Air Ball, Air Ball...

The only good thing about football season being over is now I can watch some basketball games here at Virginia Tech. I have always been a bigger fan of basketball than football but I watch any sport out there. The way the season started it looked as if this was going to be a long season with a bad showing in our first game. We won the game but it was a horrible game as we should have won by a wider margin but ended up winning only by like six against a really bad team.

This all changed soon after we lost our first game as we turned it around after that game and started playing really well and winning the next nine games against some really good teams, especially the last of those nine wins which was in Mexico against a Seton Hall team which is a very good team. We ended up beating them in a game that we needed to win to have a statement win this season, before the ACC season started. This game went into overtime and we ended up winning in overtime in a very exciting non conference game.

Then started the ACC season, which also got off to a bad start with us losing two out of our first three games but we also turned this around with a huge win over a very good Boston College team. This game was really exciting as it came down to the wire with us scoring the game winning basket with five seconds to go in the game. We play another important game against Virginia as they are tied for the ACC lead. This need this win in order to compete in the ACC as it is a very tough division to be in.

Week 1 Frustrations...

The first week of the new semester came with the depressing fact that my fun and relaxing winter break was over and that I had to come back to my rigorous daily schedule here at Tech. The worst part about all this was that I had to leave my friends from high school again, and this time it was even harder since we got used to seeing each other almost every day. Leaving home also had its privileges, since I got to come back and meet all my friends here at Tech who I had not seen for about a month. I also would have the freedom that I had gained here at V Tech.

My week started out with a lot of fun stuff with me finally getting to play basketball and run after about a month and a half since it was way too cold and too much snow on the ground to play or run. After this fun day, things just went downhill from there. Classes started bright and early for me on Tuesday and this was hard to do since I was used to waking up at about 12 pm not 7 am.

This was just the beginning of a long week since I had 8 am classes the next two days and there was no way I was getting enough sleep since it is really hard to go to bed early enough at college since there is always something going on at all times. Along with the early classes, there are also the tough classes that we are required to take in order to complete our engineering education.

This semester has just begun but it feels like I have been here forever. The only thing that is going to motivate me enough is the thought that this is all going to pay off once I graduate and have a good job. To insure that this happens I am going to have to work really hard, do a lot of work and also have to go to class bright and early for the next three and a half months.