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Hello, Everyone!

My name is Ben and this will be my second semester at MiraCosta.

By day, I am a student and live production equipment technician. By night, I am an audio engineer. Later into the night I turn into an iOS developer, student, and music enthusiast/audiophile.

Favorite Audio Console

My favorite bands include The Killers, Great Northern, Radiohead, and The Civil Wars. I'd argue that the mentioned groups sound the best when played from vinyl spinning at 33.3 or 45 rotations per minute. I have an expanding library of vinyl records that started when I discovered my parents' collection of Boston and Journey a handful of years ago. Later, I discovered records from the 30s and 40s of Big Bands and classic jazz. It was then that my ears melted and I recognized my love of vinyl records.

Benny Goodman Orchestra

In my free time, I can usually be found hanging with family and friends or exploring Carlsbad or Encinitas. So far, my favorite stops in Encinitas include Lou's Records, Moonlight beach, and Pannikin Coffee. 

I look forward to engaging in class participation with you all this semester.

Cheers!

-Ben

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Hello everyone! My name is Amanda Padilla and I’m 20 years-old. I currently live in Carlsbad, but I grew up in Ventura County, CA. 

I moved to Los Angeles right out of high school, where I attended a couple different colleges, but to make a long story short, I couldn’t make up my mind and now decided to become a nurse anesthetist. Who knows what they want to do forever at eighteen? 

Anyway, my husband, Danny is Marine and works at Camp Pendleton, which brings me to this area. (Yes, I know we got married very young. Nineteen to be exact.) We have been together for two and a half years and two of those he spent in Japan. 

It was hard with the distance, but he came home to visit sometimes and I was able to go to Japan twice. It was such a great experience because I had always wanted to travel to Japan. It is absolutely beautiful there! 

My husband and I have a beautiful six month-old baby girl, Aria, who we adore, and are also parents to a cat, a tortoise, and a fish, which is all our apartment can hold. 

I have been taking mostly online courses since I’ve been a mother, trying to juggle being a student, mom and wife, however this is my first time taking them at Mira Costa. 

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My GF and I at the fair

Hi my name is Matt! I am 20 years old and this is my first semester at Mira Costa. I had previously attended college before at Palomar College, but it was very difficult to get the courses I needed so I decided to transfer. I've lived in San Diego my whole life and could never picture myself moving out of California.I've played almost every sport growing up, but I really enjoyed basketball. I've played on many different travel ball teams and also played for the San Marcos High School Varsity team. I still play pick-up games to keep in shape. I do have a nerdy side too though ha. I like comic books and became a Semi-Professional gamer when I  was 16. Most of you probably didn't even know that that was even a real thing haha. I would travel around U.S. and compete in MLG (Major League Gaming) events for 500,000 dollars. I missed a lot of school because of all the traveling I had to do. I even had to take off a year of basketball for it. I've had a girlfriend for the past two years and couldn't be happier! She means everything to me. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and am looking forward to this semester with you all!

Random Picture :)

My really good friend also has an album out on iTunes so you guys should go check it out if you're not too busy!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1991/id584581284

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My Boyfriend and I <3



Me.



My Sweet Puppies.









Hey, my name is Meghan and this is my second year at Mira Costa College. I am currently 19 years old! I am majoring in nursing, hoping to transfer to Loma Linda University where I can become a Nurse Anesthetist. I am working for my parents right now. They own a franchise called Sears Garage Doors for areas LA, Orange County, and San Diego. I am the "co-boss" you could say. When their gone or on vacation I manage the business to make sure everything is running correctly. I have two very precious dogs as you can see on the picture above. Their both toy size and weigh 5 lbs. I believe. I have a boyfriend of 3 years, and couldn't imagine life without him. He's been my best friend and has been by my side every second of the way. I live across from the ocean, so when I get a chance I love to surf! Unfortunately, that's not very often. I'm taking 5 online courses this semester! It's going to be challenging but I know I will thank myself for it in the long run!

 

Love Always,

Megs

holy schnikes batman!

Hows it going? (Somewhat rhetorical question) My name is Ian, or Ian-Michael Ivimey Hadder if your'e mad at me. I will be turning 24 roughly a week, I grew up in North County SD but as soon as I turned 18 I started moving all over, my favorite residence being Mammoth Lakes, CA. Currently I serve tables at the Escondido Stone Brewery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjq_Cb5b3Q <upper right hand corner)and currently live in Carlsbad.

