Out of the box!

Coming to Southern as a freshman was a bit intimidating, new environment, new faces, more independence and all the feelings a nervous freshman could ever have. I was frankly as scared as a cat about to be dunked in water. Throughout the days and classes I had broke out of my shell just a bit, by making new friends that I love and cherish. So far throughout the semester I've learned about myself that even though I'm painfully shy, I usually understand material if I engage in class more, with questions as to how we have come to that solution or when just listening to other's people thoughts, I never realized how close minded I was. Most times when I read books I am uninterested in, I tend to get the gist of them and just basically sum up in my head what the whole point of the story was. But when I get to class and listen to everyone's summaries I'm like "Wow i never thought of it that way." Which helps me have a better understanding of the book/article. Some of my common challenges is actually Math, the Mental Abuse To Humans, as fellow friends would classify it is, time management and commuting by train. Now with Math I have learned that in order for me to understand the formulas and procedures of how to solve a specific equation, I have to actually do some work, besides copying from the board. So I started doing some My Math Lab problems and actually writing in my unwritten Math workbook, for the 2nd time this whole semester. With teachers they teach in certain ways, like using common methods that we should know about but sometimes I'm new to this method and I usually ask my friend, that explains it in a different way that I could understand. So now my grade is actually better than I expected, esp. how my grade was starting at the beginning of the semester. Commuting? I want someone to live my life for a day, they would say "how do you do it?" because its so hectic, I do so much to get there early enough, wait long enough and end up to class late. Being late is not my cup of tea, I actually HATE being late and I would avoid it if all possible. Overcoming this challenge is just accepting the fact that the shuttle schedule will never change, the trains will not always be on time, the bus will never be on time (sadly) and other uncontrollable transportation issues. Time management? Who doesn't have a problem with that? No seriously though. This was a huge issue for me at the beginning of the semester, juggling homework, commuting time, sleeping, eating, walking my dog, going to work and what little social life I have. The solution I have to this is staying up long periods of nights which will probably end in death. LOL j,k. Well  next semester I made my schedule so that it would work around my job, even though I'll be going to classes in the late afternoon, which means getting home late, I'll have the whole night and next morning to finish all my unfinished homework so i'm hoping that I planned out my schedule correctly. As for social life and sleeping, I'll just leave it until the weekend to catch up with my friends' lives and my sleep. Through my successful time managing skills, I managed to get a decent A-B average out of every class. Now onward with next semester, I need more sleep! ~

Maze.

Going through a library is like going through a maze, you never really know your way around and you could get lost. After giving up I find deciding to ask the librarian for help and she directed me. The book that I got was an American
dictionary because my teacher said my spelling was horrible and unreadable. Lol she didn't really say that, I just asked her what I can do to increase my knowledge Of vocabulary.

YOU GET F.

All throughout the semester I have learned more about my strengths and weaknesses and how I can make all my weaknesses into strengths or at least try to, for that matter. This semester my biggest accomplishment has been my writing, not to brag but I was always a good a writer, going over the page limit, being super specific and going into so much detail (there can never be enough!). But throughout the semester my English teacher has helped me prove to myself that I do not suck at writing persuasive essays, I just need to get a certain format/outline before I start to write. She had given me awesome comments on my very long essays on how I improved from the first assignment she had given us! I'm going to miss her positive feedback and her helpful ways, but hopefully I'll refer back to my old essays when I get stuck on writing. I do think I need to improving on my summary and response paper, it's just so hard to start off and get your ideas together without saying they are yours! Enough about my awesome writing skills, one of my failures besides math, which you all know of is the complicated subject nanotechnology. It's so hard to grasp, I understand somethings but if I zone out for like two seconds, I get lost and confused as to what he is explaining and how was it relevant to the last thing he mentioned. Although the applications of nanotechnology are cool and useful, it's just comprehending the subject as a whole that makes me confused, Hopefully I wont fully fail that class, I don't really want to, I'd love to nicely pass the class with some understanding to the materials that are on a nanoscale reign and how they function :)

What?

