My conclusive thoughts....

At the beginning of this blog process I believed my blog would have a very distinct theme of education and its influence in my everyday life. Yet, as I began to free write my life observations each week, I learned my everyday life experience influences my education and academic learning processing more than I had anticipated. My blog began to focus on simple observations and conclusions I had drawn from the dealings of a university student. I will be honest in saying my ideas regarding higher education and its participants have changed and mostly not for the better. The majority of my blog is dedicated to life experiences and observations that I have found puzzling and/or frustrating. Despite my frustrations concerning higher education, the blog process has actually been an educational process by allowing me to explore my irritations through text. After reading through my blog I realized I consistently attempted to teach my audience a lesson. These lessons range from the college survival guide (panties are a must), to food remaining a staple in folkloric culture (green St. Patty's beer), to analyzing a step by step process for finding the perfect bridesmaid dress (while avoid the measuring tape of a strange woman). Education remained a theme throughout my blog, yet the educational life experience of a normal routine became more of the focus. The blog process was only irritating, because I am the author and I could not find a way to write purely based in acadamia. An academic education is also important, but through this blog I have learned and shared that it is the everyday lessons learned that truly define a person and his/her ideology and personality. I hope my audience will also come to this conclusion by reading through my daily observations and experiences.

Happy reading,
Nikki

It has come to my attention...

It has come to my attention that the school semester is almost over. While, I am so heartbroken to sleep in during the weekday and save on gas money from a lack of commuting twenty-five minuets across town, I think I will somehow manage to survive without class this summer. I do not really have much planned, well, except that my boyfriend and I are going to the GREENDAY AND AFI CONCERT in Phoenix. I am not going to lie when I say I am beyond excited to see A Fire Inside (AFI) again. I really wanted to see Lady GaGa in concert this summer, but tickets were ridiculously overpriced. I am paying one hundred twenty dollars to see Greenday and AFI. Our two seats are center stage and about twenty rows back from the stage. Tickets to see Lady Gaga at stage left and one hundred rows after the pit were on-hundred eighty seven dollars apiece.

Ticket prices are ridiculous now-a-days. I remember, back when I was a youngster a whole four years ago, my friends and I paid forty bucks to attend an all day festival. A Ticket for the three day Cochella Festival in California was priced at about six-hundred bucks this year. Six hundred bucks, not including the two-hundred camping permit and seventy dollar parking permit oh and food and water, but no one really needs any of that when you have Jay-Z smoking out his audience.

I am beginning to wonder where this money does. I know for a fact touring artists do not usually receive a huge portion of ticket sales, because most artists receive about ten percent of merchandise and ticket profits. This ten percent is to be split up amongst the band and.or group members. I know it costs a lot to transfer stage equipment and provide a salary for roadies and merchandise sales associates, but I hardly believe that justifies one-hundred and eighty seven dollar nose bleed seats.
I honestly believe most of the profit is given to the record and/or management executives who copyright the creative aspect of the artist and show. Which is a shame, because this means music and art are purely generated for profit.

--Nikki