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I didn't know what to write about, so I stole Emily's idea and wrote about my break...

Thanksgiving break was amazing. I can't even believe it's over. Nothing but a week of serenity, chilling at my dad’s house (my old house) in Long Island, playing Xbox and hanging out with my family.

            The week was set off to a rough start though. My way back home was with my brother who’s a senior here. Instead of most of my friends and the rest of campus who left Friday, because of him I had to wait till late Saturday to embark on hour 5-hour drive to Chesapeake. It sucked. I was the ONLY person who hadn’t left yet in my dorm. Even most of my pledge brothers had left. Friday night I ended up hanging out with the only two who hadn’t, my pledge brothers Marcus and Ryan. So seeing how we were all bored out of our minds, we ended up just chilling at Ryan’s apartment for most of the night, drinking cold beverages and playing Halo 4. This was the first time I’ve played Halo 4, and if you’re a fan of the previous Halo games then you would know how awesome Halo is. But this Halo was awesomer than most Halo’s; the best one they’ve made in my opinion. It was actually made by a different company than the companies that made the last ones. So there were a few differences, but they were all great. But anyways.. So after a while we all ended up going to my brothers girlfriends house so Ryan and Marcus can set up Christmas lights in her room for my brothers signature. ( My brothers a brother in our fraternity, and as pledges we basically we have to get all the brothers signatures by either doing something for them or just hanging out with them or something.) While we were there, Christine, his girlfriend, made us the BESTTT buffalo wings everrrr. Seriously, words fall short trying to describe how good they were. But after a while my pledge brothers left, and I spent the night there, thinking we’ll wake up at about noon and leave and get home at about 4 or 5. But boy was I wrong. Surprisingly my brother did actually managed to get up at noon, but then we went to get breakfast at this restaurant on Main Street. I forgot the name but it was really good. I had sushi for one of the first times and it was amazing. Plus they had really cool chopsticks; which I kind of stole, but that’s just going to be our little secret. J But finally after breakfast, we had to go back to my brother dorm because of course he hadn’t  pack yet. AND OF CORUSE he didn’t sign up for fall housing, so at this point his key didn’t work to get in, so we had to wait 20 minutes in front of East AJ for someone to walk by and let us in. Then finally he gets his stuff together and we get ready to leave. I help him drag some of his stuff into the hall, and as we’re waiting for the elevator he realizes he left his car keys in his room. And OF COURSE the door to his suite was locked, and his key to the dorm is on the same key ring as his car keys so we had to wait another 45 minutes for like the only RA on campus to get there and let us in. We didn’t end up leaving till 3, and finally got home at about 10 pm. But after that it was pretty smooth sailing as I slept, played with my dog, and tormented my little brother for the rest of my incredibly peaceful Thanksgiving break. 

Couldn't have said it better myself

Only a day away from the Election, and things are heating up. It almost seems pretty rare to go somewhere and not hear people talking about why “Mitts the tits” or who Obama is awesome and deserves a 2^nd term. COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to watch a music video or some other satirical video on YouTube without having to sit through a mudslinging “He voted for this, he ignored that” Advertisement.  If you don’t vote for this guy, the country’s doomed. Blah blah blah. It’s almost impossible to tell exactly what a candidate stands for now-a-days just because every commercial or ad you see completely slanders the other candidate and their policies. The following is a quote of what my brother wrote on his Facebook, but completely describes how I feel about our government.

“I'm a bit tired of explaining why I didn't vote this past election, so here's my stance on the matter and I'll just leave it at that.

