Possible Concept 4

I had a  dream last night that lead me to one more concept. Concept number 4 would be classes, at already current gyms, that are highly specialized towards a certain sport. Okay, sounds a lot like the other concepts but it's not. Anyone would be able to take this class. If you were planning on one day playing that sport, or you wanted to try something new, then this concept would give them that option. Everything would be highly specialized for a certain sport, be a very challenging class, and incorporate some of the hardest exercises to increase speed time and play time and if people who don't play that sport feel uncomfortable or feel that they can't finish the course, they can receive a full refund. However, if they choose to go that option, they will not be allowed to try out another specialized class.

Specialized Gyms

Is it safe to say that gyms are starting to gear towards a highly specialized sport? CrossFit is the prime example of this. CrossFit became a popular trend about six months ago and now everyone you speak to knows someone who does CrossFit. Gyms are now adding specialized classes just for this market. 
If this is the case, wouldn't one agree that gyms could also specialize in sports. By this I mean highly specialized training programs specific to a sport. This would be a target with high schoolers who are looking to receive a scholarship or even become a professional or Olympic player. They would have training programs to better themselves within their sport. 

Doesn't everyone aspire to live in a home like the one above? Will they risk bankrupcy to live in the above house just to say the own it? What's the repercussions if one does chose to live until bankrupcy in such a way? Real Estate Investors will will buy your house if youcannot afford to live their anymore. They will take over your morgage and pay for it and you'll be free of everything about your dream house.

Some people would see this as a money waster, but investors, they see this as a profit. They can then turn around and sell this house at a bunch of different options as in renting, rent-to-own, or even sell the house at a higher price. They can easily make a profit on the house pictured above with whichever option they do choose to use.

I think real estate investing is a wonderful opportunity and I am really happy our group is going about this and creating it into something brand new and the fact that one of our group members makes money off this is even better. He made this into his career. Lucky him.



Actually, I have a lot to say.

Ernest Hemingway put it correctly when he said "before you quit, try." That's what happens in this world a lot. People quit before they try. With this class in general (innovation and product management) we don't get grade feedback. Now, is this beneficial or is this detrimental? This is obviously up for debate which my professor would actually love. Many will say that it's great, others like myself, absolutely hate it. What's the point of trying when you don't know how well youre performing and how well youre succeeding? We get nothing until our professor goes and uploads the grades on our online gradebook. When I finally get to looking...69%.

We go back to Ernest and his point of quitting. I hadn't had feedback throughout the semester and my performance has showed. But it was too late. Next week is the end of the semester and I am currently sitting with a D in the class and nothing to figure out as to how I got that way. So do I quit or do I try? That's where I stumble. How many more points do we have until the end of the semester? We don't know due to the no grades policy.

I feel like quitting, giving up, letting the grade control the outcome of the class, and ultimately just taking the D because I have no clue what exactly she wanted. Another part of me is a tiger. I want that grade, even if it's a C. I want that grade. Obviously I want a B or even a B+ considering the class is going to be a player in my GPA upon graduation. The question though is do I continue to try. Do I speak to my professor after class, ask her to help, and see what I can do? Or do I act timid and take the grade I rightfully earned even though there was no feedback and nothing to show me I was doing something right or doing something wrong?

It bothers me that this is what college is about. It's about grades. It's about making sure you have the hghest grades and the best GPA. It's detrimental to our creativity and to our actually learning. many college kids learn the material for the exam. They don't need to recall it after the exam, unless it's for the final. So why try? Why not just quit, submit to the professors demands, and get the grade? That's what college has taught me.

Within my five long years here, if I have learned anything, it was that college has stunted my ability to grow and be creative. In fact, I believe that college stunted my creative growth. I am not a creative person and I blame college. I learned to write papers, not based off of what I want, but instead on what other people want; what professors want. I learned to take my ideas and mold them to what the professor might enjoy reading or what I would think the professor will enjoy. I don't care about my own opinions because I want the good grade instead of the creative mindset.