This will be my second to last semester of pre-requisites before I can begin to apply for the X-ray Technitian school near Tahoe I aspire to attend. I am taking this class because of the requirements it meets as well as the lack of physical presence it requires seeing as I am moving to north lake Tahoe during the semester. I am a pretty easy going guy, I love to paint, climb, discover new music, do almost anything outdoors/physical but first and foremost I am a snowboarder. Shredding the gnar 'till the day I die ;) I consider myself very approachable so if anyone thinks of a way I can help something, please let me know. I look forward to learning along side everyone in this class. Thank you for spending the time to learn a thing or two about who I am! Stay Classy colleagues.

To Read an Entire Blog Post . . .

Sometimes you have to click on the title of the post. For instance, I realized most of my post isn't showing. I'm not sure why the little "Read More" option isn't appearing, but I don't see it. In any case, if you want to read the rest of it, just click the title, and you will be taken to the full blog entry. 

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I just realized that the link to post comments doesn't show unless you place your cursor over it. If you want to comment on an entry, just move your cursor to the right of the name/date/time stamp at the end of a blog -- it will flash white and say "No Comments" or "2 Comments", etc. Click it, and the comment form will come up.

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Hello everyone! My name is Jamy and this is my first year at MiraCosta :)
I'm a bit of an introvert but once I get to know someone, I never shut up. One thin you'll learn about me is that I am a total geek. I love videogames, comic books, anime...anything you can think of that's 'white and nerdy' is what I love. And i know I'm not smiling in this picture but I take really bad smiling pictures so yea... bleh :P

I also love cats! I had to beg my dad to let me have one (he dislikes them a lot) and this year for my birthday, I got my wish. Seriously, if I had my way, I'd have 2 or 3 of them by now.  So this is my pretty kitty Toast. She loves stealing from the toaster if you don't get there fast enough, so the name has stuck.  The fact that she's the color of burnt toast also helps quite a bit hahaha :) I love her to bits even though she has a tendency to run up and hug your leg while making dinner. She's a bit of a lazy pants, but she loves being held and snuggled which is what I've always wanted in a cat :D

Not my kitty, but its totally something
I could see myself doing. *cough* *cough*

I'm an avid gamer and have been since I was a little kid watching my mom play The Legend of Zelda. I love just about any type of game though unfortunately have never played on Xbox (shame, I know).  Regardless, I've played A LOT of stuff.  From Megaman to Assassin's Creed, I'm a fan of all genres and platforms. I love having a good conversation about gaming. To me, its not just an expensive hobby (which it most certainly is), it can be another way of telling a story.  Instead of imagining what happens, you can in a sense experience it first hand.  Don't gt me wrong, I love imagination when it comes to storytelling, i just think its a cool visual way of taking you through a story. (seriously though, I love reading. If my hands aren't wrapped around a controller, they're wrapped around a book.)

If you've made it this far, and you're bored....sorry. I rarely get to talk about myself so I'm kind of excited hahaha Here, maybe this will revitalize you:

Are you good? Good. Now this next thing...well its kind of embarrassing. Its not, but people at work poke fun at me for it and call my farmer girl for this but uh... I raise these things:

My turkey girl, Oswald (to be fair, we thought she was
a he when she hatched. or rather, I hoped she was)
I have 9 total :)

One of 7 ducks. This is just back when she
was a little newborn.

You may think this is a duck...
but its a baby goose, of which i have two,
and they are the sweetest things ever!

Of course I have chickens! I have about 25
of these cute fluffballs :)

So....yeah, I have farm birds. Its weird for most people that know me, but they really are awesome pets.  They keep the lawn mowed, they make my breakfast, and they're just fun to be around. Seriously! They run up and perch on your shoulder and eat right out of you hand. They come in all these different sizes and personalities. They are pretty much like any other pet except they lay eggs for you :) So I guess you could say I'm some sort of an animal lover, but hey, who needs labels? :P

So that's basically it...though I suppose that I could add that I dabble in artsy stuff. Drawing and writing are one of my passions, though sadly I have fallen out of my usual writing/drawing rhythm. I sincerely hope I 'fall' back into it.  Particularly because those are two of the things that keep me the most sane so to speak. I also crochet, which is totally a grandma thing (or so I've been told) but its a lot of fun! Where else am I going to find this cute plush of Ezio Auditore da Firenze?!

From the videogame Assassin's
Creed 2. Its tom-boyish good fun. And
it has real facts about ancient Italy!
Say what?!

If you made it to the end, thanks for staying with me! I hope I didn't bore you to death.  There was more I wanted to say, but I figure ts probably more than you all want to read for the beginning of the school year :) 

Cheers!