liberal arts education

Having a liberal arts education is very important to me. Some people think it's stupid, and hate having to take that wide range of core classes, but I value that. Without those required classes, we would more then likely never take classes that are not in are field and you would never know if there is another field that you like more, that you would rather do, that you have never thought of before. On top of that you learn a much broader range of material, and will make you a much more well rounded, intelligent person.

college tour

I did not like the Today’s college tour at all. I thought the skits were so unrealistic because the client would come in tell the helper their problems and stand up saying they felt better, when the helper did nothing to actually help them. The problems the clients had could really happen and are things that many people have to deal with on a daily basis, I thought the way it was presented and the acting were poorly done, even more importantly I thought the helper did a horrible job. Other t6hen nodding a helper did not use any attending skills, nor did he offer any insight, he just say there saying nothing, and lip singing in-between a few clients.

How I’m going to improve my grades this semester.

Even though I had a 3.5 GPA last semester there are still some thins I think I can do to improve my GPA this semester. For the most part last semester I did not do the required readings for any of my classes, nor did I make time to study other then during lunch on the day of the test, and I was really lackadaisical on doing the blogs. So this semester I am going to TRY to make sure I do most of the readings, make time to study, and post my blogs on time. I have a feeling that my classes this semester are going to be significantly harder then the classes I had last semester however, my goal for this semester is to get a 3.6 this my not seam like a very ambitious goal considering it's only .1 higher then last semester, but I like to set realistic goals for myself that I know I can reach if I try, and I think anything higher would be an unrealistic goal because these classes are going to require much more time and effort.

Mountain Day

Mountain Day is a very special part of Lees-McRae, at first I thought that it was just a lame excuse to skip a day of classes, but now I realize just how important it is to our school. Mountain Day is a day that informs us of the great history of our school, the unique way in which our school was founded and first operated, but Mountain Day is not just about our past it's about our current life here and our future. It is a great time for us all to bound and celebrate our school, exspecially for our freshmen who are still getting to know new people around campus, it allows us to not just attend Lees-McRae but to be a part of it as well.




Traditions shape our identities, by allowing us to know where we come from, and the values that are impotent to us. Traditions allow us to connect with our ancestors, and to appreciate our culture, and heritage.

Alcohol at Lees-McRae

There are many reasons that students drink, one of the most popular reasons here at Less-McRae is that there is nothing better to do in Banner Elk, I however fined this to be a bs reason. I come from a town even smaller then BE and we always found things to do, besides drinking, this doesn't mean we didn't drink, in fact drinking accompanied most activities we found to do on Saturday nights, so to me this shows that students don't drink because there is nothing better to do, it's really just because we want to, and even if we had allot to do on campus we would still drink. Take for example the Halloween party at the new recreation center, we had something to do that night, but students over 21 were still drinking there.
To me one of the most accurate excesses that students at Lees-McRae and colleges in the U.S. in general is that we do have to Waite until we are 21 to legally drink. Part of the thrill miners get from drinking is that they may get caught, or that they or doing something against the law that they will more then likely not get caught for, this starts a heavy drinking pattern that we tend to fallow into our late 20. I think that if the drinking age was changed to 18/ 19 there wouldn't be as much drinking, or at least as much binge drinking at colleges, I have two friends that live in Switzerland, where the drinking age for beer and wine coolers is 16, and for hard alcohol is 18, both of my friends fined it ridiculous that the drinking age in the U.S. is 21 and fined it silly how drinking is such a big deal to U.S. teens, because in Switzerland teenagers are not nearly as obsesst with drinking, and yet they are legally able to do so.