Fianl Blog...

WOW, this semester flew, especially for a girl who hasn't been in school for 20 years!!  This class was a challenging one for me.  I am not the best at spelling or writing.  I love to write and argue my opinion I am not the best at putting it down on paper however.  For some of the essays were very hard and then there were some I really enjoyed!  My future with RCTC will be on going for a few more years, I have to say I am very happy that I decided to go back to school and have enjoyed this semester and this class.  If I was being totally honest though, this class challenged me more than others.  To some this comes easy, I think I struggled with it every assignment! Thank god for smart thinking!!  So here is to the Spring 2012 class of Writing with Nikka Vrieze, may you find your path and enjoy the ride!

Best Friends... Can you ever go with out them?  I have know Tara since we were in diapers.  Our mothers were friends and then our parents.  We have grown up together through thick and thin.  I think we have experienced everything together her and I.  When I think back on what we have experienced together... From Elementry School, Middle School drama, training bras, periods, boys, grades, peer pressure in High School, first dates, proms, sports, deaths of close friends.  Then onto our adult life, our first apartment, our first careers, parents divorce, grandparents deaths, and Tara deciding to go into the Military.  Watching her leave, watching her meet someone special, getting pregnant, our friendship long distance while she lived in California.  Going through my marriage and her divorce, watching my three children grow, and watching Tara meet Mr. Perfect, to getting married and starting a family with a new little baby.  I look back onto my life and think what would of it been like without her in it?  Everyone needs that one they can turn to and talk and be there to laugh and cry with, for me that has always been Tara!

Aprill 22 College at 36? WHY!!!

Yep I am back in school after graduating high school in 1994.... OMG...  Some have asked me why?  I guess I have always wanted to go further with my occupation or degree.  I went to cosmotology school in 1994-95 and have been a cosmotologist for 17 years.  Through a ten year marriage and three beautiful daughters, whom will all be in school next year full time.  I have always loved the hair profession, I just wanted more.  So this last January my journey began.  I am going for Dental Hygiene.  I have to say I never thought there was that many generals that had to be taken in order to do this profession. One may ask why not go into nursing they require a lot of the same.  I love having my nights and weekends with my girls and as they get older I am sure it will just get busier.  Being in the Dental profession I will be able to do that.  Plus I am a people person so this will be a great fit!  So college with one semester under my belt here goes to the rest of it!!! College student at the age of 36!

April 15th Research Experience

Oh how I love research papers... NOT
This has to be one of my weakest points in school, I am not the greatest at writing papers and to do research on top, well lets hope for the best.  I like the research end in the sense of finding out information I didn't know prior.  I understand the importance of research papers and college but then I think to myself, do writing papers and cleaning teeth go hand in hand?  Why is it that colleges have you write so many papers?  I have been writing papers this semester in Psych, Ethics, and English.  I guess being new to the college scene I was ready for the papers in English class but not the rest of them.  This semester has been intense and very eye opening.

April 8th Logical Falliacies

Ever think about the things you see on the TV and hear on the radio.... Are they true do they really work?  I think about the industry I am in currently, HAIR... Multi trillion dollar industry.  We all want our hair to look a certain way and will go to extremes to get it.  How about the hair color ads you see on TV.  if you use there products you can have hair like a super model or the color and feel of silk.  I know for a fact that is not true, I have corrected more at home hair colors than I can count.  For example, if you have color in your hair currently say a brown, and you decide to go back to blonde.  One then heads to the store and buys a blonde dye, they then go home and do the procedure... it turns out a funky orange nasty color... or a darker brown than you started with.  Well that is because color does not lift color... you cannot do that type of change without going into a salon and having a professional do it.  There are many more in our world this is just one I know first hand oh to well.

Foreclosure...

In today's world we live in we have seen a lot of homes being lost due to foreclosure.  Well not due to that but due to the irresponsible banks that lent money to people that could not afford that payment in the first place, and for the irresponsible homeowner who even thought they could handle that payment.  I totally understand when I person loses ones job, becomes ill, there is a major death in the family and they are forced to step down from there job.  It is the ones that just up and decide one day hmmm I think I should just stop paying on my house, they could save allot of money for months possibly years before the bank forces them out.  Even then there are beautiful rentals now, and contract for deeds that are all over.  Maybe there house value has fallen below what they owe on it and they think well better for them to just wash there hands of it.  In my mind I can't for the life of me figure this thought process out.  Why would someone deliberately do this?  I see this everyday, people out spending money, going on vacations, enjoying restaurants everyday, but they don't have the money to pay for there house payment!!!  UNREAL!

Cause & Effect

Tattoos...
Some may ask what is the difference between hairstyles, clothing & tattoos?  I guess I would have to say, well it's with you forever!!!  I think about the many ways you can express yourself.  You can color you hair black and be Gothic for a while, dress in all black, and have many piercings all over your body, even get tattooed with many markings of what your into at the time.  Then one day let's say five years down the road, you graduate from high school, you go onto college and you decide it is time you got out of this "phase" you have been in just to creep out your parents.  So the hair gets colored back to normal, your clothing is much more modern and conservative to your age, and the piercings are all taken out and grown shut.  Then comes to the lovely tattoos you had placed all over for the world to see, there is no going back on those, well unless you want to go through many expensive treatments to have them removed.  I think that when it comes to tattoos we have to really think about the effect that it will play on our lives for the rest of our lives!  It is not something that is just here in the moment it is forever!