New tactics

Imagine this scenario.... you have a test in a week. You could do 1 of 4 options:::

A.) Study every night for 30 minutes a night up till the day of the test

B.) Study just in class sessions taking notes hoping to understand the information

C.) Study the night before the test and pull an all nighter to study

D.) Just flat out not study at all and hope you can remember the lectures from before

Now as a college student what's the reasonable choice?! It cant be choice "A" because almost every students middle name should be "PROCRASTINATION", so that is out of the question. Choice "D" also might not be a good idea because there is always information on the test that you learned a month ago and probably forgot about right after you left the classroom that day, so that too is out of the question. Now you're left with choice B and C. Yea with "B" you're still taking notes, but if the test is not open notes, then what good are the notes but no studying going to do?! That leaves you with choice "C", and you know what C stands for?! CHAMPION!

Being a college freshman for approximately 3 months now, I have learned something about myself. Yes I procrastinate, who doesn't...honestly...?, but I've learned that I am a cram studier, and that I do better under pressure. Lately with my tests I have been staying up the night before the test and studying and doing little study tricks that will help me remember the information, and I have surprisingly done better on my test, speech, and paper grades than earlier in the semester. Now I know its not the most reasonable, smart, or healthy choice for me, but if it works then why stop?! Just saying... Although this method works I do not know how many more all-nighters I can pull. Yes I am a teenager, and yes I have bundles of energy, but I sure do love sleeping in my cold dorm room on my comfortable bed nice and warm under my power rangers comforter.

If you were put in that scenario and had to choose one of the 4 choices which one would you honestly choose?! Would you be the "perfect" student and study a little bit each night? Would you take notes and hope that you'll remember the information? Stay up all night? Or completely forget about the test and just wing it when the test arrives?!

Just some food for thought.

Happy Friday! ---- 4.5 more days until Thanksgiving break! ((including today))

With my most sincere regards,

Alex " LASTS ALL NIGHT " DeFreeuw

One of those instances...

This week, by far, has been one of the best weeks during my college career at Ball State. Why may you ask? Let me tell you!

1.) Little to no homework all week

2.) I got an A- on my comm speech

3.) Got to play indoor soccer and volleyball almost every night

4.) After killing my comm speech my mother came and surprised me and took me out to lunch at Red Lobster. I was feeling dangerous so I decided to try the Lobster and Shrimp pasta alfredo. Not necessarily the best choice, but it was still decent.

5.) I get to go down to DePauw University this weekend to visit my good friends from school.

6.) It's Monon weekend at DePauw. DPU vs. Wabash football game!!

7.) Tonight (Friday) is the Asher Roth and Fabolous concert!!

8.) No tests or anything this week.

9.) I'm just in a damn good mood!

The only thing I wish I could change about this week is my batteries.... Or shall i say battery...

My car battery was blessed with the hands of the almighty battery god this week. When I went to go use the car on Monday - I was running late to do a sorority serenade for the fraternity and so i was running out to my car to get the rose that was needed to do a serenade. I get to my car, and the power locks dont work, didn't think anything of it because it wasnt really working over the weekend. So i unlock my door and put the key in. Turn it... and no response... I have to be somewhere in 15 minutes, and now i dont have a car to do my errand.... AWESOME!!

::::FAST FORWARD TO TODAY::::

Its 10am and my friend Austin drove his truck to my cars location, and we jumped my car so it started, and it was running good. after a few minutes of just letting it run, we took the cables off and my car was running. I was thinking, "Ok the real test will be if I can turn my car off and it will turn back on by itself..." So I try my theory and it fails... miserably... haha

Needless to say I have to go to Sears to get my battery replaced so I can depart BSU at the same time I was originally planning, so we shall see. $100+ for a new battery and replacement fee...? FML

All in all this has been an amazing week and I love everyone for making it a great week!

GO TIGERS! BEAT WABASH!!!

LOVED. HATED. NEVER IGNORED. SIGMA PHI EPSILON!

Love, Peace, and Blessings,

Alexander Jordan Thomas DeFreeuw VI

Birthday wishes

There is always one day of the year that everyone loves. No matter your race, ethnic background, how you were brought up, your religion, it doesn't matter. This day could even beat out Christmas, Thanksgiving, and even St. Patrick's day as the best day of the year. No it's not Valentines day, or even Easter. Although those are good holidays, have you ever seen a life size easter bunny? Those are scary as hell! There is no way I can like a holiday if I am terrified by the animal that represents that day. NO WAY!

