Twitter

I can’t believe I’m finally saying this, but I actually created a Twitter! Possibly I should’ve when I started the semester so I could see the extra credit that Professor Beverly posted, but oh well. I didn’t fall in love at first as everyone else does because I’m still addicted to Facebook. I like looking at everyone’s pictures, and watching their videos. I don’t change my status much on Facebook, and that’s basically all Twitter is, so I don’t know how it’s going to work out. I’ve liked it so far because I like following the celebrities to see what’s going on in their lives. Hopefully I’ll become more addicted to that as everyone else is, instead of just sitting on Facebook every night. But, it’s a good alternative to Facebook, as many people are starting to switch over, or better yet have both. I am always going to stay on Facebook, but maybe having a Twitter too will get me to post more statuses so people can know what I’m doing 24/7! Or maybe not….

Cheerleading

I know this is an ongoing argument, and it’s still going to continue, but I want to express how i feel about cheerleading being a sport! I know the NCAA declared it to not be a sport, but us cheerleaders work just as hard as any other team does. Because we perfect everything we do, it seems as if it’s simple, but it’s really not. It’s not easy to throw a girl over fifty feet in the air and catch her in a way that won’t hurt her or you. It’s not easy to throw a girl on top of another girl on top of another girl and expect them all to stay. We practice these pyramids many times over and over until they look easy to do. People don’t realize the effort it takes to be a cheerleader and how much work we put in. We practice as a team, we fundraise as a team, and we compete as a team; just like any other sport would. People need to be more considerate when they think cheerleading and realize how hard we work to get to where we have become!

Advice About Roomates

Sorry this is so late, but i guess better late than never! In high school, I was always friends with the girls that were grade below me. I never really got along with anyone in my class. So as I am a freshman this year in college, they are still seniors in high school, and have many questions for me. College is a lot different than high school, mainly because you have to live with someone that you never knew before (for most people). Here’s some advice about to do about your roomate:

1) DO NOT try to pick your roomate yourself. I made this mistake, unfortunately. I met a girl at cheerleading tryouts and we thought that we would become best friends, so we requested each other as roomates, and we got each other. The first semester of college was hell because of her and I wanted to drop out. We HATED each other, and were complete opposites. Let the college set you up with someone, and choose random on the sheet you have to fill out.

2) Unless it’s really bad, you’re unfortunately stuck with your roomate no matter what, so you have to try to make it work. If you have a problem with something that they do, tell them. If you don’t, the situation is just going to get worse.

3) Have time with your roomate; and time with yourself. I spent the first couple of weeks with my roomate when we moved in, and by the time the second week of school came along, we hated each other because we were around each other so much. Make sure you get out there and make other friends.

4) Get to know your RA. The best way to handle a situation if you can’t figure it out yourselves it to go to your RA. The more you know them, the more comfortable you will become with talking to them. Also, get to know your RD because they are ultimately the person who makes the changes.

5) Set rules! Your roomate will never know what’s bothering you if they don’t know how you want things to be. Make sure they know exactly what you want, and you know what they want, and you guys can agree on a situation. Don’t wait until it happens to bring it up, make sure everything is clear the first day you move in.

Subliminal Messages In Disney Movies

So to keep going along with writing blogs on the essays we write in class, i’m going to write this based on what i wrote about in my essay. There has been a lot of contraversy between blog posters and researchers that Disney movies have put subliminal messages in their movies to prove their point that “sex sells.” If you have or have not noticed this, you probably never will. The messages are so hidden that you can barely see them. And Disney has now taken them out of their movies and has had to republish them. The main one that everyone talks about is that when Simba is lying on the end of the cliff in The Lion King, the word sex appears in the sky and then the stars for to make a male part. Based on my research, this was first noticed by a four year old by whose parents now have an organization opposing Disney movies. I don’t see the point of why Disney did this. Either way, their movies sold and they should have stayed focused on their audience. Children aren’t going to buy movies because they think the word sex appears in it a lot. Disney messed up big time!

Anti Bullying

Even though this was probably the hardest essays i’ve ever written in my life, i think it actually had a useful outcome. I probably won’t get the best grade because it was hard for me and i didn’t know what to say, i actually learned a lot from it. i never realized how much bullying was an issue. i didn’t know about jamey rodemeyer and i certainly didn’t know it was interfering with children as young as fourteen years old. i didn’t know about bullying interventions but i agree with everything that the researchers said in their article. Bullying is a tough thing to take in, and it is a long and hard emotional recovery. Little things bothers some more than others and many people don’t even realize when they’re hurting someone or how bad they are. Bullying should be an issue taken more seriously because it’s leading to serious consquences. Fourteen year old should not be committing suicide for any reason. They should have no idea how to. Especially for being gay. That’s a whole other issue problem we have with bullying…

Reality Televison = Drama

Shows such as, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Jersey Shore, and Teen Mom are becoming to have a negative impact on my life. It’s nice to be able to sit down, relax and watch some reality television once in a while; but when it starts to take over your life, it starts to become a problem. Reality television is for people, like myself, who enjoy watching other people’s lives. Seeing how famous people live, how they got there, and what they’re doing today. But now, it’s starting to change my life. My mother has become so attached to reality television, it’s hard to believe she’s not really to a famous person! She wakes up in the morning and searches for her phone so she can look at the US magazine app that she downloaded. She has US magazines sent to our house weekly so she can check up on her “friends.” She’s always watching television so she can see everyone’s lives, and it’s like we don’t even know who she is anymore! She has watched Keeping Up With The Kardashian’s so many times, she’s becoming a fame whore, just like Kris Jenner. She now wants to get plastic surgery, she bought extensions, and wants to change her body. These shows are negatively effecting my life and need to stop airing!

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