Soccer Season Ending! :/

Well soccer season is coming to an end soon which is bittersweet.  The reason it's bittersweet is because I do not want soccer season to end because I enjoy playing soccer with my incredible team but at the same time soccer has taken over my life. So I'm kind of glad it is ending because I want my life back, I want to have more time basically. While on the other I do want to keep going on long fun road trips with my team and keep playing soccer games but all good things come to an end. Well this season has been fun I met a great group of girls that are all amazing in their own little way.  As a freshman I felt like I learned a lot from my coaches soccer strategies to my team.  This team is an amazing little family and I love them to death. And I will miss the seniors for sure. I have had a lot fun with my new team and happy they accepted me into their team and took me in and showed me a lot of things.  I have definitely had some great memories with my team. Even though we did not win as much as we wanted to we had a great deal of fun playing together because we always played for each other.  Well it was a really fun season this team has definitely made my freshman year at Texas Lutheran University so much fun and amazing. And because of them I have so many crazy experiences.  I am glad I met these group of wonderful girls my freshman year they have truly contributed to my decision staying at Texas Lutheran University. There is only two more games this weekend and then season is over so please come support us this Friday and Saturday at one here at the soccer fields. Good season and I hope to end it with a couple more wins! (:

Steve Jobs

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I am a computer science major. The reason I chose computer science as my major because I love math and computers. The only classes that have anything to do with my major are my calculus class and my object-oriented class. Well the only classes that I think and feel are contributing to my major, but who knows. I know I want to major in computer science but I do not know what I want to do with that after.  I have no idea what I want to do with my computer science degree but what I do know is that I want to be somewhat like the great Steve Jobs.  He was someone I really looked up to, he was an incredible genius when it came to technology, like amazing!  He has influenced me and everyone in computer science/ information science a lot. He was a great innovator and inspiration to the computer science world. Because of him we have so many innovative revolutionary ways to listen to music and access different types of media and I thank him for that. I am very grateful I was able to see his awesome inventions that I now use, not to mention that I am using a macbook right now, but yea I appreciated his work ethic towards his costumers. He did everything he could to make his inventions better and faster for his costumers, he did it for his costumers satisfaction not the money which meant a great deal to me.  I really liked that about him a lot how he put his costumers need first. So I hope one day to be like Steve Jobs or at least work for Apple, that would be my ultimate dream because I like the way he ran his company with his costumers in mind and not the money. Which is why I think he was lots of the time very successful with his life.  But definitely he has been my tech geek idol and that's why when I heard he passed it really affected me because he has done so much for the computer science world.  I honestly could not believe it when I heard the sad news but he will be missed and his great innovative inventions will be too.  The computer science world truly lost someone incredibly talented but will always be remembered.Steve Jobs did a lot for the computer science world and I thank him for that! R.I.P Steve Jobs.

Learning From My Mistakes

Last week my amazing friends from back home in Del Rio, came to watch me play soccer here at Texas Lutheran University.  They came to support me and made me posters with my name on them, which made me feel pretty special because there was nine of my friends just cheering for me.  I had all these fans at the game just cheering for me. So they were really loud and rowdy before the game and during the game.  And it really meant a lot to me that they all traveled to come watch me play and come visit me.  So I really wanted to play really good that game for them and sure enough I started off the game great.  Twenty-six seconds into the game I stole the ball from one of the other team's defenders and got a shot on goal and almost scored but just barely missed so it was a great start. But then it all went wrong ten minutes into the game when I let my anger get the best of me.  The referee was making some bad calls, in my opinion, and it frustrated me to a point where I smacked talked him which caused me to get a yellow-card and then a red-card, which I am not proud of at all. But anyways I made a stupid mistake which did not only affect me but affected my team as well. I let my team down by making this mistake.  I hurt the team because I had to get ejected from that game and sit out the next game. And my team needed me this game and next game. Since I got ejected during that game I had no choice but to leave the field and leave my team playing down a man (woman) so they only were playing with ten players leaving them with a huge disadvantage.  When I had realized the consequences of my malice action it was too late to go back and change what I did so therefore I had to live with the mistake I made and deal with the consequences.  And it sucked not being able to help my team at a time when they needed me most, oh man I regretted what I did so much and I hated myself for what I did.  But obviously regretting what I did and trying to take it back wasn't going to make up for what I did, so I realized that I had to change and learn from this incident.  I learned that from now on I have to control my anger and think before I speak instead of just doing things out of anger.  I also have to keep in my mind of who I'm affecting when I decide to do something because it was really selfish of me to do what I did and I apologize to my soccer team for what I did and letting them down. I admit that I was selfish and I am not going to lie at first I didn't understand why everyone was so disappointed at me and saying that I was selfish for getting that red-card but now I understand, I agree and admit that it was very selfish of me.  Nevertheless I've grown from this experience and definitely learned from my mistake and don't plan on getting anymore red-cards forget that it sucks not being able to play and help my team! Well not only did I disappoint my team but my parents and friends too because they came to watch me play all the way from Del Rio and I only played ten minutes when they came to watch me play not pull this dumb crap. So I apologize to them too because it affected them as well. I realized that I effected a lot of people that day and I am sorry for that. I really learned my lesson to stop being so selfish when I decide to do something stupid because I don't only affect myself but I negatively affect everyone else around me.

Stressed...

