College Visits

I wrote a blog about college-related information a few days ago, so the title may seem a little redundant. IT IS NOT! This post is simply about me and the colleges I have scheduled to visit over spring break. I’m really excited to be able to finally get the process started for selecting a college.

Kentucky - What is there to say? It’s Wildcat Country; who wouldn’t want to go there? This school has been my favorite since I was still in the womb – my whole family is full of die-hard UK fans. My dad went there, my uncle went there, why shouldn’t I?

Purdue – Don’t really know that much about this school, except that it has a very good biology and chemistry programs, which is what I will need to become a doctor.

Indiana – I believe, as of now, this is my most perspective university. They have everything for me. Their campus is beautiful, their science and medical programs are rivaled only by the top schools in the nation, and they’re in-state for me. Plus, with my dad moving up to Indianapolis around the same time, I’ll still be rather close to home.

Notre Dame – I think it would be great to go to this school because of its prestige and its Catholic affiliation, but it does not have a school of medicine, so I don’t think it is right for me. I may still visit it, just to check it out.

Dakota

College Sports

Sports are one of the main things that make my world go ‘round. They are just quite simply the most fun things to both watch and play. When talking about college sports, I am brought to an all new high.

I don’t know why, but college sports are just more fun to watch than professional ones. I suppose it may be the atmosphere, the thousands of emphatic fans rooting their favorite college’s team on to victory. Also, maybe the fact that the players aren’t being paid and thus are playing for pride and glory sparks my intrigue more.

I’d have to say that my favorites are football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse. But for me, it’s not just varsity sports. I love all kinds of intercollegiate and intramural sports as well. Frisbee golf, flag football, water polo, they’re all cool. I really do hope I can play on an intramural team when I get into college. It will really make the experience a lot more fun.

Dakota

Kentucky's King of the Polls...or Not

Kentucky’s men’s basketball team has fought all year to maintain a perfect record and stay in the hunt for a number one seed come tournament time. They started fifth in the polls, and one by one, their higher-ranked foes fell, until there was only one – them. For the first time since 2003, Kentucky was ranked first.

And in the blink of an eye, it vanished. In a mere one and a half days, Kentucky went from numero uno to losing the basement team of the SEC in South Carolina. I guess we went in there over-glorified, thinking we were all high and mighty, and got punished as a result. Giving some credit where it’s due, Downey played a stellar game, and had he not been a beast that night, Kentucky would have most likely not lost.

Now people are trying to blame Obama for the loss. What the heck? All he did was talk to them over the phone. They just didn’t come to play against an overzealous SC team and paid the price. Maybe we’ll be able to learn from this setback before we play Tennessee (we beat 23^rd ranked Vanderbilt, woot woot!).

Dakota

Texting

So I just got texting for my phone. This has been a long time coming, but needless to say I am happy that I at least have it now. I know I should be thankful that I at least have it, but I have a phone that is no good for texting. Now in any other situation I would not be griping about this, but my mom told me and my sister that we wouldn’t ever be getting texting for our phones. So, I bought a phone that was cool in itself instead of a phone built for texting. My sister, however, got a phone with a keyboard on it. I of course gave her crap about it because she bought a texting phone (which is pointless if one does not have texting for it). But then mother decides we will get texting once dad pays the child support. We now have texting, and I light it up, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just a bit miffed that mom sort of jipped me out of a good texting phone because she didn’t think either my sister or I would be getting texting for them.

On the other hand, life is good. =)

Dakota

FPS

Apollo’s FPS and composition members from the academic team competed in the District Governor’s Cup competition and OCHS on Thursday. This blog will focus on the Future Problem Solving part of the competition.

Basically, we pretty much dominated. We got into the testing session and got down to business. In FPS, one strives to come up with sixteen challenges to a given situation, an underlying problem of this situation, sixteen solutions to this underlying problem, grade how well eight of these solutions would fare against a criteria of our choosing, and an action plan that best solves the underlying problem. This may seem like a lot, but let’s just say that we did it all, to near perfectness. I was amazed at how well we did. We just found out today that we are going on to regional (we either got first or second place, but since the actual competition was postponed due to the snowy weather, we won’t find out until the awards ceremony of the new date for that competition). Needless to say, I am thrilled and very excited to kick some tail at regional and move on to state!

Dakota

Dog Advice

I think that if a dog were to give me (or any other person) advice on any particular subject, it would probably tell me to chill out and relax a little bit more.

He would tell me that life is good when you don’t have to worry about anything, when you can just eat, sleep, and play with your owners. Why are you always running around all busy and under stress? What’s the rush? Just lay back and enjoy life; I’ve been doing it my whole life and its worked wonders for me.

I guess sometimes we as people get too caught up in the race to be everything that we can be and get everything we can obtain instead of living for ourselves and letting things roll every once in a while. These are the times when we would really like and need the guidance of a dog, one who has no cares and lives for himself, one who doesn’t buy into the hustle and bustle lifestyle. I think I might heed this advice on occasion. It sounds pretty nice. =P

Dakota

Rant Time - Nerd Style

I have this game called Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. It’s pretty much one of the best games made for the Xbox 360, ever. Well, this game’s freakin’ awesomeness is doubled when you couple it with online play. This is what this blog is mainly about.

I’m an average online player. I can hold my own against other players pretty well. I’m not great but I’m not bad. My kill to death ratio was about 1.1. Key word – was. Until, that is, two weekends ago. I had the crazy opportunity to go skiing with Nick at Paoli, so of course I took it! And it was great, as I stated in the blog about that trip. Little did I know that while I was having the most fun I’ve ever had in my life, my sister’s friend was ruining my reputation on CoDMW2. My sister had her friend (who I won’t name) over to my dad’s house that weekend. They decided they were going to play my online profile and add people to my friends list that I don’t even know. The friends I can handle; the actual playing I can’t. For lack of a better word, they sucked. Bad. When I returned to my dad’s house the following weekend, I found that my KD ratio had fallen about .2. To put that into perspective, they earned me 20 kills and about 300 deaths while they played.

This was, needless to say, very aggravating. I’ve sort of gotten over it as I’ve cut the deficit by about .07 and am only below 1 by about 150 kills. But still, you get the idea.

Dakota