Too much on my plate???

Two weeks into the new year and is my plate full.

You have school which in and of itself, will be tricky to handle later in the quarter, but here in the early portion is ok. This quarter I'm taking Inter-cultural Communications online (all I have to do in this class is write 2 papers of 3-4 pages each and three posts in the weekly discussion posts...that reminds me, I should go look and see how many I have this week). I also have Technical & Report writing in which I have to basically write a different letter each week. Then I have Legal environment of Domestic and International business... Business Law. I love the teacher in this class, he has us talk about law cases and present as if we are lawyers in the case, also if we take notes in the class, we are in trouble. Then I have Finite Math, which I really don't understand why I have to take this class, as I've already passed Statistics and this class is more along the lines of algebra...who knows. Then we have my "easy" class, the school newspaper. Sounds easy, and most of the time it is, but you try getting one article done (which for me usually turns into more like three or four) and all of your homework before noon on Sunday, when the games sometimes don't happen until 7p on Saturday.

Then you have San Diego State hockey. For those that read this and don't know I'm the media relations contact for the club team. I put out a weekly press release every week during the season. I'm also the announcer, and have been given the responsibilities if not the title of General Manager for the team. You have to start somewhere, right?

Then I have my job here at school working in the Athletic department. It doesn't sound hard, but when you have to juggle running the scoreboard for the swim meets, the water polo matches, and hopefully working with the baseball team it can get pretty hectic.

And now I'm also helping out the CSUB Dugout club. That is the parents and supporters for the baseball team. So far all I've had to do for them is create a Facebook profile, and take some pictures. But now they are looking at possibly asking me to keep a blog for them (I have a hard enough time keeping my own blog here up to date!).

So I ask you my fateful followers, do I have enough on my plate or should I try and add something else?

2 oops in one year....not a good second half of the year

So, how is everyone?

I apologize for not checking in sooner. It has been the entire Fall quarter since I checked in with everyone... (Why didn't you say anything there Jess?) Since finals start tomorrow, I can say took when referring to my classes. I took Financial Management (teacher had a very heavy Middle Eastern accent, and many others in addition to myself, had a very hard time understanding him), Organizational Management, Mass Media & Society, and the school newspaper.

Funny thing in the newspaper class, the first week of the quarter I was assigned a story on the Athletic Director retiring. One of the people I figured should have been in the article was the President of the school, so I went and made an appointment to interview him for the story. I got the interview three days later, and got him into the article. I go in on the following Monday and have the following conversation,

Editors: How did you interview Mitchell (the school President)?

Me: I made an appointment and got in there, why?

Editors: It took us 4 months to get an interview with him last year.

Me: Did you go back and follow up on the interview request?

Editors: Yeah.

Me: With his secretary?

Editors: Yeah, 4 months after we initially asked.

Me: Well, you should have done it two days later, that is what I did.

After that conversation, the Editor in Chief said "You are my ace in the hole." I eventually went on, and I believe I'm the only person in the class to have at least one article in every single issue. To the best of my knowledge, the only other "sports writer" got 2 stories in 9 issues.

Well, as you can see it is late, and I need to get to bed.

I'll try and remember to get updates in more often.

Ooops

Well, I see it has been since Dec. that I haven't updated the blog. Sorry. Been kinda busy with this thing called School.

I was looking and noticed that I had stated in previous posts that I would never do Twitter...Never say never. As I have officially joined the Twitter nation, and tweet pretty much every game that I go to. (twitter.com/CDinSV)

I survived the entire Winter quarter here at CSUB. I took Organizational Behavior (B-), Sports Law (B), and Sports Marketing (B). Quarter GPA - 2.90, missed a 3.0 by that much |_|.

For those that care, I'm taking Marketing, Event & Facility Management (my final Sports Marketing class), and MIS.

Finally!

I'm officially a University student!
-CD

As sent earlier today from my phone. Well today was the day that I've been looking forward to since December of 2007 when I made the decision to go back to school. It has been just 3 months shy of 2 years, and oh the classes and homework and all the other stuff that goes along with school.

