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Why are web classes so annoying? Well, not all web classes, clearly the class I am doing this for isn't bad at all. It seems like when a teacher is teaching a web class they just go crazy. Maybe they think that people put less time into their work when it is a web class or maybe they genuinely like to watch their students suffer. In a class I am taking over this past semester we would have assignments that would be do on Sunday nights by midnight. This is the norm we expected and the one we were used to, it made it so the weekend was a good time to do the work given that we would not have any other classes and it could be focused on this one class. However, not that all of our classes are giving extra work because of the end of the semester and finals are approaching, the teacher throws the best 12-6 curve ball I have ever witnessed. With only a week in advance she tells us we have two less days to do the paper. It is now due on Friday at midnight. Why? I do not understand this concept, now I have to try and re-arrange my entire schedule including work, school, and other plans I make during the week and change them around because this one teacher decides to be spontaneous and completely annoying. I just don't understand, so instead of going to work on a beautiful Friday afternoon I am stuck in the Library doing a paper that would have been a nice relaxing Sunday assignment. I can't stand this shit, seriously I don't think a teacher has ever made me so mad at such a subtle change of events!

Tonight is the night I have been waiting for since early January when the band Brand New had posted their concert date and I bought the tickets! It is because of all this built up anticipation that makes this night scary, because if they disappoint then it will be huge, since it has been built up in my mind for months. However, it may be due to the "norm" that people are used to with concerts that television stations such as MTV and VH1 give us that make us want so much out of these performances that just normal human beings are doing. I have seen the band before and in no way have the let me down, so with past experiences in the bag, I can assume that they will be similar to what it was like the last few times. I am not very worried, since as long as I can hear the music and be within shouting distance of one of the best song writers I have ever encountered, then it will be a good day. The epic concert that MTV has built up in my mind does not need to fulfilled because in reality, I don't think it will ever be, since media can make things happen that could never happen in "real life".

Class and Technology

While technology has been used to increase learning ability in the U.S. and across the globe, there are also ways in which people use it to distract them from learning, like I am right now. Class can easily be skipped while the student is attending it. It is because of technology, and in some ways media, that students can be in a class and have absolutely no idea what is being said. Addictions to ESPN is one thing that may contribute to such a thing is a problem, because it is one website that I am on while "skipping" class. Also checking in on CNN and of course celebrity gossip websites, just because I like to know what my movie starts and musicians are doing with their lives. It is due to this somewhat addiction to specific medias that make me bring a laptop to class, which for some reason is accepted in most college classes. It is an amazing phenomenon because if I was a teacher, I would not allow this to happen. Knowing that temptation, at one time or another, will win and students wont always be paying attention. Also, it is nearly impossible for any college student to stay off of the social networking system known as Facebook. Overall technology is something that can increase learning experiences, however in many ways it can be detrimental to the focus of students in the class room, and while studying in general, being distracted by these easily accessible websites of media, can be less affective than older styles of the act of studying.

The movie Friday Night Lights is one that interest me for many reasons. First and foremost, is that it is about football, which obviously makes me intrigued from the beginning. However going further into its plot, it is mainly about high school football. The way that the programs are run and how the students are impacted on the pressure, also on how the town reacts to everything that is done within the team and their record as well as the way they play. Why this relates to the media, is because of this movie, it makes me feel like this is the way it actually in down in Texas or the southern states in general, or at least in the late '80s. When a team loses the players feel it from the town, not like where I am from in which I couldn't have told you the record of our team in any of the four years we were there. It seems as though the media has portrayed Texas football as a live or die life in these areas. The movie constantly reminds the children (who the oldest is probably 18) that this game, and this team is the last thing they will ever accomplish. Most of them do not go on to play in college, or even go to college. In ways it makes me depressed; however for a different reason than you would think. Most people do not know when their moment to live life to its absolute fullest is. If it has happened in my life already I could not tell you. So why it depresses me is for this reason; they know that this is the biggest moment in their lives, while it may be early, and it may be melodramatic, it is still something that they will highlight their lives with. I feel as though most people don't ever get the chance to know when this is in their lives, so unlike the players we can not cherish the moment for what it is. Even though the movie ends and the team loses it still will be one of the greatest moments the team will ever experience.

I have heard recently that they are coming out with an Independence Day 2 and 3.. so this might be the most excited I have been for a sequel since The Mighty Ducks! Let's hope that these live up to my hype or at least are as half as good as the first movie. It seems like when talking about a sequel to a movie that came out so long ago it becomes really difficult to assume it will be just as good. However the new Toy Story comes out soon, and while it is the third of the series, it seems like I probably won't like this movie as much as the old one, but seriously how could I. I am not 20 years old and while I still enjoy animated films (cause they are funny and still somehow have great story lines) but it just won't be the same. While I can only hope that it is, and I will probably go see it on its opening weekend still, so I bet the makers won't care as long as they can make some more money and with all these people recapturing their childhood the movie is one of the surest things in the movie theater since.. Star Wars.