Thanksgiving

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I went to the thanksgiving feast in the Farnham basement last weekend it was a lot of fun. I went with a bunch of people from my floor so it was like we all were having are own personal Thanksgiving meal with our family from school. That is how we act, like one big family so when we all go to sit down together you know it is going to be fun. They held it in the Farnham basement so it was not that long of a walk for me and my friends to get there. I had a lot of fun there and I would tell people to go to the next event like this.

 

 

Purpose

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Investment is when you do something with a purpose like when you study so you can get good grades so you do well in all of your classes. You need to have an Investment in your education to do the best you can. The other words that I have heard a lot this week are stress and relaxing. Stress is the emotion you have when you start to feel overwhelmed. And relaxing is when you have time to just stop what you are doing and sit and do nothing for a bit. You need to find the right balance of the two of these to make your life be happy.

Be Thankful

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What I am thankful for this semester is being able to go to Southern and how I am doing well in all of my classes. Some more things that I am thankful for are all of the great new friends that I have made over the last couple of months. I would not think that I could have made such strong of friendships this fast but I did. I have a whole new family that lives in my building and we like to say that we are the Farnham family on the fifth floor. That is what I am thankful for that has to do with school. I am thankful for this because I know not everyone gets the opportunity to go to college. I am also thankful for a lot more that does not have to do with school. I am thankful for my friends at home that I will see when I am home and get to spend time with them and catch up with what they have been doing while I was away at school. When I think of everything that I have and then think about how much some people struggle every day for things that I take for granted I am very thankful. I have a nice home with my own room, I have food and clothes and a family that loves me. I know there are people everywhere who are hungry and have don’t have a place to live and my family loves me and is always there to help me so I am very lucky. I have a really lot to be thankful for like my dog who is the cutest dog on earth and is always so happy to see me when I come from school and that makes me really happy.

 

Get Ready

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What I am going to do to let go of some of the stress in my life is spend time with my friends and family. One of the first things I am going to do when I get home is go and hang out with all of my friends from home that I have not seen in a long time. I know that I will have fun when I am with my friends because they are all very funny and you never know what they might do next. When I am not with my friend I will be spending time with my family. I am looking forward to seeing all of my family members that I do not see that often on Thanksgiving Day. I am also looking to forward to just being home with my mom, dad and sister and relaxing at home with them. I cannot remember the last time that we all were in the house at the same time.

When I am not hanging out with my friends and family I am going to be working on some school work and be getting ready for final week. I am going to start to make a study guide for my math class now so I can go over it and really make sure I have a good understanding of what will be on the final exam. I will also be working on my projects for some of my classes that I have instead of a final exam. I am going to make a schedule with all the due date of everything that I need to get in before my finals start. I think with the couple of days off that we have before finals it will be really good for me because it gives not just me but everyone time to take a break and get ready for some really long study hours that we will be putting in for the next couple of weeks.

Video

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Complicated

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This week we registered for classes by ourselves for the first time and it was crazy. First you had to figure out what classes you need to take then you had to find the class at a time that you can take it. After you figured out your classes and the times you can take them you had to register on line for them. I was lucky because I got register early but my friends were very stressed about classes filling up before they could register for them. I am happy that I got to miss out on all of that stress that they had to deal with.

Meaning to life

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The word for this week is purpose it means why people do something or have a reason have to do something. For most kids my age there main purpose in life is to go to school and get an education to get a good job. Other two world that I was looking at this week are culture and double standards. Culture is the identity of a group of people and their values. Double standards are when something is ok for one group of people but not for another. You can see this any day because culture is everywhere you go and you can see a double standards in lots of areas of life especially if you are a girl.

 

Creativity ?

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I think that the way that I am going to make my video show creativity is by adding interesting facts and showing points that you might not have thought of. I am also going to try give my information out in a different and interesting way showing a different side that I am going to show people. I do not know what I am going to do for my skit in my video yet but I am brain storming about and I want to do something different that will get the viewer’s attention and make then remember what was being said in it. I want it to be cool and something new not like what is usually being done. I want the facts that I have in my video to not be boring facts that you have heard about how much work you do in a week of school, I want to try to find facts that people do not know about or might not have thought about. I also want to have some funny pictures in my video of all different kids from our school doing their homework and studying in the library or in the common area or in their rooms. I am looking to have a music in my video and I have a couple of songs that I am thinking about using but I do not know which one would be the best for my video. I have to decide what song will really help to get the message of my video out about how much work you do in and out of class each day and week. I will be creative by showing people studying at different times and in different places around campus. I will find some weird things people like to do while studying like sitting in a certain place or listening to certain music or using a certain pencil or hiding in a closet for quiet.

