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. 


http://www.epinions.com/review/educ-Colleges_and_Universities-All-Pennsylvania_State_University_University_Park/content_28604141188?sb=1

Dry Campus

Pretty sure there is no other meme out there that could point out this irony in a better way. Penn State and alcohol have always been synonymous because Penn State has such a large drinking culture that is prevalent around campus. Most Penn Staters are known for “going hard” on the weekends and partying Thursday through Saturday. When one goes out to the bars when the weather is nice, there are a lot of people there too, even if it a weeknight.

This meme uses humor to portray the fact that Penn State is far from being a dry campus. Lately the weather in State College has been extremely off. There was much rain in the beginning of the year and in the beginning of the semester. This meme uses this type of text to make its point. By saying that it has been raining a lot lately the meme states that the campus hasn’t been both dry physically and alcohol wise. Further the picture of the green dinosaur thinking in the background makes the humor come out even more in the meme.

This meme indirectly states that it is kind of hilarious that one would even come close to thinking that Penn State has a dry campus. With even the freshmen getting caught with alcohol here and there, the campus is far from dry. Just the state of intoxication of the freshmen getting onto the white loop on Thursday, Fridays, and Saturday nights proves to one that they obviously “pre-gamed” pretty hard in their dorms to be in that state. With girls falling all over the place before they even hit downtown for the night proves that the dorms on campus, especially East, are far from dry.

          Penn State is one of those schools that always gets ranked as one of the top partying schools in the nation, thus showing that drinking has a lot to do with that stat. On top of that Penn State holidays such as State Patty’s day and Blue and White weekend show one that we Penn Staters really like our alcohol. For those that don’t know much about these weekends, they are weekends during which Penn Staters have daylongs and drink basically Friday through Sunday. Events like these and the overall statistics available about Penn State prove to one that Penn State is not a dry type of university. This meme further does a great job of proving its point by combing humor and skepticism on how dry the Penn State campus actually is. 

Women Are Targeted

     An eye opening video, this video goes onto state some of the ugly truths that are still omnipresent in our world right now. This video talks about how young women have more to worry about their image as a whole going into school. Women can't just focus on their career in work or school, instead they are pressured by society to always keep a certain type of image. There were some younger girls in the video who said that it was awful that along with their grades they also had to make sure they weren't over weight and that they put on a lot of make up. These types of society stressors put on these girls just brought them down and didn't let them fully concentrate on their work in school. 


     Besides these facts, this video also goes on to discuss how all of the best women out there are the ones that the media always hits hard. It is so sad to see that the media always focuses on a woman's body instead of their intellect thus creating consciousness.Women like Rice, Clinton, and yes even Sarah Pallin are women that have reached a very succesful level in life. Even though these women are this far high in life, they are still brought down in the eyes of regular citizens because of the media. Besides these women there are others that are shown in magazines and on tv shows and advertisements. These women are always put down in the way that they are portrayed to the regular public. It is sad to see that women have become so vulnerable even with all they do and contribute to the world in this day. 


     All the different women in this video talk about how thought they are considered equal to women, they are actually put down in a lot of different ways by society. Due to all of the different clips by different women I believe that this video arises pathos in the viewer. It is really strong in the way it comes out and relies its message. Most women and younger girls just have come to take some of these situations as stereotypical norms but others are attempting to finally change them. This video makes an emotional connection to the viewer, especially if it is a viewer of the female gender. After watching this video even I had something arise inside of me that said that I should rise up and attempt to change these stereotypical norms that still barricade our society today. 


To check out this video go to the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY

State Patty's Weekend

Once February hits, State Patty's weekend is all Penn State students are talking about. For those that don't know of what this is, this is the weekend that Penn State students celebrate St. Patricks day since this holiday usually falls during the Penn State students' spring break. This holiday is especially well known at Penn State for people to get extremely drunk starting friday night all the way through Sunday night. There are always many different guest students who come up for the weekend from various universities nearby. Last year most of these students ended up getting too drunk and there were many cases of alcohol poisoning. To avoid that this year the university imposed a one guest rule in dorms and said that fraternities weren't allowed to have any parties on the Saturday of State Patty's weekend. 

When asked about why many of the alcohol poisoning cases were usually non Penn Staters most Penn State students replied by saying that other school kids can't handle Penn State partying. This is exactly the type of stereotype that this meme is portraying. With the image that shows someone so drunk that they've fallen out of their chair and text that reads "an average state college weekend with no football" this meme basically sends the message that Penn State students are can handle State Patty's weekend type of drinking every weekend. This meme portrays the basic Penn State partying image and proves that Penn State students handle their liquor better than most other college students.