Today we finished up our presentations and we basically finished up class.  Every group did a great job presenting their pieces.  It takes a lot of courage to get up there in front of an audience and we all did it to perfection.

Today we worked a little bit on our group project.  Then I looked up how the New Orleans Hornets were doing in the playoffs and unfortunately they are down 2-0 in the 7 game series.  Hopefully I can look back at this post and say haha when they win the series.  I digress.  Anyway we are doing a class evaluation and then im bouncing.

I called the number and told the person over the phone that he is not smart because the animal was a dog.  He insulted me over the phone so I asked him where he lived so I could go over and whoop his ass.  And conveniently, he lived right next door.  I show up to his house and we start brawling all over and then we accidentally bust open the door to the basement.  He was knocked out as we fell down the stairs and I look up and there are two dead bodies on a table being worked on by this strange man.  

This was my creative writing story that our special guest speaker told us to do for her. She was very cool.

4/9/09

Raymond James

Mizzou Wrestling

SAAC Co-President

Dear Raymond,

I am writing this letter regarding the fact that we can only get a to-go box in the dining hall if we have a written permission slip from our coach or nutritionist.  Being a student athlete, we don't have the resources to go and spend money and time to get food steadily over the weeks.  Between, class, baseball, and studying, our schedule is pretty much booked as you know.  Our time is probably the resource that we treasure most considering the fact that we athletes are so busy.  since I don't have much time to go into the dining and hall and sit down to eat, I would like to take the food home and enjoy it after I get my studies done.  It would be nice to sit back and enjoy a nice meal for a change instead of rushing in the dining hall, whoofing down my food, and hurrying to study hall.  It is without a doubt, a pain in the butt.  I would really appreciate it if you could do everything in your power to get this rule changed.  Thanks for your time and your consideration. 

Sincerely, 

Michael Liberto

Today Mr. Heitmann number 3 came and talked to us about how he writes in his profession.  He is an attorney and he let us know how important it was for him to communicate with people.  It seemed more difficult for him to do because sometimes he has to answer questions in a non-lawyer way.  To me that might seem a little bit tough if your trained to do something a certain way, you would want to do it like that all the time.  But all in all he was very informative and i enjoyed having him here this morning.

Today Ms. Heitman came to our class and she explained the importance of writing in her profession. She told us not to have errors in letters of recommendation or things like that.  But I liked her because she brought us donuts at the very beginning so that is when she got my utmost attention. Haha.

Persuasion

Ignore that last post. I pressed enter on accident.

But anyway, most college students wake up at around 7 o'clock for their 8 o'clock class.  They probably stumbled into bed at roughly midnight if not later. In adults, such meager sleep is known to affect day-to-day functioning.  However, teenagers are biologically driven to sleep longer and later than adults do.  Therefore, the effects of insufficient sleep are likely to be more dramatic.  

Insufficient sleep has been shown to cause difficulties in school, including disciplinary problems, sleepiness in class and poor concentration.  Now I know that all we have to do is go to bed earlier.  But with a stiff schedule that intersects baseball, studies, and volunteer work.  One might have trouble getting to bed until very late. 

 Therefore, I am proposing that we get a day off to get our stuff together or just simply make us show to class at around 8 30 or 8 45 to give us more precious minutes of sleep.  This will make us more alert in class, make us concentrate better, and will make us feel less tired.  So if you give us this extra time, our class will benefit from it greatly