Blog 75

           Well I am supposed to be writing a letter to anyone taking this class next quarter. The class seems pretty bad at first but it really isn’t as bad as it seems. This class has a lot to do with sci-fi. Don’t worry if you don’t like sci-fi because I don’t either but I actually kind of liked it during the quarter. The shows really aren’t that bad and I much rather watch the sci-fi than have to read some boring book that I have no interest in. Blogging at first sounds pretty bad too. 75 blogs sounds like a lot of work but once you get used to it, it doesn’t seem like much. You do get to learn a lot about your classmates. I think that is what I liked the best about the blogs. Although I did hate having to write a blog on Saturday and Sunday. Those are school day and I don’t think we should have to do them then. The blogs did also improve my writing somewhat. The two papers you are going to write aren’t too bad. The AP paper is definitely harder than the CP paper. The CP paper seems to be a lot more open and it is just easier to write. The class was pretty tough but I could tell that my writing was much improved from the beginning of the quarter compared to the end. It is a lot of work but you will get a lot out of it if you are willing to work hard.

Blog 74

        Well I guess this blog is supposed to be about how I feel about sci-fi now compared to when we started the class. I guess I could say I don’t mind it as much as I did before we started the class. I have never really been into sci-fi and I never watched it before the class started. Since we had to watch all of those shows, I guess I don’t mind it as much. I still will probably never watch it even now that the class is over. I didn’t mind it but I still prefer pretty much all other genres. I liked some other the stuff that we watched but it is still not for me. I don’t know why but I just have never really enjoyed sci-fi. However, there are aspects of the sic-fi shows that we watched. I did like all of the action in the shows and some of the shows had some pretty interesting story lines. I liked Caprica and it seemed to be a kind of mystery.  I liked the story line of that show and it just didn’t seem like as much of a sci-fi to me. There we some futuristic things in the show but it wasn’t over the top like some shows. I didn’t mind Firefly but I thought that living on a spaceship was so stupid. That is what I don’t like about sci-fi. The whole spaceship idea is just really stupid to me. Well I finally made it to 250 words. Back to studying!

73

           Well I haven’t done much other than study today. I have been studying most of the day and now I am just relaxing by watching the Nebraska, Oklahoma game. I also got an update about my friend that was in the car accident. Her surgery went well yesterday but unfortunately she is permanently paralyzed from the waist down. That is really sad but it actually could have been worse. And thanks to all of you that have kept her in your thoughts and prayers. Well I guess this is our last free blog. I am kind of sad that this class is coming to an end. I didn’t like the class but I liked the people in it.  I though that we had a pretty good class and I hope I get to see you guys around sometime. Well I’m not sure what else to talk about. I was pretty disappointed that pretty much all the snow missed us today. The snow is the only good thing about the cold. That is okay, as long as it snows for Christmas. It just doesn’t seem like Christmas without snow and it hasn’t snowed on Christmas for several years. I am really looking forward to Christmas. On Christmas Eve my family and my grandparents and my uncle on my mom’s side go to our church’s Christmas Eve service. The Christmas Eve service is really cool and I love going every year. Then after we go to that we go to Spaghetti Warehouse. I don’t know if anyone else has been there but it is pretty good and my grandparents always like to go there. Well that’s my 250 words! Time to do a little more studying during half time.

Blog 72

          Well I have been studying for my exams and I thought it was time to take a break and do my blog. Well yesterday I found out that one of my friends from high school was in a serious car accident. She is a senior this year and we really weren’t that close of friends, but I come from a school where everyone knows everyone and everyone is friends with everyone. I don’t know all the detail but I know she rolled her car several time and is in serious condition. She is stable but she is paralyzed. They don’t know if it is going to be permanent or not and she had surgery earlier today. I just ask everyone to just say a quick prayer for her. It is just really scary to think about. Everyone at my high school is close and it is really cool to see how the entire school pulls together. Today everyone, including me wore green for her. It is a really scary thing and I hope she will fully recover. You never think it is going to happen to someone you know but it always can. My freshman year we had one of our seniors was killed in a car accident and her sister is in my grade and we are pretty good friends. That was the only other time something this serious has happened at my high school. It was a really sad thing but it was great how our whole school came together in their support. Please just keep her in your prayers and good luck everyone on their exams!