So far it's been hard trying to balance soccer and school. I'm behind in class and I always feel like I'm behind no matter what. This last week was probably the worst week I had while at college. Since we were leaving early for soccer this last week I was going to miss Thursday and Friday so I had to finish my work ahead and turn it in before we left to Dallas and Arkansas. But it turns out that I didn't balance my time wisely so I didn't get to finish my second draft essay for my comp class, which has put me behind even more because my final draft is due this Wednesday.  I also didn't get to finish some of my object-oriented programming homework, so I didn't get to turn in part of my homework. Not to mention homework is a huge grade in that class so I basically messed up that homework grade. I finished my calculus homework. But stayed up all night doing all my homework that was due the next morning before we left. And while I was doing my homework in the early hours of the morning I fell asleep and forgot to set an alarm and didn't wake up on time to turn in my completed homework. I actually didn't wake up at all the only reason why I woke was because my teammate knocked on my door and woke me up at 8 in the morning which was the time the bus was leaving. It turns out we overslept! So we ran and took off to the bus but I didn't realize my bag was open while I was running so my sperry's (shoes) fell out. So I ended up losing my shoes on the way to the bus, almost got left behind, and didn't get to turn in my homework. Oh and on the trip I also accidentally threw away my own retainers. Luckily my great roommate saved me and did me the greatest favors and turned in my homework for me and looked for my shoes. She saved my life, even though she only got to find one shoe I was totally grateful for what she did for me. So thanks Katherine for being the best roommate ever! Totally appreciated your help this weekend. Well after all that got settled in the morning I still had a game that day and didn't do to great because I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, we lost. Anyways after all those bad incidents had happened to me I tried to put them behind me and just hope for the best the next couple of days. Well things got better for me as I hoped I finished my homework during study time at the hotel and I also got to score two goals in my next game and we ended up wining. The weekend for me was brutal but I learned a lot from it. I learned that I got to balance my priorities way better. I also learned that I can't let any bad thing affect me, you just always got move ahead and look at the bright side of things no matter how hard things get.

My Classes

So far really I have only noticed two of my classes that relate to each other and that's probably because my Comp class and my Frex class are linked. But other than those two classes the rest of my classes do not relate to each other what so ever.  I mean even at that my Comp class and Frex class do not always relate to each other most of the time.  I honestly have no idea how my classes are suppose to relate each other I really do not understand that concept because I'm taking a computer science class, a music appreciation class, comp class, frex class, and a calculus class. And all those classes at least I do not think can relate to each other.  But hey maybe later on the future they will or something. I know here at Texas Lutheran University they want us to get a liberal arts education and I partially agree with that because I want to get a liberal education but at the same time I'm just too lazy to take all those extra classes that I do not need for my major. Sometimes it seems pointless to me to take an arts class because I'm a computer science major and I feel like what I'm learning is not going to be useful to me in my major but other times I get so fascinated and interested in the material. In a sense I like learning in my music appreciation class but I do not like doing work or taking tests. But I do enjoy it a lot, my professor Mrs. Rodriguez makes it really fun.  I guess you can say I have mixed feelings about the liberal art's education that Texas Lutheran University requires.  I do not know like somedays I'm like yeah I want to take this class because I want to learn more about it and it seems so interesting but then I get lazy when I have to do the work, I know it's funny it just depends on my mood most of the time, but what do you expect I'm a girl.  For now I'm just going to take the classes I want and feed my big shaggy so I can have a more liberal education and as for the work I'm just going to have to deal with it, after it is college.  As of my feelings towards this liberal arts education here at Texas Lutheran, they are always going to be changing for me I guess but I'm just going to go with it and follow.

Hardest Change (for me) From High School to College

The hardest thing I have had trouble with while at college is probably time management.  I feel like I haven't been able to manage my time between homework, soccer, and friends equally.  I mostly always put homework and studying off until the very last minute so I guess you can say I'm a procrastinator when it comes to doing my class work, which is not good.  The reason for this is because I can't pass up hanging out with my friends, and since I'm my own parent now, I always decide to hang out and chill with my friends instead of doing work. All this freedom at college and always being able to see my friends everyday makes it hard for me to manage my time wisely. And soccer definitely makes it even harder for me to manage my time because most of my time is taken up by soccer and my friends because mostly all of them are on the soccer team, so that does not help my situation.  And if my time is not taken up by soccer and friends it's taken up by me being tired and sleepy all of the time because of soccer so I always end up sleeping instead of doing my work.  Most of the time I feel like there's not enough hours in the day for me to do all the things I want to do, I feel like time flies so much faster while here at college.  But I mean it is not like I do not ever do my homework or study because I do, it just happens to be very late at night and at the last minute. Which doesn't help because it affects me with being sleep deprived and if I don't get enough sleep I don't concentrate well in class and I also don't do good in practice so this time management is affecting me in all sorts of ways. So I'm learning little by little to organize my time and so far I've been more strict on myself about not joining my friends and doing homework or studying instead, and it has definitely helped me a lot.  I could see the difference right away because I wasn't up late at night doing homework like usual. Not being able to manage my time wisely has been the biggest and hardest change for me from high school to college.  Due to the fact that you are the parent now and are responsible for making wise decisions when it comes to making time for work. So if you want some advice when first adjusting college is to manage your time wisely. Like seriously it really helps to be organized and do your work first and then have all the time in the world to do whatever else you want.  That's my advice to definitely manage your time correctly to avoid any problems.