Anti Social Twitter

So we were supposed to find two people in our future career field on twitter. We were to follow them and tweet them about their jobs and ask about what they had to do and such. Well I am here to tell you that just because the people are on twitter doesn’t mean they are social with people. There were three people I found they were milblogging, ArmyROTC, and USArmy. I sent all three of them the same direct message and I got the same reply back from them all, NOT A DARN THING!

I swear how hard is it for you to tweet to somebody about your job? I mean they are always tweeting. It’s crazy how much they tweet. They send tweets all the time yet they can’t even tweet me about their jobs. I even told theses unsocial asses that it was for school and they didn’t care. I hate people like this. They are self centered asses. They can tweet about all this random crap, but can’t even help me.

I would understand if I just tweeted them out of nowhere and just started asking about their jobs. But I didn’t!! I sent them a direct message telling them I was in college and in LLC and that the blogs and twitter were a part of our grade. I asked them if they could help me and tweet me about some questions and none of them replied.

Ugh!! Theses “people” have me so frustrated!! And the thing is, is that I’m not the only person who has had this problem. One of my friends found somebody and the person said they would tweet her about it, then she said she didn’t want to anymore and my friend only asked her one question. So these people need to stop acting like they are somebody big and can’t tweet some college students about their jobs. Come on, we are going into the work world when we graduate and are trying to find out what it is like. Ugh some people are just inconsiderate!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing Can Stop Me

I hate this crap!! I am so damn hungry! But this is just something that I am going to have to get used to. I have to go back on my “diet”. I am currently at about two hundred and forty pounds. If I want to be able to come back next semester and the semesters after I have to get down to about one hundred and eighty five pounds.

That is the weight I have to get to if I want to even be considered for an Army ROTC scholarship. I have no other way of paying for college. I have to get this if I want to stay. My diet isn’t one that people support. I usually either eat once a day every day and that is all I eat. Or I do another way where I just simply eat once a day every other day or every two days. For example I eat Monday and I don’t eat again until Thursday. And every day I have to work out and push cardio to the max.  I found this whey protein powder that I really like. It has shown great results when I did this same diet last summer. I did this diet last summer and I lost FORTY POUNDS in two months. I went from two sixty to two forty.

So I know that it is possible. All I have to do is put my mind to it and I can do it. So I am going to be going full strength to it. I am going to be starting it this Monday. I am going to check my weight every other week. I am planning to do cardio twice a day. I enjoy working out it just gets boring by myself. But I am really in the mind set of it is now or never so I am going to be able to do it. I am a very strong minded person. And I WILL do this!!

The Time is NOW

This year has been pretty stressful. Worrying about classes and also how I’m going to pay for school. I have always wanted to go into the Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) in college. I wanted to get a ROTC scholarship and commission into the Army.

Well here I am in college and looking at not being able to afford to return for the second semester. The last two years of my high school career were so crazy. I was busy with classes and JROTC. I would always try to fit in working out, but when I get home from school at seven at night and still have homework it’s kind of hard to fit in working out. As well as having a job on the side on top of that.

So I am overweight now and no ROTC scholarship. I have to lose a considerable amount of weight for me to even be looked at for the scholarship. So the next couple of months I am going to be busting my ass. I am going to be working out and dieting. Everybody I talk to about my “diet” tell me I shouldn’t do it because it’s more of a starving diet. They tell me it’s not good for me, but I have to lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time.

It’s not like I have the ease of losing it when I want. If I don’t get on scholarship with ROTC I’m not going to be able to come back for the second semester. My family doesn’t just have money lying around. I don’t have a trust fund or a rich uncle. My parents have to help do it. So I have to work on losing this weight and getting down to my height weight. And if I don’t do this I won’t be back next semester so it’s not like I can just keep putting it off; the time is now to do something about it. WISH ME LUCKKKKKK!!!!!

Who needs to go to college?

I was laying here in my friend’s dorm thinking, why do we need to go to college in life? I mean all it does is puts you in debt a hundred thousand dollars. There are a hundred thousand other things I could buy with that money; I could get like a hundred thousand McDoubles or a hundred thousand McChickens. Or even fifty thousand side salads and fifty thousand ice cream sundaes. I couldn’t get all healthy food. Come on, it’s coming from a fast food joint.

And I was also thinking that if you spend all that money going to college it only gives you one more job you could get. And you have to be really lucky to get it. Besides who wants to be a doctor in life? That’s too much work.  You can get plenty of good jobs without going to college.  I went to college and I ended up only making about forty thousand dollars a year. I wasn’t able to do anything and I was so far in debt.  

