The indictive future

Well you see they call it a future cause its an unknown......I might strive to be something but I'll never know if i can accomplish it...

I wanna try to remain as involved in HCSA as I am. Housing communitties need to be represented and I'm in love with doing it. I wish to remain involved with my RSA and next semester I know i will be. The plan is to take the RA class and apply for a RA position and even run for a RSA president position. Hopefully so I won't have to pay room and board for my sophomore year. and many more after that all I want to do is stay at school and make the best impression possible

p V. c

1 word-----------------------------------------MIDTERMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easy solution you say.....not so much....

just because college students have the option to study beforehand does not mean they all do. All nighters are common this week.

What if you had 3 Midterms, 2 papers due, 5 blogs to catch up on, 4 meetings, and an RA class app due...all in these 5 days? Sounds like a problem to the typical college student...but with a plan and some motivation (led by good friends) this is just a challenge.

All that's needed is a planned out schedule, some snacks, and a good deal of Garth Brooks...

Break it all down and it seems easier....list out what comes first and second and third, etc. Then after everything on the list list what needs to be done for each:

Monday
7-12 Work
1230-120 Class
130-320 study in Union (Intro to Elem functions)
-Go over review and lessons in book
- Check last review in My Math Lab
330-445 Class
500-630 Study in RSA office (Intro To Elem Functions)
- last check on concepts
Fill out first half of RA app
630-715 Dinner
730-830 (?) Intro to Elem Functions Exam
830-1000 Finish RA class App
1000-1130 Proof Expo English Paper
-Print
-Turn into mailbox by 9am tomorrow (Bizzell, bottom floor, expo office)

Just list out days like this and your problem turns into just a manageable challenge.......

As long as you have Garth Brooks and some great friends, anything can be just a challenge.....

My Optimism VS. Allie's Crabbiness

"I just don't feel like dealing with your crap today" That's what she said to me as I said hello and the South Oval. Little did she know that would have to deal.

Her attitude was pessamistic and mine was optimistic. And I was determined by 5p.m. today hers will have done a 360.

She lists the reasons for the crabbiness "all-nighter, bad roommate, Arabic exam, no boy to love on her, lack of breakfast, dirty laundry, behind in three classes, sore throat, and even a broke phone" As she explains all I think is wow! I was there last week.

I know that sympathy will get me nowhere today so I change my tactic.
"Lunch?" I ask
"sure, if I have to" came the reply.

And as I went my way and she went her way, my mind started working...Allie + bad mood = not good. So it was my personal goal to get her better. I text her saying 'yes, I will be your lunch date...wear something sexy...we'll make the lunch lady in the caf jealous' as my class starts another text 'my professor says that I'm in a chipper mood, and he wants me to say thank you for putting me in it' and yet another 'could this class be any more unnecessary? I was told that elephants live in Africa!' and again 'wanna be my date to the musical this weekend? we can make snide comments from the back row and get ugly looks from the people who wanna be there ;P'

And as I walk into the Caf, I see her there smiling and laughing at me for almost tripping (not on purpose this time). "thank you" she says "My day got pergressively better, with your randomness in it"

As was my goal, I rubbed my good attitude off on her. And as I realized that my goal worked on her, I realized that it could work on most everyone. When I saw her this morning I could've adopted her pessimism and been the gray cloud on campus all day but then I thought that my attitude could effect those around me. I thought back to the classes I am this semester and which ones that I truly enjoy and why...the realization hit me "favorite class = Lead" why? cause of the attitude of Clarke and Kate. They are always in a good mood, even when everyone else is not. It is the one class that I truly look forward to.

Attitudes effect not just how your day goes but the way all those around you too....just ask my friend Allie....

letter to the Creekers!!!!

Class of '10...CONGRATS!!!!!!



Graduation is gonna seem like one of the biggest achievements of your life and it will be the turning point of everything. You will cry, you will be sad, you will wish to go back.

At this point in your life you will wish school was out. You'll wish you are as far from Bridge Creek as possible and that all Bridge Creek is will disappear. You'll want the assumptions and cliques to go away. You'll be scared but more excited of your future. You will want to be grown up.

