First Semester in College Ever

This is my eye. What am I to see? I think I am to see many new people and wonderful relationships will come from them. What else shall I see.

College is such a weird but wonderful experience. I believe that I have changed but I'm not sure in what way. I suppose I am more self-reliant, and a bit more responsible. I was more of Family person so I thought that I would miss my family immensely. I do miss them but I am not itching to call them up constantly.

This semester has meant that I get to cherish time I spend with my family. I use to take seeing them for granted but now I am excetied whenever I get an email from them. This semester means to me that I am almost done with my first semester ever of my freshman year in college.

I have learned that everyone is still in the highschool minset and we all need to get over it. College is better that High School and you can't go back. Who would want to go back.

I wasn't sure what to expect from college. One think I thought would happen would be having everyone know exactly what they were doing and I would be totally clueless. In actuality all freshman that I know of have as little of a clue as I do.

Let's see what have I enjoyed the most? I have enjoyed the random car trips, the football games where we kill, and chilling with my closest friends we act like maniacs.

What have subjects have I found interesting? I found that I really like media and technology. I am very excited about my Intro to Sight and Sound Class next semester. I also still like math..to an extent. I also have to come to enjoy English. I am still not sure of what I will choose as my major but I do know that it will have to do with science.

At the beggining of the semester I chilled with my friends for forever and a day. We went out of town and even just hung out. We had a blast and I really want to continue to have fun next semester. After all of my fun there are also struggles...drama. We are all still in the highschool scene so we let every little thing break up friend ships. Its hard to be in the middle. I just want
what I had.. what was basically perfect back.

What do I wish for the future? I wish that I find my pasion. I wish that eventually I will get a job that will help others. I wish that I will have an amazing time hanging out with my family and friends forever.

Will I finally get to see this beauty? Or will I find something else?

Foot Binding and Corsets would put me into Hysteria so that I would have to get Breat Implants

So there is a really nifty seeming play called The Waiting Room. Its is about women in the waiting room and it covers concepts like: Foot Binding, corsets, hysteria, and breast implants.

Foot Binding: It just grossed me out. I kept on thinking, wouldn't that hurt like mad? This is how they did the foot Binding process.

"A young girl between the ages four and seven would have her feet bound by the mother and grandmother so that they would not grow anymore, and would sometimes even get smaller. The girl's feet were dipped in animal blood or warm water and cotton or silk bandages were wrapped tightly around the girl's feet. Usually the four smallest toes were broken to help with the process. While binding tightly the girl's grandmother and mother would also break the arch of the foot to have the foot form the golden lotus shape. A three to four inch foot was the ideal size for women in China and it was thought that only poor girls had 'big' normal feet."

The pictures completely did it for me, I truly would never want to do that but if that is your culture and you know no difference I suppose you can't argue.

Corsets: Let's see I would use the fainting couches every time I stood up. Well if I wore it correctly and for the correct amount of time I suppose I would be fine even though it doesn't sound like much fun.

• Lack of abdominal musical
• Floating ribs
• Broken ribs
• Ribs that puncture organs
• Deformation of the stomach
• Deformation of the liver
• The pushing of the uterus out through the vagina
• Reduced ability to breath

All that is what would happen if you wore it for to long of a time or you wore one that was the wrong size.

Hysteria: So hysteria is a weird concept, well the fixing of it is.

"the primary treatment was to undergo pelvic massage,ù wherein a doctor would simulate the patient's genitals until achieving "hysterical paroxysm"ù which is now understood to simply be an orgasm. Eventually doctors grew tired of spending so much time stimulating their patients and began to urge women to purchase newly-developed personal vibrators."

So that would be a really weird experience indeed.

Beast Implants: Lets see it is done nowadays to fix a person that had to undergo surgery to get them removed because of cancer. But every once in a while someone will want to obtain larger breasts. I personally think it depends on the age of the girl, and her body shape and size on how big her breast are, but apparently little breasts are bad.

1890s: Some surgeons began labeling small breasts as “deformed”
1940s: Some doctors began claiming that small-breasted women suffer extreme "neuroses” due to their breast size
1957: The American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) named “micromastia” (small breasts) as a medical problem
1983: ASPRS issued a statement about small breasts that read, “There is substantial and enlarging medical knowledge to the effect that these deformities are really a disease which result in teh patient's feelings of inadequacy, lack of self-confidence, distortion of body image, and a total lack of well-being due to a lack of perceived femininity."

So the role of every woman having to have or get big breasts started a long time ago and it wasn't because of cancer.

Click on the words below to get to the Foot Binding link and from there you can find where I got the other information.
Foot Binding, corsets, hysteria, and breast implants

Ducky magnets

Click the link below to watch a video about Duckies/Duckys

http://www2a.appstate.edu/~smithva/animation/Animation-2.html

Women in the Media

We have all seen it. Little girls wanting to be like those models on tv. When overall it really isn't that glamorous. I think that being a female means that one can be naturally beautiful and just themselves not anything that the media might want us to think.

Here are some of my thoughts on being female...

But I do find it hard to be female when everyone one is telling me I should dress up and look pretty all the time. What if I want to just lounge around. I definetly don't want to take a cat nap in a cocktail dress. That what be so uncomfortable...ugg

As a female I am proud of being able to be me. I can do what I choose to do what I please.
As a female I feel limited when I go and do something that is usually for boys. I feel like I can do it but I am not supposed to be doing it.

As a female I feel powerful when I do something that I didn't I could do. I love it when I can accomplish something like that.

