On Friday December 7th at 10:00, Asher Roth and White Panda rocked the crowd in Alumni Hall. I went with my all of my room mates in supplemental. The concert was free and you didn't need a ticket. The only thing you needed was your id card to show that you were a Penn State student. First we went to Walmart and bought glow sticks and bright colored shirts to wear. Everyone was holding or wearing them when we got there. The lights were flashing bright colors. There were at least 700 people there. On the stage, there was DJ equipment, belonging to Wreckineyez, everywhere all glossy and organized. We were not in the very front but we were more towards it than the back. People were pushing and shoving before the concert started but I was taking in the atmosphere so i didn't mind.
           Wreckineyez started out taking the show over, he was mixing stuff on turn tables and grinding out sounds that made the crowd roar. The lights and the commotion was all so much to take in. It feels like the music is flowing through you.
           When Wreckineyez started playing "We are the Champions" that it when Asher Roth came out on stage. He is most famous for his hit song "I Love College", which was written after a visit to Penn State believe it or not. He opened his set with "Bastermating" I am pretty sure which set the tone for the night. Everyone was jumping and singing to the lyrics. The lights were flashing and the music was turned up loud.
           Asher jumped into the crowd and then when he was back on he invited two people up to sing with him. I wish i were in the front for that! Then at one point there were people crowd surfing and my friends and I heard that a girl was dropped from like 8 feet in the air and then stomped on. We heard she is okay though thank goodness. After that he performed "I Love College" which had everyone screaming and jumping. 

          

  Unfortunately we left after Asher performed and didnt get to see White Panda. It was a really fun time and I am really glad that I went. There are more concerts coming up like Lady GaGa that I am also hoping to go to!!
           

Something fun and artsy that I took part in was making a crayon heart. That is what my room mate, Emily, calls it anyway. We made it together one evening. Its not that hard to make but it requires a lot of patience. 

First, we got a big white poster board. You can have any color you want but we thought the colors would contrast if we used just a blank one. Then we sketched a perfectly shaped heart right in the center. You have to make it so that when the crayons bleed there is room for the melted wax to spread. So you cant make it to big or too little. 

After that, we lined up the crayons in order according to the rainbow in opposite directions. Starting at the top going toward your left we started with red and then at the bottom going left we started with red again to get a reversed rainbow look. We got glued the crayons down on to the board lining the bottom of the crayons up with the sketched heart.

Once you have all the crayons lined perfectly you take a hair dryer (girls probably have more of an easy access to one of these) and you start at one of the red crayons. We started at the bottom red crayon going to the left. You have to make sure that the hair dryer is tilted at the right angle so that the wax doesn't bleed into each other. At first the wax will run and be hot, switch the hair dryer to cool air to speed up the cooling and running.

Continue the whole way to the top and you are finished! :)
There are different variations that you can make with this, you could finish the whole heart, use different colors, or even a different poster board color. Its really up to you!

Hi Ms. S, my SRTEs are complete!! :D

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       As the semester comes to a close, I look back and think about all the things that i have learned and accomplished. I learned how to bring rhetoric into action. I learned to look deeper into the arguments of writings, movies, and the world around us. Everything is an argument ready to be examined. I also learned how to bring my point to the center of attention in a more direct way. English was always my strong suit over mathematics or sciences, but I still was never really good with it either. English 015S helped me realize that Penn State has a ton more art and rhetoric than most people would think. There were blogs and pod casts that were talking about it being the number one party school. I am not ashamed to say that i did not even know that. 

       For me, it is never hard think of subjects or topics to write about, it is just hard to get them on to paper the way I want them to. Like when you picture yourself drawing a masterpiece and you picture the finished product in your head but once you make the first mark on the page, you realize that it is so much harder to take things from your brain to the page. This english class has taught me how to do that a little better. I enjoyed the enthusiasm that was brought to class from everyone because it adds to the atmosphere helping me feel at ease and welcome to share opinions. 

       Something else that i have gained more knowledge on is the way to look at the world. You see papers and magazines everywhere, pictures and books, even movies and tv shows. There are always arguments. Whoever wrote or created the things that they did had a reason behind it. It is fun to think about all the reason why.

       I look at myself before, coming into english class from high school, where most of the things we learned about were authors and citations and looking at peoples work in order not to steal it, and then now where we are actually looking at peoples work to find the reasons why they did what they did. It is more creative and i find it personally more refreshing and easier to deal with.

          When it comes to writing essays, I am not the greatest I will be honest. Once again it is hard for me to strategically order the paragraphs in ways that are easy to follow and that the audience wants to stay tuned. I have got a better understanding of how to word things so not to confuse the reader. One thing that I especially took away from the class was that you do not have to use big words to impress anyone. I sometimes used to try and sound more educated so that I would gain some ethos, but in my attempts to sound more studious, I probably confused people more than anything else.

          I enjoyed English 015, it taught me a lot of liberal arts tips that I am sure I will be needing in the future.