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I used to
participate in and eventually hosted a television show called 'Teen
Scene',
moved on to do a news segment called the 'TeeNews', which aired
5-8 times a week on Cable television, and now am a licensed DJ
for a show called 'Resurrection Rock'
(Rez Rock). The biggest obstacle to get over was passing the WKNC
radio DJ exam. First time I took it (June 1), I passed. I
now
can get into the studio at any time of the year, as well as venture in
a
ton of areas in promotion, advertising, and the like for the show.
This
month, expect a little more background information on my experience in
the
Media, and what I hope to do with it in the future!
To view
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School
SUMMER SESSION 1
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REL 300 |
Cunningham |
09:50-11:20 AM |
Religious Traditions of the World.
Should be interesting... |
94.7 |
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F |
PSY 200 |
[STAFF] |
11:40-1:20 PM |
Fun in Psychology with an undeclared
teacher! Should be easy. |
102.8 |
Summer session isn't as hard as I thought it might be so far, but I've crammed for both exams thus far. Procrastination isn't a good policy, even though it does work sometimes.
Breakdown of Religions of the World tests:
| Hinduism: 93.75 |
Buddhism: 96 |
Judaism/Early Christianity: 94 |
Modern Christianity/Islam: 95 |
Psychology Tests:
| Test 1: 100% |
Test 2: 100% |
Test 3: 100% |
Final Exam: 97% |
Attendance Bonus: +4% |
| Goals REL 300: 93.0 or better PSY 200: 93.6 or better |
Goals Have Been Met... Summer Session I is OVAH! Summer Session II starts July 2. |
FIND OUT HOW PROJECT GPA TURNED OUT
Results from the Spring, 2003 Semester
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Bible Reading
May is a great month...especially since the semester ends!
May: 186 chapters read
Minimum Yearly Goal: 1189
June 1 - June 30
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June Total: 131
Yearly Pace Based on June: 1594 chapters
Goal: None in particular this month. I'll read for content and not numbers this month, but in doing so, my numbers may exceed last month's! (Turns out I didn't, but that's ok)
Next Month's New Feature: Cool Passages!
Bible Statistics - Bible Studies
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Sports & Exercise
| Basketball 2003 Season: 25.3 ppg The rest will be pick-up games posted below...if they exist.... Aniel, Steven, and Sterling vs. some Chinese kids: We won both times. That's all for June... |
Bowling Practicing for the Future... I'm WAS going to take Bowling during Summer Session 2.
Current Overall Summer 2003 Average: 150.10 ...and no, I didn't try to reverse my scores between the June 9 and June 23 time. It's just me being somewhat consistent. |
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Waking Up (Journal)
| June (30) Summer I Grades (28) Taking Pictures of the Tasty 'Coon (27) Test Expressions (25) Be Cool, Stay in School! (19) Tiyahd (11) Test Preparation Skills (4) Round One...Fight! (2) The 'Tentative' Theory Recent Links Raccoon Pictures Remember the Needy Test Expressions NBA Live 2001 Heat Calendar Store Guess the Weather League Steven's Car Remix DJ Sterf Animals Jesus Preachers Bible Studies Answer for the Problem of Death |
(06.30.03)
Don't you hate it when plans don't work out exactly as you
intended?
Today, I tried to get together with friends for the last time
before
I start school again. The day before, I was sure that I'd have my
friends
Steven, Ken, Mike, Chad, Cliff, Tim, and Theo at different times during
the
day. It turned out that Jason made it, and Steven and Chad, too.
