Reflection

Although I have not been posting to my blog as much as I should have been, I still feel as if I got a lot from this method of teaching. In my opinion, A blog is a great tool to keep classmates close and to have them all thinking on the same page. Furthermore, it forces a student to keep up to date with class and it keeps their mind on the class.

I feel I could have done better with my blog. I always had the intentions of writing to my blog but I just never seemed to find the time.

As far as continuing my steps as a Communication studies major I am not sure what I will do next semester. I am not sure exactly what classes I want to take but I do believe I want to take classes that also contain some other material such as communications. Possibly marketing of some type of business class would be interesting to me. Since I do not know exactly what I want to be when I am older I want to take the widest variety of classes I can. Hopefully something will click in my head that guides me to what I want to do as a profession when I am older.

Something that I have been considering lately is the possibility of taking some type of debate class next semester. I think that would improve my person to person communication skills and give me the confidence to hold conversations with anybody. 

Verbal Aggression

One meaningful topic that I have covered in class was about verbal aggression within the coach-athlete relationship. It is relevant to me because I deal with this dilemma every day at my baseball practice. My coach is the type of coach to use verbal aggression because he thinks it will get the most out of his players. He believes his job is to make his players reach their highest potential and the only way he knows how to do that is to be hard on us.
Playing for him is both difficult and miserable. My coach takes the fun out of the sport I once loved and had fun playing, which is baseball. Now baseball feels as if it is my JOB and I am forced to go out to the ball park every day. The data that I found in the coach-athlete relationship article is still proving to hold true in the experiences I am going through. I am finding that all of the players on our team despise our coach and passionately disagree on his coaching styles. I find that players become more worked up about how much they hate our coach than actually getting better with baseball and having fun with what they do.
However, if I can pull out anything that may seem positive about this situation, is that if I can play for this coach, I can play for anybody. All I need to do is keep telling myself that this situation is preparing me for the furute and it keeps me going.