Ball State News

Well just got the newspaper today, and thank the lord I did because it was a well worth it this time. "Celebrating 90 Years of Storytelling" all through Ball State news. There are a few stories in this little booklet that I can relate to, or well at least say I have heard of them. I have never heard of the Ball State Streaking incident from back in the 70's, but it sounds like it was completely outrageous. With 5000 people in attendance on Riverside only 30 actually streaked, leaving with 6 arrested. Where did those days go? Why can't Ball State become united in ridiculous events such as this? It really makes sense that we don't but I'm just saying it would be interesting. The one rumor I did hear that relates to the 80's is that Ball State was the #1 party school, although this is false, Ball State was in the top 20 rankings of party schools. This party school image however has been shut down by Ball States efforts to recreate it in a more scholarly right. The 90's touch upon Ball State's Basketball sweet sixteen run. But the story I can relate to the most is the Ball State student shot and killed by a University Policeman. I heard this before I ever came to Ball State, and from what I read the officer put 3 bullets in his chest, and 1 in his head. Now if you ask me that is a little outrageous, the student was drunk banging on the wrong door because he though it was a friends house. The officer said the student charged him, and thus the incident broke out. Now it was a 100 million $ lawsuit that was dropped, but I feel it should have gone through because the officer never completed the police academy. Probably just my opinion though.

What else could I possibly write about......Well speaking on terms of the new scheduling system I find it interesting and  I guess I will decide for myself whether or not it is beneficial for me. From what I can tell I see it as fairly equal except for the athletes getting specialty picks. Organizationally structured from seniors through to freshman, with the the in between of  GPA's, honors students, athletes, and I'm sure whatever else you want. All I know is last time I scheduled I did not get the classes I wanted, well I missed a few with different professors but that is all, I really hope my adviser comes through in the clutch for me. I could use direction. 

Looking back over the weekend it was quite a wonderful experience. For one of those groups speaking on terms of Alcohol I really wish you would have recorded my party on Friday, it was something to see, well at least that is how I feel. Anyway continuing on, the weekend is always the biggest adventure of the week because no one knows, unless you plan on doing something socially isolated, otherwise I feel as if everyone and anyone always enjoys the weekend. It is nothing but good times with friends in an environment that only promotes fun. It's the freaking weekend baby about to have me some fun.

SCHOOL

I feel a nice rant of school is necessary to relieve a little tension. School, been going since I've been born, basically. If all school is, is to better your intelligence then in reality you have been going all your life, and will never stop. People never stop learning from day to day, but in the structured organization of school, it is more of focused aspects such as the regular classes being taught since forever, it feels like. Math, English, Science, Physical, Languages, Art, History, and whatever else I forgot but those are the basics. When it gets to the collegiate level it becomes more descriptive. You find yourself becoming funneled into one certain field, besides relearning all you did in high school as quickly as possible. But College, I feel it is a matter of time and respect for yourself to WANT to learn. I have heard it from a professor before, College should not be based on a grading scale or GPA's , but solely for those who want to learn. If you don't want to learn then what are you doing here, wasting money? That has been the clearest understanding of continuing education to me, there are people who want to learn, and from my view those who are to an extent forced to learn until they fail out. School is nothing but time management. Those who use it correctly succeed, those who don't struggle. But in the end yes you have a better % of becoming successful, but it is all about connections and people you know. There are, I'm sure, a good amount of people who have failed in school but become successful in another aspect of life, because of the people they know. That is all, and I feel better.  

Looking back into the past week I felt it was one of my most difficult yet interesting, and exciting if you ask me. The weeks are growing warmer as tests, projects, papers, and websites are beginning to be crumbled into the remaining time left of classes. Finals week is approaching and people are beginning to lose their minds. I however, have lost mine a while back and am trying to restructure it to put things into perspective. Crazy, but it does make sense, at least to me. Last week went through a great deal of agitation, and stress that all comes to an end with time. I had a presentation last week with the topic of Good Characters Gone Bad, in relation to the show Breaking Bad, I feel it makes the most sense. Hope I did well and good luck in the future. Also here is a little peace of mind video.

My Monday was a well played out action film if you ask me. For the past few weeks I have been riding to, on, around, and off campus on a bike with flat tires. It sounds worse than it is, because it still rides well but just requires more leg strength than normal, also you can make tight turns as I found out quickly. But I flew onto campus as a maniac stopping for no one in my regards, although I am fairly good at dodging students as they never watch where they are walking, which is why I like to off-road it as you could say and just fly through the grass only to dodge trees and squirrels. I guess that really is the largest action part of the day, a little anti climatic but whatever floats your boat. I ended up watching a little of the Cubs game and finished by watching "Breaking Bad" until around 4am for a presentation later in the week. A long lived Monday of doom.

As of my Sunday, I did not wake up in time to go to 7am mass with my mother and father, however I did manage to get up and be ready to go to my grandmothers house for breakfast around 9:30. This is a family tradition, and with all tradition there is the Easter egg hunt. Although you can never be to old for that I did not participate, I did hide the eggs for the smaller grandchildren though, and I had to do so all by myself. It may sound fun to hide the eggs, but to an extent it becomes annoying, nonetheless I did it and will admit I hid some so well I had to tell them where they were. Finishing up talking with family and eating breakfast I couldn't spend my morning better. I got home around noon and began to drink wine, mostly Oliver soft red and Moscoto, but it was delicious and prepared me to watch the ending to the Masters, or as much as I could before I rode back to Muncie with one of my roommates. This was the best day of the weekend by far.