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.