Riley Alcorn's English Blog

      While being in college there are many things that you can learn about yourself or things that you pick up along the way. Most of these are skills, they don't have to be handiness skills but they can be like communication, how to properly word an email, just some basic human skills. The top five skills that I wish to gain are: How to keep my life balanced - I have realized that I never really leave time for myself and its really biting me in the ass when it comes to my mental health because there is three-four weeks left and I have absolutely no motivation for softball and school work. How to be prepared for the unexpected - When it comes to relationships or anything life tries to throw at me I'm normally not the best prepared that I can be. I will be dead set on one thing and then when a wrench gets thrown into it it takes me a while to get over/come back. How not to read into peoples emotions - This honestly goes in...

     As a freshman in college it can be scary, especially when you are in the middle of a pandemic. Aside from the pandemic it's always scary. You're finally on your own, as an independent adult. At first it might seem amazing and fun but after a while you start realize that it's not all that it's cracked up to be. I remember back in high school all my teachers wold say "Your professors don't care if you pass or fail, its your degree" and them saying things along the lines of "Its going to be so much harder in college". I honestly want to call bullshit on them.       Yes the material you are learning is harder and there's so much that you do have to learn in such a little amount of time, but personally its not that hard when you actually time manage properly. Thats coming from the girl who was always running late in high school. About the whole "professors won't care" thing, its absolutely wrong. From my college experience, our ...

 In a persons life they go through many hardships and regret is one. Some people may dwell on that regret and others may forget about it. I personally do both. I dwell on them for a while but eventually it goes away until I randomly think about it. I haven't had the biggest regret of my life but there are somethings that I do regret. For instance, pushing certain people away. I know I'm not the most perfect person and I've done some pretty shitty things but the one I hate the most is pushing people away that meant a lot to me. I never mean to do it, nor do I intend harm but it just happens. I recently have pushed away a few people that meant the absolute most to me and I severely regret it because now I feel like I have no one.  For many other people their regrets involve the word "Not" but mine doesn't. It doesn't follow the pattern of regrets. Those people are normally able to fix it easy, but mine would be a lot harder to fix. By pushing those people aw...

      I have gone through many trials and tribulations in my life, but none of them ever deterred me. Ive never really had something told to me that made me think my life has been a lie, but there is one thing that I am starting to not believe in anymore. Many people meet someone when they least expect it and then a beautiful relationship blooms out of it and those people are the happiest they can be, but that is not the case for me. I have heard the saying "Its not you, its me." way too many times in my life, which makes me always believe it's my fault. I know that as I grow with age the saying means less but that is one thing I do not really trust and that makes me second guess myself. Most of the time the relationship with that person never ends well but there are a few cases where we are still really close friends and talk to each other daily. 

      In the video a girl and a man are both in an elevator. The girl then starts to play her music loudly, but in retaliation for how loud the music is the man plays his music to try and drown hers put but she ends up turning it louder. Then another woman steps into the elevator and then she sees that they are both playing music loudly, so she then turns hers on. The screen then cuts to black and then next thing you know is there are more people in the elevator and they are all playing their music very loud. Then a man walks in with a boombox on his shoulder and everyone turns their music off because they know that his will be the loudest, but then the man puts headphones in. Everyone then realizes that they could have done the same and it wouldn't have caused as much chaos as it did.      In the video I believe that it goes to show how people will follow one another even if its not the right thing to do, but it only takes one person to do s...

 Billboard Top 10 Songs of My Life 10) Loose Yourself by Eminem; This song is ranked where it is because it was one of my first pump up songs that I would play for softball. 9) Seven Nation Army by The White Strips; This was another song I would use softball but it was also a song we would always play in marching band. 8) Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dream by Green Day; These songs when combined bring me back to when my dad would help me workout and it was a part of us bonding.  7) Beverly Hills by Weezer; This song was another song that helped my dad and I bond when I was younger. 6) I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic!At The Disco; This was the first song that ever heard by this band and ever since then I've been a fan ever since. 5) Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen; This helped me bond with my grandparents because this is a classic song and they all really like it. 4) Legend by twenty one pilots; This song talks about how he wishes his niece met his grandfather and it makes me hop...