Challenge Check-In #1

I plan on completing Challenge #2: Hip-Hop Spaces. I plan on writing about the basketball team's training facility, specifically the weight room. The women's tennis team, which includes myself, have strength conditioning there three times a week, and I feel that this location can easily be viewed as having elements of hip-hop. I chose this challenge because it would be easy to write about, as I am at this location frequently, and the hip-hop elements there are easy for me to see. Hip-hop music is constantly blaring, and I feel a sense of pride and strength when I am there. Hip-hop is more than just music, it is overcoming difficulties and taking pride in yourself. Strength training is the hardest thing thing for me out of all the difficulties college leaves me faced with, and overcoming it provides me with a strength and sense of pride that I feel is similar to the feelings hip-hop music is meant to express and inspire.