Time management

            So....apparently i don't spend my spare time wisely. If i have spare time, i don't usually spend it studying or looking at any school work. For the most part, i do what i have to with my school work and try to finish it as quick as possible. Although if i have an assignment due in a week, ill do it the night before its due. Bad habit, i know but i get it done. Also i think i spend more time with my friends than i do with my school work. I think they're my biggest distractions because as soon as i get a text, i would just much rather be doing something fun instead of school work. I think i spend the most time on hanging out with my friends but i also do a lot of homework. I think the times are almost even. I think that a way to improve my time management skills would be to subtract a few from my free time and put those hours with my homework and school work. That way maybe my grades will be better and I'd know more about what i was studying.  

campus safari-sporting event #5

            The sporting event i attended, was a girls soccer game. I decided to go because one night i had nothing to do and one of the soccer players was handing out the flyers for the game so i thought, why not? It also said that they were 6-0 so that was also a factor because i didn't want to go to a game they'd lose. The game was against UNH. They were also pretty good seeing as though southern only scored once. It was a scoreless game until late in the 2nd half when southern scored a goal on a intense possession.  Although they only scored once they were pushing deep into UNH's side for the most part of the game. This experience was fun because it was my 1st home sporting event that i attended at southern.

grade A blogs !!

            Blogging gives you a chance to write down your thoughts and ideas about something. Its also a way to express your feelings about a subject, therefore when i looked at everyones blog and i picked out the three that i thought looked really cool and colorful but also what they wrote in their "about me" blog. I also only looked at the people with different titles. Not the ones that said "so and so's blog" because there was so many like that so it doesn't make them different. 


            With that, the first blog i picked was Stephanie's. I picked Stephanie's right off the bat because when you open her blog theres this really bright and pretty picture of butterflies and bees and grass and my favorite, the ocean. So immediately i liked it. But also, i looked at her about me part and it was kind of funny, like the stubborn part, but i like how she wasn't afraid to be honest, but then she also put pictures of herself to prove what she was saying about herself. Overall, i think Stephanie's blog deserves an A!


            The next blog that i think i'd give an A to would be "Mikeyyy Mo's Blog". I would give mike an A because his is different. The colors are a little boring but he's a guy so he's not going to have pink everywhere. But his blog also has a lot to read which i honestly didn't read all of his about me but i skimmed it and i like that he had a lotto say about himself, seeing as though that was the assignment, but not enough to brag. I think his blog deserves an A too!


             The last blog i think should receive an A is "Mein Laben als Tori". This blog should get an A because its so different and the title is really cool even though i only know one word, her name, but it was different. Her about me was just enough to get to know her a little bit and the words she used to describe herself are so distinct which i thought was good. The background picture was pretty and everything was in proportion. What i mean is that nothing was really too much writing and nothing was really too little writing. Everything was just right, thats why Tori should get an A as well!

other blogs....

http://blog.jenniefinch.com/

             
            This blog is about Jennie Finch, my all time favorite softball player, and pitcher. It talks about her life, and also her children. Another thing that she mentions is how she got to where she is today, and also what she still does to stay somewhat with softball. Jennie Finch is/was a fantastic softball pitcher for the USA team. She has been so successful throughout her career. She has been a softball player, a model, she has a loving family including 2 sons, and also a softball equipment line such as bats, gloves, batting gloves, etc. 


http://boxerblogger.blogspot.com/

           This blog is all about boxer puppies. Since the time I was little, my family has only had boxer dogs. Personally, I think they're the cutest puppies and grow up to be just as cute. This blog is mainly about what boxer puppies like to do, what they like to eat and how much they love people. I remember when my boxer could never just lay on the ground by herself, she would just always find someones lap to place herself on. Boxers are the perfect size dog. They're not too big and they are not to small, they usually grow to around 70 pounds, and usually live to be about 8 years old. By reading the blog, the 1st paragraph talks about how dogs shouldn't eat chocolate. This reminds me of a time when my dog emmie was really sick one day and we also had little turtles at the same time, so we called the vet telling them that we were very concerned because a turtle was missing and we thought she had eaten the turtle. The vet on the other line told us that dogs should not be eating chocolate and we just had to laugh because we knew she was thinking about a chocolate turtle and we were talking about a real turtle.

they say, i say. campus safari #2

              "They say, I say" was a book mentioned by a teacher of mine because its a little book that has a lot of grammar, writing examples and a lot of other very useful information for writing. While browsing through it i saw that there was a lot of examples. But the book also tries to teach the people reading it how to paraphrase what people say so its in their own words, and also it kinda of tells you how to take good notes which is also paraphrasing. The book was somewhat easy to locate because i went to the bookstore to find it because i know that its a book used at this school. As a matter of fact, two of my teachers mentioned this book because they both said it was a fantastic book to help with writing and note taking. The first class was Anthropology because it teaches about arguments and statements, and the second class was history. My history teacher mentioned it because theres going to be a paper to write and also because we take a whole bunch of notes in her class so she wants us to paraphrase and take good notes. 

think a little. (part 2)

            While reading the article, "How to become a deep thinker at college" it obviously made me think but it made me think about what classes to take in college, and how to not just aim for the bare minimum but to aim for a goal. A goal in college is a very common thing for most college students to start out with but those who actually reach their goal is a much smaller number than the ones that started with it. Quite honestly, i remember in high school when we firsts started the year off and all the teachers made their students write on a little note card asking their name, address, hobby, blah blah blah and also their goal for the year.  And of course everyone would write what the teacher wanted to see and then just forgot about it for the rest of the year. One of my teachers, my advisory teacher, took the goals seriously and i had this one class for 4 years with the same people and wed only go once a month but for 4 years and every time we went to this class she would hand back our goal papers to see if we wanted to add anything and see if we were keeping up with them. So everyone over the years changed their goals obviously and made them more realistic.

