Fierce. Fearless. Female.

Love, Chels (three)

2010-11-16T19:33:04Z

For my senior year, I am writing a column in The Setonian each issue to talk about things going on at Seton Hill. I'm considering them love letters, hate mail and everything in between, because although I adore Seton Hill, I do also see it's flaws. This column will address all of that with each issue printed. This is the second for the year.

As a Seton Hill University Student Ambassador (SHUSA) I have a wonderful opportunity called Phonathon. It is a great honor to know that I am among a few students that get to talk to alumni about their memories of Seton Hill University (SHU), discuss the changes going on now, and to ultimatelyask them to donate to SHU’s annual fund. But it’s so much more than asking them for money.

Although not all SHUSA members agree with me, I think Phonathon is the greatest opportunity we have as student ambassadors. We have the privilege of talking to alum about the things they loved while they were on the Hill and compare those memories to the ones we’re making on our own.

On Monday, Nov. 8, I was assigned the graduating classes of 1947, 1948 and 1949. These are some of our eldest alum, but each one of them that I was able to talk to had crystal clear, fond memories of SHU (then Seton Hill College) and the lifelong friendships they made here. These memories are actually very much like the ones I have created here over the last four years. It was such an honor to hear from these remarkable women and listen to them marvel at how beautiful the campus is and how nice everyone was while they were here.

I hope you all are making those fond memories as well. I hope that you realize that the friends you are making now will be lifelong friends. Even though when the class of 1947 graduated, they did not imagine that there would be as many buildings on campus as we have now, they had the same primary value I think we have to this day: community. SHU is a community, a family. We all know that everyone knows everyone and that’s a great thing to have during these four years.

One of the women I talked to, right after I introduced myself said, “I hope you adore Seton Hill, just like we did.” It is such a great realization to see that we walk on sacred ground. That many years before us, students were making the same memories we’re making now, in the same hallways, in the same dorms, the same dining hall, the same classrooms and all of the lawns and spaces in between. The memories that we’re making here are what makes SHU so beloved.

So keep making those memories. Keep building those lifelong friendships; keep loving SHU. Learn to accept its flaws, but realize that anywhere you go will not be “perfect” and let yourself love this Hill. I know I will, but I hope all of you will as well. Pick up the phone in 60 plus years and tell that student caller your memories. I bet he or she will smile and reflect on the memories that they have made on the Hill as well and realize that their past years as a student have been nothing but beautiful.

Oh, it's the most wonderful time...

2010-11-16T17:54:16Z

Well, it's about the time to start wrapping up the projects we're doing in New Media Projects so here is what I plan on doing for my term project.

Term project plans: in terms of your creative, technical, and personal goals.

For my term project I plan on polishing and finishing my online portfolio. I want to make it stand out among the others so creatively I plan on getting professional (up-to-date) pictures for the site and make a background color that's pleasing to the eye and goes well with the pictures that isn't as bold as before. Technically I want to be able to post PDF's of my work and actually get good, major content on the pages as well. Personally, I want this project to actually be worth my time...which it will be since I can use it after this course.

What do you intend to have ready by Thursday?
Since I'm starting my page completely over again - by Thursday I plan to have all of the colors changed and the basic layout of how the pages will work and link to each other.

By Tuesday?

Polish, polish, polish.

What technical details make you feel confident?

Umm...HTML isn't really that hard to figure out so I'm fairly confident that I'll do fine.

Cue "The Final Countdown."

2010-11-12T03:53:37Z

Alright so we are finishing the three major projects we've begun in my New Media Projects class, Scratch, Inform 7 and HTML & CSS. It's been an interesting ride to say the least. Here's my portfolio of my projects for the last time.

Scratch

I liked Scratch - even though I had no idea what it was prior to this class, I found it easy to use and overall a nice program (since it never gave error messages) and since it was so kid-friendly and colorful it was always nice, visually, to work with it in that way too.

I'm really proud of my Scratch project. I accomplished everything I set out to do with it and enjoy the outcome. From the beginning I didn't really have many frustrations with the project since it was so easy to work with and I like how it turned out in the end.

Changes I made to the project.

Laura testing my Scratch project.

Inform 7

Well, since I have a biased opinion against Inform 7 I tried to make my project into game that I wouldn't mind playing. So there are a lot of things to examine and look at and really without looking at everything, you don't understand the character. I also tried a lot of things that I wouldn't have thought of testing out the last time I worked on Inform, during my sophomore year, so I'm feeling okay about this project...but I still don't like Inform.

