Thursday, February 17, 2005

reading assignment & the definition of cool

cool is a very broad definition, if someone says that something is cool they mean that they either agree with something, respect something, or are amazed with something... but as stated in the directions for this blog homework; the word cool is not so "hip" anymore. these words grow old the same way that the people who made them up do (with time). but every time these terms get old they are replaced with new terms from generation. in my generation there are more terms that come from hip-hop than anywhere else. "gangsta, straight, phat, and bangin" are just a sample of the terms that adolsents use today. but the word does not matter because not matter what the definition stays the same; for example: the word "gangsta" might sound different than the word "cool" which is now spelt "kewl", but the meaning of both words (regardless of spelling) remains the same.

in my opinion these so called "cool hunters" are ludacris. there is no common sense in paying a company to go out and then report back with the newest "kewl" things for teens looking for in a college when you have a campus with more than seven thousand freshman student that just went through the whole "searching for a college" process. these freshman know what they looked for, they know why they decided to attend Indiana University instead of the other schools that they were accepted to. the smartest idea for Indiana University is to start a freshman organization that is in charge of making our school appear "kewl" to the prospective freshman of the following year, in return these freshman can recieve some sort of college credit most likely inside the advertising area. nobody know more about searching for colleges than the freshman do!

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