What I Learned This Semester

Now that the semester is coming to an end, I have learned many things through out my English class during the semester. For example, I learned the many different types of fallacies that helped me while listening to the Presidential debates and concluding speeches of Obama and Mccain after the election was determined. In some instances, I was able to pick out which fallacies each candidate was using and how they meant to affect the crowd and me by choosing to use such a technique.

Next I learned at the beginning of the year through Twitter that it is easy to connect and find people who are similar to you through social networking tools all over the world. I was able to connect and meet a fellow Nigerian friend who resides in Nigeria who I am able to stay connected with and find out what is happening to him in Nigeria on a day to day basis. With me being from Nigeria and only getting a chance to go back maybe once a year if I am lucky, it is very helpful to stay connected with a fellow Nigerian through that social networking tool which provides updates on what is happening there by a personal account or experience.

Finally, another thing I learned was towards the end of the semester while we watched the documentary, The Corporation, during class. Watching that film made me a little upset at first because I did not agree with many things they were saying about corporations being bad and evil. I always thought many corporations were good with an exception of a few. For our last written assignment, our argument essay, I chose to write about how I thought that many corporations were in deed good instead of them being bad like they portrayed in the film. While writing this, I learned the rogarian argument style which allowed me to look at my argument topic from two perspectives. One of course from my perspective, and look at from the other perspective with people who really thought they were bad and sort of agreeing or coming to a middle ground with this perspective. Before this class, if I was to give an argument, I would most likely just focus on my perspective and why I think I am right and not even worry about the other perspective of the argument. However, after this class, I now know to always weigh both sides of an argument because you never know, I could be wrong and the other side could be right or vice versa.

LA Tech Football

Today some friends and I went to watch my best friend play his last home football in his college career.He is a senior about to graduate and his game was in Louisiana so since we live in Houston, my friends and I thought it would be a great gesture to come drive about 5 hours to see him play and support him.When we got there it was a lot colder than we expected but after watching him play it was well worth standing in the cold for four hours. In the first play of the game, my friend had a big catch so it was really exciting to see him make a big play.

After the game we got to meet up and talk with our friend and we could tell by the look on the his face that it really meant a lot to him for us to drive 5 hours just to come see him play his last game when we could have very well stayed home like some of our other friends did. Not only did it mean a lot to him, but it also meant a lot to his parents and family and that is what it is all about. We later got a text from him saying how much it meant to him for us to come all that way to support him and that made me feel so good about myself.

The Day After Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving yesterday as an amazing day. Even though I spent most of the day doing homework and working on different projects that I have due when I get back, Thanksgiving dinner made up for my full day of doing work. You can kind of look at it as a way to reward myself for doing work all day. I had never eaten as much as I did last night and you know it’s bad when you to take a break because your stomach is hurting so bad, then after you end up eating some dessert to make it even that much worse. It was all well worth it and I still feel full from the all the food I ate and feel bad so today I plan on working out a lot to hopefully get rid of all the bad stuff I ate yesterday and not feel so bad as I do right now.

Today I plan on going to the gym in a little bit to make myself feel better about eating all that food because right now I feel bloated and I do not like to feel like this. Now my workout later today might be a little pointless later on tonight because my friends and I plan on going out big tonight but at least I will feel better about myself for working out, and that is what counts right?

Home Sweet Home

I got home from school earlier today and it really feels good to be home. Not only did I miss my big comfortable bed and family, I really missed my moms home cooked meals and was reminded of what I missed when she made me dinner tonight. Nothing beats a home cooked meal. Another good thing about being home is I do not have to worry about anything because my mom takes care of me. I don’t have to worry about making breakfast, lunch, or dinner because my mom has that covered and the best thing of all is that she does my laundry, one of the activities I hate most doing at school on my own.

Whenever I come home from school, my mom feels like I should just relax and not have to worry about doing anything which is why she does everything for me and I guess in way, pampers me. I am OK with it because I know a lot of my friends and people out there would love for their mom to treat them like my mom does to me whenever they come home from break. Whenever I go back to school from break, it just makes me appreciate my mom that much more every time for the little things she does for me and hope I can repay her in the near future.

Today Was a Good Day

It felt good to sleep in on a week day and not have to worry about getting up early for class or workouts. What makes today even better was that I don’t have to feel miserable tomorrow morning because of the break, we do not have our normal 6am workouts on Wednesday and Monday so that makes me feel better knowing that I can sleep past 530am for the first time on a Wednesday in a long time. The past few days and weeks I have not been sleeping that much because of the amount of homework, projects, studying , and workouts, so not having to wake up early today and for the rest of the week will be good for me I think.

