My experience for this first semester has been very different. College so far for me has been very stressful, but I always told your first year is the hardest, you just have to keep pushing yourself to do your best. Starting college is something I was really afraid of because college is where things get serious. It is like a whole different level of education. High school is nothing compared to college. This scenario was the complete opposite to my thinking. After graduating from High school, I really wanted to go to college to take another, huge step towards my career. I had a decent amount of friends who were going to Blinn college and they told me that this college is good to start off with. So, now I find myself in this college. Although I was looking forward to go to college, my first semester has been hard time to go by because of new people, new classes and new teachers as well. In my life, I continuously meet new people every now and then, and college is no different. Even if I had friends from high school going to the same college, I didn’t have the same classes that they had. So the first day of college I walked into a class completely full of strangers. I had no idea how old they were, where they were from or what kind of personality they had. But I eventually got to know some of them as weeks passed by. It was nothing like high school, people are actually really nice to you even if you do not know them. In high school there is a lot of criticism depending on what you look like. Your race, your gender and many other things. College is a complete opposite. Along with having new people in my classes, the classes itself are really different. Classes in college differ a lot from classes in high School. There is no reason one should say that classes in college are similar to the classes in high school. Subjects that you get in colleges are way more advanced than the ones in high school. The material is made in a way that you know it is trying to say that I need to know more about a lot of things. A person may think they know enough to be in the class but once you start getting into more things, you actually learn the concept of the class.

Mike Rowe's has been doing the T.V. show Dirty Jobs for awhile, we use to watch it every Friday in business class I loved that show, it was very interesting. In this video about the high cost of college, he pulls up some very interesting points regarding the workforce and student loans in college. The first point I wanna talk to you about is he stated that, "he got nothing against college" but believes it's a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Why would you want to go to college when you can go straight towards working and making $10-$100 an hour? The jobs without college are paying really good and it’s really good opportunities. A good work ethic is that you got to love what you're doing so you can be more involved, that's why it’s good to go to college so you can have more options and be more open about the things you wanna do in life. He’s right at most points, we are wasting money on careers that don’t even exist. His show dirty jobs was too show young viewers to look at their options in a different standpoint, to follow their passion. On his show dirty jobs he met many people, he was always told by his family to follow his passion but when he was working with several of those people he asked them “what did you do before this?” they would say something opposite of what they are doing now, they wanted to own their own business instead of being a counselor anymore. He talks about his work ethic scholarship, it’s a scholarship to encourage the behavior that the micro wants to at least talk about here’s two things: the willingness to learn a useful skill, and the willingness to work your but off. Like he mention our parents want us to succeed and do better than they did. When they went to college the price was lower than what we are spending now. It has increased tremendously over the years. Many students are trillions of dollars in debt from student loans. I disagree where he says, "If I depended on a skill workforce then I would not depend on a public education.” We can’t just go straight to the workforce, college is supposed to help you learn the things you would need in life, I understand that it is very expensive but when you think about it will be worth it in the end, college is supposed to be this whole new adventure in your life.

Do you know how many people die a year from texting and driving? You will be surprised most accidents are from looking at electronic devices while driving. I will admit I have looked at my phone a couple of times while I’m driving but it takes just one second to look down at your device to get in someone else’s lane. You can take someone’s life away in just one instant, I promise you your phone can wait, it’s not that important. If you took someone's life away because of your stupidity, you wouldn’t be able to live with yourself. A prime example to not text and drive, one morning I was heading to work, I was going faster than I should down my road, but I was running really late to work. I got on twitter to post just one tweet, next thing you know I thought I was having some kind of nightmare but really I was getting slung around in my car going through a pipe fence and ending up in someone’s pastor. I lost control of my car, I wasn't paying attention to the rode. There was no telling how long I was out there but I woke up screaming my lungs out thinking someone could hear me in the middle of nowhere. I was very lucky I survived that wreck, nobody knows how I got out of that car a live. I’m blessed, I had a guardian angel watching over me. Nobody else was involved in this wreck. I walked away with just scratches, bruising and I was very sore for a couple of weeks. This was over one tweet people that’s all it takes. Maybe someday we will have cars that do the driving for us or devices that will shut down when safety is compromised. But today we know that electronic devices that pull a driver’s attention away from his or her primary task are unsafe. It’s time to put a stop to distraction. In David Brooks Article he said, “Being online isn’t just something we do. It has become who we are, transforming the very nature of the self.” Just because we can stay connected when we drive does not mean we should. No call, no text, no update is worth a human life.

The day of October 14, 1949 my father was born in Tomball, Texas. That day is next Friday he would of been 67 years old. He passed away June 6, 1997, in memory of my dad I got a tattoo for him. It hasn't been the easiest situation, I lost my father at a very young age, I was only 10 months. He didn’t even get to see his only daughter turn one. I’m sharing this with y'all because it’s on my mind right now. This month is always the hardest for me, I really didn’t get to know my father but I can still hear him talk to me. Like I always ask myself like why me? Why was my father taking away from me? God took the man that was my father because he didn’t want him suffering anymore it was his time to go. The day my dad died he was really ill, he wasn't feeling good that day . My mom tried to get him to go to the hospital but he was too stubborn to go. He finally listened to her, by time they made it there it was already too late we really don’t know what caused him passing. When he was eighteen he got his spleen taking out, so they think it had something to do with that.

    I strongly dislike when people tell me they know what I’m going through, they know what I’m feeling but truly they really don’t have no clue what it feels like to not have your father in your life unless it happen to them. It gets harder and harder each day, the things I’m doing now I’m trying to make my father proud of me. I don’t really talk about this situation to people or express anything I like to keep things to myself. I don’t like when people feel bad for me. When I think about it, when I get married he won’t be able to walk his baby girl down the aisle, it’s not fair. I look at other girls with their fathers, I always wonder what it’s like. I do have a step-dad but it’s not the same at all, he’s been in my life since I was two. I really don’t feel comfortable calling him dad, I think it’s wrong. He was the father figure for me but I wanted my real dad, I wish I could just see him one last time. Like the song says “If heaven wasn't so far away”.

   

The first Major exam we took Thursday, I was super nervous and my anxiety got really bad I don’t do well on exams.  I had done all the reading twice, I was thinking over and over about the material and filled pages with notes from my own responses as well as from class. I couldn’t have been more prepared for the exam. Having a short answer test makes you study even harder because you have to have a more bulk response and think about the questions that are given to you. The vocabulary was very simple, we went over them several times in class so they should of got stuck in your head. They got stuck in my head, I felt like I was dreaming about them all night making sentences for them.

The hardest part about the whole exam, I knew the material I study for hours the past two nights, I just couldn’t think how to word some of the things. Basically I was second guessing myself, I do that quite a lot. I felt like I put a lot vague in my responses, I couldn’t think about a good answer. Sometimes I mark out two answer that I know wouldn't be it, so I can have fifty percent chance. I had maybe two questions I couldn’t figure out, I didn’t know the difference between denotative and connotative but instead of leaving it blank I gave it a shot and answered the question. When you answer a question instead of leaving it blank you still have a chance of getting it right, you never know if you are wrong. Another question I didn’t know is the one about bias, which I should of knew that one we went over the material several times in class. He didn’t give us a hard test at all, he even gave us a study guide too look over.