Along with the stressful exam cramming and studying time I'm having a hard time organizing my thoughts, a lot of teachers want essays with their along with you studying for their hardcore final, It's pretty hard trying to manage time yet again, but then that is to be expected since finals are coming up super fast. Only one more week to finals and everybody is super stressed and tensed you can see how packed the libraries and computer stations are now. I couldn't find anywhere to sit down and study, except the food court and no one wants to study in there. This girl was even crying like next to me. D: I have answered some of the questions but I don't really know how I'm going to make it flow into each other, maybe i'll just act as if it's a story and add in minor details that will eventually lead to the final event, which is the end of the semester. So far my 600 word post is going in circles and a video is like out of the question since my editing skills like suck and I don't want to be on camera. Hopefully what will distinguish my reflection from others is of course, my own experiences, I'm pretty sure everyone went through something else difficult this semester and won't have the same problems as me. Everyone is different, people have different strengths and weaknesses so I think just the post alone should make each and every one of the student's post different from others. In my blog post along with 600 words I will try to use pictures so the readers can actually get a image on what I'm descriptively describing in every little detail. So I'm hoping that my final project actually turns out swell and that my readers enjoy my actual last post. Well probably.

Quantity over Quality

Don't know why i titled it that, but here's my video. If you can't read the red writing during the "fighting" scene it says, "7 bottles later and 3 drunk people" Sorry for the horrible quality and sadly I forgot to include that you can go to the DARC (drug and alcohol resource center) for more information about drinking and drugs,  -________-

WHERE IS IT?

That was the main question being asked today by my fellow students, some didn't know where to find their books, some didn't even know where the reference desk was! But ultimately we grouped together and explored the library together, even though I came here several times before, but usually for uses of the computer lab on the fourth floor.  I also had a library workshop with my English class, but it was with a different librarian with a nice accent. I've learned that the library is actually more than just books, it has very useful electronic sources, searching for books online and seeing if they are even available without moving a muscle, (well besides the ones in your hand).Also i learned the difference between the reference desk and the circulation and the purposes of each desk. I'm still wondering the purpose of the first desk when you walk right into the library, maybe it's security. Some things we remain unknown. The post about people's questions were helpful too.  "Without autonomy we cant decide whether what we want is worth cherishing or pursuing" this quote helps because it gives me a better understanding of autonomy and it makes me think. Autonomy is basically free will right? So Imagine having your values dictated? Everything you ever stood for was someone else's opinion and everything else was wrong. For example, everyone wouldn't have a will to continue on if they are always doubting themselves, they would't get very far in life. Without free will we'd be like mindless zombies and That'd be a monotone boring world. Hopefully I'm explaining what my understanding of Autonomy is.

The Curse

Okay so like I've tried to do Twyla Tharp's exercise called "Give yourself a little challenge". Now since I enjoy writing short stories (usually animated but i'll stick with realistic) I've decided to write a story without the word "The" and this is how it went.

Okay well maybe that's not exactly how it went. 

The story is below

It was a cold night, leaves were blowin', wind was whistling and leftover raindrops from the tree leaves were just fell upon my window as I was sitting on my convenient window seat. I stared out my windowpane just thinking about life, what I accomplished, my failures and what I've overcame. Not much came to mind, seeing as I didn't really get far in life yet, I'm only a freshman yet again. Someone was knocking quite hard actually, interrupting my thoughts. I reluctantly rose up from my seat and slowly walked to my door, the person was outside was trying to twist a door knob. My adrenaline was pumping, my hairs were standing up on the back of my neck in anticipation, my fear of being faced with my worst nightmare was rushing forward as I swung open the door, being faced with...Nothing, Just a tree branch hitting my door. I turned on my outside light and I saw cars that had crashed, fires still blazing, buildings had crashed, The dead ruling the night. It was my dream Apocalyptic world .

That was actually very hard, I had to rethink of ways to actually write a couple of sentences because I wanted to use the so many times. Without the this short whatever, sounds pretty possessive since instead of the I just used "My" which wasn't my intention since I never include myself in my stories. Also it seemed as if the story could only be told from my point of view since I used My so much, and not in third person like stories are usually written. Anyways I love the word the and I shall always need it.

P.S I'll stick to fictional writing :D

Giving a name to it

So I've read the instructions on how to go about this experiment and I think that I'm going to try it.

My first fear/anxiety is that everyone will think I'm illiterate
When I mess up on one word or if I can get my point across fast enough or If i can't say what I was thinking of, Also I feel like when I say something, that's it's not truly thought out because if the teacher counters with a question I'm usually stuck on how to answer it and I didn't think of the possible questions that she would ask. That's one and a half of reason why I don't really participate in huge group discussions because I feel as if there are expectations already made when someone get's called on.

Second fear: Probably standing alone

Like the other day when we had class, everyone loved the book so much and said such great things about it while I sat there just hating the book and not really saying it. Like I understand that everyone has a different view of things but it's pretty awkward disagreeing with the whole class, plus I guess I'm not a big fan of controversy. With what I believe in is different though because I don't really care if I stand alone or not because It's what I'm passionate about and what I truly believe.

