Research Ideas

Broad Idea:
Video Games


What's Involved?
Development
Campaign
Multiplayer
Graphics
Ratings
Console or P.C.


Narrower Idea:
Campaigns


What's Involved?
Good plot
Replay value
Easter eggs
Difficulty


Question:
Are video games today bought for their multiplayer more than their campaign?


Points of interest:
Call of Duty
EA Sports
Single player games

List of Things I am Passionate About

Hockey
Music
Books
Sports
Friends
Video Games
Game of Thrones
Breaking Bad
Space
South Park
Calvin and Hobbes
Archer
The Wheel of Time
Warhammer 40k
Guns
My dog
My life goals
Singing
Acting
Meeting new people
Work
Cooking
Eating
Siracha
Black holes
Alien life
Adventuring
Exploration of the Universe
Working out
Not writing lists

Improvement: The Sequal

After peer review, I received new insight on my paper. Most of it was what I already knew. What piqued my interest was how the reviewer said that I had to many commas. I have always been encouraged to use commas when I think they should belong. Mainly, because there are so many grammar laws about them that it is easy to forget one or five of them. But now my roommate wants me to hurry up so I have to summarize quick. The reviewer like the way I set up the narrative and how it progresses while I age.

Improvement: the Sequal

Improvement

I really need to work on my paper. So far, I have spent roughly forty-five minutes actually typing while the rest has been procrastination. The area I need to improve on the most in continuity. And by that, I mean does this paragraph fit here after this one or should I move it to the end? For some insane reason, I am trying not to use the word "is" in the paper. I blame my eighth grade English teacher for this. Whenever we wrote a paper for her, she would take that time to rant about how her college English teacher would deduct a letter grade for every "is" he found in their papers. I guess I am trying to take this as some sort of personal challenge. I have no idea why. It infuriates me.

Out of Place

We all have felt out of place before. Whether we were with friends or strangers, at a sporting event we like or a musical, even just hanging out by ourselves. It is a strange feeling to be out of place. For example, I enrolled in a Scandinavian Studies class because it was four credits and it fit into my schedule. When I arrived on the first day, I immediately felt out of place. It was not that I was uninterested in the subject (because I was), it was that I felt no connection with any of the students. I consider myself to be an athletic person with a variety of interests, the main one being sports. More specifically, hockey. Unfortunately, I dropped that class after the first day and was unable to experience the other students who enrolled in the class. And I use the only reason I use the term "students" is because they were not the instructor. Half the class could have been my father. Needless to say, I felt out of place. So I fixed it by dropping the class and picking up another because that is what I do. When I have a problem or I feel out of place, I either fix it or fake it until I feel content.

Tehcnology

Technology is a wonderful thing in today's society because it has brought people together. We can now talk to people around the world as if they where standing not two feet from us. We can chat with whomever, whenever, and however we want. But, this is only on a broad scale. On a smaller scale, we have become more disconnected then we have in ages past. Too many people nowadays lack the social skills they need that help them in everyday situations from introducing yourself to realizing when you should leave. Since technology has become so rampant in our society, we chalk this awkward moments to people just being awkward, not realizing that they just lack the social skills that can only be gained by face to face interaction between strangers.

Decisions

There are plenty of tough decisions that I have already made and there will be plenty of more that I will have to make. The toughest decision I have ever made, and one that I still regret to this day, was going to college. At the end of high school, I could have done any of a short list of things for my future. The first and foremost was to go play junior hockey. Hockey is my life and my passion. I had the ability, but not the time nor the money. But it would have been terrific to lace up and step out onto the ice once more. The stakes were always high, but then again, I like it that way. Much easier to make a final decision. To go pursuit my dream or to pursuit a college life. In the end, I chose Mankato State. If I could do it differently, I would have. But the past is the past. Sometimes, I wonder where would I be if I had changed this one decision. But then I realize that I like were I am now. The friends I have today would have no knowledge of me if I had changed this decision. Hell, I am damn sure I would not be writing so many freaking essays for this class.

Character

Character defines what kind of person you are. It can be built through life lessons or by hanging out with friends. My character sometimes confuses me. I guess it is because I am an indecisive person, but I am not certain quite yet. I am loyal to my friends and ruthless to those I dislike. I seem to be able to get through troubling times easier than others, but I chalk that up to my sense of humor. I can joke about anything. ANYTHING. You give me a good joke about dead babies and I will give you three about necrophilia. But it seams hard to stay on the topic of character when my mind is jumping to more important topics than a free write for a writing intensive class, which is literally everything else I can think of.