So here i am once again anxious, nervous and stressed before completing my first draft. I always tend to find myself brainstorming a million thoughts and ideas relating to the book and the topic but of course when its time to tie them all together and transcribe them on paper..my mind hits the wall and im in brain coma. Once professor Kauffman chose my topic as one of the options i thought phew “this is gonna be a breeze cuz duh i thought of it” errrr wrong! with my mind running in so many different directions i might just end up writing about all three topics.

However, lately i do feel like i see the light of hope and decided to somehow merge topic #1 and #3…fingers crossed. Hopefully we once again have the one on one conferences with the professor since it actually did help me in terms of organizing my thoughts and correcting my reckless unsupported claims. With the reference of a fairly interesting book along with my opinion on the topics, i feel that this essay at some point will be better than the previous one and will more clearly justify my claims for the topics

Due to the incredible wall of frustration I was faced with when writing the first paper I immediately began to dread the second. After receiving the prompts for the second paper though and brainstorming a bit about it already I can say the dark cloud above my head is clearing up! All I’ve achieved so far is a tangled mess of my thoughts while we frantically wrote down everything that came to mind during class. Just this small edge is all I need though to approach this paper full throttle.

I think most of my troubles with the first paper was the fact that I was too close to it, it was too personal a subject for me to easy write about for a school assignment. My mind is much more focused going into this paper and that relieves a lot of the stress of writing it. Now all I have to do is sift through that furst burst of ideas and opinions and zero in on exactly what I want to write about.

Well it’s finally happened! “It” being me finally remembering to post a blog for today. As it stands now, the first half of my task has been accomplished. The second half would be to actually think of an interesting topic to post and relate it to bioethics. I suppose it can’t be too difficult because if you really think about, anything can be related to bioethics in some way. Take this blog site for instance, there are obvious benefits for students to have such a resource at their disposal as they can freely share their thoughts with others or help each other when someone is in need of an outside source’s opinion on a subject. However, doesn’t that also appear to be a drawback? I might just be over thinking things but doesn’t having the ability to get the opinions of others on a topic diminsh one’s individuality? It’s an odd thought but just bare with me. The last time my class discussed their blog posts, there were some who admitted to checking the posts of others before starting their own to get a sense of what to talk about. Hell, I admit that I’m guilty for doing that before starting this very post before realizing that it’s a “freeblog” or something (I lost my syllabus). Anyway, I think individuality is very important and something everyone should have but being the social creatures that we naturally are, thinking and acting for oneself would seem to go against our nature but I believe that we, as humans, are a very compotent species that are capable of going against our nature. Now I feel like I’m rambling so I guess I’ll finish this post with a quote. Oscar Wilde once said “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

Anyone who watched the latest presidential debate could sense the bloodlust in the room. Throughout the entire debate Obama and Romney where at each others throats. I think that the behavior between the two presidential candidates was ridiculously unprofessional, you’d expect that kinda behavior in second grade, not the white house. I believe that there should be at least some kind of mutual respect between the candidates.

What do you guys think?

Do you like meat?

Being a man who loves meat I have a desire to know everything it. I took pride in the fact that i knew where my meat came from, how it was processed, and finally how the meat was prepared. These steps seem simple but to me each of these steps are works of art in itself. I have personal connections with each of these steps becuase of multiple hunting experiences. Experiences like these teaches you the true cost of being a carnivore.

With multiple trips around the US to hunt multiple species of animals I still remember the first trip I ever had. On that trip it became blantly obvious that being a carnivore comes at a cost. You dont realize the meat you eat comes from a live animal until you have to be the one who kills it. The animals eyes before you process it is one that strikes you to the core, an expression of hopelessness. Dont get me wrong I am not saying dont eat meat because killing animals for meat is wrong, I am saying \=be greatful for the sacrafice that the animal.

Living in this city, my spending has gotten out of control. I live on 13th street Sunday through Thursday. This has me spending money everyday. I have to buy food and all that good stuff. I also have a shopping problem which doesn’t help me at all. I always feel like I need something to complete my collection of things. In reality I don’t need anything but my heart is telling me to go shopping.
My parents trusted me enough to give me a credit card. This was a huge mistake on their part. As I said, I have a shopping problem. This started when I worked at Abercrombie and being surrounded by clothes every day. I needed all of the new things that we got in the store. But that was okay because I used my own money to get it. But now that I quit my job at Abercrombie, I don’t have any money to use to buy all the things that I want. But the shopping problem is still here. So now I have this nifty plastic thing in my wallet that lets you just swipe it and you can get whatever you want! I don’t pay this bill so I have no idea what the cost of things are. But this card just makes it so easy to get anything your little heart desires.
This acquisition of a credit card has ruined my life. But not really. It’s basically ruining my parents wallets. I don’t buy expensive items with the card but I do buy a lot of inexpensive items. And these really are adding up fast.
I need a reality check with this card. I have seen the bill for this card but I don’t get it. You buy all this stuff with it and then when you get the bill, you only have to pay such a little amount back. How does even work out? The total costs from the card was hundreds of dollars but you only have to pay as little as 25 back. That made no sense to me. Credit cards really confuse me.

