R.I.P Grandma

Hey everyone I’m sorry that I haven’t blogged lately but my grandmother passes away a week ago today and yesterday was her funeral and I have just been really busy lately with a lot of family in town and other stuff. My grandmother was 77 years old and is in a better place now. My grandpa and grandma were married for 57 years and it has really been hard on my grandpa to deal with this.

On a different note I got a 100% on my Financial Markets and Institutes test last week and I think I did very well on my Microsoft Access last Thursday. School this semester has been really busy, I feel like all I do is write papers, upon papers, upon papers. Since this is really my last semester of school it doesn’t really bother me at all. When I say this is really my last semester of school , I mean that I will have my Business Degree completed this spring semester but will come back next fall to play my last year of football. Next fall I will pick up a minor in communications because I think it’s an important thing to make yourself diversified when employers are looking at you next to another person. Well everyone I hope that you all have a great week, next blog will be an update on MullFest that is coming up the first week of March.

Back to School.......

Hey everyone I hope you all had a great first week of school and hopefully your professors didn’t give you homework over the first weekend. We had our first meeting with our new coach on Thursday which went very well; we went over the change in how we take care of our grades and such. You should see our grade book that we have to keep and fill in for every one of our classes. First of all I think it’s a great process so everyone can be eligible for next season. Coach Morrell has also implemented a study table that is mandatory for all new players to the program and all players who are in academic jeopardy. Then weekly we have to show coach our academic progress to show him that we aren’t slacking or doing poorly in class. I really believe that coach Morrell is going to turn around our football program to where it should be. I’m not saying that Coach Green didn’t do an outstanding job at all; I’m saying that Coach Morrell is a lot younger and has a lot of great ideas to bring our program to the next level. Well everyone the first week of school was pretty basic like every semester, I hope that you all have a great second week.

Great Christmas Break!!!!!!!!!

Well everyone I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New-year because I sure did. I will be heading back to Butte this Sunday to start my last spring semester of my college career, I know in other posts in my blogging career, I’ve said that I can’t believe how fast college has gone by. So for Christmas I spent it in Helena with my family at my parent’s house, we open all of our presents on Christmas Eve and then “Santa” brings us our larger present, this worked out perfectly because April’s family doesn’t open presents until Christmas morning, so she spent Christmas Eve with me and my family.

I’m also a year older now, two days after Christmas on the 27^th of December I turned twenty two years old, jeez I just can’t believe that I’m getting old, it seems like yesterday my parents were driving me to my first days of Kindergarten.

This Christmas break has been an awesome one for ice-fishing. Last year I only got out twice and this year I’ve been out eight times already. April has gone with me twice, Vance has gone with me most every time and my dad has only gone once with me. These pictures are of my Trout I caught one of the first times I went out and then the other picture is of six of the biggest Perch we caught out of twenty five Perch.

As I said earlier I will be heading back to Butte, we have a meeting with our new head coach next Thursday, so that will be interesting to have an official meeting with our new head coach. If there are any new or prospective students out there, I would really look at Tech for school and if you already have chosen Tech for school I commend you. You can’t ask for a better education, especially for the price. I’m really glad that I’m at Tech playing football and going to school, everyone I talk to always makes sure to tell me how good of a school Tech and how they wish they would have gone there. Well everyone GO DIGGERS!!!!!!

Too Much Fun!!!!

Hey everyone I hope that you all had a great finals week, if there is such a thing. Well I finished up on Thursday and came home for my mother’s 50^th birthday which was also on Thursday. I had three finals during the week and think that I did well on them all, I should either end up with four A’s and two B’s or three A’s and three B’s so I’m not really that worried about it. Well last week we met with our future head coach of Montana Tech Football, well we met with the two finalists for the job. Our team was fairly well split on which coach we liked the most, they both bring different aspects to Tech Football, which is always a good thing.

So for my mother’s 50^th Birthday party we threw her a surprise party out at the Montana City Grill last weekend before finals week. My dad and I went and snuck down to Idaho and got my aunt, my mom’s sister so she could come to the party. She found out that a bus runs down from Twin Falls to Idaho Falls for only forty dollars, so it’s way cheaper than driving or flying. We don’t get to see her a lot since she lives in Twin Falls, but when we do, we always have a ton of fun. So my aunt was here for ten days, we had to take her back to Butte so she could get back on the bus for her journey home. I really like it when she comes up and see’s us, we have a lot of fun, probably too much fun.

