BSU Blogfest

you all know I love twitter

and facebook

and this blog

and my readers

and my school

right?

it's true, i do.

well next week I'm going to be participating in the BSU Blogfest.

I'm sort of excited for it.

let me explain what is going to happen:

all next week, I'm going to be blogging about the theme of the day. each day has a different theme. I'm going to try my hardest not to stop writing in the style that I already do. my style goes with the flow and is basically whatever comes to mind. so whatever I think of is what I'll be blogging about. you know, the usual.

the Blogfest is part of a weeklong event hosted by the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership at my college, Bridgewater State University. this event is called Social Media Week!

there are so many different clubs, organizations, faculty, staff, and students who use twitter, blogs, facebook or other social media sites on our campus that it's time we use all of them in one week.

I normally write about my life and that isn't going to change next week. I'll be doing my best to apply the themes to things I've experienced in my life while still staying lighthearted and optimistic like I've always wanted this blog to stay.

I hope you all enjoy being a little piece of my every day life next week! please feel free to comment on the posts or write your own posts with your thoughts on the theme of the day or how social media ties into and affects your life. and if you do let me know! I want to know!

there are other blogs participating in the Blogfest and many more people tweeting and discussing social media all next week!

check out the other blogs here

we'll also be using the hashtag #BSUsmw on twitter all week as well.

if you don't already follow me on twitter you can find me @MEO18

I can't wait to hear your thoughts about all the themes and everything else to do with social media next week!

get excited!!

:)

the non-french lesson

I took french in high school.

my teacher was a nice person. I learned a little bit of french. do I remember any french? um, not really, but I can say Je m'appelle Meghan (which I think means My name is Meghan) that's all I've got.

what I do remember is when we had a lesson on doing nice things for others.

with the lesson she wanted us to watch Pay it Forward. you know the one with Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, and Helen Hunt? we even got to watch it with no subtitles.

anyway it was a great lesson to have in junior year of high school, but just a little weird to have in a french class.

the idea of it is great, if you do something nice for someone and they do something nice for someone else, this kindness will spread to many others.

well a few weeks ago Vanessa over at Caramel Covered Photographs passed this amazing idea along.

"Here's the deal. I promise to send three of you something homemade sometime in 2011. In order to take part, you need to leave me a comment and also post this idea on your blog, continuing to pay it forward"

it's a great idea that I want to send to three of my fantastic readers so we can spread the happiness and make others day.

remember to leave your email address in the comment

my french teacher would be so proud. and thanks Vanessa for this amazing idea!

rainy days

hello loves

it's that time again for 10 things I'm doing right now:

1) rocking some mustaches in this picture with my roommate Morgan

2) not doing homework... again

3) listening to some biebs. judge away friends, I give you full permission (even though it isn't sunday*)

4) counting down the days until Spring Break- 4 days

5) counting down the days until Disney- 8 days

6) thinking about how crazy banks are. I no longer go to the other school, stop sending them my loan!

7) wishing this gigantic Inception poster would stay taped up on our wall

8) thinking I can't wait to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off since we just got it from netflix

9) so glad I'm not going to get soaking wet tomorrow like I did today

10) going to try and get a little homework finished before I climb in bed

have a wonderful week everyone!

*our dorm room is a judgement free room, except on sundays.

10 things going on right now

1. I'm procrastinating on my computer homework

2. Waiting for a meeting to start in 22 minutes (we'll be starting late; we always do)

3. I want chocolate really bad

4. I'm watching my friend Emily dance and laughing at her out of love.

5. Looking forward to friday

6. Loving the lovely messages from some wonderful ladies. You have certainly made me feel better about the future. I'll respond to you soon. Let's talk more about it okay?

7. Sitting in the PC office

8. Going to get ice cream soon or that chocolate I was just thinking about

9. Thinking I need to do a post like this fairly regularly

10. Happy that I was able to think of 10 things I'm doing right now

the unknown.

I've been thinking about my future a lot lately. It's been happening more often.

