Blog 14I

Thanksgiving

The one day that I have been talking about for weeks has finally happened. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays not one because all the food, but because my family is all together. Ever thanksgiving before we have dinner if some people can wait and control their selves; we all sit in a circle and say what we are thankful for and why. This year it was very touching more than the previous years because my nieces, nephews and little cousins were the ones to start it off. I remember my Eight year old niece saying, "I'm thankful for everyone being here today and we can all get along and share the food that we love the most. I'm thankful for my Mom, my aunt Brittney, all my uncles my Nana and Papa and for all my family for loving each other."

I looked around the room and seen some people had started to tear up because no matter what happens with family members we will always be there for each other. Shortly after we had are "Tradition" I decided to do my mom a favor. She wanted a new T.V. for her room so I decided to go to Wal-Mart and get a ticket for a 50inch flat screen T.V. when I told my mom she started crying because she was excited.

Blog 14B

Goal Achieved

 

 

This semester I can say that I have learned a lot, even when I thought I wasn’t going to remember something surprisingly I do. I just want to say thank you to all my Professors for sticking with me and helping me threw the struggles that I have encountered. It will help me succeed better in life. The few things that I am very thankful for this semester as it is coming to an end is my professors, the new friends that I have made and my family for helping support me.

When it comes to my family, a lot of them have not made it to college so the pressure was on me, but my family has faith in me. They know that I will do what it takes to make it threw and I know that they will be with me every step of the way. Threw all my struggles they have been there to guide me to the right path. My family means a lot to me, an all I want to do is make them proud in the next few years.

Out of all the things that I have learned this semester I can say having motivation has helped me a lot. If it wasn’t for me having the motivational drive that I have I wouldn’t try for half of the things that I have achieved. I wouldn’t have learned anything that I have learned but I can say motivation has been the push that I needed. Sometimes when it comes to homework I do get lazy and don’t feel like doing it, but then  think to myself I’m not going to achieve anything but just giving up before I tried. This has worked very well for me because now one of my goals has been achieved and that was to get good grades. Even though I had a rough start but because the motivation that I had it pushed me to be better and show everyone what I can do.

Blog 14A

Stress-be-gone

 

 

Threw out the semester I have ran into a lot of stress related issues but I have managed to overcome all of them. Everyone has their own ways to handle stress it can be the simplest things that could change someone’s mood. For me the few things that have made it easy for me to deal with stress are listening to music, writing poems, taking walks and talking with family/friends.

 

Music is a big part of my life, ever since I was little I would just dance and sing around the house not knowing the meaning of the song but it made me happy. Now that I am older and music has evolved a lot since I was little, the songs that help me relieve stress was music that was created around the time I was born. This might sound odd but if it wasn’t for music I wouldn’t be where I am today (I believe).

 

Next to music talking with my family and friends is the biggest stress relieve to me. I remember my first few days at Southern I would call my mom and my sister between classes because I was nervous scared and stressed. Just hearing them tell me everything was going to be ok reinsured me that everything was going to be perfect. Now that I am settled in more I meet with my friends and we talk about how our days are going and eat lunch together. It does help me a lot knowing that my friends and family are there to support me very step of the way.

 

Taking walks is the easiest and simplest stress relieve. Between classes the majority of the time I will put my head phones in and begin walking normally I would be to a friend’s house that lives close by, but the walk there just relaxes me. At the same time you’re getting exercise.

Blog 13V

Purpose:

Coming up on the last few weeks of the semester I can say that I have learned a lot and it will follow m threw the rest of my college years. One word I can say that I have used a lot this semester was the word Purpose. The meaning for the word Purpose is the reason for which something is done or created. For an example; everything and everyone has purpose in life. 

Two other words that I learned this week were Navigation and contain. The word navigation means getting from one destination to another destination. The word contain means to keep under proper control and or to restrain.

Blog 13B

How will you make your video draft exhibit a high level of creativity?

Before I start creating my video I will look at my midterm video and focus on the areas that I will need to improve on. Instead of doing just interviews I will have to think a little further. In order to make my Final video meet the high level of creativity I will have to go beyond the normal creativity. For this video I will decide to make a skit on how students act during the finals cramming week. I will also interview students and professors and ask them questions on the final week cramming.

During the skit I will incorporate all aspects of how students might react to the stress and the work load of studying. I will try to make the video funny but also I will try to make it educating so the viewers will be able to learn from the mistakes that will be shown in the video. One thing that I will not try to do is make it to educational because once that does happen it will start to get boring and the viewers will see no interest.  During the interviews I will try to ask questions that will be relatable to students so that they will have that knowledge.

One other thing that I can use is statistics comparing SCSU’s first year students to other schools and see how SCSU and the other schools of my choice is coping with the first semester coming to an end.

Blog 13A

Final Video Project

 



 

The end of the semester is coming faster than we know it. It feels just like yesterday I was studying for midterms. For one final project I have to create a video. In order to do well on my final video project I would have to compare how I set up my time for my midterm video to how I can set up my time now. Once I do that I would then have to look at the errors I made and figure out ways to improve so I can make my final video meet the standards.

The topic of my Final Video is: Final’s week and cramming. This is something that as well as myself but my peers will be fighting threw. Finals week can be very stressful and frustrating but one thing that we all must remember is to keep calm and manage are time. Some of the ways I can make my video draft exhibit a high level of college-thinking is that I will find on campus statistics and information about cramming during the exams. I will also compare SCSU to other colleges in the state on how the students cope and manage to make it threw finals week. One other thing that I will do is go to the Office of Study Skills Enrichment and talk with someone about information and statistics on students and cramming.

I know that once I start my video project there will be a lot of information that I will come up with which will help me prepare for finals week. One other thing I can do is follow around two older classmen’s and see what advice they would give and how the prepare for finals week. (With permission of course)

Blog 12I

Talent show

There are many talents in the world that go undiscovered. Some people might not think they are good at something when they truly are. One person talent could be a stress relieve, it can also be how someone expresses their selves to someone. Someone talent can be the one thing that separates them from everyone else which is important in college not everyone wants to be like everyone else.

Who would think that at my college we would have so much talent? On Wednesday in the Ballroom, there was a talent show that was held. Seeing all the talent in SCSU was shocking, some performances took away my breath, some left me in tears and some even left me in laughter. From all the different talents that some people have would leave someone wanting to say, “Wow you did great!” I just wish I could have went up to everyone and told them how good of a job they have done. Growing up with music being close to my heart, and hearing someone preform some songs that I know myself was just amazing. I could say that the original performers of the songs would be very proud.

One of the performers at the talent show was someone that I have known since I was young. Not know the song that was going to be performed left me in tears. Growing up with this person and at that moment I seen how much music can influence someone to do great things was amazing. Since we were young I would give him tips and advice on him he could improve and right then he showed me how far my advice had gone.