Also if you go to school it doesn’t keep you from getting married and having kids. You still have to get married in life, no matter how much you don’t want to. It’s impassable.  I went to college and it made me go so far into debt that I ended up living out of my car with my wife and kids. It is a life wrecker. It does nothing for you!!

And when you are sitting there a hundred thousand dollars in debt and it’s time to pay taxes and you don’t have any money to pay it what do you do? You have no house to sell no assets no nothing!

Man I love Hasbro. They make some really good games. I love their game of life. But honestly who needs to go to college in the game of life? You go into debt, can’t afford a car, and aren’t even guaranteed a great paying job nor house.

What to Blog about??

Oh my Gosh! So its November 28, 2010 three hours before these blogs are due. I have five more I have to do. I have really been putting these blogs off. The last time I worked on these blogs was the fifteenth of last month! I planned to work on them over the holiday break, but come on really? Who does this much work on their break?

The crazy thing though is that I have done all of the blogs that were assigned with topics from the instructors. I’m having trouble coming up with topics for me to talk about; hence the reason why I am talking about putting my blogs off. This isn’t any blogging material, but I needed something, can I be judged on that?

Gosh, two paragraphs and I only have one hundred and thirty eight words. This is taking an awful long time. And my head is hurting, ugh, life is sucking. I’m half way.  Haha I was just trying to figure out how to spell probably for my friend. Then I had an epiphany, I’m sitting here on Microsoft word typing, why don’t I just try typing it and it will show me how to spell it. Man today just isn’t my day!!

So I have been back here at Pembroke for only about two and a half hours. And I have had to pee like eight times!! I don’t know if this is normal. I might need to consult the people from the commercials with the pipe people. They know about this. Or maybe the people from the commercials where they are always talking about how people with the disorder are missing out on events. I miss parts of my shows when I have to go pee. That’s important since I don’t have TiVo here at Pembroke.

I have made it!! I am past three hundred words! Only four more blogs left. Heck yeah!

Beginning Vs. End

Man, I love this time of year. Around August is when the year really starts to get good. This part of the year is really busy and that is what really makes it so much better than the beginning of the year.  In August we return to school and start to get back into the routine. Then in September it is my brothers and my birthday. They are exactly two weeks apart. Then in October is my mother’s birthday. We also have Halloween at the end of the month. And then in November we have Thanksgiving and we get a nice week break from school. So that is nice. Once we come back from Thanksgiving break, we only have two week s before we get out for a whole month! And while we are out we have Christmas, the New Year and my dad’s birthday. And by the time we come back in January we only have four months and we are done with the school year.

The year usually goes by a lot faster once we get into August because of all the events that I listed above. There aren’t that many events that happen from January to July. And the events that do happen they don’t get us out of school. Also the holidays that happen in that time aren’t major holidays that people celebrate with big importance. It would be so cool if we could have major holidays throughout the whole year. I think if we did that many holidays the years would go by even faster, but they would always seem busy I also think.

When I think about it I guess I like it when I am involved in the holidays and I get something from them. Because at the end of the year we get gifts and have celebrations that involve others and that is pretty awesome.  This doesn’t make me selfish does it?

Humans are Confusing

Being here at Pembroke, I have really seen a bunch of different kinds of people. To be honest some of the people are kind of weird. There are the students that are completely into their school work. They have no concern at all about the social aspect of college. Then there are the ones who are only here for the partying. They go to class, just for attendance purposes, then they go to bed so they can party that night. And we also have the ones that are in between the two groups. They are here for academics, but then they also like to party way to much some times. And finally we have the ones who mostly stay to themselves. They may talk to a few people, but they don’t go to parties and hang out in big crowds just for fun.

Something I noticed here is that the certain different kinds of people here tend to hang out with people who are just like them. If they are a heavy partier then they aren’t going to hang out with somebody who likes to just stay in their room and study.

My friends and I are more of the last kind I mentioned. We hang out with each other but we don’t go to big parties and hang out with a bunch of strangers. We tend to hang out with more conservative and reserved people. It’s not like we exclude or reject people who aren’t like us, it’s just we prefer and feel most comfortable around the other that are like us. We also like to joke around and be loud when we are together. So somebody who is quiet and don’t like to be loud wouldn’t hang out with us.

