College years!

Wow incoming freshmen. To help to start off a good year, here are some rules/tips to survive in college. Well there are three rules you need to remember during your college years. First one is that studying always comes first. It is your first priority. Yes, there will be days where you want to go out and party, watch a movie, or just chill, but when you have studying/ homework to do, you got to do it. Many freshmen fail out of college their first semester getting caught up in the college life. You don’t have your parents to tell you to do your homework and say “no.” Your free to do whatever you want but your got to remember in the back of your head that you need to keep your grades first. Which leads us to the second rule. The second rule is that be social and make new friends. Sure you have your friends/ best friends that you made in high school and still have but if you keep yourself in a shell, don’t expect to make friends. When you go to class or a party, don’t just keep quiet. You got to chin up, and be social. If the other person doesn’t talk to you back or give a nice vibe, then move on to the next person. If they do give a nice vibe, then talk to them. Introduce yourself and just chitchat. There is no harm to that. Who knows? The person you talk to can end up being one of your good friends. And the last one is that make it the best years of your life and experience the college life! Go out and party or just hang out with friends. Many people say that college is the best years of your life. Go out and party! I am not saying to drink but honestly drinking is part of college life too. Don’t go crazy with it and get caught but its all part of college. Join a sorority or a fraternity or just visit one! You will love college if you have fun, be social, and keep your priorities straight. For me, it has been the best years of my life.   

Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

Recently, my friend Brigette and I started watching the reality show, The Real Housewives of Orange County. I started watching the show because I am originally from Orange County and the show just looked fun. It isn’t my all time favorite show but it’s one of them. I like the show because some of the families in the shows are somewhat like my family. The show is about a bunch of housewives that live in Orange County, California. They are all “somewhat” of friends. There are five women in their group. Their names are Tamra, Jeana, Gretchen, Lynne, and Vicki. It’s like the MTV series “The Hills” except in an adult world. Women with kids and husbands still the same drama. The three out of the five women do not work. They are the stay-at-home wives. Most of these women have been previously married and divorced. All the women have kids. Jeana and Lynne are the only two who have their real kids with their husbands. Jeana is divorced and has a daughter and two sons. She used to be a model and a Playboy. She is now a realtor.  Lynne used to be a gymnast. She is still happily married with her first husband and they have two daughters. Vicki lives with her second husband, her daughter, and her two sons. She has her own life insurance business. Grethen is engaged to a man who has been married and divorced five times. She also used to work in real estate till she had to quit to take care of her sick fiancé. She has two stepdaughters and two stepsons. And Tamra. She has been married and divorced, and from that marriage has a son. She is now married for the second time and has two daughters and a son. She too worked in the real estate business but traded it all in to be a housewife. You can tell the women are all fake and talk crap behind each other backs. They call themselves “girlfriends” but they are no real “girlfriends.” The show is just really fun to watch and really you can learn from them. Money may buy happiness but it doesn’t buy you any friends and real happiness.

Ads.

Advertisements are all around us. We see it on TV, billboards, magazines, radio and so on. We the people are the audiences of advertisements. They are aimed towards us so that we see the new thing and go and buy it. Some are very catchy or funny that you end up remembering it. One advertisement that I see on a daily basis on the television is the Target commercial. They advertise the products that they sell such as foods, bathroom products, music, movies, medications, and etc. They were advertising that since the economy has been down lately that they have reduced some of the prices on the products that they carry. The thing about the advertisement that stuck out is the song that they played during the commercial. The song is very catchy and since every time I watch TV, it is on, it sticks out even more. I think that the advertisement is very effective because when you constantly see it and you also see that they have reduced the prices, people who are sort on money will go and shop at Target. It persuades you to go and shop at Target because the prices are reduced to help families who are having a hard time or in general to just help the economy. Some of the products they advertised were: Tropicana Orange Juice, which they reduced to  $1.49, swim suits $12.99, dresses $38.99 and other things. The reason the Target commercial stuck out to me was because of the song, I saw it on a daily basis, and I love to shop at Target. Whenever I get bored, my sister and I go to Target just to hang out and shop. We don’t even go to the mall anymore. Whenever we see a Target commercial and it is new, we go to Target to see the new product. On an average, people who watch TV see 50 plus more commercials everyday. And the Target commercial is the one that sticks out the most to me. I thought the commercial was telling me that the economy is bad so they are here to help even a dollar difference. 

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

For the past few weeks my friends and I have been watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S, the television show. My friends have watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S since the beginning and I have watched some of the shows here and there. I knew the characters and how each of them was different. Watching the shows for the past weeks made me realize how much friends mean to you, and I wish that for the rest of my life that my friends and I stay that close. I mean, we aren’t that funny and old yet but we still have our laughs. I wanted to tell you guys about the characters and the characters are similar to my friends. On the show are Phoebe, Ross, Joey, Monica, Chandler, and Rachel. Phoebe is the blonde, sometimes clueless, a hippie, and a funny. She reminds me of my friend, Mark. He isn’t a girl but he’s funny and sometimes says the funniest things and sometimes need a light bulb. Ross is the scientist, the one who got married three times and got divorced three times but a loving father. He reminds me of my friend Jason. He went into college to become a science high school teacher. But he isn’t ready to settle for marriage but he loves kids. Joey is the actor who is really funny, the guy who lives next door, and the friend who has a few loose screws. My friend, Jackie reminds me of Joey. Jackie does really want to become an actress and she is the girl who lives next door. She does get around and she too has a few loose screws. Because of her we laugh so much. Monica is the control, mom-like, cook, and she could be very stressful sometimes. You could say that I am like Monica. I love to cook, if I wasn’t going into teaching, I was going to go into cooking and opening my own shop. I am more like the “mom” in my group of friends. Chandler is the funny, sarcastic one. He reminds me of my friend, Cody. He always thinks he’s funny which sometimes he really isn’t. We just laugh at him to make him feel better or we just laugh at him. But he is the friend to make you feel better whenever you are down. His laughs just cheer you up. And in conclusion, there is Rachel. The spoil girl who comes from a rich family but learns that money isn’t everything. She is perky, the “girl,” smart girl. My friend, Allison reminds me a lot like her. She come from a rich family but knows that money isn’t everything and she is the smart, pretty girl that all the boys are after. Friends are people how you need today. Remember them and cherish them.