halloweeeeen.

Fall is finally here and I'm so excited for the months ahead! October, November, & December are the best months ever, I swear. Each has a fun holiday to look forward to- to dress up, spend time with family and friends, eat scrumptious food, and open presents!! I always look forward to this time of the year, every year.

Last Halloween was a rough time for me, to say the least. So this Halloween, I want to make it fun! I am supposed to go up to Michigan State to visit friends, but right now that is not a definite plan. I'm going to be a cop this year :) I'm excited. Plus there is a Delta Sigma Pi Halloween Party this Friday that me and my sorority sisters are attending, so that should be fun!

Besides Halloween plans...not much going on with me. I'm not as stressed out as before but I still have a lot going on. I realized I really need to stop going out and focus more on my studies, because my grades are not good. I was good enough to get in, I should be good enough to stay in. I have the potential to be here, therefore I should be trying my best. Which I am not :/

I also have decided to look into switching my major to Criminal Justice instead of Business. Im not enjoying it as of right now so I thought I may like this better because I've always had an interest in law and that sort of stuff.

Well, that's my update for now. see ya!~

campus life

It's funny how different the people are here on campus at the University of Michigan Dearborn then are in the city I live in, Livonia. It's sad how undiverse it is, like I've stated in my last blog.

However, as I walk the halls and outside pathways of this beautiful campus, I notice how many different races and ethnicities we have here. I love seeing the different and new faces, unlike in high school when everyone looked the same to me, and I knew almost everyone there.

Here on campus there are so many different clubs and organizations one can join..for example you could be part of the Lyceum staff and become a photographer for our own literary magazine published each semester, write for The Michigan Journal (our college newspaper), or be on the campus radio station WUMD! Besides these there are also many clubs/organziations such as joining a sorority (like I did!), Fraternity, or maybe the Psych Club. The possibilities are endless :)

College is so much bigger and better then high school in the amount of people, activities you can do, and everything in between. So get involved!

Quick Write p.45 #1

An issue that I noticed that we have here in my community (Livonia) is the lack of diversity among the people. My high school, Stevenson, was probably 85-90% white students, the other being probably mostly black students. I think this causes racism among us becuase we aren't exposed to a lot of difference among our cultures and races, which in turn creates more hostility towards others not of our kind. Not that I'm against anyone that is different then me, but because I have grown up in a predominantly white community, I feel safer and more comfortable being around my own race.

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High School wasn't very difficult for me. Unfortunately I took easy classes, especially my senior year, and in the long run..didn't do me much good. Two classes that I guess helped me out in analyzing or "critical thinking" were my Poetry class I took during my junior year, which we interpreted poems and meanings of these, and then had to create our own. I also enjoyed taking Comp II my senior because we were given a broad'ish topic to elaborate on, and then take any direction we choose to go off on. The majority of the time we got to write about whatever we wanted, and I liked the way my teacher did things. She gave us a lot of time to write it, draft it, etc, and we peer edited a lot.

I also took journalism, but that class seemed to only focus on the newspaper and current events each week. I wasn't on the newspaper staff, so none of that helped me out. I believe I only took it because it counted as a speech/writing credit.

frustrated.

Life is changing around me so quickly, people are changing, new friends, old friends. I'm realizing a lot about myself lately too. It's hard to keep up with all the responsibilities I have, but somehow I'm managing. College isn't easy like high school were you don't have to go and you can still know what's going on the next day. I feel like I can't do good enough here. I write a paper I think is a B, I get a D. I study what I think is going to be on a quiz, I get a D. My first Soc test, got a C. I mean, I don't get it. Obviously I'm not trying hard enough or something. I got straight A's in high school.

Change is a good thing, I believe it, but I think it can be a bad thing too. Although I enjoy all the new things around me, I'm beginning to miss my past. When things were a given, I didn't have to work for anything really. I wasn't rushed day to day, constantly with something taking up my free time. I was truely happy, I felt loved. Now, things just seem different. I feel more adult-like, which is nice, but i miss being younger sometimes.

Anyway..another thing I've been worrying about lately is getting those shots that college students are supposed to be getting (Meningetis shot, H1N1 vaccine(?), regular flu shot, hypetitis)..I hate needles with a passion but I'm really thinking I should get these, and so should everyone. You never know what you might have until you get it. Be smart and get these shots! lol just saying.

-Erin

recap

So I haven't taken a moment to do a blog in awhile, and I don't know if  I have eight blogs so here's one for today! lol

Well things are going okay..still busy as ever. I went from being bored as hell over the summer to not enough hours in the day now! I did however cut my hours at work so that I could have more time to do homework, though still I feel rushed. This paper we have is fine until we have to cite all this stuff from historical events, speeches, and people, which is where I start disliking the whole project. I think I did my paper fairly well, just lacking citations from the book. That book isn't easy for me to read in the first place, therefore that's why.

Anyway..I also have a group project in my Business class and my Sociology class, so between this, work and my LIFE i need to find time to do those. :( ugh.

Hopefully I make it to State this weekend to visit some friends..if not oh well. there's always next weekend :) But speaking of state..i saw the game this weekend! not live, but still, it counts that i watched it on tv :) i was proud of myself for actually caring lol. It was a great disappointment that State won within overtime and we were tied 20-20! boooo. good game though, wish i was there.

but yeah, that's all for today. now im gonna relax until I have my sorority meeting where we all wear white and get "pinned". wonder what this entails..

famous quote by MLK

So I guess we were supposed to blog about the famous quotes from MLK, one being "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This quote to me means that if you violate another person's rights, you're actually hurting many people in the process. For example, say you talk crap about my sister. That in turn effects me, my mom, dad, sister, etc because we care about  her and love her. It's not just how she is effected by it. So it's like a domino effect.

Besides that..this week has been alright. Still extremely busy, but not as bad as last week i guess. I'm beginning my project on Freedom from Fear..hard for me because I hate politics and history. Not a fun class. But I'm trying.

Nothing else to say really..except for GO BLUE! because we play state this weekend. Wish i could go :/

k byeee.