Unhealthy for you

We all know that the key is moderation....

How many times have we heard that such and such is bad for you?

In fact it makes me want to ask, whats NOT unhealthy for you?

Whether or not you use moderation, everything is pretty much bad for humans....they must be since no one has yet to be able to live forever or at least for over 120 years (who would even want to?????).

But of course just because of that doesn't give us all the right to shove onto others unnecessary unhealthy behaviors...for example:

If you want to kill yourself with cigarettes thats your right, but i don't want to smell it.

The problem is that people tend to carry their bad habits into other peoples bubbles....don't share it, keep your bad habits to yourself.

inconsiderate roommates

i would rather commute at this point because my roommates are some of the most disrespectful people you could possibly meet.

It is the night before finals.

And what are 2 of my 3 roommates doing? They are loudly as usual playing Rock Band. No matter how many times I ask for them to keep it down they don't listen.

It angers me. The RA won't do anything about it.

I don't care if they want to fail their finals, but I shouldn't have to suffer because of it.

I mean these are some of the most fucking dumbest people to step foot on earth.

I wish they would use their brains. THIS IS FINALS WEEK YOU MORONIC LOSERS, INSTEAD OF PLAYING GAMES AND PREVENTING ME FROM STUDYING, GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASSES AND STUDY AND MAKE USE OF YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATIONS!!!!

one of these girls doesn't even go to class at all....why am i not surprised????

On top of that, they usually play until like 1:00 AM.

It costs to change your room...

This is a good example to the disadvantages of not being able to choose your roommates.

The movie just goes unwatched

I bought two raunchy movies in the past, that I have seen a gazillion times and thought were great.

But now I am questioning them.

The movies are Clerks II and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

I think I may be outgrowing the nature of those movies.

Have you ever bought some movies, loved them at the time, and then realize that they have been sitting there going untouched for the longest time?

I love comedy, but I am outgrowing some forms of comedy.

I am starting to go back to my childhood like roots and enjoy family comedies again. I dunno, I am just sick of the nature of movies like Clerks II. I am sick of movies that are supposed to parody real life or satrical films.

I am just done really.

The movie I am currently trying to save up for right now is Apollo 13, that is the kind of movie I am into at the moment.

I bought Twister and Catch Me if You Can and a few other movies recently like that.

I think I am ending that chapter of my life, that chapter of liking crazy teen/college comedies where the characters are getting drunk having sex and being a total dick-ass.

I am growing up and moving on....

Comprehension vs. Memorization

It wasn't until now, a week away from finals, that I finally realized exactly what makes my psych tests soo frickn hard.

Its not just the usual problems of not getting everything the professor says written down. Its not just the problems of not making sense of what he says (how good of a professor someone is is based on how they lecture).

But what makes his tests so hard is that they aren't about memorization as much as they are about comprehension.

Some of his questions are not exactly in the way he phrased things in lectures, they derive from it, meaning, you had to process and comprehend the mechanisms of the topic in order to correctly answer the question.

We all come from the high school way of testing, meaning just memorizing.

Some and myself included have always though memorizing included comprehension, but I just realized that it doesn't.

Comprehending and processing something is taking memorization a step further. With memorizing, you are just touching the surface of things.

But when you process and try to comprehend it, not only do you memorize the surface but you go deeper and find fuller understanding of how something works or is.

For instance, when it comes to classical conditioning, memorizing would be just to memorize what each part of classical conditioning is, and what each of those functions do.

But someone who wants to process, understand, and comprehend it will try to make sense of how it works, why it works, and try to understand its whole process.

I am realizing this is what makes college tests so hard, you have to process this stuff, actually try to understand it, not just memorize it.

Things I am Learning about Campus Living

In a sense, I am glad that I am living at a university very close to home, because I can hop on the light rail train, get on a bus and go home if I need to. The original choice of school that I was gonna go to last year was hours away...now I am thinking that I was being very irrational and silly about that. Maybe this is my silver lining.

But here are some things I am learning about living on campus:

1. Living with strangers is not so great if you are typically anti-social. I have 3 roommates, each of whom are stuck up. They often accuse me of things because lets face it, they can get away with it. I am the odd girl out, I stick out like a sore thumb. I am their perfect Fall Girl.
2. If you can live in your own dorm/apartment or have minimal roommates, GO FOR IT. The more roommates you have, the more drama.
3. I have learned lessons such as: Never take sides, it will work against you. You truly can't please others and its not worth trying since some people really don't want to be pleased because they don't like you. I have found that I need God. I have no one to really turn to and what I am going through in this dorm is pure hell.

Venting helps

Sometimes we are in situations where we have absolutely no control. It can be daunting and hard. Bottling up emotions can be painful because we all need to let it out.

But lets face it, it only feels good to vent, where there is someone on the receiving end to listen to it. When there is no one, and its just you yelling into air...or even typing in a blog, it doesn't alleviate any of the pain. In fact it just gets your anger broiling hot.

The disadvantage is that if you are a loner like me, you have no one to vent to.

Why private healthcare is against universal healthcare

I am a full supporter of universal healthcare, but I also believe it should all be by choice. One shouldn't have to take universal healthcare if they don't want or need it. One should be able to have private health care.

You see, the private HC industry doesn't want universal HC for one real reason...they'd actually have to make their HC plans more worth your while to keep your money.

Its like how an electric car would be a threat to the oil industry. Some businesses don't want competition because they know that everyone would go to the other side because of the horror stories and unnecessary expenses they have to pay for private insurance.

Lets face it, if they had to face real competition, they'd actually have to give you good deals to get you to come their way. Poor people who can't afford healtcare anyways are no loss to them in the first place.

We all know that there are going to be setbacks to universal health care...but its just unfair that the poor can't even seek help because its just to unbelievealby expensive.

If you can afford private healtcare all the power to you. But don't deny those a right to live or have healthy fulfilling lives just because they are poor. Remember...if everyone was rich...America could not possibly exist. There has to be a poor class...and well the poor obviously can't have what those with money do have.