FINAL WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Tests, projects, papers, assignments, and this final blog are all running through my mind during these final weeks before break. I have a lot to work on and time management has been a crucial part to get through the week. With all this stuff to get finished and the tests to study for I find myself in the library for countless hours. Sometimes I go to the W to try and get away from all of the stress, but I only come back under more stress and now less time left. I have always heard older students talk about finals like they are some demon from Hell, but it is until now that I fully understand what they mean. Compared to the rest of college which wasn't easy to begin with, finals week is excruciatingly busy and stressful.I am really hoping to get through this week and on to studying for all those tests next week. Once all of this is completed I will be so grateful and it will then be time for Lance to relax and enjoy the holidays.

Bullying

I have recently gotten the chance to watch a video that is circulating around Facebook that deals with bullying. The video is put on Youtube by an eighth grader who hates himself only because of the things that his classmates tell him and act toward him. This video truly changed my life. I will never look at the outsider the same way after watching this video. I hate seeing this kid that way and hope I have never put anyone in the situation that he is in. His courage and strength has given me the confidence to stand up for what is right and not just do what others want me to. I suggest that everyone watch this video, and I know that it will change the way they act toward the "geeks", "nerds, and just the people that they think less of.

please watch this video even show it in class if you wish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg

College Basketball

Now that it is my favorite season of them all........ BASKETBALL season, I am staying up late and watching all the games I can while trying to do homework. I lover everything about how the players play the game. They are not worried about the money they are making but only the results they produce. The players are playing for their school town and state.  A lot of these players are not going to the NBA so they give 100% all the time instead of the NBA which rarely tries at full capacity. The best part about college basketball or any sport in the world for that matter is MARCH MADNESS. This is the best time of the year where 64 teams come from all over the country to crown the champion of college basketball. I believe that Ohio State and Jared Sullinger  will bring home the championship this year!!!

Multiple Sclerosis

Today I'm going to write about one of the more serious topics in my life. My mom was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis since before I was born and it is only getting worse. Over the years I have seen the disease progress through her body. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that attacks the nerves throughout the body and covers them up making them unable to receive messages from the brain. There is no cure for this disease and will eventually leave my mom unable to use her legs. She is slowly getting worse and worse every time I come home and it's getting harder and harder to deal with. With the older I get and the more I understand the disease I am starting to cherish every moment I have with her. This disease is not terminal, but it is nice to be able to take her places on her own and that will soon be a thing of the past. I pray every night that someone somewhere around the world would just find a cure for this terrible disease so I won't have to see my mom like this EVER AGAIN.

Laura Hempen

I met Laura through her brother Scott who is in my accounting class. She is from Clarksville, Iowa and is a sophomore here at Wartburg Since then we instantly became friends and she started to hang out with us all the time. She is six feet tall with long brown hair and is an amazing basketball player. She was playing basketball for Wartburg until she quit earlier this year because she didn't like the coach. Now she plays basketball with us all the time and is way fun to hang out with. She always has something to talk about and is always smiling and happy.  She is a Biology and wants to become a nurse so we are always studying on the third floor of the library. All of our friends spend a lot of time with her and she has made our group a lot more fun and enjoyable.

The end of intramurals

 Tonight marked the end of our intramural basketball season. We were in the play-offs and thought we had a shot at winning and moving onto the next round, but we were sadly mistaken. We had already beaten the team that we were playing, but they came ready to play and we didn't. I ended up scoring most of the points for our team and that was not enough. Our team has trouble playing defense and we let up a tremendous amount of points every game making it hard to win. This whole intramural basketball season has been very frustrating, considering I came from a school that went 22-3 my senior year and losing to the eventual state champions. I hope this season turns out to be a learning experience for seasons to come on who to choose to be on my team.

Colt Feltes

 We have played a couple games of intramural basketball and were are starting to see just how our team is shaping up. WE have a record of 2-1 after three games, but we have not played very well in any of those games. One of our players has been a huge letdown  He boasted all the time about how good he was before we started to play, and we soon found out the truth about Colt. Colt does not play any sort of defense and always expects someone else to guard his guy for him. He really likes to play offense and shoot the ball all the time!!! He doesn't even make a lot of the shots he takes.We try to play the game as a team, but it becomes very hard to do so when one players shoots all the time. Colt is also not a very good rebounder and fails to box out most of the time. With a 6' 4"in  250lbs frame you would think that this and playing in the post would be his specialty, but they are by far his weaknesses along with defense. Hopefully, the rest of the season goes better then these three games have gone.