Living in a dorm

Having only one sibling i have always had my own room at home.  Now that I am at college I have to share a room with a roommate.  This has been a new experience that i am still getting use to.  When i first thought of going of to college one of my biggest worries was having to share a room.  the only time that i have had to share a room before was at camp and when family came over.  to me share a room meant the loss of personal space and even a place where i could be alone.  when i got to college i was worried about how well my room mate and i would get along.  So far my roommate and i have gotten along just fine.  we are not best friends or anything but we do get along and do not get in each other way when we are sleeping or doing homework.  it helps that my room is huge because we have a four person room for two people.  Living with a roommate has taught me many different things about myself and life.  First it is not that hard living with someone else.  all it takes is a few scarifies from each person and both people can be happy.  also from living in a dorm room i have learn of the stuff that i thought i need and could not live without is really not that important.  I use to always watch certain TV show and movies but now i realize that there are better things to do.  i have learn about how you can trust people being from St. Louis i would never think to leave anything unattended but now i trust my roommate with all of my self and the people on my floor not to steal from me.  Also i have learn not to eat all the time.  Going off to college has been difficult but it has so far been fun and even though it is a lot different from being at home i feel like i am at home in a way.

Animal Dreams

In class I choose to side with the group of students who hated the book.  I feel that hated or loved the book was an impossible decision to make for me personally.  There has never been a book that I have absolutely  hated or a book that I have loved either.  Animal Dreams had a lot of interesting parts but also it had parts that seemed out of place.  Personally I felt that animal dreams was trying to get across the point that one cannot run from their past or life in generally.  Codi is always trying to forget about her past and how she was an outsider.  Since Codi felt and believe this she failed to see that she had been part of the community.  Your past is your past and if you do not like how your past is there is no point in running because you will always be carry inside of you what you are trying to escape from.  The best thing to do is what Codi finally did and that is to go face your demons.  when Codi went back to Grace she first believe that everyone would not like her and that they would still cause her to be the outsider.  In truth Codi was already part of the community and she could not remember the parts of her life in which she was included.  Also through out the book Codi struggles with her father who is losing his mind.  To be this is one of the critical parts of the book because it makes Codi look deeper every part of her life.  Codi is no longer able just to look at her life with no contact to the rest of the world.  Due to her fathers loss of memory Codi has to try to help her father who she believes she dislikes because she thinks he made her an outsider.  I feel that animal dreams had strong themes that made me think about my own life and how at times I have made myself the outsider.  Also reading Animal Dreams I was able to relate to Codi because I also left home.  In part i left for the same reasons Codi did but at the same time I feel that I am different from Codi.  I left home because I because i wanted to get away from my parents but more importantly I want to make my own identity.  Unlike Codi I did not run and turn my back  but rather I ran to move froward with life but will always be looking back at times.  The reason that I supported the group that disliked the book was because i felt that Codi was not being person she wanted to be and she was just complaining and not trying to fix it.  I felt like that Codi knew what was wrong with her life and even how to fix it but she just chose not to.  Overall i liked this novel for its strong themes and characters but there were parts of the novel that i felt did not belong in the novel and seemed out of place.

Jurassic Park

After watching Jurassic Park for the second time in two weeks after not watching in for years I realized that there is a lot more to this movie beside the amazing action scenes.  When I usually watch this movie all I really watching for is when the main characters are being chased by the dinosaurs.  However this time since I had seen the movie less than a week ago I was not completely focused on the chase scenes and because of this I was able to see a lot more of the science and larger questions being asked in the movie.  From the discussion in class and watching the movie I realized how much there is to the movie.  Micheal Crichton is asking question through out the movie about really deep issues not usually associated with blockbuster movies.  The two biggest questions that I feel he asks.  The first question is what is ethical.  In my view Crichton is asking the world just because we have the technology do we have to use.  I believe that Crichton makes his view on this question very clear in the movie.  With the dinosaurs getting lose and killing people Crichton is showing his view that he feels that we do not have to use every technology we have.  Personally I agree with Mr Crichton because if we used all the technology that we had access all of the time the world would have ended along ago. If you are wondering how the world would have ended my I reminded you have the nuclear bombs that could have been used in the cold war.  Also this question in my mind begins to touch on the larger question about god .  In this movie humans begin to play with what many people believe is a power that only God should have.  In my  mind I make the job to if we can bring extinct species back to life than what makes us sure that there is a God.  Personally I believe there is a God but it does make you wonder if humans had that power than what power does God have. The second question I believe Micheal Crichton asks in his movie is when have we took our technology to far and who gets to determined this.  The first part of the question is kinda like the first question I discussed in many ways but is also different in one main way.  The first question ask more if we have it should we use it while the second question asks more how far should we try to go with technology.  Should we try to make it so that we never will die or  should we make a something that can kill all life on earth in a single push of a button.  Both of these things would give the holder unlimited power which brings about the second part of the questions in who should be the one who controls or decides when we have advanced far enough.  Personally I think this is one of those question like what is the meaning of life that we will me asking for the rest of eternity.  For a movie that to many is just a cool dinosaur movie to me Jurassic Park asks so many more questions many of which touch on the very complicated questions about human nature.    

first blog

this is my first blog about how much running i have been doing for the past week.  the last week i have been average close to 9 miles a day