Progress Report for 12-8

1 hour and 30 minutes

So today i sat down and finished up the brochure for our project. I put four different sections on the brochure and put some pictures. It actually looks pretty good. I also looked for some videos that we could put on our website.

Progress Report for 12-7

2 hours

So today i sat down and didi half of the brochure that i was assigned. i got it to look pretty good so now i just have to finish the second half and do whatever patrick needs me to do for the website. I also sat down and wrote some stories about people who were killed by the death penalty and then were fond to be inncocent.

Progress Report

12-1-09 1 Hour and 15 Minutes


So Yesterday i found out that Patrick got a website up for us so last night i was looking for things that we could put up on the website such as videos, pictures, fact, and sound clips. I got a good variety of things. me and my group are meeting today to put our ideas together so that we can get our website up and riunning ASAP.

progree report

11/27/09 1 and a half hours

So today i looked at a bunch of different pictures that we could use for our print outs. I found some good ones that i think will go good for our projecl. I also looked at some facts that we might might be able to put on the print out. I also tried to look into how to set up a website using weebly but i could not figure out how to set it up so hopefully my the people in my group no how to do it

Progress Report #2

November 18 45 minutes

So yesterday i set up a meeting with my group so that we could meet up for the first time outside of class. we got our proposal down and divided up the jobs of the project that we each need to accomplish. We were all very open ion saying our opinions and ideas. we also decided that we are going to meet up sometim before we leave for thanksgiving so that we can make surethat we know what we want to do on our project.

Progress Report

11-13-09 1 hour

So today i made the attempt to try and talk to the other person that is in our group but was unable to contact him. However, since we still have yet to get in contact with him, we are still not sure what we are going to do. however, i sat down and tried to think of somethings that we would be able to do that were low key, yet still creative and not jsut ome simple little thing. so we will see how that goes

Progress Report

Progress Journal

Purpose: Raise awareness on the subject of the death penalty
Audience: People from the age of 18 to 25
Media: No Idea
Modalities: Dont know what that is

November 12, 2009 30 minutes

Basically we talked about the main audience that we want to reach which is students from the age of about 18 to people about 25 years old. We did not have the student whose topic we are using so we could not really talked much about what we wanted to do so that did not help us very much. We also talked about the possible medias that we could use but since neither of the people that is in class today is very tech savy, we do not know exactly what we are going to do, but i am going to talk to our other group member today

Halloween

So as everybody knows, last weekend was halloween and i had a great time. I met a bunch of new people and had a great time hangiong out with my friends. I dressed up as scooby doo and went around campus actually talking and acting like scooby. A lot of people that i saw told me that i had thebest costume that they saw and took a picture with me. I took at least a hundred pictures with people last weekend, it was like prom all over again. This was by far the best halloween that i have had because when i lived at home, my mom and dad always made me hand out candy to the little rascals that came to the door, and this year, i got decide what i wanted to do

Midterm defficiency

So this past week, i found out that i have a midterm defficienc in my maths 111class. When i heard about this, i was immediately mad at my teacher because she is a very bad teacher. she does a lot of the example problems wrong on the board and then expects us to be able to do them on the homework. After i thought about it for a while, she is not the one that i should be getting mad at, but rather i should be upset with myself. If i am not understanding the lessons from her teaching me in class, i need to go study the lesson and try to tech myself. I really need to pick up my studies in that class.

Halloween

So i am pretty excited for halloween this year because me and my friends are jsut going to hang out. Ihave never really done anything for halloween before because i didnt care, but this year, i plan on having agood time. I also got a kick ass costume that i am pumped to wear. Im not going to tell you what it is because that would ruin the surprise...you will just have to come visit me on halloweento see.

fall break

So all of ou guys obviousl know that this weekend is fall break. I plan on relaxing the ENTIRE time. i didnt have any classes on thursday either so i had a little longer break which made me happy. The only thing that upsets me whenit comes to fall break is thati hve to work aall three days. Its not fair...but i am getting paid for it. Well have a good fall break everybody.

