Blogs from Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States, North America

So I wrote this story sometime last spring but because we're practically finished with teh semester, i figured this would be a fun story for you guys to read. Have a great summer! Before I threw myself into the wonderful world of college, squirrels were timid and simple. The squirrels here form a cohesive population rivaling the students and the faculty. It appears that coexisting with scholars for 164 years has given these critters enough time to watch, learn, and adapt to elite human society. However, they have done more than simply adapt. I would venture to say that braggadocio and indulgence, stereotypical hallmarks of American society, have thoroughly osmosified from us to them. As walking through the campus, from Mendell to Bartley, I was about to step onto that long corridor of the pretentious main-line ... read more

I'm not the type to say that I LOVE watching movies, which I think makes me a little strange. I can't help it, however, if I have a short attention span when it comes to things like that. There are certain movies, though, that I could watch over and over and over and over again and never get bored, and one of them is the classic teen movie Clueless. I don't know how adults feel about Clueless, but I know that pretty much every girl who was young enough to see it as a teenager and even a lot of boys think it's just fabulous. I know that I personally can quote most of the movie because I've seen it so many times. I think I like it so much because it was one of those ... read more

hello! I was in my sociology of the family class and we watched a video that was very intriging. There is a community in southwest China that had adopted a totally different culture than our own and I found it be weird but very interesting. This community lives off the land for the majority and has little industrialization and is the mountains far away from any major society. The thing that was most interesting however was the female's role in society. For us, the women ocassionaly has to deal with sexism especially in the 20th century battling with our own rights and batttling to be in the working world. Women have fought hard to be thought of as equal as man however we still deal with the women having the housewife role and being looked down ... read more

In this technological industrial world that we live in, it im possible to avoid....STRESS! The end of the semester is quickly approaching. And all those classes that seemed so eay and work free all semester are turning into monsters. paper after paper, test after test, presentation after presentation. Sometimes I feel like I just cannot do any more homework. Me and my roomie feeling the stress of the end of the semester decided to take a little break from the overstressed environment we used to call villanova (its now hell). So we took a little trip across the ben franklin bridge and visited my cousins in NJ. ahh we has such a good time. We played monopoly for hours with my little cousins, suffered from allergies because of thier cat, and learned more about Dora the ... read more

I've been thinking a lot about whether poverty is always so bad- the question raised in class today, inspired somewhat by my last blogg. It seems that poverty in the united states is looked down upon in a sense, because in the capitalist system, where its everyone for themselves and we all try to get the most stuff and reach the top, and full of opporunity, it seems like impoverished people have failed the system in a way. When people want to help poverty, most people are not as eager to help those in america, but more attention is given to impoverished people in developing nations, and still not enough attention is given to them. Some impoverished, but functional communities in developing nations do not know anything better, while people in poverty in America are able ... read more