Choosing WSU

When I was applying to universities this time last year, I did not apply to Wright State because I was not interested in attending this university.   I applied to The Ohio State University hoping I would get in.  I also applied to other schools too.  I don’t like to put all my eggs in one basket. A few months later I received a letter from OSU saying that I was accepted. I was thrilled. Unfortunately, I received my FAFSA and found out I did not receive any financial aid from the government. I also did not receive any outside scholarships or grants. So I had to figure out what to do with the money I did have for college because I did not want to have to take out numerous loans and be indebt up to my eyeballs for four years. So I decided to apply to Wright State hoping they would accept me or I would have to put off school for a year and get a full time job. However, I knew that if I did that, I would not return to school ever. I filled out the application, sent it in with the fee and waited for a response. A few days later, I received a letter in the mail from the university, and before I opened it I thought this is it. I opened it and came upon a letter and a certificate. The letter read,

                Dear Emily,

                                Congratulations! You have been admitted to Wright State University for the Fall 2010 Quarter.

I was relieved. I had somewhere I could go to college. This university may not have been one of my choices, but I am happy that I did go here. I can always go to OSU for graduate school if that’s what I want to do in four years. I don’t know if it was fate that made this the university I would go to, but I am kind of glad I did.

Significant Song

Music is my life. Period. I have numerous playlists with tons of songs from pop to country to R&B to classical and the list goes on and on. So when I was trying to find a song that is the most significant to me, I drew a complete blank. So I got onto my playlist, hit shuffle, and when the song came on I knew that it was the one. The Goo Goo Dolls' song, Iris is the best song to describe me. It's the one song I crank up when it comes on the radio because I connect to it so much. The purpose of the song was to entertain. Iris was written for the City of Angels soundtrack in 1998. The song's audience was the moviegoers but eventually reached out to everyone in the world. The musical genre is rock. You have already read some of my feelings about the song. Iris best describes me through the lyrics And I don't want the world to see me/Cause I don't think that they'd understand/When everything's made to be broken/I just want you to know who I am. The song is about someone who doesn't like to open up easily because they feel that if they let those walls come down everyone will think they are a freak. The lyrics I just want you to know who I am mean that this individual wants to be known, but doesn't know how to let those walls come down.

                                       Check out the music!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsClQ1H0ME&feature=related

Book Review-Water For Elephants

       Water for Elephants written by Sara Gruen is one of the best novels I have read in a long time. The novel is set during the Great Depression, where a young Cornell University veterinary student, named Jacob Jankowski runs away to the circus after the death his parents. Even though he doesn't have his degree, he ends up in charge of the animal menagerie where he falls in love with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charming but otherwise twisted animal trainer. Jacob also meets Rosie, an otherwise untrainable elephant until he finds a way to reach her.

       From the moment I picked the book up I could not put it down. One of the interesting things about it was the style of writing it has. The book is written in first person, but by an elderly Jacob Jankowski, who now lives in a nursing home. He recounts the days when life was just beginning for him. The story has love, action, and adventure mixed with pain and sadness.

      I read this book over the summer after hearing that Hollywood was making a film based on the novel. After reading it, I did a little research about the upcoming film and found out who is portraying who. The three main actors are Robert Pattinson who portrays Jacob, Reese Witherspoon who portrays Marlena, and Christoph Waltz who portrays August. If you don't know who Christoph Waltz is he starred in Inglourious Basterds.

    I definately recommand this book and if you rather wait and see the movie it will be coming out sometime next year.