Introduction

Being a member of the most recent class of Graduates from UAB I am proud to say I'm done. It took four years and 10 months to graduate, but in reality it was three to get a degree. Originally a Biochemistry major I eventually realized that it would be my suicide to continue. After a week of head banging and hair pulling nights I realized that History was where I belonged. We History majors are a strange lot, and when we pair with the likes of Archaeology it becomes even better. For many in colleges and universities around the World history is that class you had to take during your freshman year that you hated more than GenChem or Biology lab. For those of us who went to Western Civ and slept through it on the front row there is nothing better than hearing about the likes of the Spartans, Augustus, and Nero, or Genghis Khan, and Suleiman. As a historian I feel that I have perhaps learned a lot about other academic areas also. Because while Chemist's learn Chemistry, and Educators are taught to teach, we study the people who came up with the methods and ideas and not just the techniques and experiments that succeed. That doesn't make us experts, I know how to balance a chemical equation but only because I took two years of chemistry courses, I doubt that most historians without the scientific background could just whip out and do it. 

This is a World cup year which means that everybody and their entire family will be glued to the sporting world of Brazil, and as I am a huge soccer fan I'll be along with my two cents also. As a huge fan of the USMNT I'm cheering them on, but with the group of destruction we have been placed in there is little chance we will make it out of the group stage. My chosen teams to beat this year are Germany and Brazil. Brazil with the home advantage and an exceptionally talented squad back under the reigns of Big Phil will prove to be one of the best showings of a Canarinho in a long time. And German soccer is surging forward with German engineering all the way. Spain will make a show with their usual tiki-taka and win their group, but I'm looking to them being knocked out by Brazil. All to end the Cup with a Brazil-Germany showdown on July 13th. 

As I said there would be random writings at times, this is really as good example of jumbled writing as I'll give. 
And next time you look at a History major and tell him he/she has it easy, take a look at what they read about in their spare time it might be more complicated than thermodynamics to explain.