Coming Back

Coming back from Thanksgiving Break is both DEPRESSING and EXCITING. Depressing because, hello, you're coming back to school work and teachers and expectations of the real world. Exciting because, ha, three more weeks of school and then you're on Winter Break and the semester is finally over! This is probably the best thing in the world for an out of state student because they get to go back home!! Back home to your family, food, home, dogs, and oh my god FOOD!

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving break away from home was something. It was different and uncomfortable really. You get so use to your traditions with your family every year that when randomly that year comes and that tradition is taken away from you, it's overwhelming. It makes you appreciate all the little things that usually annoyed you on that day to push you to realize hey, I actually miss that. Or just being around your family when they might be the most annoying bunch in the world, I mean they still mean the world even when you're miles away.

R&B

Where are all those R&B songs the radio came out with the year 2000? Those slow jam songs, piano played with a fast tempo beat in the back, and a man/woman with a beautiful voice. The type of beautiful voice where you can hear them hit all their vocals with actually singing and not what they now call rapping. The lyrics aren't even close to the same anymore either, artists just jump straight into sleeping with someone with no strings when artists from the 2000s at least had the curtesy in trying to dine the person before asking for something. Where is that slow jam, singing, and curtesy?

When the time comes

Why is it that when the time comes to sit down and write a paper your mind goes blank? When you're laying in bed everything in the universe comes to mind to where it's like hey, I could write a book. But once you sit down at your desk the words can't even fall out your fingers and onto the screen. It's frustrating really, trying to get your point across or even an introduction. But then you finally do and you're satisfied and happy, until you get the paper back corrected from your teacher and they basically throw in your face your thoughts aren't good enough. Okay, exaggerating a little bit. But that's what it seems like sometimes.

Have You Ever..

Have you ever been in a quiet room (quiet room such as: movie theatre, classroom, meeting, etc) and everybody is usually paying attention to a speaker, instructor, or movie and then it creeps up on you, that cough. You know that cough that pops out at you out of no where because you swallowed the wrong way. So you're stuck in whatever quiet room you're in and there's you coughing for ten minutes straight. Trying to drink water to make it go away and sometimes you may not even have water so you're hoping the saliva in your mouth can help you save your life from embarrassed of ruining everybody else's attention on the main event. I've been through it and it's never a pretty picture.

Getting Sick

Getting sick.  It's makes top three on your lists of most hated things in the world.  It sets you back, it makes you feel weak, it get's you drowsy, leaves you frustrated, and worst of all SLEEPY.  Do you ever not think about your nose and all that it does when you're healthy? Or what about your throat and how easy it is to talk or swallow? Hm, what about your head, ever think nothing about your head? Because you're too busy thinking about all the other irrelevant things going on in your life. You don't appreciate all the little things your nose, throat, or head goes through until you're sick. Once you're sick, all you think is PLEASE get better. I promise I'll appreciate all your doings more if you just let me get back to being healthy! And then once again, it gets better, but you.. you're back at not appreciating the little things your body does for you once you're without them again.

Fallacies

Some fallacies are funny if you hear some of the examples and you have common sense. For example: False Dilemma Fallacy, "You're either with us or against us."  Well what if you really don't care who you're with. Or when your parents tell you, "Either go to college or work in McDonalds." Second example: False Cause Fallacy, I washed my car and then it rained. Therefore, washing my car causes it to rain." Assuming because of coincidence that it always rains when you wash your car isn't 100% true. Maybe you really just have bad luck when it comes to your car.  Or when you go out to eat at Wendy's for the first time ever and you feel sick to your stomach after that, that leaves you thinking Wendy's food is the worst. When really, maybe it's just you.

Sleep Schedule

It only takes one night.  One night to ruin your entire sleep schedule.  It could be Monday, it could be Wednesday, it could be Saturday, or it could be Sunday.  If you decide to sleep at four in the morning on any day of the week, chances are you're lacking sleep the next day.  And those chances are, usually more than half of the time, high.  You may not feel the sleepiness kick in the next day, but you sure will feel it the following day after the second.  Once you feel it then that's when it messes with you.  You start taking naps during the day, and if you not your body tends to feel too tired on the days you don't.  You tend to start staying up till three in the morning or maybe even two or five in the morning and then that's when you realize, Jesus my sleeping schedule is messed up!

The Sound of 2000

Can you hear the sound of the music the radio plays for us? The new sound that modern artists rap/sing to? Can you hear the difference between the sound from 2000 to the sound of 2015? I can. It's easy to distinguish which sounds go with what generation. Back then they had a slow jam type of feel to it. There were more words being rapped/sung and there was a purpose to their songs even if it talked about the same things that they still talk about now. Now the sound is upbeat, if not upbeat then flat out depressing. It's so obvious. The sound of 2000 is what's missed.

That One Late Night

It only takes one late night to ruin your sleep schedule.  One late night to ruin your morning.  One late night to get you feeling lazy.  One late night to get your eyes almost unmanageable to keep open.  Whether that one night was because of homework, partying, washing clothes, or eating, all those things can have a huge effect on how you're going to be the next day.  For example, I stayed up till 3 AM last night to redo a presentation project my friend lost on Waldo's library and so you could pretty much guess how I woke up. I can barely guess, I'm still half asleep.

