Dear Next Year’s freshman,
This is a letter that I am writing to inform and to encourage you in everything that you do especially during your freshman year. During my 1st semester I faced many obstacles that made me feel like the world was coming down on me. In all of this I found myself putting things off to the side and not being able to complete the work that needed to be done till the day it was due. In doing this I would take time out of other class periods and try to finish what needed to be done which caused me to get behind in that class. In all this the main thing to learn was NOT to PROCASTINATE. Yes, you might say that putting something’s off to the side won’t hurt you but it will when the next day you have something due and you completely forget about both of them, and when you remember both of the assignments go down as 60s. Now think how your progress report would look like with 12 assignments ranging from 80 to 100 with two 60s big as day underneath. –Not so nice is it. You have to stay on top of your game or else you will be benched (recovery). During my semester of one of my very good friends dropped out of school because they couldn’t take the load. I want to prevent that from ever happening again, in order to succeed in life you need a High School Diploma and need to be in progress of a College Diploma to succeed in today’s society. Don’t believe me? Okay. McDonald’s won’t even hire you if you don’t have a high school diploma or either in progress of one. I’m just being real you can NOT make it in today society without education. We ARE the young people of TODAY and don’t ever let anything or anyone tell you different. Good luck, be prepared, have FAITH, and stay positive.
Sincerely,
Katrina J. Blanks
Katrina J. Blanks
P.S. - If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to your mountain, "MOVE!" and it WILL move... and NOTHING will be impossible for YOU! - Matthew 17:20

Future

To achieve in this world today one must contain a high school diploma, bachelor degree, and some sort of further education. One of my career goals would be to become an attorney so that after x amount of years I can be an official Judge of District courts. In this I will have had to attain a bachelor in political science pre- law. I realized that I needed education if I didn’t want to live like my mother and so many other women and men in the world. It was had seeing my mother showing her expression of grief over unpaid bills because she did not the educational background like other parents did. I have always known that I was going to college to graduate and then go to a law school that stressed the importance of excellent morals in and out of court. Education plays a major part in my goals because I want to take in all the knowledge that a teacher, professor, even an adult can offer me. I want to be able to refer to a situation that has already been taught to me so I can either improve it or avoid it. Someone’s life has many inputs that only someone of the educational field could have instilled in them. I want to be a powerful black African American that knows how a school system has helped her and isn’t afraid to tell other youth about it. This brings up the next goal of being an inspirational speaker for the youth of this great country. Since we are the youth of today and the fact that we need to stick together and survive under all circumstances. Which includes school, help out one another if you see someone having trouble in their studies besides it makes us all look good and makes us proud of ourselves.

Finals

I'm so ready for the semester to be over. I have never been so eager before. This week happens to be finals so I am studying hard as I can. But somehow I ended up on blog spot doing my last couple of blogs for the semester. Next year, I might keep in touch on here, but it will be very few blogs I have signed up for 18 credit hours...whoo... But believe it or not the finals for my classes aren't even 1/2 of my grade. But back to studying Love Ya'll

My Poems

Since it was You
by Katrina Janeen Blanks
Lately I've been feeling lonely,Missing your touch, voice, and sense of being,The pleasure of your body being close to mine,Giving me a feeling that no other could,\You brightned my day with just one smile,But could this be real,Or something out of the oridnary,The fact it was you who gave me back the air in my lungs,You who made me strong,You who gave me a smile like I was on a McDonald commerical,But since you've been gone how am I supposed to live, breathe, or laugh,Since you was the one who gave me a feeling that no other could.
Copyright © 2009

Role Model

I chose Maya Angelo not only because she is a strong black woman, but because of the trials she faced throughout her childhood. She went through a different setting than I but the story reflects similar emotions. Her mother and father separated, she started to live with her grandmother, and she was raped. Her vow of silence shows that such a tragedy had shut her down. I was not raped, but my father has tried to kill my mother and myself. I was in a place like Maya where it was just my poetry that displayed the emotions that I could not. Silence is not the key to everything, instead it just avoids the present world. Maya taught me that even though as humans we must go through things we must learn to bounce back from it and not let it keep us from our destination. I must stand up for myself in all I do, because if I don't who will!!

FYI

Sorry I haven't been blogging, I have been pounded with papers, projects, traveling, and being deprived of sleep. I guess this is what freshman year is really like. So please forgive me :(

On a lighter note this is to inform about how God will allow certain people to come into your life only for a season and us as humans take it as they are there for a lifetime. During high school there happens to be a certain crowd that you hang around with, you have a certain umph about you, and your not an adult yet. As you mature more and find a greater understanding you find out that everything that glitters ain't gold and that the grass on the other side went through a drought just like yours. Your friends are always placed into a tree format you have your leaves that drift away every time a wind blows by or they might even stick on till fall comes and it starts to get cold, you have your branches that grow with you but break off as soon as some pressure is applied to them, then you have your roots who never leave and supports you all year or life long, and you are the trunk or the body of the tree yes you may be cut down but you will still have your roots to help keep you nourished.

Back On Campus

Well now I'm back at NCCU. It felt so good to be home, to catch up with JTH Alumni, see my Nana, and get some real sleep in a real bed. I started my break off by helping my Nana cut collards and cook them, make homemade potato salad, snap beans and corn, etc.. Then my best friend came by and we did some brief talking and then she went on her way back home. Wed. I went and got my hair re-cut, highlight, and dyed. I really liked it, I just knew I was TOO CUTE!!! My brother Taurus came in from DC and he picked up my Uncle from Fayetteville. Then on thanksgiving I ate my favorite, chitterlings hot sauce and rice, OMG!!! I went to heaven... Then I went cross the bridge to Bladen County to see my daddy and the rest of the family...can you say grilled deer meat OMG!!! I left there full with the biggest smile on my face. Friday I was woke up 4 am to go and spend all the money I had earned on Thanksgiving Day...But I was able to get 2 pairs of Coach shoes, some pants, shirts, and a new pocketbook. I didnt get to go out this time I was home but next time we're gonna make up for this one.