Advice for the Incoming freshman

I have three pieces of advice for next years freshman.
First- Go get involved. Getting involved in clubs and organizations on campus will help you meet new people.
Second- Stay focused on your grades. I don't man every  two seconds to worry about your grades, but don't let them slip because it is hard to bounce back from it.
Third- Live a little. Go out and let your barriers down a little, it will help you make new friends.

The basic gist is have fun, get involved and do your school work.

Success and Failure of the first semester

I'll start with my failures in the first semester. Those would be I didn't get involved in clubs like I wanted to. Also I would say that I didn't keep on my grades as much as I wanted, I let them slip a little towards the middle of the semester.

Secondly comes my successes. I would say succeeded in making new friends. That was one of my fears and I wanted to be successful in meeting new people. I also was successful in making the baseball team. I wanted to pursue my dream of playing college baseball and I successful.

What are you most looking forward to about Thanksgiving break?

The thing I am most excited for is the break from the cafe food and the home cooked meals. Over the course of the break I will have about 4 "Thanksgiving" dinners. My favorite part about the meals are the potatoes. 

The other thing I am looking forward to is seeing all my friends that left for college too. My best friend in high school went to Alabama for college and i only get to hang out when he is back for breaks.

How do you plan to "stretch" yourself during college?

I plan on stretching myself in college by doing things I haven't done before. By that I mean joining groups and by meeting new people. In high school I wasn't in any groups. I played sports that was it, in college I hope to stretch my boundaries more and join clubs.I hope that this opens me to other clubs that I wouldn't of looked at during the my high school years.

The meeting of a lifetime

If I had to choose one person to meet dead or alive, I would choose Michael Jordan. I would choose him because he is one of the greatest athletes ever. When I was little for Halloween I would dress up as Michael Jordan. I would have my 23 jersey on all the time. My favorite quote is by him,

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

I would love just to have a conversation with the greatest basketball player ever.

What word do you hope most people use to describe you? Why would you want it to be that word?

The word that I would hope most people use to describe me is respectful. Being respectful is a very important quality for me to have. I've grown up being taught to always be respectful no matter how much something bothers me or how angry I am in the situation. Being respectful is a quality that will get you somewhere in life. That meaning that when you are respectful you are easier to work with, more likely to get things you want because you are respectful, and people will have nothing but nice things to say about you. Respect is a quality that is hard to keep but if you do people look at you with more respect. It's a give and receive quality that I hope to have describe me. 

Changes During College

The one characteristic of myself I would like to improve is being more caring and helpful to others. I want to because I want people to be come to me if they need help. I want to improve in those areas because it is something that means a lot to me. I want to be able to make a large impact on my community. I want to start an organization for the under privileged people in this country and then possibly the world. I want to do this because it was how I was raised. I never fully believed in doing a lot of selfless things, but now that I've seen the impact of those acts I understand that it is important to do sometimes. I think if everyone did nice things everyday that the world would be a better place. I want to be that person that makes people realize that they can make an impact on a lot of people just by being respectful.