English essay

Manaf Alkaissi

040/6/15

Campus REC Center

Campus recreation center offers a variety of recreational activities that encourage healthy lifestyles. It’s also a great place to get fit and have fun with your friends, meet new people and get away from studying. They have all kind of sports that you can enjoy playing. For example they have basketball courts, gym, swimming arena, racquetball and soccer which personally I enjoy the most. Campus recreations center was recently developed to hold most of the student’s population on campus. To serve the students on campus and to satisfy there interest in sports.

I always like to go there and use the facility and the equipments that the REC center provides; I go there at least three times a week to play soccer with my friends. I enjoy playing soccer a lot it is one of my favorite sports. But the problem is whenever we go there we always found it packed with people. This is why we don’t always enjoy playing there. I talked with one of my friends and I asked him about his opinion and what should the university do he said: “I think MTSU should pay to make another indoor soccer field because a lot of people like to play soccer and we don’t fit all to play in one field, sometimes we do turns each team plays 10 minutes so the other teams can play. We try to make everyone to play so there won’t be any problems and everyone can enjoy their time. But even when we do this people can’t enjoy playing soccer like that. Playing just for 10 minutes and going out is not enough so we get a lot of complaining from people and we have a lot of arguments because people want to play more”.

Another issue that people started discussing with me and personally bothered them and bothered me too. Was the basketball courts, I always find them empty and yet they managed to build more basketball courts than soccer fields. Personally I think there are more people that likes to play soccer than basketball or any other sports I feel like people are drawn more into to it. Even if a lot of people came and wanted to play basketball, there is an easy solution to that they can split the court into two half and have each team play on one side and go on with the game, which is what they do most of the time when I watch them play, and they get a lot of playing time by doing that. People sometimes tell me that you can do the same thing when playing soccer, it is not the same you cannot split a soccer field into two half’s you have to have a full field to play on it. My friend also suggested that: “maybe the university should remove one basketball field the one closes to the soccer field and build one there if they cannot afford to build another soccer field. I think this problem should be addressed because it’s been like this for a while I have been in this college for 3 years and nothing has changed I see people sometimes getting into fights with other people because of this issue and that is not good for us, who just wants to play soccer and have fun and not good for the reputation of the college as well”. I also did another interview with a guy and he said the same thing he complained about how it’s always packed and that he thinks the university should build another soccer field.

Finally I think doing that will not only solve our problem but will also benefit the university by being able to do tournaments, and having competition with other schools. Even the MTSU soccer team can practice indoor if they can’t play outside during the winter period. I know being able to do this is not an easy thing to do it’s easy said than done actually, But I think if we all pursue this problem and try to solve it it’s doable. We can all solve this by doing fundraising events to raise the amount of money needed to do this project, we can also raise money from competition or tournament events too.