The Album has been dropped!

Here is what I promised you guys, [Tsets] - Rose Garden !
After spending all night putting this all together, I have finally released my first Album!!!!!!
Enjoy Everyone~~~~~~~

Going to Release a "Best Of" Album Soon

That's Right! Did I also mean to mention it was free? Why yes I did!
Under construction right now, but the blog will be the first to know!

My Trip To MEPS and an Update

     For those of you who do not know, I have recently started my journey into the U.S. Air Force! So during the course of time, I thought I would update you guys on what exactly happens when you enlist and etc. I don't regret my decision to join whatsoever, however I know there were a lot of questions unanswered prior to joining and will attempt to walk you through what it's like through my experiences.

    It starts with going to your first Meps visit, it will be a little different depending where you are located but the concept is the same. Early April of this year I was scheduled so this is quite recent for those planning on going.

Things to do before you leave: Clean your ears real good, take a backpack with a change of clothes etc. and something to read!!! (I made that mistake, but you only need it for the hotel because you can't use it in meps) and remember your papers!!!!!
  
     It was a pretty long ride there to LA which is the city my meps station was located. I was dropped off at the hotel first, I did go with someone in my group, but the friend I had a ride with got split up because he had to take the ASVAB at the station while I had already taken the paper version during high school. The hotel was really nice for me including free diner and free breakfast. A lot of different branches of military recruits there as well (who will be going to meps with you), I got to know them because I knew it was going to be a long day. Get ready to wake up at like 3 in the morning for breakfast, and then run to the bus for meps and (try) to beat everyone there afterwards! The quicker you are, the faster it will go. It will still feel really long though. We shortly arrived at meps and lined up in 4 lines in front of the center. First you go through all their metal detectors then you have to store your belongings in a secure room (backpack etc.) and wait for your branch officers to arrive. Mine being Air Force there weren't very many recruits compared to the other branches as far as my visit went. 

     You get your ID sticker etc. and line up stairs where you will be spending the majority of the day in (my physical tests room etc. was all upstairs) you get your blood pressure taken, you have a listening test with some big uncomfortable headphones, you take the eye exam/reading aloud test, urine sample for drugs, your body looked at by a trained doctor, and last but not least the duck walk (and other exercises, not hard, more like stretches and wasn't as bad as it seemed). After that you get to have free lunch! Hurry up though you don't want to keep the officers waiting downstairs! You then finally take a weightlifting test (up to 100, from ground to over your shoulders) then pick your jobs from a list of what you are qualified for (I had to choose 10 jobs and an aptitude)! You do not get your choice right there and then. You have to wait months to get what job you are chosen for ((remember, if you didn't pick it, you don't have to accept that job)(and you could end up getting a job that week as well)) but regardless of situation, you get your first swear in, which makes the whole hurry up and wait experience of your first meps visit well worth it!


How it went for me: It took me 4 months to hear what AFSC I was chosen for, (for which I am currently on month 5 in DEP) I can't wait for basic training in January (makes my total DEP wait time 10 months) but well worth the wait seeing that I was chosen to got to tech school for Air Traffic Controlling. For now going to the monthly DEP meetings which are fun, all I got was an AF T-shirt while I hear tons of other things from other people getting all sorts of cool stuff, but I'm not worried. We have had 1 pizza party due to the whole DEP group I am in being able to pass the minimum requirements for basic training. We usually still do the run, pushups, and situps, but this last meeting was football and lunges. It really depend on what your recruiter feels like. I was able to meet the requirement by just following these plans

One Hundred Push-ups Program.

Two Hundred Sit-ups Program.

Couch to 5k (visual)

Feel free to ask any questions and I will gladly answer!

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What to we value more, beauty, or intellect?

Which is more valuable in today's society: beauty or intellect?

We are in a time, where society is built on beauty. Who are you going to elect for president? The old guy who has seen the government evolve? Or the sharp looking man who talks a good game? I remember when Obama was running for election a few years back, them and their families were voting for him on the sole reason that he was black. Is it right to say that this is outrageous? Why are we not looking at the facts instead of looking at their game, why is society so inclined to see things on a visual level as opposed to a more logical intellectual level? We call this time the Information age/era, but how much innovation do you see circulating America?

Lets ask ourselves a few questions, If the world valued intellect more, would the Kardashians still exist as they do? What about organizations like TMZ news and other celebrity related news as opposed to reporting on actual issues? The social pressures on the young peers to become “cool” follow a more beauty pattern. Last time I checked, to be cool was to conform to an amount of stupidity, otherwise you're a “nerd” or a “geek”, someone who is usually frowned upon in the younger social circles. How about all the kids who want to grow up to become a star? Or to become a well known musician? You usually have to have an “image” to become a great musician, you don't have to have great music as demonstrated by Nicki Minaj in her recent songs, or Lady Gaga being famous for dressing up in an all bacon suite? I'm not saying becoming a musician or a star makes you automatically stupid, but people find the qualities of how you look better than the qualities found in intellects as demonstrated in these examples.

This is an American problem, I don't see as much commotion built upon others beauty in other countries, maybe the French, but that's it. They see beauty in the land, beauty meaning love, and strive to preserve the beauty through intellectual means. Not beauty within people as America has demonstrated. When was the last time you heard an American scientist making a breakthrough?

Maybe advancements seen only in medicine.

Politicians seek the need to slash funds towards scientific advancement (like what has been seen through the NASA community), while other countries like China, with their 5 year plan to get their own station in space and eventually get a society functioning. Russia and their scientists recently discovering lake Vostok in Antarctica, a lake that might unlock secrets about our world, and a new Freshwater resource, how many people do you think know about that as opposed to the Victoria secret models? If you look ahead a few years, how is our society beneficial to the environment? We are living on a planet that has stretched its resources and continues to grow, we need scientific advancement! Not to increase funds within congress, add taxes to the poor to fund a project the American people don't even know is happening behind their backs. Taxes and fees to help big business like the MPAA fund censorship to the internet like we saw a few months ago with the PIPA/SOPA scare. although the internet is seen as something social, like Facebook has depicted, it is in fact one of the most scientific means of communication for an intellectual individual.

Who is the government and big business to define beauty? it shouldn't be just the people who make the money that says, goes. Beauty is seen as something in the eye's of the beholder, so in a broad sense, if someone who knows a lot seeks beauty in education, the whole meaning of the controversial beauty vs. intellectualism conundrum can't simply be answered. We often do associate beauty with stupidity, we rely on beauty for validity, beauty for a means of judging books by their cover, and that is the problem we have at hand. Beauty needs to be defined in the general sense of love in an emotional level, not stupidity. Beauty needs to be defined as an amazingly put together song or “piece”, that brings you to tears, not a rap about killing people who don't believe in your mentality. I can see why people tend to rely on beauty than they do from being intellectual, because it scares people, what you may find out in the world could change the way we think, and people generally fear change. There is a higher statistic in suicide within the knowledgeable community, would that still be high if people held great values with being smart? People fear what they do not know.