Last Blog Post

I have had a blog for a whole academic year at Dayton. I have experienced a lot of things writing a blog every week. I have learned to manage my time a lot better. During the second semester, I became a lot busier, I am always doing something since I started rushing a fraternity. I started writing my blog post during the first few days so I would not forget to write the blog post and I would still have time later in the week for other school work. The first semester I would always wait till Friday night to finish my blog post and sometimes I would forget to do the assignment. I was surprised at how I was able to think of new topics every week for the second semester since I did not have a choice to pick from. I did meet my goal of writing better blog posts with grammar and punctuation. I have looked over all of my blogs this semester before I post it which has made a big difference in my grammar and punctuation. I have also been able to write the blog posts before Wednesday where is last week I would write them all on Friday. Also, this semester has only missed one blog post where I have missed multiple last semesters which impacted my grade a little bit. Overall I am extremely happy with my results and if I had to change anything I would have wrote more about things I am passionate about because I would care more about the post making them better.

Music

Music has been a part of our society since the beginning of time. Back in the day tribes would make songs about everything from war, birth, and even to death. Every person around the worlds hears music every day, it becomes apart of our society. I am a big music person as well. I will listen to anything, but depending on my mood depends on what music I play. Usually, in the morning, I listen to more alternative music because I am not awake yet and still pretty tired. Later in the day, I listen to more hip-hop rap, some of my favorite artists consist Juice World, Kanye, and Chance the Rapper. I love when new albums come out or when I find new artist or music that comes out. Last month there were three albums that came out that I liked Rich the Kid, NAV and Juice world. I would have to say my favorite by far was Juice world. I also think it is crazy that music can change peoples moods. When I am snowboarding and I always put on a song that pumps me up before I would try a new trick because it tends to give me confidence. Unlike anything else, people can remember song lyrics and it stays with them. If an old song comes on from 5 years ago I can still remember the lyrics even if I have no listened to it in years. Overall I like music because it brings people together.

Dream Vacation

My ideal vacation consists of many different things. I would first like the vacation to take place out west in the mountains. The Vacation should last at least seven days to a maximum of 10 days. Then I would like my family and friends to be there. Finally, we would need a big house with a hot tub and a pool right on the mountain. Finally, my planes would consist of flying in on the first day and relaxing with everybody in the house. Then wake up the next day in the morning to get a full day of skiing. Then after skiing go out to dinner and walk around in the town. Then the next day I would like to go help skiing with all of the good skiers. I would hope that there would be feet of powder up to my neck. I have been outwest multiple of times and I still have never have skied in snow more than a foot. Finally, I would like to ski for a few more days and finish up the week with some other activities. I would love to go trout fishing in a stream along with hiking with everybody. It is the fact that all of my family and friends are with me when I am on vacation that makes it. This would be what I would want to do if I had the ideal vacation. I think I am going to move outwits to Utah when I graduate because overtime I go there on vacation I have an amazing time.

Spring Break

Spring break is right around the corner. I have 2 more tests on Friday then I get to go home for a week and relax. I am driving home with my roommate and two other freshman girls that live close to me. Right after my final test I am going back to my dorm and getting in the car for a four-hour drive back to Pittsburgh. One of my friends, Nick from my floor is also coming back for the week to spend the time with me and my roommate Drew. I and Nick and one of my friends, Stone, who goes to school in North Caroline are going up to Kent State on Saturday. I and Stone went to Kent State last year for fake patties day and had a blast. We stayed in Stone’s sister’s sorority house. After we come back from Kent we are going to go up to my cabin for the rest of the week. I am having some of my friends from back home come and visit me when I am staying there. I will probably go snowboarding every day with my friends when I am with my cabin because it is right next to Seven Springs. Seven Springs has the best terrain parks on the east coast, so we just stay in the parks all day learning new tricks. I have a goal of doing an under flip with only one foot strapped in and a tail grab. Overall I cannot wait till this week is over so I can go back home to see my friends and family.

Arrival

Last night I watched the Arrival with a bunch of kids on my floor. I live up in Stuwart and if you do not know what that is, it is a doom room that is extremely small. I moved my bed up against the window so we could put a futon in the room. Then our friends from down the hall brought another futon in the room so a bunch of us could watch at watch. The movie is about Aliens have landed on Earth, in 12 different locations. Language professor Louise Banks joins a US army team at one of the locations, in Montana. Her job is to try to learn the aliens’ language and enable communication with them. Through regular meetings with two of the aliens she starts to compile a record of the aliens’ “language” – a series of drawn symbols. The important question is – are they friend or foe? Other nations with alien landings are starting to view them as a threat, making it a race against time as war with the aliens could erupt at any moment. Once the movie was over I had to sit down and think about what just happened for about two minutes. I though what would happen if I knew my fire and if I would want to know my future. I had to think about if you know the future would it change or stay the same. These questions will most likely never be answered in my life time, which makes me think about it more.

