Finals

I don't understand how people can tell you not to stress about finals when it is the biggest test in the semester. I understand that unless you like really bomb it you won't fail. But lets say you have an A- in a class. You take a crappy final and all of the sudden its a B now. That is money right out of the door. Scholarships look at that. they saw well he doesn't have an A or something and they move on. With college being already being way over priced, how can I, having to pay for every single penny of my college career afford to lose that scholarship? This doesn't make sense to me. I understand the concept of just relaxing and taking it easy. but lets be serious there is a lot on the line, so when people want to tell me to relax and stop stressing I want to tell them well pay for my college and I will. but I don't because that would be mean.

Drunk people

So back to the story of this Big guy who is 300 pounds. I wrote about him in previous posts. Last friday was the football party and since i was the designated driver (because i don't drink) I drove him there. well at the party we will just say that he had way to many way to fast. because we were only there for an hour and I took him home. Before we got out to my car he had to try and climb in. That was a feat in itself. All in all he fell, I laughed. Later on that night I dropped him of at his dorm and i went to my dorm which is to doors down. Anyways he went out to Joe's about 5 min later and I didn't hear anything from him till about 2 in the morning when Joe's closes. I waited up for him to make sure he made it home ok. Well I heard him yell at someone on the way up the stairs and then a loud smash. He then walked down the hall and I thought he dropped something but upon closer investigation I saw it to be blood. He then walked past me to the bathroom. I thought he had just cut his had and would wash it off. But I looked at the hall and I knew that there is no way that much blood could have come from a small cut. So I rushed to the bathroom and saw the gash in his hand. I told him to put pressure on it because the bleeding wasn't slowing down. I then came out and told one of my friends to go get the car because he needed to go to the hospital. After all that I then mopped the floor because I knew he would be in enough trouble with window that he had just smashed and he would be in more trouble if there was blood everywhere. Anyway it turned out he needed seven stitches in two different places on his hand because apparently he forgot that glass with chicken wire is most likely not the best thing to punch.

Black friday people

This weekend I was watching the news and saw that some people in a bigger city got trampled on heading into a target. 1. That to me just shows how dumb people really are. 2 I saw a really old lady in the back just pushing people not even trying to get in, she was just pushing people. 3 There is nothing that is that good in target!! If it was a best buy I can maybe see a little pushing. But that was just ridiculous to me. All of the people there just needed to be smacked. Plus it was like 4 in the morning that is also ridiculous.

Black friday drivers

This weekend was the weekend of thanksgiving. Normally this means people are nice and caring and generous. They are thankful for many things, but it seems like this is too much for people. They can't handle all the niceness that they give because on black friday the majority of people are horrible drivers and very rude at the stores. My dad and I went to hit baseballs in Cedar Rapids at 10 in the morning. On the way up there the speed limit is 55, natural I was going a little past it like most people only 63 though. Anyway that is besides the point. As I was going down the highway I noticed this large SUV right on my bumper, this frustrated me but I didn't do anything because I wasn't in a hurry, later on when he thought it was clear to pass when anybody who isn't blind or has an IQ above 3 would have saw the on coming cars and would have been think "whoa there are cars right in front of me, I shouldn't pass," not this guy, he apparently gunned it and tried to fit in, being as I didn't feel like dying that day I slammed on the brakes and let him in. He then found out that I was behind a line of 5 or 6 more cars going slower than what I was and he almost died to pass one car who is now right behind him. He is lucky that I even let him in because I thought about continuing my speed and not letting him in.

Class

Today in class we talked about how different people feel about religion. I partly agreed with Townsley claims. I am a methodist and I am not saying what religion is the right or wrong one. But the part that bothered me was the fact that he was saying other people's religion was untruthful. That to me is worse than just accepting what is going on. I understand he is upset about the different scripts being read at his worship, I also know that should most likely not have been reading a different script in a Lutheran church but he has no say in telling people what religion is right, or truthful. Thats what has been causing war in the holy land for centuries. We don't need Americans fight over the same thing.

Stress

This weekend has been very stressful, one our football team lost. Two I am already starting baseball on sunday. third I have a huge bio test to study for, but I have been studying for awhile but it is still very difficult to learn. I also have to give a speech on monday, that I haven't started on. To me this is crazy but then I realize this isn't even finals week yet.... I am not looking forward to that week at all. I don't feel very good about my test either. Every one says bio is way hard but to me I usually don't get very bad grades in bio but this last test I did and now I have another one so I am very stressed about this test... I can't do bad..

Football

This saturday Wartburg lost to Bethal 28 to 22. Our team played pretty well but overall I thought that we should have beat Bethal. Our offense had two good drives otherwise they stalled out after maybe 3 plays. I thought we should have passed it more because their defensive line was very big and it was tough for our guys to get position. When our offense passed it we gained big chunks of yards very quickly. O well its not my call I guess. On the defensive end we held out pretty well, the only reason they scored was because our saftey's fell for the trick plays. Other than that we stopped the run pretty well. They didn't get any touchdowns by just running down the field.

