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The topic that I would like to choose for my final project is the effect of having a larger number of roommates (and a larger living space) on the performance and well-being of college students. It doesn’t seem to make much sense that a normal college dorm room consists of two people. There are quite a few reasons why having a somewhat larger standard dorm room of maybe three or four students would be beneficial. It doesn’t seem as though there was much, if any, consideration as to the number of students per room when the decision was made to have the majority of rooms be doubles. By proposing this change to some highly ranking person at a college campus, a new way of thinking could be inspired which could have the ability to help college students, as well as increase cost efficiency of the dorms to the college.

Much research has been done on the social development of adolescent people. There is also research on the effects being around a group of peers can have on people, and especially the more vulnerable and insecure people who are going through adolescence. The research done suggests that living with a greater number of people could have many sociological benefits. I intend to use this research to help prove that the sociological benefits sufficiently out-weigh any counter-arguments, of which there are several.

I recognize that there are several valid arguments against increasing the number of roommates per room and the overall size of the room. Every argument has two sides, although the two sides are not necessarily of equal weight, or importance. In this case, I will attempt to show that the students’ social well-being and the cost of dorms out-weigh the possible flaws in/ counter-arguments to the proposed change, such as: a more chaotic environment, loss of quiet-study time, current system is functional, etc…

The main problem with the double room is not that they have a negative effect on the student; rather, the problem with the double room is that it is too confining.

My idea for having a larger average dorm room size will improve many aspects of student on-campus living. For one, a larger room will help the students to feel less physically confined. Studies show that people who are in a more open and spacious environment have a greater ability to concentrate. This would make it much easier for students to get their most critical thinking done. Making dorm rooms larger would also help students adjust to college life. By having more people in direct contact with a student will help that student to build relationships. Study groups can also be more easily formed. Another bonus of having more roommates would be that, out of the 3 or so new people that you would meet, you are more likely to have one roommate that you are compatible with.

I just commented on TheLyleProposalDraft and BleepinProposal.

RedHotProposal

11-3-05

My idea for a final project.

After much deliberation i've actually come up with something. at first i was trying to think of things that relate to a hobby of mine or something like that, but i realized that might not be the best option. I originally wanted to do something with music and how it can make you smarter, but that turned out to be completely off-topic. i then thought about how i could make that more on-topic, and the only thing i could come up with is that colleges should require some kind of musical credit. of course i couldn't do that because it was one of the examples given by Kem in class. why is it that i always come up with the example given? am i just that easily molded? is it actually just a coincidence? whatever. anyway, i came up with something that you didn't suggest, Kem. Since i'm in supplemental living, i got the idea that more dorm life should be like this. after living in a room with 6 other guys, i have come to realize that there are many benefits to be taken from living in a larger room with more people. So to answer a question posted in class (What is something that bothers you?) i could say that it bothers me that the standard room size in most, if not all, college dorms is a double room. the double room confines students both physically and mentally. also a larger room with more people helps in the process of building relationships and getting used to college life. bam!

RedHotEvaluativeFinal

10-22-05

Today is a sweet day. i slept until 12:30pm. that was absolutely spectacular. also, i made a huge improvement in my living conditions. For abour the last month i have been sleeping on the floor underneath my computer desk and lofted bed. i was cool with it, cause i had the drapes around the bed and no annoying sunlight got in... plus i had some added privacy. now it's even better though. i have a MATTRESS underneath my computer desk. i'm laying in bed typing this blog right now, and i'm thrilled about it. if i would die right now, i would die in happiness.

10-21-05

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is a word that i had to look up the spelling for, first off. that was annoying, because i had it right. maybe i should cite the first person to spell it like that? maybe i'll just spell it differently... just to be on the safe side. playgerism is defined as such by the fine people at dictionary.com (maybe i shouldn't be so nice to them since the first definition is "the act of plagiarizing"). the second definition there is many times better, however. Basically what it is saying is that plagiarism occurs when somebody takes information from somewhere and presents it as his or her own work. why is it that when you take one persons idea it without citing, it is considered plagiarism, yet when you take many peoples ideas and use them to form your own it is called research?

i hope you thought hard about that one cause it didn't hold water at all.

evaluative argument:

i've recently been searching for a really cheap stand up bass so that i can get into some sweet jazzy groovin'. i've come across several product reviews that make claims about the particular instrument.

this is one that i liked. although it discouraged me from buying the bass, it presented a clear claim (the bass sucks) and reasons (listed) and a counter argument (has a good pizz. tone).

