Juliane Reimer

[julianereimerr-blog]

It's crazy how much time we spend stressing over things in life. We spend all of high school working our butts off to get into good colleges. Then we literally have break downs every week (well at least I do) trying to get perfect gpas in college so we can get good jobs. But in five years I'm not going to give two shits about the math test I studied for for two weeks and cried over. We spend so much time stressing about so many stupid things and we literally tear ourselves down. Last Thursday I went to Toronto to see the Weeknd perform and it was AMAZING. I was 15 rows from one of my favorite artist and made so many memories with one of my best friends. It was nice not worrying about homework and tests and to just let go and enjoy myself. I don't want to remember my college years as me stressing out and break downs. I want to continue doing spontaneous things. I think my happiness is a lot more important than some test. Yeah, getting good grades is nice and obviously would make me happy but I feel like I stress too much. I promised myself I'm going to do something fun each month and take time out to just focus on myself and my health. I've recently got a second job and I work sometimes twice a day, everyday. I'm realizing that I am not spending enough time taking care of myself. I planned a trip to NYC in two months with my best friends and I think that's exactly what I need. I'm setting a goal to save money that I can spend on myself and it will be great being able to spoil myself. Basically I just want to create more memories throughout college that are better than me getting an A on a test. I want to walk out of college and into the real world being happy and not stressing over another thing.

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Immagine tramite We Heart It #autumn #cold #colorful #fall #fashion #sweater #winter #perfect - http://weheartit.com/entry/207747201

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Let the “sluts” be sluts!

This topic has been talked about a few times on Tumblr and in class; slut shaming.   I’m sure all of us have seen costumes this weekend that made us do a double take and think “what the hell, is she serious, how she walked out of the house like that?” I’ve seen a few of my friends from high school dress up as sexy cops and have their butt sticking out of these booty shorts and honestly I give them props.  First off, I’m crazy jealous of their confidence because that clearly takes a lot and second of all I am kind of proud of them for having the guts to dress like that knowing people will be running their mouths.  Personally, I would not feel comfortable dressing like that but for the girls who wear decorative bras and short shorts good for them.  Girls don’t dress up for guys; okay maybe some girls do, but is that really a problem? They want a guy to think they’re hot; so what.  They want to do their hair, make up, dress cute and show off their costumes.  That’s not a crime.  Talking about someone because they look HOT just shows pure jealousy and jealousy is never cute nor will it ever be. It’s pretty embarrassing living in a society where people live to tear other people down.  I think girls should be able to dress up and show off their body however they want.  Guys can walk around shirtless at parties, flexing, and acting like they own the place but girls can’t display that type on confidence in their body? It’s not fair.  I also hate how people think ‘oh her dad must not love her if he let her walk out of the house like that’ like excuse me? I think that bothers me so much because sometimes you don’t know what’s going on with someone’s home life or family.  I’m just done with the nasty girls standing in the corner drinking their drinks as they pick apart every single girl who displays an ounce of beauty.  And the guys who slut shame because the girl turned you down.  Just because she doesn’t want to be with you doesn’t give you the right to try bringing her down.  In other words, I spent my weekend mostly wanting to cuss out rude people for being nasty and judgmental for no apparent reason.

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 We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/205986580

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Friendships

I had a little trouble deciding a topic to choose this week but I want to talk about something that has been bugging me for a while and I’m hoping some of you guys can relate to. I’m sure we all have friendships that struggle. Lately I’ve been struggling with my best friend because she does not make time to see me. I manage to work two jobs, go to school, and have a social life. I go straight from work in the morning to school then right back work Monday through Friday and still manage to get my homework done and make time for friends. I also work on the weekends. My best friend works, goes to school and has a boyfriend that she is madly in love with. We maintain our relationship via text because she spends her free time with her boyfriend. I think this is my biggest pet peeve; people who forget about others when they get into a relationship. She’ll always contact me when something bad happens but honestly I couldn’t tell you what she’s been up to in the last week other than her boyfriend, school and work. It bothers me how people kind of drop friends when they get a significant other. I will always be there for my friend but it’s kinda offending when she knows what she’s doing but doesn’t change her ways. She does this often and she apologizes for kinda leaving me out of her life. It’s just hard being there for someone when they don’t bother asking about your life but you’re expected to be there to listen to them vent. I don’t know maybe I’m missing something. I understand you’re supposed to be there for your friends no matter what but I guess I just don’t find it fair. I have people in my life who do make time for me even with their busy schedules and I appreciate that so much. I just wish my other friend would realize it's not too hard to make time for me either.

