Thanksgiving

I really enjoyed my time off from school and all of the time I spent with my family. The break was great becuase one, I finally got to eat all the home-cooked food I possibly could during that one week and two, I had no classes. Being home really made me not miss school. I didnt even want to come back or go to class but I know that couldnt be a reality. My mom made the best food and my family and I had the most fun possible. Being back in my dorm makes me really miss my home more and more every minute. It feels totally different from home becuase at home I have a nice comfortable couch that I can relax on instead of sitting in this hard chair all the time. My bed feels completely different than the one in Somerset. I could sleep all day at home but here I have too get up and do stuff that has to be done for no apparent reason. What really made me mad was the fact that I was given homework over the break. You mean to tell me that a teacher "coincedentally" gave us homework the same time as Thanksgiving. Even though I did it, I was kind of upset that I still had to do it. It was rediculous and unnecessary during the holidays. I guess in order to pass it was the right thing to do. Now that Im done with all my work and waiting for more to come my way, all I can do now is relax and go with the flow of the Texas Lutheran ways. The ways of which I do not like at all but sense I go here I have to live with it. I know that Im not the only one that feels the way I do about this entire situation. My friends have told me how they felt about their classes and the work that was assigned to them. I couldnt agree more with them and so we kind of laughed about it. I think that if our professors gave less work period, the students wouldnt be as stressed as they are now and have been throughout the whole first semester. But overall Thanksgiving break was a blast and I cant wait to go back home and enjoy time with my family and friends all over again. Next time Im going to have more fun than I did last time becuase my friends and I have already discussed this. From here on out I have to survive what TLU sends my way.

Weekends At TLU

All week at TLU, i see all the students and every place on campus is close to packed. Come Friday, the campus is nearly empty after classes. Everyone goes home for the weekend. Not just every other weekend but EVERY weekend. One of my friends is one of those people. My firends and I usually stay here most weekends. We beg our other friend to stay for once so we can go party and things of that nature. The same outcome comes from him. We dont see him for like three or four days because he doesnt even come back on sundays. Most of the time its a monday or tuesday when he shows up. But while he is gone its just me and my two ther friends doing the sme thing. We either go to aprty and have a lot of fun or we just stay in and play video games and watch tv. Truth be told, it gets old being here but I cann do whatever I want that doesnt involve spending any money. No lie though we have pretty good times here in the Guin. The parties are pretty legit and the girls are beautiful. I love meeting them and chilling with them. Gives me chance to get their numbers and going to parties in the future with them. I can dance with them as well and pretty much just chill. If they want to do more things then all they gotta do is tell me. I dont really try to unless we have talked for a while and are on the verge of dating. Besdies the parties and ladies I just do my homework and catch up on missing work that I need to catch up on. While Im doing my work I usually blast my music and get wild. Not really just start singing the song too. Most of the music I blast is Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller. Some of my classmates dont think that they are good but they like other whack artists. The lyricism of Wiz and Mac are beyond great. The way they put words together and the beats they make are amazing. So the weekends here can be fun if you make them fun. You just have to know how to have a good time with not too many people. You also have to know where the parties are. If you dont know where the parties then you aint nobody. Everyone that goes to TLU and Texas State will prolly be there. Weekends are the best part about TLU.

Now that Football is over...