So now that day one is done, I've only got 2 years (by my own limitations) before I get my B. S. paper. Wish me luck, not only with school, but with my next 100 posts. Yes, this is post # 100, thanks to everyone (aka Jesse) who has been with me through all 100 posts.

Wow, has it been that long????

Sorry for not updating the blog!!!! :(

To catch everyone up on what is going on in the life of Chris..... since I last posted, quite a bit has occured. First, I left off the last blog with me saying "off to work again to start another fun-filled year (I hope that doesn't turn into a sarcastic statement by the end of the year!)." Wellllllllll, since then "Bloodbath 2009" has occured. For those that don't know what I'm talking about, Clear Channel Communications laid off 1,850 (including two very close friends) while most of America was watching Barrack Obama screw up the Presidential Oath.

On the same day, and only about 15-25 minutes after I heard that the second of my friends got the ax, I called to CSU-Bakersfield to see what the status of my application was. The admissions councilor looked at my transcript and told me that I already had the equivilant number of credits to graduate with a B.S. in Sports Management (my major) right now, before I transfer. I asked her if that was a bad thing or a good thing and she responded with the following sentance. "Well, all I'm going to say is welcome to CSU-Bakersfield, Chris!!!" To which I responded to her, "please don't pull my leg, I haven't had a good day." She came back with, "I'm not welcome to the family!" So say hello to one of the newest members of the CSUB Class of 2011 (providing nothing goes wrong!)

This past week was opening week for the Spring 2009 semester at Grossmont College, and hopefully, my final semester at "Harvard on the Hill". This is going to be one crazy semester. 3 classes that are either completely or partially on the 'net and calculus. Of course, I also have a small group communications class that has us doing a project that will help make the "World a better place". The group that I joined (the 4 other people sitting near me on the first day) decided that the best way that we could make the world a better place would be to plant a tree at Grossmont College. Not to mention that when we come back and visit the campus, we can say that is the tree that we planted!!! Also, this semester, I'm the home statistician for baseball, game day ops for softball, and I'm continueing as the PA for Men's and Women's basketball at Grossmont and Women's Basketball over at Cuyamaca.

So as you can see, its going to be a busy semester.

Adios for now.

All Grades are in....

Well as most of you know, last week was finals week. I have finished all my classes and I have the grades, they are as follows (with what I was expecting in parenthesis).

Bus 120 - Financial Accounting (C) C - 70.55% (4 unit class)
Comm 122 - Public Speaking (A or B) B - 88%
Hist 109 - Modern US History (A or B) B - 88%
Posc 121 - Intro to US Government & Politics (C or higher) B - ?%

Semester GPA.... 2.69

So not too shabby if you ask me. I was completely shocked when I saw the B for US Gov't. I'm off until Jan. 26th. Enjoy the break ya'll.

Not a happy camper

Well, I got my research paper back from my instructor today. D+ was the final grade. Compare this to what the perosn who helped me on the paper said she would have given me a B and you will see why I'm not a happy camper.

For those of you who haven't been paying attention, my English class is apart of what Grossmont College refers to as "Project Success". PS is when you have an english class connected to another disciplne that allows the english teacher to help you learn two subjects and have them connected so that yo can understand the information in both. For me this semester it is English & Anthropology. Since these two classes are connected (or at least they were) if you take one class you are forced to enroll in the other. At the beginning of the semester there were a total of eight people in the English class and since Dr Yoshida opened the Anthro class up, there were 15 in the Anthro. Well, since about 6 weeks ago, there have been 4 in English, and 6 in Anthro (a teachers dream, small classes = more individualized attention). So you would think that we each would have a very in depth review of our rough drafts. We got the ol you need to work on this, this, and this. When we asked questions we were told, oh you don't need to worry about that. Well, if I don't need to worry about it, then why in the bleep did you mark me down for it?

In more positive news, as of Monday night (5 days since I had joined the gym) I had lost 3 pounds. I will be returning to the gym the next three nights before my next off night of Saturday. That is all for now. See everyone later.