All Work and No Play Makes a Student Dull

Due to it being Halloween, its time for a scary story.

It was a clear and breezy night.  A young man in college had locked himself in his dorm room so he could study.  The man studied day and night never taking a break from studying.  He did it every night until…

He became the most dullest person in the world!!!

Now they say whenever he roams the Earth you can hear his monotone voice.  As soon as you hear his voice, the force is too much and you are asleep in seconds. (Boogidie Boogidie Boo)

Alright I may not be the best scary story teller, but the story does rein truth.  Even though the main reason to go to college is to get an education, you must also learn to find a balance between school work and recreational time.  While studying is good, too much studying can lead to a boring and dull life.  While having recreational time is good, too much of it can cause a hindrance in school work.  The best way to make sure that you will always have time to work and play is to learn to manage your time wisely.

College is the best time of your life so live it up.  After college comes job and family responsibility. You will never have the same freedom as you did when you were in college.

So have fun this Halloween weekend and go to a party or hangout with friends.  I myself will be going to my friend's party tonight.  Just be sure to always be in control and be responsible.

And if you guys really want a scary story, I tell you the time when my Grandma got out of the tub.

Now that’s scary!

Happy Halloween and...  

Fight the Good Fight

Ya Boy Archie Wright!

All Busy at UNT

 

 

Alright so here’s deal, usually to get to Discovery Park, I take the bus to help save on gas money and mainly being cheap.  Usually I take the bus from my apartment to the main campus and from the main campus to Discovery Park.  This past Monday as I was getting off the bus from my apartment to the main campus, I was able to get a whiff of the student protest of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws or (NORML).  At this time they were protesting the laws regarding marijuana at UNT and in the nation.  Despite the walking protest, this is the normal happenings at the main campus.  Usually there are several student groups that come out each week trying to handout information and express their views on current events.  Along with school work, students usually join student organizations and the university will sometimes have events to keep students busy outside of the classroom.  On Tuesday there was free popcorn, candy, and games at Discovery Park which was pretty fun to be at while I was waiting for my next class.  As you can see life at UNT and Discovery Park stays pretty busy outside of the classroom through student organizations and on-campus events. 

 

Fight the Good Fight

Ya Boy Archie Wright!

The Battle of the Engineering Degree

Ok so here’s the deal.  Every week I have a lab class I have to be enrolled in for my major.  Usually the lab will start at a certain time and all the groups will be there to begin doing the specified lab of the week.  This week however the lab class had to start almost thirty minutes late.  A majority of the other people in the lab are enrolled in another upper-level engineering class and they all have it at the same time.  Apparently a lot of people were distraught over the results of a quiz and stayed till the end of class and past it to argue with the teacher.  Due to this blog being family oriented I will leave out the dirty details.

This is expected in the battle for an engineering degree.  If I could explain how to get an engineering degree I would classify it in three waves.  The first wave is the beginning of the college experience in which students are taking fairly simple classes that do not involve their major courses.  If they are taking a course in their major, most likely it is not a hard course.  The biggest obstacle in the first wave is adjusting from college life and being away from home. 

          

The second wave brings about classes which first involve taking classes which are prerequisites to your major.  These classes carry a level of difficulty in which a certain amount of commitment is needed for the classes. At this point more students begin switching their major to something else.

   

The third and final wave brings a majority of the courses in your engineering major.  It is in these classes that the knowledge that you gained from the previous course sections are used in every way possible.  The difficulty is based on how it tries to tie together all the knowledge you have learned in the past three years to what you are studying

          

 After the three waves, the gate to the engineering degree is accessible because the only classes that remain are project classes. 

 

So for my fellow engineering majors currently stuck in the third wave of the battle of the engineering degree, good luck and stick out till the end.

           

Fight the Good Fight

Ya Boy Archie Wright!

Twas the Night of Homecoming (Part Two: The Game)

Halftime ended and the game continued to pursue

The mean green continued to be through and through

They fought a hard fight and stuck it out till the end

But unfortunately came up short and did not win

The crowd drew silent and still

In everyone’s eyes the tears did fill

We put our eagle claws in the air

And sung our alma mater with love and care

But despite the painful loss that came

Homecoming is not about a game

Homecoming is about meeting friends both old and new

That have come back to see UNT and you

For the friends you make in college you never forget

The past experiences you shall never omit

And though everyone moves away

You always come back for homecoming day

And so as I sit at this bonfire a year later

Growing wiser and ever greater

Realizing how time has come to past

Knowing college is never going to last

And like my friends of old and new

There will be a time when I must also bid UNT an adieu

The End

Fight the Good Fight

Ya Boy Archie Wright!

Twas the Night of Homecoming (Part 1)

So gather round young an ol’ its that time of year

To come back to your alma mater and give a good cheer

Now listen to this great tale that I will tell

It all starts on Friday night with the sound of a bell

 

The sound rings out starting on Frat Row

Like sirens so everyone in the dorms would know

That the great bonfire was about to begin

And it was time to give our team hopes that they'd soon win…

 

Twas the night of homecoming and all through Fout’s Field

Not a fan could stay calm because of the thrill.

The fans were alive with no type of fear

In hopes that their Mean Green would soon be here.

 

The band played the fight song with such cheerful devotion

In hopes that it would ignite the fans emotion

And just when I thought that it could not come sooner

I heard the scariest sound that came from “The Boomer”

 

The Mean Green had run out onto field.

Running as if nothing would cause them to yield

The players gathered together on the sideline

While the refs tossed the coin looking for a sign

 

As the ref blew the whistle, the fans rose to their feet

And put up the eagle claw for the other team we would defeat

No sooner than the start of the football team’s run

The ball was kicked off and the game had begun

 

To be continued… (Part Two: The Game)

 

Fight the Good Fight

Ya Boy Archie Wright!