The list of non-school related things I want to do but can't is way too long. I need a free day to work on my computer build, a day to apply for internships, some time to work out, some time to fix my phone's SD card, some time to catch up on sleep, some time to spend with my girlfriend and friends, and maybe even some time to play video games. There's no end in sight, I want some free time here at Brockport before the semester is over! It feels like I can't enjoy any of the great aspects of the college lifestyle because I have so much work to do. This lifestyle feels crazy, but I'm sure everyone else is going through the same thing as me. Its just life I guess.

Now that I've vented a little bit, I'd like to mention a few things about the response paper we got back today. Reading through it again, I was reminded of its imperfections and poorly explained areas. The thing I wish I could change the most would be shifting the focus of the paper to include discussion of both males and females. The paper was mostly describing my (often narrow and ignorant) view of girls over the years, my observations and then my coming to understand the reasons behind what I observed. I talked about all of the patterns and trends I saw in the girls I grew up around, but I failed to mention the guys. There are a few reasons for this, the first being that I saw so much more diversity in the guys at my school than in the girls. I felt that the boys in my high school were far more individualistic than the girls. Another reason is that I simply didn't pay as much attention to guys as I did girls. Guys made more sense to me and I wasn't as interested in them. I wrote the paper before I had really given much thought to the stereotypes and trends among guys. Tough guise 2 really opened my eyes to the how comparable the problems faced by men are to those faced by women, and if I remember correctly, we hadn't watched Katz's film before writing the response paper. After watching Tough guise 2 I was significantly more aware of the issues faced by males, but before seeing the film, I had barely given it any thought because, in my experience, I wasn't expected to be anything other than myself. I have always felt pretty accepted just being me, and for that I am extremely grateful.