New Favorite Quote

Here is a journal entry I posted for my American lit class:

No Oaks in Flower Pots

In “The American Scholar” Emerson writes, “I will not shut myself out of this globe of action, and transplant an oak into a flower-pot”.

Amen to that Emerson.

This sentence stood out to me as a clever and creative way to write the common modern cliché about “breaking out of the box”. Even 170 years after Emerson wrote these words, they are still relevant and applicable.

Emerson’s imagery in his use of the words “oak” and “flower pot” convey his message of “breaking out of the box”. Oak trees are symbols of wisdom and strength while flower pots are temporary and mainly meant for decoration. Putting an oak in a flower pot would eventually cause the tree to suffocate and die.

I do not want to be an oak stuck in a flower pot with no room to grow or change. As a scholar, a woman and American I want to fight for the right to have opportunities that will help me grow and become like an oak tree: wise and strong.

First Week

I told you I would give an update on my first week of classes so here it is.

Good times.

I am really enjoying my classes, even Elementary Programming. Our first project for that class is going to be to re-create a scene from our favorite animated movie. I'm either going to do Finding Nemo or Madagascar. I haven't officially decided yet.

News Writing is AWESOME! Hopefully by the end of this semester I will be writing some real newspaper articles. Anything I write this semester has a possibility of being published in the school's paper, the Collegian, so we'll see.

American Lit is going well. My professor brought is coffee on Friday which made my favorite English professor of all time. He's also my academic adviser so I've known him for a few months. The readings are not too long and I've been enjoying most of them. I'll have some good quotes later.

Fundamentals of Music was also good. I'm learning new things yet I still know enough to have it not be difficult. Or at least, extremely difficult. And I signed up for piano lessons with my professor! I'm finally going to learn how to play the piano! Yeah!

And now I am officially stoked about my future as a Journalist. I spoke with my Colloquium professor on Friday and mentioned that I wanted to be an International Correspondent of some kind. I also mentioned my time in Japan and he told me about a connection he has with a paper there, etc. I actually feel like being a Journalist is a plausible reality and it makes me happy!

Yeah school! (Don't get used to hearing that, its only the first week.)