Day 1

Today i met with my mentor for the first time. Yea its a little late but i had no time due to my extra curricular activities and other responsiblities. My mentor is the sports medicine trainer and physical therapist at Skyline College. We started off by introducing each other and i gave him a background of the project. After we got that out of the way he went to attend his patients, the student athletes of Skyline. He first started with my girlfirend by stretching her out. While he was doing so, he was explaining to me what her problem was. I turns out she has Pateller Tendonitis, this means that her knee cap has too much friction with the otherbones in the knee which tends to cause a lot of pain. Throughout the whole day he was going around attending other students and explaining their problem. After the day ended, we came to an agreement that since i have to do a physical project on this, i was going to concentrate mainly on the knee. He told me to go home and study the knee bones and joints for an hour. This day in general i learned so much about the body and it was just my first day.        

Total time: 6 hours.

Stranger Than Fiction

I personally don't feel like thers is much difference between a narrator and an author. All the movie showed me was a author reading their story. Really, the only difference is the fat that you can feel and hear the authors tone more when he/she narrates the story. For example, when she narrated the part before the main character gets hit by the buus, the tone in her voice made it obvious that something drastic was going to happen. The way i determined on what should be on my research paper is looking at what i belived were the important facts. Also by putting down similar information the sources had. For example, if i read where physical therapy originated and i saw it in more than two sources i would put that down. My paper doesn't just try to get one persons attetion but everyone elses. I am just trying to expose that there is a great job that pays well and is worth studing. I believe it will have a positive impact to those who want to pursue this profession because there are high hopes for this job on the near future.     

Research Stress Level

Democrats and Republicans positions in the "fiscal cliff" differ because they have completely differnt views on how to fix it. Democrats belive that the government should raise taxes on the rich. However, the republicans think different. They want the Government to limit deductions so they can raise federal revenue. Though, some republicans agree with president Obama and his democratic party. They believe that raiseing taxes on the rich will fix the "fiscal cliff."

The research strategies on Google helped greatly. I mostly used the reading level which i put to basic and also by date. By doing this, it gave me websites that were posted about a week and so gave me a perspective on what is most recently happening rather than reading what happened a while before which might have changed. Also, by putting it to basic reading level, it was easier for me to understand all the political talk. What didint help me was the dictionary strategy. I tried to look up the defintion of the fiscal cliff and gave me nothing. All these strategies were new to me and they helped me in a very positive way. I will apply these strategies to my research by doing what they latest posts are and reading level to basic so things could be easier and faster to understand.   
 

Trust and Communication is Key.

I believe that the most important aspects when dealing with love are trust and communication. The reason i believe that trust is an important aspects when dealing with love is because when you dont trust anyone you can't have any type of relationship with them. It could either be an intimate relationship, friendly relationship, or family relationship. Also, when you don't communicate with others, relationships will die. They will die because the person might feel like you don't trust them or they arn't worthy enough to help you or listen to you. The most forgotten and disregarded aspects have to be trust and communication as well. The reason i say that is because many people belive that they don't have to communicate with others to have some sort of strong bond. Others think that trust isn't inportant and that they could take adantage of it. This will hurt a relationship greatly. It can damage the current ones and the future ones because then everyone knows you can't be trusted.    

Social

My "type" is social. This means that i like to be around people and that i enjoy helping others. It also means that i would contribute to society in some way. It also means that i have strong interpersonal and communication skills and i tend to be empathetic, patient, and understanding. In some ways this is true and some ways it is not. For example, when it comes to being understanding and empathetic however i am not really patient when it comes to some sort of things. Then as i looked down at the majors that the website advised the two majors i wanted to study were in there which are physical therapy and psychology. This website really made me realize what i want to pursue once i get out of high school.    

My Heroes

Growing up, I've always looked up to many people, many of them althletes. However, the only people i consider my heroes are my father and my mother. The reason they are my heroes is because of everything they have done so much for my family and me. From the beginning, my father was the provider for those in my household. He would take any job that was available just so we could have a bite to eat everyday. You could tell that it wasnt easy for him because when he would come home from work he would be dirty and worn down. Yet, he still woke up everymorning to go on and do the same thing all over again, that is until he got injured in a soccer game about 4 years ago. Ever since that day he could not go back to work because his injury is still there. Even though his injury hurts him greatly at times, he still finds a way to earn money. From helping a friend with something to catering for quinceneras and weddings. He wasnt the only one that had to change his ways due to his injury. My mother was a stay at home mom but she had to change that and get two jobs just so we could make it through the day. My mother worked from 6 in the morning to about 10 at night. Sometimes i didn't get to see her for three consecutive days because she worked so much. Then she got a promotion in her first job and so she quit her second one. These past four years have been extrmely diffucult for them, yet they still haven't given up. I can easily tell you what the characteristics my hero would need to have. My hero would be determined, hard working, must have endurance, and they never quit no matter what obstacles or challanges a put before them. There is no doubt that my parents have these characteristics.

Sports Mentality

If you click both of the two links below, they will lead you to a clue that will give you an idea to what i would like to study in college. These links are on Psychology and Sports Psychology and they both give information on articles and current events that have to do with Psychology. The reason i would like to pursue this career is because when i came back from my knee injury i recovered physically however i did not recover mentally. I kept thinking that my soccer skills were no longer great and i was very depressed because of it. I would like to help others that are going through this problem in the future so they keep playing the sport they love. 

Sports Psychology

Psychology

The links below here are links to blogs that have to do with Physical Therapy. The reason i am following these blogs is because this is something eslse i would like to do. The reason i would like to do this in the future is similar to the reason as the paragraph above. I have had many injuries throughout my life its unbelieveable. I would like to help others in the future with injuries so they can go back to doing what they love to do.

Sports Medicine

Sports Performance