about my revising

When I write a paper, I like to think through my subject before writing anything. I like to jot down ideas to sort all my thoughts out. I then try to come up with a way to organize my paper, and how it should be structured. Because of the process I often go through it takes me longer to write a paper. Before I start writing I like to know exactly where I'm heading. This also causes me to not have a lot of drafts. Usually I find that my final papers come out pretty good becasue of the thought I put into it before I start writing. And in this sense I'm constantly revising how I want to write a paper until I actually write it. I won't start writing a paper until I have revised it in my head the way I want it to be. I have also done various revisions of my work when given sufficient time. When I wrote a research paper I went through many different versions of the paper all with different strategies. I find however that time restraints can really hinder my work. And because I like to thoroughly collect my thoughts I find it difficult to often produce rough drafts on a scheduled basis. I find that for sentence and grammar errors, they are often corrected during the writing, and usually find little mistakes when reading over a finished paper. I will usually make some sentences clearer, and work with flow of the paper. And because of this I often find writing rough drafts as a step where it will usually become a final draft and have very little changes to it.

This blog is just written for an audience of many people. Mainly, though it is for my English class. I use other means to communicate ideas and thoughts to people I have an interpesonal realtionship with. I still do not change the way I write; I say what I want to say and say it like I would always say it. That was a very interesting sentence. This current entry is about how I write these postings on this blog. I take the prompts and respond to them with my thoughts. I'm really not trying to write to any audience, but I'm really just posting my current thoughts and writing these posts just to fullfill my homework assignment. For this reason, I don't censor out anything I say, not that I would really have too. The posts I make are not about any particular issues that I can see anyone getting offended by. Of course if I didn't have to write these posts I probably wouldn't. I would occasionaly post a topic or response to something, when I felt inclined to, but weekly writing posts would not happen if I didn't find it necessary. With all this said, I can honestly say that this blog has not impacted my writing in any significant way. Of course I don't think it was really supposed to.

Wrting

So I'm sitting here writing this blog, and I realize that the only reason why I'm doing it is becasue it's required for my English class. My blogs are shorter but yet very similiar to my essays. I try to write them both as if I'm talking. They are both very casual. But unfortunately I haven't seen my writing change through the semester. Where I write my essays hasn't even changed. I've always written my essays in my room. One thing that is different is I feel I don't have the adequate time to write good thought proviking essays. This is not becasue I don't have not been given enough time, but I just have so much other work to do in other classes. I'm also dissapointed that I have not been able to write as much as I used to. school has taken up a lot of my time, and get focus on the writing I used to do such as lyrics and just my thoughts. I also have to say the writing I do for English is the bulk of my writing, actually it's my only formal writing I do. At least I'm still writing. I guess I consider it a good thing.

Yep

Am I fitting in? It depends what it means to be fiting in. It’s a large campus with over 40, 000 undergraduate students. If you ask me how many friends I have made, I would respond with quite a few. If you ask me how many are freshman, I would respond not many. Living in East, and not being your typical freshman could label me as a person who does not fit in. But I still consider myself to fit in. I have found my own group to fit in with, the majority of them not being freshman. It is a wonderful thing that I don’t have the mindset of many typical freshman, The idea that I have to fit in, with my fellow classmates. Personally if I tried to fit in with the majority of the people on campus I would be succumbing my self to everything I hate. Now the question is: is it important to fit in? Does this make you normal? I say screw trying to fit in with people. Be who you have always been and you’ll fit in with the people who can accept you. As for Penn State, fitting in probably means conforming to the norms. And in this respect there is no way I fit in here. But of course I have found my place, my friends, and the ability to enjoy myself wherever I am.
P.S. To read the previous post just select the whole pagge and the text will show up. For some reason no matter what I try I can't change the font color and make it show up.

NHL

 November fourth, 1996, was a great day.  November fourth tends to be a pretty

special day for me, considering it was the day I was born.  But that day was

more special than usual.  But here some information that made that day so

special.  

               It started when I in was kindergarten.  It’s what we did at recess.  We would

even pretend to be are favorite heroes just so it was even more fun.  We would

get the sticks out and play with four people on each side.  We would always

alternate on who would be in goal, but I always enjoyed trying to imitate my

favorite player, Jaromir Jagr.  Trying to put the puck in the net stick

handling all over the place.  It was a routine after lunch. That’s when the

love started.  That’s what made the day so special.  

Receiving the envelope, I was wondering where the gift was.  I wasn’t just going

to get a card.  I open the card, and there’s a penguin on the front.  I open

the card, and there’s not even any money.  So I read the card.  “I hope you and

your dad have a good time at the game.”  I was confused.  And then I discovered

the card had a little pocket between the back cover.  And there they were.  Two

tickets for the Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Philadelphia Flyers, on November

fourth.  This was amazing.  I was never to a hockey game before.  I couldn’t

wait to go to the game.  

               Going to the game was one of the best times of my life.  And with the Penguins

defeating the Flyers 7-4 I couldn’t ask for a better birthday.  It is because

of this I have started my own tradition.  I make sure I go see the Penguins

every November fourth.  That day created a part of me that most people learn

when they get to know me.  I am a diehard Penguin Fan.

