Meetings

We are not going to have class English class this Tuesday because we are doing meetings with our teacher. My meeting went pretty well I thought. We discussed the pros and cons of the outline and bibliography that I completed. I thought that it was extremely helpful that she did this because it gave us a little more notion on what she is expecting of us. I don't really know what to think about my midterm grade because it could easily slip under the mark quickly if I don't keep my work in check. I'm hoping to do really well in this class, and this meeting today really help keep me on track. It really makes me feel like I will do well on this paper after the meeting was over with today.

Learning how to cite websites

In our last class period we reviewed how to cite websites into your bibliography. There are slight differences from the way I learned how to cite them, but mainly still the same thing. Also, for homework we have to cite eight websites that we will use for project two. I'm still looking for three more sites to use, but they aren't getting that difficult to find anymore. I just wish that the way to cite them could be done by just using another website to plug the information in. That way, it would make it that much easier to get a bibliography, and it would be cited correctly almost every time! Overall though, I am looking forward to finding research about my thesis. Mostly to find out if in the movie Goal, how Mexican culture is degrading for Santiago to become a professional soccer player in England.

Reflection of class about Thesis

Last week in class we learned about how to analyze songs and put them into writing. It's a lot easier once you get the hang of it! All you really have to do is make sure that you can support whatever your trying to convey what the sentence means. It could really mean anything to anyone as long as they can back it up with evidence. We also learned how to write a thesis, and not just a regular thesis that any normal person can write. It was a extremely in depth thesis about certain details in a movie, book, or song. I chose the movie Goal because it has a lot of good lessons learned in it, and I enjoy the movie a lot. My thesis is going to be about how his Mexican culture didn't help in him becoming a professional footballer. It only harmed him, and yet he still made it there.

Sleep Deprevation

This play was very confusing and I didn't understand if it was a dream or not. Every time the little gremlins came onto the stage and made noises I thought that it was a dream. I wasn't sure though because sometimes the real people would be interacting with the gremlins growling. At the very end of the play I wasn't sure if he went to jail or not? The whole play was very well done, but it was a little hard to follow. I thought the girl actor playing the mother was phenomenal. She played the part very well and always a little anxious. Overall the play was really well done I just thought they should have been more clear.

Thesis Statement

Santiago's culture degrades his chances to become a professional footballer.

College Schooling

So far in college I have learned valuable lessons already that will help me throughout the course of the next four years. One important one is to make sure you go to class. Doesn't matter if its a morning class, or an extremely late night class the worse thing you could do is not attend. Professors know who shows up to class and if you start struggling in it then they won't be so open to help. If you attend on the other hand, they know that your trying at least so they will be more helpful. Another important lesson is to do your homework as soon as you get back from class. If you do this then you have a lot of free time on the weekends and later in the day without having to worry about homework that's due. Also, this makes it almost impossible to forget about doing it because you're doing it directly after your class. This is helpful because it's fresh in your mind from learning it in class so you don't have to worry about forgetting any tiny hints. These two ideas about college will make life so much easier over the next four years. And of course the most important is time management...which I still have to work on a great deal. Hopefully it will come to me some day!

Game at Cincinnati

We had a game at Cincinnati this week and we won in overtime. It was a crazy game and the fans went crazy when we won. TRUTH. We were away so when we celebrated the win after, nobody in the fan section was saying a single word. After that we went on the bus and we "rode dirty." This means that since we just won that nobody would take a shower and we would drive home all smelly and "dirty." This win made our team believe that we could still make the NCAA tournament with an at large bid from the NCAA. This means that we won a certain number of games against top college teams. Which gives the NCAA a reason to put us into the tournament. After the win against Cincinnati, a Big East school, it's making it a lot better chance of making it to the tournament.

Game against Florida Atlantic

This was our first game after we lost our first in conference game against Bowling Green. The lose really suffered hard through the team and everyone couldn't wait till this game at home. The Friday before this game we lost 2 to 1 to Bowling Green, but we definitely did deserve to win at all. We had 20 shots on goals to there 2...We were just not very clinical in front of the goal. So after the hard lose away we came back flying against Florida Atlantic who flew from Florida a few days earlier. We started off the game really well and it started to die down before the half until we scored off a set piece with about 10 minutes left in the first half. After that the team was just on a roll. Not even 5 minutes after that we had a cross from the right side of the goal and finished it with a first time finish. Therefore, we were 2 to 0 up at half time with everything going great. When we started the second half everything else was the same. We were still dominating the game and we scored twice more before the game was over. I felt bad that Florida flew down here for a loss, but it was good to be back on winning terms!

Carrie

Last class that we had we watched Carrie. I have seen this movie many times before but only on TV. This means all the really raunchy racy scenes weren't shown. I thought that many of the scenes in the movie didn't have to be put in there. Like the whole scene with all the girls after gym class in the shower. I don't get the point of that scene at all, was it a build up to her having her period in the shower? I don't know. That whole beginning scene kind of confused me, and it wasn't shown in the television showings of it. It kind of put me off on the wrong foot of liking the movie, with a lot of unnecessary nudity. I thought the rest of the movie was really well put together. With how religious her mother was, and how all she really wanted was just to be normal and accepted. The ending scene was the only thing I would consider horror, the whole movie was just a build up of her powers and anger. Nothing really horrid happened before she killed everyone at the dance. Overall I thought the movie was good, just some awkward focus parts at the very beginning made it not spectacular. Still a very good movie that kept the audience on edge till the end.

Workouts for Soccer

Over the season the players that don't play the majority of the games usually have to do there own fitness. When this first started I was really confused and it made me a little angry. I felt like it was unfair to only have a certain number of players doing the workout. That if we are a "team" we should all get treated fairly and all have to do it. I now know that this isn't fair at all. Some players play the whole game almost every game and it would be unfair of us to expect them to do well on the fitness, especially if they are sore. Players that don't play as many minutes usually need the extra work because we come in and only play around twenty minutes. Even if we are tired after those minutes, it's nothing compared to the ninety minutes that some players play. Even if i dislike doing the workouts, I do know that in the long run it will make me a better and more conditioned player. We are still considered a team, even if some players have to do more work in order to catch up to the ones that do more during the game. Doing a couple fitness sessions here and there won't do much harm at all. It can only benefit us in the long run.