Blog Post #2

So this picture is probably one of my favorite pictures from my senior year. I was on the cheer team all four years of high school, and the captains every year were three seniors who were voted on by the team, with the coach having the final say. However, there were four girls who were taken seriously enough to fill the captain position, so one of the girls would have been upset if she wasn't made captain. Unfortunately, that girl was me. I would've been fine with it if the captains benefited the team, but they made the entire year all about themselves. Cheering at football games was always my favorite part of the cheer season, but I hated it senior year. This particular game was annoying to cheer at and just not a fun time, so I was in a bad mood after the game ended. Everyone would always go on the field after games and talk to each other. I was talking to my friends, and this little girl who I didn't even know came up to me. She said that I was her favorite cheerleader and told me that I inspired her to start cheering. It literally made my whole night. Then, she asked to get a picture with me and she was just so excited. With that being said, this picture obviously makes me really happy. I think my body looks kind of awkward though. I don't know how to take pictures with little kids because I'm not really a "kid" person. The mood of this picture is happy. I think it's easy to see that I'm genuinely smiling and that the little girl is excited.

Runaway

The scene with "All of the Lights" is a very confusing scene. A little boy runs around with red smoke, and red is a very sexual color. Kanye is showing the bird/alien new things like fireworks and the parade, and she looks very innocent during this. The little boy also looked innocent, so this could symbolize that the bird is very innocent so far; but there's underlying sexual tension between her and Kanye (hence the red smoke). The parade also looks like a cult marching, and the large figures that they hold up look like members of the KKK. However, one figure is wearing white and one figure is wearing black. Eventually, a large Michael Jackson head comes between the two figures. This could be a tribute to Michael Jackson to show that he was black once and then turned white, and people still loved him anyways. Kanye could be saying that it doesn't matter what color your skin is as long as you have talent.

Blog Post #1

To graduate my high school, I only needed three science credits. Considering that I hate science, I picked a super easy science class my junior year, thinking that I just wouldn't take a science class my senior year and have an easy schedule. I thought it was a pretty good idea, but my parents literally forced me to take a science class senior year. They said that I needed to because "colleges like to see four years of science on applications." I wasn't happy about it because the only science classes that I could take were Anatomy and Physics. I didn't want to take Anatomy because at the end of the year it was mandatory to dissect a cat, and I love cats too much to take one apart. I didn't want to take Physics because it just sounded like a hard class. But everyone I talked to said that Physics was mostly math, and I'm good at math so I just went with that. I was not looking forward to it, so I walked into class in a really bad mood on the first day. But after the first week, I kinda loved it. At the end of the quarter, I got my report card and I ended up getting an A (and that was kind of a big deal because I literally suck at science). It was then that I realized that I want to have a career that involves Physics, so I decided that I want to be an engineer when I grow up. If it weren't for that class, I don't know what I would be majoring in right now.