This semester has been pretty rough for me. I have overcome a lot of obstacles and learned a lot more about myself. I learned that I AM LAZY. Being lazy is not a good thing in college...AT ALL. I kept digging holes that were to big for me to get out of involving my school work and when i was on the ground, I got pushed even furthur down by my coaches to see if I would make the effort to..excuse my language...get up off my ass and start working like I was supposed to be doing all semester. I thought I could come in here(college) and do what I did in highschool. Look at how that worked out for me. Two suspensionsm, one for a week and the other a month all because I could not get my act together. Now, I am doing assigments on time and or even handed in before the due date because I had motivation. My team and coaches and professors were all behind me to get me back on the rigth track. I am very thankful for the support system I have here at Southern, without them, I would be ineligable to play next semester and I probably would have failed out of school.
My biggest achievments this semester was definetly making this big turn around with only 4 weeks left. I had to work my butt off and I had to go to a lot of meetings with professors and coaches and A LOT of study hall hours were put in to my efforts. The beginning of this semester I put all of my effort into basketball...not smart. The once I got in trouble for not doing my school work, all of my focus was there and not on the court, so I pulled my hamstring for not being in shape. I have now learned to evenly distribute my time between my sport and school.
My grades this semester you ask? Well they were horrible to say the least. I am a smart person, I just do not want to put the  hours into the work. So, because of my slacking it resulted in poor grades. I most definetly could have been an A/B student. Next semester, I am  going to stay on top of all my school work, while balancing basketball.
My coach and I had a meeting the other day. We talked about what I am doing. She asked me a simple question, "Do you know who you are?" after forever of waiting to answer, my reply was, "I don't know..." This then turned into a discussion about who I want to be. I want to be the best person I can be for my team and for myself. I want to be a liked individual, who has to work hard for everything they want. I don't just want things handed to me. I'm growing up and with that comes responsiblity.