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Jesus Palma
Political Science and Ethics, Law, and Politics Major
at the University of Nevada.
Brother of Pi Kappa Phi, Outdoorsman, and all around Gentlemen.
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- RT @JOHnorth: #CountdownAlert: 20 days until #JOHNorth kicks off at the #GoldenGateBridge and 7 days until crew training in #Seattle starts…
- Just started watching Hemlock Grove and I just witnessed the most epic werewolf transformation. Holy cow!May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Just finished moving so now I'm just sitting in the front yard relaxing with the pup and drinking some… http://t.co/X51gWUbnJS
- Congratulations to Sam for graduating from The University of Nevada! http://t.co/Xh7XINKQ55
- Summers here! "Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten. Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on." @vampireweekend
- Life just got a little bit sweeter with @KJP 's Indian Madras! I'll definitely be getting a shirt or two.
- Just ordered my @MountainKhakis shorts for Journey of Hope! Thanks MK for supporting @PushAmerica and people with disabilities.May 16, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Last final of the year! Veni, Vidi, Vici! http://t.co/AoLSshteQk
- One of my favorite Doctor Who scenes, ever. https://t.co/yE2mD0TfsD
- Just planned out the rest of my undergraduate career. Can't believe that in a year I'll have graduated.May 14, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Perfect way to celebrate the almost end of finals! http://t.co/DWH9sPKbNB
- "They say you don't grow up you just grow old, it's safe to say I haven't done both. I've made mistakes, I know; but here I am alive"@CARTELMay 13, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @DnlLundergreen: I mostly just hope for the best and that works out pretty well usually.
- It's so nice out! https://t.co/Rd8pcH4sLo
- Just took another look at @BrooksBrothers @GatsbyMovie collection. Good to see great style is still alive.May 12, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- One of the coolest guys ever! lucaspernell http://t.co/Jo2w4WKWgJ
- My littles and I. God I love them. @Chubbies http://t.co/p2ED7Boa4Y
- This is the time of year I lose the hair on both my hands due to grilling related incidents. #summerishere
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Info
- Summary
I am an outgoing, focused, and driven individual with a passion for technology and people. I believe in driving innovation in individuals and in the workplace in order to truly excel.
Experience- May 2011 - Aug 2012Specialist / Apple Inc.
My goal as a Specialist is to establish a relationship with customers in order to find them the right solution in our stores. By really listening to a customer, I can help enrich their lives by creating a one of a kind experience; each and every time.
- Sept 2010 - Jun 2011Student Cadet / University of Nevada Police Services
Acted as a liaison for the University Police Department by interacting with students on a daily basis.
- Jan 2011 - May 2011Campus Representative / Apple Inc.
Mission: to evangelize Apple on campus and create a brand presence through my development of strategic marketing efforts to promote Apple products for college students, faculty, and staff. These strategies include high-traffic tables, workshops, demos, and creating partnerships amongst other University of Nevada clubs/organizations. Thus, channelling Apple's higher education program to appropriate campus clients.
- Apr 2010 - Jan 2011Senator / The Associated Students of the University of Nevada
Senator in the 78th Session of ASUN Senate, representing the College of Liberal Arts. Chairmen of the Public Affairs Committee as well as a member of the Government Operations, Budget and Finance, and Oversight Committees.
- Dec 2009 - Dec 2010Historian - Theta Omicron Chapter / Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
Executive Council position tasked with Alumni and Parent relations. Managed the Alumni Relations Committee, Parent Relations Committee, and Intervarsity Sports Committee.
- Aug 2009 - May 2010Peer Educator / University of Nevada Reno
Peer Educator for the Personal Safety And Sexual Assault Prevention program.
Education-
2009 - 2014University of Nevada-RenoBA in Political Science, Philosophy
Activities: Pi Kappa Phi, Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Guarded by the Pack, Senate, -
2006 - 2009Douglas High School
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- Same Sex Marriage: The Way I See It
Let’s start with the basics. Life is such a wonderful experience that is much too often taken for granted, cut too short, or brushed aside. There exists magnificent potential in the hope and dreams of children from sea to shining sea. We all have moments that have secured a place in the foundation of our mind’s future judgments on life and happiness. In elementary school I learned how great it feels when someone stands up for you because a kid named Chase stood up for me when I was being made fun of my weight. Little things in life can have the biggest impacts. For example, when I moved from Tahoe to the Carson Valley, I made the transition from 6th grade middle school to 6th grade elementary school. When I got to the new elementary school, I learned that I had been automatically enrolled in an ESL class. I was somewhat disheartened because the thoughts have been in the back of my mind since I became conscious of society and cultural identifications of class were instantly brought to the forefront of my existence. You see, I’ve always thought of myself as an outsider. I’m afraid to meet new people, I’m scared to death top open up, and I’m terrified of what other people think of me. Life has never been easy for me, but it has never been cruel. I have the best parents and brother a kid could as for, and that has made all the difference. I’ve met people who have changed my outlook on life with one or two passing statements.
