Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Week Dosage
This weeks words are freedom, commitment, reward. Freedom is when you are able to do what you want when ever you want to. Freedom is what is needed if a person ever wants to be truly happy with themselves. Commitment is when you stay dedicated to a certain objective until it is completed. You need this in order to complete anything in life because, nothing is always going to be easy and you need to stay committed in order to complete it. A reward is when you are give something after completing a goal that was set for you. A reward can be used as motivation to complete thing. If you use all three you can accomplish great things and live a happy life.
Not as I planned…
My first ever college semester is finally over and I had a lot of ups and downs. I didn’t reach my goal that set for myself for my grades for my first semester. I was hoping for B’s but, most of my grades are C‘s. At least I passed all of my classes and didn’t fail anything. I feel that next semester I can pick up my grades because, one major issue that I had was my procrastination with my school work. Now I know for next semester I have to finish my school work as soon as possible. After football practice I am physically tired and the longer I wait the later it gets. When I gets later I become more tired and I want to go to sleep as soon as possible.
One major challenge that I had was when I missed a math test and my teacher was trying to fail me for the year. I felt grateful that I scored high enough on my final in order to pass it with a high grade. I know I passed because, of hard work and studying. I knew that I was bad in math it’s just the missed test that messed up my average. I felt proud of myself when I was able to pass the class and not fail because, it could mess up my football career and college career.
For INQ I am happy to say that it was my favorite college course out of all my classes. Even with all the blog’s I missed because, I forget to do them I still enjoyed the class. Sometimes it felt like a chore to do every week but, the topics that I had a chance to write about made it better. I loved the class discussion because, we were able to say our opinions on different topics. Also we were able to learn different tips and tricks about attending SCSU. I feel that making newcomers take INQ is a great choice by SCSU because, without that class I will be lost.
The FYE program was also a very helpful tool for my first semester. They offered different programs and events I could attend during the weekend’s. This help out a lot so I wouldn’t lose my mind on the weekends because, I didn’t always have money to go out with my friends. Also it was safer to attend to because, I didn’t have to worry about my drunk friends getting hurt or having to get into a fight. For some reason every time we go out me or my friends are about to get into a brawl because, people always threaten us thinking we will roll over and when we don’t back down they have to prove themselves. We have to look out for each other because, we all play football and also they are my friends. My friends and I were threatened to be shot by a gun more then once and we were threatened to get beat up during and after parties. Lucky each time the people were all talk and nothing happened to us. The best way to avoid conflict is to show no fear so people will leave you alone and not be tempted to mess with you.
The FYE program gave me a chance to have fun without having to worry about someone trying to fight with us. Also we get to save cab fare and are able to get free southern gear by attending these events. FYE and INQ class saved me so many times from the dangers of new haven. I enjoy SCSU and thanks these the people, professor’s, and different programs I was able to have a safe and eventful time. If anyone would ever ask me I would tell them that SCSU is a great school to look at for college!!!
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
All good thing must come to an end…
Now it is starting to become the end of the semester and we
all know what that mean…finals. I am finally finishing up my first ever college
semester and so far I love college. I enjoy the freedom and all of my friends
that I have meet. In order to keep enjoying myself here I have to be able to
stay in the school. Not just from payments but, having the grades to stay in
school and the only way to do that is to do good on all of my finals.
The only way to do good on finals is to study beforehand. What
I am going to do is study my courses in the order that my tests are. Also what I
want to do is try and make a study group between me and my friends. I want to
see how it works out because, work together can be a great way to learn the
material. Also I not going to spend a lot of time on the material that I already
understand because, it will be pointless. I plan on spending more time studying
work that I do not understand that well.
Also I plan on creating flash cards to help me memorize
words better and also since I am with my friends I can have them quiz me so
when I practice I don’t cheat. Also the night before I will go to sleep early
and get my outfit for the next day together before I sleep rather than in the morning.
Also I will prepare my bag for what items I will need for the test such as
pens, pencils, calculator, etc. As long as I prepare myself well for the finals
I should have no problems for the final.
What i learned
From watching other people’s drafts in class I realized a
whole bunch of things I can add to my final to make it better. People had very
creative skits for their drafts. Also some people had pictures as I did but,
they added sound effects as soon as the image loaded. I thought this was cool because,
it was creative ad caught my attention to make me enjoy the video more. Also what
I didn’t like was when there were a lot of words on the slides. Also to make it
worse there was no sound effects so it made the drafts look boring.
I want to add music to my final product because, it helps to
keep people attention. I liked how music made my fellow students react. It made
them happy and for some videos made people sing along to it which I loved
because, that means that people are paying attention to the video. Also I want
to try and make sound effects to go along with images that I show. For example I
wanted to add a scary sound effect if it is bad news or something to have
people get more involved in the video. Also to my video when I show information
I will not put too much information on a page at once. I noticed that it may
overwhelm the viewer with too much information. Also I will adjust the timing
of how long information shows because, I don’t want to show information to fast
or show it for too long.
When I add these changes to my draft I feel it can make my
video a lot better. Just by adding these changes to my video I feel I can
improve my grade by about 10 points. I feel showing all these draft in class
was a great way to see our peers work and help us improve our own work.
Blog A
Monday, November 25, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
In support of children with cancer...
This
week in the student center they had an event where student sold baked good in
order to donate profits to a hospital. They explained how there are children
around the world they may not even make it to ten years old because, of this. I
was not aware of how severe of a problem that it is. I knew about it but, I didn’t
know how many children it effected and it made me want to donate in order to
help in any way that I can. Also they told me they researched the place where
the donations go so the money won’t go towards someone’s pay check. Also another
reason I was happy to donate was because, they gave me a cupcake!!! On a more serious
note I was very happy to donate to the cause.
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