We
played Hard Truck 2, a truck racing and trucking simulator. We
also
got some pizza and went to FunWerks. I owned the DDR and got a
1295
combo on 4 songs. That's the heat. The real showdown was
Steven
vs. Chad at air hockey. Jason & I shut him out, but Chad was
about
to own Steven. Steven won, though. It was 7-6 in the end. Anyway, I'll have a July page up with some new features. I gotta add on progressively, and then I'll have a SUPERPAGE! Plus...I got my final grades for Summer Session I: Current Semester Grades for FRANKLIN, STERLING CHRISTIAN Sum 1, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...and my plans for those courses worked out very well! Jer. 29:11 & Rom. 8:28-29. NIIICE! Anyway, June was hot...literally. I'm glad we put in an air conditioner in this room. As always, God bless, and drive safely...it's the most dangerous thing non-smoking humans typically do! (06.28.03) I found this pretty amusing: K: my mum wants to get a dj for my sweet 16 party im like he has to be as hott as sterling K: lol K: she's like will someone a lil less hotter work? K: i said NO! Man...that DJ must be really ugly then! I brainstormed last night on ideas while Glen (or Glenjamin for short) hogged my laptop and played Neveron. I have 4 ideas for contests. I'll probably implement 2 of them very soon. One is the Web Story contest, and the other is the Rico the Mouse contest. Stay tuned for details! I have some more ideas for leagues, as well. The Bible Scavenger Hunt League will probably come either next or after the Stock Market League. I'll plan to have some more sets of Pictorial History soon, as well as have a DJ Sterf Records site featuring the other 'artists' if you can give them that much credit! Last night, I put out some fairly old bananas for the raccoons to eat. This time, however, I loaded a digital camera with batteries and put the bananas in a strategic location where I could hide and take pictures of the tasty 'coons. So a raccoon comes up and starts to eat. I take a picture, but the flash goes off even though I don't want flash. The raccoon looked up all alarmed and I hid, so he kept on eating. He started to associate the flash with the camera, so whenever he saw me, he was fine, but when I pulled out the camera, he'd duck his ears down and scamper under a bench on the deck! Finally, I figured out how to turn off the flash. The raccoon got comfortable with that after a few tentative looks at the camera. I got some really neat raccoon pictures up on the Animals page now (Deck Animals), and the raccoon was just chillin'. There was one really good picture with a flash, though. The raccoon was searching for more food...raccoon style, so he started leaning against the window and looking in the house for more food options. I got a picture of him just coming down from leaning on the window. Go take a look for yourself! It was funny, too...Glen started freakin' out at me like DUDE! You shouldn't feed wild animals! I thought of his wild bird feeder at home...I chuckled. Awww maaaayunn (That's how Glen says it). (06.27.03) Finally DONE! I get four full days off, but two of them are Saturday and Sunday. I did drop Bowling for Second Summer session, but I will plan to bowl some anyway this summer. At AMF Lanes, they have $1.25 games every Monday before 5 pm. Sure beats $4.00 a game at Buffaloe Lanes! Yesterday was Steven's birthday, and I think Jason Matthews' mom's, too. Another Jason, Felege, had a birthday on the 25th, and one friend Ryan had a birthday a little while ago, too. Happy BIRFDAY. In commemoration of Steven's birthday, I called him up after my Psychology exam and met him at the Food Court for lunch. I paid, so he got some free Sbarro, but then he went to get some frozen yogurt...that's over the line! I made HIM pay that one...well...he wanted to give my wallet a break, too, so...THERE! Later on, we'd see the first of the NBA Draft. Surprise, surprise...LeBron went first. Then we both had to study for Friday's exams. Ok, I'm back...Glen just called...again. We found out that Cary has nothing to do for people under the age of 40. I totally owned the two exams about equally in terms of owningness. There was some serious ownage going on at NC State on Thursday and Friday. I owned them so much, I could have taken them home! Here are some more test expressions! I combined some yo momma jokes with those, too. Anyway, expect a lot of new things and updates on the site. After I'm done with that, it's time to submit to Cool Site of the Day! God bless, all, and remember the needy. (06.25.03) Before the National Education Board executives actually went to school, they had the slogan, "Be Cool, Stay in School!" After they actually did go to school, though, they came up with the slogan, "School Sucks, Drop Out!" Nah, not really, but that's sure how I feel right now. Two more exams in the next two