Gage's Game

      As a huge football fan last Sunday at 12, I anxiously awaited to see what college football teams had made the playoffs. This year is special as it is the first year that they have implemented the new 12-team playoff. This was a big change because in previous years the playoff was only set at 4 teams. This led to many people being upset that a team was left out of the playoff even though many people believed that they deserved it.  A big example of this was in last year's playoff when undefeated Florida State was left out of the 4 team playoff and replaced with a 1-loss Alabama team. The big controversy was that Flordia States quarterback had just gotten hurt and many believed that without him they would not be able to compete in the playoffs at a high level. This led the committee to put Alabama over them. Many people see this as unfair as they feel that Florida State had earned their right to be in the playoffs regardless of the injury. It was unfair to the re...

    Now that we are ending the semester, we have finals week coming up just next week. This is a week that many people now can be very stressful. In the past semesters, I have usually had very stressful finals weeks. Usually most of my classes we would have an exam and a few times I have had a paper to go along with it. To go along with the stress I often find myself procrastinating my studying or writing a paper which only adds to the stress. Thankfully, I do not have any papers this semester, and most of my exams should be pretty easy. I have also been able to keep up with my assignments for all my classes so for this dead week I have had a pretty easy week as well.      Looking back on this semester I would say it was one of the easier ones that I have had but also one of the longest. For some reason, this semester has seemed to go by slowly. I believe that it has gone by slowly because not much has gone on this semester. Besides football, I feel that I haven...

    Now that the semester is closing in on the end, we have officially finished our simternship. After finishing I felt that it was helpful and enjoyable to do but on the other hand felt at times that it became time-consuming. At the beginning of the semester, I stayed on top of it and completed each round weekly. After some time, I began to procrastinate as some of the weeks got busy with other class assignments. I feel that learning how to create organic posts and paid posts and working with influencers for a brand will help in the future.      The internship started with telling us about the company that we would be working for. The company was Buhi Bags and we would be managing their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, and YouTube. Although this could seem like a lot to manage they gave you analytics on each platform to help you to best utilize each of them. It then started with the first three rounds being about creating organic social media po...

      With Thanksgiving break being over, we are now on the final home stretch. We have just a few weeks until we finish our semester and get to go back home for another break. Thanksgiving break is always a good week off school to get home and reset. Even though it is always a good week, it always flies by. I was able to enjoy a fun and relaxing break. It was nice to be able to spend the week with friends and family and get a break from schoolwork.     Now that we are in the first week back from break it is time to focus back in and try and finish off the year strong. Looking at my schedule for the next few weeks before finals it looks to be not as stressful as some of my past semesters. It looks to be a pretty light next few weeks as many assignments have already been completed and I just have finals left to worry about. In some of my past semesters, I have had many big assignments that I felt that I needed to cram in these last few weeks which would always ma...