I can say that football season was a fun experience as a freshman in college. The atmosphere is completely different than high school. The players are bigger and more mature so they dont mess around as much. There are some times whenn things go completely serious. Mot likely when coach gets upset at the team for not performing the task correctly. Overall I had a blast picking apart our starting defense in practice. My favorite parts were making the defensive backs look stupid. Now that the season is over, two varsity defensive backs have already told me that I should play corner next year. I didnt kow what to say but ask why? They told me because I was fast and physical. Sense recievers have to be able to withstand the brutality of the corners, Ive learned to return the favor and being physical with them. They dont really like that we are physical so they always try to throw us down but it never works. I'll admit that there are a few corners that can play some football but its nothing I havent been through before. On the plus side about the season ending, I have all the time in the world to finally focus on my school work and not have to worry about practice. I would get so fatigued after practice. Soreness and tiredness took affect on my body. I wouldnt want to do anything but I tried my best to get it done. Im currently failing one of my courses but now that the season in is over I feel that the grade will progress to a passing status. I get an average of eight hours of sleep a night but yet I find myself feeling as if I just got out of practice. It takes tole on my body. All of this time that I have off is going to help me get back into the rythm of a regular sleep schedule. I can get my work done early and sleep really good to where I wake up refreshed. Im going to miss football for the rest of this season but I can still work out and run or catch some footballs on my own time whenever I get the chance. My goals are to be starting next year but for now academics is on my mind. Im trying to make my family proud and give myself a little bit of self fulfillment. I dont want to have to worry about failing anymore. Im tired of it. School is the only thing Im putting my mind to now.  

Music and College

College brings me a lot of stress along with a fair amount of joy. All of the work that I get from each of my classes is breathetaking in a sense of agony. I have so much homework for English Composition 131 and half the time I dont even understand what it is about. Maybe Im over exaggerating just a tiny bit. I know what the assignments are about but it is so much work to do as well as the workload in my other classes. Plus I have to manage the time with work and football practice which takes up a lot of time. That is the reason why it is a must that I listen to music either between assignments or while Im doing them. The majority of the music I listen to is Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa. They arent the only two I listen to, I listen to Tyga, Drake, Big Sean, Kanye West, etc. There are plenty more artists that it might take up the entire blog. The music sends a certain message to my brain telling me to relax and calm down. It helps me get over things that I might be thinking too juch about. If Im having problems in the classroom or on the football field, I can always turn to the lyrics of my favorite artists. Some people might argue that the people that I listen are not good musicians but I think way differently from them. Everybody likes different poeple and  if I happe to like someone that my close friends heavily dispises thn so be it. A lot of people like the same artists but that is besides the fact. The entire reason I listen to music is because...I guess you can say sooths me. In some wierd way music keeps me going while at the same time calming me. It is one of my loves and as a matter of fact Im listening to music right now as Im typing this. It is what is keeping me from stopping this blog right this second. Sometimes on the way to class I bust out my headphones and jam out just so I can have a little freedom before my hour or hour and a half class. Even if I decide to take a nap during the day between classes, Ill put some Chris Brown on at low volume and just fall asleep. In some way it puts me to sleep faster but I always seem to find myself singing along quietly with the song. Atleast it works for me and Im going to continue to do so as long as Im in school.

Workload

The biggest diffrence between high school and college has most definetly got to be the workload. Ive had more work in college already than ive had my entire senior year of high school. Now ill admit that my high school wasnt the best in academics and didnt do a good job preparing me for next level education. Part of not being prepared is on me because I wasnt the student that did all of his work and turned everything in on time. I was the one that procrastinated and put things off until the end. In a way I screwed myself. Im not mad at my teachers because its not their fault for my mistakes but they didnt really try to help me out at all. If they did I would have accepted the help and appreciated it but things didnt work out that way for me. I pretty much had to do everything on my own in school. It wasnt a big problem but it could have turned out better for me. Im glad that im attending this university because I feel welcome here and the environment and people are just right for me. This semester Ive already done about five papers and it is a killer. Its not so much the paper itself but all the research and extra stuff we have to do. Its not really that hard to type a simple paper but some students make it out to be. Some students seem to make verything harder. Whenever I see them and they are complaining it kind of makes me angry because they should be glad to be in college. It is a great opportunity for them to make something of themselves. It is kind of hard to keep up with all of the work but it is a must for the students to turn in every single peice of assigned work that the professor assigns. One missed assignment can cost them a semester and caus them to retake the samw clas that next semester. I would say that I have the most work in either my geography class or my composition class. I do the most reading in geography and the most writing in composition. If I were to choose a single class to take this semester it would probably be weight training. Even though there is no reading or writing, I do enjoy lifting weights so I could do that everyday. I really do like my professors and they can work with me at anytime that Im having trouble. I really appreciate everything I have right now.