This is my warning to you......do not wish it so...

College life is not all its cracked up to be. You may think you are the smart one or the one that can balance everything or the popular one or the focused one but there is a gigantic news flash coming. There is always someone smarter, someone that can balance responsibilities better, someone more popular and liked, someone more focused. No matter what you believe your talents are there will always be someone ahead of you. And you believe in not being a geek? well change!!!!!! geekiness is encouraged at college. And those people are loved.

Take these truths as things to be considered:
1. Geekiness is not a disease; its a quality to be desired
2. Time Management = NECESSARY!!!!
3. You must suspend your social life on a daily basis
4. Bikes are cool again, and scooters can be too
5. Sleep is a luxury that most don't have
6. If you work more then 15 hours a week AND go to school AND have a social life you are very talented
7. Chemistry, Calculus, English Composition and Physics do not belong in the same semester
8. Reccomendation - Enroll each semester with 15 or more hours so that if need be you can drop at least one class without falling below full-time status
9. Find at least 1 place that you can study without distractions; it is entirely helpful if it's without friends
10. Determine if you are a day studier or a night studier. Enroll in class around that (i.e. if you are a day studier then morning classes would be best, if a night studier afternoon classes are helpful)
11. Take advantage of upperclassmen friends, they know what professors are horrible
12. If your roommate and you do not get along, CHANGE ROOMS!!!! Roommate drama can cause academic drama easily
13. Too many resposibilities = nervous breakdown
14. The college may be large, but everyone knows everyone (it's helpful to create a good image in and out of class)
15. 1 a.m. walmart runs interfer with writing papers
16. You will always be broke...PERIOD!!!!

These are basic rules. Everyone creates their own list of rules. There are universal rules that apply to almost every student though.

Don't assume anything about college.......nothing is never what you believe it to be...

Enjoy your last year seniors...It's gonna be the last free one....

Too busy for concern...

There's this store of a college sophomore...she was completely immersed in her sorority duties, President of her Pre-Law student association, and involved in the women's volleyball team. She was one of those girls that when she was not in class, she was studying, when she wasn't studying, she was volunteering, when she wasn't volunteering she was at volleyball practice, when she wasn't at practice she was at meetings, when she wasn't at meetings she was planning events, and the list continued on and on. She was never "jus' chillin", she always had something to do. Her friends and family wished to see her more and more but she always made excuses. She always had something else to accomplish before the next morning. Her time with her family was always limited, and there was too many times to count that her parents remembered that she had to leave them during dinner or family celebrations cause she was the go-to girl. Her friends were always cut short on her time and missed her when she was not there. The inside jokes never included her, and she had no reclamation of 1'o'clock walmart runs or all nighters spent unproductively switching music on computers and eating grilled cheese. She would never admit it to anyone but herself but she was lonely. She appeared not to be, but on the inside she felt stretched and sad. She felt as no one really cared about her actions or life.

One day this girl was walking on her campus to her one class that she believed defined her. She changed her major because of this one class, because of this one class she changed her future. This class, politics, law, and civil responsibilities, was the most awe inspiring class she had taken and it was providing her with lessons she could get no where else. This day she was more then excited to go to class, she was ecstatic. They were having a guest speaker that she in part helped to invite and arrive there. This guest speaker was a woman who she herself knew from her childhood. The speaker was a political advocate that her father had befriended when his daughter was but a small girl. This woman was speaking on the importance of advocating for others when you know they can not; on being the voice of reason when no one else the courage to speak up or to participate. She thought she was that girl. She believed it so much she ignored all the obvious signs that morning. She was oblivious to all the world that morning.

She missed the boy trying to get down the stairs on his crutches, because the elevator was broke, again. She missed the hungover half-grown Frat boy sneaking away from the dorms. She missed the kid falling off his bike into the bushes cause some butt would not move over on the sidewalk, and the 8 year old girl walking across campus by herself at 7:30 am, and the man that was slowly following her. She completely sidestepped the arguing couple. And went right past the man and girl as she went in her building for class, and completely ignored the crying girl in the next stall over.

