Is Thanksgiving two or one word? Anyway, my Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful, well, kind of. I went to Orlando to have Thanksgiving with my family. It was really my Nanny's niece and her children, and their children.
Which means that my 1st cousins, second cousins once removed, third cousins, and possibly my third cousins once removed. Not to sure about the last one.
If you don't know what "once removed" is, it means that my second cousins once removed is they are TWO GENERATIONS younger then me. Like my first cousins are in the generations i am. But my second cousins once removed means they were not born in the generation after me, but the one after that. Its confusing but I understand because I know my extended family out to like my fourth cousins, no lie. My family reunions will consist of over 200 people. True Story.
Anyways so I went to see my family in Orlando with my Nan (AKA Nanny which really means Granny), my Aunt Kim, and my first cousin (;]) Emmi. OH! And my mom and dad. Pretty fun!
We ate appetizers, caught up, then ate food, i got light headed, then played horse shoes, talked about college about the whole time (what a bore.), then finally went home.
The dysfunctional and fun part of the family lives in Ohio.
I'm not going home for Christmas so I can make enough money to support myself in Tampa 'till i get a job. I consider "HOME" in Ohio, that's where i was born. Not to be confused with where i was partly raised, Georgia. Not to be confused with where i live now, Florida. Not to be confused with where I'm about to move (No idea.) But this is all not to be confused with where i will continue going to school, South Florida.
Confused yet? :]
Anyways that was my Thanksgiving day, I hope yours didn't suck! Oh and I, for once, did not stuff my self with food. It was a nice day over all.
Oh and NOW IS THE TIME TO DECK THE HALLS!
Holler.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Another failed attempt
Mk so I hate turning things in late or not remembering to do something, yet I've been late on my blog multiple times.I HATE THAT.These blogs have been the biggest thorn in my side. You have no idea. I always have an idea of what to type every week. Then I sit down and try to type a blog and it all goes out of my head.Well I guess I can talk about where I was last night. Most everyone that knows me knows I don't drink and i defiantly don't party. I have enough fun as it is with out doing that stuff so why add it and have to worry about getting caught, getting my scholarships taken away, and loosing my parents trust? Not my idea of fun.My idea of fun is when you had a HORRIBLE night the night before and a friend calls you up and goes "We're all going to the beach tonight, wana come?"HECK YES! So a friend from high school, my boyfriends roommate, his girlfriend, my roommate and me all pack up my friends car and head out. I thought we were just going to goof off. But then my friend pulled out a mini fire starter camping kit. And my boyfriends roommate, Adam, pulled out his guitar. So its the end of November, 7 o'clock at night, and I'm sitting on the beach around a tiny fire starter log hanging out with great friends and the sound of an acoustic guitar in the background. Add some beer and 1/2 naked girls and you got Laguna beach. That was mean, but the truth hurts kids.Anyways. My friend from high school, Katelyn, and I make a "Winter wonderland" in the sand. We build a snow man out of sand (so I guess you call that a sandman?) "sand" Angles and finally a Santa hat in the sand. That was so much fun, yet out hand just about got frost bite. Then we just sat around some more. My roommate invited some friends I she knew from her church. They were so much fun. And i had a bad, no horrible, night the day before so it was really nice to get away from everything.We finally left when out camp log, (not fire), went out.Threes a lot more i didn't include but I don't think anyone really cares.OH Friday I threw a surprise birthday party for my boyfriend. That was good times.When I go back to my dorm I might put up some pictures.It was a themed party and everyone dressed up as animals. It was ballin'.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Truely, deeply, honestly...
I have NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT.
Maybe the blogger gods will bless my fingeres and mind later on today and will give me an idea of something better to write about.
But as for now all you are getting is what my day was about.
So i started off the day having a meeting with Miller. That was at 8:45. But I didn't get to his office 'till about 8:55. I know, no big surprise that i as late, but I was TRUELY going to be ontime. But i woke up late, which means that I was in a rush and all in a huff. So i ended up going to the SOC building, walking up to flieghts of stairs, then saying "shit." I walked back down, and road my big to Cooper Hall. Finally i got up there and had my meeting.
I then proceded to Starbucks and whet to biology until 10:30.
Now heres teh rest of my day:
Meeting with TA about paper: 11:15
Maybe the blogger gods will bless my fingeres and mind later on today and will give me an idea of something better to write about.
But as for now all you are getting is what my day was about.