Study Hall

As we go each week preparing for a new opponent, we go every tuesday and thursday to study hall preparing for our classes. Some people may think that football players get treated differently. That a false accusation. Football players have it harder than regular students because we have to go to practice while everyone else has free time to do their work. We, the football players have to have time managament on lockdown because ther is a lot of work to be done. If we dont get our work done, there s a chance that we might be inelligible and wont get to play in the upcoming game. Study hall really helps me out for the fact that it gives me a chance to really focus on what Im doing. Who ever it may be that is watching us makes sure that it stays quiet. The silence helps me out even more because with distraction I get off task and dont get the majority of my work done. Some students take study hall as a joke and it kind of upsets me because they get out of hand. Once they do that it disrupts me and I dont do so much. The person watching us punishes the entire study hall group for one person misbehaving. He will either add more time to the session or not let us have our music on. I dont really listen to music sense its a distraction to me but others do. Plus, whoever gets in trouble gets mad at the person watching us. It makes no sense to get mad, your the one causing yourself to get in trouble. While they are mad Im catching up on something I might have missed or just getting ahead. I try to sit some place where I have a little bit of space around me so people wont try to talk to me that often. Sometimes I might still be in the middle of doing something important but then we are released to go home. At that moment I want study hall to go longer because if I continue the same work in my room I will most likely stay behind on it. Study hall is a great thing to go to when you need to get work done and the main part is to keep up my GPA so I can maintain my financial aid and scholarship. If my GPA drops below a certain point them I would be in big trouble. I really want to keep my grades high and make my family and I proud. 

College Friends

My college friends compared to my high school friends are way better. In high school, your friends would be with one minute and then the next their gone. They always ditch you for some apparent reason. Most of the time it is not important but I guess thats the way high school works these days. In college yo can be with your friends all of the time except for classes. I dont have any of my friends for any classes. Ive come to the conclusion that it is probably a good thing that none of them are in my classes because I would most likely get distracted all the time. Im almost positive that would affect my grade for that class. So, Im thankful that Im going solo in my classes. It really helps me focus on my work and I am more prone to getting my work done. My friends are always in my room and its hard for me to go to sleep because they are constantly being loud. I dont really mind but it would be nice for once to have a quiet night. Every day something new happens and we all have stories to tell. Most of them are funny but there are rare moments that we have that are serious. We pretty much go every where together. We always go to the paties together to cause trouble. One of my friends here at TLU was also my classmate in high school. He is my rommate here and its so much fun because we just do whatever we want and get away with it. We dont really care what anybody says,the only people that we really listen to are the football coaches. Another one of my friends is from Hondo which was in my high schools district. Its a small world if you go to the same college as your enemy. Overall he is a good dude and super funny. Makes me crack up everyday. Another one of my friends is from Houston. This gut has got some jokes. I remember the first day we actually hung out, he made me laugh so hard. We got lost going to a party and we were dogging on the driver because he had one little assignment. That assignment was to follow the truck in front of us. He lost him and we thought thta he was following him the whole time. Turns out he was following a completely different truck. We were making jokes about him and he was getting really mad at us. We didnt care because apparently we were the only people hacing a good time that night.