Fishing

I about 2 years ago in April, some of my friends and I when up to my cabin for a few days to go fishing. We started off skiing and snowboarding in the morning and then later in the day we  went fishing. There is a stream that is stocked right behind the cabin, which is pretty pivot. Then we caught a few fish behind the cabin, and some of them were big enough to eat so we took them back to my dad to grill up. Later we went down stream to see if there were more fish. We spotted a two foot brown trout under the bridge. We were casting near it for 20 minuets, before I poked it with my rod. There was no movement so as confused as we were, I still wanted to catch the fish. We had a great idea of going into the water and trying to catch it using my t-shirt. I proceed to walk in the water until I get to the middle of the stream. The water was around my waist. Still the fish did not move. This was now or never, so I tied a knot where my arm holes were. I put the shirt in the water as a net, since we did not have one. I scooped up the fish but it was in my hands instead of my shirt. I pulled it out of the water for about three seconds before it wiggled out of my arms. Still to this day I have never seen a brown trout so big.

Water problems

Last night me and a kid down the hall from me were doing math homework for a test on Friday. When we got an alert on our phones that the water in the whole town of Dayton needs to be boiled before drinking. There has been a massive loss in water because of the distribution system. They found the problem but still have no idea how long it is going to take. This affects more than 400,000 people and water is a necessity. When we first got the email some of the freshman got service for when the next time they could get water from the tap. So they rushed down to the convenient store at the bottom of our complex to buy water. The water was gone in probably 20 min. Luckily the police came to help, they brought multiple of cases so every student could have two water bottles. The one cop asked us if we could help get him get cases from his cop car. And one kid on my floor said, “I never thought I would here that from a cop.” The cop looked pissed, but I think they were under a lot of stress. Overall everything is working out in the long run and I am going to the store later today to get bottled water. I have no idea how long the boil advisory is going to last in Dayton, but I think everybody will be fine as long as they don’t panic.

Networking

As you are all aware I am a freshman at the University of Dayton. I am currently a finance major looking to double major in entrepreneurship and minor in communications. For those who are currently in college or comping to college should listen. I think one of the most import things to do in college is to meet as many people as you can to network. Knowing more people can help you get a job, help you when studying for class, make you a better rounded person. I started off at the beginning of the year unsure what I was going to do. I first got involved in two clubs the water ski team and the bass fishing team. I have never wakeboarder before this year and actually came to me easier than most because of snowboarding. Now I am apart of the National Society of Leadership and Success fraternity. This week I am trying to get into an entrepreneurship fraternity called EMT to meet more people and learn valuable information. I am also trying to get into a social fraternity for the same reasons. No matter what you are doing in you life you should always be trying to meet new people and make more friends. You have no idea who is going to be the next Bill Gates. Making friends only has benefits for you and everyone around you. I strongly suggest everybody to go out and join something even if it makes you feel uncomfortable, you can always bring a friend for support.

Mario Kart

Nintendo has some of the best games. In my dorm room me and my roommate have a wii and a Nintendo switch. We play Mario cart on the wii almost every day, which is probably my favorite game. And then on the switch we play Supper Smash Bro’s. Almost everybody on our floor comes into my room to play. We have tournaments all of the time. I am probably the second best on the floor for Mario cart. These games are all so fun because they bring the people on my floor together. Most of us are competitive people so we get really into the games. Ever since me and my roommate rearranged our room and put a futon in, we have had people constantly in our room. I love how I can come back to class and open my door and there are five other kids sitting in my room without my roommate. That is one reason why Nintendo games are my favorite, because they have brought people on my floor closer together, and gives us something to do when we are bored. Today the University of Dayton canceled classes because of the weather conditions, which was amazing because I had four classes today. We are having a Mario cart tournament to see who is the best player. After we finish the tournament we will probably all go down to the nearest food place at VDK and eat as a floor, which is usually a good time.

Last Weekend

I currently just got back from Florida today on January 22nd. I was in Fort Lauderdale for the past few days. My Dad’s side of the family decided to take my grandfather to Florida for his 80th birthday. Ten of us agreed to go down and spend ti me with the family for a few days. This was the fist time I have been in Florida, so we had to make it rememberable. We went to the beach every day even when it was in the high 60 the on day. We went fishing and walked around most of the towns near fort lateral and the city as well. The trip started of rough for me, because I missed my connecting flight in chalet and was not able to get a flight down to Florida till later that day. Once I got out of the airport I was excited to start the vacation. We had a nice house where we had our own pool and pool table. I was able to start becoming good a pool for the first time. Overall the reason why we came down was to spend quality time together. We all managed to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner together every night together. I have been to a lot of deferent places and I would have to say Florida was not what I was expecting. I was glad to have the experience of going with my family, and would defiantly have to make it back sometime in my life.