexoxo: yeah

jdbabexoxo: how are we going to devide the work

BLUTO360: which one? cars or fat kids?

BLUTO360: we could split it up like the causes, the risk, and the benefits

K2 Boarder1409: i think we all write separate paper

K2 Boarder1409: s

jdbabexoxo: i think both ideas are solid

BLUTO360: yeah, but what are we proving about alternate fuel vehicles

jdbabexoxo: they will be needed in the future

jdbabexoxo: they are better for the environment

BLUTO360: that topic might actually be alot easier to split up too

BLUTO360: each one of us just does a different alternate fuel

jdbabexoxo: do you think we can write a ten page paper on a fuel source

BLUTO360: well think you have an intro and conclusion, then you state the problem and why something needs to change, then you talk about the fuel source, how it's used, why it should be used, then pros and cons, and how it can be implemented

BLUTO360: I think you could get pretty close

BLUTO360: or just each have two fuel sources

K2 Boarder1409: ya

jdbabexoxo: yeah that would work

jdbabexoxo: or we can just show ten pages full of pictures of fat kids

K2 Boarder1409: ya... wat else is there though

BLUTO360: that's a good Idea

BLUTO360: what other fuel sources are there? ... is that what you're asking

K2 Boarder1409: other topics

BLUTO360: ... maybe why people shouldn't eat babies

BLUTO360: that's never good

jdbabexoxo: yeah thats a start

K2 Boarder1409: lol

BLUTO360: ... well on that note i'm think i'm going to go eat

K2 Boarder1409: lol good conversation

BLUTO360: yup... can't wait to post this one

jdbabexoxo: ok

 

 

November 1, 2005

 

Today was a completely wasted day. I was sick all last night and all this morning. Nothing I ate stayed down and I was forced to skip my math class. I had to force myself to get up and get a shower at 3pm because my math teacher wasn’t going to accept my homework that was due unless it got to her office by 4pm. Then I managed to make it to my chem 6 class, but still felt horrible. While I was in that building I went to the Engineering Library and looked for books on hybrid vehicles or alternate fuel sources and came up with no books. Since this is a recent topic I may have to search for online journals to find enough information. So, that is why my day has been completely wasted.

 

November 2, 2005

 

Today so far has been far more successful then yesterday’s disaster. Our group has decided to stick together in helping each other out, but decided on different topics. My paper is going to be on the problems with gasoline and the future of alternative fuel vehicles. I searched again in a few more places and was able to locate two books that may be helpful to me. One book is fairly recent from 2004 and is titled “Fuel Cell Technology for Vehicles.” The other is either a book or a micro phish film that is titled “Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles.” Both of these sound promising so I’m going to go and check these out either today or tomorrow. As for my other group members, one is doing their topic on Obesity and the last I heard on the other members was something about why people shouldn’t eat babies. I’m not so sure about that topic but I’m in full support of people against people who eat babies.

 

November 4, 2005

 

I posted counter arguments to GoodFood and K2Boarder final project proposals.

I suggest that everyone goes to this Website and reads the different links for the different types of fuels that are being researched and used in concept cars. These maybe the next type a fuel that you're putting in your car in the future so it's important for you to get some background on the fuels.

 

November 7, 2005

 

Today I posted my suggested readings on the syllabus. I’m stressed with the amount of homework I have left to do and fear I may be getting sick. I have another class where I have to do a presentation tomorrow in class and my partner has not helped at all so far. I’m struggling to study for exams in classes and put together a decent presentation in my spare time for a Bullsh!t First year seminar class. I thought this wasting my time crap was over with in high school. It’s back to work for me.

 

November 8, 2005

 

Last night I found out I had a fever when I was wearing a winter hat inside and was still shivering. I felt so horrible that I took some medicine and gave up on my homework and went to sleep at 9:30 PM. I went right to sleep to only wake up at 2:30, for the rest of the night I only slept for a few minutes before waking up again. I remember watching the clock from 2:30 to 7:30 in the morning where I finally decided that it was pointless trying to get anymore sleep. Today at breakfast I was having trouble eating because my throat was so sore that it hurt to drink water. I’m feeling slightly better now that I just finished a presentation that I was slightly worried about. I’ll be studying all night for my math 140 exam tomorrow. After that I should have a chance to stop and catch my breath.

 

 

November 9, 2005

 

Well today it seemed like another crappy day. I woke up again at least one an hour and watched the clock from 2-7 am again. But since I was up so early I decided to schedule some of my classes since today was the first day that I was able to. I scheduled all of my classes except for my AHS credit. I’m looking for a credit that will be easy to go with my other credits that aren’t going to be much fun at all. I was taking Tylenol through out the day to be able to survive walking to all my classes when my body is sore from being sick. I thought my Calculus test was going to be horrible, but I don’t think I did too badly on it. You can never really tell until you get the test back. That will either make or break my day.