Those are my main two fears/anxieties as to why I don't voice my opinion very often, Hopefully I will learn to get over them or at least face them, Maybe I have to start writing down my thoughts before I say them so I can have some materialistic to look to when I forget a main point in my thoughts or just suck it up. I've tried ignoring my fears but that doesn't really help when they just appear back in your thoughts, haunting you while you speak aloud.

Burning calories by just reading!

Okay, Well I lied in my title but since you're already here why not stay and continue reading!

This campus safari was about visiting the fitness center!  I'm not a member because I don't feel like I need to work out, yet. But for those who want to become a member you just have to walk in and ask to join, or even join online! I believe it's about 120$ for a full year membership and only 60 $ (orginally) for a semester. They have treadmills there, some zumba classes at certain nights and other fun exercise events. There is a dress code though, so make sure you fully understand the rules before you enter the center.

Hours is it open, (throughout the year)

Monday-Thursday      7:00 am-10:00 pm

Friday                       7:00 am-8:00 pm

Saturday                   9:30 am-4:30 pm

Sunday                     2:00 pm-7:00 pm

(Had to get this picture off the website because they had to ask their supervisors, which weren't available on Friday. -__-)

Thoughts about Twyla Tharp book

Currently, In our inquiry class we are required to read a book called the "creative habit" by Twyla Tharp, such a odd name.
I'd have to say that even though the book font is not really attractive to me, she is relatable in some ways. It's a huge turn off how the book Was displayed because I want the book to get straight to the point and now have to read all around the pages just to read the title and it seems like childish, the fonts she played with. Im a close minded person, ill admit, i like the simple normal way of trying to get your point across, even if it is boring. Most students like the way she presented it and Im not like most kids, I don't need words to be emphasized in the color red to be known as important. -_- i dont feel like i relate that much to her personal life though, I never had the need for any creative outlet, or any creative spark in my body so i cant really understand how hard it is to make up a routine or start a painting from scratch or even try to create some beautiful besides my failed drawings of stick people I use to create in the 6th grade, (yes I said 6th grade.) Besides that I sorta like how she talks about things that I can relate to as a reader and a college student. I guess because I'm not a interpretative person that I didn't get some metaphors that she mentioned. Also I am pretty biased about creativity ad how irrelevant it is to my life, academic wise so the story is pretty boring. I've heard what she says one way or another from other perspectives.

I'm a Creep, Halloween Edition. ~Le video

I think my video was okay overall, it could have been better.

-_- WHAT?

Finally the train wreck of midterm week is over, so much anixety and terror was built up during the suspense of each test. Okay so midterms was harder than I thought in most classes, overall my GPA would be a C which is practically unacceptable since I want to be on the Dean's list. I believe to be on the Dean's list you have to have at least a GPA of 3.5, unless it's different standards for different colleges. My grades other than math, is what I expected because I studied a lot and revised my papers, trying to perfect them and also i understood and anaylzed the materials very well. But I wish i would have gotten just a plain B instead of tons of B minuses those minuses bring my GPA down even more, grr! >.< With Math I'm not surprised with my grade, I suck at math but regardless, I didn't study because I thought I understood it, but in reality I didn't and that is why I failed. :( I hope to have brought my grade up with the past test we took on Thursday, I really studied really hard and I learned math, from a different easy angle. It's just when people explain it I don't really get it until I actually do a problem and read how to go about it, for each step. I can't just learn from looking at examples and explanations, I guess I have to read it.I wish midterms did count toward our GPA though because it would be really easy to get it up higher, now i have to depend on the final exams for my GPA. Oh geez.I just really hope that next semester will be a breeze so I could go and be a sophomore already! :D

Walking fast, Faces Past.

This is the first half of the huge mural.
 

The rest of it.
 

This mural is painted by Nicholas Orsini, in 1986. He was a professor of art at scsu.
According to the plank, "This mural represents stages in human development from left to right. The emergence of life from the sea, the discovery of microbiology, the exploration of space and botanical & biological forms depicted are true representations of actual forms." It's in Jennings Hall.

