college is a circus act

2006-11-13T16:54:00.000-08:00

for my social website i chose YouTube (here) because my little brother posts videos on it sometimes and they're pretty funny. i also seem to find clips on it that i can't find anywhere else. the site provides video clips from almost anything you could want to watch so it's very useful when you want to find an obscure clip. the site obtains the clips by it's users (like my brother) posting them, but it's not overwhelming because there's a very clear way to search for what you're looking for.

a competing site is msn video (here), and it is better in a way because it has more users to share the clips. but i prefer YouTube.

homework 6

2006-10-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

thank you to zoe for adding my blog to her sidebar. that is all.

2006-10-10T19:35:00.000-07:00

So here's the information about my sad and lonely google analytics account:

date range	visits	pageviews
October 4th-October 10th	1	1

2006-10-04T16:39:00.000-07:00

Soooo the two companies i chose for homework 4 are as follows:
(please note: the companies are VERY loosely related to my blog, because I don't really know what any of them are. but these are close, because they're related to my college experience which, after all, is what my blog is all about.)

Amazon.com

Reasoning:
I ordered my books online from Amazon.com. yes, I could have taken the easy route and just ordered them all from the university Barnes and Noble. They would have come all pre-packaged and I would be guarenteed of the correct edition. But that's so much money that could be spent on other things. Besides, where's the fun?

American Express

Reasoning:
This is the type of credit card I am using at school. Granted, I definitely didn't want a credit card. My mom pretty much made me get one. But again, related to my college life nonetheless.

i'm the opposite of creative

2006-09-27T14:35:00.000-07:00

sooo i've decided to stop pretending that my life is exciting enough to be a circus. because it's not. plus, it's hard to be creative like that when the contents of my blog are dictated by the homework i'm being assigned (of course, it's probably better that way, otherwise i would never post anything).

i liked a couple of the bookmarks on the class list, i would recommend them:

BU squirrel mail (because i had a hard time finding it the first time) here
Sparknotes (very helpful, i used to use it in high school to help me understand difficult reading assignments) here

AND the one that i added:

BU's Jewish a cappella group, Kol Echad, of which i am now a member, though our first rehearsal isn't until tomorrow blatant self-promotion

the license

2006-09-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

my blog is now legal and official. i chose the attribution/share alike creative commons license. i pretty much don't mind other people doing whatever they want with whatever i write about. but it would suck if they got creative and somehow managed to do something cool and i got not credit for it. not that that will happen.

so here's the link to the page:

i'm dealing with lions

2006-09-20T11:18:00.000-07:00

so, the whole "Office of Residence Life" is an interesting concept. i have a 'meeting' scheduled (aka hearing) because i was found in a dorm room that wasn't mine when the stereo was playing too loud. and not to belittle the point, but it was a friday night. not much studying was going on, i guarantee. that is right, i'm charged with violating the university's policy regarding noise. it's a little funny because i can't seem to take it seriously. i was in the room when my friend decided that he wanted to be cute and turn up the music all the way. am i going to tell him to turn it down? it's not my room. nevertheless, i have a meeting scheduled for next tuesday to
"(1) provide me an opportunity to present any information that i believe is relevant to this matter; (2) better understand the Boston University residential judicial system; and (3) discuss my role in the community."(cited pg.1 of 1, the letter from Mark Hanson, Residence Hall Director, at the risk of being charged with plagiarism).
if you feel the need to make sure you're not in violation of any code, which i would recommend, please see the BOSTON UNIVERSITY LIFEBOOK.

juggling torches

2006-09-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

everything in my life at this moment is a flaming stick. i can put something off by throwing it up in the air, but it always comes back down and needs to be caught eventually. and in the mean time, something else is falling and i have to catch that too. this is the critical time of the year where i have to juggle my new classes, my new friends, my new living arrangements, my new activities, and if i let any one of them drop without catching it, i won't be able to have it later on in the year when i will really need it. i have to stay involved with everything, or it might not be there later.