Blogs from Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States, North America - page 2

I can no longer write like I use to. In the tortured, experimental style of my earlier posts I see a zeal for life that no longer manifests itself in the sparse and often thoughtless rambles that I toss out more out of guilt for my languishing site that out of any inspired subject matter. In a word, my Xanga, like myself, is all ennui, all the time. I feel that if I can unscrew my scalp and run my hand along the gray folds of my once febrile brain I will find nothing but the cold hum of routine machinery. Cook. Eat. Study. Get a job. Even recreational reading has not brought me the pleasure it once did. Even worse, I am too lazy to find other stimuli. The New York Times website takes too ... read more

No matter how you feel or what is going on in your life their is a song or some type of music you can listen to that makes you feel good. Like right now I am doing my homework and I am not in that great of a mood but my music is giving me some type entertainment. When people are sad they put some type of ballad on to help them get over the blues. Or if its the weekend and your getting ready to go out you play music to get everybody excited. Almost every where anybody goes music is played. For example, Weddings, Funerals, Resturants, Bars, Dormroom ETC. Before football games when I hear the National Anthem it gets me so excited to play. Some people use music to put them to sleep ... read more

I had a panic attack last Monday. My parents went to Boston with my sister to look at colleges, so my boyfriend had to drive me to the train station to come back to school. And he is really stupid when he drives sometimes. We were on a three-lane highway, at least 5 miles from the exit, and he was in the right lane repetitively slamming on the breaks and complaining about how people didn't know how to drive because he didn't notice that we were in the merge lane and all the "slow" drivers had just gotten onto the highway and hadn't sped up all the way yet. Anyway, I kept thinking to myself "everything is probably falling out of my bag. I should check to make sure I have everything when I get there." ... read more

It seems to me that technology is making it easier for people to become rich these days. For example, I was reading a Rolling Stone magazine the other day and stumbled upon an article that deals with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of "The Facebook" The Facebook is a website exclusively limited to colleges around the country and now the world I think. The Facebook enables students to have a page displaying personal information and interests about themselves and allows other college students to see it. Since the start of the facebook a couple of years ago it has risen in popularity and has become the 4th most visited website in the world now. It is also estimated at being a 1 billion dollar business. Mark Zuckerberg is only 21 years old, the head CEO of ... read more

The previous blog post about the overhead projector being an excellent means of informing a class, is not entirely true. While it still holds a creative place in my heart, it does withhold its information when it suddenly decides to stop working. The other day when it ironically stopped working made me chuckle on the inside because the week before I was talking about how great it was. My initial reaction was denial, "No! This projector can't not work." Followed by anger, "Ah, this stupid projector, now we won't be able to see Professor Sena's work." Followed by a saddistic feeling, "Well, this is my golden oppertunity to write about technological dependence in the classroom. Not only in this class, but in other classes, professors and students use power point. While this seems like a good ... read more