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Name: Mary Angelene
Location: United States
Birthday: 9/9/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: Chillin, sleeping, eating, spending money.
Expertise: Hmmm...flagging, class officer stuff, caring about others, being loud, and talking too much.
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Member Since:
6/20/2003
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| Hello everyone! I realized that it's been more than a year since I've update this so i guess we can recap since then...First and foremost, I just graduated with my Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies. I graduated from Qwest Field (aka Seahawk Stadium)again. Graduation was about 4 hours long and the graduates were leaving before the ceremony ended which was very disrespectful. The college of Arts and Sciences, my college, were the first ones to graduate but then everyone started leaving once they got their degrees. Most of my friends are in the other colleges so I was going to wait for them. If they had to wait for my college to get their degrees we should have waited for everyone else out of respect and courtesy = ( Anyways the weather was beautiful, although it was pretty cold. My curled hair didn't last very long. I got up at 6:30 in the morning just to do it but after three hours it was bound to die without any product. The ending moments weren't as exciting at they were four years ago. I guess people were just burnt out when the time came. Plus, we have baccalaureate mass the day before. The ceremony proceeded with my family and close family friends having lunch in Chinatown. I was exhausted and took a nap when I came home. Of all the gifts I received the one that I was most excited about was my cousin's. He bought me The Alchemist for some reading. I've heard it's good from several friends. I'm looking forward to it. So What is Liberal Studies you probably ask... it's basically a humanities degree. I took a several humanities (i.e. English, history, etc) and social science courses. That's the bulk of my major but I also had to take courses in concerning math and natural sciences. Luckily the biology classes I took as a nursing major counted or else I'd be stuck at SU for another quarter. I have cherished my time at Seattle University. I've made wonderful friends, got to know lots of people of perspectives, appreciated Seattle in a new light, and have strengthened my faith. I feel empowered to make a change in the world (That sounds a lot like something Sen. Barack Obama might say. Yes I'm in that young demographic that is supporting him for president. However, I get in trouble talking about politics so I'll leave it at that). I'm in the period in my life where I'm truly trying to figure out who I am i.e. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I'm at the point where I'm seeking love and esteem. The past couple of years have been an emotional roller coaster. Although I've gained friendships, I've lost some along the way. Keeping relationships beyond high school has been quite a challenge. I guess I'm sorry it didn't work out the ways that I'd hope. It doesn't mean I care about them any less. It just takes more work to have them in my life. It's up to me to make that effort. At this point however, I'm pretty happy where I stand that could change later on. My mother has currently questioned me about a boyfriend using words like courting and suitor. I think she's concern because I most have guy friends and wonders why none of them are my boyfriends. The members of the collegium, where I worked for the past school year, have joked about my singleness and joke about setting me up. However, I still want to see what speed dating is like. I'm not sad that I haven't formed that special bond with that special someone. I wished I put myself out there more... maybe be not so picky or quick to say no. All these would've, should've, could'ves won't change my status as a single co-ed. I'm not even a co-ed anymore. I've procrastinated to the wee hours of the morning with 10 page papers written within the last 12 hours. My senior synthesis was about the evolution of sex education and I wrote it in a story format. I took an ambitious project and wrote 45 pages in my last quarter. I liked the pressure though. The adrenaline rush feels good even if I know I could have made the story much better. My last two years in college were all about procrastination. I wouldn't have survived as a nursing major with this mind set and work ethic. However, when I'm an educator or whatever I'll be doing within the rest of my life, I have to buckle down professionally. Although I will have my share of good times.
This leads me to where I stand with my undergrad degree. Well, I got accepted to the one and only Masters in Teaching program I applied to. I originally applied to the school so that my mother would get off my back about what I was going to do after I graduated from SU. If I didn't get in, I bought myself a year long break. To my surprise I was accepted! I think I got accepted primarily because I am involved in my church with Religious Education and being a lector. It's a private Christian (not Catholic however) college which is fairly strict i.e. no drinking as a student at the school. However, I do like their message concerning the world and God's will. I guess I'll just suck it up for the next year. I need to lay off the alcohol anyway plus it's only just a year. Just because I go to this school don't expect me to teach at a private school. I want to use my degree to work with the disadvantage children of our schools. I actually see myself going back to school to learn more things like Spanish and sign language... maybe even get another masters. I sound like a geek, but I don't mind. I like and appreciate school. After this degree, however, I am hopefully going to leave Seattle for awhile. Join the Peace Corps or teach English overseas. I want to absorb another culture. I love Seattle but I don't think I can grow anymore if I stay here...I've written a novel... for those of you who still read xanga, congrats to those who have graduated, and good luck to everyone for whatever it is to come. Have an amazing summer!
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| So it's been quite a long time since I have updated this... I know someone is looking at my page so I might as well give whoever's been looking something new to read...
This academic year has been really reflective. So I took French again but now I wish that I had taken another language to learn something new but at this point I really needed to up my GPA since I did poorly last school year. I also did learn new things in French but I will never be an expert! I actually enjoyed US History. I also really how ignorant I have been about many issues in the world. We get so caught up in our own issues that we need to remind ourselves of the larger issues that others face. Global warming, institutionalization of racism, immigration, and ways that we could improve the world. I have re-evaluated my life in terms of my social identity... I examined past experiences and look forward to the future... my journey... my destination whatever that may be. I thought about my motives, the mistakes that I have made, the things I was unaware of, the authentic person I am or could possibly be. Hope is something you do. Faith is a continuation of hope. There is no hope when there is no fear...