Vanity Fair

After a riveting game of midnight Frisbee, relaxation is much appreciated. Turn on the TV. and lye down on the bed. All is calm and peaceful. Something that is not common here at Penn State. Of course this is short lived, and the usual display of immaturity is presented on the floor again. It is inane and ordinary enough to not pay any attention to it. Explicatives and anger seem to fill the void that was once present. And then, SHATTER! It sounded like someone dropped a stack of plates. Leave the room and the glimpse of a guy in red exiting into the stairwell is seen. Movement further down hall catches the attention. A closer examination reveals the incident near the elevators. The all familiar instrument to everyone’s vanity or lack thereof has been devastated. Tiny shards encompass the area along with large reminisces representing the corollary of stupidity. All is not lost as a third of the reflective device still remains. This of course provides the opportunity to eliminate any actuarial evidence and to supply more frivolous enjoyment for the masses. Sleep seems more important, so indulgement of the bed is appropriate. The all too familiar excitement raging from the halls leaves the mind in a quizzical state. I pretty sure this never happened at home.After a riveting game of midnight Frisbee, relaxation is much appreciated. Turn on the TV. and lye down on the bed. All is calm and peaceful. Something that is not common here at Penn State. Of course this is short lived, and the usual display of immaturity is presented on the floor again. It is inane and ordinary enough to not pay any attention to it. Explicatives and anger seem to fill the void that was once present. And then, SHATTER! It sounded like someone dropped a stack of plates. Leave the room and the glimpse of a guy in red exiting into the stairwell is seen. Movement further down hall catches the attention. A closer examination reveals the incident near the elevators. The all familiar instrument to everyone’s vanity or lack thereof has been devastated. Tiny shards encompass the area along with large reminisces representing the corollary of stupidity. All is not lost as a third of the reflective device still remains. This of course provides the opportunity to eliminate any actuarial evidence and to supply more frivolous enjoyment for the masses. Sleep seems more important, so indulgement of the bed is appropriate. The all too familiar excitement raging from the halls leaves the mind in a quizzical state. I pretty sure this never happened at home.

Penn State is a well known and respected University and it offers a plethora of opportunities for its students. The most well appreciated department here at Penn State has to be the engineering sector. I personally believe that without the engineering department, Penn State would become your average public school only known for college football. Now walking around campus I see a lot of construction. Now this construction is mostly in the form of new buildings around campus. There’s the new food science building, the demolition of the two old engineering buildings, and the site of future baseball stadium. Now all this can be seen as an attempt to further develop and facilitate the learning of Penn State students. The new food science building will be a great addition to the Penn State campus. It will definitely give way to new resources that have been definitely deserved. And the demolition of the old engineering buildings is being done because of the new architectural engineering building recently completed. Now as far as I’m concerned it seems that those buildings were perfectly fine and could have been to good use. Instead I believe a new parking lot and a new entrance to the alumni building is planned to fill the newest void created on campus. And the new baseball stadium to be built is located strategically near beaver stadium, where it will be seen by thousands of people. Now this construction work can be interpreted in two ways. First, it can show the eliteness that Penn State claims to be. When people come to visit the college they are sure to notice these newest editions. But these newest additions can also be seen at attempt to make the campus just a shell, a symbol that only counts on the outside. In this regard I think the campus succeeds at doing this. As a typical public school, Penn State strives on what it looks like. The campus succeeds at making itself a good looking campus to attract people. But this mentality also portrays the Penn State’s lack of regard to its brethren branch campus’s. With all this money being put into these new projects, money to branch campuses is rather minuscule. So Penn State definitely succeeds at making itself a nice campus, but also remember where the heart of the academics is. It’s in the engineering department which doesn’t have the newest buildings. So the last question is does Penn State really care about its students and the gain for knowledge or is Penn State just concerned with looking pretty. Well I personally believe that academics aren’t the number concerned here, but you are entitled to your own opinion. It’s amazing how much you can get from a bunch of construction projects. Penn State is a well known and respected University and it offers a plethora of opportunities for its students. The most well appreciated department here at Penn State has to be the engineering sector. I personally believe that without the engineering department, Penn State would become your average public school only known for college football. Now walking around campus I see a lot of construction. Now this construction is mostly in the form of new buildings around campus. There’s the new food science building, the demolition of the two old engineering buildings, and the site of future baseball stadium. Now all this can be seen as an attempt to further develop and facilitate the learning of Penn State students. The new food science building will be a great addition to the Penn State campus. It will definitely give way to new resources that have been definitely deserved. And the demolition of the old engineering buildings is being done because of the new architectural engineering building recently completed. Now as far as I’m concerned it seems that those buildings were perfectly fine and could have been to good use. Instead I believe a new parking lot and a new entrance to the alumni building is planned to fill the newest void created on campus. And the new baseball stadium to be built is located strategically near beaver stadium, where it will be seen by thousands of people. Now this construction work can be interpreted in two ways. First, it can show the eliteness that Penn State claims to be. When people come to visit the college they are sure to notice these newest editions. But these newest additions can also be seen at attempt to make the campus just a shell, a symbol that only counts on the outside. In this regard I think the campus succeeds at doing this. As a typical public school, Penn State strives on what it looks like. The campus succeeds at making itself a good looking campus to attract people. But this mentality also portrays the Penn State’s lack of regard to its brethren branch campus’s. With all this money being put into these new projects, money to branch campuses is rather minuscule. So Penn State definitely succeeds at making itself a nice campus, but also remember where the heart of the academics is. It’s in the engineering department which doesn’t have the newest buildings. So the last question is does Penn State really care about its students and the gain for knowledge or is Penn State just concerned with looking pretty. Well I personally believe that academics aren’t the number concerned here, but you are entitled to your own opinion. It’s amazing how much you can get from a bunch of construction projects.