What the hell? I’m sorry… I’m just really rambling on now. Here’s what I pretty much meant to say: there is a beautiful and wonderful magnificence in the manifestation of true and awe inspiring human connection. Here’s what I cannot understand about the idea of people who are against marriage equality… how can you possibly believe in the goodness of life if you’re not willing to extend a hand to others and bring them up to experience the absolute splendor that is love? I honestly cannot understand this issue. And it’s not something that I believe is summarized in believing or not believe in marriage equality, I see this issue of same sex marriage in the same way I see light. Light exists to illuminate our world, to let us clearly see that which is hidden in darkness. If you close your eyes, you shut out the light that brings you such an awesome ability to see things in a new perspective.
And I hope ya’ll know that I love each and every one of you.
These are just the ramblings of a man with just one or two too many drinks in his system.
- A lot can happen in five months...
It’s been almost five months now, I’m pretty sure to the day.
Weird, thinking of time like that. Every day I think of you and maybe that’s what makes it hard to believe its been one hundred and fifty three days without having you as a friend.
So here’s what has happened since then,
- I’ve started taking better care of myself, just like you wanted me to.
- I’ve made some new friends and they’ve been good to me. I think you’d like them.
- I’m liking the classes I’m taking this semester.
- I’m back to spending more time with my fraternity and I’ve realized how much I miss them.
- I’ve grown closer to my family, and I’ve started talking more to my own brother.
- I got a new tent, it’s pretty cool.
- I’ve let some people down and I’ve been let down by a lot more.
- I’ve spent a lot of time on my own, trying to figure things out.
- I’ve learned how to spend my money much more wisely.
- I’ve realized just how lucky I am.
- I finally got around to unpacking everything and getting my room organized.
- I never once went a day without the temptation of giving you a call.
Honestly, a lot of things have happened in the last 153 days but it’s hard not having you be a part of a single one of them.
I hope you’re happy these days, I really do.
Somebody loves you if they call you out on your bullshit. They’re not passive, they don’t just let you get away with murder. They know you well enough and care about you enough to ask you to chill out, to bust your balls, to tell you to stop. They aren’t passive observers in your life, they are in the trenches. They have an opinion about your decisions and the things you say and do. They want to be a part of it; they want to be a part of you.
When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are.
- Raise me up. Let me go.
Well, here we are again.
Here’s a list of songs that would help to describe all the different things going on in my life.
1. Unsaid - The Fray
You were the one person who would always make me smile. Not because you tried hard to make me fall in love with you; but because every single thing about you was perfect in my eyes. I never fully knew how lucky I was to have someone like you in my life. They say you’ll never forget your first love; well, its been much to hard resisting the urge to pick up the phone and call you. I’m sorry.
2. The Ice Is Getting Thinner - Death Cab for Cutie
This reminds me of that moment in a friendship when you can’t help but be sad. Sad because you’ve finally reached that point you knew was always at the horizon. You’ve come so close to finally having what you wanted only to have time pull it away from you. You drift apart and all those happy memories fade away into distant yesterdays.
3. Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
I’ve come to realize something very, very important in my life. I’m surrounded by the most amazing people. The best of friends, family, and strangers. I’ve always been one to quickly place my trust in others. I want to grow old surrounded but these wonderful human beings.
4. Clark Gable - The Postal Service
Know that awesome feeling you get when you think about meeting that perfect person? Yeah, that’s all I’m gonna say.
5. Happy Accident - Jason Reeves
I have a couple of friends whom I would consider myself very close to. I love how life made us all cross paths. Life could’ve been very different without them, and it would’ve easily not have happened if I wasn’t so lucky.
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Here are some other songs I’d like to add to the list. I’ll leave the reasoning up to you to figure it out.
Modern Man - Arcade Fire
Swallow It - Brandon Flowers
Pura Vida - Braddigan
If You Ever Come Back - The Script
Marked Man - Mieka Pauley
We can either choose to cross that bridge when we get there, or we can just go ahead and burn it to the ground. Either way, we’ll be taking sides.
