The Weather

The weather has been crazy ridiculous the past few weeks. This has definitely been one of the oddest winters I’ve ever experienced. It’s snowed maybe two times and both of those times it was only a few inches. In past winters, especially last one, I remember the sidewalks been 4 feet high with snow. Today was a high of around 74 degrees and to me that is absolutely absurd. I’d have to imagine the reasoning for the weather is global warming. I can’t believe that this warm weather is good for our environment. Hopefully next winter will go back to normal because I’m a fan of the snow and especially skiing.  

Freshman Year

Coming back from spring break we only have about 2 months left in school. I can definitely say freshman year has pretty much flown by. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a time period going by as quickly as this one has. I think the main reason was because how exciting everything has been. From meeting a whole network of new people to experience much more interesting classes. The weeks pretty much fly by and the weekends pass even quicker. A lot of people say that as we move into the upper years of college it gets better. Personally I think freshman will be the best since everyone we know is so close in the dorms. I don’t think it will ever be the same. 

St. Patricks Day

So this was the week of St. Patricks day. I’ve never really celebrated the holiday by any means but this was my first year attending the parade in South Boston. I’m 25 percent Irish but I mainly think of myself as Italian mainly because I have dark skin and that’s what a majority of my family is. Anyways the parade fell on one of the nicest days of the year. It was in the mid 70’s without a cloud in the sky. We took the train into the city and it was packed. I’ve never seen so many green shirts in my life. 

Mac Miller

So one of my favorite rappers the most couple of years has been Mac Miller. He is originally from Pittsburgh along with another well known rapper named Wiz Khalifa. He's relatively young around 20 years old and has been getting bigger and bigger the last few years. His first couple of mixtapes were definitely his best pieces of work. Ever since he started to get really noticed around the country I feel his work has been getting worse. It started with the drop of his first album called Blue Slide Park. In his album he moved away from the type of rap he had been originally creating and made much more main stream music which would potentially sell to a wider audience. Instead since he tried so hard to make more main stream music the songs were worse off and the album wasn't as good as his previous music. Since then he has been putting out music I don't find to be particularly that good either. And with another mixtape coming out in about a week I hope it's good so he doesn't start fading out of the rap game for good.

March Madness

So since the month of March has begun it's time to start filling out the brackets. Every time March rolls around the same commotion and excitement is here. I always join some sort of bracket pool, whether it's online with random people or a group of friends for money. Filling out brackets is one of the toughest things to do. Since there a total of 64 teams in the tournament it's pretty much impossible to guess every game right. With the amount of crazy endings and upsets you'll even be lucky to pick the final four teams. Every year I get all excited about winning but only to lose. The closest I've come to winning in my history is when it came down to the final game. It was between me and another kid and who's ever team won the game would take home the entire win and the money. Unfortunately I was the loser but second place wasn't too bad.

Umass

So I've been thinking about transferring from UNH to Umass next year due to the cost. I've only been to Umass a few times and they were all on tours when I was looking at colleges my junior and senior year in high school. But I had never to been to visit over night to experience what it's like on a weekend night. Last weekend was my first time doing so. My and a couple of my friends from home drove up and stayed with a cousin of theirs. The first difference that plays a huge factor on a weekend night is the fact that the campus is so much bigger. In order to get around from party to party you need to take a cab which is 2 dollars per person. I'm not saying that it's a lot of money it's just a hassle to have to always be in need of a cab. At UNH you're pretty much in walking distance of everywhere on campus even if it might be a  little ways, it's still in walking distance.

transferring

It was always my first choice to go to UMASS Amherst. The main reasons are that my brother went there and had a really good time and did well in school. Plus it's much cheaper than coming here since I'm out of state right now which basically doubles the price. Right now I'm in the process of reapplying to UMASS which includes writing a page paper about why I want to transfer. Even though I've met so many kids here that I would consider close I would still be okay with transferring since I have a good amount of friends from my hometown that go there now. I've also put down the deposit for housing next year and you can only get half of it back if you decide your not coming back which is kind of a bummer. Either way though if I transfer or not I will still be happy since I like what both schools have to offer.

basketball season

So I blogged once about the intermural basketball season before it started and I will now since the season just ended. We played a total of 4 games, 3 of them were regular season and one was playoff. And since our season just ended you can go ahead and assume that we lost the playoff game. Along with that loss we also lost our other 3 games. So in total we lost 4 and won a total of 0 games. Even though we didn't win any games I still had fun playing mainly because it was competitive and I've missed that since high school ended. I think I played alright throughout the games, I probably wasn't the best player on the team but I definitely did my share. I think one of our biggest problems was that we weren't able to score or rebound. All that said I had a lot of fun and will definitely sign up to play again next year and hopefully we might win a game or two.  

the sopranos

Recently I started watching a series called The Sopranos. It's about a family of mob gangsters and the main character is named Tony. Tony is the boss which basically means he runs the entire Italian Mob based in Jersey. I'm usually always watching some sort of series since they tend to be pretty addicting. Another one of my favorite series that I watched prior to The Sopranos is called Entourage. I would probably say that I liked Entourage more because that's what I would call my dream life. I've watched that show a total of 4 times and I can honestly say it gets better every time. I have 5 more seasons of Sopranos left and after that I'll have to hope there's another series that will come along.