Blog 71

           Today in class we watched Caprica and I thought it was pretty interesting. I actually didn’t think that it was that bad. At first I was somewhat confused about what was going on but they cleared it up pretty well towards the end. However, I still don’t understand why they were on the train and why that he had a bomb strapped to him. Maybe w found out why and I didn’t catch it or we didn’t get to the part that revealed that. I think that I might have liked this show a little better than BSG. It seemed to be a little less futuristic. It seemed to be more like today and it didn’t remind me of Star Trek. There were several things in the episode that confused me but I think that might have had something to do with not seeing the whole episode. I think I would probably have liked this show better than Firefly. I would have liked to watch this show instead of Firefly. It just didn’t seem to be a typical sci-fi. I can’t remember any of the names but it was pretty lucky that the girl did not get on that train. If she would have she would be dead too. I wonder if something ends up happening to her in a later episode or something. I kind of wish we could have seen the whole episode because I thought it was pretty interesting and it probably wouldn’t have been as confusing for me. Well that’s my 250 words.

Blog 70

           Well it snowed today and it is actually still snowing right now. I hate the cold but I love the snow. And we are supposed to get more snow in Saturday and Sunday so I am pretty excited for that. Well I managed to finish my webwork today. I also just finished my paper homework, which I kind of bsed. I also went to the webwork project session and I got all of that done. I got all of the webwork projects done. That is really nice because that is 40 points of extra credit. Well I am watching the Michigan State, Duke game. I hate Duke with a passion so I am hoping Michigan State can pull out with the win. It has been a pretty good game so far. It is also a good day because the Big 10 won their second ACC Big 10 challenge. That is pretty sweet. I really hate Duke so much and another good reason for them to lose is that would move Ohio State up to number 1. That would be sweet to be number 1 in basketball and 6^th in football. Well tomorrow is the last day of English class. I am kind of glad but it kind of sucks too because I like the people in my class. I think we have a pretty good class and that is the worst part of class being over. However it will be so nice to have a month off of school. School has been pretty stressful and it is going to be so nice to have some time off.

Blog 69

           Well I just finished watching the Ohio State basketball game. They beat Florida State but I didn’t think they played all that well. Florida State is an okay team but I felt like we could have beaten them by more. I hate how Thadd Matta never subs in players. OSU has at least 3 players that can come off the bench and do just fine in the game. In the second half he only subbed one player in the entire time. We struggled in the second half and I think that a sub or two would have been useful. Like 3 player ended up playing the entire game. I know there are TV timeouts but they need a break. By the end of the game they are so tired that they start to make stupid mistakes. OSU has one of the most talented teams this year but it seems like he isn’t using all of them to their potential. I guess that is okay because they won. They are ranked second and it seems weird that our basketball team is ranked higher than the football team. OSU has always been known as a football school but I guess we are moving to a football and basketball school. That is a good thing but it just seems weird that they are ranked higher than the football team. I have been trying to work on the webwork but I hate them so bad. I only have nine 7 problems left but they are all hard problems. I am going to have to find some help on the rest of it. I am so glad this is the last webwork. They are a waste of my time!

Blog 68

         Well today was a pretty boring one. Nothing much went on at all. It was just a typical Monday. I went to watch House tonight but it wasn’t a new episode. That was a disappointment but it gave me some extra time to get some work done. Well I don’t really know what to talk about. Well it is time that the football season is winding down. Now that football season is coming to an end I will end up going to a lot of movies. During football season I never go to the movies. My friends and I always watch the football games on the weekend so I never get the chance to get to the movies. I love watching football and I could do it all day.  But once bowl season is over it will be nice to get to go to the movies again. I pretty much like all types of movies and it is probably one of my favorite things to do during the winter. I am also pretty excited for Christmas. I can’t believe it is under a month away. It seems like we just had Christmas but it is that time again. It will be so nice to have almost a month break from school. School is a lot more stressful than high school and it will be nice to be able to just relax for a while. This quarter has gone by so fast but I guess that is a good thing. Everyone is always saying that college goes by even faster than high school.