Myers-Briggs

The Myers-Briggs test was very interesting to me. It said I was Introvert, Sensing, Feeling, and Judging. I feel that, according to the descriptions, they are very accurate on who I am in how I think and act.

Introvert-Energized in the inner world of reflection, need space and time alone, will have fun at a party if they can talk to one person all night,work on individual projects, to observe and absorb in class and keep a low profile.

All these things are quite correct about me,and there are a lot more that fit me as well, plus some that don't fit me.

Sensing-Rely heavily on their five senses to take in info, like clear guidelines, outlines and specifics of what is going on, ask who, what, when, where. This is, again, right on the dot for me.

Feeling- follow heart rather then head,strive for harmony in relationships, value kindness, feel rewarded when helping others.These are very true for me. Recently there has been a little tension between to friends of mine and I am having a hard time accepting that all that was wonderful before can't stay that way forever. I have tried to harmonize the relationship but it hasn't work and I doubt it will get much better.

Judging- Try to order and control their world, decisive and well organized, plan things, meet deadlines and work on one thing at a time. This works for me as well because if I wait till the last minute on something I go crazy so I try to start things early rather than later.

Gattaca Post

Gattaca Response

I loved the movie. I loved how it was science fiction yet not too futuristic. It shows us what will happen, in the not to distant future, if we don't stop using genetics. I think that since we already have "desiner babies" the obsession of genetics will grow. I really don't like that fact if you aren't smart enough you can only be a janitor. The whole, "you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up" will be lost or they will to change it to "you can only be this when you grow up because you have these genetics."
The whole movie gets to me because I want to go into space one day. I won't have to worry about the genetics, but being healthy and fit and just me. This brings me to the underlying message in my pont of view,I find the message to be, if we as the human race don't change our view of messing with genetics then this will happen. It may seem that we are happier but someone will always want more and will try to get what they want.

All in all the movie is amazing.

Photo Essay of My Fist Semester at ASU

Pictures of life at college so far

Me and My wonderful roommate,

Beth at our first college football game.

Just chilling in the dorm taking really random pictures.

Beth is the other picture taker.

Hanging out around campus. We were not in our "backyard" but it was still a really fun night.

Beth and Mary

My attempt of panning the car. It didn't really work I tried so many times.

The four of us( I was taking the picture) chilling near the weeping willow tree. That was an amazing day.

Beth, Mary and Eric

We were on the parkway and we were going to take sunset pictures but we came across this place.






When I walked onto the bridge I saw this. My friend said it looked like heaven. It was so pretty.

As time went on it got dark and we ended up driving to this place. We took a number of exposures of this tree but this one turn out the best of them all.

This one is about alcohol or not

We were told to write about alcohol or drugs. All I really want to say is you can have fun with out putting anything in your system.

My friends and I are a good example of that. We have fun but are always completely sober.

A few weekends ago we were going around campus acting like fools and it was really, really late at night. If you had seen us you might have thought that we were drunk, but we weren't. I love how I can hang out with them and have so much fun with out anything at all.

I find it sad that many people have to do something to themselves to have fun. But of course they don't really remember it in the morning. I would hate to not remember what I did the night before.

That is all I have for now, goodbye.

Music Music everywhere!!!

The Music that I like...

There are many different types of music that I like.

I like Country, Musicals, Soundtracks, and Instrumental music and christian.

The country music that comes to my head is Rascal Flatts, Charlie Daniels, Montgomery Gentry, and Little Big Town to name a few.

The musical I like...correction, the musical I love is Wicked and my favorite song from that is Defy Gravity. Everyone should get a chance to see this play it is WONDERFUL!!

That is the only musical that I have seen on the stage but I have seen the movie hairspray and I like all their songs to.

As for soundtracks I like Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Treasure Planet and Hairspray even though that could be categorized as musicals.

The instrumental music that I like is Mannheim Steamroller and Transiberian Orchestra.

The christian music that I have really come to liking is done by a group called Stellar Kart.

Remember... "Everyone Deserve a chance to FLY"!!

DEFY GRAVITY!!!

Mannheim Steamroller Web Site

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Web Site

Wicked the Broadway Musical Web Site

Rascal Flatts Web Site

Stellar Kart Web Site

Anything I wanna talk about that might be interesting you

This is a free writing post for my blog. It isn't exactally free writing but it is close enough to work.

For right now I want to talk about the mountains. The mountains are what I think of when I hear the word beauty. They seem blue from far away but when you get closer to them you see many more colors. In the fall the leaves on the trees turn many wonderful colors.They can be a light brown or a golden orange to a perfect yellow or magnificent red. This a place where I belong because of these colors. It gives me the chills to see how wonderful and beautiful a place can actually become. That is reason why I came here and why I can't wait for the peak of the fall foilage.

Home on the Field

Over the summer I read a book called, A Home on the Field. This book is about a man named Paul Cuadros, who moves down to Siler City, NC. Siler City is a sleepy little town in the middle of North Carolina that gets many immigrants from Mexico. When Paul comes to this town, the feeling he gets is that they do not want anymore immigrants. While he tries to get used to the town he tries to make a soccer team for the high school. Many people immediately appose this idea because they do not like the idea of change, especially when it comes to Hispanic immigrants. When everything finally comes through, he gets his team and the town gets a new view on life and their beliefs.

About a week ago I interview a good friend of mine on the subject of immigration. When I asked her how she felt about the wall, she answered with, "It’s a stupid idea most people are not native anyway and they did not have to go through everything some people go through now. We should have open borders." I agree with her, I think that it should be easy for them to get through and become legal. They should not have to hopes to come over here. Plus if we are going to build a wall who do you think is actually going to build it?