So I guess that it’s not just college where the people are like this. It makes sense that every where would be like this, but back in college I would hang out with ANY kind of person. I didn’t care if they were like I was, but now it seems like I don’t like being around quiet people or partiers. Humans are so confusing.

Half Way Through

Who would have thought my freshman year in college would go by so fast. This has been one of the faster semesters in my school years. I can’t say that I’m not happy it’s going by fast, just surprised.  When I got here I thought that this was going to be the longest school year ever. 

This semester I have done pretty well with my academics.  I’m not worried about any of my classes except my Economics class. The class started off really easy, I was actually excited about the class. Now the class has done like a complete flip. The class has gotten harder and harder every class. In the begging I was one of the few that were able to contribute to the class discussion, now I’m just another body taking up a seat.  I’m not looking forward to getting my finale grades for the class.

 I’m also taking some other classes of course. In my math class I’m doing pretty well in it.  The tests are what really get me though. We don’t have enough time to do the test, they are long. And guessing just doesn’t work all the time. In my English class, we only do papers. We have done around five or six papers I recall. Besides that all we do in class is discuss random topics. In my psychology class we do a lot of notes. Her class is probably my favorite one. We do a bunch of class discussions with note taking, I like that. Then her tests are super easy as long as you study the notes.

 I have been doing a lot of volunteering. I work with the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership and the Community and Civic Engagement office as well. I have done volunteering on campus as well as off campus.  I’m going this weekend to Charleston, South Carolina with the Community and Civic Engagement office. We are going to work with either meals on wheels or the habitat for humanity. I hope we work with the habitat for humanity.

So, pretty much this year so far hasn’t been too bad and I’m glad that it is going by pretty fast.

FRS 1000 Comments

Comment #1

• 60 show!!! Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/60s-show/
• 11Nov.10
• That is really COOL!!!! I think it is really great that you guys do the show in honor of the fallen soldiers in the Vietnam War. I think that the directors friends mom coming really makes it hit home for all of the other Vietnam veterans that are there watching the show.  It’s really awesome that you are actually a part of the show and are helping with the tribute.  You have to let me know when the show is and get me in!! I would love to come and see the show.  This is a great thing you guys got going on. KKEEPP IT GOING!!

Comment #2

• Divorce Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/divorce/
• 11Nov.10
• THAT SUCKSS!!! Dang. Even though you weren’t able to magically fix the little girl’s mom’s marriage, her getting to be with a great friend like you did her well.  Just the walking through Wal-Mart probably made her day even week.  Sometimes all people need is to just know that there is somebody there beside them and that they are always going to be.  And with you staying beside the little girl you reinsured her that you were there for her and you weren’t leaving.  All I can say is that you’re a great friend and the little girl knows she will always have you right beside here, whether it is physically or emotionally, she knows you are there. 

Comment #3

• Diversity at UNCP Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/diversity-at-uncp/
• 11Nov.10
• I agree 100%. UNCP is very diverse.  It reminds me of back at Fort Bragg, where there are families coming from all over the world. So I have always been surrounded by diversity. I remember at one of my houses I had a Mexican family right next to me, an Asian family next to them, and then a family from Jamaica next to them.  All of these families were all neighbors. So coming to UNCP and seeing all of the diversity just makes me feel like I am still at home.  I like the diversity, it is so much better than having just one kind of background surrounding you.

Comment #4

• Midterms, Grades, Stress…all the same Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/midterms-grades-stress-all-the-same/
• 11Nov.10
• HAHA!! It sounds like we are both in the same boat here.  I hate to study.  The only class I actually like to study for is Psychology, I guess since that is my major I feel I need to do extra for it.  That makes sense, right? But I have been having trouble with my Economics class. The class has gotten harder as the year went on, I thought it would get easier as the year went on.  I was way off.  I have been working on my studying habits though.  I don’t know how well they have been coming along, but I been trying. That’s what counts.  GOOD LUCK!!!!

Comment #5

• *MY Blog Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/my-blog/
• 11Nov.10
• Don’t worry, you weren’t alone! I kept putting off doing my blogs because I had no idea what I could possibly talk about.  I always thought blogs were just for like smart rich people who had nothing better to do with their day.  So they would just write long thoughts out, like anybody cared.  Now I see that I was way off.  I sure ain’t rich nor am I the brightest crayon in the box.   I have read and commented on four of your other posts and they are good! You definitely have to keep on doing posts after we’re done in Freshmen Seminar.  (yesss one hundred and four words!!)