I don’t vote on the presidential elections because changing our president doesn’t fix any of the inherent problems of the government. Congress and Senate both still operate on an ineffective black and white, two-party system that effectively prevents any real progress. Additionally, between the presidential, senatorial, and congressional races, both parties spent over $6 billion this election. Where do you think most of that money came from? It came from large corporations sponsoring candidates. This means continued corporate influence in government regulation, and more policies that bend us over in favor for these billion dollar companies. It doesn’t matter who is president, the way our government is ineptly structured right now, it just allows for corruption and small glimmers of progress every decade or so. How is the presidential election so focused on issues like gay marriage and abortion? It’s the 21st century, the answers to these questions have long been established to the educated half of the population. Why aren’t they focused on issues like advancing science and education, taking corporate sponsorships out of political campaigns, removing the reigns of our economy away from a small handful of the population, and increasing green technology and ways to stop selling out the environment for big business. Why aren’t we discussing the real issues that can actually propel the country to the next level in this modern age? Instead, certain candidates and the corporate-fueled media have people distracted from the real issues, and have us focused on why it should still be legal to withhold rights from certain kinds of citizens. And unfortunately, most of America is too ignorant and uninformed to know any better. So they will elect a candidate who, even if they wanted to, is unable to make anything more than a few minuscule changes due to the blind and corrupted congressional pawns of the two-party system, and the same inherent problems of America will remain untouched. And when shit hits the fan, everybody acts surprised and blames it on the President, when in reality; it’s simply the inefficient workings of our government coming to fruition. So that’s why I didn't vote in the past Presidential election.” 

Video Games and Whatnot

**DISCLAIMER** AT THIS POINT IN THE SEMESTER I’VE RUN OUT OF IDEAS TO TALK ABOUT SO I MIGHT RAMBLE ON, SWITCHING TOPICS FREQUENTLY, WITH LITTLE TO NO WARNING WHAT SO EVER!!

I wish my life were a video game. Any game. All games. To be Master Chief killing aliens and stuff. Speaking of which, I’m pretty excited for Halo 4 to come out. I forgot the date it releases to the general population. What I do know however, when it does come out, I will not leave my room for at least 2 in a half days. This includes not going to class (sorry Saunders), not taking anymore horrible quizzes in the empo, or  anymore stupid pledge stuff they make us pledges go to. Like tomorrow, (Friday, Nov. 2) they’re making us go camping overnight… First of all, it’s going to be SOOOO COLDD!! Ugh, just thinking about it is making my body shiver. If only this was the worst part, yesterday (Wed, Oct. 31) they emailed this LONGG list of STUPIDDD things we all need to buy and bring by Friday, including 7 pounds of cookie dough, 80 hot dogs, an ax, a shovel, and muchhhh more I cant really tell you about because we’re so secretive. (Not really) I have no idea what the brothers are planning on doing to us on this trip, but whatever it is, no way is it good. AND THE COLD!!!! :’( ß (Sad face.) L ß (Better sad face) ((Forgot I could make an actual one.)) But back to the halo thing, in the end of Halo 3, John, AKA Masterchief, freezes himself on a spaceship floating out into space, and it leads you to believe he dies. So after Halo 3, they came out with one or two other Halo games without John, which honestly kind of sucked in my opinion. This is why I’m very excited for the fourth one, in hopes that this one will be good. They even made a live action series with real actors, which leads up to the beginning of Halo 4. I’ve only seen the first one, which is like a 20 min long video, and it’s actually pretty good. But it would be so awesome if my life really were a video game. To be able to take a test, fail, then just hit the reset button and redo it. Or whenever I’m talking to a really cute girl, and say something stupid where it would turn her away, I would still have two more lives where I can try again.

They do it on purpose!

