Be Active

Blog 5I

       I checked out the clubs and thought I would like to join is Best Buddies because it works with people with developmental disabilities and this is what I want to do in the future. I have worked with children with developmental disabilities and liked it a lot. It is very important because I have a cousin with Autism. The other thing I would want to do is an intramural sport because I think it would be fun thing to do and I have always played a sport. It is a good easy way to stay active and still have fun.

Word power

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Agency is to take action make something happen like when someone really believes in a cause and fights for change. It is the power to get people together and work to get the same thing done that will make others people’s lives better. Other word that I talk about I lot this week are emphasis and tone. Emphasis is when you make something stand out so you see the imports of it. Tone is how you use your voice to let someone know how you feel. When I have to use emphasis and tone in my paper it is import to know what they mean and how to use them right.

Emphasis and Tone

 

Balancing act

Blog 5B

 I think that I do have a good balance of time going on so far this year. I found that I out that I had a good balance but I think that I could make some changes to make it better. I study for a total of 24 hours and that is good but not great. I think that I could take some time away from hanging out and socializing. I would add it to the time that I should be studying. In total I take about 4 hours of time out of the week to nap. I think that I could be doing something more productive. I think that I am going to balance out this week with some more time to study and do homework and a bit less time for napping and hanging out talking to people. But I think it is important to keep some time for hanging out and socializing because that is also a big part of the college experience. The one thing that you can take away for this study is that it is important to have you time balanced out well. If you do not have the right balance it can mess you up with getting all your work done on time and having it done with good quality. I know finding this balance is important and doing my work is the most important thing for me because I know how important a college education is important for my life.  I think that if I keep working on it I can find the perfect time schedule that will work for the rest of the year. By doing this I think I will be more relaxed because I will feel my college work is under control and know  I will be able to graduate.

Off to a good start

Blog 5

I am happy with what I have done so far this school year. I am staying on top of all of work that I need to get done and I am not fallowing behind in any of my classes. The thing that I have found the most difficult this year is the transition form high school work to the college work. When you have to read something you really need to go to class with a good understanding of it because the teacher will not be going over it with you but to have discus about what you have read and your thought. One thing that I am a little disappointed about is some of my test score I think that I might have to change the way I am studying so I can get the best score on my test and also so I can have a better understanding of it. I liked the idea of the knowledge vault because it is a good way keep what you learned for when you may need it in the future. I think will be one of the goals I will set for myself so I have a record of everything I leaned that is easy to get to. The most important daily practice that I have used in college to help me get better grades and to keep on my work is keeping a calendar. I was looking at an article about study tips for college students and it said a lot of the study habits we learned in the past are not good. I looked at some of their suggestions and thought some of the ideas were good like alternating study places and working in groups. Even though I am happy with what I have done so far this year in school I think I will still try some new things to advance my own self -improvement. I am not sure what I will do differently but I am going to try out a couple of things I learned about and see what works best for my study habits.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/study-tips-for-college-_n_709096.html#s136089&title=Alternate_Study_Spaces

New Words

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  The word of the week is delayed gratification. What the word delayed gratification mean to me is when someone will wait to get something that they want even if they do not want to wait for it. When talked about this in class with the marshmallow experiment and how we might have experienced it in our own life. One way I can think of an example of this in my life is when I am home and I can smell my moms cooking and I just want to start eating but I know I have to wait for her to put it on the table. Two other words that I heard a lot about this week were ethos and pathos. Ethos is someone who is a trustworthy or someone who you can believe. Pathos is something you see are can hear that makes you feel emotion about something in your life and also gives you evidence.

Ethos & Pathos

Football Time

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            This week we went to the football game to show some Owls pride. It was a good way to spend a Friday night. I went with a bunch of people from my floor. This was the first game that I made it to this year. It was also the first game the football team won this year! It was a great time the game stayed pretty close for a long time but in the end the SCSU beat Merrimack 40 to 34. The one thing that I did not think was fair was the free t-shirts they were giving out because there were only 100 for students who live on campus and 200 for students who live off campus. I thought that was stupid because we are all students and it should just be the first 300 students. I had a really lot of fun in the stands with my friends and would go again.

The Key to Success

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The key to have a successful live is to know how to have self-control and how to wait for delayed gratification? I think you do need to have self-control in your life because if you can’t control how you act how will you be able to sit and get your work done when all you want to do is go out and have fun? If you do not have self-control you will not have very much success in your life. You would not know how to stop and work on one thing and do it to the best of your ability, you would be going from one thing to the next one without thinking if you did it right. You need to know how to balance out everything that is going on in your life and what need to be done first, what can wait and what you should do to get yourself the furthest.