Blog 67

          Well Thanksgiving Break went by so fast. It seems like it just started yesterday and it is already over. School seems like it goes really fast and our breaks seem like they go even faster. But I guess we only have about a week and a half until Christmas break. I cannot wait until Christmas break. However, I am not looking forward to the next week and a half. Finals are going to suck! I hope I can motivate myself to study throughout the week instead of craming right before. I am not too worried about my exams except for my Math exam. There is so much to remember and I know it is going to be really hard. Plus my math exam is at 7 am. I am going to be half asleep for the exam. The good thing is that I only have an exam on Monday and Wednesday.  My other exam is for Engineering 100 is online so I won’t have to study for that one. At least they are spread out a little so I can focus on one at a time. I plan to study all week and weekend for my Math exam and then cram on Monday and Tuesday for my exam on Wednesday. My economics exam is on Wednesday and that is pretty easy for me so I am not as worried about that. I think I will be able to get a good grade on that exam but just studying those two days. The best part of English is that we don’t have an exam! Well that’s my 250 words.

Blog 66

            Well I have been completely lazy and have done no school work so far for school. I have a lot of work to do but I just it is break and I just haven’t had the motivation to do any of it. So I decided to come home early tonight and get some of it done. I wish that I had done some work earlier this week so I wouldn’t have to worry about it but of course that doesn’t happen. Well the Michigan game today was awesome. It felt so good to beat up on Michigan again. There was a Michigan fan in front of us and all of us game him so much crap during the game. It was fun to talk some smack. I thought that the refs were pretty bad. All the unsportsmanlike penalties after we scored touchdowns were ridiculous. Nike man gloves for OSU that makes the block O when they put their hands together and the refs flagged them for it several times. That is crap because Alabama did the same thing in the National Championship and Nike man the gloves for them to wear. They didn’t do anything wrong and I thought that was crap. They also said on TV that the head ref is actually from Michigan so maybe that had something to do with it haha. But it felt really good to beat up on Michigan and OSU will be moving up in the standings with Boise State and LSU losing. I also really liked OSU’s jerseys today. I thought they were pretty cool. Well 66 blogs down, 9 to go!

Blog 65

              I am so tired right now. In the evening I went over to one of my friend’s house to watch the Bengal lose, again. I didn’t get home until about 1 and I didn’t go to be until 2:30. Then I had t get up at 4:30 because I went to Best Buy this morning for their black Friday sale. I got an LED TV for my room and some presents for my family. Even though you have to get up really early it is worth it because you save a lot of money on Christmas presents. So I got home at about 7 and could fall asleep again. So I just watched the early morning shows like Saved by the Bell and of course Sports Center. Saved by the Bell is a great show but I never see it much because it is on so early in the morning. So I watched some football and then I went to the OSU basketball game with my friend and his brother. My friend’s dad has club seat so the seats are really good. We didn’t play the greatest but we still won by a lot and all the seniors from the football team were honored during half time. Then after that we went back to his house and some other s came over and we watched the Oregon game and played some Duty. Now I am home and I can barely stay awake. Now I just need to get some sleep so I have plenty of energy for my first OSU Michigan game!!

Blog 64

            Well we are in between eating and playing games so I decided to write my blog now. It was really nice to eat some home cooked food and I am so full. My grandma makes the best turkey and I ate so much. All the food is homemade and it is all so good. So far we just ate and been looking through the ads but now is about the time all the games come out. We all get pretty competitive and it is a good time. We pretty much play all kinds of games. We will end up playing games the rest of the night and we always heat up all the food later for dinner too. I don’t know why we do because we are all still full from lunch but we still eat anyway. I am really looking forward to the Michigan game on Saturday. I have been to a lot of OSU football games but I have never been to a Michigan game. I am really looking forward to it and I am looking forward to seeing the throwback jerseys. I guess that they are going to have red helmets too. I think that they will be pretty cool. I think that Michigan should wear throwbacks too but it is pretty cool now. I think the throwbacks are cool and that they should do that every Michigan game. Well that’s my 250 words. Everyone enjoy the rest of their Thanksgiving and the rest of break.

