In Class Writing 11

Tonight was the night of the big Halloween party at the Museum of Spooky Things. Every Halloween all the things in the museum come to life and host their annual Halloween party. Not only do the objects there come to life but many other people come dressed in their best costumes. Everyone was walking around talking and drinking punch while the pumpkins were singing their spooky songs. The witch had her cauldron in the chimney with the fire going and she was boiling water for her famous soup. Each person had to bring a dish to the party and the witch’s soup was always the main dish and the favorite of all the party goers. No one was real sure what she put in the soup but they still ate it anyway because all that mattered was that it was really good. There were certain people that were not allowed into the museum for the Halloween party and nobody ever knew why. Well, this year Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny had a plan to break into the museum to crash the party. The Easter Bunny dressed up as a dog and all he needed to do was get the cauldron out of the chimney so Santa could get in. The bad thing was that everyone seemed to notice that the Easter Bunny was there because he was hopping instead of walking. They all ignored it but when he started getting close to the cauldron, the witch ignored it until he got really close and then she pushed him. He started screaming and screaming and Santa thought this was his clue to come in so he jumped down the chimney. This did not end well because he landed right on top of the Easter Bunny and the cauldron tipped over and there they were laying in the middle of the floor, everyone staring at them.

Next Semester

So since I am a PSEO student I turned in my schedule for next semester on Friday. I had talked with my advisor the week before and got my schedule figured out and he wrote it on the paper and everything. I am actually really excited about this next semester. This semester I have been taking classes everyday but next semester I am only taking Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes, it will be really nice to have Tuesdays and Thursdays off.  I have to be there at 8 all those days but I leave at a decent time each day. I am taking Anatomy and Physiology 2, Psychology, College Algebra, and Medical Terminology. My Anatomy has a lecture and lab to it so it is kind of like two different classes. The one thing I am not excited about at all is my math class because I just really do not like math at all. But I am excited to get it all over with because after this year I will only have two classes left of my gen. eds. I think the thing that I am most excited about is that I graduate after next semester, from high school that is. I get out like a whole month before my high school and before graduation. So I will just sit around, work, and enjoy the freedom. I never thought I would be so excited about graduation but I am. I am kind of nervous though because after this year is over I have to fill out FASFA and I will be paying for the rest of my college. The good thing is that I will be happy doing what I will be doing (hopefully) and it will make paying off loans a lot easier.

In Class Writing 10

We were on our way to a game one day, the football players and cheerleaders. It was a normal, hot, summer day and we were all crammed on the bus. In my opinion the bus driver was a total nut case and the guys were being stupid, with the coach turning around occasionally telling them to shut up. Well, we were on some back roads making our way there, slowly but surely. Next thing we know we here a thud, thud, thud.. of course the tire was flat. We all stayed on the bus while the driver and coach got out to check it out and they were pretty weirded out, I was the only one really paying attention to what they were doing and I noticed it was some weird tooth thing that resembled those star things that ninjas use in all those movies. Coach told us it was okay to get off the bus because we would be here for awhile. The guys all went out to the field and were talking and smoking while us girls got on the top of the bus and tried to get some sun. It seemed like we had been there for like ever because it was so hot out. The bus driver could not get a hold of anyone because the radio was down and everyone else's phones were dead or did not have service. We were sitting there awhile longer and the sun started to set so they made us get back on the bus, that was when I saw something fly over us. It was a huge shadow and when I looked up I was completely creeped out. It was bigger than a bird but smaller than a plane, it almost seemed like a person.

Reader Response 6

I do not really know how I feel about Lantry's article, not the article in itself, but the ads. I think the reading is very helpful for the paper that we are doing though. I think that the ads make it seem like women need to do all these things just to find a husband or lover. It makes it seem like that is the only thing a woman should worry about in her life, granted, these are old ads and that is really all women did back in the day. I still think it is wrong. I think that women should be free to do what they want and not have getting married be their only worry. I also think it is really terrible that they try to push that idea into girls minds as well, they should have fun and not worry about boys. This really explains why girls are the way they are at such a young age. Girls think they need to wear make-up and inappropriate clothing to impress boys. Now, even though I feel this way about the ads, I still think they use this idea in a great way to sell their product. Girls and women are always looking for ways to look better and make men and boys want them. This will always be a concern to women, so if you incorporate into your ad you will most likely always have buyers.

In Class Writing 8

I have been an investrigator for about twenty five years and I think I have seen almost everything but you are always shocked when you see things. Well, it was about ten at night and I get a call that woke me up from a pretty good sleep. That is the one downfall of this job, they just call you whenever they need you. So, I get up and get dressed and head for the scene. When I arrived, there were plenty of cops and nosey people crowding the building. I come up to the chief and he briefed me on what was going on, there was a twenty five year old male victim, dead from electric shock because somehow a radio got thrown into the tub. This was awfully rare because of the location, we were at The Hilton Hotel. I head up to the room and sure enough there he was, in the tub holding the radio. My first thought was to rule out suicide because hee was a pretty wealthy guy and at such a young age it would be crazy. My guess was some bad business with the wrong people or some crazy girlfriend. Next thing I know I thought my guess was right, I looked over and found a long, brown, strand of hair laying on the tile, so I bagged it. I took some finger prints off the door knob and the sink and the knobs to turn the water on and then I headed back down to my truck to get a few more things. As I was walking down the hall a lady stops me and tells me a young man had took off running from the room after she heard a scream and she had not seen him since. And this was where my investigation started.

