snow day
Ok so I just finally finished typing up my study guide for my test tomorrow. Yay. Now I can study again. I want a 98 or higher. I need to beat my last grade! But anyways, as I was finishing up my notes and my reading, I came across something interesting. Its all about the power of persuasion and how you can basically make someone do anything if you use the right tactics- this is how cults work. Showering people with acceptence and love, making them feel welcome so they want to be part of something, then making them do small and trival tasks to earn approval- gradually making these things become harder to do and hence "more important". Isolate people from their old lives and friends so that they only have that one group to turn to for support and acceptance, then since people can only turn to this one group, they will do anything they say and not see how ridiculous it is because they strive for welcoming and acceptence from the only group they can be with. It seems so simple looking at it. This is how organizations gain members. It seems so simple now but I guess only hindsight is truely 20/20. Also, if people are feeling uncomfortable about something they voluntarily signed up for, and publicly this, then they don't wanna seem like they aren't in touch with themselves or that they are hypocritical, so they internally justify it by talking about how great it is and increasing their dedication, hence making themselves feel special and that it is all worth it. I think it is not only cults that do this. HMMM GUESS WHAT MY NEXT PAPER IS GOING TO BE ON?!
In other news, I need to work more on my paper for Philosophy. Ew...but also, I dont have my manditory meeting for Jumpstart anymore tonight. I really didn't think we needed it anyway. I had to promise myself that I wouldn't get worked up about the big in charge people doing site monitoring. Damn organizations. Im so anal this semester it seems like. I dunno I just really really wanna do exceptional in everything I do. I want all As. But its really cool because I'm having a lot of fun with my friends too. And I think my internal clock is changing towards spring and summer because I have more energy and I don't need as much sleep as I did in the winter. This happened last spring and I remember staying up until 4, being perfectly fine going to classes and then a moderate nap later. I don't know if I feel so refreshed lately because I've stopped being sick. That was brutal. I appriciate being healthy more now haha.
So almost Spring Break. The ninth I'm going with my friend Steph from home to visit our friend Lisa at UMass Dartmouth on the 9th. That should be fun. Never been there and I miss both those girls. Also, my mom and Chris are going away the second week of break. Stinks because I don't get to see them much as it is, and since they are going away together it means the end of going to Florida with my mother, which Iwas really looking forward to. Thats k, I kinda knew it wasn't going to happen anyway. I'll have fun still, no matter what. It really stinks tho that we need to be out of the dorms by 5 on Friday. Ew. I dont' wanna go home then.
I had a lot of fun this weekend, I really missed hanging out with Mike and Chris and Leisel. Hopefully Leisel and I will get to hang out over break. Ew, I also need to do community service hours. If my boss was ever in the office, I could get that straightened out. But other than that, I love how things are right now. They aren't really different or like nothing spectacular happened, I'm just really content and happy with everything. Its a great feeling.
<3
nicki
In other news, I need to work more on my paper for Philosophy. Ew...but also, I dont have my manditory meeting for Jumpstart anymore tonight. I really didn't think we needed it anyway. I had to promise myself that I wouldn't get worked up about the big in charge people doing site monitoring. Damn organizations. Im so anal this semester it seems like. I dunno I just really really wanna do exceptional in everything I do. I want all As. But its really cool because I'm having a lot of fun with my friends too. And I think my internal clock is changing towards spring and summer because I have more energy and I don't need as much sleep as I did in the winter. This happened last spring and I remember staying up until 4, being perfectly fine going to classes and then a moderate nap later. I don't know if I feel so refreshed lately because I've stopped being sick. That was brutal. I appriciate being healthy more now haha.
So almost Spring Break. The ninth I'm going with my friend Steph from home to visit our friend Lisa at UMass Dartmouth on the 9th. That should be fun. Never been there and I miss both those girls. Also, my mom and Chris are going away the second week of break. Stinks because I don't get to see them much as it is, and since they are going away together it means the end of going to Florida with my mother, which Iwas really looking forward to. Thats k, I kinda knew it wasn't going to happen anyway. I'll have fun still, no matter what. It really stinks tho that we need to be out of the dorms by 5 on Friday. Ew. I dont' wanna go home then.
I had a lot of fun this weekend, I really missed hanging out with Mike and Chris and Leisel. Hopefully Leisel and I will get to hang out over break. Ew, I also need to do community service hours. If my boss was ever in the office, I could get that straightened out. But other than that, I love how things are right now. They aren't really different or like nothing spectacular happened, I'm just really content and happy with everything. Its a great feeling.
<3
nicki