Re: Are you getting enough sleep?

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This blog is in response to Waimon's blog. I agree completely with what Waimon said about not getting enough sleep at college. One of my close friends had such a hectic schedule last semester with an 18 credit course load, field hockey and going out on the weekends, she rarely got more then four or five hours of sleep a night. Her ability to speak and think and work really suffered from this lack of sleep. I have to force myself to sleep each night so i get enough to function the next day, and even then i often drink two cups of coffee to get myself through the day. What are we doing that keeps us up at night and how do we stop it?

Re: Using handicapped parking passes that aren't yours, unethical?

This blog is in response to Rebecca's blog. I agree with everything she said. People should not use other people's handicapped passes. Its not the illegal part that I have a problem with, why would you take something away from someone who really needed it in order to be a little closer to the mall or grocery store. This society is getting more and more lazy, if we are lazy enough to take something health oriented from someone who really needs it, there is a serious problem. People should start thinking more about how their actions effect people before they do certain things.

Why I Don't Hate Britney

This blog is in response to the Evaluation argument we had to read for class, Why I Hate Britney. This article is written by a woman blaming the way women dress on celebrity figures such as Britney Spears. The woman argues that she does not want to have children for fear of having a girl and not being able to shield her from the terror that is sex. I will never understand the fear many Americans have of sexuality. Travel anywhere in Europe and you will come face to face with constant and appropriate human contact. Sex is everywhere and if we just learn to teach our youth about it and embrace that it is a part of life, it will become less of an issue. In the article the woman admits that it should be the parents, not celebrities, who teach their children morals and appropriate behavior. However, she immediately goes back to blaming celebrities and the media for showing the public sexual images and singing lyrics about sex. If parents and teachers start to teach the youth things about body image and sex, not abstinence, we will all be better off. I graduated in a class of 23 kids and two of them were on the stage with huge pregnant bellies. I honestly believe that if we had been taught about sex and what the appropriate approaches are to it, my girlfriends would have been baby free at the time of our graduation. Yes some people drop the hat and make mistakes but the way America approaches sex is all wrong. By being open and accepting the fact that sex happens whether Britney Spears is wearing some telling outfit or not our country and the world will be much better off.

Re: Gender Blind Housing

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I really like Amanda's blog about the Gender Neutral Housing. I am very happy that Ithaca College is going to offer such a new idea on on-campus housing. This college prides itself on the new business school being ahead of most campus buildings. IC is farther ahead with recycling and sustainability then many campuses in the United States. And it is refreshing that we are going to advance our acceptance of LGTB on campus. It is one thing to say that our campus is accepting, but it is even better when there is something to back up that claim. The Gender Neutral Housing is just that. I am proud to say that I am on a sustainable campus, but I am even more proud to say that my college is offering such an important right for people to be who they are no matter what.

To move or not to move?

One of my friends was recently approached by her roommate about moving out of their room. The unhappy roommate (roommate number two) told roommate number one that she was unhappy with their rooming situation and wanted her to move out. Roommate number one, being overly passive, agreed to move out, but said that she was going to wait for a room in the building that we live in. Roommate number two agreed to the terms but has not stopped pestering roommate number one about getting out of the room. I do not agree with this situation at all. I think that if roommate number two has a problem then she should be the one to move out, or be happy that roommate number one agreed to actually leave, even though she doesn't want to, and let it take as long as she wants it to. We signed roommate agreements at the start of first semester for this reason. Roommate number two can ask roommate number one to move out but politely and expect that when roommate number one agrees it will get done. But she can not be rude to her while they are in the room alone or leave hurtful remarks to her posted on the internet. People need to learn to respect other people and if they have a problem they need to be adult about dealing with it and not leave nasty remarks in their away messages.

Borrowing or stealing?

I just found out that my roommate has been using my computer without asking me. Whenever I am out of the room she goes on my computer and uses my Microsoft and my printer. When I confronted her about it she told me that I was overreacting because I had let her use it before, when she was in a hurry to get to class with and needed to print something out fast. I told her that using my computer when I am in the room and have given her permission is totally different then using it when I am not in the room and not giving me a heads up before or after she uses it. There are free labs on this campus and I know she knows where they are. I do not understand why she feels the need to use mine. She has not offered to by inc or paper to refill what she has used and I am not sure that I believe that she is going to stop using it. But she doesn't know how to affectively exit out of word... It's tricky on macs, so I guess we will see how it goes.

Tuition Scare

My roommate is new to Ithaca College this semester. She recently found out that a loan she needed to stay at this school was not going to come through. She found out when she got a letter from the bursars office saying, "You have ten days to locate the owed amount or you will be asked to leave Ithaca College." She didn't receive the letter until day two of her alloted time. I do not understand how Ithaca College can let something like unpaid tuition go unattended until my roommate only has ten days to get over seven thousand dollars and not get the letter to her until she only has eight days left. They did not offer her any advice or assistance. She was all on her own. I think that this issue needs to be addressed. If I am paying $40,000 a year and so are the other 6000 kids at IC there are no excuses for not offering struggling college kids help with financial aid and if IC really can't come up with that sort of support the least they can do is give her the full ten days, and not take up two of those days sending the letter 100 ft to our mail box.

In case anyone was wondering she's still here.

In response to Ryan's blog. I agree that we what we put in our bodies is our choice. I also agree that there are worse things out there then red bull and gatorade that are much harder to stay away from. I often find myself having this same argument when people tell me that a certain thing causes cancer I seem to always respond the same way, "Everything causes cancer." But I choose to live my life regardless. This is also the case when my parents used to tell me that I couldn't do something because I might get hurt. Like the time I climbed out of my window onto the roof of the porch... no it's not flat, and it probably wasn't a very good idea. My sister told my mom and they both ran outside to yell at me. They said I could have been killed and I said... "I get in the car with you don't I?" No one wants to live in fear. I choose to do risky things so that when I do actually die, whether I fall of the roof or get cancer, I can say I had a good time.