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All The Way Through Forrest Gump Last week, I was still trying to find an event I could use for an E1. Then on Friday, I got an email for an E1 opportunity that I was available for and seemed like fun: Someone would be showing Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption . This seemed simple enough. The email stated that it would start at 4 P.M. at the knuckle lounge on the 2nd floor of USuites. This seemed perfect because I live in USuites and I get out of my Calculus class at 3. After I got back to my suite from Calculus, I just kind of relaxed for a bit. Every Friday, around that time, I call my dad to discuss when I want to come home for the weekend. Usually, he comes around 9:30 or 10, but I wasn't feeling that good at the time, so I wanted to be picked up around 7:30. Now what I forgot about at the time was that the email said that they would start Forrest Gump around 4, but they would start The Shawshank Redemption around 6:30. That being said, my dad and I already ag...

Visiting an Art Gallery I've always had a fascination for art. People are fascinated in different aspects of it, but they are all still a form of art: music, literature, dance, painting, etc. People can also have different definitions of art, but mine is that art is a beautiful expression of imagination and creativity. Artists base their art on either something imaginary, like either something magical or something more abstract, or something more personal. Take a look at Years of Zero by Seng Ty, or Townie by Andre Dubus III, or even Fresh off the Boat by Eddie Huang. These people all took their personal life stories, and wrote a book about it. I would personally recommend all of these books. I read both Fresh off the Boat and Years of Zero , and I am currently reading Townie , and I like it a lot so far.  Personally, I enjoy all forms of art. I enjoy all genres of music (usually people lean towards a particular genre, like rap, hip-hop, or R&B, but I do listen ...