The FIinale

All the writing I’ve done has been for my English class at college. It has been a different experience writing something for the whole world to see. I really liked doing it because it was a way to get something that bothered you off your chest. I feel my writing is good. I wrote about a good variety of things, definitely got me to think clearly after I wrote it. Maybe, but all in all I had a lot of fun writing about the free topics and letting my mind wonder about things as I spoke. I really liked the one blog I talked about if everyone knew what the other was thinking by body language. Something like that really is fun to think about what would happen if something small were to be changed. I didn’t like how I would get stuck on writing for a blog and get stuck. I would eventually just repeat everything, not the smartest but, what are you going to do when you’re stuck? Just keep swimming (Finding Nemo quote from Dory). But I don’t know if I’ll keep writing or if I’ll just stop and forget about it. Blogs seem like a fun way to just let your mind wonder in the hopes someone out there would read it and care enough about it. I’m glad I was exposed to something like this in college and had the chance to explore with the topics my teacher gave to me. It was a bit of a hassle if I almost forgot to do one. Usually Sunday afternoon I’ll be like “oh snap! I almost forgot about the blog for English class I need to write”. In the end I just look at the finished blog and say, “yup that’s all I got to say about that” (Forest Gump).

expertise

Sometimes I feel I’m ok in everything, not amazing in one. I can run average, I draw because I love to and I’m not amazing (although I wish I was). One thing I feel I can be or will be an expert in is learning the anatomy and physiology of the human body. I absolutely love the human body. It is by far the most amazing, complex, and beautiful thing ever created. I know so much about it, not every little detail about it, but I know a lot of facts, structures, and processes of how the body works. I have books, posters, and I’ve taken classes about the body. In high school my anatomy teacher had me fall in love with learning more about the human body. I thought it was going to be a hard class, to learn so much detail about the human body, I was scared. But he made it the best experience I’ve ever had in high school. With learning about the human body, it gets me to draw better. I’m amazed at how flowing the body looks how everything connects perfectly and flows amazingly. Hopefully in a couple of years, I’ll become a nurse and get to work with the human body every day. I would love nothing more than to pursue nursing and not only help people, but learn about the human body and get up close. I went the body world’s exhibit and that just blew my mind away. That exhibit made me appreciate the body even more than I do now. Since I was little, I’ve loved the human body, it all started out with mummies and from there it just expanded to the human body. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again. When I pass away ( can’t believe I’m talking about death and I’m only 19) I want to donate my body to body world’s and show the world what lies beneath their skins.

Emotions and college

Emotions tend to be the most annoying thing in the world sometimes. I’m friends with a guy on my floor and in the beginning of the year; we hung out and spent a lot of time together as friends. It was fun just chilling, then feelings started to emerge. Of course, how else are you suppose to feel when you spend almost every day with this one person who’s your good friend and just makes you laugh all the time (and not to mention how cute he his). My roommate would joke around and say (and this was said last semester so in maybe November) by mid next semester that he and I would be dating. I just laughed and said no way. Funny thing is, in one week we spent almost every meal together, it was fun because he made me laugh, even though he is really quiet. Some weekends when his roommate would head for home, he would ask me if I wanted to have a sleepover and just bunk in his roommate’s bed I was like why not? Nothing was going to happen because he knew I had a boyfriend and I can tell he didn’t want to ruin that. Pulse there were separate beds. Funny part was I woke up at nine and he didn’t wake up till eleven. It was pretty chill actually. Eventually people on our floor would ask, are we dating yet, or are we together yet. It was a bit awkward because, well I guess we didn’t see each other dating. I have a boyfriend back in my home town. We’ve been dating for about 19 months already. I love him to death, I just don’t like being far away from him and not seeing him for an extended period of time. And when you have a really awesome guy friend here that you spend a lot of time with, it gets confusing. I felt like I’ve gotten nudges that he likes me but I keep on saying “no I will not like him back” in the affection way and i keep telling myself that he doesn't like me that way. I care for him all the time because friends care for each other. The sucky part is that some nights when I’ve heard that he hung out with other people and some girls were in the group, I got a bit jealous. Really, really stupid reason to get jealous. I guess because of that I’m afraid I won’t just get to hang with him anymore. Then I just keep telling myself, that nothing will ever happen, that he is just a really good friend, and that I have a loving boyfriend, who I sometimes get to see. But if I wasn’t dating my boyfriend and we split before college, then I met this guy on my floor, and he asked me to date him, I probably would. Does that make me a bad person?

