Last Blog Post! =)

During my first semester of college, I think it was a very long learning process.  There was many things that I did this semester that I will not do next semester and many things that worked for me. Such as my study habits, when I do my homework, when I eat, what I eat, my class times, and a few other things here and there.  Overall I think my first semester was a huge learning experience. I learned that I cannot always wait till the last minute for things, I cannot underestimate what I know for tests and for the subject.  Hopefully it won’t take too much longer into my second semester to know what I have to do to maintain a decent gpa.

My biggest challenges so far have been making enough time to do school work and prioritizing school before friends.  My biggest achievements so far I think would have to be my finals. I studied the hardest for them than I have for anything all year.  I also think that by staying in a class that I almost dropped out of because I wasn’t doing so well in and sticking it out and trying harder is an achievement.  Since I knew that I wasn’t doing so well in a class, I went and talked to the teacher a couple times about what I can do and asked if she can help me, sometimes she didn’t but I also went to the writing center which was very helpful.  Next semester, If I am having trouble with writing I will definitely be attending the writing center more often. Also with math or a different subjects, there are tutors for that. 

Time management for me wasn’t top notch.  I usually tried to get the work done that was due first for the most part.  For example, If I went to math Monday and had an assignment due Wednesday, id wait to do all my work that was due Tuesday first.  The most time I put into math and anthropology.  Math is always a struggle and something you actually need to learn or else you can’t go onto the next thing, and anthropology was just an awful class. I don’t recommend it to anyone unless you know what your getting yourself into before you go.  It was unfair that we didn’t get to pick our classes because if that was the case, I definitely would not have picked anthropology or an online math class! 

My grades this semester have not been A’s and B’s…mostly C’s.  I’ve never been an A student, mostly because I’m lazy. I wish I wasn’t lazy because I’d love to get A’s.  Less to worry about coming into the end of the semester.  The goal that we set for ourselves in the beginning of the semester sounded good, and were easier said than done.  I wish I didn’t procrastinate and I wish I stayed on top of everything before it got too late.  Somethings I did do on time and didn’t procrastinate, but the others yes, I did put them off for a while.  In order to get to the point I would like to be at, I really cannot procrastinate and be lazy.  They’re both very bad habits and I know the are too but they’re hard to fix.  

Final FINAL Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6nC0PiJoI&context=C244a5ADOEgsToPDskKYSLeNIfx5kbv-LESqVa0y

final video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFglkO64gTI

Campus safari- day of peace

The day of peace went really well.  I went for the first part of it.  There was no stepteam which is what i really wanted to see because i think the step team is the coolest thing. But first there was the teacher announcing why he made this "day of peace" an new annual thing and then the mayor of New Haven was there and he announced to the audience that he was happy to be the mayor of New Haven because of all new events like this one.  So after that, the teacher announced the guy and the girl that were going to be mc-ing for the rest of the day.  The first Performance of the day though was a dance performance which there is a picture of on the top of this, and it was really good, the song was all about peace and the dance was really peaceful like it was supposed to be.  After they were done dancing, a girl was doing a zumba routine and there was 3 songs they danced to.  The zumba instructor was really good, shes actually in my history class, but anyways, she asked the audience if anyone else wanted to join her with the dance and a few people went up. They all did really well. But all in all, i think that the day of peace was a really good idea and i think it is a great idea for the university to do annually from now on.  

          

Updates for final project

            For this final project, I am doing my project on nutrition and i have gotten to almost 4 minutes on the video so far and already its better than my midterm video.  I think its better because now i have writing on the video when i wasn't sure how to do that last time, even though now that i figured it out, it was very obvious....I have a beginning, and I have one interview so  far but i think i am going to have a few more for more opinions and also not just boring writing and pictures.  Theres also a youtube video at the beginning thats of a song remix about the "freshman 15."  Towards the middle/end, I think I'm going to make a movie with my friends like the show "I used to be fat."  The show has fat kids before they go off to college but in this case it will be the semester after freshman year and how they will transform and make better choices in the upcoming year.  There will be a boy or a girl thats fat but with like pillows or something and they will be exercising a lot and eating better the summer before their sophomore year.  I think this will be different from other peoples because there are so many good shows to reenact and i'm sure not that many people chose nutrition and the freshman 15 so that makes it different as well.  

final project!

            For  my final project, I think i would like to do it on nutrition in college.  I picked nutrition because there is a lot to say about it and there is an obvious problem/solution for the topic.  The problem can be that a lot of students in college gain the "freshman 15" which is very common.  There is a solution for this.  Many exercise techniques, exercise routines, eating habits, eating pattern, and many other little changes to make so students don't gain the freshman 20!  In the first video project, I thought that the interviews were the most interesting part so i think that my final will also have videos.  I will also include the names of the people which I had lacked in the last one and it brought my grade down.  I will try to also include some quotes from outside sources (websites, nutritionists, etc.) because i feel as though that made the projects that had included quotes, look like they really did research and tried hard on the project.  I will try to fix the sound which my midterm project didn't really go so well, so i'll try to fix that.  Lastly, I will try to mix everything up.  For example, not have 5 videos in a row, or 5 quotes in a row, I will make sure everything is spread out to make it easier to watch and not be bored with it.  

college relationships.

            By far, I think this was the most interesting topic!  Its so relatable with everyone and the presentation really got everyone going!  The questions were excellent and they tried a new approach to presenting.  The little colored cards were a little bit pointless, not in a bad way but they just worked to get everyone involved in a group of different people.  I know for myself, I was very interested to hear peoples opinions on some of the topics because one of the questions related very closely to my situation now.  The "on campus boyfriend" topic i tried to pay attention to because for a while I was thinking that it wouldn't be such a good idea having a boyfriend around all the time and my parents were thinking the same thing when they saw my midterm grades so then i came up with the same plan most people recommended in class and it was to tell him that we need to have some time to ourselves to do our school work and then when its all done, then we can hang out.  So I thought it was cool that that was even a question because sometimes i feel like oh i would be the only one to be in this situation and its not necessarily a good one.  Besides that, I think that this project really helps prove that it doesn't matter how much or how little you do for a project, its the topic that will be the part that gets people's attention because Dominique's group really didn't do anything out of the ordinary but everyone was pretty engaged because of what the topic was.  This project I think was my favorite.