Call of Duty: Black Ops ZOMBIES!!

Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of the newest video games that is out right now. Not only is there campaign and multiplayer online matches, but there is another part of the game called "Zombies". In Zombies you and your partners have to defend yourselves from the zombies. you work your way level through level to get better weapons and that way you can better defend yourself from the zombies that are coming in. The higher the level, the harder it gets to fight the zombies and even more zombies keep coming. There really is no way to end the game so you have to keep playing until everyone loses.

Thanksgiving Break

It seems like school just started and now it's already Thanksgiving Break!! And what does Thanksgiving Break mean? It means that theres only about a month until Christmas! Thanksgiving is always a great time to spend time with your family and to have a great meal. This year over Thanksgiving Break I even have a job so that I can make some extra money to have for school.

St. Joe vs. Lakeland

Tonight St. Joe goes to LaGrange, Indiana to take on the Lakeland Lakers in the second round of IHSAA Sectional playoffs. During the regular season, St. Joe devastated the Lakers 63-7. Now it is a rematch, and after last year's big win for the Indians, Lakeland has become yet another rivalry for St. Joe's football program. It was the second to last week in the 2009 season of Indiana High School Football, it was another year of offensive woes for St. Joe football, our offense had not been able to achieve much the entire year. It was a different story on the other side of the ball, our defense had been ranked in the top five defenses for the past two years and it was the same thing for my senior year. I had started at defensive end for St. Joe Junior year and I was doing my best to fight back from an injury and earn my starting spot back that I had gotten replaced in. St. Joe went to Lakeland with a 3-4 record (it was a very troubled year with injuries and we had one of the toughest schedules in the state), the Lakers came in with a 7-0 record, they thought it was going to be a push over. Had they forgotten about the years past? St. Joe has always dominated in this series and we were not going to let them think that they had a chance to beat us this year. However, we were facing one of the best teams that Lakeland had ever had, I will say that they were a pretty good team, but that was not going to make us feel inferior. We were better than them and we knew it. It was a very close game, in the final minute the score was 10-9 in St. Joe's favor. Lakeland had the ball and drove down the field and scored to make the score 15-10 with three seconds left in the game. They thought they had won the super bowl, it was a great moment for them (a rural Indiana school to beat and South Bend school). They lined up for the last play of the game (it was a kickoff). All they had to do was make one more tackle and they could shake our hands and go celebrate in the locker room. Well I'm proud to say thats not how this story ends. They kicked off and our return man caught it. The last three seconds ticked off the clock and the buzzer sounded in the middle of the play, Colin (the returner) had still not gone down. He found a hole in a mass of blockers and ran right through it. He was on his way to the endzone!! The Lakeland kickoff team ran after him as hard as they could, when Colin got within a couple yards of the endzone he leaped in, we had done it! We won 16-15 on the very last play of the game!! Our team walked off the field with our heads held high, the Lakeland fans looked like they wanted to kill us. That game sealed the birth of the St. Joe/Lakeland rivalry and from now on, especially tonight when the players are playing for a chance to go to the sectional title game, it will be a great rivalry game to watch.

Continuing the Research Project

My group has decided on our topic. We are going to do our research papers on how video game violence effects the people who play the game. We thought that it would be a very good topic to write our papers on because it is pretty easy to argue the standpoints of either side of the argument. One side being the view that video game violence has a negative effect on the player and causes them to think that real life violence is not that bad because its just a prank in the video game. The other side being that the violence in the video game is not taken seriously by the player and the player still has the correct state of mind about the difference between virtual and real life violence. There are also many sources that have their standpoints on the subject, therefore we will not be short on information for our topic.

Choosing a Research Paper Topic

This week in class I was given the assignment to form a group with other students in class and pick out a controversial topic to write a research paper about. I joined with Alex, Paul, and Jordan and we all looked up topics to write about on the internet, we were all pitching our ideas to each other about what would be good to write about. One of my ideas to write about was the debate on whether the 9/11 attacks on America were government conspiracies or pure acts of terrorism. Other ideas the my group came up with to write about were topics such as abortion, alcohol abuse, cults,etc. We still have not completely agreed on an idea for what we would like to write about but we have worked well with each other in the same group before so I have no doubt that we will be able to think of a very good topic for our research papers.

Ball State Homecoming 2010: Rock the Red!

This week is homecoming week here at Ball State. I have never been a part of it before so I really do not know what to expect. I have heard that it is a great week to be a Cardinal because of all the activities that go on on campus. To kickoff the festivities of homecoming, there was fireworks on monday night, then there were things like flag football, air jam, homecoming dinner, and the bed race (see picture below) to celebrate the occasion. The homecoming football game is Ball State vs. Western Michigan Broncos, Western Michigan is also a MAC (Mid-American Confernce) team. I think it would be pretty awesome if the football team wins the homecoming game because I know that if they do the Ball State students will be really excited that would make homecoming this year even cooler. The game is at 12:00 P.M. on saturday afternoon. I hope that everyone has a great homcoming and  GO CARDINALS!!

T.G.I.F.

From now on until the semester ends I only have one class on friday!! I had always had an eleven o'clock and then a one o'clock class but now my one o'clock class has ended because it was only a five week course. The course was ID 101, a freshmen seminar course to teach me about the transition to college life and how to enhance my study skills so that I may study more effectively and understand everything more clearly. I finished the class with a ninety-eight percent. I am very excited to only have to go to an eleven o'clock class every friday now because I still do not have to get up too early but on the other hand my class is not very late either, I get done at 11:50 A.M.