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This change in our lives as college students from in person classes to online classes has been very rough on me psychologically because it is a huge change from what I have been accustomed to. It is much harder to get help from your teachers now and to understand concepts because they are not there to teach you in person. Also since I am not grasping this change very well I am afraid of my grade suffering because of it and that is very stressful.

People definitely would not be on board with my idea because of the fact that tobacco isn't all that good for the health of people today. This is hard to argue but my argument for this is that there are personal freedoms that people have and this is one of those freedoms that people can choose to do. Also people may make the statement that keeping the age at 21 will keep younger people from using tobacco, but I have a great counter argument for this.

Next year I would like to go back to face to face teaching. These past two weeks of trying to learn how to do online schooling have been one of the more stressful times in my entire life. I have been having a lot of trouble trying to learn how to use the online schooling stuff and have been late on a few assignments because I either didn't find them in time on D2l or couldn't find it in my email. Also, It took me a long time to figure out how to use the zoom conference calls so I didn't know how to use it and I had to figure that out too.

So far I think this semester is going well. I am getting 90% and above on all my assignments and I haven’t missed one yet. I do think that I need to stop procrastinating as much as I have been because I think if I continue to do that the rest of the semester my grades are going to take a huge hit. I also want to strive to study more for my exams. Last semester I didn’t study much for my exams and I know if I would’ve studied a little harder I could have done a lot better on my exams. All in all I believe my second semester is mostly off on the right foot I just hope to keep the train on the tracks and roll in the right direction.

My negative experience I had here at Clarion was when had injured my side at wrestling practice. I was wrestling the starting 184 pounder at the time and we were practicing our wrestling on our feet. He had gotten to a body lock to attempt to take me down, but then when I spun out of it I pulled an abdominal muscle. After it happened I had to take a short break because it hurt badly. It hurt when I would arch my back or twist in a specific direction and also when you pushed on it. I kept wrestling however and I pushed on through the pain cause I didn't want to stop wrestling. In my mind it was only a minor impedance on my wrestling and I knew even though it was uncomfortable, I would be able to deal with it.

I chose Clarion because I loved how small the campus was here but there was still a good amount of students. I also wanted to wrestle here and I really liked the coaches. I had a good amount of visits to other schools but I liked this school the most. I have had many positive experiences here at Clarion. Many of the people I meet are so nice, for instance my advisor is so nice and will literally help me with just about anything. The advisor for the wrestling team, Mr. Staub, Helps us to create a plan for each semester so we can succeed.