MY Final Blog

As this is my last blog i find it fitting that i reflect on my experience of blogging. I feel that it was a blessing and a curse. i liked it when i kept up to date but when i feel be hind and had to write allof them in one night. i dont feel like i will blog right away. i can see myself later in life doing it but at the moment me and blogging arent really on speaking terms. but i feel that it was a good experience for me.

Christmas Break

As Christmas break approaches very quickly i cannot wait for the break to begin. so as it gets close i am planning on doing so many things when i get back but the main thing that i am looking forward to is seeing my family. I know that over break  i will be working a lot to get money and hanging out with friends.  i know the one thing that i would miss is some of my friends here.

Finals

As my first finals week is about to begin i feel some nerves. however, the main thing that i feel is i just wanna go home because i haven't been home in a while and i miss my family. i guess the main reason that i feel that i am not nervous is because i really only have one final and the rest of them are just tests. the one thing that i really don't like about this finals week is the fact that i don't have any tests on Wednesday but i have one on Thursday so i have to stay until that is over. i really just am anxious to be home i guess is the main thing. i cannot wait for Christmas break.

Next

I liked the book. I found that it as a lot faster than State of Fear. But it would probably be due to the fact that it was a shorter book. but i found that i looked the book better than State of Fear but that is just my opinion. as far as the presentation over the book goes i felt like it went very well. i feel like we did a very nice job covering the entire book and all of its scientific topics. Although some of the people in my group seemed to be nervous about the presentation i still think it went well and we covered all the topics that we need to cover in the presentation. Some of the book i found confusing but as i kept reading it made sense and by the end everything made sense and i understood why Crichton wrote that way.

CWW Wartburg

After preforming in des moine we had to come back and preform here. let me tell you i think it went very well. I enjoyed it very much after all the work that was put into it. Not to mention the money that went into it. I feel like with each performance it got better and with each the emotional toll became greater due to the fact that it was the seniors last one. After the end of it i was glad that i did it. the one thing that i wished i would have done Wartburg Choir. the only thing that was nice is the fact that i had sang some of the songs in high school so i had them memorized.

CWW Des Moine

Recently i had to preform at the Luther church of Hope. this chapel was amazing. It is a huge chapel it seats close to 2500. the inside looked like an airport. there is 4 chapels, they had a gym and about 50 class rooms. they had a closed circuit tv with two big projectors in the main chapel. this church was very very big. this just made our performance that much better. i dont wanna know how much that actualoy cost to do all that.

Xbox Live

Many people play, if you asked guys a majority would say yes. I am not saying females do not play video games im just saying it seems like a majority of the people who do are men. as i walked down my floor and am on other floors i notice that almost everyone has either an Xbox or PS3. When i walk down the womens halls i don't see that. I guess it is how games are marketed too. Many of the gamy es you see today are geared towards men. they have a male lead character, they usually invole violence or sports, and they usually are sifi or War games. I am not saying that women cannot like these things just that the fact that typically these games are geared toward men. which leads me to assume that the target consumer for video game companies is men. Which makes sense since almost every guy on my floor has a game concle

Football

Now that football is over I find it fiting that I refect on how I think the year went. To sum it up I felt like i could have done better this year. I didn't feel like i did as well as I liked. I know i could have done better in many aspects. I feel that I could have been where i was at the end of the year at the begining if i only had practiced more over the summer. But that is all in the past now and i can't change the fact anymore. So looking to the future i have high hopes and expectation for next season. Although I am a little nervous with picking up another position. Next year i plan on punting also, but i know with practice that i will do fine

School so far.

Now that I have been here and since the first five weeks are over I find it fitting to reflect how school is going so far. When school first started I was very concerned how it was going to go. Not that I would fail I just wanted to do so well and I didn't know if I could Live up to my own expectations. What I found over the past few weeks is that i have been very motivated and i have surprised myself. all that I can Hope for is that this motivation carries over the rest of the year and if it does i know that i will have no problem with school. and that is all i can hope for.

My iPod Set to shuffle.

Whenever I listen to my iPod I usually set it to shuffle because I like to be surprised to what I am listening to. Usually I will choose the first song and let it go from there. Since I have a 32 iPod touch I usually don't hear the same song ever when am listening to music. On my iPod I have a large variety of music which I enjoy because one song I could be listening to Rap and the Next it could be Country. I have found out that I like a lot of different genres in music and it helps when I set my iPod to  shuffle so I am not hearing the same type of music every time. Music is one of my passions and that is why i usually always am listening to it. I find that it helps me concentration and stay on task because it helps me block out all the outside distractions. This is why my iPod is one of my best tools at School

How I've changed at school.

Now that I have been at college for about two months now I have realized that the person I am at home is completely different than the person I am at school and in my dorm room. When I am at home I find that I do not really care how my room looks. However, I find myself cleaning all the time and keeping my stuff very well organized. I believe the cause of all this is because now I have a roommate and I don't want our room to be a complete mess since guest will be in our room. At home when I have guest over or friends all I have to do is shut my bedroom door and that solves the problem where as here people will actually be in the main place and if it's new people the first impression they get of us is how we keep our room and I like to set a good first impression on people. One of the biggest changes that has happened to me that I do not like very much is at home whenever I was hungry I would cook myself food. It's not so much the fact of the food it is actually the fact that I cannot cook my food. I love to cook and it bothers me that I haven't been able to do that lately. I have a feel that when I go home I will be doing a lot of cooking.

