Family is Where the Heart is

Word Count: 300

At one point or another life throws you a curveball. Whether it be a breakup, a fight with a friend, or a tragedy it has or will happen to everyone. When it does it’s as if the world has fallen out from under you, you cannot catch your breath, and it stops you in a moment. Where do you go from here? How do you escape? To the people who love you unconditionally and forever. The people who you will never lose in a fight, break up with, and know more about you then any other person in the world, your family.

It was early in the morning of March 10^th 2007 and 4 days shy of her 17^th birthday. I was woken up gently by a tearful mother and told that my best friend had died in a drunken driving accident after a party, a party I was at but I had to leave because I had a game the next day. I cried myself back to sleep for several days without eating, playing soccer, which is a huge part of who I am, and talking to anyone. I should have been with her, could I have stopped her from getting in the car or would I have even perhaps been in the car with her? I was angry and confused and shut my whole world out and although many people let me, my family did not. They were there for me from start to finish and brought me back to life. Without them I feel as though I could have been lost forever but now, although I still mourn, I can celebrate her life and still be capable of living mine.

I believe in all that family stands for, unconditional love, irreplaceable support system, and dependable.

What'sItGonnaBe Generation

What'sItGonnaBe generation is one that is presented with a manifold of opportunities and resources in which we can use to succeed. Contrary to other generations we have multiple technologies, multiple resources to become educated on a college level (money or not), and endless options for internships and sources of work. Although, many fear that my generation will be our downfall because of laziness, I fear not. I know like myself, many others are striving to be all they can with the resources available to us, that earlier generations were not lucky enough to have. (Word Count- 94)

Sooner Nation Part Dos

The location of an athletic event defines the atmosphere surrounding the affair. In 1921 the students of Oklahoma University knew that and held a movement in order to have a football stadium built. The Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is named after students, faculty, and other members who lost their lives fighting in WWI.

The memorial stadium that holds 82,112 screaming fans has an ambiance that could turn a Texas Longhorns fan into an Oklahoma Sooners fan (well, probably not but, you get the point). Stadium games have been sold out since Coach Bob Stoops joined, and currently holds a standing record for most games won at home.

When I was a little girl I had always heard of this place where time practically stopped for an OU football game and at 15 I witnessed it firsthand, I attended the OU versus Texas-Tech football game.  Fans walking into the game were chanting the theme song “Boomer Sooner”. Its adrenaline so high you feel as though you’re in the game, its feeling another player’s pain, its experiencing a moment so high where the next second a play can make you feel your all-time low. Oklahoma’s stadium is a place where you have a bond with complete strangers exchanging high-fives for a nice play, where everyone is united inside one place, you’re a family.  It’s a feeling that doesn’t exist at an away game, inside your home, watching it in a bar, and that’s something I never knew until I experienced it myself. (Word Count 250)

Sooner Nation

The location of an athletic event defines the atmosphere surrounding the affair. In 1921 the students of Oklahoma University held a movement in order to have a football stadium built. The Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is named after students, faculty, and other members who lost their lives fighting in WWI.

The college stadium that holds 82,112 screaming fans is an atmosphere that could turn a Texas Longhorns fan into an Oklahoma Sooners fan (well, probably not but, you get the point). Stadium games have been sold out since Coach Bob Stoops joined, and currently holds a standing record for most games won at home.

When I was a little girl I had always heard of this place where time practically stops for an OU football game but when I was 15 I attended the OU and Texas-Tech football game.  Fans walking into the game are chanting the theme song “Boomer Sooner”. Its adrenaline so high you feel as though you’re in the game, its feeling another player’s pain, its experiencing a moment so high where the next second a play can make you feel your all-time low. Oklahoma’s stadium is a place where you have a bond with complete strangers exchanging high-fives for a nice play, where everyone is untied inside this one place, you’re a family.  It’s a feeling you can never get at an away game, inside your home, watching it in a bar, and that’s something I never knew until I experienced it myself.