London, Me, & The BBC

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Raymond Cobb

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Good Morning You Fiends! Some of you may be just waking up, but for me it is afternoon already. I hope all is well back home, I sent back around 10 – 13 postcards. I hope you all got them. This week was uneventful, well, except for taking another blood-boiling midterm in my psychology, going to the BBC, and today my Project is due for my Motion Picture Appreciation class. I actually did well on my midterm, scoring 92 out of 100. Not Bad if I do say so myself. So as of right now my grades are as the following:

Psychology 101 – B, Motion Picture Appreciation – A, British Life & Culture – A, and Mass Media & Communication – A.  #BeastMode

I really proud of myself for maintain a high GPA, being in another country, combined with missing friends and family, can be very distracting, but I have been doing everything I need to to make sure that I get good grades on all my assignments.

As I said early, we went to the BBC this week, which is the British Broadcasting Corporation. Where they have converge all forms of media into this one building. We were a part of an interactive tour. Which aloud many of the studio to perform in mock news programming and radio shows. They also gave some history on the BBC and showed us the main command center where they get all their news. It was very eye open tour. For any one that is considering study in media, I recommend visiting the BBC. Also, the have radio audience room where the general public can come and watch radio shows live, and they also have live concerts in this same room. Pretty freaking awesome!

Mock Weather Report           Mock News Report           Mock Radio Show

Yesterday was November the 5th, which here in London is celebrated as Guy Fawkes day which is an annual commemoration. November 5th, 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. As is seen in the movie V for Vendetta, which is a adaptation of comic book of the same name. So both Wednesday and Thursday nights fireworks went up all around London.

Fireworks in Muswell Hill

Well that’s it for this week. Now to get started on this paper that’s due later.

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Raymond Cobb

Hello! My name is Raymond Cobb and I am a full-time student Mt. San Antonio College. I was born in Los Angeles, California but I grew up and attended school in Compton, California, a city notoriously known for its gang violence. I lived in foster care all my life, but my foster mother Evalyn Rose Culpepper, kept and raised me as her own. While in high school I did poorly after the 9th grade, and made the decision to sign up for Utah Job Corps so that I can go get my G.E.D. After returning back to California I enter the workforce. In 2009, my mother passed away, and I lost my home. I had to couch hop between my friends and family in order to keep from living on the streets. Between 2011 and 2013 I was finally able to acquire my own place, and transitioned from renting rooms to sharing in an apartment with some friends, but I struggled to maintain a full-time permanent job. After being laid-off and losing my apartment at the beginning of 2014, I was back to couch hopping. Being 28 years old and feeling like I had failed, I decided to return to school to obtain my A.A. degree with the hope of transferring to a University. I want to study abroad because I believe it will be a highly rewarding experience, giving me a better cultural background, providing me with an experience to learn in another country so that I can share my experiences with other students. I look forward to researching for my classes at unique sources that I wouldn’t have anywhere else, visiting libraries and campuses in London, and studying with other students will give me chance to learn about new ways of approaching research and studying. Since becoming a student at Mt. SAC I have been keeping a high GPA even though I do not have a stable home or transportation. I feel that I am good candidate because I can be role model for the returning student, the homeless student, and the black student that despite all odds, pulled through to be something great.