 

 

November 10, 2005

 

Today was fun. I started out the same as the last two nights no sleep, then I went back to the doctor and got some medicine. I still felt horrible most of the day until the medicine started kicking in and now I’m feeling a lot better. Who knows maybe I’ll manage to fall asleep for more than an hour tonight. In my excitement for feeling better I decided to give myself a haircut. I figured I’d have some fun with it. I shaved out the middle of the hair to make it look like the top of my head was bald. Then I went to dinner with everyone from my floor and just watched people stop what they were doing and start laughing. I might keep it for a while before I decide to shave it all off.

November 11, 2005

 

Today was going alright until on my way walk to English class. I was late so I was walking fast so that I wouldn’t be late when I started to get a bad pain in my left side. I had no clue what it was but one of the first things that came to my head was appendicitis. I’ve heard of other people getting pains in the side and ending up having surgery and getting their appendix removed. I sat through English class with my side hurting. On my way to my next class my side was hurting too much so I went right to the doctors, again. I’ve already been there twice this week but I wasn’t sure if it was a side effect from the medicine I had just gotten or if it was something more serious. After waiting for a while and talking to a nurse I got to see a doctor. He suspected that I have mono, so I had to get some blood taken. I warned the nurse that I usually pass out after giving blood. So after I had the blood taken I laid there for a few minutes felt fine so she let me go out side and sit and wait for the results. After a minute I felt like I was going to pass out, as I was passing out I told the nurse walking by that I was passing out. She laid me down and then got me a wheel chair took me upstairs got me something to eat and drink and I laid on a bed for 20 minutes waiting for my test results. I found out I didn’t have mono, so I had to go get 2 chest x-rays to make sure that I didn’t have a punctured lung. I didn’t, so they determined that I had a viral infection on top of my sinus infection that is causing my spleen to be enlarged and tender. What a day…

 

 

November 14, 2005

 

Well this week should be fun starting off my week by studying for a Chem exam that I have no clue about on Wednesday. I’m happy that it sounds like from now till the end of the class, English class will be somewhat predictable. I now know what I have to complete and we’re actually taking the time to revise and edit each other’s proposals so that nobody spends hours and hours writing their paper on a bad topic or a topic that is not narrowed down enough. Also giving us enough time to do proper research and be able to choose when we work on our papers which makes our other classes somewhat manageable as the work load and studying load increases. My fingers are crossed for this chem exam, I need a good grade.

 

November 15, 2005

 

When applying for Penn State I never imagined it would be this hard. I feel that I waste a lot of time and could be doing a lot more than I am doing. Then when I go to study I don’t know what to study and I just waste my time. Each class that I have takes a lot of effort for each one. You can’t just focus all your attention on a math or chemistry class because they’re harder because you have other classes that are worth the same amount of credits to worry about also. The only thing that calms me down is to realize that yes this is my first semester so I’m just getting use to college. I’m hoping that I can pull my grades up this semester, then start off fresh next semester and get and keep my grades up from the very beginning.

 

 

November 16, 2005

 

It’s almost Thanksgiving and I’m excited. Who wants some Turkey? I know this kid does. Tonight I have my chem test and to tell you the truth I do not care how I do on it. No matter how I do I’m going to feel very relieved just to be done with it. Studying and thinking about this test for days has caused a lot of stress that I’m happy to get rid of. After I’m done with the test then I have to start thinking about things like editing my rough proposal draft into my final proposal draft. I think that it should be a lot easier now that we had the class read it and comment on it. That gave me some good arguments for and against my topic that I can not only use for the proposal but I can use in the paper.

 

November 17, 2005

 

Well the outcome for the chem test was bad. Bad for me and bad for everyone else. The people that spent over a week studying the chem material received B’s on the test. Those are the people who normally pull off the amazing 100%. The chem test was very tricky in the questions that were asked and the material they were on. The entire test focused on concepts that were not the main focus of the chapters. It seemed like half of the test was on phase changes and the rest of the test was on solubility. I’m at the point where all I want is a C and I’ll be happy and leave. If I get a C or higher in Chem 12 I’ll never have to take another chem class again!

 

 

November 18, 2005

 

So, it’s Friday, that means that I have survived the week somehow. I’ve got to go and spend sometime working on my car before I attempt the trip back home for thanksgiving. Then I’m going to be working a lot on revising and editing the proposal that is due on Monday. Now that I know the proposal alone is worth the grade of an entire paper I’ve got to put in this weekend to make it good. Other than that I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and being able to sleep past 9am. Like my sociology professor said today “Thanksgiving is the best holiday… You get to eat a lot of food, watch football, and not have to buy anyone any gifts.”