Well Christmas break came just in time; I need some much needed R&R. I will be doing some lifting, ice fishing, sleeping and gaming over break. Then next semester I will be taking five classes which should be a lot easier than my seven I took this semester. Well everyone If I don’t get back on before Christmas, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank You Coach Green!!!!

Well hello everyone, sorry for the break in between my last blog, school just has been really kicking my behind lately and I’ve been trying to keep up with everything. So if you all haven’t heard, Coach Green retired, he decided to call her quits after twenty four years of head coaching duties here at Montana Tech. I would just like to thank him for recruiting me to come play football at Tech and that I really have enjoyed playing under is rein the past four years. So I guess the search for Coach Greens replacement has already begun, I think that it will be a good thing to get some fresh blood in the football program, just like Coach Green said, the new coach will have twenty three new scholarships to give out, a new scoreboard and probably a new conference. Don’t get me wrong I really liked Coach Green and all that he has done for Digger Football. So hunting season is officially over, I shot a nice buck and then a doe, my dad and I both didn’t even get a shot off on one, it is the first time in about fifteen years, so that sucks that we will have to buy burger this year instead of having our usual supply of elk burger.

Reasonable Manner

Well hello everyone, I hope that you all are enjoying our first real snow day that we have had this year. I can’t believe how nice of weather we have had lately, usually its freezing cold with snow. My topic for this blog is going to be grading in the college system. When I say grading I mean the time it takes for our professors to grade stuff we turn in. I believe that if we the students are held responsible for studying for tests, or turning in homework on time, or writing papers, that we should have the right to have whatever we turned in back in a reasonable manner. I have classes that we turned stuff in during the first week of the semester and haven’t gotten back yet, which means that I don’t know if I’m currently passing or failing classes, which isn’t a good thing. I know that professors are really busy and teach many classes upwards toward five, but if they have such a heavy load they should not assign so many assignments, papers, or test that they will have to eventually grade. Not knowing where we stand in a class by a letter grade can be very discouraging, how can our school system expect so much out of the students when we don’t get anything we turn in back. So on less serious note, football is almost over which is very sad, I’m going to really miss a couple of our seniors. I can’t believe that I’m going to be a senior in football next year; gosh it feels like just yesterday that my parents were helping me move into the dorms before my first two-a-days. This season hasn’t gone at all like we planned it, but it has been a really fun ride and I would like to thank all of our seniors.

When I Say “brown” I Mean Elk!!!

Hey everyone, well hunting season has officially started. Today wasn’t the “official” opening day since they changed the regular opening day from Sunday to Saturday. Right now I really down care for this rule change since I’m still playing football and I can’t hunt on Saturday’s during football season, which means that the elk are already spooked for us on Sunday. But after next year I will really enjoy this new rule because then I can hunt a full weekend. So today my father and I went out hunting, we didn’t see any “brown”, when I say “brown” I mean elk. We did though run across a wolf, it was mind boggling, we were on our way back from hunting and we had one run across the road on us, it was massive and looked like a German Sheppard. This was the first time I have ever seen a wolf in the wild, I still can believe that I saw one. One thing that really bothered me while hunting today was all the beer cans my dad and I picked up on the trail, I bet we picked up ten beer cans; I sure would like to punch the person responsible. First of all who drinks and hunts and second of all if you’re going to bring crap into the wild just bring it out. I’m not a “tree hugger” by any means but it’s just respect for our wilderness and the sport. On a liter not I would like to talk about something at Montana Tech, I would just like to thank Chancellor Gilmore on a job well done while he has been in power. I really enjoy talking with Chancellor Gilmore on occasion a lot and really respect his open-door policy that he has on campus with all of his students. Even though we are not a very large campus, Chancellor Gilmore always has time for the students; even if the task is something as silly as pulling raffle tickets for our football team on home-games for our football team. I would just like to thank Chancellor Gilmore for everything that he has done here at Montana Tech.