Megan testing my game.

Showing my changes after Megan's test.

HTML & CSS

I liked the idea of making an online portfolio into an iPad friendly website. Even though I don't know too many people outside of Seton Hill that actually have one, I'm sure they will be getting bigger in the coming years and improving as well, so this was something useful to learn about. I'm okay with this project since I know I'll be coming back to it for my final project in the course and can really fix it up for use after this class.

Me going through my website

Coryn telling me what to change and Coryn telling me some more things

Overall

I'm happy with the work that I've done in this course. I like that I learned how to use Scratch (even though I'll probably never use it again) I'm glad that I don't hate Inform as much as I did before this class and I'm glad that I have an online portfolio that I can actually use if I wanted to.

For my final project I'm focusing on completely redoing my online portfolio to make it even more iPad friendly and just an overall better design and features. Hopefully it'll turn out just as well as I think everything else did.

Love, Chels (number two)

2010-10-29T23:29:59Z

For my senior year, I am writing a column in The Setonian each issue to talk about things going on at Seton Hill. I'm considering them love letters, hate mail and everything in between, because although I adore Seton Hill, I do also see it's flaws. This column will address all of that with each issue printed. This is the second for the year.

Dear Seton Hill, I think it's time to start a revolution.
Alright so revolution is not really the word I’m looking for since its technical definition considers violence to be a major part, but what I have to say doesn’t want any part in the violent nonsense of a revolution. So let’s call this a peaceful revolution!

Recently I decided to revive the Feminist Collective. The mission of the club is to promote equality for women, to strive for a world without sexual and domestic violence and to raise money for an organization that helps victims of sexual and domestic violence, this year we have chosen to donate all of the money we raise at the end of the year to the Blackburn Center.

Now that I’m in a leadership position of an organization who is working towards making the world a better place, I’ve realized the number of other clubs, who have the sole purpose of helping others too. The ones that instantly come to mind are, Griffin’s at Work, SHU-A-THON, Make A Wish, Project H.O.P.E., SHU Red Cross Club and STAND.

Griffin’s at Work, formally known as Habitat Club, do their part through smaller Habitat for Humanity projects throughout Greensburg all year round and go on a week long trip every year, either during spring break or J-Term. SHU-A-THON does different fundraisers throughout the year and holds a dance marathon in the spring to raise money for a needy organization. This year, in memory of a SHU alum, they are giving their efforts to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation. Make A Wish Club raises money every year to grant a child a wish through the Make A Wish Foundation. Project H.O.P.E, formally the Social Work Club, visits different shelters and help where they see fit throughout the year while the Red Cross Club volunteers through the Westmoreland-Chestnut Ridge Chapter of the American Red Cross and STAND raises awareness about past and current genocides to hopefully bring a future without genocide and now the Feminist Collective raises money to help victims of sexual and domestic abuse.

These seven clubs have started the revolution of making a difference on our campus and in the community. So why isn’t the whole campus involved in this revolution? For those of you that are, you rock, keep up the good work. But those of you that are not involved, I challenge you to join in this year. Join one of these clubs or create your own! There are also plenty of opportunities through Campus Ministry to volunteer through events such as Labor of Love or Saturday of Service.

As Ghandi said, be the change you wish to see in the world. Seton Hill and the world in general for that matter, will not get any better if you’re sitting along the sidelines; do something about the things you don’t like. Make a difference. Change the world for the better. But keep this in mind, volunteering is not just something you do because it looks good on your resume, it’s something you need to be able to put your heart in to. What I have personally found out through volunteer work that I have done is that the people I am serving give me a lot more than I could ever try to give them. But the feeling of knowing you made a difference in any way is indescribable, but you will remember it forever.

So get out there! Now that Seton Hill is on the map because of all the hype around our iPads, let’s be sure it stays there because of the buzz our revolution will create.

Scratchy Screencast

2010-10-26T18:14:17Z

Below is a screencast I made thanks to Screencast-O-Matic of my first Scratch project that I made for my New Media Projects class, now that it's all done. Enjoy! There will be more coming of a tester that doesn't know how to do Scratch trying it out, but for now...you'll have to watch me play it! It runs a little slower than it actually does in real life, which you can see on the Scratch website, if you'd like to go play it yourself.