Blog 63

            It was really nice to get to see some of my friends from high school today. I skipped my second class today so I could hang out with some of my old friends. But now it is time for Turkey day. Everyone is coming over to our house tomorrow for Thanksgiving and I am really excited for the food and that everyone is coming over. The food is all so good and I am probably going to gain 5 pounds tomorrow. Then after we eat it is time for the games to begin. We all pretty much play about any game and it is always a good time. We always like to pay Euchre and that and pretty much all games get pretty intense. We all always get a little over competitive but that is all part of the fun. I am also looking forward to being able to sleep in tomorrow. This will be the first time in about 2 weeks I will be able to sleep in and catch up on some sleep. I will probably end up taking a nap sometime tomorrow too. Then on Friday night I think I am going to the OSU basketball game. One of my friend’s dad has season tickets in club level. We aren’t sure if we are going for sure or not but I am hoping so. The basketball team is looking really good so far and they have been fun to watch. Well that’s my 250 words. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Blog 62

             Well today we finished watching BSG. Overall it was pretty good I thought. I don’t really like sci-fi all that much but once I got into it, it wasn’t that bad. I thought that it was an interesting story line. I was kind of confused after watching it last week but I thought that it all came together today. At the beginning I thought it was pretty noble of that guy to stay behind so another civilian could be rescued. There was a lot of though decisions to be made in the show and it made me wonder what would happen if we had to make those decisions in real life. In real life would they make the same decisions or would there be other options. I am sure they make hard decisions but I they haven’t had to make decisions that could cost all of civilization. I thought that the graphics were really good and I thought the fighting scenes were kind of cool. I just thought it was interesting overall. I thought that this show would suck at first but it turned out pretty good. It reminded me of Firefly but in Firefly there wasn’t a war going on. Firefly seemed to be a low budget show and BSG seemed like it had a little more funding. The graphics were so much better and everything seemed a little more modern than Firefly. Firefly seemed like more of a western and BSG just seem like it was more like today’s time. I think BSG was pretty good and I ended up enjoying it even though I am not a big fan of sci-fi.

Blog 61

          Well I just finished watching House. Today’s show was pretty good and I thought it was pretty funny too. I don’t really have much to do this week so I didn’t do any homework. I did finish like 4 problems on the webwork so I guess I did a little something. I am really tired so I am going to try to go to bed pretty soon. I am giving blood tomorrow morning and they say it is important to get a good night sleep before. And you are supposed to have a good breakfast too so I am going to get up a little early tomorrow and eat something. I don’t eat breakfast a lot of the time and if I do I just grab a granola bar or something. I know they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day but I always want to sleep in as late as possible so I don’t really get a chance to eat in the morning. On the weekends and during the summer I always eat something for breakfast because I have time to. Wow this blog is terrible. I just never know what to write about anymore and this blog is really bad. Well we only have two more days until break but I am skipping my 2^nd class on Wednesday so I can go home earlier. I have never skipped class before and it is something I don’t want to do often but our teacher said that it is just going to be a q and a session because so many people will be gone. Well my randomness has finally put me over 250 words!

Blog 60

             I am so glad that we have a short week of school this week. I think this was the first Sunday in a long time that I haven’t have a million things to do for school. Today was really relaxing and I was hoping to get some schoolwork done but that didn’t happen. It was nice to just take a day off. This will be a relaxing week but that won’t happen after this week with finals coming up. I am freshman so I have obviously never been through a final and I am not looking forward to it. But I guess that is a little ways down the road. I am hoping that all my classes will be kind of laid back but they probably won’t. Well I guess English class will be because we are just watching BSG. That will be goof because I am giving blood before class on Tuesday. My high school always had two blood drives a year and I always gave blood because I got to miss class. I would give blood in the morning and just stay down there all day. The teacher that ran it liked me so he never made me go back to class. So I would stay at the drive and eat their food and play cards all day. Well I am really running out of topics for my blogs. Well I guess we only have 15 left to do so I guess I won’t need too many more ideas. Well that put me over 250 words so I am done for the day.

