Van's Nonfic Blog

Ever since I was young football stood out to me apart from all the other sports. From my first memory of watching a football game, the Packer’s 2005 loss to the Carolina Panthers, to this year’s college football national championship, I have always loved the sport. Due to the depth and intricate strategies of football, throughout playing all kinds of other sports throughout my youth, football stayed closest with me. Football’s most defining factor is the depth of the game play. In sports such as hockey and soccer there is a pseudo-separation of offense and defense, but it is never actually defined in the rules or physically separated as it is in football. This separation in football increases the amount of specialization of the players themselves which is key in understanding the game. For every one of the several unique positions in football, there is a player that specializes and trains for that position only. With more specialized training the skill cap, for each position goes up tr...

Like most people, my musical tastes has changed a lot over my life. I’ve never been in orchestra or chorus like 70% of my class at Uni has, but that doesn’t stop me from appreciating music from a listening and learning perspective. This outlook has kept me engaged with music and I’m always listening and trying to find more. My dad always played music when I was young whether we were at home, in the car, or outside. There isn’t any specific genre he listens to as it ranges from rock to jazz to rap to music I don’t even know the genre of . As a result of this, I got exposed to many different forms of music to choose from and my brother and I clung to one genre much more than the others: classic rock. Almost all of the music I listened to through elementary school consisted of Guns N Roses, AC/DC, and other heavy rock bands as my brother and I would beg my dad to play in the car. My interest in classic rock has had the biggest influence on what instruments I have played. Rather than pian...