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.  

Louie's group!

            In my opinion, this project was very good! The part i liked the most though, was how it was telling you what type of personality and what side of the brain you were and thats cool because I've always wondered what type of personality i am but i would never go about finding it myself.  The video they had showed was a great part to the presentation.  For some reason, after seeing their project, I think that more people should have incorporate a video with their project because everyone loves videos and it was a main part of their project.  The only part that I thought could have used a little improvement, was something we even talked about in class, when we had said that everything just went a little bit too fast.  There was so many questions and it was hard to think about my answer then hear the answer then right away go to a different question.  Also a tiny thing that could have been changed, was the power point.  Its just a really small part of the project but I think that was a little boring just because it was a white background with black letters.  After all, I thought the project was very good! 

intramurals!

            SCSU offers a variety of different intramural sports.  Theres usually 2 per season. I know that last season, they offered softball and flag football.  Softball was very fun, a little scary though at some points, like when a really big guy was up and you know he hits the ball hard, it gets a little scary.  Usually I'd purposely miss the ball......but other than that, i love the game so it was fun anyways.  This season they're offering dodge ball, 3 on 3 basketball, and indoor soccer.  Playing dodgeball this season is fun also.  Again a little scary at times when your facing big guys, but no big deal, i just move out of the way.  To have a team in intramural sports, you must have at least 2 girls on the team, i guess thats why I play.  I think that everyone should at least play one season of intramurals.  Its one or two days a week, monday and wednesday for at the most 2 hours, but its really fun also.  Its a fun way to keep somewhat in shape without having o go to the gym!  A funny story about intramurals, my cousin went to Uconn, and she was friends with a kid named joe, and joe would always ask her to fill in for his team when he didn't have a girl show up.  So she would, and she was good at most sports they played and one day joe asked her out after the game was over and they went out for dinner or whatever and now they're married!  Imagine they met through college intramural sports....weird.

interesting?!

            Abortion isn't exactly something that interests me, but its something that people know about and for the most part have an opinion on therefore, abortion is my topic.  Now most people are pro-life, but it differs from situation to situation.  I read an article about a girl that was pregnant at age 15, the girl was pro-life, but one day while she was in school, the school sent her off to an abortion facility because thats what she had requested.  The girl just didn't want her parents or family to find out.  When the girl's mother found out about this, she was fuming and wanted to have the school fined for not telling her what was going on.  In my opinion, the 15 year old girl should not have had an abortion although she couldn't take care of it, but there are so many different and better options rather than killing an unborn baby.  Like the show "16 and pregnant" for instance, one of the teen moms, Caitlyn, had her baby and gave it up for adoption.  Adoption i think is probably the best idea for someone that cannot take care of the baby.  Another article states that nowadays, more and more doctors are unwilling to preform abortions on patients.  Doctors say that half of pregnancies are unintended and half of them end in abortion.  In a survey, 97% of doctors say that they've encountered a patient that wished to have an abortion.  Only 14.4% said that they have preformed the task.  This is a good thing in my eyes.

kids abusing ages

             For Adriana's project, she's doing it on how children are growing up too fast and want to start using websites way too soon in their lives.  I have to agree with that. Myspace and Facebook both have age requirements to join.  In some cases, the moms don't know about their children getting a Myspace or Facebook, but the moms that do know should definitely make them hold off until they are at least of age.  In my opinion, the internet has turned into such a problem for somethings, and barely has sensors for certain things, and for little kids to be exposed at such an early age, isn't so much a good thing.  Also, the first article talks about how moms and their children grow up to be what they raised them to be.  If the mom raised her son/daughter very strict, like wearing only polo clothes, then most likely that child will grow up and have their kids do the same.  But if the kid was raised in a family that barely cared about anything, grades, no food for dinner, don't care about hygiene, then that child will most likely grow up and not really care about these things either.  Although there are some cases in which the child will grow up and be the opposite of what they were raised like most likely because they just didn't like the way they were raised and thats okay too.    

sex drugs and alcohol

             Dion's group is doing their project on sex, drugs, and alcohol and i think that is a really good topic to pick to discuss with college freshman because everyone most likely has had some interaction with at least one of those things.  It also catches people's attention for some reason when they hear the words sex, drugs, or alcohol.  By reading the fact sheet, I was not really surprised at any of them.  In the first fact, "84 percent of people report they drank alcohol", I don't even think I'd be surprised if that said 100 percent of people drank alcohol. This is because obviously we're under age and thats why so many people have.  We know its against the law and we do it because were told not to i guess. No one wants to be told not to do something because then your going to do it anyways.  Although in the next article, it says that 22.9percent of students reached the medical definition for drug or alcohol abuse.  Or a compulsive use of a substance despite negative consequences, which is a little bit ridiculous considering they know its awful for your health and just your life in general!  That was a shocking fact.  Also, in the chart, it has huge numbers, almost 100 percent of college students have used alcohol in the past year.