Yes, I did pick the most noticable art piece in SCSU. I don't really notice art but I do remember seeing this when we went on a mini tour in Jenings, when it was orientation, to show us where our future classes would be. Now me, I havent been the artsy type and try to look deeper into pictures, to me this picture is people scubadiving under water either, discovering or fighting plenty of fungi and coral trees, and etc. I like actually like the picture though because it captures your attention as soon as you pass by, just with astounding colors. Now personally yet again, I dont really see stages of human development. Stages of human development are related to embryos to babies to infants and so on and so forth, now I don't really see any sort of  human babies in this pictures, maybe a hermit crab or something but it doesn't really have a correlation to the sea life. This is why I don't like art very much, everything tries to be so complicated when it is simple. -___-
 Since my views on art are pretty biased I don't really understand the purpose of this painting, sure it's a great contriubution to Jennings, the Science & Art classes but i would love to meet someone that says this painting helps me get through the day. If i say so myself, this picture is pretty creepy if you keep staring at it long enough!

Many Possiblites

This week's campus Safari is the Major Expo, because i finally found the papers that I have received from it. The expo wasn't very informative to me because I already knew most of the jobs that I could get with for my major, which is Biology. I believe that the expo was for mainly undecided/undeclared freshman that wanted to see all the choices they could have in whatever field interested them. The Expo even had information about the colleges that have a partnership with Southern for their study abroad program, they have student exchange programs, colleges in Franc, Germany, Scotland, Spain and others! Going back to my major, we even have a Biology club! That sadly I can't join because of work. There are many fields of biology I could go into, Basic, Applied, Quality Control, Administration, Grant Writing, Organismal Biology, biomedical sciences, healthcare, bioinformatics,education, communication, legislation/law and Business/Industry. The fields that interest me Healthcare because then I can concentrate on Veterinary Medicine. I would actually major in Pre-Vet but then again I just want to keep my options open even though I know I'm probably not going to change my mind, just in case that is. So if i get a Biology degree and I want to explore other careers in the science field I can because my degree isn't just directly for Pre-Vet. Then I have to hopefully get into med school, take that entry test and hopefully pass, it's a long journey but I have to keep looking at how happy I'll be when I am finally there, either owning my own hospital or helping another doctor. I'm usually lazy when it comes to work but hopefully I'll push myself into gear but then if I don't get into med school because its very competitive, I'll probably just go into a trade school and just become a vet assistant.

(this campus safari is for 10/27/12)

More Tea?

It was rather windy today, almost as windy yesterday. I wish the weather was sunnier but it is Autumn, so I guess not much we can do about it. Today, my friend Xiao and I decided to explore downtown, because its so interesting. Despite the limitation of time because of my job and her classes we had fun. First we took the bus, arriving at the green and walked around. Our intentions were to buy some bubble tea, but from a different restaurant and also try to buy the tea with gelatin in it. We saw a cute puppy Golden Retriever tagged along with a guy, surprisingly a cute guy ;). We were downtown pretty early like 8ish 9ish and nothing was open so we our mission was clarified as a F, so we just went to Dunkin donuts and got the usual for Taiesha, Hashbrowns, egg and cheese with an iced latte. Surprise, Surprise that they were open. After spending about a hour there we walked around again, retrieving my new head phones from radio shack, i was getting frustrated because they didn't have many cute choices and they were not helping. Some guy was like bowing to us and said "all hail beautiful people" Xiao and I was like WTF. Then another guy asked a question and I was confused cause I didn't know what he said and he got mad. Then this girl had a weird tattoo, but she was gorgeous ;) so that was a ware of like 100 or more bucks. Eventually we found ourselves back to "the green" then headed back to Southern. Luckily I was just in time, after speed walking through crowds of students and almost tripping over everything I made it to the shuttle stop near Morrill just before 11. Then started my last 2 hrs of daily commuting for today.

Alzheimer's? I think so

With this semester I feel like what has set me back the most was remembering things, I try to rely on my memory for what homework I have to get done but that doesn't always work out.So far in English my writing has actually increased which is not really that surprising cause I like English as am fairly good at it. :) math on the other hand I'm slowly but surely getting better at it, math is my worst subject but I now understand where I made most of my errors so I could see what went wrong. With my nanotechnology class it's fairly interesting but hard to comprehend after a while. He's been studying nano materials and just assumes we know all the jargon that comes along with it. We had to do like a essay so far where I had to google almost a more simplified definition for half the words I was looking up. I was thinking of probably taking another physics class next semester but that's crossed off my list. Philosophy is a pretty fast paced class also, it reminds me of my psych class, hopefully i will do wonders on his exam. Its not that the class sucks its just very fast and sometimes after i leave class im like, what did i just learn. Next semester I will have to put more strict boundaries on myself, especially will friends and homework and keeping all my syllabus visible. Definitely keep my schedule in my hands at all times. Next semesters I will probably have classes early and late but usually late because it'll be better for my sleeping schedule and ill be able to function better. Next semester I just also want to get my GPA up to the highest point and finish all my math within the next two years because math is confusing and annoying.

