Free Write

I am so excited right now because one of my sports teams that has been terrible lately has made a comeback and is now on the brink of going to the World Series, thanks to their outstanding pitching. I have been a huge San Francisco Giants fan since I was little, mainly because I was born in California like my dad, who actually grew up in the Bay Area. Towards the end of the regular season, we started a run and caught the San Diego Padres and ended beating them in the last game of the season to earn a playoff berth ahead of them. In the NLDS, we faced the Braves and shut them down with our rotation. We have arguably the best pitching rotation in all of baseball with Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez, and Madison Bumgarner. In addition to that, we have no doubt the league's best closing pitcher in Brian Wilson. With the emergence of our rookie Buster Posey and the team's batting average steadily growing after each game, there is more hope than ever in my mind that we will close out the series tonight against the Phillies and go to the World Series for the first time since 2003, when we lost to the Angels. I am proudly wearing my orange Tim Lincecum jersey today and hopefully when he pitches tonight against Roy Halladay for the second time in the series we can pull out that final win and represent the National League in the World Series. This is also the last game in our home stadium in the entire series so it would be even better if we can close it out (literally with Wilson) in front of the home crowd at AT&T Ballpark where I have seen numerous games. Sorry if you read this and aren't a baseball fan but...Go Giants!

My Research Topic-Insurance

I am planning on majoring in Insurance and minoring in Accounting. I have chosen the topic "Why people need car insurance." My whole family has worked at State Farm so I grew up learning bits and pieces along the way but this summer I finally realized my interests and worked for an agency here in Bloomington. Upon working there, I learned lots of information and went to seminars and eventually took the test and became licensed in insurance. Out of all of the seminars, I learned that it is necessary for every person who has a vehicle to have insurance for that vehicle. I handled countless claims where an accident or a rock shooting up and hitting the window caused damage out of the blue. In addition to that, many other people were victims of hit and runs and did not have any insurance to cover it so they had to try and pay that huge sum of money right out of their pocket. Insurance gives you peace of mind as well as confidence while driving that you can never have without it. If anything were to happen to you or your car while driving, sufficient insurance will cover almost all of the costs while only needing you to pay a low premium to keep an insurance value that exponentially more than you pay. I have also seen some people involved in accidents who went to jail because they were uninsured and injured someone in the other car. Not only does insurance cover the monetary costs of injuries or damages to you and your car, it also covers costs for injuries or damages you might cause to other people or vehicles in an accident. Insurance is definitely needed for everybody who drives or owns a vehicle, because you never know what might happen to you or your property.

ACL Surgery

On October 29th, I am going to have the biggest surgery of my life. As I was playing football over the summer, I tore my MCL and had to go to the hospital. I went through alot of physical therapy and was finally getting back into shape. I worked with Mclean County Orthopedics so I could hopefully get back into sports this year and be ready for football in the spring. I finally got cleared on August 17th, the day before move-in at ISU. On my first day here, I decided to test my knee in my brace on the basketball courts at Manchester. As I came down on one play, my leg got caught on the curb and I heard my leg snap. My friends called the ambulance because I was in alot of pain and could not walk, but it still felt just like when I had torn my MCL, not my ACL. The doctor finally said that he also thought that I had just torn the MCL without any further damage. However, once I visited my doctor at Mclean County Orthopedics, I found out I had torn my MCL, my ACL, and even some of my cartilage. Now I have to go through a huge arthroscopic surgery where they take a ligament from a cadaver, cut it up into the shape of what my ACL should look like, and drill through two of my main leg bones to fit the ACL into place. I will have to go through at least 5 months of rehab in hopes of playing sports ever again and I will be in a full leg brace and crutches for awhile at school. This is going to be really tough for me, but hopefully I can get through the worst of it and come back as good as I was or even better.