The best day of the entire 365

day year is the day that you were brought to this planet. Your birthday. The world was blessed on May 22, 1990 at 9:30am when Alex Jordan DeFreeuw was born. I was a chubby little baby, not gonna lie, but man oh man was I just precious! haha

The main reason I am writing about birthdays though is that there is a little controversy dealing with this subject. Now when you think of birthdays you think for example, I was born on May 22 at 930AM, and when that clock turns 12am on May 22 I officially turn a year older... but is that completely true? If you think about it, I cant really start celebrating my birthday at 12am because yea, I was born on May 22, but I wasn't technically born until 930am, so I'm celebrating my birthday for a complete 9.5 hours that I wasn't technically alive for when I was in my mother stomach... shouldn't it be your birthday starts when you were officially born and goes for 24 hours after. So technically my birthday would be from 930am on May 22nd to 930am on May 23rd? My friend and I were having a conversation about this earlier today when I was walking to class because it is her birthday today and I brought up the point that technically its not her birthday until after she was officially born...She believes that your birthday starts at 12am the day you were born, but she technically wasn't born until 12:17pm, so like I said she'd be celebrating her birthday for a complete 12.5 hours that she wasn't technically born during... So whats the answer to the controversy? Is it a full 24 hour celebration during the day you were born even if you weren't born at 1130pm on that day?? Or is it for a full 24 hour period after you were officially born?

Just some food for thought!

Peace and Blessings,

Alex Jordan DeFreeuw

Happy Birthday to Miss Saree Autumn Titus.

-You're an amazing person and I'm glad we get to hang out and spend time together. Never a dull moment with you, and I hope your birthday is an amazing one, even though you still aren't older than me... :( haha

YMMS

This was me when i was 4 years old. Cheesin as always!

And this is the reason I do not like Easter... This kid basically summarizes what goes on my head when i think of Easter..

"Oh the places you'll go"

This week has been an interesting one... Since I was sick half of last week and missed my classes on my Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday classes due to being sick I had some catching up to do. Now you would think that in college missing 3 full days of school would mean that I would have an unbearable amount to catch up on. Thankfully, that wasn't the case here. In the college you have a lot of papers. Those papers take time. In turn, you get class time to work on them. Luckily for me, in two of my classes we were working on writing a paper, and our speeches. For my english class we had to write a paper about a magazine ad of our choice and how it relates to americas society. Then we had to describe the ad as if we were telling someone who could not see it and tell them the characteristics of the people, product, surroundings, whatever it may be. Then in the end we had to explain whether we were convinced enough by the ad to want to go out and buy the product.

My ad was for Downy fabric softener and in short there is a couple in their kitchen having a romantic dinner in their house, and the ad is saying how the smell of the softener can bring out your alluring side, and make people want to embrace you. Personally, i was not convinced by the ad to want to go out and buy it. I would much rather stick with the detergent and softener that I've been using since I can remember. I like how I smell :) haha

For my comm210 class I have to do an informative speech, and I decided to do my speech on the University of Notre Dame. I feel that I know enough about the University and that if I can find ways to spice the speech up, people might actually like hearing about it. Even some Michigan and Ohio State fans as well!

As I said earlier, while I was absent I only missed days where the class spent time working on their individual papers and speeches, which I was able to do once I got back to campus.

All in all, the past week back at school hasn't been too bad of a week. Yea I've had my rough patches and had to make up 2 tests, but its college... I wont really complain about it because I know that I could have it completely worse than I have it.

I haven't figured out a downfall of the week yet though, which is a good thing!

"If you believe in yourself and believe you can do something, then you can do anything if you put your mind to it."

Back home again, in Muncieana!

Wow. I didn't think I would ever be saying this... but it feels great to be back at school. Last week I couldn't wait to get home, be with my family, and just spend times with the ones I love. But thats all that there is at home... is my Mom, Dad, dogs, and Best friend brent..... Outside of that little circle my home life away from school is pretty non-existent... I have a few friends here and there that I love to go see, but other than that I'm home bored with nothing to do...