Midterm

So i ad my first and only midterm this past week. I study a little bit for it, but definitely not as much as i should have. I ended up getting a C on it so i wasnt completely upset. This year so has showed me laxy i was in high school. In high school i never studied for a single test, literally, and somehow was still able to get A's and B's. However, in college so far, I understand that i need to improve my study habits drastically. I took a class her that was supposed to help with my study habits, but of course we didnt even talk about things like that. So I have been trying my best to improve on my study habits, because i really want to be successful in college

In this article, it is telling us how Kenya is conisdering wether to join in the war between Somalia and Ethiopia on the side of the Ethiopians. They have stacked there border with Somalia in case they do join fight. Somalia has threatened that if Kenya does join the war, there will be terroorist attacks on the city of Nirobi. One thing that Kenya is worried about is that they have many Somalians living in Kenya, and they do not want an ourage by those citizens

Baldauf, Scott. "Kenya poised to intervene with Somalia." Christian Science Monitor 25, June 2009: 6. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Oct. 2009

I think that the question that helped me the most was that i need to go more into depth about the meaning of my song. i think that i just scratched the surface. the reason that think this is the ost important question was because all three of my peers said that. Also when i got up and read my thesis in front of the class, the professor said that i need to go more into depth on the meaning of the devil in this song

haunted house

So today, i am going to my first haunted house of the year. we are going to fright manor down in indy. Me and my brother make an attempt to go to as many haunted ouse as we can each year. They are by far the best part of halloween. I usually just laugh the entire way through it, but i still have so much fun.

My birthday

So today was my birthdya and it was by far the worst birthday that i have ever had. It started out bad as soon as i woke up up 9:30, thirty minutes late for my first class. After that i told myself that i was going to get my english paper done so that i can enjoy my birthday with my friends. Well, it is now 1 o'clock and i still have a page and a half to write because i am completely stuck. My day was made better when i got off work and was greeted my friends with a card and a gift. I have made some of the best friends here and i am so happy i know them. I also got to hang out with someone who is very special to me. That was the best part of my night hands down. so now it is back to writing my paper. But where to begin...hmmmmmm?????

Home for the weekend once again

This weekend i am going home again. I did not plan on going back again but my dad just had surgey so i figured i would go se how he is doing. Also, me and my friend Tom are planning on going to Indianapolis this weekend and watching our old cross country team run in the conference meet. Another good thing about going home is that i get to do my laundry for free there. I have an awesome family and i love going home to see them!

My roommate

So i am rooming with guy that i dont know. When i first found out who he was, i was a little intimitdated to be honest. I found out that he was an offensive tackle for the Ball State football team. This means that he is a big guy, and if you know me...im not. After i started talking t him, it turned out that he is a real cool guy, just laid back and real "chill". I always get scared when i come in the room at night because he is always the first one alseep and think that i am going to wake him up and he is going to eat me. But he is a good roommate and im glad they put me with him.

Ishmael Beah

So as most of you know, Ishmael Beah came to BSU this Tuesday to talk about his book, A Long Way gone: Memiors of a Boy Soldier. Reading his book is amazing, but listening to him tell stories about it in real life, is incredible. there were a couple things that i tho0ught were really cool to hear. One thing was when he said, "One day, if we would find an orange that was rotten,, we would think to ourselves, maybe we will find an orange tomorrow that is not rotten" (Ishmael Beah, 2009). I though thtis was cool to hear because even going through a time like he was, dealing with war, he still had incredible hope. I dont even know of people today who have hope like that and we arent even going through anything close to what he was experiencing.
Another thing that i thought was amazing to me, being a christian, was whne he said, "if i am not living my life for someone, then it wasn't worth living for" (Ishmael Beah, 2009). i thought that was really cool because i try to live livew my life by this standard. I try to glorify god iin everything that i do. However, i know i fail a lot of times.

The first all nighterIt

So last night i had to pull my first college all nighter because i had a test to study for. My geology test was scheduled for 8:30 in the morning in Robert Bell. It was about midnight when i found out that i had to retype my rough draft for Englsih because i did not know that we had to save our final draft different than our rough draft. It took me about an hour to retype my rough draft because my computer died when i had around one page to go. I thought that my computer would be able to recover it but, of course, it did not, that would have been to easy. I finished my paper around 1:15 and went back to studying geology. I got around one hour of sleep and had to go take my test. I got a 70% on the test that our profeesor said was the hardest test of the semester. On top of all that, i had to go to work at 10:00 and work for two hours. Now I am sitting in english about to pass out on my computer. i have to go back into work tonight and work for two more hours. I wont be able to sleep until tonight because i have a group project to work on tonight. This is going to be a LOOOONG day

