iMedia: 2012 by Jay Sean

2012 by Jay Sean  

If you turn the radio on today to B96 or 103.5, you will probably hear the song 2012 by Jay Sean. When you first listen to this song it sounds like most songs on the radio do. It has a heavy bass beat and sounds like it is just about drinking and partying like there's no tomorrow. Sadly, this represents what our society is like today. People think that every night they should go out and party. They shouldn't care about what else is going on in life. They think that their social life is the most important thing in the entire world. As a society, we think that this song describes what we should be like. 

When I first heard this song I liked it because of the bass and the way it sounded. After listening to it for awhile I wanted to look up the lyrics so that I could know them. After reading the lyrics I realized that this song could have a deeper meaning. When I read the lyrics for the first time I thought that it was really just about partying and drinking like there is no tomorrow. After reading them another time I realized that they could mean that you should live your life like there is no tomorrow. In the song Jay Sean says, "You know that it doesn't matter As long as we got each other." This is my favorite lyric in the song because it shows that no matter what as long as you have someone there for you, you can make it through anything in life. I think that the song 2012 by Jay Sean isn't just about partying like there's no tomorrow it's about living your life the way that you really want to.

Best of Week: Organizing Principle

This week in class we talked about organizing principles from The Shadow Catcher. We talked about how the organizing principle was the bracelet, the shadow catcher. On the board we saw how the bracelet connected almost all of the characters in the book. Although the way that they all connected was very complicated, it made sense. Having the idea of an organizing principle throughout the book really helped me understand the book better.

The bracelet made me think back over the entire book and connect everything in my head for myself. After I reconnected everything in my head I looked back at the drawing and saw that it was the same. The idea of an organizing principle helped me understand the novel a lot better. It, however, also confused me. The fact that Clara was not part of the "connectedness" of the book confused me. The author spent 150 pages allowing us to get into Clara's mind and then Clara ended up not being a major part of the book. I couldn't figure out why the author did that and that confused me even more.

I think that now when I am confused on things I will look for an organizing principle to figure things out. Organizing principles can really help me when I'm having a hard time figuring something out or even a hard time starting something. If I think of an organizing principle then I can work off of that and connect everything to that organizing principle. Overall, I think that organizing principles have been and will be very useful to me.

Metacognition: QE Essay

While writing the QE Essays I learned many things about the way I think. The first thing that I learned was that creativity was a lot harder to write about than I thought. I thought that it would be easy because creativity is something that I thought comes to most people naturally.What I thought was wrong. Creativity actually takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and trail and error. Because of this assumption i had made, i had a difficult time answering the question of how creativity could be used to help improve the human condition.This frustrated me while writing the essay because i thought that the answer would come to me right away. I soon realized that this was not the case. This, however, made me realize more about creativity which helped me write the essay.

Something that I learned about my thinking process while writing this essay was that I can get frustrated easily. This was not a bad thing for me. It made me think about what I was writing and revise it so that it was better. It also made me realize that I have a short attention span when it comes to writing essays. Something that surprised me about my thinking was that even though I had a short attention span writing it, it didn't take me that much to get myself working again.

There are some things that I would like to improve on while writing my next essay. I would like my thinking to be more focused while I'm writing it. I would also like to not get as frustrated as easily.Overall I think that these things an help me improve my essays in the long-run.

Blogging Around

This first blog I read was Julia's. In her blog she talk about Alan Alda's essay and how passionate Feynman was about his work. She talked about she wishes that she could be that passionate about things in her life. She also talked about how her classes and her job were allowing her to do this. This is what I said to her:

"Julia,

Reading this blog post, I totally agree! When we were talking about Alda in our group and how he only focused on what he liked to do, I thought about how cool that would be in my life. I then, like you, thought about my schedule this year and how I'm only taking classes that I really want to take. I also am not taking a language nor a science this year and am thankful because, like you those never really agreed with me. Also, I can relate to what you are talking about with Pigtails and Crewcuts because I have also worked there and that is genuine fun that would be amazing to have while working on school work. Overall, I found that our thought processes in reading the Alda essay were similar."

The second blog I read was Amy's. In her's she also talked about pursuing her interests. She, however took a more long distance approach to it. She talked about how in her future she didn't want to end up in a job where she didn't like what she was doing.  This is what I said to her:


"Amy!

I could not agree with you more on this post. I just read Julia's post about almost the same thing. It seems that the three of us all want to live our lives following our interests. I, like you, fear ending up in a dead end job where I dread going to work everyday. I want to work somewhere where I can wake up every morning and look forward to work. I also agree with you when you say that you are envious of the people who are doing what they love for a living. All in all, I thought that this was a super post that described my thoughts too."