It was also a very beautiful today and I practiced well, worked out, and got to do all the things I wanted when I normally don’t get to because of having class. I feel I really need to take advantage of this break and catch up on my sleep because I know when I get back from this break on Sunday, the next two weeks are going to be miserable since I will have a lot of projects to get ready for and a test. That means no sleep for me since I like to study all night until I feel like I know the material like the back of my hand.

Thanksgiving Break is Kind of a Tease

I think Thanksgiving break is kind of a tease this year. The only good thing about the break is getting to go home and see my family and friends, and most importantly of all, eat some amazing food. Besides that, I do not think it is really a break. I know for me at least, I have to work on three projects over the break. I have a rough draft of a big paper due on Monday so I am going to probably spend most of my break each day writing parts of it. Next in my Business Ethics class, we have a big group paper due soon so over the break I have to find information on my part and write about it so that is going to take up time during my break. Finally, in my marketing class, I have to work on a PowerPoint for my part of a project so we can combine everybody’s parts when we come back to school on Sunday.

So as you can see, I don’t really have time to relax during this break when you should be able to relax and take time off from school work during the holidays. Instead the only day I will have to relax is on Thanksgiving day because I will be too busy stuffing myself with food all day.

We Need More Support for Our Football Team

Our football team at TCU just finished their regular season and went 10-2 which is one of the best records in the school history. They also finished with their highest ranking of 15 in the country and was just shy of missing a BCS Bowl game which would have been huge for our school. One of my friends is on TCU Football team and feels however that after all they accomplished this year that they still do not get the support they should with finishing among the top 15 in the country and I do to a certain extend agree with him.

I know that after we lost that heart breaker to Utah a couple weeks ago, everyone on campus was down. TCU would have gotten about $14 million just for making a BCS Bowl game so not only was the school down about not making the bowl game, so was the athletic department, especially our tennis coach. Our budget would have went way up if they made it to the BSC bowl game so our coach was not happy about that.

Also I know a lot of my friends after that lost to Utah and having no chance to make it to a BSC bowl game did not care about TCU football anymore and didn’t even go to the last game yesterday against Air Force. I feel you should still support your school sport’s teams weather they win or lose and the fact that my friend on the team does not feel they get the support they deserve for accomplishing all that they did is not good at all.

Friends Being Careless

At a party the other day, I let one of my teammates where one of my expensive chains just because he kept  nagging me about wearing it so finally I got sick of hearing his voice so I let him wear it. I actually let him wear it too long because later on at the party he got a little out of control and ended up breaking my chain which resulted in ruining my night. Not to mention the fact that earlier he broke our friends ceiling fan whose house we were out because he was so out of control so why I let him wear my chain was beyond me.

Well after he broke my chain, I was really upset. He kept saying not to worry about it because he would pay however much to get another one but the fact was he acted so careless that caused to be without a chain until i was able to go back home and actually get the money from him. I should have been smarter about letting him wear it because it was an expensive chain and I don’t usually let my friends wear my personal things that I care a lot about. This was a good lesson in teaching me not to let my friends wear or have anything that I care so much about and is expensive at the same time.

Practice Makes Perfect

In the last few weeks, I have seen a great improvement in my tennis game. I have been focusing a lot on little aspects of game such as backhand, serve, and forehand. I feel like in the last few weeks I have made a great improvement in this part of my tennis game just because I have been practicing a lot on it with any chance I get and just being focused on these aspects of my game so I can be as successful as I can with my tennis in college. I feel like the coaches have really helped me as well, just believing in me and being hard on me because they know what I am capable of doing and just overall being good motivators.

A lot of athletes know it takes a lot of practice to be good at what they do but are not willing to put in the necessary practice hours to accomplish this. I do not like hearing people saying they want to be the best when they do not put the work in, but want to make fun of something who is working hard so they can be as good as they can. These last few weeks I have really learned that if you practice and focus hard for a certain period of time, you can improve just like that.

I Dedicate This Post To My Father

I look up to my dad in just about every aspect of my life and use him and everything about him for motivation in anything I do from school work to tennis so I can be as successful as him as I grow up. My dad went to probably the best school in the world, MIT and has never seen a B in his life so if I make a B in a class he comes down hard on me and says that I am not trying hard enough or don’t care about school but that is not the case. I understand why he gets mad at me and always try harder to please him at all costs.

My dad is the hardest worker I know. He is a doctor and sometimes I can go a whole week except Sundays seeing him because that is his day of rest. He is either sleeping when I come home or I am sleeping when he comes home. Also, in the morning he has either already left for work or I have already left the house in the morning so we end up missing each other again. All the handwork he does has paid off for him and has made him as successful as he is today and I hope when I grow up that I will inherit his traits to become just as successful or even more successful than my father.