Pony Up......

Although this post may seem a little basis, I am curious about your opinions on the subject. As you all know homecoming was just last weekend and the boulevard was crazy. But crazy for what? A football team that was already determined to lose? Personally, I didn’t even go the game because I knew we were going to lose. Our football team is 116 out of 119 Division one teams in the nation. Close to last but not quite. Not having any good sports teams (except soccer which we are 3 in the nation but no one really goes to the games Why? Probably because football and backetball are the most stressed college sports in the sense of particapation or spectators) in my opinion takes away from the school spirit. I don’t know about anyone else but I feel like I have no school spirit because there is nothing to cheer for when your school has the worst sports teams in the nation. In fact, I feel like I’m still in high school and not at college because of this. I cross my fingers for the basketball team to win because apparently in two years we will be March Madness worthy. My buddy that goes to TCU said, "Hey pony boy were going to beat you this weekend." I replied, "I know." To me this seems a little sad to know the outcome for your sports teams before they happen. The real question to ask is are our sports teams always going to be horrible? What incentives would an athlete have for coming here over another school that most likely is a higher ranking team? I don’t know if that sounds like a rant or like I’m whining, but I was wondering how everyone else felt on the subject? Furthermore, are sports the only contributing factor towards are school spirit? Another question that could be raised is how can we improve our situation with our sports teams?

A New Setting

Although it has been brought up in a blog in the past, I wanted to bring up the subject again because I thought it was one that is relevant. Reading the article, The Sounds of Silence, it states how in different parts of the United States people react differently to eye contact situations in the street or public. “….There is mutual avoidance of eye contact—unless they want a something specific…In the West and in small towns generally, however, people are much more likely to look and greet on another, even if they are strangers” (102).

Coming to Texas from Chicago, I have found this statement to be very true. My whole life whenever I’m in public there are only two reasons for eye contact. Either you’re checking someone out (if they are good looking) or to start a fight. If you would make eye contact with someone for more than a second they would think this and then awkward glances would continue before something would happen. Coming to Texas, the whole situation has changed. Fellow students or a person on the street, who I have never met, say hello and full eye contact is made. The change is so noticeable that sometimes I have missed saying hello to some of my friends because I am so used to not making eye contact with others (plus sometimes I have my headphones in). Personally, I believe people from the north seem to be in a rush or busy with accomplishing their tasks. However, in the south they take their time with the small things in life and they seem to value relationships a lot more. Although this is just a theory what do you think? Furthermore, I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this trend with maybe someone from the north or you are from the north?