Blog 12- Ideal University

My ideal university would be an affordable one where you only take the classes needed exactly for what you want to be or get into. Since it cannot be free, I would like one that is $50-$100 per class. College classes range from 20-200 students and my price range seems manageable. There is no need to pay thousands of dollars for classes that are required as general education classes but do not relate to your field of study. Most people end up switching their majors freshman and sophomore year and have to take different general education classes for their new major and that just wastes a lot of money for them. If a student is placed in a class specifically for their field of study and realizes that is not what they want to do with their life, it would not be a waste of $400, it would just be a waste of $75, and people spend that much on a pair of shoes they’d only like two times. Books should be like how they are in high school, free. If the book is lost or damaged then the person has to pay for it, and only then.

The housing should be completely up to the students. They should be able to chose who they want to live with and who is on their floor so there is not one girl who stays up until 2 AM blasting music while the girl down the hall is trying to sleep. If someone wants to switch rooms they should be able to if there is another available room right then. The long room change process is not necessary if someone is miserable where they currently reside. The housing costs should not be $4,200 a year when 30 people are sharing two bathrooms. If five people come together and pay that much, they could get an apartment off-campus for the same price and that is ridiculous. The housing rates should be $1,000 a year because there is so little space in a room and the bathroom situation is so inconvenient.

Athletes should not be treated any differently from non-athletes at a school. Sure they have responsibilities to perform their best on the team, but they should not get first pick on everything on the campus. Even though a person could be the best basketball player the world has ever seen, if they have a 2.1 GPA graduating high school they should not get accepted into a college over someone with a 3.6 GPA. To me that only encourages high school athletes to focus on their sport and just barley pass classes so they can get full scholarships to colleges and not worry about their academics.

Blog 10- Homeboys

The visual and textual rhetoric of the shirts have no effect on me. I see a lot of graphic T-shirts all the time at work. The "Jesus is my Homeboy" and "Mary is my Homegirl" T-shirts just seem like another design that does not stick out to me. The only graphic T’s that get a reaction out of me are ones with Spongebob on it because that is my favorite cartoon, or one that implies something sexual and twelve year olds are walking around in it. I do not see the shirts as a parody because I just do not take graphic T’s serious unless there is negative cursing towards an object or something like that. To me it seems as if Mitchell expects people to notice a small difference in someone’s appearance. He says, “I expected someone to say something, anything. But no one did” (Envision in Depth 324) and that is what I would expect. If it is not something extremely different and bizarre then no one would notice it. Wearing a shirt with a painting of the Crucifixion at a rock concert is different, but people are not there to judge fashion. They go there for the music. I am not deeply religious so that may have altered my perception about this. If the shirt just had the text and not the picture, I do not think the way I acted about it would have changed. The way I interpret Jesus in each shirt is just a religious figure that people are comfortable enough with to talk to about anything.