After Graduation Plans

I can't wait for graduation. This summer I should be keeping busy, but not too busy. I got a job at J.B. Saunders, which is a small electronic parts store here in Boulder. I mostly work with stocking. The store gets donations of used parts that need to be sorted and sometimes repaired before making it out to the shelves. During the summer, I plan to work part time so that I still be able to enjoy my last summer of high school. One of the things I am looking forward to is going on a week long trip sometime in Florida with my family. In the fall, I will be attending the Colorado School of Mines in Golden to study electrical engineering. I have always been fascinated by electronics, which is why I chose this major. When I was about five years old I would take apart of R/C cars just so that I could play with the motor inside. Yes, I was that bad. I also used to love making sparks by hooking up six nine volt batteries in series. I used to do this on the carpet until my dad made me a box to do them in so I wouldn't burn the house down. I chose to go to Mines mostly because of its reputation in the engineering field. Companies seem to know that people that come out of Mines are well educated and ready for work, so they look for Mines students when they are hiring. The school itself also holds a lot of job fairs and is generally helpful if you are looking for a job or an internship. It is also a smaller school which is something I personally wanted. I have never enjoyed large crowds or a lot of traffic, so Golden sounded like a good place to live. All in all I think the next year is going to be a blast and I can't wait.

Going to Italy

It has been my travel dream for some time now to go to Italy. My grandparents on my dad's side of the family immigrated from Italy and I have always wondered what it was like. I haven't been fortunate enough to take a vacation out of the country yet, so it would also be a great way for me to see something different. While I am there I would definitely like to see as much of the country as I can, but more importantly I want to taste as much of the country as I can. I have always imagined how amazing the pasta and pizza in Italy is, and this would be my chance to find out. I would travel around to the different cities of Italy and see how the local food variety changes. A lot of the different regions in Italy have their own unique tastes and flavor. Also, after experiencing all the food and flavors for myself, I would be able to cook a mean pasta sauce. As I am traveling through the different cities I would want to make a few stops along the way. Some of the places I really want to see are the Colosseum, Venice, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Using all the brute strength gained from all the amazing Italian food, I would push the leaning tower back up. Italy would be upset with me though, if the tower wasn't leaning it wouldn't attract nearly as many tourists. Overall I wouldn't want the trip to last longer than a month. Vacations are fun, but eventually I would want to be back home so I could share my adventures with my friends and family. My grandmother on my dads side would be very interested in some of the italian recipes I will have learned considering she is such a great italian cook already.

Fear Can Make Us Do Hideous Things

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy the two main characters are a man and a boy. The man and the boy are starting to get desperate. They have been living for about 6 years in a world that is completely burned and turned to ash. They survive by scavenging non perishable food from burnt towns and cities, but it is getting hard to find anything. They are not the only survivors. The "bad guys" have taken to cannibalism to survive. They roam the streets in packs and carry their human prisoners, or food, with them as they go.

A full summary of The Road can be found here.

One day the man and the boy come across a house that clearly has people living in it but appears to be empty at the moment. Having had nothing to eat in s few days the man decides to take and chance and go inside to try and find food. He finds a locked cellar door hoping it is a food storage place. He and the boy walk inside and this is what they find;

"Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.
   Jesus, he whispered.
   Then one by one they turned and clinked in the pitiful light. Help us, they whispered. Please help us."

He was right, it was a food storage place, just not the kind of food he was hoping for. As the man and the boy are leaving they see four men and two women walking through a field toward the house. They run as fast as they can to avoid being eaten.

I want to focus on the cannibals. What drove them to cannibalism? In my opinion it was fear. They were so afraid to die that they decided to eat other human beings to survive. To me this shows what a powerful force fear can be on our lives. There's even a saying "don't let fear rule your life". I think in this case the cannibals allowed fear to rule their lives. They gave up their morals due to fear. They torment other people just so that they can survive. In this case it was the fear of death that caused the four men and two women to become cannibals.

Intro Post

Hello world! This is the blog of a senior literature and composition student. let's see, I play Fairview lacrosse, play disc golf, and am a bit of a math and science nerd. In this blog I will post about the most important shenanigans I experience.