Football

Today we had lunch in Joe's Knight Hawk. We had lunch there because the football team is 10-0 and they were doing the play off selection. We found out that we had to play Bethal first round. Bethal is from MN and in 2003 Wartburg beat 27 to 7. Hopefully we can beat them that bad this year but you never know till it happens. NCAA rules say that in play off games only 52 people can dress. Im not to mad about this because I can't get in the game anyway because one of the players on our team has the same number. So instead I will stay warm and sit in a Clinton dorm room and watch the game in the warmth and also watch whatever other football game is on TV.

Nervous

Tomorrow I have to give a speech for oral communications. Normally i am not a nervous person, but I am actually nervous for tomorrow. I don't know why. Maybe its because it I am worried about not doing good. I know I have to do good because this speech is worth 80 points. I feel that I have prepared well enough to do well but I am still nervous. I also am pretty relaxed about things in life and I don't like to dress up, but I have to, tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it. Tomorrow will be interesting.

State of Fear 2!! The Media crap!

After I read this book I thought back to what it was talking about. How certain people were trying to influence media to help their cause, and I think about now days, where everything is related to media, especially politicians. This year I didn't vote on november 2nd, one because I was to busy but this is irrlevant to the point. The second reason is that I saw the pointless add campain they had. It showed how bad the other person is and what horrible thing wrong that this person did. It never once said what they were going to do besides the opposite. How do I know that the opposite is right or even good? But all the politicians think that bashing the other guy is the right thing. Well in my eyes it makes the guy doing the bashing the bad guy. I know what has gone wrong in our country.... for the most part anyway, besides all the government cover ups. I want to know what this next person will do in office. But they never say out right, its just talk.

State of Fear

As I was reading this book I was unsure of global warming, I mean I heard people talk of it and how it is way bad but I never had hard evidence to prove it. This book is kind of helping my thinking out by saying yes it is a possibility but not as a severe world threat that is about to destroy the world. When I was reading the book it told me that only little changes have been documented, I know some small changes can cause massive changes down the road but these changes can't be proved that global warming caused them. They could be caused by natural climate conditions since no one knows exactly what the climate patterns are. So I am still unsure of global warming. I think it needs to be watched and governed but not as a mass crisis problem.

Luther

This saturday we played Luther, our rival. The Wartburg Knights were 7-0 coming into this game so we have a lot going for us. We started the game of very well our offense marched right down the field and scored. But after that Luther just found a way to hang on. Our defense didn't give up any points till the end of the 1st half on a hail marry pass that bounced of one receiver and landed in a another hand. Our coaches gave us a good pep talk in the locker room and we came out and scored, but Luther was still hanging on. It was only 24 to 15 in the 4th quarter. Near the end of the 4th Luther scored a field goal to make it 18 to 24 Wartburg. Luther tried to onside kick and they kicked a great onside kick except that the kicker didn't kick it into the ground first. Because he didn't kick it into the ground first we could fair catch it. When our receiver signaled fair catch they couldn't touch him. The only thing was he didn't attempt to catch the ball so they shouldn't have given us the fair catch. But they did and we kept the ball and ran out the clock. and we WON!!!!

Babysitting

I am a football player, and MOST not all but most of the football players drink. I am one of the few exceptions to this stereo type. Even though stereo typing is bad I believe this stereo type is true. Any way back to the story. I was just sitting in my room attempting but not completing my homework on saturday night when one of my friends who also wasn't drinking asked me to go with him to Joe's. Being bored out of my mind and not really accomplishing anything on the homework side I said yes. This was a bad idea. Two of my friends decided to get drunk and I was with them to make sure they got home safe. I know I could have stayed home or even left them but I didn't. Once Joe's closed and we headed home. When we got into the dorm hall, things started to happen. One of my friends decided he needed to think, in the middle of the hallway. He just sat there and did nothing. After about ten minutes of thinking someone called my other friend and was crying. Then one on the floor heard this and said lets go. He then took off into the middle of clinton field. Unfortunelty someone let him in and he headed to some girl who was crying. After about a half hour of slurred talking I finally convinced him to come home where he then said he heard a ringing which no one else heard. Which was quite entertaining. After that I finally convienced him to go to bed and that was the end of my night.

Social Change Wheel

On the social change wheel, I think I fall into the direct service catagory because I like to help kids when I get the chance too. But I don't go out of my way just to help people so I could probably do more to help them. I also think I am part of the Socially Responsible Dailly Behavior, by reyceling paper and aluminum, etc...But that is also about it. I should defienently try to change my ways but it is very difficult with the limited schedule with football and school and my job. I would like to change the way I am, and I think I could if I conciously make the effort everywhere I go.

Today I bought a couch for my dorm because I lofted my bed. I asked my roommate if I could turn my bed sideways kind of by his bed, but I would be blocking part of his bed but not that much. I asked him and he said no because he needed to get in his bed and I thought to myself really? you need a whole bed to get into? because the bed was not taking up a lot of his just some but it would leave us a lot of room for the rest of the dorm. But no he didn't want to so now we have to be crammed on the side of the wall because he didn't want to. I just think that since we are both sharing the room we should agree more.