            If you can’t have delayed gratification in your life and you need someone to tell you that you have done great you will not make it far. You need to know how to work hard and not always was get the reward for it the moment you are done. If you work hard and now you will get the credit for your work soon because you did a great job on it. If you do not it is shown that the kid form the marshmallow experiment who could not wait “the children who rang the bell quickly, seemed more likely to have behavioral problems, both in school and at home.”  You need to have a good balance with self-control and delayed gratification to have the best things happen to you in life so you can work hard and know that you did great and that you have control over everything that is going on in your life.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer

Work for your Future

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The one thing in my life that I think that many people will say that was worth waiting for was graduation high school. When I knew that I had one week before I would be done with the longest four years of my life I thought of all the work that I had put into it. What I had learned and how much I had grown over that time. It was very much worth the wait because if you did not do the work and get through it you would not be able to move on to college. That is what were all working for to get into college and it was worth the time and work.

            I do think that as a whole country that we do have problems with waiting for things. We have gotten used to having everything at our finger tips with our smart phones and other technology. We need to get everything as fast as possible. When I look at someone getting mad because their twitter will not load on their phone fast enough I have to stop and laugh. It is like we cannot wait for anything that we have lost all self-control over life. Like when it says “Whether you're resisting a favorite food or completing a dreaded task, exercising self-control in different areas of your life saps the same mental energy source.” From Resistance Training For Your 'Willpower' Muscles. We need start using that part of the brain. I think what we have to do things differently that we have to learn how to wait for things again. We need to stop and think about what is happening in our life that we need to stop thinking about what is happening right at that second and start thinking about what we have to do next or what the future has for us.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/18/140516974/resistance-training-for-your-willpower-muscles

To do it Believe It

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If you every walk into something saying that you can do this and you will do great you are a motivated person. I think that having motivation is when you are willing to work hard at anything and not give up until you have reached the goal that you have set for yourself. You can have motivation to anything you set your mind to but I find it hard sometimes to stay motivated all of the time.

            Another word for this class that I think goes hand in hand with the word motivation is mindset.  Mindset is a way of thinking that a person does when they have a good attitude. I think that if you do not have a good mindset then you will not do well at what you are working on.  The last word that we talked about in class was Self-esteem. To me self-esteem is having confidence in the things that you do and that you have confidence in you self.

 

Cool Art

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            I found a really cool art gallery in the lobby of the Lyman Center that has some sculptures and displays local artists and national or international artist’s exhibits. You can go there any time and it is free. I saw State of Occupation by Charmaine Banach. Her pictures were cool because they were kind of like cartoon figures and they were telling you something. I liked how they were mostly black and grey with a burst of color and how she used words as part of the picture.  The display at the Lyman Center was set up good and easy to get to so you can just go see it or walk around the lobby when you are at a show.

Vegetable garden flow

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            An activity that is easy yet exhilarating for me is my vegetable garden.  I plant a vegetable garden every summer in my back yard. I like to plant tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, cucumbers, and peppers. I go to the garden store pick out my seedlings, plant them in neat rows, water them every day and pull weeds all of the time. I can work in the garden for an hour and it seems like five minutes have gone by. I think that is what flow is like because you are working but you are enjoying what you are doing so it is fun. Working in the garden is hard but I like that you see results every day. I don’t even like some of these vegetables but I like growing them and when other people eat them.  That is why it is easy to motivate myself to take care of my garden. 

I think if I work at my education like a work on my garden it will help me do good in school because if I don’t pay attention to my garden the vegetables will die and if I don’t pay attention to my school work I won’t do well. It is like if you work hard and pay attention you will get good results at the end and you will really enjoy them. This is a good attitude to have for everything you do in your life. if you always think that way you will be successful at anything you want to do. Even though gardening is a lot of work that you have to do every day it is fun because you can see you are getting results. If you remember you are going to get good results at what you are doing it will make it easy to keep up on your work.

 

 

 

Think too much?