10-20-05

Evaluation of an argument 1

I was on CNN.com when i saw a link to an article about the tendency of people to become more and more rude as technology increases. A reason they give for this is the increased normality cell phone use. The article states that cell phones are being used in more places that, in the past, they would've never been used. There are no counter-arguments offered, thus creating a major problem with the argument. It is much more of a speculation than something that i could take as a legitimate viewpoint.

Evaluation of an argument 2

Again, a link from CNN.com. This one is about how, although new "gadgets" have more and more features and are increasingly compact, the battery life is becoming insufficient for the users needs. The only thing that they offer as a "counter-argument" is "Battery makers are racing to keep up, finding new ways to pack more power into smaller and smaller spaces." A possible counter-argument could be that the usage by consumers is much more than necessary. The first example given in the article refers to a person who uses his "smart phone" to talk to prospective customers for an average of 3000 minutes per month. that just seems excessive.

10-17-05

Guy Theraulaz and Eric Bonabeau described stigmergy:

My remix of this definition:

RedHotFinalAnalogy

10-9-05

For my causal argument i chose one that describes the tendency that children might develop to be prejudice toward the type of people who have hurt our country in recent attacks. It is stating that the hurt caused by these attacks leads to hate. It is saying that some of the causes for this relationship are: parents aren't helping their children channel their feelings into positive actions; parents aren't setting good examples; parents aren't correcting their children for making insensitive remarks.

10-4-05

i'm blogging my rough analogy thing. BEWARE IT'S WRATH! it's shit actually.

RedHotAnalogyDraft

10-3-05

So I just finished an engineering progress write up. that was really not fun. i need sleep because i haven't done any sleeping in a day or so... here's to another horrible monday *takes shot* goodnight.

9-29-05

Yesterday was my chem exam, so naturally i was concerned. i didn't however let my concern overcome me. i kept my cool and didn't study at all. i thought i might break down and study a little bit, but i made it through no problem. i went to the exam, having done no homework or reading, and i took it. as i was reading through it i realized that it really wasn't that bad. people were overreacting. granted, i really didn't know most of the answers, i still managed. in the end i got a D+ if you will. that sounds horrible, but there were a lot of kids who did worse than me who i witnessed studying for hours. i would say what i did was, although not quite effective, very efficient. for my how-to i would like to do "how to get the best possible grade while employing almost no effort."

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RedHotDefinitionalFinal

9-25-05

i was home for the weekend... naturally i did no school work at all. it came as no suprise to me when i found myself overwhelmed with things to do. i spent this entire weekend forgetting things. i forgot everything. really. i would forget the things that i had to do and spend hours doing other things before i remembered. pretty much all of this was the effect of some weekend partying. i hope i can think by tomorrow, because as of now i'm completely brain dead. i just dont pull through with anything. i'll stop complaining only when this mindnumbing force exits the thinking dept. of my mind. get out of my head you darn stupidity!

9-21-05

today was pathetic. i didn't even work out. i had/have hours and hours of chem and calc work to do, and i did none of it. i'm so worthless i should be executed for taking up too much space in relation to how much good i do. i always said that if i were president i would charge a space tax. it would be positively correlated with a persons required volume. if a person takes up more of the earth, they should pay a greater tax. it's like when you're at the movies and that jerk next to you decides that both of the arm rests belong to him. his ticket should have a tax on it that would account for that. that or everybody carries a bat and just knocks out obnoxctxcious people out.

the good parts of my day: 1)i got an ipod shuffle and now i'm musically hooked up when walking about campus. 2)i ate in the pollock commons and they had steak and chicken fajitas. 3)i created a cave underneath my lofted supplemental bed. now i have a place to perform such tasks as studying in private, masturbating, and having sex. i can also have sex there, too. now i know why bruce wayne created his secret hideaway... he was a sexaholic!

p.s.- count my blogs twice cause they're great, although not as many. just thought i'd throw that out there... you can bounce it right back if you don't like it.