ENG 101 at ISU

So far in ENG, I feel it’s really different from other English classes I’ve taken. Obviously because this is college, it’s completely different from high school. It’s just when I think of English I think of long essays, reading assignments that we have like fifteen questions to answer in the end. Plus those lovely tests about books and grammar. It’s definitely not what I expected it to be. I’m not saying it’s easier, but I feel there is a lot less to do compare to high school English. Plus all the reading that isn’t assigned is quiet nice. I remember in my English class we wouldn’t have so many peer reviews, we ourselves were our peer review, so I like how we have others look over our work. It really helps on what needs to be fixed to make the paper better. In high school we would only get, what felt like, a couple of days until a huge research paper is due. Here it feels more spaced out and more time is given. I really like the use of the computers to save all the work, plus with the way we are saving our work, it helps me title my future work so it’s easier to find. One thing I do want to learn a bit about is the different types of papers and their different set ups. I always get stuck on how to set up a good paper, or what to choose to tell my audience. When I get a topic I want to tell everyone about everything about the topic but need to pick out only the important details. How do you choose what you think is important compared to what your audience thinks is important. I guess that’s the hard part of English, getting the audience involved and interested. That’s another thing, different techniques used to get the audience wanting to read more and more of a research paper, or informative paper.

Body language

So in bio of last week, we started to learn more about behavior and body language. I always knew about it but never really payed attention to it because every little movement could mean something so I was just like, ok this is cool but it’s so nitpicky. But now I wish I knew more about it, so I can somewhat read people better. I know my boyfriend is really into this stuff and he can read me like a book, and I just know what he’s thinking because I just know how he acts. I looked over it all and I was like wow that means that, and we humans just do it out of free will. We subconsciously think of this stuff, and our body just acts it out without us even knowing it. It’s a bit creepy, but really awesome to think about. If you think about it, our bodies already do so much for us automatically, and now it’s even showing our emotional physically. Thank God a lot of people may not know too much detail about body language or else, life would just be no fun, if you think about it. If everyone knew body language signs, then everyone could read each other, there would be no secret admirers, or no need for court actually, because you would be able to tell if someone did the crime or not. Ok maybe not that dramatic, but life would just be a full on open book, with everyone’s emotions handed to one another. Also, if we all did know more about body language, I mean to every last little detail, we would have much better liars too. That would be chaotic, if everyone was amazing at lying then our world would be a lie. Interesting to see how one topic, if known a lot, could possible mess up our world.

Rec. Volley ball

One event I went to recently is my rec. teams’ volleyball game. Me and a couple of friends on my floor made a volleyball team and play every Thursday and Sunday. We named our team, team hand-hug. It’s an inside joke we have and we even got jerseys as well, which look awesome. I have to admit we aren’t the best team because we keep on losing games, but we have a blast playing in the game. Before our game, we would either go to our school’s foot court and get some food together, or go out to a nearby restaurant and just hang with each other. Somehow we always end up getting to the courts a half hour before the game starts, but it gives time to warm up and just goof around before we start to play. When we do play, it’s just a bunch of laughs all around. There are times where the ball would go over with the most ridiculous acts ever. This one time we tipped the ball, tipping is just when you hit the volley ball with the tips of your fingers, all three times and it got over. I remember there were plays where we just kept laughing while we played. Definitely the best stress reliever ever especially a night before classes the next day. Every time after the game we always head back, shower off, and watch Burn Notice, a T.V. show that has now gotten everyone on our team addicted to the show, and play an old school game called Phantesy Star Online with three of my team mates. It’s a lot of fun being with my floor-mates and making a volley ball team just for fun and socializing and not being all serious about it.

Video game similarities

So this past weekend, my friend got a new game that came out called Dante’s Inferno. It is a great game and great poem too. I really liked how creative the game got and how they depicted hell and each circle. Basically for anyone who hasn’t played the game, Dante committed sins and lost his loved one, Beatrice, to hell and he’s going after her. Another game I love is a trilogy set, God of War trilogy (even though the third one hasn’t come out yet). Kratos has as well committed a huge sin (which I’m not giving away to those who haven’t played the game) and his goal is to be forgiven for it. The game design from Dante’s Inferno was created by the same game designer of the God of War trilogy. I laughed a little because of how similar the two characters are in the game. Through appearance, they pretty much are the same. Both Dante, from Dante’s Inferno, and Kratos, from the God of War trilogy, have symbols on their bodies that cannot be removed and both are red. The fighting style is a lot the same as well; just basic button mashing and you’ll get through the game. Both characters even have weapons taken from God like figures. Dante’s weapon is Death’s scythe that (spoiler) he got from killing Death (ironic right?). Kratos’s weapon is called the blades of Athena that he got. Both character’s go on ridiculous adventures regardless of their own specific goals. The game does have its differences and its own creativity that I love. Sadly I don’t own either of the games, but my boyfriend first got me into God of War and then when Dante’s Inferno was getting ready to be released, he and I both couldn’t wait.


These two links are the main characters from the two games. The first one is Dante from Dante’s Inferno and the second is Kratos from God of War. It just shows how similar their character design looks.


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