Now I know what you're thinking. What about majors that are to promote creativity but truly the only major that comes close to thatis creative writing. I spend a semester focusing on creative writing to see if that's something I would enjoy. I found that even though they claim to promote creativity, they actually stunt it as well. You write your paper to your own creative personalities and workshop them in class where students can rip you apart and morph your paper into something you've never seen before. It's to the point where it doesn't become your own paper anymore. It becomes a portrait of someone else. You can't even see yourself anymore.

So once again, we come back to our thought provoking author, Mr. Hemingway. We ask him what he believes and he tells us that before we quit, we are supposed to try. My question to every single one of you is what's the point of trying when all we do is get let down and changed into something we are not. 

Real Estate Investors

Okay so this post may be boring to the few people who actually enjoy looking at the two whole blog posts that I wrote. I believe Real Estate Investing can be extremely profitable and produce outcomes. However, I think it's more beneficial to the people with poor credit or people who can't quite afford a home but wants to own one, one day in the future. As a graduating college student, if I didn't have the most amazing boyfriend in the world, I would be out there trying to find a home. I don't have the best credit due to mistakes in my freshmen year (credit cards for everything) but I would have still liked a nice place to call my own. Real Estate agents would have probably laughed in my face but Real Estate Investors would be there to help me through it and eventually I might have been able to call a house, my own. I am proud that we are doing our project on something that is so profitable but also able to help people in the world. People deserve that, to be helped.

White Girl Status



 

       White Girl Status.

 

Luckily, I have been one of the many that have deemed this title, as seen in the photo above. I don't see it as much of a problem but more as a medal of honor. I am a proud white girl. Every white girl has those few essentials. Maybe you're at white girl status and don't even realize it! Here is a list of common white girl status essentials.

1. Yoga Pants and North Face Jackets
1. Yes. This is the first essential because every single white girl does this, except maybe in California because it's hot all year round. Now those yogas are just any old yoga. No way. A white girl insists that their yogas come strictly from Victoria's Secret and no where else. If you even try to fake a North Face jacket, white girls will know. North Face is their own brand and you can't try to duplicate or copy it. Of course, no white girl yogas and north faces are complete without a pair of UGG boots. Can't go wrong with an UGG, unless of course, it's fake. A white girl WILL call you out it.
2. Victoria's Secret
1. No white girl can pass up a Victoria's Secret. It doesn't even matter if you have money or not. Walk in, window shop, and get the hell out. If you have money, or if you're lucky enough to have their credit card, watch out. A common white girl will got ape shit crazy and buy up the entire store, mostly yoga pants and panties.
3. Starbucks Coffee
1. Now it is essential to have Starbucks. If a white girl doesn't get her Starbucks fix, watch out! They will go insane. The longest any white girl can go without Starbucks is two days. They know the menu inside and out and they will know when you messed up and order. I, personally, enjoy an ice soy pumpkin spice latte, which is only available in the fall.
4. Iphones, Ipads, and Imacs
1. Yes. Apple is an essential part of a white girl. The apps are completely endless. They are always in need to be in touch with someone. Iphones are utalized the most. They are taken to the gym, helping white girls everywhere keep in touch with their friends when they should be paying attention in class. Most white girls enjoy taking them tanning so they can take pictures of themselves in a tanning bed. Ipads are also an essential item with a white girl. If your Iphone is out of reach, Ipads make up. You can still utalize imessage and talk to all your friends, and none of your apps are out of reach. Ever. Which leads me to the next topic.
5. Apps Apps Apps
1. Apps are essntial to a white girl. Most of the time you'll see a common white girl in their environment instagramming food and of course, Starbucks. If you didn't instagram it, then it sure as hell didn't happen. Pinterest goes a long way with a white girl. Hours and hours are spent pinning ideas that probably won't ever happen in a million years. Future wedding ideas that won't ever be looked at again, food that's obviously too fat for a white girl to eat, and clothes that the common white girl probably won't ever own. Facebook! Always keeping a white girl in the loop with whose breaking up, whose getting engaged, and who the drunk sloppy white girl is that they saw the weekend before. All Women Stalk. It's just like pinterest, only better. Believe that or not. Lists upon lists of the common white girls' favorite things. They can look from lifestyle changes, to dieting, to weddings, and more! They honestly can't get enough. Then of course they have to share what's on their mind. Where do they do that, you ask?
6. TWITTER!
1. Yes, common white girls love twitter. It's their place of worship. Of course everyone wants to know that you want Starbucks coffee and then obviously everyone needs to know when you got your Starbucks coffee, and then again a picture of it, because if there isn't a photo then it obviously didn't happen. I, for one, post numerous posts on twitter than I am sure no one cares about. I post about food. I post about fitness. I can positively tell you that none of my followers care if there is a video gamer at the gym. However, since I am an average white girl, I have to tell the world anything that's happening. But hey good comes out of twitter too, I found myself a common white boy, that I will soon be marrying.
7. Drunk Pictures
1. If you're confused as to whether or not you're a common white girl, go on facebook and look at your tagged photos. Do you have a lot of photos where youre holding a red solo cup? Or do you have photos where you're at a party and need to show the world that you're there? Then you are probably a common white girl. White girls love to show people where they were, what they were doing, who they were with, and especially that they were drinking and having fun. If you weren't at a party and you were instead playing with your cat while watching Netflix, you probably aren't as white girl as you thought.
8. Taco Bell vs dieting?
1. It's weird since more common white girls are on diets, but all they talk about is taco bell. They are obsessed with that dog food shit. I can't see why. It's garbage. But having a taco in your hand while instagraming does in fact make you a common white girl. However, calories are always on a white girls mind so they most likely will be ordering of the fresco menu where every calorie is labeled by it's cute little name. Yes the grilled chicken taco sounds delightful. I'll take three please!
9. Cardio!
1. If you're at the gym and youre not on the elliptical, youre not a common white girl. The more cardio you have per day, the better. Weights? What are weights? Common white girls are definitely too afraid to be lifting. No need to get bulky now.
10. SEX
1. Yes, this may come as a shocker to most of you (I am immature and laughed at that) but most white girls love talking about sex. They can't help themselves. It's addicting. IF the sex is good, they will tell you. If he has a small dick, they will publish it in the school newspaper. Whatever it is, a white girl will talk about it.  

