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.