So i started off the day having a meeting with Miller. That was at 8:45. But I didn't get to his office 'till about 8:55. I know, no big surprise that i as late, but I was TRUELY going to be ontime. But i woke up late, which means that I was in a rush and all in a huff. So i ended up going to the SOC building, walking up to flieghts of stairs, then saying "shit." I walked back down, and road my big to Cooper Hall. Finally i got up there and had my meeting.
I then proceded to Starbucks and whet to biology until 10:30.
Now heres teh rest of my day:
Meeting with TA about paper: 11:15
(I went to that and I got a 92! WHAT WHAT!)
Go back to my dorm, check up on something, write blog, clean.
Make a quick trip to Wal Mart
Go and meet with my academic advisor and FINALLY get something done about my classes. I'm excited :]
Go meet with Mary-Anne for a bible study.
Go back to dorm sometime and meet with deb about psych
find sometime to take a shower.
Migh go to a jewlery making party.
Um yea, thats my day in a nut shell.
I hate being busy.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Hello classic lady...
So Rachel and I got on a topic today, which I have put a thought into.
Heres a question that will mess with you until we finally find out.
What will our kids generation look back and say our generations Disney classics are?
Rachel and I came up with one for sure, that is Finding Nemo.
Another possibility is Monsters Inc, while a great movie, it didn't get to much hype.
Is aladin in our generation? I believe so, and thats a given, of course its a classic.
But we couldn't think of any more, so maybe they aren't the rememberable.
So i want to know who else thinks there are many classics out there and what are they.
But keep it disney!
Cinderally, snow white, sleeping beauty, yea we all know they are classics. But what is OUR classics.
That we pretty much the extent of the impartant stuf of theconversation. Nothing much, most of it was silence because we were both thinking so hard.
Oh year! Pirates too! But we weren't sure because that isn't a cartoon, maybe just a classic in general.
So I would love to know everyones input!
Thanks :]
Heres a question that will mess with you until we finally find out.
What will our kids generation look back and say our generations Disney classics are?
Rachel and I came up with one for sure, that is Finding Nemo.
Another possibility is Monsters Inc, while a great movie, it didn't get to much hype.
Is aladin in our generation? I believe so, and thats a given, of course its a classic.
But we couldn't think of any more, so maybe they aren't the rememberable.
So i want to know who else thinks there are many classics out there and what are they.
But keep it disney!
Cinderally, snow white, sleeping beauty, yea we all know they are classics. But what is OUR classics.
That we pretty much the extent of the impartant stuf of theconversation. Nothing much, most of it was silence because we were both thinking so hard.
Oh year! Pirates too! But we weren't sure because that isn't a cartoon, maybe just a classic in general.
So I would love to know everyones input!
Thanks :]
Monday, November 3, 2008
draft one- Google Generation
When exactly did this world become to computer savvy? Well, its been said in 1993 when the Google generation was born. Yet, as contradicting as this is, its not computer savvy at all. The Google generation isn’t a generation of nothing but instant gratification, easy application, and short attention spans. All the Google gernation need is instant gratification. No matter how this is meet, it is needed.
The Google generation has no attention span. They can not stay focused on one thing because they are a generation of instant gratification. If a web page is taking to long to load, the Generation will stop and go onto the next website. There are no down time. The generation has grown up in a world of fast internet. Even internet commercials now put up how fast their internet goes. The Google generation has gotten so impatient, that its even leaking over to the elders. One article said that, for the writer, its getting harder to read longer articles. Google generations’ brain has come to the point were they want the next flashiest thing. When the brain can’t be satisfied, it will want to go onto the next thing.
The Google generation isn’t really all that computer savvy either. Its made out to seem that way however. The generation before its to be known as someone who takes up more time on the computer and doesn’t really know what they are doing. They will sit and wait for a page to load, and they don’t mind being patient. However, the Google generation can’t wait. That’s why it seems the generation is so much fast on the computer. They get the first application they can find off the search engine Google. They won’t ready what the application is about, and won’t take the time to actually see what it does. However, the generation before is used to slow computer, and computers that used to cost you a house mortgage. These computer were slow and didn’t have a lot going on for them. So when someone would need an application, they would take the time to find out and research want they really wanted. Downloading an application could possibly take up your whole day. But now that the computer has better graphics, flashier designs, and quicker run time, the Google Generation wants to apply that to everything. They would like to find the first application and BAM! it’s done. However, older generations tend to know more. They also tend to understand that the first choice on a Google search link isn’t always the best. So they will take time to read and understand applications, they are patient.