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Fall feet…~

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BLog #5

For my first project, I have decided to discuss and find information of why there is a recession of African- American baseball players in the major leagues. As the years pass less and less of black baseball players appear to play in a professional team. They are many issues on why this is happening, but I’m also curious and interested to find out what’s being done to get this issue fixed. Baseball needs diversity in players and that includes having African- Americans in the game. I would like to hear any feedback my audience has about this issue on why it’s happening, and ways that could help this problem diminish. I plan to do some research on the statistics on African- Americans playing for Major League Baseball since the 1970’s. This way I can see it’s peak, it’s increase, and also its decrease. There was many legendary black players in the past and at this pace we won’t see many more in the near future. Players like Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Bob Gibson, Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, and many more had all in some way, shape or form changed baseball forever and changed the dynamics of the game in a positive way. I wonder how this issue impacts communities and families of African- Americans and their view on baseball. I ask many people what they think about baseball and they mostly answer it’s boring, or I’m not interested, because they don’t have a role model that can lead by example and open doors for blacks in baseball again. Every kid always has its idols and person they look up to. For example in basketball the face of the sport now is LeBron James, almost everyone wants to be like LeBron or follow his footsteps. He leads by good example. That could be a reason why basketball is becoming a mostly black dominated sport. Back to baseball, there are sports figures like All Star Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, but this isn’t going to help the cause on the lack of black baseball players in the game. Me growing up in a spanish and black community playing baseball as a kid I mostly played against spanish kids and noticed there wasn’t many black kids to play against. Matter of fact I have played against more white kids when I used to travel than black kids. So could there be a lack of motivation in trying baseball at young age? Why not give the sport a try before deciding to not like it or participate in it? I will try to find the best information I can to answer questions me or others may have regarding this issue.      

[julianereimerr-blog]

I don't know much about baseball but I do know about other sports. Basketball and football is primarily played by African Americans today. This has to do with evolution of sports. When Jackie Robinson first became an icon, African American children everywhere wanted to be just like him but times have changed unfortunately. Also, more Hispanic people move to the United States of America from their native countries. In most Hispanic countries, their native sport is either baseball and / or soccer. As a result, they come here with what they know and go forward with it, hence making it a career (if they get to that level). Hope this helps!

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Project 1: DS:EoA

I am not going to give away the full title of my project! However, my topic of choice is depression. I choose to right about depression because there’s a stigma that surrounds victims of depression and I want to educate my peers on what depression really is and how it affects us all. When I first learned about depression I was one of many who said, “How can you be sad for so long that you can’t function”, “it’s just an excuse to not get over something, just move on.” Those where some of the statements used by myself and others who didn’t understand depression. As I got older I started to encounter people with ‘clinical’ depression, meaning they were actually diagnosed and given treatment for their depression. Through my encounter with such wonderful people who had no complete control over what was happening to them, I realized that I needed to understand depression. I needed to understand it so that I can explain it to myself and others every day; I needed to be part of the solution and not the problem. I am an aspiring Cardiologist and anything that affects the heart, mind and body is of great concern to me so it’s my duty to conduct such research and seek a solution/cure. Depression has yet to be officially labeled as something other than an ‘emotional disorder’ but the truth is depression is a neurological abnormality. It stems from the brain, the physical and measurable cause of depression has to do with a dysfunction in your neurotransmitters (NT). Our ‘normal’ neurotransmitters are deigned to pass on signals and substances that help us function but for someone with depression, your NT just doesn’t work correctly. The ‘feel good’ signal/substance in your brain is not being transmitted correctly and therefore you don’t feel good at all. Sometimes you may have thoughts of suicide even when watching your favorite movie. Interesting right, however, ‘the real research is finding out what is causing the ‘feel good’ signal/substance from being transmitted?’ This project has become very personal and I intend to continue my research and enlightenment on this matter after this project is completed. More information will be provided to you on the day of ‘presentations’thank you!

