DORMS

I live in Tuttle room 144, my roommate is John Fausey he is the man and for a first year dorm room I think we have a pretty sick setup. However dorms are starting to get on my bad side. First there Is not enough storage space in the room for all of my belongings so it gets cluttered almost everyday if we don’t find time to clean up the laundry or whatever else it is we have laying around on the floor. The hard tiled floors often become infested with dirt and grass from the bottom of our shoes so when we are walking around barefoot we are always in for a surprise. Even just the fact that you can never really have the privacy you want or play the music you want without wondering if you are irritating your roommate makes It a daily struggle. I think all first years can relate to the feeling of being trapped in a small room with someone else almost like prison everyday can get old quickly. I am excited to move into my house with my teammates on june 11 that is for sure

how can i keep up?

The fast pace first year student athlete schedule is something I was not mentally or physically prepared for, and I am starting to worry if I can keep this pace for much longer. My day begins waking up at 6 am for a morning practice in the wrestling room where it is not uncommon for our coach to end the practice having us do 100 or more pushups and pull-ups as a “cool down” as he likes to call it. It doesn’t matter how long it takes us we just have to get it done. Then off to class which is usually hard to concentrate in or stay awake for anyone, but this is especially challenging after a morning practice. Then due to a poor test grade I am required to serve study hall hours in my coaches office or academic advisors office from 1-3 everyday usually not finding time for lunch. Then after struggling through that I head right back into practice for the 2nd time of the day which is always tougher than the first one. From there is head back to required study hall in JPJ which is actually a huge help academically so its hard to complain about, however it just adds one more required activity and place for me to be that stresses me out. I get back to my dorm around 8 or 830 which is actually earlier than some of my teammates get home (Gabe Gomez) who doesn’t get home until 10 usually. And to top this all off during this fast paced day I have to limit my food and drink intake because I have weigh inns every weekend and and currently 10 pounds over for my weigh in this coming Saturday. I am trying to figure out ways to cope but it really starting to mentally break me, because I do love to wrestle and I do love my team its just hard to keep up.

Aderol

Aderol prescriptions have become so wide spread among high school and college students that it seems almost half the people you ask have one. Several of my friends even as late as the summer going into their first year of college were diagnosed with ADD and started taking aderol to help them focus in class and get their work done. However it doesn’t just end there, they have said that it enhances every aspect of their life from school work to practice to even getting chores done like cleaning your room. The way they make it sound in this competitive environment you are now almost at a disadvantage if you do not take aderol. The thing that bothers me though is I struggle very much so doing things like homework and writing papers, and sitting through a whole class and not getting distracted is almost impossible. So why can I not get a prescription? Well apparently the sports medicine doctor said he dosnt think I need it based on a conversation I had with him which I think is a bit ridiculous. So my question is the fact that it is such an enhancer is going to make more and more people attempt to get Aderol from the doctor, are we going to reach a point when everyone is taking Aderol? I mean it cant hurt society at all there is no harmful side effects , the only side effect is making you a more productive and attentive individual. So why not just have everyone take it?

murderer sues victim for ice cream truck

I was recently online browsing the internet and I came across an article that blew my mind. It was about a convicted murderer who was suing one of the victims he didn’t manage to kill before he was arrested. The man in prison who had already killed a man on the west coast flew out to New York to meet up with a friend that was selling him an ice cream truck for 18,000 dollars, but took his friend hostage and held him at gunpoint when he didn’t get the ice cream truck he paid for. In the end the man was convicted of his previous murder and made headline news when he agreed to plead guilty if he could have his favorite foods from KFC and some Hagen Daze ice cream. Now he wants revenge he is suing his friend for the full 18,000 dollars from prison and he even wants a refund for the travel expenses he used in flying out to kidnap him, the crazy part is he is winning his case in court! I still am a little unclear as to which side I am on because I don’t know some of the details. But should our judicial system allow this? Should we let convicted murderers sue their hostage victims from prison? At first it might seem a little crazy but after all the man never got his ice cream truck, some people just love ice cream I guess.