Agree to Disagree.

Dreading to read this book, but when i did I read about success and failures, things not to say and things to encourage of course I disagreed with some points but overall I think she was trying to get a good point. I think that our generation or just me, (mostly me because i question most things if im proven wrong) I don't really get the concept of the book because its usually about something we already experience and currently in our mindset. Maybe this will be useful if you have kids or not, maybe you can just pass it on. This book actually did get me thinking though about topics I never really touched. I thought it was pretty cool how Mick, associated chapter 8 with the 12 men, I never even thought of how that ties in with the book. With some changes there are risks and some people are more easier to change than others. Like this stubborn jury member didn't change his mind for anything, not for plausible evidence they were assuming happened or how the witnesses lies, he was stuck in his stubborn racist ways, until he thought deep down how he pushed his son away and it some how affected him to change his vote.it was a pretty good movie. Even though the book was a good read so far. It's so hard juggling work with other classes as well. During midterm time teachers like to cram stuff in last minute. I like how the book also talks about other aspects of your life like friendships, relationships, and etc. I love the mental aspect though because it talks about how other people interpret your words and actions so now you have to watch how you express things or you'll give someone the wrong idea. Overall feelings:

Discomfort is a common feeling for I.

Well I did something out of the ordinary today, my group volunteered to go second. Now this is a big deal for me because I loathe presenting, like seriously its pointless. What else could I possibly say that you can't read on my paper!!!! Plus I don't do we'll in front of crowds of people. I also have presenting because it's nerve wrecking, I do stupid things and do horrible 99% of the time. I'm a pessimistic, I can believe these things. Anyway going second had pushed me out of my comfort zone because I'm usually last or just keep trying to talk my way out of it. What I also did, a while ago was give a suggestion. I'm a SGA member for the current time because soon I will have to work and have no time for it. But anyways I have a suggestion to the president, and she loved it! I thought it would go terrible and she'd be confused or hate my idea but she didn't. Getting out of my crabby shell (get it? Crabby? Because I'm a Cancer) will be a little easier now, but it sucks that once I start to warm up to people it usually is the next semester when I don't see any of the same kids/ teachers anymore. Transitioning to this fast paced environment is kind of hard when the days go by really fast. Hopefully some of my professors will still help me throughout the years, but I doubt they would even remember me. At college, professors see all different kids each semester, it's hard to keep track of just one kid from that one class that always needed a little extra help. With high school, teachers have the same kids for an entire year so of course it is easier to recognize them and create a bond with particular students.

HOLE IN NONE -__-

This Friday and Saturday that is currently passing as I type, Marissa and I had went on a "Friday Free For All" and explored a bit of downtown. Friday free for all included, a haunted house, go karting and mini golf. First we went to go kart and all was well until I got SOMETHING in my eye, it was like a piece off the stupid track or something it was so irritating and horrible! I even cried and it didn't come out!! I believe it's still there, I just can't feel it as much. :( But besides that down turn, we next went to the Haunted House! I almost dragged Marissa a couple of times because she wasn't running like at all, Just clinging for dear life to me while zombified people were chasing us with chainsaws,screaming and nurses were asking to donate our blood!!! It really wasn't that scary cause I was kind of expecting that. I heard the trail of terror is scarier.

 Then after that little fun adventure we next went to order our food, we were number 81 and they were on 41, we certainly were unlucky that night. Lastly we tried mini golf, it was my first time and since my rage couldn't be held in, I ended up angrily quitting and possibly damaged a tree, so golf defintely is not for me since I have too much strength. Moving on to Saturday, Marissa and I decided to explore downtown. Ended up going to a couple of galleries,  even though art is the least of my interest, I did see a couple of interesting things in the Asian art, category and the cute British gift shop.We visited an organic store and some restaurants, even a tattoo parlor.

 and I made Marissa try something new. :D

Interesting.