Would you like to buy some guchies?

2010-10-24T17:07:06Z

The Feminist Collective is doing its first fundraiser of the year this week to begin to raise money for the Blackburn Center. And we're selling underwear.

We have black, pink and white undies in bikini or boy-short style. Every pair has the female symbol on the front and the phrase "I'm more than my body" printed across the butt and a tag that has a statistic about sexual violence. They are $5 per pair and all of the money will go to help the Blackburn Center, our organization of choice for this year's efforts.

If you're a Seton Hill community member, stop by the table outside Lowe Dining Hall on Monday or Tuesday (October 25 & 26) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. If you would like a pair and are not from the area be in touch with us by email, feministcollective@setonhill.edu.

Boy-shorts on the left and bikini on the right, both styles come in black, pink or white.

Because this needs to stop.

2010-10-21T04:01:25Z

Facebook has exploded over the past few weeks about Spirit Day. A day to remember the lives of people that have committed suicide because they were bullied for being homosexual. Well, today (10/20/10) was that day and I have to say I was very excited to see so much purple through out the halls of Seton Hill.

From students, to faculty and staff, there was a lot of spirit on the Hill today, which makes me feel comforted that we are living up to the mission statement of the university and beginning to "transform the world."

Why purple? Because the purple in the LGBT rainbow flag represents spirit. Why the need for a day dedicated to purple? Because we have missed out on what beautiful children had to offer the world because of bullying them for who they are. I think Ellen said it best in this video, posted after the news of Tyler Clementi took his life due to bullying.

I feel especially related to this issue because my best friend from home is openly gay, but it really encourages me to know that so many people are standing up to support young people that have to deal with being picked on just because they're not "normal." Andrew goes to Penn State Beaver and today their Gay-Straight Alliance club sat outside and did face painting of the NO H8 symbol while wearing their purple, I was so proud to hear him talking about how well it went 1) because that means he's involved in school activities and 2) he knows now for sure that he can be who he is, wherever he is, which makes me feel happy because I know he's safe. He and all of my other gay friends here at SHU are safe. But I'm sure there are still kids out there, who didn't see anyone in purple today. Kids who still live in fear or self hatred because no one stood up for them today.

Those are the kids we need to continue to stand up for. The ones that are in real danger, the ones that don't have best friends that love them and would do anything for them. The ones that have died - the ones we know about and the ones we've never heard of. It is bullshit that this is happening, that kids are still taking their lives and feeling like they are not worth the space they take up because some asshole told them that they are a queer, a homo, a lesbo, a dyke...and the list goes on.

Shut up if you've ever called someone these names and stand up if you're against precious lives thinking they're worthless because of some idiot's senseless teasing.

Back to Scratch...

2010-10-19T18:01:58Z

For the second half of the semester in my New Media class, we're going back over the three different programs that we've worked on so far in the course; Scratch, Inform 7 and HTML. First, we're getting back to Scratch.

For my first Scratch project, I did a Behold the Griffin little interactive video, but because we're coming back to the projects this gives me some time to polish it up. I know that the beginning section of my video went too fast and the answers had to be typed really quickly to move on so I've changed that to have an answer response box pop up where the player has to type into the box and click the check mark to move on to the next screen. Also, I noticed the backgrounds during the beginning were a little annoying, because of the maroon and gold colors and how they changed so much, so I toned those down to be a black gradient and gold writing, so even though that make the video look a little like the Steelers...it's better than the mixed up ketchup and mustard look it had going on earlier. (Not to mention I'm a Pittsburgh fan, so it looks good to me.)

Overall, I'm proud of this project, I think it's been pretty quality all along considering in early August I didn't know this site existed and in a little less than a month later I finished my first project. I'm impressive.

"Stop all your labelin', I'm Kellee a-Maize-ing"

2010-10-15T19:49:04Z

I blogged about Kellee Maize last semester when I first heard her music and now I've noticed she is blowing up online. If you type in female rapper into Google, usually she comes up first...that is amazing. I hope she goes further and is able to really get out in the business, because honestly we need a female rapper out there that isn't focused on leaving little to the imagination by rapping about sex and showing off "their goodies" in their videos.

I love how this girl is staying true to Pittsburgh too. She's really doing a good thing and I really want her to be able to have a successful career and not be hated for doing something different and rapping about what she believes in. In her new video "Third Eye," I think it really shows how impressive she can be. Her outfits are beautiful and the location is perfect. And not to mention...the lyrics have been on repeat in my head for a few weeks now.

