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Do you like seafood?! Cause I do! Seafood is my weakness and an awesome place to get some is a spot called the Boiling Crab. The food there is consistently fresh and the prices are awesome. Okay so here’s how it works, you choose the type of seafood you want to eat; they’ve got crabs galore, shrimp, crawfish, clams, and oysters. Then you decide just how hungry you are because you order by the pound. Seasoning comes next. My personal favorite is the Rajun Cajun but if that doesn’t tickle your fancy they’ve also got lemon pepper and garlic butter. For you indecisive folks go for the whole sha-bang. Minutes after your order goes in, a server will come by your table carrying a metal bucket… yes a bucket. He or she will pull out of said bucket a clear plastic bag filled with whatever you ordered and plop it down onto your wax paper covered table. Break open the bag and have at it. Watch out for the steam though! By the way, they don’t do utensils. If you aren’t into getting messy they also offer tamer dishes like seafood gumbo over rice (fork included) or regular old fish and chips. Bomb fish and chips! Five fillets of fresh catfish and a side of Cajun fries that’ll only set you back $8. The atmosphere is chill, plenty of flat screen t.v.’s mounted on the walls broadcasting any sporting events taking place at the moment and despite the high volume of customers the staff is always friendly and attentive. The one problem about Boiling Crab though is despite having five or six locations; the closest one is in Alhambra. But if you happen to be going in that direction, or are down for the drive, definitely hit it up. Bring some friends, throw on your bib, roll up your sleeves and dig in! Oh, and bring a sharpie..

FFN .. FTW!

    One of the things that reading Fast Food Nation has prompted me to do is spread the word. Everytime I read a crazy fact or got through a gross story, I would feel the urge to tell a friend.. or group of friends. My intention was only to make the people around me aware of the things I learned but was previously oblivious to. This back fired on me one night while my friends and I were hanging around talking. I had just finished reading 'What's in the Meat' and after telling them about what I read, they decided that we should play a game in which whomever lost the game would have to eat a hot dog. Needless to say, I ended up the loser in more ways than one. I've been a fan of hot dogs but after having just read that section, it made the hot dog so much harder to swallow..literally.
    Because fast food already isn't something I'm a fan of, that aspect of  book hasn't really had an affect on me. I think the end of the book, reading about the meat-packing industry, is what hit home. Although I don't eat tons of meat, I do enjoy a burger every once in a while. Reading about the practices in the industry has made me sick to my stomach. Now I'm faced with the dilemma of how I can still continue to consume meat products without taking into consideration all the things I've learned reading the book. I know I won't become a vegetarian, so as of now, the only thing I've found is to come up with is to buy grass-fed free-range WAY MORE EXPENSIVE beef and chicken. Unfortunately not everyone has that option, so I strongly feel that it is up to the government and those greedy politicians to stop operating with their own interest in mind and start doing what they promised to do when they took office which is do whatever was in the best interest of the American people. The United States one of the most powerful countries on the planet and if other countries can implement changes to improve the practices of their meat-packing industry, why can't we?!

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On the subject of college as a whole, I’ve figured out that if you don’t want to be here, you’re better off staying away. For a while, I was only going to school because I was obligated to. My parents put pressure on me to go despite the fact that I had no desire to be there and no idea what I wanted to go to school for. I went only to please them and this of course resulted in less than desirable grades. It’s something that I have to deal with now that I’ve got my head on straight and know what I want to accomplish. College is tough enough and putting roadblocks up for yourself makes things much harder.  

This semester of school so far hasn’t been too bad; I enjoy my professors, my classmates, and the classes I’m taking. I’ve always heard professors tell their students to make friends with one another and exchange phone numbers but it was never something I did because I didn’t think it would be of any benefit to me. I gave that a shot and found that it really does help. I have people I can contact when I’m not sure about something going on in class and when they call me with questions its an opportunity for me to review class material also. Coming to realize that professors are just regular people who happen to teach has made things a lot easier as well. Before, I was always kind of afraid to talk to professors because I was really intimidated by them. Now that I’ve stopped kind of putting them on some pedestal, they’ve become more approachable. Because I work full-time, I’m not a full time student, the workload isn’t terrible, but finding a way to balance everything has been a bit of a challenge for me.

One problem I have is my tendency to procrastinate. My professors give me plenty of time to work on assignments but I always find myself doing them at the last minute. Although I do wait until the last minute to get my assignments done I have decent grades in my classes and seeing that made me realize that taking more time to do my work will result in higher scores and ultimately very good grades. This is something that I struggle with on a regular basis and is something that I have to get over soon. College only gets harder and developing some discipline when it comes to school work will make things easier in the long run.