Social Network

Last night I went to the movie Social Network. It was about the creator of facebook and how facebook became to be. I was a little skeptical because it didn't have very good previews, but my girlfriend really wanted to see it so I said sure why not. Turns out, it was a really good movie! It was about 2 and a half hours, but if felt like 15 minutes. It was very interesting to find out that the creator of Facebook is a college kid who kind of stole a little idea but also tweaked it very slightly. Once he created Facebook the people that he took it from got mad but didn't argue with him for a while because that is not the gentlemenly thing to do. After the people saw that Facebook was a huge hit they finally filed a lawsuit, turns out they won! Only to settle with about 65 million. To me that is a lot of money to the creator of Facebook, pocket change. Facebook is now worth over 2.5 billion dollars. The creator of Facebook became the youngest billionaire ever, and is told that he will pass Bill Gates very soon.

Biology

I am im biology, and when ever they want you to write papers they have their own style of writing, as well as our writing class. That bothers me, but not as much as the fact that the bio dept. is way stricter than our actual writing class! Too me it should be the other way, but no if our margins are a half inch off they are taking major points off. I understand wanting a certain way but I didn't think that you would have to almost drop a whole letter grade for it.

Society

Today I went to my girlfriends room to hang out. On her wall she had some Taylor Latner poster, I was ok with it because its just a poster, but because I am feisty I was giving her crap about having a half naked man on her wall. While I was giving her crap something came up, I asked her if I could also have a picture of a girl on my wall. She said it was ok as long as the girl had pants and a shirt on, because thats what he has on in his poster. I looked online for posters and even at walmart, there is hardly any posters of girls in pants and a shirt, and thats what goes on in our society girls dress in skimpy clothes and are oooed and ahhed but when most guys do it, it is just wrong. So who choose's this and why does it have to be like that? It just doesn't make sense to me.

Music

It has been said that music is a good way to express yourself. I think this is true because I play the guitar and the drums. When you play your favorite songs you can lose of track of things and time around you. Playing the drums can relieve stress as well as give you a work out. Playing the guitar can help release stress as well but it is not as big of a work out as the drums. When you play the guitar and you can learn your favorite songs it is so cool to me. Trying to match what people have created and made them millions of dollars is pretty exciting.

homework 2

Tonight is a saturday night and I am sitting in my room doing homework! This is not good, I would much rather be hanging out with my friends, but no I procrastinated and now I have to sit in her and finish it. Outfly was supposed to be a day of catching up for me but some how that did not happen.. I wonder why? It's a good thing I bought those noise canceling head phones, so I can block all the people in the hall having fun and being really loud.

Procrastination

Procrastination, everybody does it or has done it at sometime. I think that with a large work load or a busy schedule that 3 things will occur, one a person will buckle down and work hard and get everything done before hand, (but that is unusual and besides the point I want to talk about). The second thing that could happen is that a person could go into some kind of stressed out situation which is not good. The third thing is that they could procrastinate and wait to do things because at the end of a long day it is hard to motivate yourself to do work. Now procrastination is not good but a lot of kids do it. It can get you into a lot of trouble as well. A good hard worker will usually push through the thought of just laying around and sleeping or going to hang out with your friends, and normally I can do that as well, but the other day I came back to my dorm after a long school day, then practice, then work, and I tried to get up the idea of doing homework but I couldn't so I fell asleep. That is not a good idea because the next day you just have twice as much.

Ridiculous

Everyone needs to study, including me, but my hall is quiet the loud noise level, constantly. So I have been looking to get some noise canceling head phones, because lets face it, I am not a big cold weather person to walk out in the freezing cold with my heavy book bag with about a half hours worth of homework. As I was looking for some noise canceling headphones I found ones that had good reviews and look pretty cool. I keep looking and I am starting like these more and more, then I see the price, 300 dollars for a pair of headphones! What the heck?! Who would possibly pay that much for a pair of head phones?! That is just ridiculous I mean lets be serious what technology do they have in them that is worth 300 dollars, anyway we will end on me still studying WITHOUT those 300 dollar headphones.

Study table

So am sitting in study table thinking about all the home work I have to do, then I remembered that I have to seven blogs by sunday if not before that. So I have no idea what to write seven blogs about. So I will just write about study table. The football players have study table every Sunday and Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30. It helps very much when you have homework because you can get a lot done with help from the IS teachers right there, because other times that I have done homework in my room I have thought about going to the Pathways center but then I knew it was cold, so decided to just double check my work instead of getting cold. I know that is very lazy but it was cold that night. Plus when it comes down to a couple weeks before finals I will use them more, but as of now when its cold, I am not a big fan of walking out in the cold.

it works kinda

I really am kind of grumpy about this whole not working thing. My blog wouldn't remember my name and account. So I had to wait and try and figure out how to get this thing to work. I think it was a conspiracy by google. Even though they most likely don't know who I am,  but I like to think that. I am also not sure what the conspiracy would be about? Possibly they wanted to see how long it would take me to finally just give up and create a new account or something far worse. They could be trying to create a mass monopoly and some how my account not letting me in helps them out? I don't know for sure, either way its a conspiracy.