Class Cancelations

Some of the best days in college are the days your professor sends you an email notifying you that class will be cancelled for the day.  Those days usually only get better when you realize that you only had that one class for the day. Even though it's might just be a fifty minute class, an hour class, hour in a half, two hour, or maybe even a three hour and a half class.  You come to notice that once you get to college, you begin to start losing sleep, even when you have a lot of time in the day sometimes, there really is never a day that you don't have something to do.  So for class cancelations, I appreciate you.

Never Know

It's amazing, all the things WMU has going on just for our (students) entertainment.  I've gone to see motivational/inspiration speakers, movie nights, bronco bash, plays, football games, etc.  Every time I go to one of these things I think every time, "what if I wasn't here?"  Really, what if I wasn't at WMU vs Central, Ameriville, or my best friend's brother's amateur MMA fight?  I wouldn't have learned or gained the memories made there.  Especially going to a play like Ameriville, it wasn't a choice of mine, it was sort of a mandatory thing for my FYE class.  But I'm glad it was because it was a different experience.  Listening to people's stories, watching all the time they took just to do a two hour play, the set up that took countless hours, and the thought behind the entire play line.. It's everything in an event that only takes two-three hours of your life that make-up some of the biggest moments in your life that you can always look back at and just think "hey, good thing I went there."

Late nights in the library

It is my first year of college and I've noticed I've spent the most time at the library than anywhere else.  The library has become my best friend, goto, my home, my lifesaver.  It really has.  I can't go to my dorm and study, or do my work, because I just get too comfortable and say the hell with homework.  I can't go outside and do my work because I get too distracted and I'd rather do something fun and productive.  I can't work around my friends because God knows I wouldn't even bother to take a backpack or book.  So I have the library.  I have the library for all the hours I do not have anything to do and even then, the things I have to do consists of me going to the library and doing it there.  So bam, THANK YOU Library for being my best friend, goto, my home, my lifesaver.

In Class With Carrie

After watching Carrie the other day in class we talked about the characters and what roles they played within the movie.  And this, I learned a lot from.  Really because I never thought into a person's role on a film.  I never thought about really who was good and who was bad, or who was good was really bad and who was bad was really good.  All this depending on which point you're looking at it.  And it's so crazy because even the person that's good, if you look really into it may have the worst intentions and the person who is portrayed as bad may have really, the right intentions.  Which is pretty messed up, but at the same time pretty cool.  Pretty cool.

Headaches of Tests

You know when you study and study and study and endlessly study for an upcoming exam and by the end of it you feel like you have everything down?  Your friends can quiz you on certain theories, words, philosophies within the unit and you can answer them like you're giving off your first name.  Then when the day of taking your exam comes you get in there with your highest confidence ever met and you sit down, wait for that test to come to you and once it does you open the first page and then.... then... well then you realize you don't know jack.  Isn't that so funny?  Then you do the best you can and after you turn it in and leave you're just thinking what the hell?  I just bombed that test.  Does it make sense?  Nope.  But you have another exam next Thursday, so you have to get over it and hope it doesn't happen to you again. (-:

Beneficial

I find that just getting some sleep can go a long way for me.  Life can seem like a major headache with school, jobs, relationships, family, etc.  All of these things that can hit you in a way most other things can't usually have the simplest solutions.  For me, just laying in bed and taking a nap or just going to sleep for the night always solves my biggest problems.  These obstacles in life really are never as big as they seem, but once you start putting them in a position where they can take it's tool on you, just go to sleep.  Displace yourself from life for a few hours and once you wake up, you'll have a  clear head and you can just continue walking through life the way you want to and not the way your emotions and thoughts are pushing you to.

The Headaches of Procrastination

Headaches.  Headaches is all I think of when it comes to studying.  Why?  Maybe because it requires something so simple really requires so much.
First off, it requires having to get yourself to sit down.  Not just sit down for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or just 1 hour, but for over 2 hours!  I mean you really don't have to sit there for 2+ hours, but if you really don't want that B, C, D, E, F, yeah just prepare to invest in a nice comfy butt seat.
Second off, you really need to throw all distractions out the window.  I'm telling you, conversations with friends and checking your Snapchat really kills time!  It's really easy not to learn anything.  Third, you need to make sure you've had your rest before you go out to go study.  If not you'll be stuck reading ten pages and not understanding one, then you'll find yourself waking up with pen marking all over your face.. Don't be Josie Grosie from Never Been Kissed..

Babbling

 Listening to 11 30 for 30 Freestyle by Drake, he throws in a couple of words in Spanish.  Just like he did on the track, Odio featuring Romeo Santos.  Usually it's kind of funny when you hear somebody speak Spanish when they normally don't.  But in music, it doesn't sound funny.  When an artist spits out Spanish words randomly on their track, when they normally do not, it gives it a twist-a little bit of an drawing you in feel. Listening to it on their track they sound so confident with how they rap the words, so it sounds good, great even.  Even though the artist thinks they sound weird, the confidence helps cancel that weirdness out.  Confidence=Art.

First Time Bloggerz

Justine Ramos is my name and I have a confession to make.  I have something that I really need to get off my chest because it irks me at least once a week.  Usually this irking feeling I get, specifically hit me on Friday's.  Maybe possibly because every Friday I am reminded of my academic advisor who helped me pick the classes I will be taking for my freshmen year of college.  And my awesome *sarcatically speaking* academic advisor hooked it up with a three and about a half hour ENGL 1050 class that I pretty much dread because: food & dislike for reading and writing.