16V Freedom Oh Freedom

When I think of the word freedom I think of being able to do anything I want whenever I want. For me the end of the semester and going home is a freedom. Breaking free from learning from a little while and not having to be focused on school all of the time is freedom. I am free.

liberal-believing that government should be active in supporting social and political change : relating to or supporting political liberalism

Chance-an opportunity to do something : an amount of time or a situation in which something can be done

16 A,B,I The Final Blog :(

I can’t believe that my first semester as a college freshman has come to an end. It feels like just yesterday I was moving in and had no idea what to expect. Now I have completed my first semester and I feel so accomplished.

            As a college student I have not only learned a lot for school I have learned a lot about myself. I know what my strengths and weaknesses are as a student and what I can do to achieve my goals as a student. My biggest challenge this semester was procrastination. College is very different from high school. In high school you do most work in the classroom and don’t spend a lot of time doing homework outside of school. You have the occasional paper to write for class but never due the next time class is held. In college there is a lot more homework and many more papers written in one night. In high school I could procrastinate and get all of the work or at least 90% of the work done. The challenging thing for me this semester was to not procrastinate and get all of my work done. In college you cannot hand in stuff late like high school. That was my biggest challenge this semester and so far I think I’m starting to get the hang of not procrastinating as much.

            I feel like I have accomplished a lot this semester but there were a few moments that stuck with me until the end. My first “big achievement” was giving my first presentation in my professional presentations course. Every freshman has to take a technical fluency class. Mine ended up being COM 205 professional presentations. At the beginning of the semester I was so afraid to present in front of people by myself. I am a performer, I sing, but for me speaking in front of people is one of the most terrifying things ever. Especially when you barely know them. I ended up doing it and I got an A on my presentation because I earned it. I completed my presentation with confidence. Another accomplishment I had this semester was completing my first English portfolio. For ENG 110 and ENG 112 you must complete a portfolio for your final grade. It was a lot of work to do. I had a lot of writing and editing and revising to do. Once it was finished and I handed the entire portfolio to my professor I felt amazing. I know now that I can write at a college level and that is an amazing feeling.

           

            My goals for next semester are as follows: First off I want to make the Dean’s list and I am going to try as hard as I possibly can to make it. This first semester I did slack off a little bit. I definitely did not work to my full ability and I know that. I could have worked harder. I could have done more work actually. But this semester I am going to do all of my work. Every word that has to be written will be. Every math problem will be solved. I will achieve this goal. My other goal for this semester is to not drop any class. This past semester I was really having a hard time in Math so I decided to drop it. I was struggling in my other classes because of it. This semester that is not going to happen. I am going to get all the help I need to succeed in math class. I will not drop it again. To make Dean’s list I have to challenge myself and believe that I can do anything.

I hope what I have learned this first semester in college can help me in all the semesters to come. 

INQ FINAL VIDEO

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

15B It's The Final Countdown!

It’s that time of year I have been waiting for since I get here; the end of the fall semester. I have been preparing all semester for what is happening in the last week and a half we have here before break.

I am lucky enough to only have one written final this semester. I have this final on Thursday from 3-5. This final is for my Critical Thinking/Sociology class. To prepare for this final I have been going back and re-writing my notes in a very neat and tidy order. This final is open-note so I need my notes to be in absolute perfect shape for the exam. It need to be in an order in which I can find everything I need to remember. For open note tests and quizzes I always study also. There are a lot of people I know who think that because an exam is open note that you do not need to study. In reality you do though because if you don’t know any of the information at all you will just be flipping through your notes during the entire exam looking for every single bit of information that you need.

The other final I have this semester is a presentation for my communications class. We have already had 3 presentations in my class so far so I know exactly what I have to do to make my presentation as best as it can be. My presentation is also a group presentation which I really enjoy because we are all learning from each other. Rather than just having my own personal presentation that I have to work on by myself I have a team of me and 4 other people to make the project amazing.

I am prepared for my first finals as a college freshman. I am confident that I will succeed this semester. 

15A Final Video Editing

After watching my video and everyone else’s, I know exactly what I need to do to have that a video project. So far I only have the creative aspects of my video. For my video I decided I wanted to start with a creative aspect to grab my audiences attention. So I made a skit showing what happens when people are homesick. I wrote out what my actor should do. I realized to make it a little bit more believable that I needed it to be more improvisation rather than scripted. After figuring out exactly what I wanted my actor to do I got my friend Ian who is very good at improvisation to act everything out. He was very funny about it. Ian added his own sense of humor, which made the video catch peoples attention even more I believe.

Now that I have all of the creative aspects in my video I realized what I need to have all of the college-level thinking in my video. The first aspect I am going to add to my video is solutions to homesickness such as calling your family on the phone, skyping them, going home for the weekend and many more. I will be incorporating music into this part so its not very boring just reading the slides. The music I have picked out for this part is “Home” by Michael Buble. This song is about going home and missing someone which I believe is the perfect choice for this part of my video.

Lastly I will be adding in a couple video clips about homesickness and what solutions have helped those, specifically out of staters. There are many people who go here who do not have the option to go home as often as the in-staters do. I know that there are even some people in my building I can talk to which is good.

VIDEO FINAL DRAFT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEqk0Dnw0k

14I Health Center

The Granoff Student Health Center is located on the Southern Connecticut State University campus.  It is on Wintergreen Avenue near university residence halls and across the street from Moore Fieldhouse.  The academic year hours are Monday through Friday, 8 A.M. until 4:30 P.M.

The professional staff members at Southern are always available for medical needs with students, as well as making positive health care decisions.  They usually advise students to make appointments for all visits. Southern’s Granoff Student Health Services has a physician and nurses to help all students all year round.  There are HIV/STI counseling and testing held here also.  This was the first time I have been to Southern’s health center to obtain information and it was very helpful.  Now I know where to go if I am sick.

A common problem that college students face is getting sick with a common cold or the flu because germs spread easily through colleges.  Students touch a lot of different door knobs and buildings, and after they touch all these things they touch their nose and eyes, which spreads quickly into their system.This time of the year especially is when people tend to catch a cold.  Even the public restrooms may spread germs.  I am generally very healthy all of the time, but now know where I can get help if I do catch a cold.

14V Investment

The dictionary.com definition of Investment is the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value. When I think of the word investment, I think about putting my time into something and doing it in the correct way. For example if I have a major project due in a class I want to give myself a lot of time to do it. So I would be investing my time in it.

Two new words I learned this week:

1.     Motivation-the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way.

2.     Referring- to direct for information or anything required