And so her class began...and continued...and ended.

That night as she was studying alone in her room she began looking over her notes from class that day. She bagan thinking of everything her morning had consisted of. She remembered all that she had winessed and realized all she could have prevented. Then and there she made a pact to herself that she would pay attention, that she would step in if need be, that'd she be the one to speak up. From that moment she was a new person

This same renewed young woman, 12 years later, was walking the same campus at the same time to the same class, but not as the same student. This time she was a guest speaker, speaking on the importance of societal interaction. In that front row there was a college sophomore very similar to the girl she was at the same time of life.

There was one underlying difference between the two though. One difference you had to dig to learn. This girl was abducted and kidnapped for a year of her life, 12 years earlier riding her bike through the same campus. Little did she know that it could have been prevented by the woman in front of her...

PRIORITIES

Sleep...The final frontier...desired by all college students...and envied by those who don't have it.

The main priority for college students (as defined by their parents) is academics
The main priority for college students (as defined by themselves) is sleep while still having a social life

However, most college students fail to achieve this goal. The dire temptations of Halo, However, deny most college students this goal. The dire temptations of Halo, Rock Band, Beer Pong and the occasional date night with the local Greek system seem to easily distract the average college student from their goals. Everything can be a distraction.

One of the best ways the keep your priorities at the top of your list is to have a partner to keep you on track. Find someone that you see on a daily basis and ask them to be your accountability partner. You keep them on track and they keep you. You can go as far as to be aggravating about it but it is necessary for your success as a college student.

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE 60s

Webster's defines influence as the 'power or capacity of

causing an effect in indirect

or intangible ways'

In our terms it is an authority over people and their ideas, whether voluntary or involuntary


Influence isn't something you are born into, though if you are born into money it might help. Influence is mainly gained throughout your life and experiences. Think back to the most influential men and women of modern society... Rosa Parks was not born ready to defend her seat, she inherited a strong will and determination but developed her strengths. Through tension and strife, she learned the value of determination. And I believe that at the time she had no intention of influencing an entire generation to change a outdated way of life. It's those people such as Ms. Parks that have the greatest influence on our society. It is those people who have no idea that others are watching them for inspiration; it's those people who do what is right and just without a alternative cause, it is those that make the greatest impression in this world. They inspire the world just by being who they are and for standing in what they believe. It is they that change the course of all mankind by one action.

You must not forget those who use their influential and persuasiveness to accomplish their own needs. I will not say to accomplish 'evil' or 'bad' deeds because in their eyes it was not evil, it was justified. Adolf Hitler may have been murdering and slaughtering in the thousands to us, but in his own minds-eye it had reason behind it. I am not saying I support Hitler's position at all, I just wish everyone could see that just because someone believes in something different it does not mean its wrong. Another example is Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., who are two men with the same goal, who used very different influential effects to serve their own agendas. Martin Luther King Jr. used the more mundane, more peaceful, more 'hippie' way of influencing others to follow him on his journey for equality. He believed that all disagreements could be solved with peaceful protests (i.e. marches, sit-ins, etc...). Malcolm X, on the other hand believed that a more extreme method was needed to lasso the attention of the population. Malcolm X, real name Malcolm Little, preached on the sanctity of Black Supremacy, he encouraged more forceful protests in response to the mounting racial tension. While both men fought for the same goal their styles varied differentially and influenced many different kinds of people, white and women included. They both opened the doors to a more equal footing.

Then will always have those leaders whose influence is a bit inspiring and scandalous at the same time. I can give you an example of seven men...It was called the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. These men only wanted to express their freedom of speech and assembly. They paid dearly for their extreme ways of getting those freedoms. Their antics are as entertaining and awe inspiring as they are jaw dropping. This consisted of seven men, all well educated who fought for their rights. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner were all seven tried. Though these men sacrificed for their rights that influenced others to act in accordance with their goals. While the Chicago 7 was occurring in Chicago, many young Americans were copying them in diverse places of this country.

Though there is many types and abilities involved in influencing others, one thing remains the same:

IT HOLDS RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!