Depression is not a joke, it is not a phase that you can just get over, and if you are someone suffering form depression; please seek help.

[julianereimerr-blog]

First off I really like how you said you want to be a part of the solution and not the problem! I think it's extremely important to draw attention to things like this and to educate others! A lot of people don't understand depression and how severe it can be! I also have been very close with people who have depression and it's taught me how it's important to educate myself about depression. Many people suffer from depression especially around this age. I don't think that people understand that depression is a neurological abnormality, most people think that individuals just say they're depressed and don't take it seriously.

[hotpinkxo91-blog]

As coming into this project I had literally no idea what to pick, there are so many topics out there to choose from and me being so closed minded I was very broad on the first topic I picked, I picked another one totally different from the first topic I had! After reading these blogs and what topics everyone was doing, I felt like I over thought the whole thing, this project is more of something that interests you and answering one big question instead of one huge broad topic. So reading all these blogs helped me a lot to figure out how to go about with my own topic and research! thank you everyone for helping me out and making me feel so much better about going to do this project :)

[julianereimerr-blog]

I'm glad that everyone's different topic ideas helped you figure out what you would like to dedicate your project to! Its definitely hard deciding what to choose for a topic because there's so many different things that everyone is interested in and issues that should be learned more about! I also was very broad when I first picked my topic and I learned many new things right away which made it even harder to pick a more specific topic because there's just so many things I would like to further educate myself about! Hope all goes well with your project!

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is college worth it?

Is college worth it?

            For my project, the topic I chose to focus on was whether or not getting a college education is worth it? I’m very interested in this topic because in today’s society in order for you to get a good job you have to go to college and obtain a degree. Since college is so expensive, students that want to attend college have to put them self in debt in order for them to go to school. Some students who graduate from college can’t even obtain a job in their field of study, so imagine if you were one of those persons that took out thousands of dollars in loans so that you could attend college only having to not be able to get a job in your field.  What’s the sense of going to college if you are going to have to put yourself in debt and it’s not guaranteed that you’re going to get a job after graduating from college?

On my web map I plan on focusing on whether or not if college worth it? I plan on looking at the statistics of the amount of people that do attend college and have to take out loans to attend. I plan and also looking at the retention rate, to see if loans affect whether or not students drop out of school. I am also going to link the statistics of college graduate students that obtain a job in their field of study after graduating from school. I also want to link the amount of students that ended up in debt because they decided to take out a loan to attend college. I want to focus on these issues because I feel that these issues happen very often today in society. Many students are putting themselves in debt by taking out loans to attend college and sometimes end up being in a far worse situation than what they started in. If someone have to put themselves through all of this  just to attend college then is it really worth it?

I think the problems that I might face while doing this project is making sure that my topic is not a broad topic. I want to make sure that my topic has a specific focal point. Earlier when working on my proposal the biggest issue I had face was making sure that my topic wasn’t too broad. I was having problems because some of the issues I had were too broad.

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[julianereimerr-blog]

I think this is a great topic to discuss and a very unique one! I often worry about whether or not college is worth it and I always fear not knowing if I'm going to find a job out of college. We put a lot of effort into college. Making sure we have great gpas and that we are doing our best to get opportunities in our field. I'm constantly worried about making sure I do things to create a better resume and get more experience so that it is easier getting a job out of college. This is definitely going to be a create topic to hear and learn more about! Great choice!