This is her video, for her new single, Third Eye. I love it, especially the part that says, "I don't really care what god you're praisin' or what herb you're blazin'..." because I have been (kind of) criticized for listening to her so much since she raps about her beliefs, that don't really match up with my own. But I love this line for one reason specifically, part of my beliefs are to accept everyone as they are and ultimately "meet them where they are" so through the way I live my life they'll be able to see the God I believe in. (Just to let everyone know.) So I think Kellee is saying the same thing in this song about her beliefs.

Don't stress: just work until you're too tired to have emotions

2010-10-14T07:23:22Z

...or something like that. But nevertheless, it's that time of year. Midterms. Hooray!

I have to say that I feel like I've done a lot this semester throughout these three units. Before this course, I didn't know Scratch existed, I hated Inform 7 and I knew a little bit about HTML and CSS. But now, I feel like I am pretty decent in these three areas and could actually be able to do each of them on my own, if ever needed.

Unit One: Scratch
Like I said, prior to this class, I didn't know what Scratch is and probably would've never found out had I not been in this class since I'm not really in to the "gaming" part of the web. I guess you would consider Scratch as gaming, considering most of the work I went through were game-based. For my project, I wanted to do something that incorporated the Behold the Griffin campaign that is currently going on at Seton Hill to improve the visibility of the Griffin mascot, since William and Mary has recently changed their mascot to a griffin as well.

Entries for Scratch
Scratch that...let's try something new.
Got an itch? Scratch it.

Final Project
Behold the Griffin Scratch

Unit Two: Inform 7
When we first did Inform 7 in Writing for the Internet, during my sophomore year, I hated everything about the game and struggled through getting a project finished. This year, however, though it was not really easy, it didn't seem as hard as I remember. Maybe I've just learned patience? Either way, I didn't mind doing Inform this time around and got pretty ambitious with it as well. Even though, there were a lot of dead ends in this project, I'm pretty proud of it since I really am not a fan of text adventure games, but instead of looking at it as something I dreaded doing, I looked at it as a different form of writing this time around. Which actually did help because I really do enjoy writing for the sake of it. (However, I'm not proud of it enough to post online because of the dead ends, but if anyone wants to play, I do still have it saved.)

Entries for Inform 7
Shopping always has been my favorite game
Let's get real here, Chels.
Not your everyday trip to the mall

Unit Three: HTML & CSS
I was alright with this unit, thinking I remembered a lot more than I actually did at first, but once I got going, it all started coming back to me. I plan on working with this website as my final project for the class because I know I could actually use this in the future and continue to add to it as needed, which I like because unlike the other two units, where once you post it, it's done. So expect to see an updated, finished and polished version of this by the end of the term.

Entries for HTML & CSS
I don't actually like red.

Final Project
Chelsea Oliver Online Portfolio

Throughout the semester, I have to say that I feel I've done really well. With Scratch, I really researched how to do certain things and pulled them together nicely for the finished product, I didn't give up on Inform from the beginning even though I remember not liking it from a class before and with HTML & CSS, I plan on continuing to work on and hopefully get better at, considering I want a really well polished final product of my website that will be my Online Portfolio.

I don't actually like red.

2010-10-13T06:45:18Z

Alright, so HTML, what I thought I would like the most this semester, gave me a little bit of trouble that I wasn't expecting. From my sophomore year when we covered HTML in Writing for the Internet, I remember picking up this stuff pretty easily and doing quite well, in my opinion, for my final website project.

Going in with that mentality, I planned pretty big with my online portfolio, thinking I'd be able to fly through it like I remember doing before. But, I did have to scale back a little bit just to meet the time requirements, but I do plan on returning to this website as my final project for the course since I can actually use this in the most obvious ways, considering I would like to stand out from other applications in the future by having an online resume/portfolio that potential employers will be able to look through.

With this unit, I had a lot of refreshing to do and still have some dead ends on my website as it is, but plan on getting back to them and fixing everything up before the semester is over, so I can start to put the finished link on my print resume and email it out if needed/requested.

I'm excited for the final project because I also got a lot of great feedback during my usability testing and would like to incorporate the following things into a polished website.

The background color isn't awesome.
*Yeah, I know. I'm not actually a fan of the color either, except for on my current car. But I wanted to use a horizontal picture and that one is one of the only ones of me that I actually liked and the red background goes with the red rose petals.

