What a terrible Blog title. I mean really, I think I came up with better stuff in the fourth grade. I blame my roommate, someone needs to remind me to never ask him for help with a title again. Still, I guess it was kind of appropriate, since the two things I told him I wanted to talk about were RA applications and...well...zombies.
I'll start with the important one, zombies. You see, I've noticed something rather peculiar, an almost frightening phenomenon around campus. Thankfully, no one is walking around with oddly rotting flesh trying to nibble on other people's cranium. However, I have become fully aware of what seems to be a bizarre trend of conversation and entertainment among college students. Maybe I was just lame and this was a big deal beforehand, but it seems like conversations of zombie survival are expected to take place here in a way I have never entirely been familiar with. I really have no idea as to the propagation of it all. I can only assume we've all been infected as if by a disease of some sort, possibly viral. Man, that's awful humor.
Seriously though, tonight, while writing this, my roommate is playing Left For Dead, some other friends are playing Dead Rising on my x-box, and just down the hall some guys are playing Call of Duty Black Ops...Nazi Zombies, of course. So I guess my only point here is that if any of you have extensive experience defending against flesh eating monsters, or are even just enthusiasts about the undead, college, or at least my hall in Clay at Transylvania University, might just be the place for you.
So, aside from this rather amusing tidbit, school has been going well. I started today working today as a Natural Science and Mathematics tutor, in calculus specifically, even though I'm only a freshman. I'm actually really glad to have the position, not only is it potentially rewarding, but I get paid to boot! I suppose I should thank my first semester Calculus teacher for recommending me, it was honestly really nice to hear that this early on in my education, one of my teachers already has some sense of confidence in my abilities and or potential.
Speaking of jobs, I just recently applied to hopefully spend next year working as a Residence Adviser. For anyone not familiar with this position, RA's are residence life employees whose job it is both to enforce and maintain campus policies and to foster a powerful and supportive community among residents. It's an involved position with a lot of work and time commitment, but I also see in it potential for a lot of personal growth and reward. Externally, it pays room and board as an incentive, and internally, it an opportunity to take up a role of leadership and responsibility around campus, which I think is always a good thing. With any luck, I will have the privilege of being hired as an RA for the next school year.
So for now, that's about all I've got. School's good, zombies are good, and RA's are, well, hopefully good. The title of this post, in fact, is about the worst thing I can say about school at the moment...it's so abysmal.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
And We're Back!
Second semester, week one = complete. That only leaves me with, well, a lot to go. It's been an eventful first week back. Professors seem to be of a consensus that we are no longer meager first year students that require superfluous coddling; and so unless I'm an exception, workloads have increased significantly. Maybe I'm just a little sick, but for the most part, I don't mind the problem sets I'm being assigned in Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus, especially since some of the concepts we are getting to work on now are a little more interesting and novel than what I'm used to being exposed to. For example, in Physics we are studying electric field theory, or as I prefer to say, more generally, force fields. The mathematics of it is proving both constructively challenging and really quite intriguing.
Outside of academics, I spent this morning downtown making use of the Lexington Community's celebration of MLK day. As a result of originally innocuous conversation at dinner, I ended up agreeing to volunteer to help set up for an annual march downtown of a few hundred people. Granted however, setting up wasn't too terribly challenging, it mostly consisted of taping some papers, hanging some banners, and passing things out. Still, it feels good every once in a while to get out and see what non-Transy folk do with themselves, especially in commemoration of a great and historic figure. In many ways I think it's important as a student to try and put together that the work that we do in the community, or more importantly, our attitudes toward ethics and our ethical choices, are tied in a very real way to the abstractions we read, such as Letter from Birmingham Jail in my FLA 1 class by MLK himself.
For a short news video about the MLK day event I volunteered at, no more than half a mile from Transy, see this link -------> http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Celebrations_Honor_Martin_Luther_King_Junior_113892304.html
In other big news, one of the more longstanding and significant advances in my status here at Transy has changed today. I am now officially an active member of The Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, Beta Mu chapter at Transylvania University. I really just like hearing how long and official that sounds. But seriously, it's a major honor and milestone to say that I've come into brotherhood with so many amazing men. I know that even over the course of my pledge period, they have embraced me, and come to change me in ways that have only been positive. I can only hope that I can give back to my fraternity in the same way, and that this sort of symbiotic relationship may continue for the entirety of my stay at Transy.
By the way, aside from electric fields, I highly recommend looking into the history, politics, and pertinent philosophy behind the infamous Galileo trials. This is the current topic of my FLA 2 class "Mad Scientists 2.0" and consequentially is also the topic of my reading at the moment. I leave now to work on writing for it, and for I think it's fair to say that in this instance I'm excited about putting pen to paper. In fact, I'm excited about most everything to do with being back at school. It's good to be home, in a strange sort of way.
Outside of academics, I spent this morning downtown making use of the Lexington Community's celebration of MLK day. As a result of originally innocuous conversation at dinner, I ended up agreeing to volunteer to help set up for an annual march downtown of a few hundred people. Granted however, setting up wasn't too terribly challenging, it mostly consisted of taping some papers, hanging some banners, and passing things out. Still, it feels good every once in a while to get out and see what non-Transy folk do with themselves, especially in commemoration of a great and historic figure. In many ways I think it's important as a student to try and put together that the work that we do in the community, or more importantly, our attitudes toward ethics and our ethical choices, are tied in a very real way to the abstractions we read, such as Letter from Birmingham Jail in my FLA 1 class by MLK himself.
For a short news video about the MLK day event I volunteered at, no more than half a mile from Transy, see this link -------> http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Celebrations_Honor_Martin_Luther_King_Junior_113892304.html
In other big news, one of the more longstanding and significant advances in my status here at Transy has changed today. I am now officially an active member of The Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, Beta Mu chapter at Transylvania University. I really just like hearing how long and official that sounds. But seriously, it's a major honor and milestone to say that I've come into brotherhood with so many amazing men. I know that even over the course of my pledge period, they have embraced me, and come to change me in ways that have only been positive. I can only hope that I can give back to my fraternity in the same way, and that this sort of symbiotic relationship may continue for the entirety of my stay at Transy.
By the way, aside from electric fields, I highly recommend looking into the history, politics, and pertinent philosophy behind the infamous Galileo trials. This is the current topic of my FLA 2 class "Mad Scientists 2.0" and consequentially is also the topic of my reading at the moment. I leave now to work on writing for it, and for I think it's fair to say that in this instance I'm excited about putting pen to paper. In fact, I'm excited about most everything to do with being back at school. It's good to be home, in a strange sort of way.
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