RedHotDefinitionalDraft

9-18-05

This is like my third blog since 9-12, however i just realized now that i haven't been pushing update after i post an entry. i don't know what would make me stop pressing the update button when i finish blogging when i've done it every time before. this is kind of upsetting to me, but i'll live. i went to the game yesterday, but it was kind of boring after the first half. my friends and i left after the 3rd was over. the only very interesting part was the guy next to me at the game. he was probably as drunk as a person can get by 3 pm and still be standing. after convincing him that he was the lion, we told him to go to the bottom of the crowd and crowd surf up. to our suprise he actually surfed about half way up before he was dropped and broke a rib. should i feel bad... no. i dont think so. you should've seen him slap his head and roar like the lion. he didn't roar at all, he just yelled AHH!!!. it was sweet as all hell.

9-12-05

Today (yesterday) i returned from a trip to U Pitt. It turns out that Penn State and Pitt are actually rivals. i was drinking at some random party and they started a Pitt cheer. i reciprocated with a "WE ARE..." and wasn't met with enthusiasm. I really haven't seen many people at Penn State that care half as much about this rivalry as these Pitt people do. It's kinda like how you have this one friend that thinks you're his best friend and yet you're hardly their friend at all. Not a very good analogy, but i wanted to put a bad analogy in there for emphasis... that's my story anyway. i just got back at 930 and i got around to reading the syllabus for this class after some calc and engineering homework. When i read the syllabus i realized that i should probably read the syllabus a little more ahead of time. Apparently i was supposed to chat with a classmate, but it's too late for that... or is it?

So... i think a crazy topic for a final project would be reasons why praying mantisi should be completely extinct. Praying mantisi are really bad, and i'd like to say that i began my quest for genocide when i was about 5 years old. i found a mantis (the word reminds me of these) at the park by my house and i was terrified or something. maybe it was just ugly and i hated it. anyway, i'd prefer if they were all dead because that way if there's ever nuclear waste spilled, none of these will be able to play around in it and become horrible. nothing would be worse than a really, really big praying mantis. remember the twinkie factory episode of family guy where stewie turns into a octopus? remember what happened after he turned into an octopus? exactly.

9-8-05

I just bit into an apple that has been sitting on my desk for a couple of days. i tought it was going to be soft and bad. it turns out that it was almost not ripe yet, and very crisp. i realized that everyday something could happen that, although it may seem ordinary, could possibly suprise you. everyday you could experience something new... or something old in a new way. this is where somebody else would say that they're going to try to experience things in different ways from now on. i'm not going to do that. i like doing everything the same way. i do the same things at the same times and that's the only way i work. if i tried to experience something new everyday i would forget to wear shoes or lock my keys in my car. when i bit into the apple and it was different than i thought it would be, i should've just went to bed or something. i might as well just give up on today because there's no way i'm going somewhere after a mix up like that. i'll end up in a ditch on the side of the road.

that makes me think of last night. i really don't know what i did last night. at about 8 30 am i stumbled into my dorm and laid down. i dont think i blacked out but it's pretty sweet when i do. blacking out is the ultimate high next to like getting stabbed and dying. well, i just assume that getting stabbed to death is a good high, because that's what all the real hardcore druggies end up doing. apologetic statement.

