the blog about the blog!!!!

Well the blogs weren't my strong point in this class because more often than not I would forget to do them! However, I think they are kind of a fun way to express your ideas on topics and get some feed back. Overall i think they're a good idea to have. But maybe instead of having them as an actual assignment that can count against you just give the student an extra point for doing it. That way if students choose to be lazy they just dont get the extra points instead of it counting against you. I probably think this way just because i did every other one:)

revision strategies

I liked the one where we read the stories out loud better. Not only do the other students write down their own comments, but I realize more mistakes when I read it out loud too. I think when you read it out loud its a lot easier to pick up on mistakes. The other one is effective too but i think its pretty easy to look past your own mistakes. And you might think you have all the appropriate parts when you actually don't, just simply because its your own writing.

AHHH!!! My First college game!!

Wow! What an experience this was. This was probably one of the most fun times of my life, but also most nervous. It all seemed fine until coach told me to go in the game. The trip was like every other basketball trip i've ever been on in my life. We left the day before and practice at the UNL gym, and had a team meal that night. After that the team went back to the hotel and just hung out. In the morning we had a team breakfast, and I was still calm as could be. This whole time I was thinking, "ah its just another game no big deal!" Don't get me wrong i was still preparing for a huge game but I just looked at it like that because i thought i wouldn't get nervous. So at about four o'clock we had a pre-game meal. and about six we headed over to the devaney center to get ready for the game. To this point I was still fine, just another pre-game ritual and life was good. So we warmed up and all that good stuff, and they did the starting lineups. And at that point it kinda hit me. For the lineups they shut all the lights off and put a spot light on the players and played so loud music. And the fans were screaming real loud. Even though i wasn't starting, I realized this was the real deal, it was't high school anymore. After about a minute into the game coach told me to go in because the starting center was already in foul trouble. I was not as ready as i thought i was. As soon as I took my warm-up top off my hands got real sweaty and I got very nervous. This was finally it, I was playing college basketball. But I couldn't control my nerves, and all i kept thinking about is how i wanted to impress the coaches. I knew the nerves would go away eventually, but when was the question. After being in for about a minute, i grabbed a rebound, and finally i was in my comfort zone. I was doing what i've always done, just playing basketball, and after that rebound i was fine for the rest of the game!! But my nerves were at an all time high when i started against marquette, but i'll save that for another blog:)

thesis statement

Sorry this is late I forgot it was due thursday and we had a game this weekend and we left thursday after noon so i forgot all about it. But my thesis statement is, In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Ambrose Bierce shows that inner peace is truly discovered after one's sins are washed away.

Critically reading

Wow!! It's crazy what you get out of a story when you critically read it. It makes the story way more intense and realistic. But I still am not very good at doing this, because I kind of just put my head down and push through the story. This is bad because then i only get the surface meaning of the story when theres actually much more to it. So hopefully i can get better at this because it would be very helpful when trying to understand a story!

comparing the two stories

I thought there were a couple things that could be used as sybolsim in these stories. But the white heron was a big one in the white heron. I saw it as the girls escape to freedom and creativity. When she was on top of that tree next to that bird she was in heaven. I thought of the writing the lady did in the yellow wallpaper as sybolisim. This was also her escape from everything, kinda like her own therapist. She could write in the diary what she couldn't tell her husband.

Research Process

Well i finally came to a topic i wanted to write about after i talked to a couple of my friends on my team. So once i knew what i wanted to research, I went online and found a lot of information, and then started typing. Then unfortunately i had to cite it which wasn't very fun:(