Thanksgiving

2 more days until I get to go home and see my friends and family! I'm pretty excited that ISU gets a week off whereas most schools get off the day before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is pretty much one of my favorite holidays because it's the time to eat as much as you want and whenever you want! Leftovers are the best I'd sayyy.

Halloween weekend.......

Sooo... pretty sure this weekend is what I've been looking forward to for about a whole month now :)

I'll be driving back home to Minnesota with a few friends and getting home around 6:30 P.M.. I will then meet everyone (about 20 people!) at Chipotle, my favorite fast foot mexican restaurant, at 7:30 PM. From there, we will all car pool and drive to Valleyscare, which has 5 "haunted" mazes you go through. It's going to be a thrilling experience and it's best when it is shared with your friends. :)

Saturday, in the morning and through the afternoon, I will be spending it with my family. We will be going out to eat and spending a lot of quality time together. I miss them so much so I am really happy I get to do that this weekend! Around 10 P.M, its another round of hanging with the friends... but this time, we are all going out to the club in Minneapolis! It's going to be a really good time dancing with the girls and guys...

Sunday, will be a chill dayyyy... go out to eat breakfast with the fam and then heading back to Iowa again.

Weekends.

Last weekend was amazing. Hence the fact that I didn't go back home like I usually do every weekend! I stayed here at ISU and went out and partied with my friends. Let's just say, it was one crazy weekend...:) I met many new people and they were all extremely cool. We came back around 3 A.M and passed out... Sunday came and the roommate and I did nothing literally... but slept all day! We were extremely tired from the night before but it was definitely all worth it.

The weekend before, Jason came down to visit from Stout, Wisconsin. It was very nice seeing him; it's been a while!! That weekend was filled with joy as we spent a lot of good time together. I showed him around campus and that was exciting on my part. Sadly, he had to leave bright and early on Sunday morning... but I'm glad he came down to visit me acknowledging that the drive is 8 hours total back and forth.

In conclusion, these past two weekends were my favorites out of all the weekends that I've been here by far... :)

Winter is getting near! I am not excited. Time to bust out the jackets and boooots!

School has been stressing me out due to all the exams. I consume more time studying than anything else, it's crazy! I'm hoping this doesn't keep up. 

Stressssss!

Four exams this week and I can't feed my mind any more information. Can't wait for this week to be over!! 

The future television

Technology is always improving every day and I believe that there is no limit for it. Thinking back to the days when I used to watch Barney on video cassettes (I had a collection!) really amazes me how every movie/show is now on DVDs. It improved by making it more convenient... a DVD is a lot smaller than a video casette, you have options like menu, scene selection, etc... whereas in a video casette you can only fast forward and rewind!! The greatest invention I think is the TiVo. How great is that to pause your show or even fast forward? If you miss something you can rewind! The media is always trying to find new ways to keep audiences interested. 

In the future, I don't have a doubt in mind that there will be an invention of something absolutely crazy. Technology is great itself and can be used for everything and anything. However, I am not afraid of how the media will be portrayed in the future because it is impossible to stop technology. I'm really glad I am in today's generation than the 50's or 60's. The media seemed so boring and bland with black and white images and mainly news were portrayed. Today is nothing compared to then. No matter what, people will always come up with new ideas that will highly affect us all. What would it be like tomorrow? We'll have to wait and see... I know for a fact my grandkids will look back on this generation and say that we had nothing compared to their time!

Reflect

I believe that all of the concepts consisted in media is wonderful. Ideas like advertising claims, propaganda, psychographic, demographic, operative, and classical conditioning are the best ways to capture a consumer's attention. People may say certain media gives bad influences but I disagree! Worldwide, media is what keeps us all connected. It keeps us moving forward and helps the society as a whole by targeting specific groups so that everyone is included. I do agree that the media's goal is to consume us... but at the same time we are consuming media. It's pretty much a trade-off. They need us to make money, we need them for entertainment. There are so many ways to promote a product... but the ones that consumers see are bluntly given. If we were to sit down and peel off the elements of the ad, we can point out many sources and claims they used (but no one does that!) This is why media is so powerful. Every form of advertisement has a "story" behind it that we don't see. The only thing consumers do see is the main point of the ad. I believe that media does not have a right or wrong way of expressing itself but the fact that because every human being is different and we consume things differently, it is the consumer that has the right to take "action" or they're not even affected by the media. Media grows every second and an idea will always spark the advertisers mind to create something new. Technology advances from time to time and there is always a new trend going on... media will never become obselete.