VEISHEA

VEISHEA it standS for:

• Veterinary Medicine
• Engineering
• Industrial Science
• Home Economics
• Agriculture

It is an annual event since 1922 that has showcased the great things the university has to offer. It is a weekend where many alumni return to enjoy their old university and current students enjoy the events held in the university during the week, plus the parties going around outside campus. Lets be honest, Ames is a boring town, it is referred by many as Lames deriving from Ames + Lame= Lames!!! Even if our school exceeds University of Iowa, not only academically but in many other ways too. We pretty much fail in the fun department and sports department, but thats another story. VEISHEA is our only week of the year to have some fun, no matter what kind of person one might be, either a bookworm, party type, wild type, smoker, drinker. There is something fun for everykind of person during that single week.

There where several activities for the family, like BBQ at Central Campus, the Parade held on saturday morning, the university village where the different colleges showcased what they did and the Canoe races held in Lake Laverne. For those college students that are the party type, there where countless parties going around in Fraternities, clubs, and Welch Avenue. Many of those ending in great fights or having police arresting kids for underage drinking or intoxication in public places. Held inside the campus was battle of the bands which was pretty fun to watch, but it was an uncomfortable place to be once the best bands started playing because not only the place was packed full but people would start going crazy, so it would not be a suprise if someone ended up with a back eye or a sore limb.

I'll say that VEISHEA was the excuse mostly used last week. For a person that never got drunk and wanted to start drinking, just saying "Its VEISHEA" was just enough to justify what he or she was about to do. The same excused worked for skipping classes, getting wasted everyday, partying everyday or just be out of character the whole week. I know it may have been a pretty poor excuse but who can blame them, VEISHEA is the only big event that ever happens in Lames. For the record, I do love Lames, may be that tranquility held yearound is what makes it so lovely and a nice place to live, and concentrate on your studies.

How technology makes us misinterpret many things in life.

Life if full of misinterpretation. It is our duty to prevent those from happening and if it does happen then we are responsible to fix them. We are humans and mistakes are bound to happen, but what if we don't fix them, what if because we are too proud we don't talk about things from face to face those things will grow and affect us greatly. I for once have had multiple experience when it comes to misinterpreting something because I was not brave enough to talk to that person face to face.

Since we feel shame or embarrassed we prefer to talk by cellphone or most notably by text message, message by Facebook, messenger or e-mail. Sometimes by writing a letter it is easier to express ourselves but if we are not careful our message might be taken the wrong way. Words have more meaning when the human voice uses it rather when it is written on a paper. Sure our ideas might flow easier if we take our time alone to write something but we have to think and put ourselves in the other persons position, how would he see this? How would he take it if he read it in another tone? or How would he react to this if his mood is not as calmed as mine right now?

By personal experience I can say that many misinterpretation have occured because of a simple letter or most commonly text message. It is not a good idea to have aargument by text message, personally everytime I've had one it does not end up right. There might have been a couple of times that an argument has end up in a good way by text message but I can assure that most of the time it does not. Then comes the question of why are we not brave enough to just have the conversatiton face to face. Well there are many circumstances, most of the time one person in not ready to talk yet until later on when the text message is delivered or the conversatiton cannot continue while we see the other person.

Even if it is difficult to talk to the other person face to face it is always important to do it because the internet or the cellphone has not always been there and one has to think back and reflect on when was it that one had a conversation and an argument came up and it was solved quickly and when one argument took longer to solve, I bet most of the times that an argument was solved quickly it was when it was face to face. Another good thing about talking to a person face to face is that, when there is a misinterpretation you have the other person right infront of you, so any doubts that you might have you can ask right away rather than wait to see if the other person decides to text you back.