What Sold Me To Wartburg

I didn't decide where I wanted to go to college until about a month after my senior basketball season. I was looking at a couple schools for basketball like St. Thomas, Upper Iowa, University of Dubuque and Wartburg. I took visits at all these school and liked them all a lot but i fell in love with Wartburg right away. I liked St. Thomas a lot because the campus was beautiful and they had great facilities for athletics, but it was 5 hours away from home and I would miss my family. I liked Upper Iowa but their facilities weren't as nice as I was expecting. I also like the University of Dubuque and they have a very good basketball program but I have lived in Dubuque my whole like and I was ready to move away and get the full college experience. Then I visited Wartburg and immediately fell in love with the W and the main court we play on for games. I loved the atmosphere of the school. And since my brother went here, I was up here all the time and he always told me to come to Wartburg because he knew I would love it. Needless to say, I am very happy with my decision to come to Wartburg, even though I have only been here for about a month I already love every aspect of it so far!

My Best Memory From High School

I have a lot of memories from high school but one in particular that I will never forget is my senior year basketball season. It was my favorite season of all four years of high school basketball by far. I think a big part of the reason why it was my favorite is because the girls on the team were so close, we were like family. When your on a team you always become close with your teammates because you're together all the time, but we became closer than ever. We hung out not only during basketball season, but outside of basketball season too. We could talk to each other about anything and whenever someone on the team was going through tough times, we all were there for each other. We all had each others backs. I in particular had problems with some friends my senior year in high school and it was really tough to go through, but the basketball girls were there whenever I needed them and they always stood by my side. The year ended up flying by because we were having fun the whole season and I can say that I consider them not only my teammates but my sisters too. I miss them the most out of all my friends from high school.

Pinterest

I think I may have an addiction. Pinterest, if you don't know what it is, it's a website that post pictures of probably anything you could think of. It post pictures of dresses, jewelry, clothes, food, photography, bucket list ideas, different crafts, quotes, college dorm room ideas, kids, future home ideas, ect. All you do is go on the website and scroll through it and you can repin stuff that interests you. You also make boards on your own personal page that puts everything into categories for you. For example, one of my boards is called "Good eatin'" and in it is different pictures of foods that come with recipes. Some food I have pinned in it is different soups, salads, meats, pastas, sandwiches and a bunch of other things. Another one of my boards is named "sweet tooth"and this one has a bunch of desserts in it. The best part about this board is that I actually have made some of the things I find in it and they have turned out awesome. Some of the things I have made is: french toast cupcakes, red velvet truffles, smore's cupcakes, sopapilla cheesecake, andes mint cupcakes and many other things. Pinterest is definitely one of my favorite websites. But the only bad thing about it is that they make an app for your phone and because of that app my phone battery dies by 3:00 everyday because I spend so much time on it.

My First College Exam

Last Friday I had my first college exam. It was nothing like my exams in high school because this one I feel like I had to write so much to explain myself. It was for my math class, which is a math class for teaching elementary students how to do math. So every answer was about a paragraph long because you had to write out how you would explain how to do the problem to a young child. I didn't do as good on the test as I had hoped to but now I feel a little better that I have completed my first college test. In high school I feel like things were so much easier and I didn't have to spend as much time studying. At times I wish teachers would have pushed me harder and made things harder to relate to college because at times I feel like i wasn't prepared for college. I still don't feel like I have completely mastered the time management skills but it's going to take some time. One thing I would change in high school is that I wish they had a required class for seniors to teach them how to prepare yourself for college. They should teach us how to correctly write a paper, correctly write an outline, teach us time management skills, ect.

My Role Model

I have two role models, one is my brother and the other is my dad. My dad is my role model because at one point in his life he was never suppose to walk again. When he was a freshman in high school, he got moved up to pitch for his varsity baseball team. It was his first game pitching and when he stepped down from the mound, the muscle in his calf bursted and split his leg. He collapsed immediately and couldn't move. He was air lifted to Iowa City and had surgery immediately. After surgery was over the doctor told him and my grandparents that he was going to spend the rest of his life in either a wheel chair or with braces on his leg. I can't even imagine having someone tell me that. My dad ended up dong therapy every day for the next 3 years and had to learn how to take his first step again. After all the therapy and hard work, he ended up playing baseball in college and tried to get drafted. He decided not to get drafted and instead start a family with my mom. Eventually he started playing semi pro baseball and is in the movie Field of Dreams. My dad is my role model because he never gives up on anything. Even being told you might never walk again, he proved everyone wrong and ended up being very successful.

First Full Week

Well, I got my first full week of college under my belt and it feels pretty good. It was definitely harder than high school but I'm thankful that I have people around here to help me out. Not only did I survive my first full week of classes but I also survived my first week of basketball. We had strength and conditioning work outs on Tuesday and Thursday with our strength and conditioning coach. Then we also had open gym on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and that went really good. After my first day of strength and conditioning I was overly sore but that's a good thing because then you know you got a good workout in. We did a leg and agility workout on Tuesday then did a jumping and arm workout on Thursday. The hardest part of our workout on Tuesday was when we had to do "stud drills." It's when you have to put your hands on a towel and bear crawl back and forth on the court, which doesn't sound very difficult until you do it a couple times then your arms start to go numb and your legs start to shake. But on the plus side, I really like the coaches and the girls on the team and I'm excited for the season to start!

Value Of An Educated Life

I think the value of an educated life is being able to be successful and being able to be pushed to do your best in many different aspects of life. With an education you are more likely to get a well paying job coming out of school and also being able to follow your dreams. I also think that when people see you have a degree and you've gone through many years of schooling, they know that you've been pushed to uncomfortable limits and done things that you didn't think you could do. So they see that you're strong and pushing you only makes you accomplish new things. I think that since we talked about going to a liberal arts school and having to take more classes than just ones that tie in with our major matches up with that fact that we are pushed out of our comfort zone. We obviously pick our major because we feel like it is something we are good at and it's a subject that we are strong in, but having to take classes outside of your major makes you stronger because it makes you have to think outside that box and get away for your major. Those classes are definitely a challenge because your going in not knowing what is going to happen and you can end up coming out mentally stronger than ever!