Facebook is pretty much the most distracting thing ever ever created. I have trouble writing papers on time, studying for more than 15 mintues or even writing these blogs. Every five minutes or so I feel the need to log on over to Facebook to see if anyone has recently decided to pop up and say hello. I just wrote my recent picture on the negative impacts of Facebook and this is another one. It makes completing anything academic almost impossible. So along to all of the other multiple bad things Facebook does, I add this.

Rambles, rambles

I like to be envolved on campus. Campus envolvement allows for productive time spent, stuff to put on your resumes to then get envolved in more stuff and a pretty good way to meet new people. However, I think the thing far worst than not getting envolved on campus, is gettin over-envolved. There is nothing that I hate worse than when someone spreads them self so thinly and envolves themself in every activity and runs for every position possible. Not only does this hurt others' chances for positions and activities but is not being fair to each organization you join. I know many people who have joined so many clubs and so many organizations that they do not and couldn't possible devote themselves to anything.

Summer

So, I'm really ready for this semester to be over with. I love college and all but this is starting to get incredibly mundance and repeditive. It's almost like being back in highschool and being absolutely thrilled that you had the short summer off. That's exactly what this summer is going to be for me, very very short. But it is going to be an absolutely amazing experience all at the same time. I am staying in Hattiesburg during June and taking a class and working. And then in July for a month, I am going to do the British Studies Program in London, and am so excited. I've been to London before, but it was a long time ago with my parents. Something about traveling with friends and those closer to your age makes the experience completely different. I am taking a children's literature course while there, so hopefully that will help apply to my major in some way. I am an Elementary Education major, so I think that course will be really exciting and interesting. I know a couple of people that are going, but for the most part I will get to meet many many more friends. We also have a free long weekend type thing where we are allowing to visit a neighbooring country, not too sure where I'm going to go just yet. But I will be thinking! And then when I get back from London I start my next semester off wonderfully as well! I'm a GEWW crew leader this year, and am so way stoked. Not to mention Formal Recrutment and lots of new students! I can not wait. As much as I am needing and ready for this semester to wind down, I really can't wait for the next one to begin!

Parking

The parking at Southern is absolutely out of control. I think it is ridiculously unfair. There are half as many parking spots on this campus as there are students, and not even all of those are available to students. We aren't given adequate, reasonably close enough parking and then are shocked when a student is sexually assaulted walking back to her dorm. So, a student figures they will just park in a faculty spot until 7:00 the next morning when they will prompltly get up and move their car. However, this is only to find that they had received a parking ticket an hour earlier, at 6:00 a.m.. I understand that fixing such a huge problem would be quite a financial burden to the University. Perhaps the University could consider not spending millions on stadium renovations and additions, when we honestly don't fill the already large stadium we have. And I think when you examine the dangers, angst and sheer annoyance the parking situation has caused at Southern, that it should be higher on the list of priorities on this campus. Now, I am all about school spirit and pride, however; making this school incredibly attractive to potential students is not quite as important as creating a safe environment.