Now I am sure many of you will become offended by this post, but that's a common white girl thing too. It was all meant to be taken as a joke, as most of this stuff happens in my life on a daily basis. Just laugh, get some humor out of it and move on. Nothing serious here. Until next time, stay classy San Fran.

April 7th and I stumble upon a video

 

At first when I was told my group was going to be "flipping houses" as a company and focusing on this idea, I was a tad sceptical. Honestly, I have heard of people flipping houses and making money, but I could never see myself working for a company or doing this. You'd think the labor in would be more exoensive than the profit you'd recieve out of it. I have compiled a list of the top 5 reasons you should flip a house.

 

1. Profit, profit, profit! $$
1. Think about this as an investment worth making. Buy a house for $20K and then turn around and sell it for $150K. The labor in DOES produce the labor out and honestly, if you want to make a huge profit without working in an office, this career choice is perfect for you.
2. Second home!
1. Maybe you're a tad greedy and that's perfectly okay! Find a cheap, ran down house on the beach and you're set. Remodel the house and rent it during the times you wish to not be there and utalize your new space when you are there. It's the perfect match. You're making money and you're having a second home!
3. For fun!
1. Maybe you and your buddies need a reason to be "manly" then this is it. You can show your manly side AND make a living or a small profit from this. No need to hire an electrician or a plumber, that's what duct tape is for!
4. Raise the value of the neighborhood!
1. If you live in a neghiborhood where there is one house that is lowering your house's value, buy it and fix it up! You can turn around and sellt he house for profit and you'll be raising your home's value so when you go to sell, you can more!
5. Accomplishment!
1. You accomplish something HUGE when you flip a house. It's not a small DIY project you have going on in your basement. This is huge. You took a house that was in shambles and you've created a masterpiece!

So there you have it. Maybe my mind is made up. I current have nothing to my name but maybe when I create some sort of fluffly savings account, I, myself, will start creating homes from nothing but garbage. You never know what you'll find until you start researching! I advocate for flipping homes, if you have the money, and the time. DO IT! I promise you, you won't regret it.