Yesterday I had my second exam, and so now the end is near… 
One more exam to go, next friday, culture sociology, interesting but not easy. By the way, the exam of cultural studies dealing with the virtual identity in online communities went well (I think). But that’s all for now, for the next 2 à 3 hours I’ll be a passive cough potato 
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enjoy the weekend
Hi,
I’m in the middle of the exams, had my first on monday (religion – Okay, i guess), and the next one is NEXT friday… So, too much time to study… And believe me, that feels weird
The exam on friday is ‘Introduction in cultural studies’. I had to write a schematic paper for this (ORAL) exam about a cultural study-subject. I chose ‘Online communities and creating a virtual identity’, in this paper I’m discussing visual / virtual communities such as Second Life by asking ‘Why does someone escape real life to create a second, virtual life in cyberspace and spend hours and hours in this ‘fake’ world? What is wrong with real life?’. So next week I’ll be discussing this issue with the professor, and hopefully he likes my ideas on the subject… FINGERS CROSSED PEOPLE
WHAT IS THIS? Well, yesterday I stole my step-dads Wireds from the last couple of months and then I bumped in to an article in the Wired magazine of december 2006. The article describes a real life murder that aroused a lot of emotions and discussion, and this on the victim’s MySpace. Family and friends grieved in two worlds at the same time: the virtual (MySpace) and the real world. So even after Daniel Varo’s death, he kept receiving comments on his MySpace page. Now the death wander around as ghosts on our online social networks… By reading this article I’m even more convinced that new media have an enormous impact on our social relations… If YOU have an other opinion, feel free to let me know…
Interested? : check out Wired
Hundred different ways to start the new year… my way: studying. Being a university-student, christmas time isn’t much of a holiday… The exams start on the 15th of January, so now is the time to ‘blok’ (this means study in Dutch). My first exam is ‘religion’; this course is probably the only course which reminds the students of the university of Leuven that it is in fact a catholic university , but the content of religion is actually kind of philosophical, which I find pretty difficult…But I’ll do my best
For all the students… GOOD LUCK WITH THE EXAMS and hang in there
To all my readers (haha, I finally got the chance to say that ): A happy Newyear! may it be a ‘kickass’ year for all of you… 2007, here we come!