I think it's because when I look at what I have left to take to finish my degree, there isn't all that much left to take.

so I ask myself, what do I want to do with my life?

I know I'm 20 years old and there's going to be some time before I'm sure I choose the right career, but the prospect of deciding what that will be is daunting.

how will I really know? when will I really know? what do I do to get there? what should my focus be on right now? what am I doing to answer these questions? why can't I stop procrastinating? what is out there for me? will I be able to do the things I want to in the bigger picture? what does the future hold?

i don't know the answer to any of this.

but i think that's okay

because that is what life is about.

it's the unknown.

it's just a matter of not letting the fear of it get the best of me.

the answer is out there, it's just going to take a while to actually find.

back to the swing of things

today would have been the third day of classes if we didn't have a snow day.

looks like the roads were a little messy especially when I got up at 7 to see if the university was open.

it wasn't, so I went back to bed and slept wonderfully.

I'm going to have a very busy semester, I can tell already.

I'm taking 3 math classes, a computer class, and a psychology class.

I'm only slightly crazy, I swear.

with all that I have PC meetings and events

and I'm working in math services

and I want to read 30 books this year and have only finished 2

and I still want to blog.

I have a lot on my plate I guess.

that's just the way things go when you're back to the swing of things.

one!!

and here it is!

my favorite book of 2010 is...

Mockingjay

by: Suzanne Collins

{the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy}

I was so excited when this book came out in August. Remember when I had my Mockingjay dilemma? That's how excited I was. This was probably my most anticipated book of the year and that's also why I decided to make it my top book of 2010.

If you've read it before you can probably understand what makes this book great. If you haven't what I will tell you is this: I loved this book because it summed up everything in this series without sugarcoating anything. This fictional world of Panem is not a happy place. How could it when they make kids fight for their lives in the Hunger Games? Not everyone was going to survive. There would be hardships for our favorite characters in the end, yet somehow they survive. I don't want to ruin too much of the book though.

so those are my top 5 favorite books of 2010!

my goal for 2011 is to read 30 books :)

so what about everyone else? what was your favorite book you read last year?

two!

I had a hard time choosing my second favorite book.

let's just say it was a three way tie

so my second favorite book(s) of 2010 were

The Mortal Instruments Trilogy

by: Cassandra Clare

I know it's probably not fair to choose all of them because I did choose just one out of the other series in this top 5, but I couldn't wait to read all of them when I started with City of Bones.

There are many different parts to this series that drew me in. First, the supernatural aspect. I don't know if you can tell by now, but I love supernatural type books. I think this was inevitable since the first series I fell in love with was Harry Potter. The idea of having this other world in the mix of a modern day world in New York is the kind of thing I love to read about! There is never a moment where you want it to end. Just when you think you've solved the problem, it twists and turns into something you didn't imagine. Loose ends are tied up but others are presented and keep you wanting more!

This series was initially suppose to have just the first three but Cassandra Clare decided to continue the series into three more books

(City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire) in addition to a prequel series (Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess). This leaves plenty of books to look forward to in the future for these characters and some new ones too :)

three!

my third favorite book of 2010 was

Shiver

by: Maggie Stiefvater

{first in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series}

This was another of the many summer books I read. What I like about this book is the detail of the scenes in it. I felt like I was feeling every rise or fall in the temperature. I could see the snowy backyard of Grace's house. I could picture Grace's wolf. I wanted to hug Sam whenever I learned something new about his troubled life. There are so many emotions for these characters. And this was only the beginning of the story! I felt everything all over again for these characters in the sequel Linger.

four!

my fourth favorite book of 2010 was

Sisters Red

by: Jackson Pearce

This was one of my summer reads. I liked this book because it was a new twist on something old. The author took the story of Little Red Riding Hood and made it into this tale of two sisters who devote themselves to tracking down and killing any Fenris (werewolves) they can find. I enjoyed reading about the two sisters and the battles they face both against the Fenris and with each other.