Think

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The way that I will make my video draft show a high level of college level thinking by using examples and facts. If you do not know what college level thinking it is being able to have a deeper way of thought or thinking and to being able to fix your own problems by thinking through them. When I make my video I am going to look up facts from a good reliable web source to use in the video that will show important information. I am I also going to find interesting facts about my topic so it keeps the people who are watching it interested in what I am showing them. I am doing my video about class work and the work load that you get in college. I want to show how much work that an average college student puts into their schooling. I am going to show how much work they do in class and how we also have to continue learning outside the class room without the teacher their teaching us. I want to show how much work we do outside of the class room and how much we do in the class room. So you can see how much work you put into a average week of school in order to be a good student. I think that we say we do a lot of work but I want people to really see how much work they do in a week or a semester of school because it is a big difference from high school especially as a freshman in college. Like when I show the amount of hours we are in class and the amount of hours that we are doing homework or studying for a test or quiz we might have. I think that with the facts and the information that I am going to have in this video it will show how much college level thinking that I did and how much I put into it.

 

 

 

Did you know

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This week I want to my RA, YoYo’s, presentation called are you Man Enough to be Woman. She talked about the different sexes and all of the different kinds of relationships that people could have. I thought that this was really important because it showed us how you do not just have to be like everyone else. That you can date and still be whoever you would like to be. At the end she had a quiz like thing where you could win a t-shirt. I was ready for when she started asking questions because I really wanted a t-shirt and I did get one when I answered one of her questions right.

Your World

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Interdisciplinary Perspective is when you are study or looking at more than one thing and it also how you might look at something. I think that many college students can relate to this because many may have a double major. When you study more than one thing and you need to have the ability to look at things in many different ways. Also when you are going to school you do not just have to take class in what you are majoring in you might need to have more knowledge than that. Two more words that I looked at this week are Hegemony and Patriarchy. Hegemony is when one group of people with more power force their cultural belief on other people. Patriarchy when the oldest male is the head of the family

 

Hegemony and Patriarchy

Good Questions

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Do grades stop college students from trying different things?

            I think that grades do stop college students from trying different things because we are so worried about our gpa that we only take classes that we think we can do good in. When I read Joyce Lau’s article Two Views on Liberal arts she says “The first semester for every student at Swarthmore is pass/fail. You cannot get an A (or a D, for that matter). Professor Chopp was frank about her own less-than-stellar academic beginnings, so maybe she is particularly forgiving of freshmen who are finding their way. She said that this system encouraged risk-taking — not something all academically driven students are wont to do. With a pass/fail system an aspiring doctor can try an art class, with no fear that it will bring down his or her grade-point average, or an artist can try a science class.” I thought this was very true. I would take a lot of different classes in all kinds of areas that I am interested in but would never take because I am afraid they are too hard for me and I won’t do well. I could take an art class or science class if I wasn’t worried I would do bad and get a bad grade that would hurt my gpa. Your grades are the most important thing when you are in college and you have to have good grades if you want to get a job. I am a very bad test taker and worry about grades all the time so I think it would be great to take a class just to learn and enjoy learning without having to worry about passing a test to get a good job. I would also try new things if I did not have to worry so much about grades so I think classes without grades would be a great idea.

 

Getting A Good Job

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The value of a liberal arts education is that it is an education that teaches all different topics and makes you be a thinker not just someone who can memorize facts. You have to take classes in many different subjects that make you think how different things work. In the article Liberal Arts and the Work Place by Tim Hall he says “virtually all employers concluded that "a candidate's demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems is more important than their undergraduate major." The ability to think innovatively, not just to recite yesterday's knowledge, now ranks near the top of the qualities sought by employers. The same survey finds that 95 percent of employers give a preference in hiring to college graduates with the capacity for contributing innovation to the workplace.” I think this is exactly why a liberal arts education would be a good thing because it will help you to get a job. The liberal arts degree will give you a way of thinking that employers are looking for and that is a good thing to have. When you get a degree in a specific major you get to have a lot of knowledge about one subject and will be able to get a job doing that thing. But if you have a liberal arts degrees too you will have learned a lot of things about different subjects so you will be a better thinker and more creative which will help you do better at you job. Employers are looking for people who have a degree in the field they are  hiring for but a person who can be a problem solver and a liberal arts degree teaches you how to do that. Having a liberal arts degree will help you get a job and go farther in your career.

 

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Fun Times

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This week I went to downtown New Haven and walk around with some friends. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to get off campus for a while. We went to Louis Lunch on Crown Street and ate there that was cool because I have seen this place on TV before. I thought that the food was very good there too and I liked the weird table with all the words carved into them. After lunch we stopped at the Shake Shack for some milk shakes it went well with the burgers we just ate. When we were walking around it was nice to see all the trees with the leaves all colorful. It was a very relaxing day and I would do it again it was easy taking the bus from Hickerson Hall to downtown on Broadway.

Words to know

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Innovation is when you think in a new or different way. I think that this is a good thing to do because it can help you can get things done fast and you can find something new that way. The other vocabulary word that I was working with this week is Claim and Backing. Claim is when you make a statement make without anything to back it up. The next world is backing that is something that is to help support what someone might have said.

