I think that it is extremely odd to be sitting here listening to the glorious songs of Christmas, while cramming as much information as my brain can fit at the current time.
Why does the best part of the year have to occur along with Finals, which can easily be argued as the worst part of the school year? What's worse, we have two sets of finals and only one Christmas. Someone somewhere hates college students.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
This may seem like blog overload, but I don't really care right now.
Have you ever watched a commercial and liked it simply because you knew the song in the background? I memorized the Chase Freedom commercial because the song by the Rolling Stones in the background is awesome. Also, I remember these two commercials from years long past that had cool songs and were about cars. One was about the VW Jetta and had a guy singing Mr. Roboto in his car. The other I don't remember as well, but it was about 8 years ago and was about some sort of car thing and had the song I can see clearly now as its theme.
Commercials really need to use great songs, so even if I don't like the product, I will listen just for the song.
Have you ever watched a commercial and liked it simply because you knew the song in the background? I memorized the Chase Freedom commercial because the song by the Rolling Stones in the background is awesome. Also, I remember these two commercials from years long past that had cool songs and were about cars. One was about the VW Jetta and had a guy singing Mr. Roboto in his car. The other I don't remember as well, but it was about 8 years ago and was about some sort of car thing and had the song I can see clearly now as its theme.
Commercials really need to use great songs, so even if I don't like the product, I will listen just for the song.
This has very little to do with class and is more some of those nonsensical ramblings I promised.
I was watching School of Rock(good movie, if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. Jack Black's character is definitely a bit more mature than some of his previous characters. If you don't like Jack Black, the movie is still good) and I heard this song near the beginning by the lead singer of the band that kicked out Jack Black and I thought that I recognized the voice. Then, at the Battle of the Bands, I heard the guy sing again and I thought, that really sounds like Adam Pascal(Roger, from RENT) and it was.
I know the ending of that story is kind of lame, but ask around and you'll see that most of my stories have great build-up and are a complete letdown.
Oh well
That's life.
...And then I couldn't finish my Chinese food.
I was watching School of Rock(good movie, if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. Jack Black's character is definitely a bit more mature than some of his previous characters. If you don't like Jack Black, the movie is still good) and I heard this song near the beginning by the lead singer of the band that kicked out Jack Black and I thought that I recognized the voice. Then, at the Battle of the Bands, I heard the guy sing again and I thought, that really sounds like Adam Pascal(Roger, from RENT) and it was.
I know the ending of that story is kind of lame, but ask around and you'll see that most of my stories have great build-up and are a complete letdown.
Oh well
That's life.
...And then I couldn't finish my Chinese food.
Christmas Music
Have you ever noticed that people who sing Christmas music(now anyways) are either not very good and just starting a career or they sing a Christmas song and disappears forever, only to be mentioned in those terribly, wonderful late-night infomercials where they try to sell you twenty c.d.s for 49.95 plus s&h?
I think that this trend is depressing for Christmas music is my favorite kind of music and I could listen to it all year long, but I don't want to listen to only the bad artists.
Maybe I should just listen to Adam Sandler's Hanakuh Song. That's quality stuff.
I think that this trend is depressing for Christmas music is my favorite kind of music and I could listen to it all year long, but I don't want to listen to only the bad artists.
Maybe I should just listen to Adam Sandler's Hanakuh Song. That's quality stuff.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Discussion Summary
I see that many people have summarized discussions lately, but I am actually scheduled to do so and therefore, there will be some overlap.
During the last week, we have talked a lot about Jamboree. Basically, an accurate summary of the discussion could be as follows:
Emily: Jamboree sucks
Nic: Okay, why do you think that?
The rest of the class and Emily: silence
Nic: Does anyone else agree?
The class: nods, blank stares, more silence.
As one can see, the class was not very productive on that Tuesday, but Thursday was much better. There was class discussion, once again about Jamboree, but this time about alternatives to Jamboree. The other class thought up a rather in-depth proposal about alternatives that involves courses about current events. Our class took that proposal and debated the pros and cons. I think about half the class thinks that the new current events based-course would be better, while the other half admits that Jamboree is not great, but think that a total new course is not necessary.
One good thing about the current events course is that there could be a more shared experience for freshmen, but with the various aspects of current events, I think that people would have the same differences as they do now. Also, with the system the way it is, there are bound to be at least a few different FYS's that a person is interested, but with current events, there could be many people who are only interested in one or two areas, which could fill quickly and cause problems. Personally, I think that neither way is great, but with a few changes, the current system could be improved immensely and that throwing away a whole course is how we got onto the current FYS system.
During the last week, we have talked a lot about Jamboree. Basically, an accurate summary of the discussion could be as follows:
Emily: Jamboree sucks
Nic: Okay, why do you think that?
The rest of the class and Emily: silence
Nic: Does anyone else agree?
The class: nods, blank stares, more silence.
As one can see, the class was not very productive on that Tuesday, but Thursday was much better. There was class discussion, once again about Jamboree, but this time about alternatives to Jamboree. The other class thought up a rather in-depth proposal about alternatives that involves courses about current events. Our class took that proposal and debated the pros and cons. I think about half the class thinks that the new current events based-course would be better, while the other half admits that Jamboree is not great, but think that a total new course is not necessary.
One good thing about the current events course is that there could be a more shared experience for freshmen, but with the various aspects of current events, I think that people would have the same differences as they do now. Also, with the system the way it is, there are bound to be at least a few different FYS's that a person is interested, but with current events, there could be many people who are only interested in one or two areas, which could fill quickly and cause problems. Personally, I think that neither way is great, but with a few changes, the current system could be improved immensely and that throwing away a whole course is how we got onto the current FYS system.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
December
Wow, I cannot believe that it is already December. These last few weeks have flown by. I was sitting here and just realized that there are only 21 shopping days left til Christmas. I must find Christmas Music.
Jamboree
Overall, I think that our booth went over fairly well. Many people stopped and watched the movie, because of the size of the screen and the fact that it was loud enough to actually hear. Also the signs in front of the booths gave info so that people could feel like they were interactive without having to ask the people manning the booth questions.
The best thing that we had at our booth was probably the lemonade because other than that and tea, there were no drinks. The tea was good, but very hot, and the lemonade was not.
People didn't really want to actually have to interact for enough time to do the lyrics thing, but me and the person I manned the booth with had fun trying to figure out what he was saying when the flow of people slowed.
The best thing that we had at our booth was probably the lemonade because other than that and tea, there were no drinks. The tea was good, but very hot, and the lemonade was not.
People didn't really want to actually have to interact for enough time to do the lyrics thing, but me and the person I manned the booth with had fun trying to figure out what he was saying when the flow of people slowed.
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