This whole idea of instant gratification leads to attention span, then attention span leads to how well you truly learn. So what happened to the learning process as the Google generation became more impatient? It all came back to instant gratification. It’s the fact that the generation will just want to see a picture and be done with it. They will not want to sit and read a long explanation to why the people did not cross a river. They would rather see a picture, with people sitting at a river with alligators in it and know that’s why they didn’t cross a river. The generation has grown up on internet giving them the fastest possible information there is.
Since the all information the generation needs is a few flick of some keys away, there is not much need to inter a library to try to find information. Trying to sort through all the ideas and catalog numbers there is, would take twice as much time then it would just typing in the question you have into an internet search engine. So children are now turning away from libraries, but libraries are bringing them back by keeping up with technology. Now things are done by search on a online catalog here at the University of South Florida. Other places now have “ebooks.” Theses are book that are printed in full text online. This makes it easier for students to access the information they need form a desk top. This, once again, goes back to instant gratification. Libaries want to make everything digital. By making everything digital it would be very easy for anyone to access any bit of information they needed. Also if it was digital it would help the libraries become more useful. No student or child wants to search through every book and every page when they can find the same information online. To make it even easier, they just hit “control F” and find a key word they are looking for. Libraries would also like to add ties to online search engines which would also help by making their information more accessible.
All the Google generation needs is instant gratification. It needs it because the generation has grown up in a world were everything it trying to be the faster then the next thing, specially internet. When growing up in a world were everything has been flashy and big from day one, its not that hard to fall into a rut that has all these flashy and fast things. If information is only a click a way, there is no need to trudge around a library worrying if your going to be able to find the information when its truly right at your finger tips online. If life could get any easier, it would. And it would be the next commercial for the “faster internet out there on the market.” All the generation needs is the best and fastest thing there is. This gives a person of the generation fast gratification, which isn’t that horrible because isn’t that what we all strive for anyways?
The Google generation has no attention span. They can not stay focused on one thing because they are a generation of instant gratification. If a web page is taking to long to load, the Generation will stop and go onto the next website. There are no down time. The generation has grown up in a world of fast internet. Even internet commercials now put up how fast their internet goes. The Google generation has gotten so impatient, that its even leaking over to the elders. One article said that, for the writer, its getting harder to read longer articles. Google generations’ brain has come to the point were they want the next flashiest thing. When the brain can’t be satisfied, it will want to go onto the next thing.
The Google generation isn’t really all that computer savvy either. Its made out to seem that way however. The generation before its to be known as someone who takes up more time on the computer and doesn’t really know what they are doing. They will sit and wait for a page to load, and they don’t mind being patient. However, the Google generation can’t wait. That’s why it seems the generation is so much fast on the computer. They get the first application they can find off the search engine Google. They won’t ready what the application is about, and won’t take the time to actually see what it does. However, the generation before is used to slow computer, and computers that used to cost you a house mortgage. These computer were slow and didn’t have a lot going on for them. So when someone would need an application, they would take the time to find out and research want they really wanted. Downloading an application could possibly take up your whole day. But now that the computer has better graphics, flashier designs, and quicker run time, the Google Generation wants to apply that to everything. They would like to find the first application and BAM! it’s done. However, older generations tend to know more. They also tend to understand that the first choice on a Google search link isn’t always the best. So they will take time to read and understand applications, they are patient.
This whole idea of instant gratification leads to attention span, then attention span leads to how well you truly learn. So what happened to the learning process as the Google generation became more impatient? It all came back to instant gratification. It’s the fact that the generation will just want to see a picture and be done with it. They will not want to sit and read a long explanation to why the people did not cross a river. They would rather see a picture, with people sitting at a river with alligators in it and know that’s why they didn’t cross a river. The generation has grown up on internet giving them the fastest possible information there is.
Since the all information the generation needs is a few flick of some keys away, there is not much need to inter a library to try to find information. Trying to sort through all the ideas and catalog numbers there is, would take twice as much time then it would just typing in the question you have into an internet search engine. So children are now turning away from libraries, but libraries are bringing them back by keeping up with technology. Now things are done by search on a online catalog here at the University of South Florida. Other places now have “ebooks.” Theses are book that are printed in full text online. This makes it easier for students to access the information they need form a desk top. This, once again, goes back to instant gratification. Libaries want to make everything digital. By making everything digital it would be very easy for anyone to access any bit of information they needed. Also if it was digital it would help the libraries become more useful. No student or child wants to search through every book and every page when they can find the same information online. To make it even easier, they just hit “control F” and find a key word they are looking for. Libraries would also like to add ties to online search engines which would also help by making their information more accessible.
