Return on Investment

Every time my mom and I have a conversation about majors it seems so circular. Not in the bad circular where we're going back and forth angrily about my choice of majors (because she still doesn't know) but more that she continues to "encourage" a public health major

THEN

Goes on this tangent about choosing whatever you want. "Parents worry because they want to make sure they get the most out of their investment of 40 thousand dollars. I mean, if you work something and hate the situation or hate what you're doing, just take the classes to change careers WHILE you're still working. People change careers all the time, it's a shame it didn't work the first time around, but it happens. But if you want something enough and you're willing to work for it, then it's fine."

I understand where she is coming from. I could've gotten offended and believed that all I was to my mom was an investment, nothing beyond making sure they spent their money in the right place, as in if I messed up, I was simply a waste of money.

But it's not like that.

I admit that I don't know where Lit Journalism will take me. I'll admit it's nowhere near as secure as something in the health care field. But if you ask me, going for the health care field seems like the easy way out with the hardest journey to get there. Lit Journalism will be hard too, but I've already taken steps to get there. If I wanted to get into Public Health, I should've been taking more public health classes, chemistry, and biology. I should've joined the public health association on campus, but I went to the New University orientation instead.

If I can get into Intro to Literary Journalism and Reporting on Literary Journalism, next quarter, then the deal is sealed.

By the way, this is documentation for the future in case I actually do end up saying all that.



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Enchiladas

Well I told my mom about my venture into the world of the New University and the possibility of getting published. I told her about how I was going to write about the skimboarding competition and possibly become a staff writer for the newspaper. Her response? *Slight pause* "These enchiladas are a lot like the ones from Las parillas."

Should this be considered an FML moment? I'm not going to look at it that way. She also called out the fact that I'm not taking any science classes this quarter. I'm not about to give up on this now. The commitment has been made. Should anything happen now, I'm going down with the ship.


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Stoked a bit

Some big things are in the making right now, amigos. This is a good way to start the year. Of course, my classes are going well for now, I'm actually more confident that I can get straight A's now which is always good right? Right. And I've been playing tennis at least twice a week now so it will always be a good time when I'm on the court.

Most importantly, I proposed an article to the UCI newspaper, New University and they accepted it. So the weekend of October 17/18 I'll be attending a profession skimboarding competition in Newport and writing about it. I'm pretty stoked because the policy is to have 4 article written before I become a staff writer and get paid for writing, plus I get the experience and published material...and get paid...but that's neither here nor there. I'm actually a bit nervous about writing it, I mean I've written for the yearbook before, but never had my name directly attached to it, but this is like big time bold letters that basically attach IF HE MESSES THIS UP, HE IS STUPID!! It's a little intimidating. I think yearbook lured me into a feeling that I could be well known by taking pictures. Pictures sometimes required no explanation because everything is there before you. But this is different. However, I'm channeling all the positive feedback I've received from people who read this blog to helping me write this article well. You all are pushing me to bigger and better things and I couldn't be more thankful for you.

I'm not sure if this is what my mom meant when she said to get my grades up. Seems like I'm doing way more than I was last year, but this might be good because I'll have to set specific times to study and things like that.

Another reason for getting the GPA up is requirements for studying abroad! Woo hoo! I know for sure now that I will be heading across the pond to Europe, unless there are outstanding circumstances to which the alternative will be Aussieland. But yes, I would like to go to the UK or Spain since I have to take so much spanish I might as well put it to use right? But I need at least a 3.2 to be able to go. Time to step up the game and get it.

Thanks for reading kids. This was a long one. Whew.


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Somewhat fixed

Well unfortunately I can't make my blog take up the entire browser window and make the header image fit well so I've settled with this. I really like the header image and I can still set the photos to be uploaded as "large." Still looks alright. I might change the colors around a bit, but I'm pretty much set on this one.



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Major Construction

Well, it was suggested by one of my fellow readers/bloggers that I should reformat my layout so that way pictures and videos could fit to their full size. I successfully did that and then just went HGTV-Extreme Makeover: Blog Edition-Flip This House on Wombat Soup.

My only problem is the picture in the header. I would like it to extend all the way across the top without requiring visitors to have to scroll sideways to see the entire thing. Any HTML wizards are welcome because I have 0 experience in it.

And any overall suggestions are welcome. I hope it's somewhat pleasing to the eye right now. I've been reading a lot about that stuff for my Film & Media class, things like soft colors in the background while the costumes are bright.

So from now on, the pictures and videos will finally be at their largest potential, and the colors are different, but the content will remain the same. I think that's the most important part.

I think the computer gods are LOL-ing at me trying to change this stuff.


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Insecurity

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Light Graffiti

This was my Friday night. This was legit. This will happen again.



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