My Last Vocabulary Blog (16V)

Freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

Freedom (own): being able to make choices based off of what you want not based off of what other people tell you to do.

            My first semester as a college student I had freedom and was able to do whatever I wanted. I did not need to listen to my parents telling me what time to be home or what I should or shouldn’t eat. I did not have a curfew and could go wherever I wanted. I enjoyed having the freedom at college that I did not have in high school.

My First College Semester (16A&B)

I have learned my strengths and my weaknesses as a college student so far. I have learned that I am a very self-motivated person who always strives to do the best. It doesn’t matter if it is on the softball field or in the classroom. In high school I use to not be a good student. I use to have bad study habits and not do my work diligently. My first semester of college kicked me into shape. I learned real quickly that college was going to be nothing like high school. I learned how to study in a way that will help me remember the information. I now have all A’s and B’s as my first semester in college and I hope to remain being a good student as I grow older and finish my college years.

My biggest challenges this year have been my stress. I have found out that I need surgery in both my legs because I have compartment syndrome. This made me stressed out because since I was a freshman in high school I have been looking forward to playing college softball. I have worked hard all these years to find out that I need surgery and cannot play college softball my first year as a college student. The doctor has also warned me that I may not even be able to play sports ever again which stresses me out even more. On top of this I found out that I have lupus, anemia, and two tumors in my thyroid that might be cancerous. Finding out having one of these problems is stressful, having all four happen to me at once in my first semester as a college student makes my stress level at an all time high that I never thought I was ever going to reach. On top of homework and studying I also had to go to a doctors appointment every week and have needed to get many different testing done. I am always tired which makes it very difficult to do my homework. It was also very difficult to wake up in the morning and go to class.

To be able to over come this I had to just make the best of it. There was not much that I was able to do. Lupus unfortunately does not have a cure yet and to fix my legs I need surgery during spring break. I just look at the positives and just think about how I am going to overcome this speed bump in my life. I would need to sleep 14 hours a day in order to not fall asleep in class. I would force myself out of bed every morning and would try my best to stay awake and pay attention in class. For my homework and studying I would do small amounts of it through out the week. Between each homework I would need to take a nap so I would be able to do my best on my next assignment that I was next going to perform.

My biggest achievements this year have been living on my own without my parents. My parents are the ones who were always taking me to doctor’s appointments and scheduling them for me. Doing this on my own really made me mature and realize that I am not going to have my parents there to do everything for me anymore. My first semester as a college student not only made me care more about my grades but I also am more mature and need to clean my room on my own and do my laundry on my own.

INQ Final

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Taking A Break (15I)

This week my friends and myself needed a break from our homework and studying. Wednesday was a beautiful day so we decided to take a break, get some fresh air and play soccer. We went to the football field and kicked around a soccer ball for two hours. It felt good to get out of my room and be able to have fun with my friends while enjoying the beautiful weather.  Having a break made me be able to concentrate more when I went back to my room to study. I thinking having a break from studying to hangout with friends is healthy while studying for finals.

My Vocabulary Increases (15V)

Autonomy: the state of existing or acting separately from others

Autonomy (own): Doing something different from others

            The week before finals week I have had to make the decision to stay in and study and do final projects or go out with my friends. I had to autonomy and act separately from the rest of my friends while they went out I stayed in. I thought this was the best choice so I can achieve the best grade I could on my final tests. While they are all cramming the day before the test I will be able to study and not be up all night and get a good night sleep.

Marginalized Culture: Cultures that don’t belong to mainstream culture.

Referent Class: A subgroup of the mainstream against which mainstream culture measures itself.

My Classmates Helped My Video (15A)

I believe that this week of watching other students videos as well as my own were very helpful. While watching videos in class I have had to state what the strengths, weaknesses, creativity and college level thinking’s were in everyone’s videos. While watching other people’s videos I was able to see how I should make my video. I have learned what to add and what to take out in my video to make it the best.

            In result of watching the videos I noticed that the videos that people found to be the most enjoyable were the ones with the humor in it. Because of this I am going to try and incorporate humor into my video. I will do this by adding bloopers at the end of my video. Not only will I add bloopers to help add humor but for my problem with procrastination I will try and videotape my friend do silly and funny things while procrastinating his homework.

           

            For the problem I will videotape him dancing, playing video games, eating and hanging out with his friends instead of doing his paper. I am going to have an every day slide from a week to the night before his project with Nick not doing his paper. Every day it will be something different that is one of the top reasons that students do not get their work done. I will then show Nick freaking out the night before his paper is due doing it all night.

            From this week I got some feedback from my classmates that for my solution I should have Nick doing his work outside of his dorm room because that will be wear he is shown procrastinating the most. Doing your homework in your room is a reason for procrastination because there are many things that can distract you in it. I have learned many new creative things that I can incorporate into my final project.