The picture is old/unprofessional/the same on every page.
*Again, I just wanted to use a horizontal picture and yes I know it's a senior picture from high school. For the finished product I actually plan on having my photographer friend take multiple pictures of me that I can feature on this site (little PR for him and me!) to go along with each of the pages. So for example a picture of me writing will go on the writing page and hopefully get some pictures showing my personality will go throughout the site too. Considering a future employer might want to know ahead of time that I'm a ham and don't always lay around with rose petals in my hair. It's about time I get back into modeling mode anyway...after all; I am a senior - time for senior pictures again!

Some pages lead to nothing.
*You are correct users. That's because I haven't figured out how I want them to look yet. Especially for the design pages, I want to be able to have PDF's or at least pictures of the work and I still have not the slightest clue how I want to put together my writing samples. (Ideas are welcome!)

Other comments like, the page is loading slowly on my laptop and it looks better on my iPad, I couldn't really do anything about - so I just explained what was up. (Which I must say, made me sound smarter than I actually am.) Well done, self. Overall, I'm pleased with what I have so far and cannot wait to continue working on it.

Creating fierce & fearless females (and males!)

2010-10-01T03:59:33Z

Hey Seton Hill - the Feminist Collective "club" is going to start back up this year under the guidance of myself and Stephanie Wytovitch and we hope that if you are looking for something exciting to get involved in that you will join us!

What is the Feminist Collective?
     -> Glad you asked! Our mission is to educate and engage students in issues around equality, sexual and domestic violence and harassment and to raise money for organizations that help victims of sexual and domestic violence. This year we are raising money to benefit The Blackburn Center in Greensburg, PA.

What activities does the Feminist Collective do?
     -> You're asking such great questions! This year since we are just building up the club again, we hope to create a big presence on campus to get more people involved and to realize the issues and want to help the cause. We are hoping to bring the Vagina Monologues and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes to campus this year, as well as hold a Spring Lawn Party and host a Guerrilla Girls sighing on campus, as well as do some clever fundraisers through out the school year.

Do you have to be female to join?
     -> Of course not!!! One of my favorite quotes is "Not all feminists are unattractive, loud women screaming through the streets looking for a man to castrate." Which you can take a number of ways, one of which I think means sure, you can be a guy and be a feminist. That just means that you think people should be treated fairly...good for you.

Anyway, if you have any questions feel free to check out our Facebook group, email our club at feministcollective@setonhill.edu or come to our first meeting on
Tuesday, October 5th at 8:30 p.m. in Admin 401

Not your everyday trip to the mall

2010-09-30T00:59:50Z

Alright, now that we have Inform 7 projects out of the way and we are starting to move on to HTML and creating websites, now is the time to reflect on what we've done with this section of the course, which I have to say, wasn't as bad as it could have been.

With my Inform 7 project I started with kind of lofty ideas and was really excited because it was about shopping and blah blah blah, my little girl brain got quite the kick to reality once I started working on my project and remembered that Inform 7 is stupid and we do not get along too well. However, I have to say this time around went a lot more "swimmingly" than the last time because I knew how I had to word certain things so the game would understand me....it was kind of like talking to a man. (Low blow...I know.)

After I initially started working though, I began to write background information, further developed my character and really got into the whole process, I realized I need to cut back and the player should be more focused on all the text and not so much on going from store to store. So once I got that understood, I decided to (unintentionally) make the game a little creepy. So the setting was in a plain, old mall and everything seemed normal but based on what items the player decides to get first, depends on how the game finishes. Now granted I realize that at the beginning the player doesn't think that buying the stuffed animal bunny means anything different than the jeans but with the background information about the family the player comes from, they could put the context clues together to realize that they should think of their little sister (and buy the bunny) first and buy the jeans (for themselves) last since their credit card may bounce at any moment, so its better to be safe than sorry and get the essentials first.

I half feel bad for leading my players astray in that way but then didn't really care that much after I watched them play and get frustrated every time they would end up with the "bad outcome" and wonder what they could do differently, which was like a game to me as well and I used it as a teaching tool for thinking of others before yourself.

The piece of code that I was impressed that I actually figured out was being able to make the other characters say things based on what happens previously to the player. So for instance, if the player goes the "right way" the clerks are nicer to them. I don't really know how this happened and if I had to repeat it, I'd probably take just as long doing it again, but when I made one of my testers go a certain way (after she played once on her own) and the tone of the sales clerk changed I was happy about that.

