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

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.

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.

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.