LC 06

Sometimes I just sit back and think to myself…Am I really eating a balanced diet? Is what I’m eating really healthy for me? After all, it came from a bunch of animals pumped full of artificial chemicals. Chemicals that makes girls breast grow 60% bigger than average, and chemicals that contribute to the long-term diseases that plague our society; hormonal imbalance, obesity, and cancer. I mean…I know there is a choice between,world hunger, or bad quality food, but how can I be sure that nothing can be done to really increase the quality and nutrition value of my food? I DON’T WANT TO EAT GARBAGE! I rather deal with the insects, and low yielding foods of my predecessors! or at least like the Amish people upstate at worst. It really bothers me how dirty, and artificial they treat my food. For instance, I would go to a fruit stand, see the MOST beautiful apple, nice, shiny, full, and rip looking, and say to myself; wow! I would like that. After spending my hard earned wages on that apple, I bite into it to taste sourness, bitterness, and dryness. This is ok if it happens every so often, but this kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME! Comon! What do I have to do? This sickens me beyond parallel! Oh!…Another example, I buy meat at the butcher to find that its abnormally large in size, upon further inspection of the box I realized the meat was treated with a hormonal enhancer or some sort…ahhhh. Very troubling…There must be an alternative to this! Everywhere I turn, things of this nature are present! Perhaps it’s the city that I live in? I mean after all, there are absolutely no farms within 100 miles of this place! Maybe that’s why the food quality here sucks…Maybe I should start a little farm in my backyard? Wait! Ahhh…That wouldn’t work. All that disgusting crap that these cars put out will surely infect my precious foliage. What to do…What to do…I guess this is a long-term problem that needs a solution. I can become Amish and grow foods in amounts that only satisfy my needs? AHhh. Damit! I almost forgot! I’m going to have to live without electricity, gas, and other shit my life easy! Hell NO! Whoa, and no more cars? Never mind, I guess I have a good deal here in this city after all… I mean no one is really starving eh? People get sick, but wouldn’t they always? Just means that I might be better off becoming a doctor. I’ll just try to limit myself. Try to get hormone-free chicken, eat a lot of veggies, run, and work out, and get a woman who knows and understands all these things so when we have kids and I become financially free we can all move the hell out of this place! Wow that sounds like a grand idea! For now, I will have to suffer with this food, but I realize its not so bad after all. I have a plan, I have a goal, My life, family, and existence, is what’s left to unfold…

I desperately need sleep. I don’t think I’ve heard myself say, “I don’t wanna go to school” to my mother in a long time. But the past few weeks have been unbearable and as she wakes me every morning, it’s been the only sentence my lips can mumble. Of course I manage to force myself to life, and here I am yet again; faking energy thanks to a heavily sugared and caffeinated coffee.

My cycle has been habitual since college began. I wake up to my boyfriend who comes over before school, I get dressed and pack my bag, head out to the city, buy a coffee from the guy who knows my order upon sight at this point and ungracefully walk to my first class, balancing the hot beverage and struggling to get my ID card out of my wallet. As the lecture begins, I turn on my laptop and attempt to turn my brain on as well, after all, it must remember everything being taught; I will be tested on it within the next week or so. The cycle continues several times throughout the day until it’s time to go home.

HALLELUJAH. That’s what most people say when the school day ends. But in my case, the work has not finished. That’s right, I have a job. I go home and enjoy my few hours of complete relaxation, and then head to Aldo, the shoe store located a few blocks from my house. After attempting to meet my almost impossible goals of selling shoe care and handbags on top of a monetary goal, the day has finally come to an actual end. I can now go home and relax. Well, after homework is done.

Some people call me crazy, some ambitious. I agree with both of these accusations. I balance a pretty hectic schedule but in the end, I know I will succeed. I will be the girl who graduates knowing what she wants and where she is going. I’ll have the money I need to financially kick-start my future and I’ll have the work ethic necessary to make it in today’s economy.

For your second Assignment please post up your monologues that you all presented in class. (yes that means you have to type the whole thing! don’t be lazy!) Along with your monologue, post up a picture that complements with the topic of your monologue. It can be a picture you found on the internet, or a picture you took yourself, etc.

please have this done by Nov 1st before class starts!

Get this done as soon as possible!!

Reflect on the following 4 questions and create a response of no more than 500 words. You can integrate media into your post if you please.

1. Tell us who you think YOU are!

2. Share your top 3 concerns about your freshman year at Baruch College and explain why.

3. So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College experience different from your high school experience?

4. How do you think your first year at College will change you?