Have you guys noticed the different classes of people at OU? there are those who wear ratty clothes, and don't bathe, and sometimes don't even wear their shoes. Then there are those who wear suits everyday, and have snobby accents. I just hate when people assume just because i don't wear North Face, or drive 3 different cars, that i'm not as good as them. Man that pisses me off. Just because i was raised with values, such as work hard for what you want, rather than money can buy whatever you want, or whatever trouble you get yourself into. I was talking to a recruiting officer for the Air Force, and he said this one girl pulled a fire alarm at a frat house during a party. and the firefighters asked her about it, and she admitted to it. They asked her why, and she simply said "Just so i could see you guys react." Strike 1 and 2. then they said "well its an $800 dollar fine to pull an alarm without an emergency." "Here's my dads business card, just bill it to this address" said the girl, and laughed off with her friends. Strike 3. It's people like that who make me mad. Can you imagine how those firefighters felt? So next time you see a "Higher class" person, think. "Is it better to be raised with enough money for anything, or with morals and values?" Your call.

I Know You Are.......

"I know you are but what am i?" or how about "I don't eat trash, I burn it." Do you guys remember when we said those things? and everybody said them. kids in our grade. one grade above us, even middle and high schoolers said them. So when and why did they go out of style? What caused them to become norms, and then to disappear, never to be uttered by schoolchildren again? well, maybe it just got old. Or perhaps some secret norm organization decided it was enough of those sayings. Perhaps not. But it just kinda makes me think about some old norms, that were a big part of our childhood. Like the band N-Sync. or the Nintendo 64. Maybe we could create our own norms, and maybe have it spread worldwide. that would be cool.

Check This Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

ok. I'm sure everyone here has seen this. I'm sure everybody ever has seen it. Could you guys believe that this is one of the most popular videos in the world? how did you find this video? did a friend show you? did you see it on Tosh.0? did you just happen to stumble upon it? either way, this video has achieved worldwide popularity few other videos have known. So thinking about the way you found out about it, many corporations use marketing the same way. And the best part of all is that it's almost free for them. It's a win-win situation for them, they pay little to no money, and their product is shown multiple times. So next time you watch a video, think about how many other people like you, just saw the same product. or not. I Don't Care.

Everybody's Favoriiiite.

VIRAL MARKETING! WATCH THIS! NOW!

EVERYBODY's favorite artist is BACK! AGAIN!

Make this video crazy popular and an unforgettable meme!

.... But seriously, Britney Spears is almost like a meme herself. No one could forget the time she buzzed her own hair off, danced with a yellow python, or that skin tight red jumpsuit she wore for the 'Lucky' video. I love Britney Spears. I've always been TEAM BRITNEY. Her videos become viral as soon as she puts them out and the paparazzi are always following her to try to catch her in her next scandal.

Memes were probably my most favorite concept discussed. I wish I could marry the Old Spice guy, really, I do. It was interesting to learn how much Old Spice sales sky rocketed, with really no marketing done on their own. What would we do without YouTube?!

... It makes me wonder what the next big thing will be. I wish I could be the next Youtube sensation!

Tragedy in the Dorms.

Ahhhhhhh. My RA is trying to ruin our lives again. It is definitely a tragedy of the Ryors commons. It alllllllll started when my RA left for the weekend. She never tells us because she knows we'll be even louder and crazier than usual. We always find out though from the other RAs or people seeing her leave with her bags.

Anyways, things got a little crazy this weekend. And now we aren't allowed to be in the lounge room on the weekends. An individual or individuals completely made a mess of the lounge. Everything was displaced and there was trash and pizza boxes everywhere. There was an absence of restraints and people in my hall used our common source for their own benefit and now everyone suffers. The common source (the lounge) is ruined for all. Everybody used to come back to the lounge after a late night and hang out. There would always be people in there and it would be really fun. My RA is a big party pooper, we didn't even get a warning or anything. She just took it away from us. Depressing.