     In response to "The Learning Knights of Bell Telephone", I actually think it's pretty cool how Belle's top executives led the president of Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania to this whole big to do about going to college and studying more about education in general instead of just one specific field. It's also pretty nice that the Penn State campus gave the not so educated workers a way more liberal education. A whole 550 hours in total course work was being taught to them. So in response to the point being made, i totally agree that everyone at an early age, (18) should start thinking about if not know already what they want to do when they graduate or at least have an idea but i also think that at SCSU, our school has the right idea about not only knowing about your major but knowing other very important information about the general world. 

think a little

            When you tell a kid not to do something, why do most of them do it? For example, in the video "Don't eat the marshmallow" a few 4 year olds were tested and put in a room and were told to "not eat the marshmallow" for 4 minutes, and if they didn't eat the marshmallow, they got a second marshmallow to eat. What this tested was that when these kids got older, if they would succeed or not. In my opinion, i think this is somewhat a good plan to see how successful these kids will be in the future but then again, we were all 4 once, and we can somewhat remember what it was like and i know that if there was candy in front of me and i had to just sit next to it for 4 minutes, i'm not sure if id pass the test! That's a hard task for a little kid, especially for that long, to a little kid that could seem like a day to a teenager. 

              So, work hard, or work smart? Tom Weber says that both are your best bet. I think i'd have to agree. Working hard is always working, not stopping until its done, no cutting corners just to get done, and always doing your best job on it (in my words). But working smart, is almost the opposite. Working smart is cutting corners, skimming the edge with any assignment your given. Although your cutting corners while being a smart worker though, your still doing your job and doing well. So therefore both are wise decisions and great work ethics. 

campus safari-becoming an RA! #4

            To become a RA, there are a few requirements that you must fulfill. The first requirement is that you need to have lived on campus for at least 1 sermester. The requirement is that you have to maintain a minimum GPA of a 2.75. In order to apply for the RA job you must apply in January or sooner. You must also show that you have leadership under your belt. 

             Some advantages of becoming an RA is that you have free housing for time your a RA and you have a free meal plan. In the words of my RA(erika), she thinks its a overall good experience and she said that it does not hurt to have a big bed and room all to yourself. 

            Also while interviewing Erika, she said that its good to have someone respectable and relatable on your floor and someone to talk to. She also said that by having someone relatable, like someone around the same age, its easier to go to them if you have a problem. Most RA's in the freshmen/sophomore dorms are mostly juniors because they are supposed to give you valuable information and if a sophomore was a RA they are fairly new to the school. The floor RA's have to make bulletin that show more valuable information. Another good advantage of having a RA around your age is that they are a mentor for you. For example if you needed help with your homework, you can just go to them for their help. By no means do they want to act as your mother but they're there if you need them. 

just me !

First, i like to think i'm a pretty nice person. I just don't like when people are rude. Its so unnecessary. Also i think i'm nice because if any one of my friends calls me i always comfort them no matter what it deals with. Which could also mean caring but it pretty much falls under the same category. 

Second, i love to play softball and i love ice cream. I've been playing softball for 13 years and everyone in my family has as well, except my mom but she goes to all the games. I've been a pitcher for 9 years. But also, my favorite food in the entire world is ice cream. My favorite though is mint chocolate, with hot fudge and sprinkles of course. I actually work at a place called sundae spa which is a spa for little kids thats based around candy and ice cream and every employee needs to pick a candy name so mine was obviously sprinkles.

Third, i have a great sense of humor. I laugh A LOT. But sometimes i think its better than being grumpy all the time. Back in Wolcott, some people call me giggles. It just fits me because i'm usually in a good mood and laughing. 

Next, i am a huge family person. In my family, i have a mom, dad, a twin sister, and a little sister. I'm the kind of person that loves to hang out with my family. I want to go home every weekend just because i cant go that long without seeing them. We're all very close and we don't really get sick of each other as much a other people my age would get sick of their parents. 

Last, i love animals. I especially love dogs. My favorite kind of dogs are boxer dogs. They're the perfect size and they're just really cute in my opinion. In my lifetime, i've had 2 boxers. But i've also had other animals, such as tons of fish, a kitten, a hamster, turtles, hermit crabs, and also one of my dogs had 2 litters of puppies. The first time she had 8 puppies, and the second time she had 7. I'm definitely not going to be a crazy cat lady but really do love animals. 

the freshman experience

             SCSU is a small university, which i think is a good way to start your first year in college. I also like how all of my classes are in the same building. I remember when we were at orientation and our OA's were telling us about how we only have 10 minutes sometimes to go from class to class, so as it was getting closer to the start of school, i was getting nervous that i wouldn't make my class on time. But it really wasn't bad at all. Also i wasn't sure where anything was because at orientation, it was the first week and the temperatures outside were at an all time high, i think 110 maybe, so we stayed inside like the whole time so we couldn't really see much of the campus. 
              Some major goals i have for my freshman year are to meet tons of new people, be open to trying new things, and also to stay on top of all my homework seeing as though its a lot more than high school! I also expect my classes to be much more complicated and more difficult than last year. The teachers aren't as close to the students as last year and also some teachers might not even know your name, which is a complete change from high school when every teacher knew your name and most classes had 20-30 people, unlike now when there could be over 100 people in a class! 
               But now that the first couple days have come to an end now i have realized that college isn't exactly what i had expected. Some things are the same, such as the classes being hard, but the homework being harder and longer. But i also thought that college was going to be so hard to find my way around, and the people wouldn't be as nice as they are, and i didn't think i would like college, but so far i'm wrong about those things. Everything is going very well so far and i really hope it stays this way.