what do you mean college?

Wait, what do you mean I have to apply for colleges? What do you mean I have to get transcripts? WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! Senior year is going by way too quickly. Everyone is talking about the common app and essays and college apps already being turned in. Am I the only senior who just sits at the lunch table clueless when everyone sits and talks about all the college prep and decisions they have to make? I mean, I was a junior with you guys last year too. I skipped sophomore year not junior year. Was I sick on “what you need to do for college.” day? Because I feel like it. I have absolutely no clue how to even go about this. I mean I’ve made up my mind that I’m going to UK, (GO CATS) but I don’t even know how to go about putting together an application or writing an essay. My writing skills are minimal to say the least. I’m so scared that because I know nothing about the college app or essay writing process, I’m going to mess it up and not even be accepted to UK when I know I could easily get into UK.

I want to be involved too...

“Hills like white elephants” by hemming way is a great story, If only I understood it from the get go. As a student who never really had the privilege of getting a good English (or math) teacher who actually cared about my writing and reading skills, I always feel a little deprived when I’m in AP English and I have about a -8765% clue as to what’s going on and what everyone is talking about. But when we read hills like white elephants  for homework, I wasn’t the only clueless one and I t made me feel a little better, but I still wished I knew that the couple was talking about abortion when I read it. I honestly couldn’t have even to begun to tell you what I thought they were talking about. I just read it, almost mindlessly. And when we talked about it in class finally knowing what was going on at the exact same point as all my other class mates who are used to the AP level of learning and comprehension felt pretty good. I finally didn’t feel like that girl just quietly sitting in the corner who isn’t intelligent enough to actually contribute.

The Lesson

I feel like "The lesson" which we read a couple nights ago for homework really characterized and put into words how much of a two way street treating people of a different ethnicity or race is. In the story everything is narrated by a young African American girl who lives in a low income neighborhood with a poor community and her view on white people is a generalization or stereotype that all white people are rich, snobby, very educated, and buy really extravagant expensive things, like sail boats, just because they can. EVEN THOUGH she has a teacher that comes and proves her otherwise through her kindness, accepting nature, and home being in the very same neighborhood with a low income job and she can’t afford anything she want, she still feels the same way about white people in the end. So it goes to show that unfair treatment of specific social groups, ethnicity’s, and race’s can be a two way street and that maybe we should all, as an international community, maybe start contemplating how our own actions and perceiving people can also create an adverse effect and create the exact same situation for us that we put others in.

Not so Christian

OKAY, Did any of you go to the Worlds Largest Water balloon Fight hosted at UK? I went this year, along with a couple years previous too. So Last year was AMAZING right? everybody ran towards one row of some thousands of balloons, and you threw one of the balloons that was apart of this just massive wave of water and balloons and you along with the other side was just bombarded with water and latex. It was AWESOME. But this Year they had a pretty funky set up with the balloons that didn't give you the same almost WAR like epic effect. And, Security were jerks this year. For those of you who went, you know how the water balloon set up worked for those of you who didn't, it was like a maze (no-one liked it.), and where i was throwing from for the first 30 seconds of the fight was right up in the other side's face. Then obviously when my group of friends and i ran out of water balloons, we maneuvered to a spot about 5 feet away to get in on the action again. At this point i want you to imagine the right angle of a triangle. Okay. So we get to the spot where there are still tones of water balloons ( 5 feet away from out previous spot.) and i decided instead of trying to push my way through a crowd of college kids who were significantly larger then I, that I would cut the corner of the tarp containing water balloons. I GOT CLOTHES LINED. Yup. a Security guy clothes lined me to the ground and I was on my back for a good 5 seconds wondering what just happened until i got up and scampered my way back into the crowd of loud frat boys away from the security guard. REALLY? I MEAN REALLY???? I weigh like a hundred pounds, and the distance across that corner was a foot maximum, and you clothes line me? THAT'S OVER REACTING JUST A BIT. I mean I'd get it if i was that guy running across the field 20 minutes before the fight even started, But i'm a 17 year old girl who weighs a little over a hundred pounds. I really hope that clothes lining me makes him feel like a big man, because that's the only reasonably conclusion i can come up with for him being such a pompous jerk and feeling like throwing me to the ground was okay. I mean, is a hand to the shoulder telling me to go around too much to ask for? a little courtesy? no? okay, cool bro, you put the Christian in Christian Student fellowship. (just a reminder, the CSF or Christian student fellowship are the ones who put on the water balloon fight every year at UK.)


Last year - 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cl3VEyseLc

This year - 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BRcR6p_1-o


The video's don't even look on the same level of epic either. Pft.