CHANGING THE WORLD!

This summer, I worked as a Summer Resident Assistant for the UIS Housing Department. I mostly worked with the East Side of campus since I'll be working there next school year. One requirement that I know that I'm going to regret is the 4 hour required desk shift at the Central Housing Office (respectfully dubbed HCOM). When it comes to professionalism, I make sure I put on my shiny shoes and my professional voice for the customer, yet, after working at HCOM within the past three months, I discovered how rude people these days. I try to treat people with the same customer service that I would hope to get when I call for questions/comments/concerns, however, caution is thrown in the wind and the profanity and insults come flying at us. However, I was looking at ways to improve my customer service capabilities and I think people should be glad that I don't answer the phone like this:

So near the end of the spring 2009 semester, I participated in a Small Group that was apart of the Christian Student Fellowship organization. It was truly an amazing experience. I read through the book titled “True Faced” written by John Lynch with my small group; the entire experience was definitely something that I learned and grew a lot from as I bonded and got to know my group members on a personal level.

The group was headed by Howard and Jeremy and I received the opportunity to get to know a kid named Will Alonso who came all the way from Pennsylvania to Central Illinois (I know right). I’d say that the entire event was the pinnacle of my growth as a person because each chapter somehow tied itself into some internal struggle or obstacle that I would encounter each week (obviously God works in mysterious ways in trying to reach out to people in need). I’m really glad that I got the chance to take part in such a great learning experience: I’ve learned so much about myself and why I act the way that I do and the discovery of the major flaws that are preventing me from becoming the person that I want to be. I won’t use this posting as an outlet of emotion on everything that I talked about, however, I will give you a Top 5 List that I feel that the book has helped me accomplish:

5. I’ve managed/still working on removing all of the negativity from my life and looking at life and situations from a more positive point of view.

4. Established a closer relationship with my family, especially my brother (whom I’ve never been able to seem eye to eye with).

3. Gotten the chance to connect with Will Alonso whom I found out I share a lot in common with (especially our love for the movie Van Helsing)

2. I’ve watched the friendship that I had with Jeremy grow stronger and bonded with Howard Kang who has helped me out more than he knows.

And……

1. I’ve seen an increase in my spiritual where I am praying more and growing closer to God. As a result of this, I feel as if my life is going straight up from here on.

So...I've been really busy this summer with my job at the Housing Department and taking summer classes at school, I've been slacking and inhibiting the world on the on-goings in life. However, very soon (now that I have time), I will release a diarrhea of blogs detailing Summer 2009: HOLLER!

With the release of their new single which has been topping the charts the past couple of weeks. I would have to say that I'm f****** pumped for the release of the new Black Eyed Pea's CD titled The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) . It's so cool. I've been a big fan of the Black Eyed Peas since I can remember. Elephunk was the shiz, Monkey Business was the shiz x2, and I have a huge feeling that The E.N.D. is going to be amazing. From "Where Is the Love?," to "My Humps," and now "Boom Boom Pow!"

Everyone it told that college is supposed to be the best four years of our life, however, I feel that I'm having a little bit of difficulty enjoying college and spending time with my friends with all of this homework and studying getting in the way. Here's a typical day for myself:

1) Wake up @ 8:30 (grab your brush and put a little make-up....for you S.O.A.D. junkies)
2) Class @ 10am until 11:15pm
3) Class @ 12pm until 1:15pm
4) Class @ 2pm until 3:15pm
5) Lunch Break con mis amigos
6) Class @ 5pm until 6:15pm
7) Work out @ 7pm until 9pm
8) Study for the rest of the night and do my RA thang at the same time.



Yeah....I'm still trying to figure out how Dick Grayson was able to balance school work/college classes and fighting crime at night, because I'm literally drained of ATP (adenosinetriphosphate) by the end of the day to where I can barely concentrate. Fortunately I'm doing very well in my classes. The line up for classes consists of:

1) Human Physiology
2) Comparative Vertebrate Biology & Anatomy
3) Principles of Inorganic Chemistry (my favorite class....hint the sarcasm)
4) Survey of African American Literature

But, the best thing about college & UIS for the most part is the friendships that will bond (a covalent bond to be exact) during your struggle to succeed in the class. For example, I have Pavan to goof around with and study for Human Physiology.


One thing that I love about studying with or just having any class with Pavan, we'll always make a promise with each other that we'll start studying for exams the week before....and it ends up being the night before and us staying up until 7 in the morning studying. Yeah.....we're going to be doctors.

For Comparative Vert, I get the pleasure of studying with Angie Davis. Our studying consists of us freaking out abot the material and generating these weird premonitions that we're going to fail the exam when we actually end up passing it with flying colors. I'll have to say that we're pretty creative when it comes to making up cheers or dances to remember stuff....and then do them in class....DURING THE TEST! (more so me)


Finally, I have my favorite people to study or do homework with for Principles of Inorganic Chemistry. I get to study for exams with Marksies and Premalama Babuhead, by study meaning we do everything possible not to study. And who could forget Brittney Meyer, my partner in crime whom I share/come up with every possible catch-phrase or funny slogan. Let's just say, when it comes to studying, our friendship is tighter than intermolecular forces.....man I'm a nerd!




(Marksies is on the left.....he dips in chocolate!)



I miss studying with you guys.....

I went to the movies and someone asked me if I was one of those black people that scream at the movies yelling stuff like "Girl...don't go in there!" I replied yes, because white people in the movie always go in the room that the killer is in....he's behind the door! @LOL