 

 

November 21, 2005

 

Today I am posting my final proposal which can be found at SammichManFinalProposal

man is all this kid talks about cars????

 

 

November 28, 2005

 

This weekend was interesting. It was a great weekend other than the speeding ticket that I got on the way down to Pittsburgh. That pretty much stuck with me for the rest of my thanksgiving. This ticket has caused so much trouble so far. I am going to plead guilty and go to court to see if nothing else I can get the fine reduced. If I don’t have any success in court I will get 5 points and probably lose my license. Yeah, I was going that fast… or at least the police officer says I was. So the next few weeks will be insane amounts of studying, then researching everything I can on this ticket in my free time. Outcome unknown.

 

 

November 29, 2005

 

Today seems to be starting off interesting. I woke up to what looks like a hurricane outside. The wind is making our window howl and make whistling noises even though it’s all the way closed and water is coming through the bottom of the window. I could leave for a class and come back to a flooded room if this storm keeps up. Although I had a lot of laughs because of this storm, like all the girls with they’re retarded looking boots trying to use umbrellas but they keep flipping inside out. Oh and the guy who left his window down and his leather seats are now covered with water. Then there are others just freaking out saying that everything sucks and this is the worst day of their life because of the rain… It’s just rain. So instead of the dumb umbrella Idea, you put on a jacket and put on a hat and guess what you’ll stay dry and you won’t look dumb.

 

November 30, 2005

 

Today I talked to a friend who I found out had a ridiculous amount of speeding tickets in a very short period of time and was able to get out of a lot of them. This gave me hope and I spent a good part of 2 hours doing research for my court case. I found out that I may actually have a chance at winning this case because of the type of radar gun that the PA State Police are using right now are under a lot of scrutiny. The GHS model of radar gun is said to give false readings in certain cars because of different electrical interferences that occur. During these electrical interferences they were able to radar a rock laying beside the road at 70mph. If this isn’t something to go off of I don’t know what is. I just sent a letter to the Pa State Police Headquarters requesting a huge amount of information basically on everything about the radar gun, the cop car, and the police officers certificates of certifications to give me information to work with and to possibly find a fault. If nothing else it’s going to suck for them.

 

 

December 1, 2005

 

I’ve spent most of the day yesterday and pretty much all today writing my paper. This paper is taking so much longer than I would have ever expected because I am easily distracted. I am at about 6 ½ pages at the moment and I just realized that I have two quizzes to study for still tonight. This could be a long night or I could just start to focus and get stuff done. I hope I finish this.

 

 

December 2, 2005

 

Today was one of the longest and coldest walks to all of my classes. If it was this cold it should have at least been snowing to make it worth it. I can’t wait for the first heavy snow that stays. 3 feet of snow would be fine with me. Last night I managed to finish 7 ½ pages of my paper before I decided to quit on it. Then I spend the my remaining energy studying for my math quiz which I felt for the first time like I did well on it. Too bad it’s so late in the semester. I’ve determined that succeeding and doing well in college is a mindset. You have to be prepared and willing to put in the time to prepare and not to just prepare like you normally would, you have to over prepare until you know the stuff by heart. Then you might have a chance at pulling off a B+. That’s what I’ve learned.

 

December 5, 2005

 

This weekend was a little bit crazy I won’t go into details but a huge section of our ceiling in the hall fell down. Now they are saying that they can’t just repair it and they are going to be forced to replace the entire ceiling and charge us for it. Chances are it either just fell down or someone tapped it and it fell. The ceilings in my dorm are crap to begin with and that section had fell down before and was being held up by some duct tape. The floor will rebel before being charged for the ceiling.

 

December 6, 2005

 

We found out that an emergency house meeting is being called because of the ceiling incident and a previous incident when 8 windows were smashed in the stairwell. They are saying that they’re going to charge everyone with the windows which were $4000 to replace and then our floor for the ceiling. On a brighter note our floor was voted rowdiest floor in Pollock by the RAs. Yet our floor has the lowest or one of the lowest numbers of citations written for. I guess that means we have fun, but we’re just not retards about it.

 

December 7, 2005

 

I have decided that we need to start a save our floor campaign where each week we throw a party on our floor and bring in local bands to rock our floor and charge everyone $1. Each week of craziness will bring us that much closer to paying off our debt. It will be known as Save 6th floor Shunk… The Dirty Dirty. Well I have one more class to go then we start our road trip to Philly. Should be fun.

 

December 8, 2005

 

Last night was one of the best nights that I’ve had in college. It was an unforgettable road trip with some of my newest best friends. And this is only the beginning. We have another road trip to NYC planned for next semester already. We all share the same love for music and road trips. Yeah we could wait around until maybe some of these bands would come to the crowbar but the road trip is half of the fun. College should be a mix of hard work and great times, and sometimes the good times should be had without alcohol in our systems.

 

 

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