The Big Question...

As seniors, we have all heard it a million times. What do you want to do with your life. I for one hate that question. I'm 18 years old. Am I really supposed to have my life already planned out? I mean of course I plan on attending college,but as for the where and what for, I'm still undecided. There are a couple of majors that I have been interested in and researching a lot. And that would happen to be sports medicine or physical therapy.
In the past 5 years I have seriously injured both my knees. In 8th grade I tore my acl in my right knee along with some cartilage. 3 years later I happened to do the exact same thing to my left knee. I know what your thinking, I must have the worst luck ever. But I blame it more on genetics from my dad's side of the family. Anyways with torn acls comes a lot of physical therapy. After going through all that and seeing what their job was like, I became interested. I began to think that this may be something i could see myself doing in the future. I already have a lot of first hand experience in the subject so why not? Now since that is what I may be looking at majoring in, I began to look at colleges that had those fields. I am currently focusing on 2 main school, the University of Northern Iowa, and Iowa State University.
Iowa State has always been my favorite college in terms of sports. Ever since I was a little kid, I have been raised to be a cyclone fan. So Iowa State has that homey feeling for me. I already know a lot of the campus from past visits for various reasons such as sporting events and visiting friends. Looking at classes, they do have the field in which I am looking at. Another positive for Iowa State would be the fact that it is very close to home. If i needed to come back for any reason, it wouldn't be a problem at all. One negative about it though may be its class size. Some classes have hundreds of students in it and you lose that sense of close teaching that you get in highschool.
The University of Northern Iowa also specializes in the field I am looking into. My brother is currently a student at UNI so I have a lot of personal first hand experience on that campus as well. I have been there a lot and I must say that I do like the atmosphere around Ceder Falls. It's a big enough school and town that you won't get bored all the time, but still small enough to give you that homey feeling. The class sizes are much smaller than at Iowa States and most classes only have about 20 kids in them. That's something I would greatly enjoy. But as for which school I will be attending, that decision is still up in the air.
So for all those people who are wondering what I am going to do with my life after highschool, there's a little insight in to what may be in the future for me. I wish it was still as easy to answer as when I was little, but unfortunately, I think my chances of becoming an astronaut are very slim. Hmmm maybe I could still be a fireman though. I don't know it looks like I'm just going to have to wait and see how it all turns out. Whatever I become or decide to do, I'm going to make sure it's something I truely enjoy. As long as it's something I love, I know I'll be happy.

Gotta Love Christmas Break

So sitting here trying to think about what exciting story I could tell you about i realized...my Christmas break was actually really lame. Though there were some fun things I did, most of it involved akward family christmases. You know the kind where relatives you barely even know come over and give you big hugs and tell stories about when you were a teeny little baby. Then of course there are the cousins that just annoy the crap out of you. But luckily they didn't make the drive out from Nebraska this year, thank God! But since there were a few good things over the long break, I guess I'll tell you about them.
First of all, there are the gifts. Lets be honest, if it weren't for the gifts Christmas would just be another ordinary boring holiday. My parents stuck to the basics when it came to Christmas shopping for me. A couple Xbox games and a lot of money, which is completely fine by me. Money is always a great gift to make someone happy. But this year was somewhat different. Since I had a job this summer, I was actually able to afford to buy my family gifts. So i was pretty proud of myself for that.
With all the spare time during the break, I was able to go to a couple of movies. With all the hype about the new James Cameron movie, Avatar, I automatically had to go see it. And I must say that I was pretty impressed with it. It had a good storyline and all the C.G. made for a great movie. One thing I didn't like about it though was the length. A two and a half hour movie is a little long for my taste.
The other movie I got to see during break was Sherlock Holmes. Now that is my kind of movie. Ever since Iron Man, I have been a big fan of Robert Downy Jr. So I went into this movie with big expectations. I was not dissapointed. The storyline was very well put together and the acting was great. It really made you do a lot of thinking throughout the entire movie. Over all I'd give it four stars.
But most of my break consisted of hanging out with my friends. The only bad thing was that there was never anything to do. Since there were a lot of people with their families or on vacation, we usually ended up sitting around watching t.v. or playing video games. Exciting I know. Speaking of video games, my parents have officially become Wii obsessed. We got one as a family christmas present and I don't think they have gone one night since without playing. As I am writing this, one of them is bowling in the next room. It gets kind of annoying but at least they found something better to do than bother me all the time.
So that's pretty much it for this blog. I hope it hasn't bored you to much. As I wrote this I'm pretty sure I've become depressed over how uneventful my life really is. High school sucks and hopefully college is ten times better. But I'll save that for another blog.