Paintball

So i am on a paintball team called the dirty monkeys. we play in semi-professional tournamentsall over the state, and have even went to surrounding states such as illinois and kentucky. Our team has five regular players and a couple substitutes. Our Captain, Tyler Beard, and my brother, has been playing paintball the longest out of any of the other tem mates. Our team has been together ever since 2004 when i was in eighth grade. We have won many tournaments including taking third place in one of the biggest tournaments in Indiana. Playing paintball witht these guys has given me some awesome memories that i will never forget. I think the one that stics out the most was when we were playing in a tournament in Attica. It was a memorial tournament for a buddy of ours who passed away in a car crash. We had two teams in the tournament. Our teams took first and second place at the tournament. The prize for winning for the combioned two teams was $300. As soon as they handed us the money, we went straight to the parents of the kid who died and gave them the money to help pay for the funeral, it wasnt much, but we did what we could. I plan on continuing to play paintball until i cant play anymore. My goal onbe day is to become the number player in the NPPL, National Professional Paintball League

Working at the Student Center

so this year i was hired as a student worker at the Tally Student Center. I was really excited at first because my brother told me that when he worked on campus at Ball State, that he met alot of cool people that are now his best friends. However, when i got to my first day, the Student Center, like usual was very busy. They did not have even have times to train me. The only thing that told me was to get a shirt and start stockings that were running low. When i went out to look at what need to be filled up, everything in the store was low. When i tried to ask one of the employees there where things were, they rolled their eyes at me and told me in the storage room. That was good information considering the fact we only have four storage rooms. I guess they figured i could find it from there. Things have slowly been getting better there but i still get dirty looks quite often from older employees who work there because they know what they are doing and i dont.

Home for the weekend

So this weekend I got to go home and see my family for the first time in 3 weeks. It was really nice to get to see them because they mean so much to me and I love getting to hagn out with them. They would not stop asking me about how I liked college, which is understandable, but I just wanted to talk about tother stuff. Well I am getting ready now to head back the campus and I am really excited to get back and see my friends but i wish we had a longetr break so that i could see my parents longer, but it was great while i lasted. BSU, I am coming back

Baseball Sectionals

There we were, Getting ready to leave the school to go to the first game of the 2009 high school basball sectionals at lutheran high school. We got ont he bus and no one said a word. Everyone had their headphones in listening to the music that really pumped them up. About ten minutes away from the field, being one of the senior captains, i got up and gave a speech challenging the team to step up and play with all their hearts. I gave them the speech for the movie 300, where Leomitus said, "Give them nothing, but take for them...everything."

When we stepped out on to the field, we had a warm-up better than we had had all year. We were all throwing the ball hard and accurate. Our pitchers were throwing the ball hard, and gettting alot of movement on their breaking balls. After warm-ups our coacjh started danciong around in our huddle trying to get us pumped up, and it worked, to say the least.

The first couple of innings were extremly close with a score of 0-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning. Defensively, our team was doing better than they had all year, by making bacour k handed stops, and a diving catch by each one of the outfielders. However, we could not match our offensive play with our defensive play. We only had one hit that i had in the second inning to left field.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, the score was 1-0 them. there two outs and i was up to bat with a runner on first. the first two pitches i fouled off to fa;ll behind with a 0-2 count. The next three pitches that he threw me were balls that put the count to 3-2. The very next pitch, even though i knew exactly what he was going to throw, i could not pullt he trigger and watch a curce ball break right into the middle of the strike zone to end the game.

Looking back on the experience of high school baseball, i would not have traded a single moment for something else. All the friends that i keep in contact witht he most are the people that i played high schoolbaseball with. they are some of my best friends and would do anything for them.

First week of classes

So the first week of classes was this week. They all went pretty good except for the homework that i had. I had two assignments in math this week, which is not that bad, except for the fact that i am horrible at math and dont understand it. The class that i thnk I am going enjoy the most is my ISOM 125 class. It is a class that talks about the different forms of business and operations within a business. The reason that I think I am going to like it is because i plan on majoring in business administration.

Thunders week at Ball State

So i have had an awesome week so far here at Ball State University. It all started on Tuesday the 18th. I moved an met my roommate the same day. His name is Austin Holtz and he is the offensive tackle for the Ball State football team. he is a pretty cool guy and we get along pretty along pretty good. The fun however didn't start until i met eight people that live in the same dorm as me. There names are Ian "Daddy" McDonald, Ron "The Pope" Paxton, Jessica "Rizzle" Miller, Taylor "Oprah" Vogt, Phil Hammer, Amber "Detroit" Colling, Angie Shelbie, and THE Chad Norris. We all get along really well and usually hang out in each others room when were not in class. We dont get to see as much any more now that we have started class but we still make time to hang out for a couple hours each day. this year is going freakin' awesome