As we all know the elections are coming up soon and for most of us it’ll be our first time voting. I think its disappointing that most of us have this “I don’t care” mentality. I think its our job to stay informed about each candidate and make a decision about who we should vote for. It is our future that’s at stake.

Personally I don’t know who I’m going to vote for and I think politics are annoying. But at the same time I realized how big a role in politics on the economy as well, and since most of us our looking to go into business we should definitely stay involved.

Watching SportsCenter and reading things like the New York Post you’d think the Yankees were already swept. You’d think that the New York baseball season was officially over. Well, I don’t think so. I think in a season of crazy and unbelievable things there is a little more crazy still to come.

We just had a baseball season where truly amazing things happened. A season where everything wasn’t as it was “supposed to go.” The Red Sox and Phillies were two teams many expected to be playing in the World Series next week. Both are currently sitting at home after awful seasons, so awful that both traded away big players in the middle of the year (Hunter Pence from the Phillies, Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett from the Sox) and the Red Sox fired their manager, Bobby Valentine, after only one season.

This was a year where teams that spent little money in the off-season (Orioles, A’s) had dream seasons, while teams that spent fortunes (Angles, Marlins) had nightmares. We’ve seen players many considered to be washed up, such as 37 year old knuckleballer R.A. Dickey of the Mets, turn back time with remarkable, Cy Young-worthy performances. Heck, Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers gave baseball it’s first Triple Crown winner (where one player leads the league in homeruns, batting average and RBIs for the season) in 45 years. Heck even the Mets were considered a possible playoff team at the All Star break.

So in a season of the seemingly impossible, whose to say that the Yankees can’t do to the Tigers what the Red Sox did to them at this same time 8 years ago. Both teams were in 0-3 holes, both had big players struggling (Johnny Damon of the Red Sox was in a 1-13 slump through the first three games of the 2004 ALCS with 5 strikeouts, and of course it’s well known how A-Rod and the Yankees lineup as a whole is struggling today), and both had their local media and fans saying their season was over.

In a crazy baseball season why can’t one think that it will get a bit crazier. As Yogi Berra, the Hall Of Fame Yankee catcher once said: “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”

Considering that i’m going to a business school and hoping to pursue a career in business finance, handling money and maintaining a budget is a skill i should possess. Maybe for others in terms of giving advice, but for myself i don’t think i possess one ounce of intelligent money management. Earning hasnt been the same since summer since i only work one day a week now. However, spending most of my time in the fashion capital of America New York City, resisting myself has been harder than ever.

Money just seems to stroll in and then poof! leave with twice the speed and still my shopping list never looks shorter. It’s safe to admit that i have a serious problem. Regardless of what it may be from new trending boots to eye catching scarves to the delicious lingering smell of cart food and sudden thirsts for starbucks. I guess i’m just too weak. Popping my debit card out and swiping it feels like the easiest task in the world until i notice the pathetic digits next to the word “account balance” at night (which do act as my reality check) but then the cycle start all over again the next day :/ fml

Having spent an absolutely ridiculous amount in the city over the past month and a half or so has made me realize how expensive living in the city really can be. With long days and all of the 1-3 hour breaks that we have in between as an LC it is almost impossible not to get hungry. Personally I eat every like 3 hours so that’s even more of a problem for me but even for someone who doesn’t eat that often during a 9 hour day on Mondays and Wednesdays it is impossible not to get hungry and the easiest thing to do is go and buy food.

The first few weeks of school I didn’t realize how much food cost and I was surrounded by so much good food for the first time that I went nuts and just bought food every time I was hungry. I probably spent over 100 dollars on food in the first two weeks alone, and having no source of income for the winter that’s not a very frugal decision. So I guess this post is more of a pledge to myself that I’m going to restrict my spending and not be broke, mainly by bringing food from home and if i need to buy food its going to be dollar pizza. That is all.