Credits wise, I have to give some props to Megan, because she usually told me I was making things harder than I actually needed to, or had figured out something before I did and was able to help me figure it out for my own game as well.

Overall, I'm decently proud of this project. But I don't want to see Inform 7 ever again in my future. But if anyone wants to go on a normal mall trip, I'm game.

Love, Chels.

2010-09-23T23:23:07Z

For my senior year, I am writing a column in The Setonian each issue to talk about things going on at Seton Hill. I'm considering them love letters, hate mail and everything in between, because although I adore Seton Hill, I do also see it's flaws. This column will address all of that with each issue printed. This is the first for the year.

Dear Seton Hill, Sorry I'm a PC.
Let's get two things straight: I love Seton Hill University (SHU) and I love the new Technology Advantage Program. When I give tours to perspective students, I love seeing both their and their parent's faces light up as I let them know all the ins and outs of yet another wonderful part of SHU; a part that, quite frankly, I'm jealous of.

Because I'm a senior, I did not qualify for the program. I only have two semesters to go, and the student needs at least four to cover the cost of the technology. However,in the spring semester SHU announced that all full- time students would receive an iPad. (There was much rejoicing!) And although I love my iPad (I named it Isaac and bought a couple covers for it on Amazon.com as soon as I could) I hate doing my homework on it.

Since my laptop would not connect to the SHU network or even the SHU-Guest network, I started off the semester doing all of my homework in my room on Isaac's notepad application and then emailing my assignments to myself and finishing everything in a computer lab. While that method was not too difficult or inconvenient for short assignments, writing research papers on an iPad is not ideal. As a result, I made three trips to the IT Department to see if they could get the problem fixed.

I thought the first trip would be successful and quick like most of my past trips. However, my first trip resulted in my computer being left over the weekend in the IT department. When I got it back on Monday, there was updated internet security, but still no working Internet. I kept getting messages saying VIPRE found another threat and deleted it. Well, good job, VIPRE, I don't know how you're doing that without even being on the Internet.

The second and third trips were made on the same day. Everything was fine when I left the IT Department, but when I got back to my room in Canevin, I had no internet. I walked back over and came back again with no internet. However, later that day, my new savior, Chris Sherman, came to my room to fix the problem at the source. Alas, I have Internet now. Which right after Sherman left I decided it was absolutely necessary to update my status on Facebook status, proclaiming the good news.

So what was the issue? My laptop is a PC, not a Mac. Every time another tech staff looked at my computer, they all said the same thing: "I don't know what's wrong with it." Until one of them stopped blaming the problem on my computer and finally gave me an honest response: the SHU network was really just for the Macs. SHU-Guest picks up the PCs.

Now, please, bear in mind my first sentence as you read my next. I'm not a guest of Seton Hill. During the past four years, when my laptop easily connected to the SHU network, I was very involved on campus through various clubs and organizations. I'm happy to finally be connected, but really a guest just because I'm a PC? If we're not able to get on the SHU network, is it possible to at least get a name change for the guest network, please? It's a little offensive to those of us, who are still here and not carrying around a sleek, little piece of shinny metal.

Let's get real here, Chels.

2010-09-21T02:08:22Z

So let's forget about the last post I made about my Inform 7 project, because that was quite lofty. I'm about to get a lot more practical with my goals since, that's kind of important and since I need to have something decent enough to test soon and all I have right now are stores with nothing in them to buy. (Which is the whole point of a mall after all, right?) No one really likes window shopping.

I decided to get more specific too, so maybe people will actually use outside knowledge of what certain stores sell in them while playing the game. I'm using stores such as, Bath & Body Works, Toys 'R Us, Hallmark, American Eagle, F.Y.E. and Champs. (I'm sure there are some kinds of restrictions about using the names of these places but since this is simply a class project that I don't plan on doing anything with outside of class and will make zero profit from the finished product, I'm going to guess that it isn't a big deal. To be honest the game is eventually going to be deleted anyway since I'm a senior and within a year or so my account and information will be deleted. So I think I'm in the clear.

Below is my new map for my game. MUCH easier to do than before. Right now, the mall is set up, background information is in place and all I need to do now is make sure the player can buy what is on the shopping list and finish this sucker up.