I have been volunteering for the past 2 quarters at Meany Middle School as a tutor. It's been a couple years since I have been back to middle school and I guess not much has changed but I saw the lack of resources there are in schools and how not integrated the school was. I did not say segregated because most of the students who attend the school are people of color. However, most of the people who live around the school are white. There is certainly a discrepancy in the system. I saw a man named Jonathan Kozol, who has written books about the segregation in schools, and it inspired me. We have a system that values money as we all know. Standardized testing has stripped away recess from children because they have to pass those tests in order to receive funding. Most of the funding is going to schools that are doing well... and mainly white. How are students going to pass if the money is not going to the people who really need it? I do not mean to make this a lesson on the terrible school system and how No Child Left Behind has failed its students but saying nothing does not make any changes to the system.
I learned to write better arguments for papers. I wrote about the HPV vaccine earlier in the year and it was the most fun I have had writing a paper. I learned a lot about the vaccine and how people feel about mandating it for girls before they enter middle school. The vaccine is most effective before they have sex! I think it should be required but others beg to differ. Right now, I am learning how to use Microsoft Publisher for a project for my Liberal Studies class. I am proposing a pen pal program that would also help build class relations help children obtain sources for their schools. I am presenting this in a form of a magazine type of publication and it is so much work! It is okay though... I like that I am learning something new...
Nothing is happening in my love life so do not ask....
I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE HAD A WONDERFUL ACADEMIC YEAR! HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
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| FINALLY 21!!!
no more bumming my friends for alcohol =)
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| So the school year has ended... it's been tough but I guess I made it but not as well as I had hoped. Everything happens for a reason.... I felt like everytime something good would happen, something twice as a bad would occur... well not twice as bad but it all works out at the end I suppose...
I was taking for classes this quarter but I dropped my pharmacology class since I failed this test that I had to pass in order to move on in the nursing sequence. I knew that my life was designed for altruism but nursing wasn't the best fit for me. I was semi-depressed, I wasn't doing well, and I couldn't see myself being a nurse for the longest period in time. I can't see myself responsible enough giving health care to patients. I have the utmost respect for nurses especially since my mother is one. But I like to talk and learn. I like listening to people and hearing opinions. Before I entered college I knew I was either going to be a nurse or a teacher... I changed my major from nursing to liberal studies in order to pursue teaching... I know the pay isn't all that great but it's something I'd like to do for a long period of time. I hope to teach early adolescent children (from 5th grade to 8th grade). Apparently there aren't so many middle school teachers out there and I think that's a shame no one wants to teach them. I know middle schoolers can be such a pain but they need some sort of guidance from someone. Neglecting them doesn't change their behaviors. It just perpetuates the stereotypes that we have given to them... I hope it all works out. I would teach 8th grade preferably.... Almost everyone has supported my decision... I'm so happy that I changed my major =) Certain people say that I need to marry someone wealthy since my pay won't be as good as nurses... you can't has nurses without teachers! Luckily most of my credits transferred over...Since I only 12 credits this quarter, I'm going to take an online Microeconomics course... hopefully that will be okay!
Well my parents were disappointed with my decision especially my mother... now she wants to me to transfer to UW because the only reason they allowed me to go to SeattleU was because I wanted to be a nurse... but the classes I took at SU before I got into the nursing required classes were eye-opening. I liked the books we read for English class and I like the things I learned in sociology and psychology.... We got to discuss whatever we read in those classes... in my science and nursing classes... we barely participated or discussed anything further... now that I'm a liberal studies major, I feel that I can get to do those things again...
I do feel like that I abandoned my nursing major friends... I have so much love for them and that was the downside to this major change. They'll be off at their nursing communities and they'll be barely on campus as I will be in a classroom everyday on campus. Becoming a nurse is hard work and people say the nursing majors don't really have a life. It's sad and almost true. I've told them in the past that I wasn't sure that I wanted to be a nurse. They'll be great nurses... and hopefully i'll be a good teacher =)
This quarter was socially good... I've met more people and gone to parties and school functions. Hanging out with them can be distracting but it's cool...
The whole car stolen thing ruined the middle of the quarter. I got my car back and all but I felt that a lot of things were going to change from then on. I was going to the gym before my car got stolen but then I got lazy. I was doing pretty good in my classes until my car got stolen that my grades were somewhat slipping... hopefully the next school year will be good to me....
Summer plans
- finding a new job so i can leave the one i have
- reuniting with old friends
- kickin' it with friends from school... especially excited that my friend janelle is throwing a black and white party. i've been waiting to wear this dress i bought from urban outfitters for hella long!!!! hopefully my liver will survive j/k
-online Microeconomics course
- reading book... I'm starting with the Da Vinci Code
good luck with finals if you're still taking them... have a super awesome summer! | | |
| MY CAR WAS FOUND!!!
Thank goodness! After being down for 4 days, my brother calls me on Thursday and tells me that the police found it at a church 6 blocks up from my school... When my dad, my bro, and I go to get it, the car it self was okay but whoever stole it left a mess! I had a pair of Ray Bans in there and they didn't steal it! They stole my my gym shorts and pants and shoes but not my shirts! I was like what the fuck are these guys going to do with my gym stuff... they also took my mp3 player but that's not a big deal to me... Apparently they parked my car at this church (Immaculate Conception) and took another car just like it! These carjackers are so dumb I swear... Who steals on EASTER SUNDAY?!? Anyways I'm gonna take extra precautions now... TRY YOUR BEST PREVENTING YOURSELVES FROM GETTING JACKED!!!
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