Fall Camp

On move in day, I was surprised at how small the room was. In my mind I was thinking that it was going to be difficult. Once I got everything settled in and I looked at it, it actually wasnt that bad. My roommate and I were already liking the college life. Even though we have been here for only a couple of hours. The very next day we had to get up at six in the morning to eat our mandatory breakfast. All of the football players had to do the same thing and everybody's face was filled with anger. I was mad that I had to get up that early. Not only did we have to get up that morning but every other morning for two weeks. It was tough trying to do it but we had to because we could not be late without being punished. The punishment here is terrible and the coaches do not take it easy on you. Im almost positive that if you did the punishment you would puke for a while. Maybe Im over exagerating but it is pretty bad. I almost threw up and all I did was rolls. The thing about rolls are that you get super dizzy and once you get up you dont know which way to walk. I really did almost throw up but I never did. I was scraed that I was at any second. One day after practice we had to do boot camp and there were four drills. On the first drill I had busted my eye open because someone else ran into me with his head. At first I thought that I was fine because my hand had no blood on it when I touched the gash. As soon as I put my hand back on it for the second time. I was thinking to myself that it was the same gash I had gotten senior year while playing basketball. It was a foolish mistake but oh well. Anyway, I had to miss the rest of fall camp because due to the injury, I got a minor concussion. My head was hurting every day for the remainder of camp. I was upset because in my mind I though I could be on varsity but I ended up playing on the OV. I guess the main point would that fall camp was boring for me. Everyone else was getting better while I was getting weaker and out of shape. Once I came back I had a hard time running because I was out of breath and I got winded very easily. Thats just part of football here at TLU.

Getting Away From The Books

College. A brand new life in a brand new world. Different atmosphere than high school and more importantly, the work. Prety much all of my classes have reading everyday. Now, Im not a huge fan of reading so I honestly dont do most of it. I usually ahve to wing it sometimes in class. Most of the time my grade reflects my work ethics. But once I finally do all my work, I like to have a little fun. Maybe play some NCAA because its always a competition between me and my friends. I never win so I always get frustrated but its fun still. Other than playing video games I like to go out with people and have a whole lot of fun. Just like the other night I went to an ABC (anything but clothes) party. It was literally the best party Ive ever been to in my entire life. So many people there and so much creative attire. People turned bed sheets into a dress. Like a professionally styled dress. No joke it looked like an actual store bought dress. I saw plenty of people wearing boxes and signs. Pretty typical I might add. My friends wore little skirts and long socks. Me, I had to find something to wear like last minute. So my friend had a chip bag that had a varity of different chips. I wore that as a skirt with long white socks. I thought I looked pretty good my self. The best costume I saw at the party was a man thong, cowboy boots, cowboy hat, bandana around the neck and a holster with two plastic guns. Swear to god, funniest thing Ive ever seen at a party. The cops came to the party like five times but didnt even say anything bad. The only thing he said was to stay out of the streets. I was kinda scared at first when they came. I was going to sprint in one general direction and hide in a tree or something. I was not about to get in trouble. So many hot girls at this party but the hottest girl Ive ever seen was wearing like a duct tape dress. She saw what I was wearing and kind of giggled but I really didnt care because she knows Im funny. SO yeah, I advise anybody who is getting stressed with school and is tired of doing book work or reading to go out to a ABC party or really any type of party. It is a ton of fun. No lie. I cant wait to go to the nex on. Thats how I get away from the books.

College Weekends

During the school week here at Texas Lutheran University, the campus is so loud and there is usualy a lot of things happening. Even though you see the same people, almost everyday you can see something different. Everything changes once the classes end on Friday evening. Everybody leaves the campus to go home. I havent been home since I moved in. But the campus is really quiet and no activities what so ever. Unlesss there is some sort of athletic event going on in Seguin. If theres not, then the town is empty. Luckily, Seguin is not to far New Brainfels or better yet San Marcos. Theres always a party at Texas State. I actually went to my first party there this past weekend. It was an experience. There were so many beautiful girls at these parties. I love dancing with them. Maybe get a couple of numbers here and there. Only if they are fine, if you know what I mean. The campus environment at Texas State compared to Texas Lutheran is quite a difference. Way more students stay on campus at Texas State. I mean, who would want to leave Texas State. I would never! I wanted to go to Texas State's first home football game but I had no ride to get there in time. I ended up going the day there game was held but at like midnight. The party I went to was at an apartment complex at like a clubhouse. It was a packed house that night but I wasnt complaining. I had a good time dancing hanging around with my friends from both schools. After the party we were supposed to go to another one but nobody knew where it was. So we all went back to our friends dorm at Texas State. Only three of us stayed the night there, the rest went back to their dorm rooms in Seguin. So the point I'm trying to get across to all you readers, even though I dont have any, is that if you have the chance to go to Texas State over Texas Lutheran to take it! Texas Lutheran is a good school dont get me wrong but my experiences in San Marcos have been better than Seguin. So take my word for it. I am seriously considering about transfering to Texas State and maybe walking on the football team. That would be so cool to play at a Division I football program.