Yesterday in class we were discussing the concepts of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. I don't agree with fixed mindset being the bad side in this argument. I'm pretty sure there are people that have gotten far with what they already know. Having a fixed mindset is being confident in the knowledge you already have and not needing to expand. I'm content with everything because I'm pretty lazy, my satisfactory is at least a C or higher. I'm probably pretty stubborn at times because I hate when things get complicated when I'm just grasping on what we just learned! So I'd rather stay in my comfort zone, and get good grades rather than always wanting to go deeper into learning. Learning is what we have to do, to get far that is, But why not use what you already got and you'd probably be half way there already. So far this book is fairly interested because I never even though there was names of the concepts of thinking we have. Sure there's pessimism and optimistic but I haven't heard of a fixed mindset or a growth one, and I took psychology. Everyone can't be defined by a word though because some people believe they are a combination of the both, some weird nonexistent middle ground. There is a possibility that it is kind of a mix because some people can have a fixed mindset on certain topics and a growth one on others. For example, I have a fixed mindset for Math. My worst subject, even though people say I'm kind of good at it. I give up rather easily when it comes to math because it is so confusing and what is the point of math? Will it help me solve the final equation that will determine how to survive when the world ends?!?! NO. Well that was rather tangent. Anyways,This book will hopefully let me be more insightful.

Disturbing the peace.

With this project, I got just a little bit out of my shell more, I realized that some people are really nice and don't mind you asking them things. My main question was: Would you rather commute or live on campus and what are the pros and cons of your answer. . So yep. This video actually turned out better than I expected, i tried to do something weird at the end so the video wouldn't be so serious. Everyday I did something for this video, rather it was thinking about it, making rough drafts of the video or just how I'd would get it done. For me to be a procrastinator, I knew I couldn't procrastinate on this, I can't just pull a 5 min video out of thin air, it takes, time, precision, and courage. Luckily my friends were able to help me out since sometimes I live under a rock when it comes to technology, I never really made a actual whole video. ~I tried not to be biased, Hopefully that worked and hopefully this video doesn't come off as sexist because I only recorded girls....Oh well :) What I learned is that Commuting rules! and Resident's drool, most times.

Exploring!

Yesterday, as in Thursday, Marissa and I decided to explore the campus by going to places that we have never been to before. So we decided to check out the radio station and go to student life. In student life we got information about interesting events that are going to come up, we even signed up for this cool event on October, in honor of Halloween. Sadly the radio station doesn't have any shows listed yet, they said hopefully next week they will have some shows out and stuff. I think it's really cool how we have our own radio station but it's kind of old fashioned to listen to stories on the radio, But hey whatever floats your boat.

Onward!

My video midterm is basically about commuters vs. residents. It's about the students opinions on if they'd rather be a commuter or a resident and the pros and cons of which they picked. I chose this topic because I want to show people that you don't have to live on campus, there's always a choice and you could still have fun! This topic will be helpful to first year students because it shows them the pros and cons of both sides. When I first heard about college all I heard was people basically living on campus while going to school, what if you didn't want to live there or couldn't afford it or whatever the case may be. I haven't heard of commuting until I asked around about it. I thought that I'd be the only commuter alive but it turns out to be a lot of commuters by train or car or however they get there. For my teacher, I asked the same question but in a different way, because the teacher really doesn't get the option of being a resident and living on campus lol and I'm pretty sure some teachers don't even know if their students are residents or not so they really wouldn't have a opinion on rather if its easier to have all commuter students or just all resident students. I tried not to be biased in this interview, getting both answers from residents and commuters. So far making a video is pretty hard, you try to think of ways to keep the viewers attention on the information without having huge distractions in the background. You also don't want to bore your audience because then they wouldn't get the point of what you have been saying. Also five minutes is way longer than I expected. Hopefully my video comes out satisfactory because this is not my speciality.

Being Aware

Well at first I thought the chart of your self study was just a dumb thing to assign but after analyzing it, During my study for time management I realized that I handle my time as efficiently as I can, That's what I believe. What I can do to better is getting more hours of sleep. I never noticed how many times I been depriving myself of sleep. It's kind of scary, how much energy I have from only about 5 hours of sleep. To get in better sleeping habits will probably be better for me so I can be wide awake each class, ready to participate and everything! I believe in total I spend about 10 hours on homework for the whole week, minus all the hours procrastination kicks on. It doesn't really take me a long time to get homework done because if it's easy enough then I'll just breeze through it. One thing I procrastinate on the most, is my math homework. I hate math and it's just so pointless because the credit for this course doesn't even count as an actual math course, just an extracurricular. Also I procrastinate on math because I feel the teacher is pretty lenient, and he already doesn't check or collect it. I still do math homework because I like to know how I came up with certain answers, everyone else has their calculators and such But I'd rather write out the problem and try to solve it.. On the tests we can't even use calculators! So it's better to learn how to do it rather than be dependent on a calculator to do all of the work. I also procrastinate on blogging because I feel as if this is rather easy task, and won't be very time consuming and It's kind of fun.

