Halloween Hoes!

I posted a comment on Paris Hilton's post about Halloween Hoe's. Is it really acceptable to dress this way even if its for fun?

A Life and Death Decision?

I am I the only freshmen getting annoyed with sorority recruitment? I love meeting new people and experiencing new things, but I find myself constantly acting so fake. Meeting all the necessary girls is one thing, but having to go to each greek event with a smile is another. I find it so exhausting. It has become one giant competition amongst the freshmen girls. Who can meet more Kappas or who can have coffee with more Theta's ect. I do not understand why joining a sorority at SMU has become such a big ordeal. Most of my friends go to schools in the North- East and do not have as much pressure but on them as we do. They do not even have to have rec's for sororities. They think in schools like Dartmouth that you should be yourself and having rec's is trying to hard. Its funny, because all of the different girls I have met for lunch or coffee have been so nice and welcoming and have even said they felt the same as I do now when they were freshmen. 

I want to join a sorority, but I don't understand why can't SMU let go of some of their rules. Why can't we meet these girls for lunch or dinner off campus or Why can't I visit my friends in sororities at there apartments off- campus? Why does it have to be this strict process with so many rules? I love tradition and I am not saying I think SMU should get rid of all of there rules but some I think have to go. Joining a sorority should be a fun process and not stressful one. 

Comment on Northern Girl in the South

I just posted a comment on Northern Girl in the South's blog about Heat Moon's encounter with Miz Alice. She talked about a quote from the reading. Alice Middleton says that Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there. Although I do agree with this statement, I do not agree with the way Heat- Moon went about finding himself. I know I would never pack my life away and drive across the country. I also do not think I could live in the type of isolation that Heat-Moon did. 

Heat- Moon Reading

Question- Why do you think Heat- Moon visited Alice Middleton on your six-by- four mile Island? What similarities in the way they live their lives make for such easy comparisons between the two? 

While on his travels across the country, Heat- Moon visits with a retired teacher on a small island on the Chesapeake. I think that the way she lives her life seems like an inspiration to Heat-Moon. Even though the inhabitants on the island can get to the main land via ferryboat, the island is for the most part very isolated. She notes that, "We've had electricity on the island for only the last twenty-nine years. Phones for less than that. We've been a rustic tribe." Can you imagine living without electricity and phones? That seems unimaginable to me. I think that this idea of living "rustic" would also seem ideal for Heat- Moon. It seems like the perfect place to run away from your problems. As part Native American, I would think he would relish in the idea of living freely and peacefully. I could definitely see Heat- Moon abandoning his way of life and moving to this Island. 

Heat Moon and Alice Middleton are extremely similar people. Both have chosen to live parts of their lives in isolation. Heat- Moon has decided to escape from the troubles of his life by fixing up an old van and traveling around the country for a season. Miz Middleton has chosen to live on a six- by- four mile island for the past sixty- three years of her life. There rustic ways of living also shows a strong connection between nature inside each of them. Middleton also yearns for a time when the inhabitants knew more about the plants and animals on the island, while Heat- Moon yearns to live a less complicated lifestyle. They are also both teachers and I would expect them to value the idea of education through thinking and looking at yourself.