This week’s words are critical thinking, concentration, and inspiration.
Critical thinking is when you find the deeper meaning of something. This is
needed in order to truly enjoy or learn something that is shown to you. Concentration
is when you are “in the zone” or in deep focus in completing a task. This is
needed in order to complete something to the best of your ability. Inspiration is
when something “lights a spark” or makes you want to do something after seeing
or hearing something. Without inspiration earth will not be what it is today. Inspiration
makes people want to improve thing which improves overall life experience
worldwide depending on what they fix. When using all of these three things
together creating or doing anything is possible.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Supreme Court Justice Inbound!!!
This
week Sonya Sotomayor visited our school to speak to us about her life. I felt
very honored to have someone of such great authority to grace us with her presence
at our school. She could have been in a million different places such a Yale
and speak with those students. Yet she choose our school to speak and tell us
about her life struggles. I was very excited to be able to see her in person
because, I read her book and there was a lot that I can relate to her with. She
didn’t have an easy life growing up yet she still became successful. Her speech
was given on money in the student center at 7 pm. If you were not able to
attend last Monday hopefully she will come back next year. I am very happy to
be the very few people to say I was able to attend this event.
Where do I Stand….
Blog B
This week
we received midterm grade for the first half of the semester. I was so excited
to receive my grades because, I knew I was not failing anything. I expected my
lowest grade to a B- which I expected to be media class. When I seen my grades I
was let down and very disappointed with myself. So then I thought to myself
what did I do wrong to receive grades like this. None of my grades were failing
but, I felt very disappointed in myself.
My highest
grade was an A- which I received in history class with my next highest being a
B+ in economics class. My lower grades were a C+ which I received in INQ and
Media class. My lowest grade which I received was a C in math class which actually
surprised me a lot. As I viewed these grades for a while it finally hit me
where I went wrong. As midterm grades became closer and closer I started to
slack of in some classes. For example in INQ I became lazy in my blogs and
decided not to do all of them. I thought it wouldn’t affect my grade it I don’t
do like one or two. One problem with that is I forgot blogs are basically 60%
of grade.
This ended
up being a much needed rude awakening to get me back on track with my work. I thought
that my family and I pay money for me to attend college and I’m wasting time
and money because, I would rather go to a party then do a blog or study for an
upcoming test. If I have to pay for college I might as well learn something
while I am here. I don’t want to just be another student just barely passing my
classes and know nearly nothing in my field of study. Now I know that there are
no real brakes in college because, it is very easy to slack off and you may not
realize how it is affecting your grade until it is too late.
A Moment for Deep Thought…
Blog A
Critical
thinking is basically the unspoken truths behind a peace of literature or something
you heard. It is as if you are understanding the deeper meaning behind a
statement which you have heard. For example Nike has a phrase “Just Do It.” To some
this just may not have much meaning behind it “just do it”. If you think of it there
is a lot of meaning behind that little phrase. One main thing that people don’t
think about is the period at the end. One may think what is so special behind a
simple period.
A period is means that it is the end of a
sentence. After a period that sentence is over and you can’t add anything else
to it. A period means that it is the end. So “just do it” is saying do the goal
or challenge that was given. By adding the period to the end of it just
reinforces what that statement is saying. This means to just complete your task
“period” no excuses. This mean that the period is saying there is nothing else
to say no excuses.
All of this can be brought to you
when a person uses critical thinking in a statement or through everyday life. Critical
thinking is expected to be used all the time when in college. By the end of
college the use of critical thinking should be second nature to you. I use critical
thinking a lot myself when I am given projects in college. When we are given a
task I try to find a deeper meaning behind my answer in order to complete my
task to the best of my ability. In today’s world companies want to hire people
that practice critical thinking in order to better their businesses. Critical thinking
is a skill that everyone should master to the best of their ability.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Homecoming Game....
This week was one of the biggest week's of the year. This week we played a school called stone hill which is a rivalry of southern. A lot of alumni came out to this game to see old coaches and be reunited with some of their old teammates. It was a very good game but, in the end stone hill ended up ended southern's three game win streak. This was a home game for Southern Connecticut with the stands filled with fans and even the band started to play. I felt helpless as I watched stone hill come back because, I was a red shirt freshman which means I sit out a year. So I will have to wait a year to defend our field in one of the biggest games of the year.
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