Comment #6

• What my future holds Wynona Oxendine
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/what-my-future-holds/
• 11Nov.10
• Hey Wynona, I think you would make a really good teacher.  You are always so happy.  I have never seen you mad or not in a good mood.  And you just have that attention getting attitude.  You would be the kind of teacher you said you want to be.  You may get picked on by the students because they are taller than you (just kidding), but you would be one of their favorites.  I also think it is cool that you are following in your mom’s footsteps in a way. That will give you two a connection.  Could you imagine me being a teacher, NOT A GOOD IDEA!!

Comment #7

• Learning how I learn
• http://wynonaoxendine.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/learning-how-i-learn/
• 11Nov.10
• I’m with you on the “one of ten thousand.”  When I took the VARK I was a little surprised at my scores also.  Mine were kind of backwards.  My score was A-R-V-K. I always saw myself as more of a kinesthetic learner.  I always tend to want to do hands of activities, but apparently I learn better hearing things.  Wow I just realized your score was the same way.  I wonder how many other people had the same thing happen to them.  I have a feeling that they did.  We tend to take a lot of test in freshmen seminar, dang! We take more test in there than in my other general education classes. 

Comment #8

• You Could See The World Dorianna Curry
• http://doriannacurry.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/you-could-see-the-world/
• 11Nov.10
• You have a really valid point! There are so many people who don’t get to see the world because they don’t know what is out there or they simply can’t afford to pay for it.  I think it is really cool that you actually seen the big picture about the trip.  Most people just see a cheap ride to a mall and skating rink.  You went past that and seen what the trip really truly meant for some people.  Most people here in college don’t do that.  I hope they keep providing the students with trips like this as long as ACE is around. 

Comment #9

• When I Grow Up Dorianna Curry
• http://doriannacurry.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/when-i-grow-up/
• 11Nov.10
• Man, you’re so seem so much more mature and focused than other students.  You appear to know exactly what you want to do with your life. The best part is, is that it is a realistic plan. A lot of freshmen students want to be in the NFL or NBA and they don’t understand that they need a backup plan.  You also know that there are going to be parts of your studies that you don’t really want to do nor like, but you still have to do them.  Having this mind set you are going to be able to do a lot better in college than others.  I’m taking chemistry next semester so I’m going to be coming to you if I need help. 

Comment #10

• Meeting THE Freedom Writer Dorianna Curry
• http://doriannacurry.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/meeting-the-freedom-writer/
• 11Nov.10
• I haven’t seen the movie, but I read the book when she was coming.  She went so out of her way to help the students that society had given up on.  She didn’t have to do all that she did for them, but she seen the potential in them. She even came out of her higher class neighborhood to help these students; I doubt any other teacher would do that. I wish I had a teacher like that too. I agree with you when you said “she is a really nice person and she is brilliantly portrayed.” It would really cool if she came back!

College Leadership



While I’m in college I am working on developing a better leadership ability.  I believe that I am a good leader now, but I want to be an amazing leader by the time I graduate.  My future career is going to require me to be the best leader I can.  I will be leading America’s young men and women and making decisions that can affect not only me, but those who I am responsible for.  So I am going to take every chance I get to shape and perfect my leadership skills.  It may be in LLC it may be in ROTC or it may be with the volunteering I do while in college.  No matter what, I am going to work on my leadership skills now while I have the chance. 

The list I mentioned above, LLC, ROTC, and volunteering, are all going to help me better my leadership skills.  Within each of them I will have different opportunities to lead and make decisions.  But needless to say, they will all propose different challenges and struggles for me to work through.  By the end of my college career my resume will have a lot of volunteer events on it.  I have been doing a lot of volunteering since I been here in at college.  So I will also be able to put all of the different organizations and programs that I volunteered with.  I will be able to put ROTC on my resume as well.  With that on it, it will really get employers attention.  Employers tend to hold people who went through ROTC to a higher expectation and standard than others. 

There is still plenty that I need to do while I am in college.  I need to work on my anger.  I tend to not deal with stupidity real well.  When people start to act stupid or not do what they need to, I let them know real quick that it isn’t going to be tolerated.  I also have to work on not putting people down when they don’t do the tasks correct on the first try or attempt.  I can fix both of these matters.  It would be an easy fix at that.  I just need to learn how to not blow up on people so fast.  As well as have more patients with them.  I think I can fix both of these early in college, especially with the programs that I am involved in.