Wk 9 - Las Vegas!

My parents just got back from a trip to Las Vegas with a few of our family members and friends. My mom mentioned to me once i turn 21 i can choose anywhere to celebrate my birthday. I think Las Vegas would be a pretty sweet birthday bash. Las Vegas would let me gamble and party in the clubs and stay up all night long and DRINK! I think it would be a whole life experience going down there for my birthday. We would get the whole family together and fly on out there and just have a great time. My family has been out there twice and says its amazing. There is so much to do all day and all night. It may be expensive but it's worth saving up for and having the time of your life. When i turn 21 on December 25th next year, it will be the perfect time to go down to Vegas because in Illinois it will be Winter and in Vegas it will be Summer. When I think of Vegas, i think of partying, staying out late, gambling, and never going to bed. My parents said theres people 4-5 clock in the morning still gambling the night before. I think thats little nuts but hey they wanna win BIG! I am not much of a gambler so i dont know if that will change once we go out there. I would like to try to gamble a little bit but I like to spend my money wisely. Also when i think of Vegas i think of the song Waking up in Vegas by Katy Perry. My cousins have also had celebrated their 21st birthdays out in Vegas so I think it should run in the family and have me be next. I really hope this will be the best 21st birthday any 21 year old would want. If Vegas doesnt work out i would like to go to the Bahamas again. So every body has different opinons on where they would want to go for their birthdays, and some may not be able to chose where they can go because of money reasons. So start saving up for where you wanna go for your birthday, cause i will be!

Wk 8 - Improving my Lit Snap!

I think my writing has improved a lot better for my Lit Snap paper. Here are some reasons I think I can gather the paper easier. Today, I had to meet with Stephanie for a conference in her office for a second sitting to go over my paper. She thought I did an overall pretty good job on it, but it wasn’t “well-developed” like she assumed. So we sat down and went over each paragraph and found my easy, common mistakes. The mistakes I thought were right and they were completely out of proportion. She said I was just telling my audience about what the book was about, and not expressing how I feel for what has happened in the book. It was pretty complicated for my part to do this, because it’s easier for me to write up what has happened in a book, than say how I feel about so and so. I do realize it does get out of hand when a writer just writes what has happened in the book and not show how they feel. It’s like they are writing up a huge book just about what happened and not showing a feeling. I tend to repeat lines and it gets frustrating to think of new options for that given sentence. I did outlining for this paper when it was assigned, and it helped out a lot, but Stephanie helped me out a ton by breaking it down in sections and giving details and better supporting sentences to each paragraph. I love the way she told me to do it this way because it seemed a whole heck a lot easier than what I did and also saved a little time. As we were progressing through each paragraph, I felt so much more comfortable with the paper being put together easily. After each main idea in the paragraphs, I was coming up with many supporting details and kept thinking of more and more as we went through the paper. I was really amazed I thought of those there and not when I did the lit snap in the first place. I guess that is normal because a paper like this was on my chest for a while and you just want to get it out of the way. I tend to freeze up when I write papers, but everyone is like that when they aren’t used to writing. I’m hoping I can use that outlining process for the next drafts we do this semester by progressing my writing skills and techniques, and become a better writer

Wk 7 - Shuttle Buses

My opinion is dealing with keeping the shuttle buses or not. I have been hearing students saying that they are quitting the shuttle buses as of the last few weeks. Well I don’t know if it’s a rumor or not because I been seeing them running and dropping students off. In the beginning of the semester, I had to walk around the roads just to get to school because the shuttle buses were getting backed up with a ton of students. So now I have to get up earlier and get an earlier parking spot. But as of today, I been noticing there are a lot of open parking spots, so I don’t know if it depends on the day if it will be packed or not. Walking the roads was a pain in the ass and we shouldn’t have to do so. But by the time the other shuttle bus come, there is a huge line and it’s not worth waiting for a ride, so students decide to walk. So you were better off walking instead of waiting. Let me tell yah, it was great exercise doing that walk early in the morning because it seems like a mile, plus carrying a book bag full of heavy books. When winter comes, students are not gonna want to walk to class with the side-roads full of huge snow-drifts, plus it will be a freezing, cold walk. So you can disagree with me or agree, but I think they should keep the shuttle buses so students can get transportation from the East Campus to the Main Campus.