Welcome to my E-Portfolio!
My name is Anmol Kaur and I am double majoring in Political Science and Labor Relations at Pennsylvania State University as a Paterno Fellows aspirant. As you read on, I will discuss more about myself and the content of this E-portfolio.

Fall 2011- Spring 2012
I came in as a freshman at Pennsylvania State University, University campus in the fall of 2011 as an aspiring Paterno Fellow. I began my collegiate career with six dual enrollment credits I had completed at Northampton Community college at home. At Pennsylvania State University I am currently taking courses in both Political Science and Labor Relations and hope to enter Schreyers Honors College with the concurret major of Political Science in the fall of 2012. In the future I hope to use these majors as a firm foundation going into law school where I would like to specialize in corporate law.

E-Portfolio
As you go on and explore my E-Portfolio you will be able to look at a compilation of works that I have completed throughout my collegiate career thus far. These works will include essays, speeches, and blogs that I have done and will be updated often with work that I do in the future. If going through anything you ever have any types of questions please do not hesitate to contact me through the contact link on the E-portfolio.

Anmol Kaur E-Portfolio

Nocturnal Nights

So I'm pretty sure that everyone can relate with my problem on this one, right? It's not only english papers, its papers for all those other writing intensive courses that we take but end up regretting. Though this might not be a smart idea to talk about this since this is my english class, but just last week I had a paper due in my english class which I unfortunately ended up pulling a all nighter for. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to write about exactly and good old facebook just helped so much more leading me to not finish my paper until 5 am. Mind me, this was not the first time that something of the sort happened. 

Many students choose to take exams over papers because at least with exams you can say fuck it at some point and stop studying and just get some sleep. With papers that is impossible because you technically can't leave your paper in the middle. With papers the night just drags on and there's nothing you can do about it besides think about how happy you will be when you finally finish it. 

Don't Think It Gets Worse Than This

So I’m pretty sure every kid at Penn State must have already been a victim of this statement, or if it hasn’t happened yet, it will somewhere during their Penn State experience. I unfortunately am a student who has been a victim of this particular statement. During this past semester I made the worst decision of my life and decided to take Political Science 014 with Professor Iqbal. I don’t think I have ever regreted something more than that decision. I went to that class for the first week of classes and came to discover that she is incapable of teaching.

Ever since that moment I knew that I would have to teach myself everything for the midterms and finals in that class. Thus I would take incredibly detailed notes after reading the book. But even all this work was not enough and I ended up doing very badly on the midterms. After the second mid-term I found out that the late drop date for the class was on April 6^th and I told my professor that I needed to find out my midterm grade by then to decide whether or not I was going to drop the class. Of course, exactly what I had expected happened, even after many emails I still didn’t get my mid-term grade in time so I ended up dropping the course instead of taking the class. Ends up that I definitely made the right decision.

Overall, this occurrence came to teach me that this meme is very true in the point that it is attempting to get across. Some professors don’t take the late drop seriously and don’t even recognize that some students care about their grades and want to make the right decision so that they don’t end up jeopardizing their GPA at the end. Their meme does a great job of taking collaborating the right image with the right text. It shows exactly how certain professors think that by saying a statement as such, they don’t actually mean it and there are no repercussions for them even if they don’t get the grading done. All in all this meme just comes to show another problem with the college educational system. 

Wait What?

I am not sure how others perceive this picture, but whenever I look at it I only remember one thing…my best friend from high school. She obviously, like everyone else, applied to main campus but didn’t get in there and instead got accepted to Altoona. Being someone who had never really accomplished much academically, she was extremely excited to at least get accepted into Penn State. She went screaming to her mother that afternoon that day about how she had gotten into Penn State. Her mother on the other hand responded by saying Congratulations and telling her that University Park was definitely one of the best places for her to be. At that, my friends’ happiness went away and she explained about how she had just gotten into Altoona. At this her mother completely flipped out by saying that Altoona wasn’t Penn State…exactly what this meme states.

This story proves that this meme is a scenario that occurs often in families when students receive their acceptance letters from Penn State. There are certain kids who barely make the cut and are able to use the summer leap program in order to get into the University Park campus and those that are a bit more unfortunate and have no other option besides going to Berks or Altoona. These use the statement that they go to Penn State even when they know in the back of their minds’ that the branch campus’ compare nowhere near to main campus.

This meme gives attending a branch campus for the first two year a negative connotation. The sad thing about this is that in real life attending a branch campus is looked upon with a negative light as well. It is not only the main campus students, but the branch campus students themselves who always complain about their campuses by saying that it doesn’t have adequate academic resources or the same level of partying. Many branch campus students are found up at Penn State very often because they like to make the best of their weekends by “going hard” at Penn State main.

Overall, this meme bring up the pathos and ethos that is related to the main concept of college acceptances when it comes to Penn State University. This meme bring up pathos because the viewer emotionally feels bad for the poor kid who has been completely labeled as a reject by his parent. It also hits upon a little bit of ethos because it shows how acceptances with Penn State work. There are different levels of them, and one is usually higher when he or she is directly accepted into University Park campus versus a branch campus. 


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