Who are you?

By Kym Fox
Remember to include your name at the top or bottom of your post so I know who to credit for each post.
You can include it at the top in the style of a byline or at the bottom. Check out how I did it on this post (no need to use multiple ways, I'm just offering examples.) - Kym Fox
- Kym Fox (or here)

The Little Things in Life

I’m thankful for my laptop. Without it I would have to resort to entertaining myself by watching television; which would not be good because everyone knows there aren’t any good shows on TV anymore. Seriously, how many wedding cake and married couple reality shows do we need? I’m also thankful for my friends. Without them I’d resort to talking to walls and my finger and be randomly screaming “REDRUM”. I’m thankful for my family because without all seven of them I’d live in a very quiet house.

I’m thankful for school, believe it or not, because it gives me something to do all day rather than babysit my brothers. It’s also an excuse to see my friends everyday. I’m thankful for being able to express myself through writing otherwise you would be reading a blog from a very disturbed person.

Ability To Post

Check. This is Desiree Smith and I can post.

Organic Not So Natural

While I could elaborate, I think you already understand. By labeling a product organic, it naturally sounds much more appealing than the processed counter option we're so accustomed to. But in reality, the organic label means little difference. By simply slapping a happy green sticker on different packaging of the same product, the asking price can dramatically increase with no questions asked. "It's healthier, so it's worth it!" Horrible, horrible lies. I believe the qualifications for defining a product as organic should be more heavily enforced. Receiving what we think we're buying should be easy.

Plastic Bags: Environmental Enemy

You're out of snacks. Oh no. Time to make the trip to Wally World and stock up. I mean come on, how else are you supposed to concentrate during those long study sessions in the dorm? I personally need something to munch on constantly. However, after purchasing my bag of chips and walking up to the register, when the cashier looks up at me and asks, "Would you like a bag for this?" I will opt out of adding another environmentally-damaging plastic bag to the collection sitting under our dorm bathroom's sink. The environmental damage caused by plastic bags is enormous. Plastic makes up 80% of the volume of litter on roads, parks, and beaches and makes up 90% of floating litter in the ocean. In every square mile of ocean there are over 46,000 pieces of plastic. This hurts so many turtles, fish, and other aquatic animals. We get to live without plastic objects in our food, choking us to death and killing off our species; why don't they?
So what I'm saying fellow college students is, recycle as much as you can, bring canvas bags with you when you go grocery shopping, definitely don't litter, and reduce your amount of environmental damage as a whole.

Death to Printers (death sounds harsh :/ )

At the end of the day, I agree, yes we need printers; so don't come to me saying that you've seen me use a printer because I know. I do realize people learn through a hands on method, I do realize a computer/ laptop isn't always handy, and I do realize some things online we just have to print for confirmation. Get it, got it, done. But in all true reality do we need all that we print. I'm going to save my time and yours by not preaching to you or boring you with pointless facts like the 'No Impact Man', but I will leave you with some questions to think about. Did you really need to print out those lyrics and tape them to the cover of your binder? Did you really need to print out your favorite celebrity and post them to your dorm room wall? And c'mon, did you really need to print out all those powerpoint slides knowing that you aren't going to give them a second look? It's your life to live and I'm not the printer police, but all I'm saying is Stop, Think, and just save some damn paper.

Tamara Johnson

Paper!

About every day an average american buys 62 million news papers and from those news papers an estimation of 44 million of those news papers are thrown away. If we would be able to recycle at least half of those news papers america would become more greener than ever.