days. Then I start two new classes in four days after that! How fun is that?! I may be too ambitious, but I'll be a Senior...a full year ahead, by Fall. I'm planning on dropping bowling and taking Sociology of the Family instead. I need to start to think about issues like that, so I may as well take a course on it. I can always take other courses Credit Only if I want to take them just for laughs. Psychology turned out to be really interesting...for the most part. Freud was a perverted crack-smoker...literally...but the rest of it was interesting. Religions of the World was also an interesting course. Instead of learning everything that's wrong with other religions, I actually learned what each religion believed. I think that it's a definite weak point of the church today...education on pure apologetics. People can start arguments with others about what they're wrong about, but not conversations. Instead of arguing, find common ground and work from there. In the end, whether or not the person believes and accepts that Jesus is the Son of God and was sacrificed for our sins will matter. True, though, there is a place for "unbiased" religious education, but there's also a definite place for evangelism. Monday, I totally vegged out. I went bowling with Ken & Steven, came back home, Chris hooked up a network cable and played Outlaws with Chad on another computer, we went out for some Pizza, and then Cliff met us at FunWerks to play and watch some DDR. Then, Chad and I came up with some clever Yo Momma jokes. We'll probably do it again next Monday after I'm done with the first summer session. Anyway, I gotta read some more for my Psychology Final tomorrow, so I'm going to end this journal. God bless, and have a great day! I plan to add more frequent journals to end this month. (06.19.03) I've honestly been out of it lately. I had two tests on the same day, so I spent double the cram time the day before. It didn't help. I also had to endure 3 hours of experiments yesterday and today on top of the 3 hours of monotonous lecture because of a Psychology requirement. Yesterday, I went with Chris to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). If you didn't know already, I'm a "dance hero" (hahahahaha). I play Maniac/Heavy level until my legs fall off. Best I've done in a row is something like 860 on Maniac. I don't do nonstop mode much, though, so I would like to try it again, and I know I could own anything Standard, Light, or Beginner levels. I've also been playing some NBA Live 2001 to ease the stress lately. I have a bunch of pictures up on this page right here: NBA LIVE 2001 HEAT. Hope you enjoy the pictures. I have some people that I know in the game as custom players (and they usually look a lot like the person), so if you see yourself, don't be too surprised. I got back my two tests today. I got a 94 on the Judaism/Christianity test. I got all the Bible questions right, but some of the secular movements within Judaism as of late tripped me up. I got Emil Fackenheim and Elie Wiesel mixed up on one of the questions, missed a question on the relationship between Zionism and the Reform movement, and a few more. My essay on Amos owned, so I got a perfect score on the essay. I also continued my perfect score in Psychology with a third 100 test grade. That's the heat. All I need is an 83 on the final exam to keep an A+. Hah! I also found out today that my Religions of the World teacher went to a Divinity School and was outside a jail witnessing when one of her friends was imprisoned for it. Coulda fooled me! Anyway, I'm out, so God bless, all, and tell some friends about the site. On a final note, the DJ Sterf CD will be available to order once I fully update the Store! (06.11.03) I've been working hard at cramming this week, and it's been paying off! I got a 96 on the last Religions of the World test, and a 100 on the 2nd Psychology test! Praise God for the option to procrastinate! Yee haw! Give me 5 good hours and I'm set for any test! I went bowling with Steven on Monday. I picked up a 16-pound 'house ball' (the lane owns it) and bowled with it. It looked as if somebody took a bite out of it, though. Maybe that's the in-thing now...biting bowling balls to prove your manliness. Away with the beer, bring out the BOWLING BALLS. I'm working on these new features right now: Calendar Store ...and Surveys. Anyway, I'm in one of those non-typing moods. It's about 87 degrees in this room. I wish my dad would own up and buy a central air conditioning system. Oh, well... Have a good day & God bless. (06.04.03) Round One of tests is over for this summer session. I ended up with a 100 on that Psychology exam (it was a 96, but he threw out two questions, so that brought me up to 100). All I need now to reach my goals is a 92.8 in Religions of the World, and a 91.5 in Psychology. I just have to be disciplined about it.
