Tuesday-September 30

I am currently an art major and I'll be applying to get into the graphic design program for next year, in February. I'm super nervous that I won’t make it and then my degree would be a 5 year degree which would cost more money and cause other problems. Anyways, I’m mostly in art classes and I have only been in class for a month and I already am learning so much. I feel like my skills are improving so much and just this last week I have learned a bunch about colors and how different colors can affect you psychologically and make you want to buy something or even make you want to eat something. It’s amazing what I’m already learning. I just hope that I can keep improving enough to get into my graphic design program, considering usually 100 apply and only 20 get in; it’s very competitive. I am hoping to learn and take in as much as I can before I apply. 

Tuesday- September 23

Last week I was assigned a paper about what has impacted my life the most; I wrote about me becoming a vegetarian. I have recently researched more stuff about animal cruelty and how slaughterhouses treat animals unethically and I am truly disgusted. It really sickens me that people can treat a poor animal with no respect and be so cruel to them. For example, chickens are tied by their ankles and hung upside down, then they are put in water that electrocutes them, and lastly they have their throat slit and put into boiling water. However, it’s quite common that the knife misses the chicken and therefore the chickens are put into the boiling water while they are still alive. It so sad to me that theses poor creatures are treated this way. Animals can feel the same way as humans can and how would you like it if you were treated like this? I one day would love to be an advocate for these animals since they can’t stand up for themselves.

http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/05/the-difficult-lives-and-deaths-of-factory-farmed-chickens/

Stuart Dybek

I just got back from Stuart Dybek's reading and to be honest here, I was so bored. He read some of his stories from his new novel Paper Lantern and it was awful. His reading almost put me to sleep because he read in such a monotone voice and it wasn't a very  interesting. I was hoping he would talk to us about how he got to where he is and how he became successful and whatnot, but all he did was just read a few of his stories to us. Some of them were very sexual and I felt very odd and uncomfortable because most of the audience was like 70 years old and then here I was and it was just weird. Apparently he writes very dirty and sexual stories from what I have heard tonight. Although it was boring, I had nothing better to do so my friend and I went.

Friday- September 19

This week in class we discussed the stories that we were assigned to read. We only had one class this week because our professor had a family emergency and cancelled class.  Anyways, we discussed two stories we read and then we were assigned a paper to write about something or someone that has impacted your life. I really hate writing papers and having a due date that is so close to the day it was assigned. I can’t think about what to write for this paper that is due in three days so I’m kind of stressing out about that. I wish we had like a week at least to write it so I could have more time to think of what to write about.

Tuesday- September 16

I am late to post this again, but that is okay. So I have six drawings to complete by Monday and I am very behind and kind of stressing. These drawings will take a minimum of 3 hours to complete and I have not started yet. I also have a lot of other homework so that's nice. I am pretty awful at managing my time well because lets be real here, all I really want to do is watch Netflix. I am currently watching this show called Scandal and whoever reads this should watch it because it’s great. Well anyways that’s about all I have to say. Have a fantastic day.

Friday- September 12

Even though it is now Saturday, I am going to make like it is still Friday so I can write my blog post since I had a very busy day Friday. During this week in English 1050, we made a class blog, which I am on at the moment. I thought class was okay this week. It was boring though because I hate reading stories and poems and I hate writing even more, which I have done both for class this week. I think this class will hopefully allow me to not hate reading and writing so much since it is very important in the real world. I currently don’t have any questions about anything I learned this week.

Introduction-English 1050

I'm Kendall. I'm 18 years old and a freshie at Western Michigan University. I am majoring in Graphic Design, art is life. I hate blogs and writing but this is mandatory so uh yeah. Yay for English 1050.