Dorm Life

Dorm life compared to home has its differences and its similarities. For one, living with a roommate is quite a difference. It has its perks but sometimes he/she may get under your skin. That happens to me all the time. My roommate takes forever and never has anything of his own so he has to borrow my stuff. it gets on my nerves. i know its not a big deal but its just the way i am. first off he acts like he has no respect for my stuff. not even his own. i try to help him out but he just doesnt follow through. Its not like i hate him i mean hes pretty much my bestfriend but i dont think i can get use to the way he is. I came in here with no idea on how his habits were. Ill fight it out though because im not gonna move out and put forth all of the unnecesarry work. Another difference is that i dont have a mom here to clean up after me like usual. Im not saying i dont clean up and all that good stuff because i do. Im just not use to doing it all the time. Im not afraid to admit that i really do miss my mom i just dont ever show it. People call me mean mug because i walk around campus with a straight face all the time. I knida like that nick name cuz it shows that people recognize who i am. Also getting up on you own is not as easy as it sounds. I actually slept through the first class of the day because i slept through my alarm. I was upset and was worried about what i missed. i was praying that it wasnt something bug like a project or a pop quiz. i didnt know what to expect. Thankfully my classmates filled me in on the class i missed. wasnt anything big but still, its an absence. Some similarities is that the room comes equipt with a closet, beds, and a sink. These are a must when it comes to living on your own in college. Even though you have a roommate, you cant always depend on them. They might do something you would never expect them to do in a million years. Its not a bad experience over all but at first i got kind of homesick. then after a while i got used to it so its normal for me now. i just come back to my room and lay down or do my homework that i have too much of. thats dorm life for you.

Reaction to College

During the summer I was excited about the college life. my expecatations were like every other incoming freshman. Easy classes, parties, girls. I pictured that every single day. My hopes were way to high. When I first moved in to the dorm rooms I thought it wasnt bad. Then for the next two weeks I had to get up at six in the morning. Football practice at about eight. I didnt like it already but I love football. So I thought to myself that I can do this because there is no other option. Made it through fall camp and then all of sudden classes came around. My schedule isnt bad at all. Nice and spaced out times. I could live with this. Got to find out who my teachers were and I was fine with them. As I went to all my classes for the first time, I could already tell that my workload was going to be a good amount. I had no other option but to do it or my grades would drop and I would lose my financial aid. Nobody wants that to happen to them. As the next week went by I kind of got used to doing work everyday of the week. Most specifically reading. So much reading for every class but theres nothing to it but to do it.  Compared to High School, this is no joke. High School was more like a free-day every single day. Ive had more homework here already than I had all of my senior year. I guess I wasnt prepared enough. Im smart enough to make it through but I dont want to just make it through, I want to be a top student so I must try my best everyday. All of my teachers love what they do and get into there job. Sometimes I think they go crazy but its just what they do to teach. It doesnt bother me at all, it keeps me entertained to make it through the day. My ealiest class starts at nine in the morning so Im pretty happy about that. In High School my first class was at seven twenty. quite a difference when it comes to sleeping. Thats just on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On Tuesday and Thursday my classes start at ten thirty. I wake up at about nine thirty on those days and about eight thirty on the other days. I would say that my total reaction to College is surprised and shocked. Living on my own is one the big changes. I have to get used to it though.