Alright, Im going to try and make this the last post mostly about colleges til I make my final decision, like after I get scholarships and write my acceptance letter. No promises, and I will probably mention it a bit, but I dont think it will dominate blogs.
So I had a busy weekend, visiting Pacific and Fox for one of the last times. I was quite impressed with Pacific, to the point where I think... wait for it... fox and pacific are basically the same. Both have good profs, top science departments, high med school acceptance rates. Except Pacific is 1/3 hawaiian, at least another 10% real asian, and Fox is mostly white Christians. So it would take mass amounts of scholarship money to keep me from changing my mind about going to Fox. Now before you think I am racist for choosing the non asian college, let me explain. I think it is important to feel at home at college, and the hawaiians and asains have different cultures that just arent my style. And I cant totally explain it, pretty much everyone at Pacific seemed nice, but it just felt a little more isolated than fox. I think some of that is the Christian aspect at Fox, but I really think a lot of it is just culture differences. And interpersonal communications tells me to be accepting of other cultures, and I am accepting of it, but that doesnt mean I want to spend 4-8 years in that environment.
I competed in Pacifcs scholarship contest, and it was basically a logic test and an essay from a prompt about being the "author of oneself" from some shakespeare quote and whether we "write the books of our lives or whether they are written for us." So I think I did fine on the logic section, but the essay I think I was far too religious to be even considered for a full ride scholarship. If you dont know this, I am not much of a predestination fan, where people sometimes go as far as to say that Christ died for this certain group that he knew would get saved. So I wrote about my view that we make our decisions and God guides it for His purposes, and C.S. Lewis's view that God simply sees, he is not bound by time, so it is not like the future and the past for God. I know it is confusing. Its always an interesting topic and can be quite controversial, which is probably why it was chosen for the essay prompt.
I also had the opportunity to speak with both basketball coaches, and basically what they said was the same, except Fox's coach recommended visiting again to spend some time with the basketball team. Basically the process, for those of you that dont know(Im assuming almost everyone since I didnt even totally know this), is that about six weeks before the season coaches make workouts for the team to go through, set open gym hours, but just cant be involved in coaching. So the team captains lead this for whoever wants to participate. On October 15, practice starts up and its basically a few days of tryouts, there is no designated roster so someone could make it one year and then not make it the next year, so the coaches trim the roster down to 15. GFU said he had an average of about 22 guys come out each year, while since it was Pacific's coach's first year last year, he only had 15 guys come out, but expects more next year. So I could probably make Pacifics team more easily but I think GFU is doable, I have already said I would rather go to school there, and I can tell by watching the teams play I would get along better with GFU.
So this is the first full week of bball being done, so its time for me to pick up my workouts to get better. That means my counting made shots program started today, and I want to do ballhandling 2.5 to 3 hours a week. I will get a more official schedule set up soon, but right now I am thinking 1200 made shots a week with 3 hrs of ballhandling, with 5 weightlifting workouts a week too. That sounds about right to me, since I take Sundays off for rest and one more day off from lifting. I do not tell you this to brag about my hard work, I tell you to set a goal for myself and sort of have accountability on this.
Which brings me to what people kept bringing up that I didnt get. The Pacific coach was so apologetic about "the nature of the beast" that without a set roster, you could go through six weeks of workouts, all that time, and possibly not make the team. Mr Groth mentioned how college athletes just have to put so much work in to the sport, and he added up about 16 hours a week that he did in college. Well, I pretty much already do that... so it doesnt seem like a big deal to me. So I am pretty happy with my chances of playing, as long as I can build up my quickness well. Well its time for bed.
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