Wow!  In so many ways I feel like my high school and english 1010 teachers have let me down!  Who could have ever thought there were so many different rules just to cite your works.  Is this reference a magazine or a movie?  Are you citing one, two, or three authors?  Does the work you are citing encompass more than one page?  Did you already reference the author in the sentence?  If so, what do you put in your citation?  

Why is it before my reading this week I didn't know the answers to any of these questions?  I can really understand Ms. Hanson's frustration with this being the required writing style for so many things when we are not really taught all the ins and outs of MLA when we first begin our scholastic writings.  To be honest, I am not sure how anyone follows all the rules completely.  As I continued though the next chapter, I began to feel overwhelmed by the rest of the rules listed for writing in MLA formate.  How do you set up the headers.  How to indent the paragraphs.  How to formate your title.  How to space your lines.  How to layout the paper and ideas.  Its so much!

As for what in the real world doesn't make sense...where to start.  One of the first problems is Corp America moving to a college degree only philosophy.  I am not putting down all those who have already finished their degrees, because I know it took a lot of work and commitment on their part; but the rest of the population are not loser because they didn't finish when they were young.  I have been told directly to my face on two occasions that I was the best candidate for a position at work and interviewed better than others, but they went with another person because they had their college degree.  REALLY!?  Yes, life got in the way for me, but that doesn't mean that I am not just as smart and capable of doing a job as someone who has a degree.  Thus why it is so important for me to finally complete what I started 10 years ago.  Second is the perception of beauty.  I am well aware that I am a heavier woman.  Society views over weight people as lazy slobs and I am neither of those things.  I do not eat sugar and junk all day long.  It is just really hard for me to lose weight.  As long as a person is healthy and happy in their own skin, why does anyone else care what they weight.  Since I have a daughter of my own, I don't want her thinking the size of her waist is all that matters as she gets older.