Don’t think for a second it’s a coincidence. There’s no way you would “just happen” have a test in all 5 of your classes in the same week. It was definitely planned. None of them will ever admit it, but all of your professors get together every so often, and debate on the best way to make your life a living hell. And what’s the best way to do that (Besides kidnapping you, strapping you to a chair, and making you watch every season of Glee back to back?) By planning to give their tests out on the same week! Everyday of that week! Leaving you no time to do to anything other than study; barely even any time to sleep, ESPECIALLY if you’re pledging. For those of you who are not aware, pledging takes SO MUCH TIME. It’s seriously like another taking another 4 credit class. Soooooooooo exhausting. That’s why I’m currently writing this blog at 3:00 am. I rarely have time to do anything anymore besides homework, sleep and pledge activities. Every Thursday about 3 or so pledges and some of the brothers go to SOB (Special Olympic Bowling) where we bowl with people with disabilities and handicaps. It was a lot of fun. Especially when any of them would bowl a strike, and they would get so excited and happy. You can really tell we’re helping make their day. Most of my other pledge brothers went a few times before, but today was my first time. I had a lot of fun. Hopefully I’ll get to go next Thursday as well. Although most Thursdays I have quizzes I have to take at the Math Emporium. I really do despise the Empo. I remember the first time I ever stepped in there… It was 8 am, day 2 of my orientation. I had to go in to pick out my classes for the upcoming fall. I thought the place was so cool. I walk in to this HUGEEE room full of Apple computers and whatnot. Then I sit down on the chair and its SOOOOO comfortable! (It might of just been because it was 8 am so I was still barely awake.) I actually thought I wouldn’t mind going there to take my math quizzes and tests… But I suppose that’s just how they get ‘cha. Honestly, It’s not the empo itself that I hate with the burning intensity of 2300 stars, but it’s the feeling of confusion and hatred from the math that I must do there that gets affiliated with the empo that bring me to despise it. Although the workers are really helpful, so that makes it alitte more bearable. Fun fact: The Archon (president) of my fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi, works at the empo. 

Tiger Mom

The other week, in my English class we were discussing topics and whatnot probably related to English. As usual, we often get off topic talking about all sorts of cool topics. I have not the slightest clue on how it was brought up, but one topic we started discussing was “Tiger Moms.” Now, I know what you’re thinking, and no it’s not another term to describe cougars. Apparently it’s a term to describe a stereotypical Asian mother/ parent; one that is really hard on their child about schoolwork and grades whatnot. Tiger parents are ruthless, willing to take down any friend wanting to hangout with their child, getting in the way of his studying. Just like a tiger in the wild, pouncing with great force to kill a gazelle. They are determined to make sure their child gets the best grades. Their child WILL be a doctor, engineer, or whatever else is really hard. Their child will have NO social life. Their child will BEARLY have any friends. Their child will NOT know who Scooby-doo is. Their child will NEVER catch a Pokémon. Their child will never find NEMO! Their child will never ALMOST catch Santa.Their child will get ONE cupcake for their birthday, IF and ONLY IF, their child did their math homework....IN THIR-TEEN LANUAGUES! Their child will never understand FUN.

            But seriously, apparently one “Tiger Cub” got a full scholarship to Harvard.. Now that’s impressive. Must be an extremely smart girl. She will defiantly grow up to be someone important, like being credited for the creation of Pokémon, or the maybe even the new House, hopefully minus the limp. That’s awesome. But at what expense was this achieved? The girl probably had ONE friend sleep over her house one time, and that was if she did some ridicules overboard schoolwork thing. She had no social life most of her life. For the best part of her life. For what should be the best part of everyone’s life… They’re childhood.

            Mary (In effort to avoid having to call her “the girl” 47 times, I’ve decided to name her Mary) may have a full ride to one of the very best schools in the nation, but it cost her childhood, and that’s a huge sacrifice. One that I don’t believe is worth it. Mary was deprived of getting to experience truly being a kid. From playing outside with the kids in your neighborhood in 3^rd grade to going to the movies with friends as a teenager, Mary never had a chance to do these things. While all the other kids were out having fun, Mary was inside, discovering that the square root of a negative number is called an Imaginary Number. That was her fun, or at least the most fun a Tiger Cub can have. Whilst other kids had imaginary friends, our poor cubs had imaginary numbers. But a child’s childhood is the most important part of their life. You only get the gift of childhood once, and then it’s over. Then you get to know wonderfulness of responsibilities. Responsibilities like having to work for a living and taking care of others. Being a kid is the only time someone will get to live life completely under the care of their parents, having fun, experiencing the world for the first time, forming likes and dislikes. Getting a pleaser to be a kid only comes around once, so don’t let these kids miss their opportunity.

            For only 5 $ a day you can save these poor Tiger Cubs, and give them more fun than they can imagine having, with numbers..