growing up

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The word freedom is doing what you want when you want to do something without anyone telling you if you can do it or not. College gives you the most freedom that you can get because it is one of the first times that you are on your own. Two words that I think that go well with freedom are independent and responsible. Independent is when you do thing by yourself without anyone telling you to do it. Responsible is when you do the things that you have to do and not the things that you want to do even if they are not the most fun.

I Can Do It Myself

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I think that the most important thing that I have learned about myself this semesters is that I can do well in school. That as long as I work hard and do my best work that I will past my classes and will do well. When I first started school I thought that I would not make it. I now know that I can handle the work that I get. As far as next year I think if I keep working hard and stay on top of my work that I should do good. I feel like I have learned a lot this semester but I think what I have learn that has helped me most was all the different ways that I now know how to think. I think that the biggest challenge that I faced so far was time management. It is really easy to fall behind because you put off your work too long or you forgot about. I found the thing that help me most with keeping up with my work was my weekly planner. I found it to helped me so much because I knew what I had to do each week and when it was due. It also helped me to plan for the week ahead. When I had it all planned out in my planner I would not be thinking when was this due or do I have a test I need to study for. All I had to do was look at my planner and I would know what I had to do. I feel once I started with my planner my time management got much better. It made me have to plan out each week and each day of the week. I think that I did a good job at seeing what I was having trouble with. At first the workload was not that much different from what I was used to in high school but as the year got going it started to change very fast. When things started to pick up I saw that I had to use my time wisely because if I did not know what I had to get done for the next day I would fall behind. I would spend all day studying for a test that was on a different day and after that I would have to start to write a paper that was due on the same day. As long as I put the work into that I had to do I would get a good grade. As much as you need to manage you workload I think that the best way to get it all done was by making some time to go and hang out with my friends so I could just take a break from it all. That helped me a lot because when I started back on what I was doing I would get that much more done. My biggest achievement was this semester was passing all of my classes. I know that may not seem like a lot but passing my first semester of college is a really big thing for me. It just showed me that I can do anything that I set my mind to. I thought in the beginning that I might not make it and I did hit some bumps in the road. I think that getting past the bumps in the road just helped to show me that I could pass all of my classes and that I am going to keep doing good in all of my classes next semester too. I just need to think about everything that I have got done and all of the hard work that I have done. I am very happy with how the first part of my freshman year went. All I have to do is keep up with the good work. I will be set for next semester and I know that I can do that with what I have learn this semester.

Final video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0S9So5Od0&feature=youtu.be

Study Time

BI15

I have been meeting with a math tutor this week to get ready for my final exam in math. I meet them at the DRC and have they have been very helpful to me. I really liked how I could sit down with someone and go over some of the things that I did not understand from class. I was great because they could explain things to me and then show me how to do it step by step. Then they would give me a problem to do on my own and when I was doing it if I got stuck on something they would give me a tip on what I should do or a way to remember how to do it so I know next time.

 

Be You

BV15

Autonomy means that you have the freedom to be your own person determine your actions and live your life according to your own beliefs. It is like how we are allowed to have our own ideas and thoughts about things that we learn in class. Another word I learned this week is patriarchy and that means when the male is the leader of the group or family in a culture. I learned the word hegemony and that means when one group in a society has power of another group in their society and make them follow their beliefs, values and practices.

The End Is Close

BB15

I cannot believe I am already finishing my first semester of college, it has been such a great experience so far and I really love it. I am very nervous about finals because I am not a good test taker. I feel like not how hard a study and how prepared I think I am I do not do well on tests. But I am still working really hard at studying and preparing for finals because it is important that I do well on my finals. I started studying a couple of weeks ago so I would have plenty of time to work on learning and reviewing the materials. I made sure I made time to study for each class I have an exam in. I made a schedule of the dates of my exams so I would know which one was first so I could be sure that I studied for that one first. I have been going to tutoring sessions at the tutoring center that I have found to be very helpful because the tutors take the time to review what is going to be on the final exam and teach or explain to you how to do everything. It is like you are learning the material all over again so if you did not get it right the first time now you know how to do it. I also have gone to class review sessions that are very helpful too. I have met with the teachers of the classes that I am most worried about and they are also very helpful and will answer questions or tell you how to do something if you got it wrong or forgot. I have more tutoring appointments set up for next week. I think it will also be important that I take my time and look over my test what I am taking the exam.

Video Remake

BA15

From watching video drafts in class I have learned many things that I will apply to my own revision process. Some common mistakes I saw were grammar issues and spelling mistakes. This made me think that when I am doing my video I should take a lot of time to check and make sure the grammar and spelling is correct in my video. Another thing I noticed in a lot of the videos was that the slides were going by too fast so you couldn’t see the pictures good or read the word so I will try to be sure I get my slides to move at the right speed. I also thought that when people were talking it was hard to hear them because the volume was too low and I will check that you can hear what people are saying in my video. I thought watching the video drafts was a good thing because it was helpful seeing what other people were doing in their video. Some of the videos were really creative with great ideas and good ways of doing things. The videos also had a lot of good facts that I thought were interesting. I will try to make my video creative as I can even though I don’t think I am a very creative person and I will also find a lot of good facts and information to put in my video. In my video I am going to use what I learned from watching the drafts to do revisions so my video it very good. I will pay a lot of attention to the spelling and grammar and try to be sure there are not any mistakes. I think watching the drafts also gave me some good tips about how fast the slides should go and what the volume should sound like.

 

Thanksgiving

BI14

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

BV14

 

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

BA14

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

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXyt4K3aCg&feature=em-upload_owner&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnfXyt4K3aCg%26feature%3Dem-upload_owner

Complicated

B131

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

B12V 

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

BI12

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

BV12

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

BB12

 

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.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timhall/liberal-arts-and-the-work_b_3055433.html