So this week we didn't have class at all. We just had conferences with Sweeney to talk about our paper we're writing. It was a weird conference for me because, I don't do well talking to adults one on one. So I just sat there the whole time, which did not lead to much talking about the paper. The whole conference lasted about three minutes, if that. Was supposed to be like a 15 minute meeting.
Well being we had no class this week I'm afraid I don't have much more to talk about.
Not really in the talking mood because, I became sick last night and feel awful.
Well I hope everyone has a good weekend, and I will hopefully have a much better post next week.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Nothing
So this week in class we did what the title said. . . pretty much nothing.
On Tuesday we went to the Library for class, and were given a tour of the Library. Gotta say I learned only one thing: they have these sleves that roll, and it's pretty cool. Watched some idiots. . . I mean fellow college students, try to get crushed in between the shelves. I worry about our generation at times that being one of the times. After the tour we went to a conference room, and were given a tour of the schools library website. Some of the things I knew, because I had taken a class through Bland in high school, but I did learn a bunch more stuff.
Thursday was grammer shammer. For those that don't know what grammer shammer is, it is an assignment given to us about grammer. On Thursday two groups went; the first telling the difference between: their/there/they're, loose/lose, chose/choose, and affect/effect. I think there might have been another one, but I can't remember. Oh I remember now! It was the difference between its/it's. The second group talked about the difference between :/;. Now it suprises me on how some college students don't know the difference between these, but oh well. Anyways, after grammer shammer we scheduled conferences to meet with Mr. Sweeny to talk about our paper, or life. Which means no class all next week! I don't know what I'll write about then. Probably write it on the conference. Mk bye!
On Tuesday we went to the Library for class, and were given a tour of the Library. Gotta say I learned only one thing: they have these sleves that roll, and it's pretty cool. Watched some idiots. . . I mean fellow college students, try to get crushed in between the shelves. I worry about our generation at times that being one of the times. After the tour we went to a conference room, and were given a tour of the schools library website. Some of the things I knew, because I had taken a class through Bland in high school, but I did learn a bunch more stuff.
Thursday was grammer shammer. For those that don't know what grammer shammer is, it is an assignment given to us about grammer. On Thursday two groups went; the first telling the difference between: their/there/they're, loose/lose, chose/choose, and affect/effect. I think there might have been another one, but I can't remember. Oh I remember now! It was the difference between its/it's. The second group talked about the difference between :/;. Now it suprises me on how some college students don't know the difference between these, but oh well. Anyways, after grammer shammer we scheduled conferences to meet with Mr. Sweeny to talk about our paper, or life. Which means no class all next week! I don't know what I'll write about then. Probably write it on the conference. Mk bye!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Pop Culture
So first off I feel like I didn't introduce myself like I should have. So here's about me: My names Kaylyn Chandler, I'm 18 years old, and I'm a true country girl. If I could spend my whole life outside I would. I'm attending Richard Bland College getting an associates degree in Science with plans to transfer to Virginia Tech to major in forestry.
Now here's the stuff for class:
We had to read Felt Scene, it was about helping you write better, and helping you feel while you write. I don't know about you guys, but I don't feel hardly anything but boredom when I write so I really didn't get anything out of the reading. Well today we talked about possible topics we could write on in our Pop Culture paper coming up. We thought of several good ideas to write about, but the two the seemed to stand out the most were movie ratings and country music vs. rap music. With the ratings we talked about why movies were rated the way they were. We said some movies were rated wrong, like the hunger games. They showed people getting killed right on screen, we said it should have been rated R. When we talked about the difference in country vs. rap it was a free for all. Now i mainly listen to country, but I'll listen to rap too. We said how country and rap could talk about the same thing, but the way they talk about them are so different. In a rap song they'd say they're gonna go f*** that p**** all f***** night, but in a country song they'd say they were gonna take the girl home and make love to her all night. In my opinion country music seems to not be as vulgar as rap music, but that's just my opinion.