Thats why when I was sick last week and couldn't go anywhere outside of my room for 3 days, I just wanted to be back here at school with my friends and "family" where I'm with the ones that I've grown close to within the last 2 months. Some of my friends here at school would do anything for me, and wouldn't think twice about it, as would I do the same for them. I dont know what it is but when I'm here at school I feel like myself and feel like I'm not being judged for what i do or say, where when I go home and hang out with my old friends from high school I feel like I need to be the same old Alex DeFreeuw that everyone fell in love with at Homestead, which was the old me. Even since the beginning of school I've already learned a lot about myself as a person and have, in my mind, changed for the better. I've realized a lot and learned from my mistakes that I made this summer and have grown because of them. I am perfectly fine with the fun, loving, cooky Alex that I am here at school and do not change for anyone! I love the family I have created here at school and wouldn't trade them for anything.

DOTW: Missing school

Being sick I had to be out of school for a week. Although that sounds like a fun and amazing thing, for the doctors to say you cant go to school for a week, its not all fun and games. I had to miss Monday and Tuesday which was all 5 of my classes... Thats 5 classes of notes that i missed that I should have had, considering I was feeling better and well enough to go to school on monday but felt that it would not be in my fellow students best interests to come to school while i'm still recovering from the sickness. BUT, so far this hasnt been as stressful as I thought it would be, and I hope it stays this way. I'll be sure to keep you posted.

Halloween in 2.5 days!!!

" Maybe surrounded by, a million people I, still feel all alone, just wanna go home. I miss you you know." -Michael Buble

Same 'Ole Same 'Ole

As you read before, my week hasn't gone the best... Basically everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, I was stressed out about my tests, and I got sick. OH! But it doesn't end there....

Wednesday afternoon rolls around and its about 1 o'clock in my english class, and for some reason i can not stop shivering.. no matter how hard i tried to stop I just couldn't, so the class gets over at 150, and my next class is at 2. So i walk to my next class and I had a few friends from the class ask if I'm feelin alright and i told them I wasn't the best and they told me to go to the health center so i did. When I arrived there was a sign on the desk that said "3 hour lobby wait". I'm thinking to myself, "You have got to be kidding me...." but decide I have nothing else that can help me at this point so I decide to wait, and since I had a cough I had to wear one of those white masks over my nose and mouth... kill me now... So I'm sitting there for about 30 minutes and tell my mom what's going on so she knows that I'm not feeling well. With fall break coming up, she asked if I wanted her to ome pick me up from school, and bring me back home where she could take me to a hospital so they could check me out. I told her I would think about it, so she called back later, and says that my dad wants her to come get me because I shouldn't be in class anyways, so I should just come home and rest up. So after 45 minutes of sitting in the health center I headed towards my dorm room to pack my clothes for the weekend.

She arrives, picks me up, and takes me to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne where they took my temperature, and recorded my symptoms. I ended up having a 103 temp, and they told me I had a positive case of Influenza, a strand of H1N1..... AWESOME! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THAT!!.... :( oh but thats not all, I'm supposed to stay out of school for a week....

...talk about stress....

Needless to say since approximately 830 Wednesday to this current point I haven't moved from my bed in my room other than to shower and change clothes... My parents wont let me leave my room at all... I've watched two movies, spent more hours on facebook than i ever thought I would in a two day span, and have drank more fluids in this time period than i ever thought I would...

DOTW: Still tests and being sick...

"Those that live hard, fall hard..." -AJDeFreeuw

Not a fan...

When I came to BSU, I couldn't wait for the breaks from school. Fall break, Thanksgiving break, Christmas, the list goes on and on. This week is Fall break, and all classes on Friday are cancelled, so we get a 3 day weekend. I'm thinking this week is going to be awesome. Only 4 days of school and then I get to go home and see my whole family together for an entire weekend. That was not the case...

This week has been nothing but stressful, and being sick. I love having 3 tests in 2 days, and having a test on Thursday right before I leave for break... Not a fan at all... This week has been go go go, and being sick hasn't helped either. I've had a health test, a Comm mid-term, a math quiz, and  have a Poly Sci test on Thursday. Awesome.... Cant wait to go home, and be with my family again after this week... Like I said I'm a huge family man and my sister is coming up with her boyfriend from Dallas, Texas, my brother is coming down from Chicago, and My grandparents are up here from Florida. I cant wait. It will be a good end to a crappy week!

DOTW:

- Tests and being sick. 

Not only is having that many tests in a short time stressful, but having classes on top of that doesn't help either because you have to find time to study  between classes and at night. Being sick, is a bonus of the week too! Your head is all over the place and having to study and remember material for 3/4 different subjects is always fun, because you only want to sleep, but you cant! Its awesome....

Hopefully this helps make your week better, helped me! Make sure you watch all 7 of the videos! Each one is a classic!