Getting what you earn and deserve

I am a firm believer in not getting anything handed to you and working for what you deserve. I grew up in a house hold where my father would teach me that nothing was going to be given to me for nothing anf that i had to earn what i have in life. There are poeple out there that have a sliver spoon in thier mouth as soon as they'er born but that wasnt the case for me or my family. I am thankful that my father installed this in me because it got me where i am today. I wasnt always the most talented or smartest so i would have to work that much harder then everybody else to get to that level. In doing so i would pass that competition wheather it be in athletics or in life because i was always working longer and harder for that final goal. My work ethic gave me a "C" on my college hockey jersey for two years even though i wasnt technically recruited to come and play here. I came on a visit here and told Keith Levinthal that I was planning on coming here to play hockey. He said you played at a quality organization and you have a spot on the roster if you do. I took that as a bit of motivation bc i know there are guys coming in that were heavily recruited and are going to look at me as a walk on. Well no ever in my four years here ever looked at me that way because of the passion and desire that i bring to the table and team. This would have never happened if my father didnt teach me this one trait that i will install in my kids heads. Even outside of athletics i have engrained this into my life. With school work i was always the one to be in the library for a couple hours more then anybody else becasue it didnt come easy for me. I was the only person in my family to go an graduate from college so this was any other feat that has brought a smile to my mother and farhers faces. I truely believe that no one should be given anything and that one should work for what they have. In life and anything that they do. I understand that sometimes your work pays off and things are given to you but if you want something i do think that anybody should be waiting for it to given to them but to go out and take for them selfs. I think one can get further inlife liveing this way then waiting for somebody to give them something

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Summer/ Las Vegas

This is the summer beofre I really start my life and my career. I really want to live my life and have the last bit of fun before i go into my career and cant go places and travel too much anymore. I have always played hockey all year round so vactions were few and far between. I have only been on one vacation in my life and it was to Disney world. I have never had spring break because in high school i played baseball and in college we always were still playing hockey when everybody left for there vacation. So a couple of friends and I have desided to go to Vegas after we graduate. I see this as an opportunity to have a bit of fun and spend the rest of my money before i have to go and work everyday of my life. As you have read in all of my preveious blogs i cant wait to get out college and start my career so this isnt a bad thing that i wont have too much time to go on vacations but why not do it now while i still have time and the opportunity. I have friends that go to europe and backpack through the entire continent, which is an exciting way to finish your college career and i would love to go backpack through europe but it just wasnt the right time to do it. SO i decised to stay in this country and hopefully have the time of my life in Vegas. My parents surprised me and told me that it would be my graduation present so i absolutely love this idea. Now all i have to do is come up with money to spend and its all falling into place. were staying at the Manalay Bay and were leaving weds. nihgt and coming home monday afternoon. I know this sounds like a long time and it is but getting away for this amount of time for some relaxation is good for anybody. Going with my best friends 2 of which just graduated from Sacred Heart is going to be hopefully the best time of my life.

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Stresses Of College

College can be an extrememly stressful place towrad the end of the semester. With finals and papers and trting to get your last goodbyes before everyone leaves is quite stressful. I have 4 finals and 2 papers due the week of finals. All of my teammates and friends are either done with school bc they dont have finals or they have only one or two exams. This puts a bit of added pressure on me bc i want to hang out with everybody before they leave but i know i need to finish my school work so i wony have trouble graduating. Since im a senior im trying to spend a bit more time with some of the other seniors that i wont see next year, especially my room mate whose from Toronto. I am from Rochester so Toronto is exactly across Lake Ontario from me but I dont go up there too much. Derek my room have been rooming with each other for all four years so not having him as my roommate next year is going to be a bit weird. Although i am excited to be graduating I do have alot of work to do before that day comes. I just need to bear down and finish this work so i can hand it in and have nothing to worry about. Being a senior i have a bit of senioritis and finishing this work is hard espeacially when the weather has been what it was the last week. The stress of all of this is getting to me because im trying to finish all of them in two days before i have to take my final exams. I cant wait to be done with school finally. Im not going to grad school so this is the final things i have to finish before im done forever. I just cant sit here and study and write papers to make my professors happy (No offense) anymore.

On top of all of this im starting another business idea. This idea is Ez campus storage. I was given an idea of helping international student with there moving troubles. I know and have seen many international students waste there time tring to store there belongs for the summer while they go home. Now im spreading the word and tring to help these students by storing there stuff for the summer. This makes it stress free on everybody else but more stress on me. This idea is very easy, I drop the boxes off to the students a week prior to when they leave, i come back when they are moving out and take there stuff for the summer. Then in august i will drop the boxes and thier belonging at the dorm then are moving into. Its very easy for all of these students and only tweo days of works for me so why not.