RedHotFinalNarrative

9-6-05

Today was an easy day of classes. Calc with some french guy who i cant understand, but who doesn't care if i'm alive. it's funny that i take that as a plus. i guess i just have a personality that morphs according to those around me. there's this comando rotc loser that was sitting directly behind me today. i just wanna slap him cause he doesn't stop saying sir and being annoying. i hate his shoes. i missed the first calc home quiz. this wasn't a suprise to me. overall, i'm really dumb and i cant handle doing things on my own. going to the website and finding out that a quiz is due is something completely above my capacity. this is something that i hope to get much better with in college cause if i dont i wont last long. i tend to have very low expectations of my ability to do things and i have no confidence that i'm right. take this class for instance, for all i know i'm posting on the wrong site and i'm not even enrolled in an english class. i wish i could use hard drugs or something as an excuse for my inabilities. those hard druggies get it good in the excuse area. it seems to me like if you're a hard drug addict and you admit it you're allowed to do anything. i think they could walk into a bank, ask for all the money, and if they follow that up with telling them that they're a drug addict the banker will just give them the money... prolly give him a free checking/savings account to keep it in. btw if i ever offend anybody with my irrational thought, just pretend like i fell off the face of the earth. i pretty much dont mean a thing that i say to tell you the truth. i spend my live advocating all these things that i dont care about, which is pretty much everyting. i dont really know what to do now that i've written my narrative. i'm sure that everyone else knows... that seems to be the case with me. hopefully i've done enough to get by with class tomorrow, cause i'm a pretty confused individual right now. i'm mostly just confused because i just spent like 3 hours on chem and calc work. i'll be back to write again, hopefully hen i'll have a clue about what i'm doing in life.

I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS BLOG, NOTHING MAKES SENSE! I CANT THINK.

9-5-05

TheRedHotSpotNarrative

today was a day of planning. i planned to do things and never did them. well, i did at least finish my narrative, how ever pathetic. has anybody tried studying in supplemental living? it's not my favorite thing to do. a room with 6 other guys can be a bit much when staring at a blank word document and trying to think. trying to think can be a bit much for me even if i wasn't in such a boisterous environment. i hope that word made sense, sometimes i just make stuff up. i skipped dinner tonight cause that was my window of opportunity to get some peace and quiet. that blows cause i'm such a fat kid. (food:me::little boys:michael jackson). i'm gonna nap cause i'm weak from not eating. stay classy planet earth.

9-3-05

it turns out that my score prediction was a bit off for the game today. it was actually looking very much like what i was expecting until a while into the second half. i think everyone would agree though that the game was a great time. the atmosphere was unbelieveable for some reason. i've never had an ounce of school pride in my entire life combined; however, the game today was motivating enough to actually get me out of my seat. in fact, i was motivated enough to paint my entire upperbody blue and fill in the "A" position of a human penn state sign. i'm feeling kind of smurfy still though, being as the paint didn't really wash off all that well. i look forward to going to more pre/during/post games in the future!

i have to get something off my chest. it's the squirrels around here, they drive me insane. i don't mean to judge them, but they can be pretty in your face i've come to notice. i wouldn't assume anybody else would notice the squirrels, but they just contrast my hometown squirrels so much that i can't help but notice. my squirrels at home are very timid and conservative about their lifestyle. the little guys around here are way to confident. from time to time when i leave my building there will be a squirrel or two just sitting right next to me or just walking like they own the place. around my neighborhood of bethlehem, pa the squirrrels run and jump in trees and stuff when you come near. to tell you the truth i've never seen a squirrel at home just walking. they all at least go through the formality of running away, even though they know that you aren't gonna bother them. i feel threatened by these squirrels, it's like they're on the prowl. they're stalking me. somebody should release some stray cats on campus just to restore the natural order of things. it's not healthy for the squirrels to be so lazy. another possible solution would be a squirrel gym. i figure one of these has to be done because the last thing this planet needs is another lazy-ass animal like a human. next these squirrels will be piloting automobiles and furthering the depletion of the ozone layer or whatever. just think on it is all i ask.

9-2-05

BLOG!!! the day before i came up here to psu i had an argument(claim + reasons) with a bunch of my friends about the word blog. A couple of my friends were against the blog for some reason. i think they were pushed away from it because it was too trendy. As for myself, i didn't really care. i'm not often up on things that are hip and i'm not big on the internet(compared to a lot of my 1334 nerd friends). the first thing that comes to mind when i hear the word blog is that old monster movie called the blob or whatever. i was really in no rush to do something that i associated with one of the worst monsters of all time. i have absolutely no respect for the blob, and that's all i have to say about that.

onto the topic of why i chose this name. the red hot chili peppers have been my favorite band since sometime shortly after i developed into a real person. by that i mean that up until a certain age, everything that we do is pointless. for me i was birthed as a brand name person around the age of 12, and as soon as i became conscious of my actions i loved the chili peppers. a little over a year ago i went with my older brother and got the chili peppers symbol stamped permanently onto my chest. k pce see ya later!