Blog 4: My short story

There were four girls that were all teen mothers and all of them have problems. One of the girls named Catelyn had her daughter and had to give the daughter up for adoption. That is something she will never get  over. Her and her boyfriend are having problems because he didn't want to give their daughter up but they had to do what was best for the baby. Catelyn is just  graduating from high school and wants to be a Nurse but doesn't know what school she should go to because she wants to fight to get her daughter back but doesn't know if she can go to a big school while raising her daughter.
          There's another girl named Amber and she's all messed up. This girl dropped out of high school when she really didn't have to but thought she had to in order to be able to raise her daughter. Dropping out of high school means getting a job but her and her boyfriend are jobless.
          Another one of the teen mothers name is Maci and she is actually not doing so bad except chosing the wrong father as her sons dad, which most young girls do. They thought they were going to be together forever but once she had the baby their relationship took another turn and they split up. Now they both have a new boyfriend and girlfriend and Maci is trying to fight to get child support from him. She works full time and goes to a community college full time, while being a mother.
           Last but not least is a girl named Farrah and she and her mother are always fighting and when I say fighting I mean really fist fighting. Her daughters father isn't in her life so she is really a single mom. She was trying for the longest to get out of her mothers house and get her own but needed more money. She is also a student at a community college but loved school and wish she could have gone to a better college but had to do what she had to do for her daughter.



          The is a reenactment of a MTV series called Teen Mom which is my primary source. In this short story I made a couple of details up but for the most part this is all the truth. The point in this is to show how MTV perceives teenage mothers. They see them as drop outs and young moms who are struggling and have all types of relationship problems whether it's with their men or family. In this show you never here these girls talk about what they want to be and what college they really want or wanted to go to.
          All this series shows is all drama and bad things to being a mother but what about the good things. What about all the opportunities that a lot of big universities have for teen mothers like OSU? Why don't MTV or any T.V station for that matter motivate these girls to go to big colleges and pursue their dreams with their babies. Instead they make T.V series about their relationships and drama instead of college and all the choices they have. Nothing was really lost in this reenactment but a lot was actually brought to my forefront like me realizing how MTV views teenage mothers.

Blog 3

Only being the third/fourth week in school I feel that this English 110 community is really coming together. Maybe because I’m such an open person I feel pretty comfortable expressing myself in this class, especially on the blogs. I think that the blogs are definitely a good way for the students to come together and get to know one another a little better. I really do think that I fit perfect into this class. I think I fit because this class is so diverse and I am very different so I like it. Even though I don’t know anyone in the class it doesn’t seem like it would be so hard to make friends, and these blogs are a good way.

            Reading almost everyone’s blogs I see once again how different everyone is and I enjoy reading everyone’s opinions. One blog I wrote on was agreeing with corn pone opinions and this person made a really good argument why he agreed with it, I also agree with corn pone opinions and that is why I loved that blog. Another one I read was about a secret society where face musicians who are 27 kill themselves. That was very interesting and weird but luckily the student who wrote about it is not a part of this society. I found out a lot already about some of my fellow classmates. It was very interesting reading them and once again this is a good way to get everyone to communicate and get to know each other.  

Blog Two

Like Mark Twain, I also believe that no one has an original opinion. I believe we may think that we are coming up with something original but in reality it has more than likely already been said or thought of before. I think that everything we say we already heard before once in our lives and we feel that we are coming up with that idea but really we are not. So I would have to say that I support Corn Pone Opinions.

            When someone has an opinion that sounds original usually others are surprised and looks’ at that person with some odd expression on their face. In my community it’s okay to be different and to sound different because that’s what my community is all about. It may be out of norms to some people because it might sound weird but once again I feel that person may have heard that opinion before but just doesn’t remember. For example, as Twain talks about fashion, fashion today, everyone thinks they are being original with leggings, leg warmers, the flat baby doll shoes and etc. but really they are just bringing back the fashions from the 70’s and 80’s. It’s just another case of someone thinking there style and opinions are theirs but really they are just repeating someone else’s, whether it’s from hundreds of years ago or now. So I do believe in Corn Pone Opinions.

Nickayla's Secret

              The secret society that I am apart of here at Ohio State is called ACCESS. ACCESS a secret society of the mothers here on campus that get together once a week and have discussions and guess speakers. This is a society to help one another bond relationships because we all understand one another because we are all mothers and full time students here at the university. There are a lot of perks to being in this society like priority scheduling, extra hours a week for childcare in case we have other things to take care of, book scholarships for the top ten GPA’s each quarter and much more. Being in this society I have built a lot of friendships with others and we set play dates with our children and just bond.

            Through this society called access I am also apart of another society called H.O.M.E (Helping Our Mother’s Education) and this society is also for the mothers at Ohio State. We get together twice a quarter and do fun activities like game night, we go to the mall, we go out to eat and much more. This society is built through the ACCESS society but this is more of the fun part to it. The part where we can actually mingle with one another while ACCESS is the business part of it where speakers come in every week to talk about different subjects as health, sex and many more topics.

            First coming into Ohio State I was very scared and nervous because I really didn’t know anyone and I am not from Columbus so me and my son was new to the city. When I first attended these programs that I am apart of I thought no one would want to make new friends or get to know one another at all but I was completely wrong. Being a part of these societies was the best thing that I’ve done on this campus so far. I am now friends with so many of the girls and my son now has a lot of new little buddies. I don’t feel so alone anymore and like an outcast here on this campus. This is only my first year and I feel that I have made friendships to last me a lifetime.

            In the end, I love that I am a apart of a secret society called ACCESS which is a society for the mothers here on campus and we meet every Tuesday, but of course we meet outside of the program because a lot of us are now close friends. Through the ACCESS society I have also been a part of the H.O.M.E society which is also for mothers and it’s the fun part of ACCESS where ACCESS is the business part. I have been very lucky to meet people who is going through situations that I am or ones that have before. Also ones that have children around my son’s age so now he has a lot of friends to play with and get to know. These are definitely friendships to last a lifetime.