All the Google generation needs is instant gratification. It needs it because the generation has grown up in a world were everything it trying to be the faster then the next thing, specially internet. When growing up in a world were everything has been flashy and big from day one, its not that hard to fall into a rut that has all these flashy and fast things. If information is only a click a way, there is no need to trudge around a library worrying if your going to be able to find the information when its truly right at your finger tips online. If life could get any easier, it would. And it would be the next commercial for the “faster internet out there on the market.” All the generation needs is the best and fastest thing there is. This gives a person of the generation fast gratification, which isn’t that horrible because isn’t that what we all strive for anyways?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Bleh?
I really have nothign to write about. I could tell you whats going on in my life.
Well, I'm moving, don't know where yet. But once again We have to pick up our home and move around! Nothing new, its only the 5th or 6th time. But at least this time I get to stay at this school.
Um, I'm not going home for the holidays... WHICH REALLY SUCKS. But then again, it doesn't.
I'm glad last week is over. I had an exam that says if I have A/B's... stressful
Not to metion a 6 page paper wich SOME HOME turned out to be 11 for me... WTF?
Comp stuff was due, which I was late on because I was stressing out so much.
Oh and I'm doing my annoted bibs now... what a slacker eh?
I'm feel confident in saying, yea I should be part of the Google generation, but is it really a bad thing? I guess I'll save it for my paper... oh great, another paper.
I gues the level of the work that college, so far, has thrown at me isn't horrible, but at the same time... ITS SO MUCH WORK.
I will be celbrating my boyfriend and mines one year and 9 month aniversayon halloween. We're staying in instead of getting drunk. yay! I hate drinking. D:
I'm worried that my best friend is mad at me... I feel terrible.
I wish money could buy friendship <3
Family is annoying... and I don't know how I'm realted to them, but I love them... the blood ones taht is.
My aunt, nan, and cousing are coming down for Thanksgiving. To bad that I need to work because my bank account is um how do you say this? DRY! NOTHING! ZIP!
Unfortunatly.
I really miss my sunday school teacher... a lot. I feel like I am not as connect to the Lord as i was with her. Poop.
I have a bible study tomorrow... oh crap...
My roommates are loud...
I really should get back to my bibs, so I'm done.
Well, I'm moving, don't know where yet. But once again We have to pick up our home and move around! Nothing new, its only the 5th or 6th time. But at least this time I get to stay at this school.
Um, I'm not going home for the holidays... WHICH REALLY SUCKS. But then again, it doesn't.
I'm glad last week is over. I had an exam that says if I have A/B's... stressful
Not to metion a 6 page paper wich SOME HOME turned out to be 11 for me... WTF?
Comp stuff was due, which I was late on because I was stressing out so much.
Oh and I'm doing my annoted bibs now... what a slacker eh?
I'm feel confident in saying, yea I should be part of the Google generation, but is it really a bad thing? I guess I'll save it for my paper... oh great, another paper.
I gues the level of the work that college, so far, has thrown at me isn't horrible, but at the same time... ITS SO MUCH WORK.
I will be celbrating my boyfriend and mines one year and 9 month aniversayon halloween. We're staying in instead of getting drunk. yay! I hate drinking. D:
I'm worried that my best friend is mad at me... I feel terrible.
I wish money could buy friendship <3
Family is annoying... and I don't know how I'm realted to them, but I love them... the blood ones taht is.
My aunt, nan, and cousing are coming down for Thanksgiving. To bad that I need to work because my bank account is um how do you say this? DRY! NOTHING! ZIP!
Unfortunatly.
I really miss my sunday school teacher... a lot. I feel like I am not as connect to the Lord as i was with her. Poop.
I have a bible study tomorrow... oh crap...
My roommates are loud...
I really should get back to my bibs, so I'm done.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hello world, I'm ready to work
Hi! I'm Amy, and I tend to be harsh on myself.
No really, i need to work myself way over the top.
My senior year went like this:
Me: I would like to go to the University of South Florida.
Fate: Um, you are going to have to work extra hard to get past me. I kinda had a plan for you to go to community college, thats why you were a mess up your first 3 years :]
Me: No, I'll get in.
