Goodbye Buckley!

Tomorrow is my last day of classes at Buckley and it's so surreal. I don't think it's really sunken in yet that we're all leaving what has been our routine, our home every day. This goodbye is bittersweet because I know that although I am leaving behind this phase of my life, I am entering a new, unfamiliar, and exciting one. So goodbye Buckley! I really am going to miss you.

Creative Blog

The Tallest Man on Earth is the band and Kristian Matsson is the man (just as Bon Iver is the band and Justin Vernon is the man). His songs are raw and catchy and I've been a fan for a while. So when I heard he's going to release a new album in June I got very excited. Yesterday, they released a single called "1904" and I cannot stop listening to it.

Rolling Stone is allowing people to listen to the MP3 for free on their website, here's the link... http://mp3.rollingstone.com/download/1904.mp3

Here is my favorite of his songs called "The Wild Hunt."

College Packing List

What to bring to college:

1. Bedding

2. Computer

3. Planner

4. Backpack

5. Lamp

6. Pictures or friends and family

7. A warm Northface jacket!

Because it looks COLD!

Creative Blog

Another type of blog I would post about is "how to." Here, I can introduce ways of completing tedious tasks or fun ones by introducing step by step instructions. For example, http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8BXSBu/:+fEVs4uE:GCeb188T/juliannakunstler.com/art1_opt_des.html/

This shows how to make a cool design with very simple steps which I found on a website called stumbleupon.com

Creative Blog

If I were to do my own blog, I would like to not only include photos, but also art and design findings on the web from around the world. There are a lot of bands that use interesting and new ways to convey this through music videos. Some of my favorites are from OK GO. I would post my favorite from youtube, but I'm using a school computer and it wont let me access it. But it is called "This Too Shall Pass" the Rube Goldberg version. It's very compelling and interesting to watch, and the music isn't too bad either.

Creative Blogging

On the blog that I was describing before, thisiscolossal.com, the author does a special photo preview every week called "Flickr Finds."So on my blog I would like to do something similar called Tumblr Finds. Here are some photos I came across on tumblr this week.

Info on Classes

Here is the courses available for the program that I am interested in at The University of Michigan. Some other courses I found interesting in the course catalog are...

101         The Mass Media

11448 P RW DIS         005 F 11-12PM 1-2PM

Academic Writing&Lit

17722         P         REC 003         MW         230-4PM 230-4PM

11636         P         REC 005         TTH         230-4PM

223         Creative Writing

11725         P W         REC 006         T 6-9PM

Art of the Essay

11763 PW         SEM 001 TTH 4-530PM

411 Art of the Film

24520 PWLEC001 M 6-9PM

What is History?

LEC         001         TTH 1130-1PM

Plagiarism Policy

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/undergraduate/advising/plagNote.asp

The plagarism policy at The University of Michigan is very typical. I expected most of what was explained on the website. There are many policies explaining how works should be cited in english papaers, and rules against stealing other’s work. However, I was surprised to see a rule in which a student is not allowed to submit the same paper, or portions of the same paper, twice for two different assignments. I am glad I was aware of this, because I am not sure that if the opportunity presented itself where I was able to submit the same paper for an Intro to English class as well as an Intro to College Writing class, I would not sieze it. Now that I am aware, I will definitely be sure to write every paper assigned, individually.

I have written to a student at Michigan named Ilana Black, who I know because she gave me my first tour of Michigan last year as a student tour guide in November. We have kept in contact and I e-mailed her last night with a few questions regarding classes I should take, shouldn't take, and overall advice to an incoming freshman, as a senior now leaving the University. As soon as I recieve a response, I will blog about her answers.

Course Catalog

The course guide is VERY long and takes a lot of sorting through. I’m now looking through the courses for LSA. There are courses all the way from Human Rights Activism to Ceramics to Russia/Ukraine Film. I am so excited to be a part of a school with such diverse classes. I know for sure I will be taking at least one English class and one Math class and possibly a Spanish class, but it is very exciting to know I will be able to branch out and challenge myself with different types of classes that I am not used to taking in high school. 

University of Michigan Course Catalog

I found the University of Michigan course catalog online and am very intrigued by the different courses available. I can deduce that the courses I am required to take are basic English and Math courses and a language class is recommended (I would probably take Spanish). I would also be interested in taking a photography class if possible and maybe a psych or communications class. I am also trying to get into a program based around English and Art , called the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program,which would require me take a Intro to Photography or Intro to Drawing class and also a Intro to College Writing Class my first year. I am attending orientation in June and will be able to take placement tests and choose my classes then. 

Sex and Love Poems

“Safe Sex” is by far much more in favor of having sex without love. Hall is very straightforward with his position on such an event. He uses words that directly describe love in a negative way such as “frenzy” and “humiliation.” In Sharon Old’s “Sex Without Love” the author seems much more confused as to how this is possible. She starts with questions because she is baffled by a physical relationship without love. Two very different views are portrayed in "Safe Sex" and "Sex Without Love."

Blogging Further

If I were to really blog, I would start with something like what I found yesterday online. It was on a Photographer named Shizuka Yokomizo, whose “Dear Stranger” is among the most complex andinnovative photography projects I have ever come across.  

The premise of the project was to leave several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of apartments asking strangers to stand in front of their window at a specific time of night, allowing Ms. Yokomizo to take pictures of them from across the way and still remain anonymous as the subjects could only see their own reflection in the window in the darkness. This kind of different and strange creation is what I would center my blog around.