Now here's the stuff for class:
We had to read Felt Scene, it was about helping you write better, and helping you feel while you write. I don't know about you guys, but I don't feel hardly anything but boredom when I write so I really didn't get anything out of the reading. Well today we talked about possible topics we could write on in our Pop Culture paper coming up. We thought of several good ideas to write about, but the two the seemed to stand out the most were movie ratings and country music vs. rap music. With the ratings we talked about why movies were rated the way they were. We said some movies were rated wrong, like the hunger games. They showed people getting killed right on screen, we said it should have been rated R. When we talked about the difference in country vs. rap it was a free for all. Now i mainly listen to country, but I'll listen to rap too. We said how country and rap could talk about the same thing, but the way they talk about them are so different. In a rap song they'd say they're gonna go f*** that p**** all f***** night, but in a country song they'd say they were gonna take the girl home and make love to her all night. In my opinion country music seems to not be as vulgar as rap music, but that's just my opinion.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Picking a Topic
Well the past two days in English have been interesting to say the least. We had to pick on three topics to write about for our essays. Well we picked the first two topics fairly easy, Family and Crime and Punishment, the third one, on the other hand, took forever to decide on. We had to pick between Pop Culture or Environment. Well I am not a big writer, but I will write about whatever, so I did not care which topic they decided on. Well they got to debating about the two, and it got so heated that I thought there was going to be some fist fights. It was funny and scary at the same time. Well after not being able to pick on Tuesday we took a break and said we would pick on Thursday. When Thursday rolled around it was like we had not even done anything on Tuesday. There was more fighting and arguing, but we finally picked on the topic, Pop Culture.
It's amazes me so much that a group of 18 and 19 year olds can act like five year olds on something as simple as picking a topic to write about.
It's amazes me so much that a group of 18 and 19 year olds can act like five year olds on something as simple as picking a topic to write about.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
1st Blog
So for my English 101 class I had to make a blog, and write about the readings that we do in class or on anything with Mr. Sweeney's permission. Although this is for a class, I plan to keep up this blog all throughout my college days, and maybe after college too. So here we go:
We had to read two pieces of work called The Question of Originality and Writing and the Threshold Life. Going to be honest here . . . The Question of Originality was pretty boring to read. It did not keep your attention very much and was a lot to read. On the other hand though Writing and the Threshold Life was interesting. It told a story at the beginning about a priest traveling with his attendant toward Kyoto from Mount Koya, discussing Buddhist teachings. On the way to Kyoto they come upon an old woman in rags, who is Ono no Komachi. Komachi was once a beautiful, famous poet who had at least one child, never married, and had many lovers. She now lives wandering the mountain trails. She stops to rest on a stump when the priest come to her, and they berate her saying she is sitting on a stupa (sacred symbol of the body of Buddha). Komachi tells them that what they call a stupa, she calls a stump. They go back and forth on wither or not it is a stupa or a stump, finally until Komachi says that she chose to approach the stump because it is the Buddha's body. The priest then says it was wrong for her to sit on the stump, but she says wrong action may lead to salvation. After this the priest says she is truly enlightened, they then ask who she is, and when she tells them she also tells of why she roams the mountains. . . to free the spirit of a former lover of hers that has come into her body.
We had to read two pieces of work called The Question of Originality and Writing and the Threshold Life. Going to be honest here . . . The Question of Originality was pretty boring to read. It did not keep your attention very much and was a lot to read. On the other hand though Writing and the Threshold Life was interesting. It told a story at the beginning about a priest traveling with his attendant toward Kyoto from Mount Koya, discussing Buddhist teachings. On the way to Kyoto they come upon an old woman in rags, who is Ono no Komachi. Komachi was once a beautiful, famous poet who had at least one child, never married, and had many lovers. She now lives wandering the mountain trails. She stops to rest on a stump when the priest come to her, and they berate her saying she is sitting on a stupa (sacred symbol of the body of Buddha). Komachi tells them that what they call a stupa, she calls a stump. They go back and forth on wither or not it is a stupa or a stump, finally until Komachi says that she chose to approach the stump because it is the Buddha's body. The priest then says it was wrong for her to sit on the stump, but she says wrong action may lead to salvation. After this the priest says she is truly enlightened, they then ask who she is, and when she tells them she also tells of why she roams the mountains. . . to free the spirit of a former lover of hers that has come into her body.
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