March 2010
2 posts
~P to the Burgh yo, what up~
So today I was just having one of those days when everything seemed to be going wrong. It was just one bad thing after the next and each time something new bad happened, it made the previous bad thing even worse. So what I did was grab my one friend and we just walked around Pittsburgh for a few hours. There’s nothing like a nice walk in the fresh air of the city on a Sunday...
Do we hate smart kids... really??
I somewhat agree with what Penrod is arguing in this essay because some of what she was saying was so obvious throughout high school. Throughout school the nerdy kids have always been put in their own little group together and excluded from everyone else. The one thing that is obvious that I do disagree about is that just because you’re smart and have good grades doesn’t automatically...
February 2010
6 posts
Issues with the P Burgh!!!! :p
Issues I have with down town Pittsburgh...
1. Thing closing too early.
2. Underage clubs/things to do
3. Ai students don't get discounts or free things like other colleges
I'll start with my explanation of #1. The first thing is that EVERYTHING in down town Pittsburgh closes somewhere between 6-8 and earliest on weekends if you can believe it! Everywhere down town here closes so early which makes things so inconvenient and annoying cause come 9: 00 it's too bad if you had to run to CVS. It also makes things more dead down here because everything is closed. SO my conclusion to fix this problem is for everywhere to close later than normal.
On to issue #2. If you're not 21 and live down town there is seriously nothing to do! We need more clubs or something that holds 18 and over nights for all of us bored underagers! There is nothing for us to do here down town, especially in the winter. So there should definitely be some kind of 18 and over club opened down here.
Last but probably biggest issue of all, issue #3, Ai students not getting any perks unlike many of the other colleges in this Pittsburgh area. Pitt get's free transportation from their school, which means free Port Authority buses and free incline rides. Pitt also has their own gym that's free for the students. Point Park gets a discount at Starbucks and the YMCA. What does aip get...? NOTHING, we don't even have a meal plan. For the price that we students pay for school we deserve some of these luxuries that all of the rest of these schools have.
Bizarro
My Bizarro looking in at me, watching my every move.. I’m everything that my Bizarro isn’t and he is everything I’m not. If you’re not quite sure what or who Bizarro is he’s from superman, he’s the polar opposite of Superman…
So here I am watching her sit there all smug doing her homework. she’s obviously finishing it up, I don’t get how she always feels...
Descriptive Feature Essay... bleh
To be honest i’m having trouble figuring out what to write about for my essay. I’m not sure if this is because i just don’t know Pittsburgh that well yet to know many places that would work for this out of the ordinary assignment.
The first place that came to my mind when thinking about where in the world i could possibly write a paper about AND do an interview with someone was...
“Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take...”
– ~Hitch
Description
With the snow on and around it I can’t believe it’s still going, but like it always does, somehow it still is. Up and down the icy cold rails in on the snow covered track. It tirelessly runs, filling up with people and carrying them up for the ride or driving them down to the bottom. As it slowly creeps up the mountain first time riders always question it making it up to the top.
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52nd Annual Grammy's
I’m watching the Grammy’s right now and wow there have been some amazing performances and some awesome styles! Ahhhh Taylor Swift just came on!! I love her, she’s so genuine and is such a good song writer. Tonight she’s singing with the great Stevie Nicks; pretty cool collaboration if you as me. They both sound really good, hopefully Taylor wins the majority of the 8...
Misconseptions
I had never known much about Pittsburgh, the first time i was here was probably a little over a year ago, and that was to visit the school i now go to. I am so accustomed to Cities such as New York and Philadelphia that i just assumed Pittsburgh would be just like them; and by “them” i mean loud all night long, very dangerous, and scary to walk alone at anytime. Although i soon found...
January 2010
4 posts
Living in the burgh
Right now I’m sitting at my desk that faces my huge ceiling to floor arched window. It looks out across a beautiful hold building that is now converted into a Dollar bank, it says on it that it was built in 1870, 140 years ago, to me that’s incredible. Right past the Dollar bank there’s just the perfect clearing of tall buildings as if it was done on purpose just to give me the...