Hi everyone, this semester was a job. I finally ready to leave and go home. I know that sounds weird but i have been ready to go for a while, just not home. Its really the end and i don’t feel any different from when i got out of high school for the summer. guess that’s why most people don’t have much to say when people ask them how they feel about completing their first year of college. I know i’m going to have to answer a lot of those questions and i know that people are going to be expecting long and drawn out explanations, but i honestly don’t feel anything. This school reminded me so much of high school that i don’t feel like i am leaving a college. The only thing that makes it evident is the plane ride that i have to take home. All of this is irrelevent though, so let me get on topic. Before i do i just want to say that i enjoyed the class and the many discussions/ arguments between Dr. Homan and Sonia. Also, learning about what i believe in was an experience.
Well, on to the topic; this semester my project was to lower the dependency of the world on technology. This of course is an on going project, but to start things off i petitioned against technology, by speaking to friends and family on the how controlled our world is on technology, decreased the amount that i use technology(which was hard), and i even wrote letters to the mayor, the community coordinator of a district in my home town, the Dean of Xavier University and the NAACP. No, i didn’t get a response. I thought the first time that maybe it was possible that a mail error could have occured or something, so i revised the letters and sent them out again and i got no response. I concluded that my idea wasn’t very important to them and that i was going to have to do the project alone. My feelings were hurt a little, because i was blown off so easily and no one thought that my letters would be responded to anyway, eezcept me. So on top of being blown off i had to here i told you so. It is hard to suck up a loss and keep going, so after that happened i slowed down a bit on my project and focused on other classes. I know i should have pushed even harder then, but pride is a complicated thing. I decided to again revise the project to make it more appealing. So i read a few of the comments to my blogs and started revising the way that i approached the topic of my project. I researched a little and found out why the defeceit is so high and why it is hard to build up more schools and homeless shelters and rehibilitation centers. I did this to understand what i am going up against instead of just being upset and quitting. This sounds like a lot right? Well it wasn’t. Once i had done all of these things and continued to talk to people i called my cousin who stays in Detroit, Michigan and told her about my idea. I was only venting about school and never expected her to take an interest in what i was saying, anyway she called a friend of her’s and they called a few people and now i have a meeting with the project and community service coordinator of one of the local businesses at home. No, it isn’t the community coordinator of a district, but it is a strong start and a nice support system if he likes my ideas. I know that this is a future thing but i had to tell you. My idea of not using my cellular phone and television and other appliances unfortunately failed. I tryed really hard, but it was hard not to use the alarm clock, or turm on the television after a full day of classes and studying. I know that i should have sucked it up and sood up for what i believe in and my project, but man i just couldn’t do it. I didn’t get much support on campus for my project. Most people started arguing the point of how much good technology has done and blah, blah, blah. I already knew what most of the people were going to say before they said it. It was almost like they were programmed or something. I laughed most of the students smart remarks off and went on about my business, but that was that. I haven’t accomplished much of anything else this semester, but i do plan on doing quite a bit over the summer.
I plan on working with my cousin and the guy that i have an interview with back home and get a petition together with people who believe in my project. I dont yet know who i am going to send my petition to but i do know that i need to do so. I guess on some level that is a start. My project seems like it won’t do much now but that is how most things start out and there are always people who will say that things can’t be done. It is hard not to blog on the furture and have already said too much. So i’ll try to get back on topic.
This semester……what else did i do? I carefully planned my project and tried my best to implement what i could during the semester, i didn’t devote the time that i should have and i think that if i had i would have had better results. My project wasn’t all bad though because i learned a great deal even if people didn’t learn from me. Im sure that they did because my project wasn’t a typical project that would come up and it goes against a lot of things that go on around the world. I don’t feel at all acquired that i have a different opinion than those people who are around me and a different opinion than my mayor even. I look at the situation as educational for everyone, because i see how my research and ideas can help and maybe the reason that this hasn’t been brought to anyones attention is because no on had the time to notice. I think that it is a great responsibility, but i am incredibly honored if this project goes as far as i know that it can.

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