Mk so what did i do to change my fate?
I took as many advance classes as my brain could handle, made excelent grades, volunteer over 150 hours at a day camp, oh and don't forget, took more classes then i was supposed to. (I took 5 classes on a block schedual one term instead of the regular 4) Lets not forget AP CLASSES!
... screw them ...
So i was balls to the freaken wall during my senior year. I made sure i covered for every mistake taht i made my first 3 years in high school. I promise, it wasn't easy.
But it all paid off, because now i am at the only college i wanted to go to. Plus my aunt was really proud of me for getting into her alumni school :]
Anyways, so after all this hard work in high school, i figured college would be even worse. Plus, i'd have to have a job on top of everything! Well, i started out so strong. I read every word of every text book. Plus the extra readings. I studied every letter of every note too. I was going to be the best in college, i wasn't going to have free time, i wasn't going to have fun, i was here to study. I knew enough people that I didn't want to meet anyone else. I wanted to do the following
Go to class
Sleep
Eat
See my boyfriend sometimes
Study
Repeat.
Well, that was great. Untill I meet some wonderful people. They are in almost all of my classes. They showed me that i was doing college all wrong, that in fact it was easier then high school in some aspects! I'm not going to lie, Miller, your papers are ridic. But thats not to say about my other classes. My AP preached AND PREACHED about how his class was so much easier, that he gives us more then any college professor would ever give us. And so far, he has been COMPLETLY wrong.
Now, he will be right probably towards the end of my sophmore year, or even the start of my JR year. But as of now i have realized i have taken college way to seriously and it acutally hurt my grades! After i meet my new friends i realized that you have to have fun with everything or else, well, you'll fail at this game. After i started hanging out with these select few, i have realized that i do know how to study, and i should relax. And just because i don't read a chapter in biology b/c all the texts and exams are from the questions in the back of the book and thats all i really need to know... IS OK!
These people really gave me my sanity. I must thank them.
Thanks Rachel, Laura, and Deb. With out you guys I'd be even worse off then I am hanging around you guys right now ;D
Just kidding.
But truely, thanks.
No really, i need to work myself way over the top.
My senior year went like this:
Me: I would like to go to the University of South Florida.
Fate: Um, you are going to have to work extra hard to get past me. I kinda had a plan for you to go to community college, thats why you were a mess up your first 3 years :]
Me: No, I'll get in.
Mk so what did i do to change my fate?
I took as many advance classes as my brain could handle, made excelent grades, volunteer over 150 hours at a day camp, oh and don't forget, took more classes then i was supposed to. (I took 5 classes on a block schedual one term instead of the regular 4) Lets not forget AP CLASSES!
... screw them ...
So i was balls to the freaken wall during my senior year. I made sure i covered for every mistake taht i made my first 3 years in high school. I promise, it wasn't easy.
But it all paid off, because now i am at the only college i wanted to go to. Plus my aunt was really proud of me for getting into her alumni school :]
Anyways, so after all this hard work in high school, i figured college would be even worse. Plus, i'd have to have a job on top of everything! Well, i started out so strong. I read every word of every text book. Plus the extra readings. I studied every letter of every note too. I was going to be the best in college, i wasn't going to have free time, i wasn't going to have fun, i was here to study. I knew enough people that I didn't want to meet anyone else. I wanted to do the following
Go to class
Sleep
Eat
See my boyfriend sometimes
Study
Repeat.
Well, that was great. Untill I meet some wonderful people. They are in almost all of my classes. They showed me that i was doing college all wrong, that in fact it was easier then high school in some aspects! I'm not going to lie, Miller, your papers are ridic. But thats not to say about my other classes. My AP preached AND PREACHED about how his class was so much easier, that he gives us more then any college professor would ever give us. And so far, he has been COMPLETLY wrong.
Now, he will be right probably towards the end of my sophmore year, or even the start of my JR year. But as of now i have realized i have taken college way to seriously and it acutally hurt my grades! After i meet my new friends i realized that you have to have fun with everything or else, well, you'll fail at this game. After i started hanging out with these select few, i have realized that i do know how to study, and i should relax. And just because i don't read a chapter in biology b/c all the texts and exams are from the questions in the back of the book and thats all i really need to know... IS OK!
These people really gave me my sanity. I must thank them.
Thanks Rachel, Laura, and Deb. With out you guys I'd be even worse off then I am hanging around you guys right now ;D
Just kidding.
But truely, thanks.
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