- Buy the ticket, take the ride
Perhaps my greatest weakness during this hour at night is an uncomfortable pillow and a mind full of thoughts. Actually, I’ll allow myself the freedom and say this is true for many people.
I’m halfway through my college career; well, almost. I enjoy my two part-time jobs, my classes are interesting, and every day I’m reminded about the wonderful people around me.
I suppose there exists no purpose to this post; but let’s say somewhere within it, it has some authenticity.
Let’s just say I’m excited for what’s in store. And let’s just say I’m ready.
How about we stop saying, and we start doing. In fact can do it together.
Next time you see someone in need, provide them with assistance. Remove yourself from the equation and do it for no other motive than to make someone else’s life better.
Embrace the silence. Nowadays, we’re too caught up in what’s going to happen next, how we can get our fix with social media, and we’ve gotten too used to talking and not listening. Promise yourself to allow your heart to say what your mouth cannot.
And now it’s time for bed. So I’ll provide one more thought, even if all of this has been rather repetitive.
Recognize what makes others special. Next time you’re with someone, see if you can narrow down what makes them truly unique. Figure it out and then compliment them on it. Most of the time, people aren’t complimented on the small everyday things they do. Make them smile, and you’ll be smiling as well.
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods” -Aristotle
- The Way I See It #1
Too many people stand idly by as the excitements of life pass by them. Cause as much happiness in the world as you can possibly create. It’s contagious and it’ll change the people and the world around you.
- Updates in Review (Playlist Edition)
So, the spring semester of my Sophomore year is now underway. I’m truly enjoying the classes I have and I can already tell this will be the semester where I truly develop myself more as a young professional.
Well, I know I haven’t kept up with my blogging so I hope this summarizes everything that’s been going on in my life in the past month or so. I thought it would be fun to do this in a playlist fashion.
Now, this may surprise you, I keep a physical journal in which I write in daily. I’ll go ahead and share the contents of this journal, for the events that have happened in the past couple of days, in sequential order.
I will only pick songs I currently have on my iPhone.
*Links open up in iTunes Preview Online. Apple now has about a 1:30 second limit for songs which is great for previews!
January 19th:
Guess I’m Doing Fine by Beck
January 18th:
Conventional Friend by Cartel
January 17th:
Setting Forth by Eddie Vedder
January 16th:
Look After You by The Fray
January 15th:
Afraid by Yellowcard
January 14th:
11:59 by Ryan Star
January 13th:
Enterlude by the Killers
January 12th:
Swim by Jack’s Mannequin
January 11th:
Only the Young by Brandon Flowers
January 10th:
She’s Always a Woman by Billy Joel
Januart 9th:
Half of My Heart by John Mayer
January 8th:
Banner Years by Gavin Mikhail
January 7th:
2 Trees by Foals
January 6th:
Above the Timberline by Five for Fighting
January 5th:
At Or With Me by Jack Johnson
January 4th:
The World You Love by Jimmy Eat World
January 3rd:
Fans by Kings of Leon
January 2nd:
Robot Boy by Linkin Park
January 1st:
You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me by Cher
Listening to my iPod before drifting asleep. I love coming across songs I’ve forgotten about.
- Last Train Home
You were a storm and you blew me away.
I cannot tell you how excited I am to get back to the University. Fun classes and the amazing people who I see on a daily basis. That’s the life.
Another Fucking Contest: Winner # 2
Unwanted Affection
By Karsten Kelsey
It is a widely known fact that hipsters are blatant attention whores. They love talking about themselves, plugging their band’s MySpace page, and bragging about their latest artistic masterpiece (be it paintings made with fruit juice, bottlecap sculptures, or poems written entirely in Wingdings). Though blatantly advertising their demands for acknowledgment is a major faux-paus in hipsterdom, they have become masters of the art of subtle and not-quite-so-subtle-but-not-technically-blatant-or-desperate-yet cries for attention.
However, there is nary a faster way to end up on a hipster shit-list than to show romantic affection for them when they don’t actually want you to. A hipster will spend weeks pining over the current object of their desire from a table across the way at their preferred coffeehouse, wishing that he or she would look up so that they would have an excuse to briefly consider a dozen different ways to bring attention to themselves (and then disregard all of them). But if you aren’t on a hipster’s radar, the worst thing you can do is let them know that you, like, like them.
