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Thursday, October 21, 2021  Making the Spring Baseball Team On Tuesday, October 19th, I had an exit meeting for fall baseball for Purdue University Northwest. It was a quick five minute meeting, but it had me on the balls of my feet. I was so anxious as to whether or not I had made the Spring baseball team. Coach Dave said he was only taking 35 for the whole Spring, but only 20-25 for the travel roster. When coach had called me in at 9:15 a.m. I was starting to get very nervous if I had made both the spring team and the travel roster. I was thinking to myself in a very positive way and I knew I could do it, but it was in coaches hands. Would he take me for both? Coach had started to speak and he asked me, "How do you think the fall went for you?"  I said, "I believe I had a pretty good fall, but I need to work on hitting still." Coach said, "I agree, you also need to work on bunting and maintain your speed." I agreed with coach and he then proceeded to say...

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Documentary Project Reflection Questions  1. Was there a specific scene that got to you? Describe and explain how it moved you (Angry? Curious? Delighted? Motivated?). Give a lot of detail, and really dive in to how it affected you. Don’t hold back.  --The scene that had got to me the most was when they had a beautiful coral reef and then they transitioned it to a dying coral reef. I loved seeing the colors of the coral reef and then they switched it to a dying coral reef really got to me most. I am hoping these scientists are able to help save the coral reef because the wildlife need it and we need it. The coral reef is a home for these animals and it helps the people as well because the people fish and need to get food to live as well. The climate change is also a big factor in the coral reef dying and we need to find ways to save the reef.   2. What surprised you? Why do you think it caught you off guard?  --The thing that surpris...

 Monday, October 4, 2021     Birthday Week Last week Friday, October 1, 2021 was my birthday. I was expecting a big weekend going out with friends and having a good time. I ended up doing absolutely nothing. I relaxed all day in bed and did not do a thing. I went out with friends on Saturday, but Friday I did not. I just turned nineteen years old and it felt like another day. I don't feel any older than before which is a good thing. My body just needed a break from everything and it got a nice break on Friday.  I watched the show Squid Games and it is one of the best shows I've ever seen. The action that is within it is unbelievable and I am very happy that this show came out, but I need more episodes because I already watched all of them! I am not a big television person either. I do not watch anything unless it is NFL games or when I am very bored. But this show is had me hooked and I could not stop watching it. By far one of my top three shows that ...

 Monday, September 27, 2021      Personal Essay After writing my rough draft of my essay, I am feeling happy that I will receive a good grade, but I also an emotional mess about what I wrote about. I wrote about how my grandfather had passed away from cancer, but I needed to write about it and just let out my emotions. I've been holding all of this in for just a little under a year now and for me to write about him just let some weight off of my shoulders. It was so stressful because doctors were never giving us straight answers about what was going on and it was an emotional roller coaster for me while we thought he would get better and then he would get worse. I am very thankful for the man he was and what he had done for our family.  One thing I remembered which he always loved to do was go outside with my grandmother and they would just go on the swing and swing away. They would sit there and look at the bright blue sky during the day and at night they would...

 Monday, September 20, 2021     Lessons Learned VIA Microtheme After writing my Microtheme, I believe that I learned a lot and to not overthink my writing. My microtheme, I believe was well written and I was very happy with the way it turned out. For it being my first time ever writing a microtheme, there really wasn't many changes I had to make to my paper. I wrote about college athletes and why they should get paid, but I also hit on key points on why they shouldn't get paid either. Being able to write in a new way just makes me feel that much more confident in my writing.  There are only 3 sports that actually have an income and would possibly be able to pay athletes. But baseball, the sport I play does not make profit it actually loses money, so therefore I will not be able to make any money besides scholarships for academics and athletics. Overall, I have learned that athletes should be happy with the scholarships they receive and it is a bonus for students to b...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021     The Final Weeks of Lake Days After a long, fun, exhausting summer, the lake days are finally coming to an end. When we put in our boats and jet skis at the end of April, that is when we start to get after it on the lake. Multiple hours of wakeboarding, tubing, surfing, and riding the jet skis always comes to an end at the end of September. Lake days for me are the best days because I finally get peace and quiet from everything else happening in my life. During the summer I have summer ball which I play for the whole summer and getting time away from baseball is a great thing for my brain to finally cool down. I play baseball year round and when I'm finally able to get some time to myself and enjoy life a little, the lake is the first place I go. If it's just me by myself riding on the jet ski or me and a bunch of my buddies tubing, I am finally able to have a different kind of fun.  Since I am so consumed with baseball, it's been hard try...

    Wednesday, September 8, 2021 The New Beginning  After the long summer, I had multiple offers to play both baseball and football throughout the country. After a long thought decision by my family and I, we believed it was for my best interest to further my academic and athletic career at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois. Well that all changed last minute. I arrived to North Park and was hating every second of it. I couldn't grasp why. As the day kept going, my day kept getting worse. Once all the meetings for football had ended I was finally in my dorm room at 10 p.m.. I called my mom and told her I had to leave. The amount of emotions that were going through me were making me sad and mad at myself. I told her not to tell my dad because I would figure things out. She ended up telling my dad and he called me at 6 a.m. and said, "You better figure this out kid!" The tone he had, had me startled. I was making phone calls all morning to coaches and pretty much al...