Today, a missionary from China that my family has known a while is coming over to visit. He will be here shortly, so I have to hurry up on this journal entry and study before he arrives! I have updated Guess the Weather League up to day 2. Registration is open until tomorrow night, so if you want to sign up, sign up now! Anyway, yeah...God bless, and I'll write again later. (06.02.03) A new month brings me an air of psychological freshness. Each day is 'just another day', but it seems brand new if you are in the mood for seeing it that way. It's interesting how people don't see things from a 70-year perspective. If life were guaranteed day-by-day for 70 years, our goals perhaps would be geared toward life-long achievement. That would probably get mentally-tiring, though. After 35 long years at it, you're half-way done with life...and half-way done with your 70-year goal. Plus, 70 years and then death would be guaranteed. Life would seem a lot less like a blessing and gift than a cheap bowling shoe rental!
Summer courses are going well. I got my first test back in Religions of the World (93.75, A). We first studied Hinduism, and now we're on Buddhism. It's still interesting how there are sects within both Hinduism and Buddhism who separated into a monotheistic group with some ideas in common with Christianity. However, within those groups' tenets, Jesus is not seen as the Son of God, and His Sacrifice (Crucifixion) & Resurrection aren't given much merit.
My Psychology test was the opposite of impossible, and I expect at least a 96 when I get it back tomorrow. Anything less...would be uncivilized ('impossible' could also be used there). It's an interesting course, but the teacher promotes evolutionary theories in the class with evidence that don't necessarily prove anything (and the class wasn't buying it, either...thankfully). 1) For example, the teacher brought up a scenario that was evidence for the 'Evolutionary Theory of Sleep'. There was a group of birds somewhere that flocked together to sleep. The birds in the middle slept with both eyes closed, but the ones on the outside slept with one eye open. 2) Another example was given.... A boy working on a huge science fair project stayed up for 11 days straight, proving that we CAN go without sleep and probably 'learned' to sleep to protect us from predators of the night by evolution. For number 1: The birds on the outside were serving as protectors of the flock. More risk was at stake for them than the others, so they kept one eye open and were alert to any danger. I don't see the evidence. I believe that God gave birds the brains enough to organize and protect themselves in harsh environments and circumstances. If these birds rotated around, they would end up sometimes protecting and sometimes all-out sleeping. There aren't any animals that habitually go without sleep, and it's no surprise that humans need sleep as well. For number 2: The argument was that if he can go 11 days without sleep, he must not need it at all. What did he do right after he had his 'insomniathon'? He went to sleep! An example brought up by another lady in our class was food starvation. If we can go for days without food, we must have never eaten in past times. After a fast or time of starvation, hunger pangs can be severe. We want to eat and want to sleep. I believe God put food to fuel our bodies for our optimal enjoyment of life, and sleep to relax and repair us for the same purpose. ...and also about number 2: If sleep was an evolved mechanism to protect us from night predators, why do some people take graveyard shifts and sleep in the afternoon hours? Maybe they have to watch out for those evil Robins and Blue Jays, who are notorious for killing people by pecking their eyes out in broad daylight! Anyway, the first 4 chapters of our Psychology book talked about how tentative Psychology was since it is only about 120 years old as a 'science'. Why is it now so firm on the evolutionary theories? Theories are supposed to be falsifiable!
If you didn't notice from the intro to the page, I passed the WKNC exam, so I can get a commercial license from the FCC now. That's pretty nifty! If you want to view the journal entries for May, click the link below. God bless! View Entries for May, 2003 |
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