Freshman Ashley Kirk is first up in a year-long softball team blog that will run through the rest of the fall semester and will pick up again for the spring season. The 2009-10 softball team is wrapping up its fall season that has seen its share of  heavy rain. The squad returns all but two starters from last year's team and features five newcomers, including two pitchers. One of them being Ashley Kirk, who shares her thoughts on the first few months of life at North Texas.

Oh my goodness, it feels like we just got here yesterday, and it's already October. I'm pretty sure its the weights every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, class, practice and homework that are making it go by so fast, but I'm loving every minute of it. I was so scared coming in as a freshman as to what the team would think of me. There was absolutely no need for me to be nervous though, because they just took us in and made us a part of everything. We're like a family here. That was definitely a blessing.

Dorm life was definitely a change. You're in a room all by yourself and you just share a bathroom with one other softball player. It's awesome though. That way you can have some time to yourself if you need to and not have to worry about another person being there to bother you.

So far school is pretty good. We've already had our first round of tests, and it was not as scary as I thought it would be. College is much much different than high school. Sometimes you have classes of over a hundred students, but other times you have smaller classes of about 25 or so. So, for different classes you can have different relationships with the teachers. I only have 5 classes total. I have 3 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm in class from 9-12 and then I have  about 2 or 3 hours of downtime to myself, that's definitely WAY different than in high school, but a good different. It's nice because you can get some homework done or take a little nap if you need to. 

All in all, I love it here. I love everything about it.