Gangnam Style

So I attended the fair and it was a bunch of fun, besides the sororities trying to harass you to join them and then the cheerleaders that want qualified members and such. I wanted to try something new and I did, I signed up for a theater club called te crescents their current project is Rocky Horror which reminds me of Glee!!!! If you know what Glee is, you are Fawesome which in Tye language is forever awesome. Also it surprised me when the Anime club did Gangnam style!!! I thought I was the only one that knew it , haha.

Catchy like the Sun Drop Commercial!

Let's get right to it, one blog that I honestly believe deserves a A is mine of course, My design that I picked for my blog was very eye catching. Oh my language is so elegant and ideas were clearly stated and- Just Kidding! I like my blog and all but anyways, Blogs that I believe deserve A's is a blog named "When in doubt be brave". I like the flow of the writer, It sounds as if she's just regular blogger and not as if she's doing it because it is a assignment. The background is also cute, it's attractive but not too distracting to the point were you won't read her blogs because you're in love with her background. Another blog that peaked my interest was "Don't be delicate be vast and brilliant" Not only was the title catchy but so were the pictures! She has posts about tips and other things that I didn't really catch on to earlier. Her blog is so encouraging and energetic when you read it. One post that stood out to me on the second blog was the one about overcoming her obstacles, which was her trying out for the talent show and she made it, thus having to sing on stage. Now i have to hand it to her she has guts, I thought about getting over my fears and trying out for my H.S talent show, (even though I don't really have a talent) but that was the energy drink talking. I'm glad that both of their blogs has a personal feel to it, yet professional, It was entertaining to read. Everyone's blog has their own pizzazz on it, Some stuck out and some didn't.

SUBMIT TO ME.

The reason why this post is titled "submit to be" because the phrase screams out bow down to me and I'd like to say that I have overcome most of my major obstacles. Thinking back on my life, I'm not sure If anyone else would classify this as obstacles, but I'd say I got over wanting the approval of others, and accepting myself. When I was younger I use to practically depend on other's opinion of me, and whether or not I was wearing the right clothes, saying the right thing, and just having a cautious approach of everything. I was passive, I did not having a mind of my own, just agreeing with what everyone said to make them happy.  What I mean about accepting myself is appreciating the differences that exclude me from some people, physically, musically, and etc. because everyone's not going to like rock music or like my style of clothing or support everything that I do. Even though some of those differences excludes me from some close minded, ignorant people, my friends or other people that I haven't met yet, will accept me for me and decide to at least co exist with me. What changed all of that was high school of course, where everyone found themselves and was proud to be a individual. In high school I realized I had to be independent, care less of what others think and stand up for what I believe in. In college I don't think this will be much of a problem because everything is so diverse here. One obstactle I have yet to overcome is my overpowering shyness, It's really annoying how intimidating I feel large groups of people are, so I usually tend to stay quiet and just sway in the background. I've heard that being introverted probably won't help me in my college experience but I think I'll manage to survive. I hope that college expands my knowledge that I have already gained throughout elementary school and beyond and prepare me for my dream job.

Tips for a nickel :)

The note taking article was really helpful because I didn't know how to take notes. We took notes in class by not having notes for yourself so I really didn't understand why notes were important. Notes are important because they help you recap your last chapter and remember any questions you want to ask for the next class. Another helpful tip is one I did on my own, I printed out each syllabus and put a thumbtack to each of them on my wall so it'll be the first thing I see when I wake up, first walk into my room or just randomly observe my room. Also some info that has stuck with me is our discussion of taking the responsibility to do your work and etc because the teachers won't remind you at the end of the class even though it would be helpful. I have to learn to manage my time better, so far I've been doing okay, i think. I will make sure I keep on the track of my degree I don't want to take classes that I won't need just to try something new, my parent isn't paying for college for me to experiment with different classes. I already knew what I wanted to be since I was younger, I just wish I was already there. Also if I don't understand a class I'll have to learn to ask for help because the teacher doesn't always asks, just assumes that everyone gets it. If I don't ask for help then I'd probably have to repeat the course which will hold me back on getting my requirements for my degree. All the tips I've gotten so far from all my teachers have been helpful in some way, so none of the advice has been not necessary. Now if only I can find a article about how to lessen procrastination.

The door of the unknown.

