In this essay it talks about how sex sells. The way the media tells females how to look can make them become anorexic or bulemic. Yes this is a bad thing, but when reading it, something dawned on me. What is a worse way to die. Form not eating or eating too much/wrong foods. I think people can get addicted to eating just as, if not easier than not eating. Eating the wrong foods or too much can lead to diabetes and heart disease. Which in my eyes is a lot harder to fix than an addiction to throwing up. In a way i think that the media is doing this fat nation of ours a good thing. They may over do it, but in a way can it really be helping? We are the fattest nation on earth, and somebody needs to do something about it. Why not Victoria Secret? I think they are helping without even knowing it.

Wow, what a strong essay. i like the very end when he writes that he is a “hiker in bear country.” that is so true. I find it interesting the steps and precautions that he has to take just to feel like he is being perceived as a normal human being. Ive noticed if I am walking through the mall with a friend of mine who looks thugish, even though he is far from it, he gets a similar reaction from others. People will walk around him and not make eye contact. This is only a very small comparison  compared to the writers situation, but i almost understand where he is coming from. I really enjoyed reading it.

Wow. That was an excellent essay. Bravo Steve. I thought it was really interesting how he classified the students by different kinds of m & m’s. I would personally have to say I’m a plain one. It’s hard to admit but I am.

I’m sure some of you got lucky and left on spring break and completely missed the snow. But I’m sure a majority of us got the blunt end of it. It really sucked for me. I worked the night of it and was supposed to get off that morning, but instead i got off the next morning. No one else could make it in. Then to top it off, I had to shovel waist deep snow from the road to my front door, just to get in, so I could let my poor starving dogs out for the first time. That storm sucked. I think thats all i have to say about it.