My Final Story Story...

So I find myself once again working on an article for a news writing class. This time around though, I am writing the post to hopefully help cultivate my ideas as to what exactly my article will be on. As this article is my final story, and worth a good deal of points, I decided it should be a good story.

When I originally began thinking about a topic for my article I wanted to do something pertinent to me; something I could relate to. So I started thinking... and the one big thing in my life that for some reason I always think about is my lack of a serious relationship. Then I thought, "Hey, I have four roommates that are all getting married, what have I done wrong?" This cultivated a little more and eventually, with the help of my TA Bonnie, I decided I would write on the "stresses and challenges students face while trying to find their eternal companion while still focusing on school." Kinda lame, I know. My real teacher thought so too, and suggested that I find some sort of "trend story" to help my story along.

This now leads me to the good part. I have come across several articles on the internet dealing with the unspoken, though not in all cases, power struggle between men and women. Some of the articles focused on reasons why women are suspicious of relationships, and others on how women, well I guess men too, can always be on guard for trouble in their marriages. I found it interesting that some of the articles went back to women always taking extra precautions to be sure she wouldn't be left empty handed in the end...if and when there was one.

I think women, in many ways, still have the mind set that men are able to do anything to them and control their life if they wanted to. Now granted, there are many, many of my fellow gender that are of a completely different opinion, but I am just speaking (er, well writing) about what I have observed and how I feel personally. I think that we are often skeptical about men having "hidden agendas" in relationships and are skeptical about how honest they are always being. I know that is a fear I try to keep locked in the back of my mind.

I have often times found myself worrying about what it would be like to be in a serious relationship and what kind of power struggle I would have. And I think going along with that I worry about how two completely different people with completely different brains can find a balance between love, and friendship, and seriousness, and so many other things that will last through all time and eternity.

Whenever I think about finding that special someone and getting married, I always get this nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach. I hope with all my heart that one day I will find that someone that will always love me and treasure me... but even with all that hope there are those "what ifs...". I know that there have got to be other women, oh and I am sure there are men as well, that have those same thoughts.

I know that I have gone back and forth and all around and that this post probably does not make any sense. But I feel that it has done a good job of fulfilling it's purpose: which was to help me get all my scattered thoughts down and decide what I wanted to write my article on.

And with that I have come to a conclusion, I think. I am becoming more confident in this idea as I go along, so I hope it turns out well. What are the fears of young people in regards to getting married and what kind of an affect does it have on relationships? I feel like that is kinda broad, but I also feel that it leaves a lot of room for potential.

Well, wish me luck, and I am sure I will be back in a couple weeks to let you know how the story ended...

A Tuesday Night in the WILK

It has been ages since I have written! And with that I am pretty sure I have lost the few readers I possibly ever had. But, here I am again and we'll see how long my posting lasts this time around.

This semester I am in a couple different news writing classes, and for one of them we were asked to go on a "road trip" and then blog about it. So for my road trip I ventured all the way over the the Wilkinson Student Center and entered the wonderful world of BYU dance club night. When I say club, I mean a student club with a president and other officers.



So I started off my night in the main ballroom with the Swing Kids club. I didn't stay long and dance there, but I did talk to the president and get a good quote or two for my story.

After the Swing Kids I watched Club Style, the hip-hop club, for a little while. They had an awesome routine to "4 Minutes" by Madonna and Justin Timberlake that they were dancing to. That was a lot of fun. A little later the more experienced dancers were doing a routine to another song that had some awesome moves in it.

When Club Style was done, the Country Dance Club came in. For this club I actually stayed and dance for a good while. I took a country-western dance class semester and loved it, so I felt a little at-home. I learned some awesome new moves and met some fun people.

After getting all nasty and sweaty country dancing, I left there to go check out the last couple clubs that were meeting. I first found the Salsa Club, and let me tell you, them kids can dance! There were some fantastic salsa dancers that I really enjoyed watching. With our racially diverse campus there were a lot of true-blood Latinos there that really added some spice to their salsa... bad joke, I know.

Back in the main ballroom the Social Dance Club members were doing some gorgeous Waltz dancing. They weren't dressed up or anything, yet they still looked so elegant.

As I was leaving, I stumbled upon a group hidden back in another room: the Breakdance club. Those kids were doing some awesome breakdancing moves. A couple guys even had helmets that they were using to practice spinning on their heads. There were a lot of people there that looked like they were just having fun learning new moves and perfecting the ones they do know.

All-in-all I really enjoyed the night. If you happen to be walking around BYU on a Tuesday night you should stop by the WILK and take a look at some of the great dancers BYU has to offer.