In-Class Writing 9

One day I was out shopping with my wife, whom is 6 months pregnant and showing pretty well. We had been married for a year and were absolutely in love with each other so when we got the news of our little baby boy we were ecstatic. We had been out buying clothes, toys, diapers, blankets, anything for a baby pretty much. We buy a little at a time so that we do not have to spend a lot of money at once. We have been back and forth with the name and we still have not decided but we have never been so happy in our life. Anyway, we were in Babies-R-Us, down the baby toy aisle just laughing and talking about how cute these toys were. We had already picked up a really soft blanket and the car seat that we wanted and were just picking up a few little things and as soon as we were walking out of the aisle, something terrible happened. This petite woman pops up at the end of the aisle and is just staring at me. I knew exactly who it was and so did my wife, but good thing is my wife did not let it phase her because she knew I was happy and we were going to have a baby soon. The woman said, “Hi John, long time no see.” So I replied, “Hi Lori, it’s good to see you. I hope everything is going well.” She replied, “Oh, I’m doing fine, what brings you here?” She had clearly seen my wife was pregnant but I replied anyway, “Well we are having a baby here in 3 months and we are just shopping for it.” Next thing you know Karen turned and walked away really fast, you could see the hurt in her eyes. I felt really bad because 2 years ago I had broken up with her because I just did not feel the same about her and did not want to waste time when I could be finding the woman I really love.

Other Class

So since I am a freshman I had to take that stupid SDE class. It was literally a waste of time and I do not want to be mean about it but dang, it took a lot of time I could have been spending on other classes. It is 8 weeks long and quite possibly the easiest class I’ve ever taken; it is a tie between that and my computer class. I took it online because I did not want to be at the school for another two hour class that I could just as easy take online and do it on my own time. Well that was the only good thing about the class, is the fact that it was online. I could cram it all in on one day or I could do a little bit each day of the week, the only thing that mattered was that it needed to be finished by midnight on Friday, such a piece of cake.  Each week I would have 2 or 3 discussion boards where you would read the instructions and then post a thing that is kind of like a blog post answering the questions. After you post that you usually have to read through 2 or 3 other students post and post a comment on theirs. Then after that you have to create a new post called “reflection” talking about what you learned from that assignment. We would have journal entries in the book that we had to post on there, just for the instructor to see. That is all we did, every week, for eight weeks straight. The biggest waste of time ever, but I came out with an A.

Haunted Housing

You know that heart racing, blood pumping, fight or flight feeling? I love it. I love having an adrenaline rush, it is awesome. So because of this I love roller coasters and I love haunted houses. Since it is that time of the year, yes, Halloween, I went to two haunted houses. I went to the Haunted Hoochie in Columbus and I went to the Haunted Prison in Mansfield. The Haunted Hoochie was definitely way better. There were people that were coming out of hidden places all the time and there were also quite a few dummy type things too. You were always getting scared, or at least they were trying to scare you and they definitely succeeded when it came to me. I was screaming pretty much the whole time and I was so tense that the next day the muscles in my back hurt, but I would go back. It was the best haunted thing I have been through before. The Haunted Prison was a different situation though. It is a real prison that was shut down in the 90’s supposedly because they tortured their prisoners too much, it is also actually haunted. At the prison you can set up live ghost hunts throughout the year and you can pay extra and they will turn you loose inside the prison for a night if you want without the people trying to scare you. Going through it there were not that many people that would jump out and scare you, there were just a lot of dummies. It was a really neat thing to go through though because it is so old and because it is completely different from the prisons they have now. But if you decide to go and get scared, I recommend the Haunted Hoochie.

Career

So I'm going to college to become a Physical Therapist. As of now I'm going to Rhodes to get my PTA degree. I'm totally excited about it because I loved going through physical therapy and I can't wait to help other people. The process that goes into becoming one is my issue. For me to be put on the waiting list at Rhodes I have to pass my computer class and I have to finish 40 hours of observation. And let me tell you, observing is not very fun. Right now I'm observing at a nursing home and I can already tell that's not the Physical Therapy that I want to do. I sit there and watch all these elderly people do things they don't want to do and and they are super tired by the end of it. It makes me sad to see this because they cannot help it. I can only imagine brim in their place, which someday I could be. They can only walk for a short amount of time, if they can walk at all. Many of them are really sad I be there because they just want to be home, who wouldn't want to be? One lady was talking about how her cat missed her and how she hoped he was okay. It made me sad. There were also people that would come visit from their families which made them light up. I just would hate to see someone stuck in there without any visitors and nothing to look forward to every day. But anyways, the type of Physical Therapy I want to do is outpatient, that's the type of place I went to for physical therapy as well. You have all kinds of people who come in like athletes, elderly, factory workers, just anyone that gets hurt and there's even kids. I just cannot wait to be able to help people and get paid for it. I really hope all the schooling goes by quickly.

