Sunday, October 26, 2008

1966 Homecoming

This picture shows Georgia Tech's Grant Field on Homecoming Day of 1966. Grant Field had been renamed to Boddy Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field in 1988.
In the pictures the spectators of the football game are all white males. It shows how the South was still segregated back on the days. Also no female is shown in the picture. Georgia Tech first admitted African-American students in September 1961 with the enrollment of three black students. So still there was not many African-American students five years later.
It also shows the popularity of football, the favorite sport of the South. Georgia Tech was quick in developing football program and built the stadium quickly and started became one of the team in NCAA Division I. The stadium is the oldest staidum among NCAA Division I-A football stadiums. There are only two other stadiums that are older than Bobby Dodd Stadium in entire NCAA Division I.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Response to Andrew's blog

I read Andrew's blog "Peachtree City: Home of Golf Carts and Kids with nothing better to do than destroy theirs." I used to live in Fayetteville which is in Fayette County, same county as Peachtree City was in. My friends lived there so I went there quite often.
This blog describes Andrew's hometown Peachtree City. He describes it as unique and nice place for new couples to live in with calm surroundings and many places to rest. I found the town to be very nice whenever I passed by there. It seems peaceful and clean. He tells that the town is unique for golf carts. People can drive golf carts around the town on the paths that were designed for golf carts. This looked nice because even kids at young age can drive around the town and enjoy. I agree on everything that was said from this blog and this blog attracts me to move there.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Koreans at the library

In this picture, my friend and I are studying and doing math homework at 3 am. At Georgia Tech library a lot of Koreans can be found at midnight. I sometimes wander around the library to meet Korean people there.
I attended high school here in the United States, but I heard a lot about how Korean high schools are. Korean high school students study almost everyday for all day and sleeps about four hours a day. Here at Georgia Tech I met many international students from Korea and found out that there are actually many people who just came from Korea.
It is like culture how Koreans are studying late at night and pulling all nighter easily to study. Those Koreans are used to stay till very late and pull all nighter, and now they still behave similarly here at Georgia Tech. I stay in library late at night quite often and I see many Koreans staying in library after like 3 or 4 am. It is Korean culture how we consider studying is the most important thing to do for students. Parents taught them that way and their hard-workings can be shown in the library late at night.