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I think Shakespeare’s quote “There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so” means If you think something is good that it is good and if you something is bad then it is bad. Like if you believe something is going to be good it will be good because you are telling yourself what to expect. The same if you believe something is going to be bad it will be bad because you already told yourself what it was going to be like. That you should wait for something to happen and not decide before it happens weather it will be good or bad but wait and let happen. I think another quote that can go with this one is from Dweck “By motivation, I mean not only the desire to achieve but also the love of learning, the love of challenge, and the ability to thrive on obstacles.” Because when we start to think in good or bad we have to see that when we are doing something or learning that there will be obstacles in our way that we will have to get past. I know that this is very much a Growth mindset way of thinking about it. I think that in Shakespeare he would have had more or a fixed mindset because when you think what you are doing will either be good or bad you made the decision of how it will be before you do it. That will make how what you are doing come out good or bad. Like extrinsic motivation make people do a worse job because they are doing it for a reward because they already know what will be at the end. It is better to do things with intrinsic motivation because you are doing you best for yourself not what will happen.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat010.shtml

Words to know

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If you want to go far in life you need to have Initiative. To me Initiative means to have the power to go do things for yourself. Everyone should have Initiative to do things that are important to them for me it all has to do with school. If you want to go far in life or in your job you need to have to Initiative to do things that you are not told to do. I think this word relates back to what we talked about in class after the readings we did.

           Different words that we did some reading on are communization and Culture.  Culture is “a set of beliefs, values, and the practices that sustains a particular person; also the products those people produce” (Persuasion in the media age, Timothy A. Borchers, 2013). That has to do with the fact that we are talking about ads in class and what they have to do with how we act and how they make us think.  The word Communization means “a strategy used by persuaders to create value for their products or ideas” (Persuasion in the media age, Timothy A. Borchers, 2013).

 

Checking out the Gym

Blog 2I

I checked out the Fitness Center on the second floor of the Adanti Student Center the cost for joining is $60 a semester or $120 for two semesters and their hours of operations are Monday thru Thursday 7:00am – 10:00pm, Friday 7:am – 8:00pm, Saturday 9:30am – 4:30am, and Sunday 2:pm – 7:00pm. The exercise machines they have are 13 treadmills, 6 elliptical, 1 AMT machine, 2 stair steppers, and 4 bikes. If I want to take a class I would take Yoga and the classes are Monday 5pm – 6pm and Wednesday 7:45 – 8:45 for Yoga with Lynn or Tuesday and Thursday 5pm -6pm for Yoga with Kristina. There is also a class on Fridays 12:30 – 1:30 called Vinyasa Yoga with Denise that is free to all students.

The year of organization

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      This year one thing that I do different is that I am now using the calendar on my laptop that is connected to my phone. If I want to do something I can look at my calendar or at my phone and see if I have anything that I need to go to at that time or if I have a paper or a test the next day. I like feeling I am very organized and I have everything all planned out. I think that it is working out very well for me. I like that I know what I am doing at all times so when I might want to go out and have fun I know if I should stay home and do the work or study for a test that is  coming up. In the past I did not plan things out very well. That would get me into a jam sometimes with getting all of my work done on time. The goal that I set when this school year started was to stay or organized and keep up with my work. I think that it is working out well because I have everything on my calendar. I know that it is only day 9 of the school year but I am keeping up with all my work and I know when it all is due. The thing that I have learned that is always better being on time with your work and knowing what is going then when you are just wondering what you need to have done for the next class. If  want to do your best you have to be on top of your work at all of the time knowing when you have to stay home and do your homework or when you can go out and have some fun. 

                               

life Lessons

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                As I read through the readings this week I found that they answered a lot of questions that I had and they had a lot of useful information about college life. While reading them I felt like we were reading what was actually happening in our lives right now. The reading about How to Become a Deep Thinker at College was interesting to me when it said “calculate the number of hours per week you will need to handle the workload for these courses.” If I sit down and do this I will know how many hours I will need to work for each class and will be able to make a good plan. This will help me manage my time and that will keep me from feeling like I am falling behind in my work.

                The reading that I liked the most was Work Hard or Work Smart because it showed you there are different ways to work but you have to find the right way to get you the farthest.  Just because you work the most doesn’t mean that you will get the most credit for it. The reading explained “The answer to the question, if you haven’t it our already, becomes simple. It is to work both hard and smart. This may sound overly simplistic, but how often do we consciously pick the times that we are going to work hard and smart? How often do we look into the mirror and think about our strategy for the day? For the week? For the month?” This is such great advice, to plan out your day, your week, your month in order to manage your time so you can work hard and smart. I think this is very important information for me and that I will use it so that I can get the farthest and get the most work done.

 

http://www.deliverfreedom.com/blog/work-hard-or-work-smart/

http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/10/24/how-to-become-a-deep-thinker-at-college/