Journ#4 Into the New Midterm

        As an returning student for over thirteen years, I could say I feel good about my school accomplishments so far. In my math class for two hours a day I study at home and work on the latest assignments. On my first day of class the Math problems all came back to me. I guess the math section was well rested in my brain thriving to be woken up.
        In my English class I'm getting a lot better at writing papers. There's still a lot of work on my end. I just started my Grammar Writing class this week. We went over our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to grammar. It was good knowing that others had the same problems like me. Taking the English and Grammar classes together should help me out. I can't wait for the end of the year to see how my writing has changed.
       Working and going to school are still conflicting with my life, but I plan on not giving up. I have to stay up on my school work at all times. I made the mistake in going to a kids birthday party big mistake. Going out made me a day behind in my school work. I'm glad that I've choosen three classes, because anything more than that would be stressful. School is going along great for now.

My Virtual Life

       There are two things I like doing while going online listening to music, and looking up information in the  Nuclear field. I used to never like going online until I started working at Columbia University. I use to work around the clock, and alone in a lab for hours.Then one day I wanted to listen to some music online. I found this station that played underground Neo Soul music in Dallas,Texas. Surprisingly I didn't know Dallas had a underground scene. That station linked me to other underground station on the internet with the same type of music. Certain shows would have other radio guest on there show. I would jot down their information and look their station up. I found out that Columbia University has a station as well called WKCR 89.9. I listen to their station when I get off work at 2am. I would also continue listening at home online depending on the guest. After llistening to that show in the morning 6 hours later I'm catching up on another show from Atlanta Georgia. Georgia Tech radio 99.1 WRECK Room Renaissance. They air online Thursday night but I'm at work doing those times. I have a total off six good underground station I listen to online from Friday to Saturday. SSaturday has one the best shows 88.1 online Toronto. I get to listen to the best of old hip hop and the new underground artist. New York radio won't play the music I like becasue of ratings but soon the underground would be heard.
        While at Columbia University I started looking up the industry that I'm in. I just jump around on the internet looking up information on who got what grant for a new linear accelerator particle machine. What new products were made by research. It sounds boring but I get a kick out of finding new Cyclotrons machines, and learning the history of how the PET TRACE industry was created. My boss told me she has a brother who's an electrician at BrookHaven Laboratories in Long Island. So I looked them up and found out they birthed the industry that I'm in. They completed their research in 1982 and moved on to bigger things. I aslo ran into a couple of pictures of cyclotrons. If you ever seen one its very intimidating. I found the biggest cyclotron machine in Toronto called Titus. You can actually go there for tours as well. This company in Sweden called CERN are trying to create the Black Hole again......look it up.
      I really don't do much on the internet. When I get home I just play music, and sometimes watch a movie. Now I'm back in school I use it now for essay research. It feels good not going to the library anymore.

Journal Entry 2, Music Videos

Do music videos affect the way I feel about particular songs? If I like a particular song, I judge the video seperately. I perfer the director of the video to direct the video along the concept, or context of the song. Sometimes I invision a video for a song in my head before it comes out. So when the video finally comes out, I see if it matches along the same concepts that I invision. If the director totally loses me with his director's cut then it hold no weight on how I view the song. It would just be that's a great song but the video sucks.So again I just hope the song, and the video matches together like a marriage.

Journal1 Fustrated College

I had two problems so far that really fustrated me in College. The two problems are parking and a teacher situation.
I arrived an hour early to school to find no parking. I asked the security gaurd for help, and he told me to keep circling. Come to find out in the back of the west building there is tons of parking in the back. I wished the gaurd would of told me that earlier. My second issue was my math teacher came up to me and said I need to be in another class. So I said why, she said you place tested in a lower class. The funny thing is on our first day of class I was one of the students answering all the question. So long story short, I talked to my advisor and she explained to me the teacher was just doing her job, she's not at fault. They looked over the testing and I got to stay in my class.

The Heights

The heights is still the same after 20 years.