Reader Response 5

This reading was really interesting to me. I like reading magazines and it is usually the ones that catch my attention first but I have never paid much attention to what caught my attention. After reading this it makes sense. All the magazines that I usually pick up to read usually have these big, bold, flashy numbers. Not only that but it is the colors too, bright colors would catch my attention more than darker colors. I really like when magazines have lists of the greatest things happening now because it is fast to read and usually pretty interesting. I do not usually get real into reading long articles on one specific thing because I either get bored or I do not have enough time for it. I think it is crazy that they have realized this over the years because I am sure no one else has really paid much attention to it. I think that when it comes to magazines that they put a lot of thought into making them but sometimes they do not even have that much in them. Which makes me think that people are crazy to pay that much for one magazine. I worked in grocery store that was privately owned so we were not busy all the time and they were pretty lenient with us, and I would just pick up a magazine and read it while I was there because I just was not going to pay four dollars for something I was going to read once.

In Class Writing 7

It was a typical morning, I had breakfast and then went to school. The day seemed to drag on and when it was finally over I raced home. When I arrived home I noticed my parents were home and this is very unusual because they are usually working when I get home. I put the weirdness aside and figured they just got off work early and walked into the house. As soon as I walked through the door I saw my parents standing there waiting for me and they had these shirts on. The shirts said “WE ARE GOING TO SCOTLAND!” They were all giddy and what not and I just could not figure out why we were going. I smiled sweetly and went to my room. Now, I have not heard anything exciting about Scotland before and my curiosity was getting the best of me. I decided to Google Scotland and see what things pop up. Weirdly enough all kinds of fun things came up and I got kind of excited. I decided to go ahead and get started on my homework and wait for dinner. A couple of hours later, mom and dad call me downstairs for dinner which smelled so delicious. This was odd because usually we never have anything good for dinner because my parents like to try new things, and they always end up awful. Once I got to the kitchen I realized we were having tacos, my favorite. I could not figure out why my parents were being so nice, until the dinner conversation started. That night was the night I found out the tooth fairy was not real.

In Class Writing 6

During this political season all these ads and commercials are just aggravating to me. This year I am seriously a week late on being able to vote. I turn 18 on the 21st and because of this I have not paid that much attention to the commercials. But I feel strongly about the election. Romney can come out and propose all these awesome ideas right now, just like every other president, but usually they don't follow through. All the people are just looking for something new and better and will fall for anything. It seems like they don't put that much thought into it at all. Everyone says Obama did nothing for us besides hurt us. This is where I disagree, we were or are in a recession, which is not as bad as a depression by any means, but how did we get out of the Depression? That's right, by spending money. These are growing times, obviously prices will fluctuate and go up. Obama was not put into anything good either. Bush screwed up the economy and jobs, Obama cannot just fix it by the snap of his fingers. People should give him a chance because I would like to see any one person become president and make our country better in 4 years tops.

Public Speaking

So I am taking Public Speaking, not because I want to but because I have to. I guess the school thinks it is a good idea because I want to become a PTA which means I will have to talk to people every day but I disagree. I know I will have to talk to people every day but definitely not in that manner. I have never had a problem with talking to people, I can start and have an informal conversation over almost anything. When it comes to standing in front of people and giving a formal speech over anything I just kind of freak out. My heart starts racing when my turn is next, I stand up and walk to the front of the class slowly and start rambling. I mess up simple words and I can never get the time right on point. I either say it so fast that it is short or I just keep rambling and it does not even make sense. I think what really gets me is that everyone is looking at me and the fact that I do not even make simple conversations with half the class. I start to sweat and get really hot by the end of it and after it is over I cannot figure out why I got so worked up. Needless to say, I will be so excited when I am finished with this class after this semester. I hope I can at least push through and get a good grade so I do not end up taking it over again. I would feel terrible about myself because it is not hard at all.

Anatomy and Physiology

Today I had my Anatomy and Physiology Lecture and it really is not too bad. I think the only reason I really like it is because I really like learning about the body. I really like learning about where the parts are and the names of them but I also like learning about how they work, it is pretty interesting. We took an exam in there last week and I thought I did pretty well but it turns out otherwise. I did not do that bad, I did better than my first exam but I wanted to do a lot better. I got a B- which is not too bad I suppose. It was over how the cell works and some chemistry stuff. I did not like learning about either one of those so that may be why I did not do very well. I really like my professor he is funny and is good at teaching what he teaches. I feel like I learn a lot more in his class because I like the way he teaches. He makes it fun and gives us quirky ways on how to remember certain things. This helps a lot because I usually remember weird things more often than uninteresting things. This class and my lab are my favorite classes because it was I like to learn about most. I think that if I try a little harder with studying and now that I know how his exams are I will do a lot better on my next ones, hopefully.