College Blog #6

Changes…

By Terrence Cain

This week has been very hectic for me. I found out this week that my roommate for the last two and a half years may be moving to San Angelo to take care of his ailing grandmother, so now I have to make the hard choice of possibly moving as well. I’m in the process right now of looking into getting a dorm room at Howard College and working on getting all the financial things taken care of so that the transition is smooth and stress free, if that is what the final decision is to be when it comes to that ultimate decision.

I will also have to find a place to live in-between semesters, if he decides to make the move. This means I am going to have to go back to my hometown of Odessa (most likely) to stay with my parents. It’s not a choice I am happy with having to make (going back to Odessa that is) but it is what it is. It’s not that I don’t love my parents, I do, I just don’t want to leave Big Spring this way. I love this town and I consider this place my true home. OK, enough with the personal issues going on in my life.

This week at school was really cool for me. In my Mass Media class this week we were given the task of creating a commercial for television, and one for radio as well. We have to make two advertisements for a fake shampoo company. We were all divided up into teams of four, but since several students didn’t attend class on Wednesday it has become a team of three for many of the groups, mine was one of them. I think our ads are going to be pretty cool and next week I will tell you more about them and how they went. If I can, I will even try to take and share pictures of the story board we have to create for the television commercial.

Another cool class this week was my US History class with Prof. Tommy Tune. We watched videos this week about the turn of the century and the invention of motion pictures. We discussed the early days of silent films and World War I. The only thing that bothered me was seeing film of soldiers who came back from the war with missing body parts being replaced with a prosthetic and shell shock victims who couldn’t control their own nervous systems and were shaking out of control. That was hard to watch, but the rest of the class was really cool to be a part of. I really do enjoy my US History class with Prof. Tune, and I know that there are people who don’t like his class for one reason or another, but I do.

And for those who don’t like Prof. Tune’s class; or history in general, I feel sorry for because they are missing out on an opportunity to learn and grow as people and to see where we came from and may be going. As the old saying goes, if we don’t learn from our past we’re doomed to repeat it. Another reason I like Prof. Tune’s class is because he has a great deal of knowledge about our nation’s history and makes the class feel like it’s OK to engage in a conversation while he is teaching us. He doesn’t get all weirded out or accuses you of disrupting his class. He enjoys deep thinking as I do.

And this is the craziest part of it all. Prof. Tune is a very conservative type of person, everyone probably knows that about him, what people may not know about me is that I am quite liberal, and with those differences we still manage to get along and have a great deal of respect for one another. Now if only the rest of the world could do that we’d be much better for it. I think I engage in his class the most because I am a person who is very intrigued by history and I feel I learn more by being able to talk and ask questions about the things he is teaching us in his class.

There are a few things I want to bring to everyone’s attention today. If you love sports, you will want to know that Howard College’s softball team will not be playing in Lubbock tonight. That game was canceled. However, Saturday’s game here in Big Spring will take place against the Lubbock Christian JV team. Our softball team has only lost one game this year, their first against Temple College, so it looks like Howard should win this Saturday, well I hope so anyway.

Another thing I think people should know is that the American Sign Language Flex Course begins on February 15th in the SWCID building. If you wish to attend you need to go sign up for the course. Kathy Weldon will be the instructor. There is a limit of 20 students for this course that is almost two hours long on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. Well that is all from yours truly for the week. I hope you all have a great weekend! This is the Howard College Blogging Machine, over and out!

Peace – Terrence