Blog 39

        I am really tired. I didn’t get too much sleep last night and I have been sick all day. I hate having a cold, it is so annoying. Hopefully it goes away soon but I guess I’ll just have to suffer the next couple days. I watched the Bengals today and they lost again, to the Dolphins! What is up with them this year. They were supposed to be good this year and they are doing awful. They are starting to look like the Browns. I don’t know if anyone else is a Bengal’s fan but I think it is time for Marvin Lewis and Carson Palmer to go. I do like the Bengals but I’m not a huge NFL fan. I normally watch the Bengals every week and maybe watch parts of some of the other games. College Football is so much better than the NFL. Actually pretty much all college sports are better than pro sports because in college you are playing for your school and in the pros you are playing for money. I think pro players don’t even care if they win or lose; all they care about is getting paid the big bucks. I always hate when a player will miss practices or even games because they want more money. I mean come on, you already make way too much money in the first place. That is really why I am not too much into pro sports. It is all about the money and it just makes me not like it. College sports is so much better in my opinion. 

Blog 38

       Today was a pretty busy day. I had a lot to do today like watch football all day! Today I just needed a break so I pretty much just watched football all day. Then my best friend from high school came home this weekend so I just got back from his house. We just watched the Ohio State Game at his house with some other friends and just chilled. He goes to Toledo so he does come home every couple weeks. I was actually strongly considering Toledo in my college hunt last year. They have a really nice campus but off campus isn’t so nice. If I wouldn’t have gotten onto Main Campus then I would be going to Toledo.  There is just so many bonuses going to Ohio State, like football tickets. Plus Toledo gets colder a lot earlier than here and I’m not a big fan of cold weather. I like snow but just not the cold weather. Wow I just realized how random this blog is. Probably because it is 2 am on Saturday night. I really wish we didn’t have to do blogs on Saturday and Sunday. I just don’t think we should have assignments on the weekend because it is not a school day. The blogs aren’t really that bad, it is just a hassle to have to do over the weekend. I just the weekend would go so fast! Every weekend goes so fast. I guess this week won’t seem as long with not having class on Tuesday, which I am really looking forward to. Well that’s 250 words!

Blog 37

       Well today’s blog is about anything and I don’t really know what to talk about. I am so glad it is the weekend. This has been a very busy week and it feels good to have some free time. I had a math exam today and I am pretty sure I did terrible on it. I understand how to do everything and then the exam is so different. That and I always feel rushed and make stupid little mistakes. So I am pretty sure I did terrible on the exam. Well tonight I went to my high school’s football game at St. Charles. Our high school football team has been doing really well this year and they finished the regular season with a 9 and 1 record. They beat St. Charles by a couple tds and the only game we lost was by 1. They have had a pretty tough schedule this year but they have been playing really well. I have been to a lot of their games and I think they can go pretty far in the playoffs. We went to the State Championship game my freshman year and it was an awesome experience. Every year in the playoffs we have lost to the eventually state champion. Although our baseball team went 34 and 0 last year and won the State Championship. I come from a small school and we maybe have 5 state championships so it was really cool we won one my senior year. Well I am really excited to not have class on Tuesday but I have 250 words so I’ all done. 

Blog 36

         What if you were the greatest and something but you could not be acknowledged for it? What if you worked so hard to achieve your goal but you couldn’t get the acknowledgement of it because you made one mistake. You make one mistake and everyone seems to forget your great accomplishment. Wouldn’t you want to be forgiven for your 1 mistake? Don’t you think you would deserve a second changes and wouldn’t you want the recognition you deserve?

            When I was in High School I worked really hard in my classes and I always got good grades. I was the Salutatorian of my class but I wasn’t really happy with that. With all the hard work I put in I wanted to be recognized as the Valedictorian. That was my goal all through high school but I slipped up one time. I got an A- in my sophomore English class. All the hard work I did and I didn’t even get the Valedictorian spot. I got all A’s all through high school and that one A- I got destroyed my chances at the number one spot. I finished with a 3.97 GPA and I was just .03 short of the number one spot. I wanted to be recognized as the Valedictorian but I made one mistake and I wasn’t recognized in that spot.

            I don’t really like either one of these but I had to do them for this blog but I couldn’t really think of much for this so I’m not planning on using these in my paper.

            

Blog 35

        Today one of the articles I read on Commonplace was about Coke Zero. The title of the article was, Coke Zero, The Deadliest Beverage… or So They Say. I decided to read this article because it sounded interesting and I am someone who drinks a moderate amount of Coke. I have heard all this stuff about how pop is terrible for you and it is pretty much poison. I have heard this a lot but this article was about exactly that. The people who wrote the article went down the list of ingredients on a Coke Zero bottle and talked a little about each ingredient. The author did a good deal of research and was saying how all the ingredients in the Coke are perfectly safe. All the research was backed up by the FDA and was really convincing proof. The article was basically describing the ingredients in Coke and saying how they are actually not bad for you. Although they even said they aren’t saying that it isn’t necessarily good for you but it is not as harmful as everyone says. If you drink pop in moderation it will not affect your health. I do drink pop but not very often so it was good to see that the ingredients aren’t actually bad for you and that it is okay drink pop in moderation. For my second article I read, Its our Illegal Right. It was about how college student should be able to download music for free. I didn’t really find this article all this interesting. Most people already download all their music for free anyway so  I didn’t really like the article. 

Blog 34

         Well today helped me figure out what I am planning on doing for the Commonplace paper. My topic is greed and there are so many things to choose from for this topic. I decided to write about Pete Rose. I was going to use him in my analytical paper but after changing some things, his story doesn’t really fit so I am going to use it now. I really like sports and baseball so this will be pretty easy for me to write. The only problem I thought I would have with this topic was it being timely but it can be seen as timely. Even thought he was caught gambling on games over 20 years ago the argument for why he should or should not be in the Hall of Fame still goes on today. I personally think he should be voted in because he was one of the greatest players to play baseball and he gambled on games when he was a manager. I think he should be in the Hall of Fame because of his amazing stats and he shouldn’t be held out because of something he did after his playing career was over. His stats are even more unbelievable because he did all of this before the steroid era in baseball. Barry Bonds may have the most homeruns but he admitted to using steroids. Same thing for other players like Alex Rodriguez who have been accused of using steroids but they will most likely be in the Hall of Fame someday. If they still can be in the Hall of Fame when the cheated in their playing years then why shouldn’t Pete Rose because he cheated after his playing career was over. 

Blog 33

          Well today seemed like it was never going to end. I went to the Math 152 project workshop tonight and it was from 5:30 to 7:30 and I could not wait to get out of there. Hopefully I got all of the answers right but I wouldn’t know because the webworks have been down all night. Which is not only bad for the webwork project but I only have like half of webwork 4 done and I can’t work on it. So frustrating! Well I have a Math quiz tomorrow but I don’t think that it will be too bad but you never know. It just seems like all of my classes have something big going on this week and I have so much to do. Although with all these things keeping me busy the week seems to fly by which is good and bad at the same time. It is good because the weekend seems to come faster but it means that the due dates of everything this week is closer. Well I think we are starting on our next paper or something in English tomorrow and I am totally looking forward to that… not. I hate everything about Commonplace and our paper has something to do with that and I am not looking forward to that. I am hearing that we are supposed to have some really strong winds tomorrow so I am hoping it knocks the electric out and classes get cancelled. That would be awesome but I am not getting my hopes up at all. Well time to study for tomorrow’s math quiz.