One More Day

Last day for revising my essay, kind of not sure how im going to do on my paper. Been working on it all weekend and now I'm sitting here reading being like Ugh why did I write about my topic. I've learned alot about the Battle Creek area and the Kellogg company which I find interesting and all but at the same time I can tell while I was writing my paper I wasn't feeling it. Normal when I have a topic I actually care about and like I can free-flow write like 3-4  pages without even thinking. For this paper I would get maybe a page sometimes half a page for one thought even with connections to other topics in my paper, maybe thats the nature of research papers. You need more actually facts than fancy writing to get you through the paper. After this experience and my previous research papers, im glad my planned job doesnt involve writing even longer research papers on obscure historical topics. 

Found the Most Amazing Youtube Video

So I already posted today, but as luck would have it out of my boredom I was like oh hey I wonder if people put videos of Kellogg stuff on youtube and guess what, they did! These random kids make videos on random historical events or places while slightly...how shall I say....inebriate, which is why I feel it is incredible inappropriate for me to actually post on this blog, but its called High History, search it on youtube if you want. But it is, as I already said totally offensive....so don't watch it if your going to get offended.

Class is ending soon

Well class is ending soonish and I feel like everything is coming together. I still have some revising to do on my paper, but that should come together pretty well. The one thing that I'm nervous about is that I have no idea what grade I have in this class, I can guess since I know what I got on the majority of the big assignments but since I can't go in and have the computer show me exactly what I have, slightly apprehensive about it. While I guess I'll see ya all on thursday and tuesday for presentations!

Disgusting Sickness

I am so glad that we don't have class tomorrow. I currently sound like I have black lung. revisions on my paper are coming along though. Basically after going over my paper and finding that while yes I did do it at the last possible minute, the vast majority of it sucks. Good thing we have awhile to work on it cause mine needs alot of work.

This Damn Rough Draft

So here I am thinking that oh hey I have all of this research done and have an idea of what I want to say. I even had about the first two pages done of the paper previous, being just a intro to the paper. Now that I've gotten down to the actually meat of the writing, the important stuff I've realized I barely had any idea before I sat down what I actually wanted my paper to say, or to mean, if anything. I'm not finding it hard to put words on the page. That's easy, the problem I'm having is when I go back and reread it I'm like that just sounds like complete BS and it doesn't matter at all. Basically I'm having trouble to get my paper to have a real meaning, for it to be something that isn't just about Battle Creek but connecting it to something broader that affects people.

Whats the Minimum Requierment for This Paper Again?

So in our proposals we had that time line set up on how long it was going to take us to do everything and when we wanted stuff done by...yeah I've come to the realization that I'm behind my on my own agenda. I thought I had given myself plenty of time to get everything do that I wanted, apparently my supremely awesome ability to be lazy has once again out done itself. I need to kick this research paper into high gear cause I know once it hits middle of November I'm going to be even lazier. Off to read some books on Battle Creek, hopefully I can finish this by the end of the weekend

OOps

So last week I forgot to even write a blog, laziness in general doesn't pay off but I still like to practice it. Anyway I've found several books on the kellogg cereal company now at the MSU library. One that I found is called "Kellogg's Six Hour Day" which talked about how Kellogg during the depression changed his factory from three eight hour shifts to four six hour shifts that way he could hire more people during the depression and allow all of his workers to keep their jobs, which is exactly what I'm writing about in my paper, so now I have a whole 200 page book to support my idea, YAY!! Also I meant to the Library of Michigan and was readying several papers on Kellogg himself and found some very interesting information about him that doesn't actually pertain to my paper. Like the fact that he started the cereal company as a health food because he believe that human health was extremely important. He was also a doctor that went to Harvard and was a vegetarian. He said the vegetarianism was the natural human state because it allowed for a healthier life style.