Blog #3 Campus Map

My group has created a pretty cool campus with many creative ideas on what it should look like, we are all picking a part of campus and were gonna discuss that place. I chose the sports complex, because really im into sports and I thought to be creative and have it all professional looking. Not having crappy fields, looking dead and I thought to myself that it would be better because future players that get recruited to Gallaudet would see the sports complex and say, "wow I want to play there".
Right now I look at Gallaudet's sports complex and there needs to be a lot of work done! The football field is perfect, it has professional astro turf and bleachers for the fans to watch the games. Baseball and Softball is terrible because the field is in bad shape, lots of bumps and the students here don't care about the property. They let their pets do their thing on the field, I mean common have some respect for the players that play on the field, but it's all going to change for next season because were getting astro turf too. A professional mlb padded fence all the way around so no person can walk across the field, only the players and coaches can go onto the field For an example Dean Rader said administrators obsess about their physical plant because its main components like lawns, buildings, fountains, sculptures, statues, foliage and signs all send a message about the institution (Rader 77). He says that because thats what makes a good campus and draws people's attention to want to go to that University, College or Institute. Reason why I say this is we need more players that are good to come here, right now its starting to happen because we got Curtis Pride as a coach and he used to play in the MLB. How cool is that? Having a coach that used to play in the "Big Leagues". He is changing the program around big time, by getting a nice facility for the baseball field and the softball field. In the next two years the place is going to be beautiful because were going to have everything we could possibly ask for, professional everything for the sports programs. Thats what Gallaudet needs to do in order to play at the next level because all of that will bring in better players that would want to play here. My dream here is to win a "National Championship" in the next couple years and it very well could happen by how the sports programs are changing.
Thats what my ideal campus for the sports complex should look like, professional looking, no bad spots on the field or any of that. Have it a place that looks good and Gallaudet would get a lot more respect from the other people out in the world because they are turning the place into a nice way of profession. That will also make other players think, this is a nice place now and I want to play for this team and boost the program in the level of play. Thats what my thought of the sports complex should look like.

Winter Break

We got a lot of snow over the week that we had off. I am very used to this because I grew up all my life in the state of Maine, where they get a lot of snow during the winter time. I really enjoyed it because I really miss being away from home and I thought that I wasnt going to have a white winter anymore for the next three or four years because I am now down here. I think it's awesome that we got snow because it gives me memories of the good old times back in the day in my home state.

Here was very boring week and two days including the weekend because I really couldn't leave campus to do anything because I had baseball everyday, also I think we got a little to much snow. It gets me mad now that games are getting cancelled because of the amount of snow that we have got, now that it's melting its making everything wet and thats not baseball weather. So were going to have to wait a while for our season to really begin, but that's ok because I will now get more time for my knee to heal up. I did get sometime to get away from Gallaudet with some friends, I went to Mcdonalds with two of my friends during the snow storm. That really brought back some memories because in Maine me and my friends would always have snow ball fights and thats what we did the entire way to Mcdonalds.

I really enjoyed the week because I was able to get away from classes for a week and had lots of time to play baseball and get rest in. It was a very relaxing week for me and thats what I was planning on to have for a week since I saw the big storm comming. I really enjoyed it because I had more free time than ever so far here to hang out with my friends and do things what we usually do on a daily basis and I hope it happens again next winter because to bring back the good memories that I had in Maine with all the snow.