**Project 365 Edition: Freshman Year in College. Starting 8/20/2011**

This blog was originally a blog devoted to a great high school class of mine, but I've decided to transform it into a Project 365 blog (a photo blog where you post a picture everyday for a year). I fell in love with the layout of crayons and cuteness (and wasn't savvy enough to redo it) that I'm just staying here! My teachers may very well still get notifications when I post, but whatever. If so, hi Bolos and O'Connor! :P Feel free to un-link yourself if you get bored/annoyed of me...

I'm not sure how keeping up with the daily posts will work for me (especially seeing my track record of weekly posts in that class) but I thought it would be a neat idea to at least get a feeling of the first year of college, of freshman year. Making new friends, new habits, and living a new life. Also apparently being corny as hell. Maybe this new life can include actually posting each day. Probably not. Let's cross our fingers for me?


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Night League Phenomenon

I've never been good at basketball and the whole "Night League" thing never crossed my mind but today I found myself pulled to a game after being recruited randomly by some senior girls I know from cross country. I heard of it being intense but I really had no idea.

When I get there I find teams in the same color shirts, or even made shirts, war paint, sweatbands, all out. Our team had a color but we werne't intense or matching about it. Since we don't play basketball our goal was to just have fun, score a least one point, you know just have the experience. Yet, the team we were playing against was the exact oppostite. They had gotten a pizza place to sponsor them and had gotten sponsor shirts with their name and the pizza place's name on it. Really? You have a sponsor for Night League? I commend the commitment but it brings me back to a reacurring theme in my blog about competition.

To go as far as getting a restaurant to sponsor your school intermural basketball tournament I think is a little insane. Maybe I'm just new to this. What I wonder is where do you cut the line for this? Night League is the talk in school for as long as it runs but how compeitive can we be? What's your view on Night League and the competition drive it brings to the school?
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  1. T KingDecember 3, 2009 at 8:37 AM

    I played Night League freshman and sophomore year, and I definetly enjoyed it, and it was, as they say "worth staying up for". However this year, I didn't try all that hard to get on a team, and the deadline for registration came and went, so I was sadly without a squad. But maybe its not all bad, I've come close to being injured during Night League, and maybe with running so much, not playing this year isn't a bad thing. But I am getting my IM fix by switching over to the more mellow Spike league.

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  2. NathanDecember 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM

    As a night league participant for for 3 years now, I have come to learn of the true meaning of night league. People try and say that they are not serious but when gametime comes, nobody's really joking around. There are some teams that play to have a good time, which I thik is the most important thing. I can't really say what it is Night League that makes people want to be so competetive, maybe that it has become a staple in NT's extracurricular activities. Maybe people see it as a true honor to win the golden shoe (the "trophy" for winning the championship). As for the sponsorship, that is completely uncharacteristic of night league. I have never heard of such a thing ever. I admit that it is a little over the top, but the humor of the situation over weigh's it a little bit.

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