Fall

Things to do in the Fall...well I don't necessarily have one specific thing that I always do every year. However, Thanksgiving happens in the Fall and Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday. Every year I get to have two different Thanksgiving dinners in one day. I get to eat Thanksgiving lunch in Jacksonville, IL at my mom's parents' house. I eat there with my mom's whole side of the family. That consists of at least 20 different people eating all together in the same room. It can get to be pretty hectic at times but can also be a very fun time. Then, from there, we go about an hour north to the state capital, Springfield, IL. There we eat at my dad's mom's place. Even though she lives alone, and works all the time just to fill the empty void, her Thanksgiving dinner is the best thing ever. Nothing will ever compare to it for me. I look forward to that one meal every single year. This meal is all being made while she is at work. The first thing to start with is the turkey. She gets a huge butter turkey every year for just about 6 of us. She puts it in this pot with chicken stock, yeah I said chicken stock, and even more butter and lets it cook while she is off at work, working the buffet lunch at the Chesapeake restaurant, a fancy seafood and steak restaurant in Springfield. Then she gets these noodle things from the State Fair every year and cooks those later with the stock of the turkey and chicken stock as well as cooking the stuffing with the same juices. She uses the typical boxed stuffing and adds those juices. Then there are random bits and pieces of everything else here and there, including ham for my sister who doesn't like turkey. It is the best time of the year.

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Collegiate Success?

Okay, so...we are supposed to talk about one thing that we have learned in one of our classes here in college that is useful or important. Well, I won't be able to write 300 words about just one thing that I have learned here in college that is useful or important unless I keep rambling on like I am right now, speaking about nothing at all just getting a lot of words out there.
So one of the things I have learned that will be useful in my upcoming college career is that Calculus 2 is supposed to be one of the hardest math classes for math majors. If you are able to pass Calculus 2, then you will be able to do rather well in the upcoming classes. As of the moment I seem to be doing rather well in my Calculus 2 class, and I really hope to keep it that way. Being a math major, I really need to do well in this class to be able to do well in the classes yet to come.
Another thing that I have learned was in physics. I just recently learned, in fact the class prior to me doing this post, that people are constantly accelerating at at least 0.033 meters per second squared. This means that we are constantly moving with respect to the Earth. However, what if a person were to walk at a constant acceleration of the same as the Earth, but in the opposite direction of the Earth's rotation. Or, would it be easier for a person to run outside towards the East since the Earth rotates towards the East. By doing this the person would be moving with the Earth, as compared to running against the Earth. If you have any ideas as to answers or postulates of these questions, please comment your answers on this post. This is really puzzling me , even though I have my own theories of answers to these.

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music and stuff

It's amazing how much people change over their life time. I know for a fact that I have also changed a whole lot, especially in my way of liking music. Music varies so much between different types and people have their own ways of liking what they want to like. Me however, I like pretty much all types of music, with an exception to some country. I have liked different types of music more than others differently so many ways in my life already. When I was younger, I used to like more of the pop music that everybody else also knew all the words to. When I transitioned into high school, my music taste changed a little bit. My high school's music program has won 15 state championships in a row as of now and my band teacher would play classical music for us when we weren't ourselves playing. It was then that I got into the classics such as Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. I was into that type of music more than any others until about my Junior year. It was then that I found out more about Breaking Benjamin, Rev Theory, and Skillet. I got hooked on the somewhat heavier alternative rock that they played. I actually still am hooked on that music as Rev Theory is my favorite band, with a close runner up of Skillet. I have about 4,000 songs on my iTunes right now and over 150 different artists. I am open to almost all suggestions of music or bands. Please feel free to make some suggestions based on what you have read and I would be glad to know what my peers are used to listening to all the time as well. I will also be willing to make suggestions of my own for the type of music you like or bands like other bands you really like. Just feel free to ask any questions.
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