Changes

As this new chapter in my life is starting there are many changes occurring. Although there are the obvious one, living by myself, much more free time, and all the choices i have, the less obvious ones are the ones that i think will effect me the most. The main one that I think will effect me is the fact that now I am only involved in one sport. In high school i was in four sports and always seemed to be moving from one to the next will no free time. it will be pretty hard for me to go to just one sport. But I also know that this could be a blessing in disguise. I am very intrested to see how much i can improve now that i am focusing on one sport. Another change

Football.

As I have previously stated I am involved in football here on campus. Thus far it has gone very well for me. At first it was a very hard adjustment for me coming from a grass field and a two inch block to turf and kicking off the ground. It was very very frustrating for me because I was not getting the results I can do so I felt as if I was under preforming my potential. Little by little I started to make adjustment and my making improvements to my form and in time the results have been better but still not up to my standards. I still know that I have along way to go to achieve my goals and live up to my potential. I also that not all of this will happen this year. It will happen most in the off season and depending how much time i put in to get a bigger return. I know that if i stick with this and set my mind to working hard and improving that come next year i will be a completely different kicker and hopefully see those results on the field.

Bloggers block

As I sit here trying to find the topic of my next blog I find myself struggling to find a topic that I will enjoy blogging about. I imagine this is typical with any blogger but it seems to be plaguing me as of late. It's not that I cannot think of a topic, it seems that I cannot think of a topic that I will enjoy writing about and that will have a good substance and won't just be a bland boring read. When I blog I would like them to be an interesting read and be thought provoking. I have a few in mind that I might right now.....I will only state the titles to keep you reading later. A few include; Why i'm here and my iPod set to shuffle. When I typically start blogging I like to think about what I am going to write long before I even get close to posting it. One thing that I have realized as I write this blog is that I still have many ideas for blogs I just need to think a little harder each time before I start on what I want to write about and it will come to me.

My Experience So Far.

As our first full week of classes comes to an end I think that I will reflect on my experience here at Wartburg so far. My first day on campus was actually August 13. There were many things going through my mind on that day.   So many feelings I was feeling....I was nervous about being by myself and I had the biggest pit in the bottom of my stomach and the only reason I could think of why this was happening is because it was the feeling of one of the chapters of my life being over and the next one was starting. This was something hard for me at first because it seemed as though the world was moving so fast all around me and I wasn't ready for it. I felt like I couldn't actual enjoy life because it was moving to fast. However, this feeling past very quickly when football started and I actually met some people. It also helped that I was so busy with football that I didn't actually have time to think about any of those other feelings. I started to feel nervous again when classes started up. But again these feelings passed too. Occasionally I get some of these feelings just sitting around doing nothing but then I think of all that is yet to come and how I have so much ahead of me. I forget all the other things and the past and try to live in the present....the here and now....and not worry about what i cannot control.

Jurassic Park

This past week in class week in class we watched Jurassic Park. My first thought when I found out that we were watching this was, "yes, now i get like a week of relaxing class!!" However, when I found out that we were going to have to write done all the science that we could on a sheet of paper that kinda got me down. I had not seen Jurassic Park in a while so I was very eager to see it again. Even though we had to write about the science in it, it still did not take away from the fact that I was eager. As we started to watch the movie I noticed that the movie seemed much different from the first time I watched it. I could not quite figure out what it was right away but as the day went I finally put my finger on it. Plane and simply it seemed different because I was older and it seems as though my view on the world has changed. Even though i was not happy about writing down all the science that was in the movie as the movie went on i found myself fascinated with how much science was actually involved in the movie. I'm not talking about all the main science stuff....I'm talking about all the little science stuff that you really wouldn't notice unless you were actually looking for it as we were. So by the end of the movie when I had over a half page of examples of science I didnt actually mind doing it because it was intriguing to me.

The First Chapter......

In my first post I think i will choose to cover a variety of topics but the main focus would be why I choose the title I did for my blog. There are actually many reasons for why I choose this title. The first would be I intend to use this blog to blog about some of the readings I do in IS for each chapter. That would be the physical reason for naming my blog the next chapter, referring to the actual physical chapter in the books. The other main reason I decided to name my blog "'The Next Chapter....." is because of the fact that one chapter in my life is over and i am starting a new chapter or the next chapter of my life. So that is the more metaphorical reason for choosing that as my chapter. Being this is my first time ever blogging I really have no idea what to write about. But that is also one of the great things about blogging. You have complete freedom of what you want to write about and i have a very strong feeling that by the end of this I am going to enjoy blogging. I cannot say that I will continue to blog after the class is over but I can say that because of me doing this it will be a good life experience and I will be glad I did it.