Gatorade

While being on campus I have developed a certain addiction to a certain product. This product is Gatorade. I have purchased multiple Gatorades while living on campus. It was getting to the point where I would have 3-4 Gatorades a day, I would go through them like nothing. I realized how bad it was and tried to put a stop to it but I was nearly powerless. It took every bit of energy to stop myself from drinking Gatorade for a week. After the week I began drinking Gatorade again but in moderation.

Intramurals

During my time here even though it is forbidden I've been involved in intramural games here at the school such as flag football, dodgeball, and basketball. I personally hated flag football because it didn't remind me anything of real football. Dodgeball was pretty fun but I was like the only person on my team who could throw a dodgeball so that didn't go well. Basketball was alright, we lost mostly but I still had fun playing with my friends. So in my time of being here I learned intramurals just aren't my thing.

Friends

At my time at Lewis I came crosses a pretty good group of friends. We became closer than I anticipated. We trouble in trouble together, and experienced good times together in the short time we knew each other. We always support each other through the ups and downs. I don't want to go to into it because, well I just don't want anyone knowing too much to be completely honest.

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Maxwell Ebong

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College Writing 1 @10

22 October 2017

Procrastination

I admit that I have fallen victim to procrastination multiple times throughout my life. I believe that I am not the only one, that other also procrastinated once, twice, or a multitude of times. Why do we procrastinate in the first place? My senior year of high school my English teacher assigned a huge research paper that was thirty percent of our grade. Not only me but a majority of the class would have failed because most of us did not do the research paper until the night before, we did not even turn in a rough draft. We all got lucky because our English teacher gave the class another week to do the paper which was enough time for most of us to fix all the errors within our research papers. I almost failed English meaning I almost did not graduate simply because of procrastination.

If we could begin to think more severely about why we procrastinate we might realize that doing so could put us in a troublesome predicament that could have easily been avoided. We might realize that the excuses we say to ourselves such as, “I’ll do it tomorrow” “That can wait” “This is not due until…” are not acceptable. Procrastinate is not a good habit to keep because if it becomes part of our everyday lives then we are just wasting time by not being efficient as possible. Procrastinate can sometimes cost not only time but money, additional labor, and even jobs. Keeping all of this in mind it would be in our best interest if we all decide to stop procrastinating as soon and as much as possible.

Art of Pool

When I first took a tour of Lewis there was one common denominator that I saw regardless of where I was on the campus, pool. Nearly every dorm had a pool table including the den. I never knew how to play pool so I never thought that I would be using any of them. A few weeks into schools and I'm now pretty good at pool and I've meet new friends through pool. I do however think there are way too many pool tables on campus and would like to see more variety of games such as air hockey or foosball.

1nd Semester

So far the 1th semester was been overall easy except for a couple of classes. Mostly math and Cult and Civ. 1. I have never been a good math person but I've always tried to do the best I could, I have thought about going to a math tutor but my day is usually so busy that when I have time to go the tutor place is closed. In Cult and Civ. its more of me being sorta lazy and not me not understanding the material, the class requires a lot of reading. I just don't like reading things I'm not interested in but I guess I will have to learn. I also have to worry about making sure everything is up to date so can register for 2nd semester which is proving to be harder than I thought.

Statesville

In honor of the upcoming holiday Halloween, my friends and I went to Statesville. For those of you who don't know Statesville is a haunted house not far from Lewis. I had never been to a haunted house so I was looking forward to the trip. The line was very long and the tickets cost $30 but overall I would say it was worth it. I'm not going to ruin the experience for people who still plan to go by saying whats in there. I really enjoyed hanging with my friends and going to my first haunted house, it was a good Friday night.

DOCA

When signing this paper I believed that I was doing the right thing and preventing people who had lived their whole lives here from being sent to a country they had never to been. I later when to go hang out with some of my friends and found out that some of her cousins relied on DOCA to stay in the United States. I did not personally know any of my friend's cousins but after finding out this information I saw the people I was signing this document for no longer as strangers but as Mothers, bothers, fathers, and sisters. These mean something to somebody uprooting them from their live is not the correct thing to do. I felt more pride in my decision when signing this paper and faith in myself that signing it was the right thing to do.

Article Compare and Contrast

 The review on Cartel Land written by Manohla Dargis is similar to mine in a way of talking about how much emotion the film imcites within you when watching it or thinking back on it. The review begins to differ from mine when I begin to make more of a personal connect using examples to the emotions the film made me have. Dargis' review focused more on of a summary of the movie I'm which he mentions the emotions the films bring up within you due to the horrifying scenes shown but I tried to take more of a lighter approach like not talking about the decapitated heads or babies being killed. The style of the Dargis' review was of course more professional than mine was, I took more of a personal approach in my opinion.

Documentary Reflection

1) A specific scene that made me feel more understanding I would say is when the director was talking to the cartel in the desert in the middle of the night and one of them was saying how he know that they are hurting people and that to other they heartless gang members but to each other they are a family supporting each other because how else are they suppose to make money which by no way makes up for what they are doing but I understand better from both sides. I got to see a close up of the damage the cartel was doing to the people of Mexico.

2) I was surprised when I found out that Dr. Mireles was corrupt and was working with the cartel. I assumed he was one of the good guys judging from his story. As the film went on and on he began to do more suspicious thing. A clip in the film was seen of one of him meeting late at night with someone who is believed to be a cartel member.

3) The main question I had after watching this documentary was, "How does it all end?" "Who will put a stop to the cartel now?" The feeling of compassion and understanding stayed with me after the film because it the documentary helped me see things from other peoples lens. No, these feelings did not pop back up in life in unexpected ways because I live a better life than those people that I saw in the documentary and so far I have been taking it for granted like the fact that I don't have to wake up everyday and fear losing my parents or sibling in the cross fire between gang members and vigilantes.

5 problematic concepts are: Corruption, Violence, Poverty, Drugs, and Weapons

The Intro

Hello, my name is Max Ebong and I am 18 years old. I am a freshman at Lewis University, I also run track which I've been doing since 8th grade. I enjoy hanging out with friends, working out, and taking naps. I stay on campus in Founders Hall, don't be afraid to say wassup if you see me on campus.