Claim and Backing

Good to Know

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If you look at the blog College Life 101; The New Beginning you can read some very good questions. When I was reading over the questions I was thinking about how I could answer them I thought that it was very well written and made you think without being over complicated. The questions that I like the most was question Two: How can “micro-boredom” affect a college student in a negative or positive way?  I think that this is a strong college question and you could answer it the same way. Another blog that I thought that had good question was Live, Love, and Laugh I liked question 3) how can a student cultivate their creativity and why would this be important in their future? I think that this makes you need to think about how to answer this question right. This question has a lot of parts to it so you would need to make sure you answered them all.

I think that we can learn a lot from this exercise if you were to use this to study you could try to think of way to answer questions that might be on a test or quiz. It also makes you think a lot about what you read when you are thinking of the question that you should write and then answer. I would try this for my next test or quiz to read over all of my notes and think of questions that could be that test or quiz. When I was done with thinking of the questions and finding the right way to answer them it would be a really good way to study and this would also be a good study skill to work on. I do not think many people would think to do this to study before a test.

Q & A

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From the reading these would be the four questions that I would ask. I feel like these questions make you think about the readings and what they had to say. When you read these questions you can see how you need to think about each part of the question because they have many parts to them. I think that we could have a class talk on any of these questions or there could be on a quiz or a test.

1) Can being bored be a good thing because it lets you think in a different way that will make you to find something new about things you already know?

2) Does it help you be creative if you are willing to look at something in a different way so you can see it in a new way that you would not have if you did not try something new?

3) Are we most creative when we do not over think what we are doing and let are mind rest and wait for the idea to come to us?

4) Are you not being positive when you are sitting and letting yourself be bored or is that when you can think the most in a free way?

If I had to answer one of these questions it would be number one and I would answer it like this. I think being bored can make you think in different way because you might not be thinking like you would if you had a hundred things going on at that time. when you are bored you are not doing anything so you can use the time to think about things in many different  ways and see things in a new way that make much more sense to you. It said in the article How to “Cultivate Eureka Moments “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” by Jonah Lehrer that “Being able to step back and view things as an outsider, or from a slightly different angle” does help you think in different and new ways. That if you are not doing a lot and you can sit and just look at that one thing that you can find a new way to look at it or to go at that problem.

Being Original

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Creativity is when you think of something that no one else has done before or when you look at something in an original way. I think that it is very important to be creative at school because you sometimes need to find a new way to look at something. Two words that we talked about this week were dynamic and distinct.  When you look at dynamic it is be always changing and interesting.  Distinct means to stand out and not be just like everything else. These words are a lot like creativity because I think that you need to be both dynamic and distinct to be truly creative.

All about me

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My creative biography using the questions would say the first creative moment I remember is when I was little how I loved to play dress up. I would put on anyone and every ones clothes, hats, shoes, jewelry all of the time and the more stuff I found and put on the more I liked it. It didn’t matter dresses with high heels, my dad’s work shirts with a tie, my older brothers sports uniforms especially his football equipment or my grandparents crazy hats I would wear them all anytime I go a chance. Everyone in my family was there to appreciate it and would laugh and play with me in my crazy outfits. I think the way I put the outfits together was creative because I was not your typical princess dress up girl I liked to wear everything and pretend I was just about anything and imagine I was anywhere in the world. Now that I am grown I am not that creative anymore in the way I dress.

I think the greatest idea I have ever had was getting my dog Duke because he is really cute and makes me really happy. We already had a dog so it was not easy to get my parents to let me get a dog. I took me about two years of constant begging to get Duke but I did it and it was worth my not giving up. What made this idea great in my mind was that that this dog would be all mine and I would take care of him and not have to share him with anyone else. I still think this was a great idea and that my dog is great. He is a fawn colored long hair Chihuahua and is the cutest dog in the world. He has a great personality and is a lot of fun because you never know what he is going to do next and I really love him.

Making a Video

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            Reflecting on my midterm video assignment to create a short video I fulfilled all the requirements because I did a lot of brainstorming and came up with a good idea for my short video. I thought of a lot of things that make a Southern a special place and know why people choose to come here. My video was about how Southern is different from high school. There is so much more going on at Southern that makes it so much different than high school. I interviewed 4 people for my video and I used movie maker to do my video. I thought making a video was hard to do and it was hard to get the interviews to come be exactly how I wanted them in the video. I think in the end I told a good story with a beginning middle and end. The title explained what I was talking about in the whole video. I told the story by interviewing other students about their experiences at Southern and their experiences in high school how they were different and what they liked about them. I would give myself a B because I never used a video making program before and had to learn how to use it while I was doing the project and I thought that was hard to do. I think my idea for my short video was good and the people I interviewed were good. If I could revise I think I would interview more people so maybe I could get some different opinions for my video. I would also get better at working with the video making program if I kept using it because I was learning how to use it as I was going. I still think my video was good and I liked my topic and I like that the people that I interviewed gave me honest answers to my questions so it was how they really felt.