Blog #2

       Hello, I’m Tyler Torres. I’m nineteen years old, born in ninety-nine. I’m from a small town called Burnet, Texas about two and a half hours northwest from (Bryan) College station, located in the hill country. I have three siblings. A brother and sister on my mom’s side and one sister on my dad’s side. I am the youngest on my mother’s side, with my brother being seventeen years and my sister fifteen years older than me. I am the oldest on my dad’s side with my little sister being only thirteen year’s old. My hometown is famous for its yearly annual Bluebonnet festival. The Bluebonnet festival is a festival that has been going on for thirty-five years. People from all over Texas and other states come to see the parade. Since I’ve been alive, I have attended this festival every year and It never seems to fail me to make me not want to come again. Every year I go with my mother, grandmother, grandfather, and little nephew. With that being said the most important people in my life are the ones I keep close to me, like my parents, grandparents, bro’s, and girlfriend. My goals in life are to conquer reading and writing simply because those have always been my worst subjects since middle school. Throughout my middle school and high school years academic wise was mediocre (grade wise). I tended to struggle sometimes when it came to the end of the six weeks and it was time to take that big test for report cards. I managed to pass every time, but with low C’s.  It wasn’t until my senior year, I began to start making all A’s and B’s. But at that time, it was already too late to help my G.P.A increase. My high school academic performance was one I don’t really want to remember. I slacked off way too much, more than I ever should have. I was always doing everything at the last minute and that lead me to mediocre grades. I have come to realization that having to teach the class over a unit in class helps me buckle up and figure out smarter ways to learn the topic well enough to teach it.  

 Another academic goal this semester is to lower my procrastination on my work and become more organized to help myself become a better student. I’ve kind of always have been the one to just sit and look at the difficult work in front of me, and whine about and not do it until later on in the day. The student I want to become, is the student who is always on top of their game and doesn’t fall behind on work. To be ahead of the game is something I’ve been meaning to work on. Now that I have that chance to step up and make it happen, it is time I make my move that direction this year and apply it to myself these next few years. My favorite thing to do out of all things, is play sports or be active in some way of some sort. I’ve been playing sports all my life. Out of all my siblings, I’m the most active one. I first started playing when I was four years old and never stopped. Sports have been a way of life for me. It’s just something about a ball that gains my interest to want to play it. If I'm not playing sports or playing with a ball, I am most likely gone fishing, or hanging out with friends. One big surprise about me that most people had no clue of. Is my major that I chose to seek a future in and that nursing; my whole senior year I had been focused on kinesiology and I had my mind set on that until, this past summer I read up on becoming a registered nurse. I hope to enter the nursing school next year and seek my future job at Dell’s Childrens Hospital in Austin, Texas.