To do so is to bring a hipster’s world crashing down around them in a wave of disappointment and frustration (“Never mind that the girl in the window across the street from my flat won’t even look up from her goddamn Macbook for two seconds, how am I supposed to stare at her if Mindi keeps fucking texting me every two and a half minutes?”). To a hipster, an unwanted admirer is a horrifying mockery laughing at every unrequited love they’ve ever had. (“Dammit, fucking Jeb’s practically already squeezing down my pants, but the hot clerk at the store on the corner still isn’t answering any of my Missed Connections! Why can I never get guys I actually like?”) Any advances on your part will send the hipster scuttling further away in disgust as if you’re their house cat in heat. Hipsters tend to develop tunnel vision regarding their romantic interests, and any added affection not included in that group blindsides and confuses them.
But don’t lose heart just yet. Keep it up, and eventually the hipster’s already-limited resolve will wear thin, and they will do what every hipster is forced to do for the majority of their adult life: settle.
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Not to brag or anything but this Lab Report is completely legit. All levels of awesomeness if I do say so myself.
- Welcome, and faretheewell.
You’ve made it this far, kid. You’ve made your mistakes and you’ve let people down. You’ve continued to slack and you’ve continued to forget. Your responsibilities are before you. You’ve earned respect and you’ve made people smile. From this point on you must be the man you need to be. The man you want to see. Now go, march on and don’t forget to brush your teeth.
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Mixes
- 12 plays / Created Sep 17, 10Eight tracks including music by Juliette Lewis. Datsik, Excision
- 7139 plays / Created May 07, 1340 indie tracks for the summer. You will recognize some, but I am sure some artists will be new too - enjoy! :)
- 3018 plays / Created Apr 10, 1331 tracks perfect for a cozy day indoors snuggled with a book in your favourite sweatpants featuring Belle & Sebastian, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Arcade Fire
- 17391 plays / Created Mar 21, 13“Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.” -Doctor Who Features artists such as Iron & Wine, The Paper Kites, and Ben Howard.
- 7197 plays / Created Mar 14, 13Who knew such upbeat songs can have such sad lyrics...
- 6786 plays / Created Feb 28, 13My go-to list of happy indie songs that will put you in a good mood all the time
- 26904 plays / Created Mar 09, 13Here's some up-beat indie tracks to compliment the nice weather that has finally arrived (hopefully to stay). Featuring music from Magic Man, Wild Party and Air Review.
- 5138 plays / Created Feb 20, 13songs that you can do anything to, sing along, study to, or just let your mind relax, enjoy :) full of the lumineers, uncle kracker and ed sheeran
- 144 plays / Created Oct 15, 11And I feel like I'm some kind of Frankenstein Waiting for a shock to bring me back to life But I don't want to spend my time Waiting for lightning to strike. For lying on the cold side of your pillow and staring at the gaps between your fingers.
- 4023 plays / Created Oct 21, 12"Till this moment I never knew myself" - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Updated April 18, 2013
- 26736 plays / Created Nov 22, 11This is the playlist for when you kick your shoes off after a long night. For when you lie on your floor and don't remember how to get into your bed. For when you slowly take your party clothes off because you don't have to be anywhere else. Includes The Weeknd, Ratatat and Grieves.
- 83064 plays / Created Nov 17, 11Unconventional songs that'll bring a smile to your face, happy or sad, feel the emotion as a grin comes over you. You might even sing a long.
- 41455 plays / Created Nov 17, 11*NEW AND IMPROVED FOR 2012* These tracks were on the top of Santa's Naughty List
- 29065 plays / Created Nov 04, 11The Ultimate soundtrack to a Very Merry Christmas. (mince pies optional)
- 53058 plays / Created Nov 01, 11Songs I bump to in my car...varying from hiphop to dubstep to some chill beats. This playlist is pretty much the shit so listen up and blast your speakers. Someone was nice enough to upload these on mediafire for everyone to download. Here's the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?dp84e8aax3aw4px -Thanks RunsWithTheLion
- 11535 plays / Created Jan 22, 11Twenty tracks including music by Bright Eyes, Cat Power and Coldplay.
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- Chasing The Light by Mat Kearney
- Never Say Never by The Fray
- Storm by Lifehouse
- Meet Virginia by Train
- Either Way, I'll Break Your Heart Someday by Augustana
- She Is by The Fray
- Run by Snow Patrol
- Twenty Years by Augustana
- Broken by Lifehouse
- Drive By by Train
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