Blog 59

               Well today was a pretty exciting day. The Ohio State football game was really exciting. I was a little nervous but they pulled it out like normal. Although I was pretty angry when Posey dropped that wide open TD pass. I could not believe that he dropped it but it worked out for the best I guess. It was good that they could run some more time off the clock but it seemed like our hopes of winning that game when down the drain when he dropped that pass. We also have a double header with OSU sports tonight. The basketball team also had a game. They played some terrible team so it wasn’t that good of a game but it was fun to see the freshmen get some playing time. We switched between the OSU basketball game and some of the football games so we didn’t see the whole thing. They looked really good tonight and I think that OSU might be the best team in college basketball this year. They have so many good players ready to play. I think that the combination of the seniors and freshman, we will have a great season this year. I think we are the best team this year and it would be great to win a National Championship in basketball. But that’s is a long way down the road. I don’t think that OSU has ever won National Championship in basketball or either maybe they did before my time. I don’t know but it would be great to see them win one.  Well that is my 250 words!

Blog 58

            I am so glad for the weekend. I got no sleep all week and it will be nice to be able to catch up on some sleep. I think I am going to sign up for the blood battle with Michigan. I have given blood like 5 or 6 times now so I don’t mind it as much. I think it would be cool to beat Michigan in another category. I heard today that we went down by 4% or something like that but who knows if that is true or not. I think that the battle with Michigan will compel more people to give blood. I know a lot of people are scared of giving blood but it really isn’t that bad. You feel a little pinch when the needle goes in but other than that it doesn’t hurt at all. Actually I think that the finger prick is probably the worst part! Although whenever I give blood they always have to lay me down. Right after they stick the needle in I feel a little light headed so they lay me down. Then about a minute later I am fine and then the same thing happens when they pull the needle out. I am fine during the middle of it but its just when they put the needle in and take it out. I don’t what it is but it happens every time. If you have never given blood before then you should try it out. The nurses are always really nice and if you ever feel light headed or anything they know what to do. I was really nervous my first time and it seemed really bad, but I knew that was just because of my nerves. Now it isn’t as big of a deal anymore. But if you are giving blood for the first time take a friend with you if you are nervous. Well that’s my 250 words.

Blog 57

            Well today in class we watched Battlestar Galactica (sp?). I have heard of the name of the show before but I never have seen an episode before or heard anything about it. It kind of seems like sci-fi military show or something like that. I kind of reminded me of Firefly. It was kind of like that but in BSG there was a lot of fighting going on. I watched it the whole time but I didn’t exactly pay that close of attention to it. I know that robot girl did something that started a war or I’m assuming that’s what happened. I’m not exactly into shows like this so it is kind of hard for me to pay attention. If a show doesn’t really interest me then my mind seems to kind of drift off. I didn’t really like the show today but I started off hating Firefly but the more Firefly I watched I started not minding it. This isn’t the exact same thing though. This kind of reminds me of Star Trek and I hate that show. I know a lot of people like shows like BSG but I am not one of those people. I don’t know why but I just have never liked those kinds of shows and movies. I like just about all types of movies except for sci-fi movies like this one. Well this one was a TV show but it’s the same idea. Hopefully I can pay a little more attention on Tuesday but that my 250 words so I am all done.

Blog 56

            Well I had a very productive day today! I did almost the entire webwork today, an engineering assignment, the English memo, and my CP paper. And its only 10:30! I normally have a lot to do because I am a terrible procrastinator but that wasn’t really the case this time. I had a math exam on Monday so I spent most of my weekend studying and not doing my homework. Although I could have done more yesterday but with all the excitement of the bomb threat and the OSU basketball game, I didn’t get much done. It feels good to get a lot done and some of it is done a little early. Lately I have been making a to do list on my computer to help me keep track of everything, and I have everything on it for the week checked off! I am really glad that I will have a little time to relax the rest of the week. But I do still need to do the ARP revisions so I guess I’m not completely free just yet. I’m not really sure what else to talk about. The summary of my day didn’t quite take 250 words. I guess I can talk about how excited I am for Thanksgiving Break! Thanksgiving is only a week away. I cannot wait for all the home cooked food and especially my grandma’s turkey. I don’t know what she does but her turkey cannot be matched. I better make sure I work out extra hard at the RPAC next week because there is going to be a lot of eating going on Thursday.