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I posted on sheer blonde blog on March 25
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i posted a comment about a blog on tattoos
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I posted a response on a blog about our football team
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I posted on Fitzzy's blog on "The Greatest of All Time"
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In Class Blog Work

1) I think that was the best post was by Justin called, "getting A's at the Expense of What". It goes into detail about how school can have adverse aide effects on our health as well as in our personal lives.

2) The best comment to a post was by audblogger in response to beast's blog on tattoo's.

3) The best commentary to a thread was in the blog by Interesting Point entitled "Money can't buy happiness? What?". The responses from each of the people gave their opinion on the materialism and narcissism that is all around SMU.

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I posted on the "Brain on Steroids" post on March 31 https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4868236312028273717&postID=7988350133327272224

Relay for Life

Last weekend was the Relay for Life event. For those fo you who don't know, Relay for Life is a charity that raises money for cancer research. When i first heard that SMU was going to have an event, i was excited because i have been to and supported events like this in the past. Since every fraternity had their own tent, i was more than happy to help set up for the cause.

When we got to our spot, the last tent on the boulevard, i was anxious for the event to start. As we got the grill started up and the food cooking, more and more people started coming in waves to show there support, or even just to have a good time with friends. Everyone was having a good time untill they announced that we would be walking a silent lap around teh boulevard in memory of all those we have lost to cancer. I was very suprised at the amount of people who became very emotional, and I really respected them for it. After the silent lap, everyone went back to having a good time while some people continued to walk for the cause. When the night came to a close, everyone packed up and went their ways. Overall I thought that the Relay for Life was a very positive thing and hopefully we were able to make a contribution to further cancer research.

Casino Night

As most of you know, last weekend was Phi Delt's Casino Night. Like most people who were going, I was really looking foreward to going to the "biggest party of the year". Everyone who I talked to said that they are going as well and they can't wait to see what it turns out like. For me, as well as the rest of my party, the party was a disaster.

While I had fun with my friends at dinner before the event, the actual event was terrible in my opinion. The lines to get checked in were rediculously long and very unorganized. When I finally got to the front of the line with my date, the woman said that I had only bought one ticket for the two of us. I knew right away that this was wrong because I had purchased my tickets a month ago and still had the receipt in my email account. The lady said that there was nothing she could do and that I had to go to the back of another line to prove that I had in fact bought two tickets. Needless to say that between this and the long lines I was very frustrated. As our group of 8 people finally walked inside, the party was a dismal let down. All of the gambling tables were taken and the room was filled with a bunch of drunk students as well as parents. I can honestly say that the only highlight of the night was the band, who did not start playing untill 11:30. Needless to say that if anyone asks my opinion on whether or not to go next year, my suggestion would be to save your $90 and go out and do something that you would enjoy.

Going Greek

From the first time i came to visit SMU during my Easter break in 2006, all I was told was that going Greek was no big deal. My tour guide said that while he is not Greek, he is stil invited to all of the parties and almost all of his friends were Greek. After experiencing the activities of rush and hearing about pledgeship, i dont see how that is possible.

During any Greek pledgeship, they pledges schedule is crammed full with everything from mixers with other sororities twice a week to fraternity activities almost every day. It seems that if you are not in a fraternity already or pledging to be in one, your social life is alomost non-existant. I only know of two people who are not pledging a fraternity or sorority, and they hate it. There is never anything to do during the week, and only sometimes is there any activities open to everyone during the weekend. If SMU wants to shake their reputation as a "Greek Only" University and the nationally know "pig run" for sororities, then SMU needs to offer more activities and be open to more suggestions about changing the social life.

SMU's Corrupt Parking

Honestly, whats the deal with all the of parking tickets? I understand that they are trying to inforce what the SMU handbook and Park N' Pony tell us, but it is starting to get rediculous. At the start of the semseter there was already very little parking, but since there has been added construction, there is even fewer place to park. Being a male, i think that we have it worse off than everyone else. Faculty have their own spots and female students get to park wherever they like. I understand the chivalry thing and that we cant park behind thew dorms during the week but parking inforcement has become too power hungry with the way they are inforcing the law. One of my female friends had to drive me to the hospital a few weeks ago, and parked my car behind McElvany when she got back. When i got back to my dorm the next day, i saw a yellow ticket on my windshield. When i went to tell the Park N' Pony about what had happened they said there was nothing they could do. Given the circumstances of the parking this year with all of the construction and activities, there should be no parking tickets given out for stupid little things such as parking in Meadows overnight or parking behind the dorms during the week. With all this limited parking they should at least make parking cheaper if not repay all of the people who got rediculous parking tickets.

Wet vs. Dry Campus

What is the big deal with adding a bar to campus? While some might think this will add to the alcohol abuse on campus, i believe that it will reduce the amount of alcohol related crimes. While visiting colleges before i finally settled on SMU, i realized that all of the colleges i was visiting had at least one bar on campus, and the shocking thing about it was that these were all Jesuit schools. Schools such as Xavier University in Cincinnati and Marquette University in Milwaukee all had bars on their campus. If the campus did not have a bar already established, they were working on plans to build a bar. Notre Dame is one of these schools. To me it seems that if we add a bar on campus it would decrease the number of accidents and alcohol related driving incidents. Rather than go out to Side Bar or M Street and risk driving back home from Greenville, many students would chose to walk to the bar on campus. With the Giddy-Up service running at night, this is a win-win situation. Students who are of age can drink on campus without having to worry about driving to and from a bar, and if they drink to much they can get a ride back to their place of residence.

First Time Blogger

Blogging is a totally new concept for me. Up untill this class i have only heard of blogging, but i have never actualy taken part in it. After reading some of the blogs in class, i realized that blogging is very good way for people to communicate with one another and not have to worry about what they are saying, they can be themselves. Unlike some of the other communication tools such as facebook and myspace, blogging allows you to share your opinion without everyone knowing who you are, you are allowed to be more open with your opinions and therefore can be more truthful about your opinions.