Bullying

To new the bullying post. I think it is a bigger transition for students that go away to college rather than still live at home and attend county college. Everyone knows its not going to be easy and everyone is always scared they are not going to have any friends. Every new college student has to remember that if your going away to college, all those people are not going to know anyone either, so they are going to be looking for new friends as well. Even at Ocean County College, there are people from Jackson, Toms River, Brick, Lacey, Manchester, and so many more towns, and they range from ages 18 and up. Everyone has such a diverse pack in each class that most likely no one will know anyone in their classes either. It easier to make friends when the people that surround you do not know anyone either.
However, some people are so shy they will not look at anyone and keep to themselves. Advice to give to new college students is to not be shy and but into other people's conversations, or ask about the homework to someone just to make a friend. I have watched people in my other classes and they just "Hi" to the person next to them and ask if they did the homework or if they thought last week's text was hard or not. Saying stupid things like that will make you a quick easy friend in your class. You never know, they might end up being your best friend in the long run.

Busy Bee

I am behind on my blogs, I have been really tight and busy lately, a lot is going on in my household. I pretty much like the structure of our class discussions, it does not bore me. Something that really bothers me though is being pressured to answer questions, because you do not know the answer, you just don't know. I try my hardest and sometimes I think it's not good enough.
However, I like the switch to poetry, even though it can be hard to understand its better than reading all those pointless stories. I hope we can write our own poetry on anything we want. I used to write a lot of poetry but I can only do it if I am not limited to a certain subject or topic.
I hope you are feeling better Prof Lauro!

Spare Time

I like that queston of how much reading and writing is done outside school. I LOVE twilight!! I used to tell everyone that read all those big books that they were losers. I saw the movie too see what the big fuss was about and for my birthday I got ALL four books! I finished the first two and I try to get all my other school work done before I read it. Writing? I do a lot of it at work, I'm an assistant manager at Hollywood Tans (I know it sounds silly) but there is a lot of paper work to do. I always have things to read and things to type up. Otherwise, I do not know where I do anymore reading and writing than I am forced to do.
I FINALLY finished this O'Connor paper. After hours of tearing my hair out, crying, screaming at my laptop, and complaining I've finished! However, I am glad we had that snow day on Monday so I had a little extra time to work on it, I needed it.
I'm reading this John Donne poem and it totally does not make sense to me. I see that there are somewhat of explaination after it so I hope by tomorrow morning I can tell you what I read about. I'm really excitied for poetry thought, I HATE reading it, but I like writing it. I used to always write poems for everyone but I don't have that kind of time anymore. sorry friends =(
I'm reading another one of your posts because I really do not know what to write about since we did not have class yet this week. TV! Everyone likes TV, American Idol is a big thing in my house. The finale of the last season, my mom voted for David Cook 387 times, he won because of her, I am convinced. However, I am a voter but do not vote that many times. So far this season I LOVE Allison and Danny. They will stay on the show for a while because my mother will go crazy voting for Danny. I need to got to work! See you tomorrow when i hand in my essay with joy!