I can think of a lot of events that have happened from living in the dorms that illustrate the concept of the tragedy of the commons. From little things, like we no longer have a marker to write on the mirrors in the bathroom because people kept writing "inappropriate" words/ pictures, most likely while intoxicated. So now we can't write fun messages to each other! Bigger more important things have happened, like we're really encouraged not to leave our doors open when we're not in the room because girls have gotten stuff stolen recently. You can apply this concept to a lot of things that happen to you. I need to figure out a way to reverse the "tragedies" going on in my dorm room, I want my mirror marker & lounge back!

Damsel in Distress

Freshman at Ohio University are not allowed to have their cars, but I found a way I could! Right in the middle of South Green, there is a Church (New Life) that sells parking spots to whoever is willing to pay $100. My personal spot is #164, which is located in the back parking lot.

Well one day last week, I went to my car (ready to go home and play halo!) and I had left my dome light on... so my car battery was dead. :( After trying to think of someone I knew with a car for 10 minutes, I figured I would just call the campus police to come help get me started. So I called my grandma and had her look up the number; then I called. A woman picks up the phone "Hello, OU police dept.".

-me: "Hi, yea umm I go to school here and I was just wondering if you guys jump cars?"

-dispatcher: " Yes, we do. Where are you located?"

-me: (Super relieved) Im parked behind the New Life Church on South Green, by the soccer field."

-dispatcher: "Ohhh.. Thats not University property? We cant help you.. Call a towing company."

Then she hung up.

I Literally freaked out.

Sure!!! I would love to call a towing company and pay them just to take a trip over here to jump my car.. when your stupid cruisers sit right outside this lot 70% of the time?! The church is surrounded by university property, making this situation so unnecessary.

This created a conflict between me and OU Police. This instance is an expample of Conflict Theory, which we talked about in week 4.

I ended up having to call my friend Kelli, who is a sophmore with a car on campus. Us two girls, who know nothing about how to jump a car, attempted to do this without help. The only thing we knew was to not touch the two cables together. So we connect them to each battery.. actually successfully. Then Kelli had to rev her car to get mine charging and at this point we are both fearing for our lives and picturing both cars blowing up! Thank god that didn't happen.. So in the end it all worked out, but if it wasnt for the conflict between OU pd and private owners, I would've been out of there alot faster and safer.

The Roommate

Have you seen the previews or full movie of "The Roommate"? Because I am pretty sure that is who I am living with this year. She's NUTS.... and wants to kill me.

From the sociological viewpoint, she is the perfect model for concurrency. Her day consists of waking up at 1 in the afternoon, skipping all of her classes, sleeping more, and then watching obnoxious cartoons at night. My roommate is on academic probation this quarter after getting less than a 1.0 last quarter! Her situation demonstrates concurrency. She didn't go to class fall quarter, still isn't going to class winter quarter, and will be suspended from OU spring quarter for not getting her GPA up. One bad event after the other keeps happening to her, it's a never ending domino effect in her life right now. She has to leave OU during the best quarter of them all and move back home and go to a community college. My roommate didn't realize the harsh consequences of her actions and now it's all being piled on her. I saw it coming all along, I don't feel bad for her. At all.

In class we discussed concurrency in beer pong. One person with Herpes or some other loooovely STD spreads it to the others playing pong. One action causes several actions to occur. In my roommate's situation, her action of not going to class and getting put on academic probation is even worse than getting herpes after a game of pong I'd say. We have one role here once admitted to Ohio University, and that is the role of a student. It is our job to go to class, do the homework, and studystudystudystudy. Nobody likes waking up for 8ams, but it's our social role. Life chances could also be used in this situation. My roommate was given a great life chance and just threw it down the drain.

On the bright side, I will have a double room all to myself. And I won't have to watch her stupid TV shows or listen to her stupid music.

Note to self: Never EVER do a random roommate again.