Now I don't know about you, but for me there is always topics I haven't really cared to learn about or put so much thought into them to learn more about 'em.This topic is about multitasking, the article that intrigued me is here: http://lifehacker.com/5041144/debunking-the-myth-of-multitasking (If you're lazy and don't feel like clicking on the link, don't worry I'm about to summarize it anyways.) This article talks about how multitasking reduces productivity. Now there's two different types of multitasking, (I know,I didn't know that either.) Background multitasking, and Switch
tasking. "Now what's the difference?" you may be asking yourself, an example of background multitasking is when your exercising you watch tv, and an example of switch tasking is having two assignments due tomorrow, and you switch back and forth between both tabs of your browser trying to get information for both while typing them. Well I mostly just use background multitasking because I can't really switch task, I tried watching two different anime at the same time, not side by side but like after one episode of anime 1 i'd watch the next episode of anime 2. After a while I started to get the plots to each separate anime mixed up so I just focused on finishing all the episodes of anime 1. Here's what I think: Just don't do it, I know its easier said than done, but try harder and you're not really finishing the activity any faster than you would have if your full attention was on it. If I would have never had to read this article for my class, this topic would have never came out from behind the door of unknown,I wouldn't have even knew about all of this. I wonder what other topics are back there also.

Meeting Princess Peach

During one of my classes I took interest in one of my teachers, she was sweet and seemed very proper such as Princess Peach from the video game Mario, but unfortunately she's not a blonde.

Professor's name: Ms.Gallo
Office #: B231
Contact Info: galloc3@southernct.edu

Questions: 1) To my understanding this course is about improving my writing skills right?

Answer: Yes, this course will better your writing skills, essay formats and basically write on a college student level.

2) Why did you choose to study English back in college?

Answer: It started back in High School, she had awesome teachers in most of her English classes and she loved to read. She also LOVED books, literally! She liked the way they smelled, how the looked and felt. Personally I think books smell like sea water, but hey that's just me.

Stylish Purpose :)

First I just basically googled subjects/topics that would interest me such as animals, I'm a big animal lover. So the blogs that have interested me the most are: http://4theloveofanimals.com/blog/, http://blogs.discovery.com/wall_of_fame/
 and http://www.worldzootoday.com/. The first blog that I have contains information on how to get you and your pet involved in like walking marathons to raise money for sheltered animals! Also since this is my first time actually having a pet, besides goldfish it gives you tips on how your animal can interact with other animals, the city area and even cats. So this blog seems to be really helpful to first time pet owners. The second blog I posted about mainly shows pictures of cute animals, but if you actually click on the 'blogs' section on the website it will direct you to a lot of other blogs concerning animals, and scientific things. The last blog that peaks my interest is basically a news blog about animals, like animals being born, people are bidding to name two baby cougars and animals escaping, so lots of weird stuff. Well my whole life basically evolves around animals and their intriguing aspects, but I also like baking so here's a blog that I thought was interesting also: http://www.thecakeblog.com/. I'm not the best baker in the world so I only know how to make cakes, and cupcakes. I think it's so awesome that people actually take the time to create these beautiful season/holiday themed cupcakes,pies,cakes,brownies and all other pastries that I can't think of momentarily. Here's another blog that also interest me that has neither to do with baking or animals: http://keepitchic.com/2010/07/31/speaking-of-weddings/. I'm not a fashionista or anything like that, but I like to see what different styles there are out there in the world, what would people wear and what I wouldn't wear. Mostly my blog will be about my view on general things, I will try to keep it as...normal? as possible. I kind of like blogging :P


Enjoy a dog pet sitting.

Freshmeat!

Here I am again in the category of freshman or what I use to call freshman when I became an upperclassman, "Freshmeat" just to frighten them though.Being a freshman again is going to suck, all the confusion, feeling like you always have a big sign over your head that screams 'freshman', Did I mention confusion? Hopefully I'll get out of the freshman phase rather quickly. Being a college student means that you have also moved up the education ladder and hopefully the maturity ladder. College is a life time experience for you to get to know your true self. Sure, in high school you have had glimpses of your inner self but with college there is much more diversity, different environment and different vibe. I believe that college to me is a new experience, I think college and college activities will push me out of my comfort zone to go and meet someone new each and every time! Going to college accomplishes a whole lot in my eyes, It gives me a sense of satisfaction, some confidence and just a all around good feeling. Attending college gives me confidence because it shows that I'm not afraid to leave home and shows that I'm not codependent on my mother.College gives me the sense of satisfaction because it shows that I'm in the next stage of a young adult life, and that high school has sorta prepared me for this very moment. College is just one thing I didn't imagine when younger. I was so hooked up on how big high school would be, I never saw past it and onto an even bigger problem, COLLEGE.Well let's all cross our fingers (toes) and whatever else you flexible people out there can cross and hope for the best for me! 

Here's a picture I took from my ipod when I was lost this morning trying to find the Adanti Center, I was near some... unidentifiable place, until i met a new friend.