Multicultural Center

In the beginning of the school year I was being told by my older cousin who graduated from southern connecticut state university to go to the multicultural center. I was kind of clueless on why she kept telling me to go. Until two days before school started I went . At the multicultural center the serves to make the school more diverse. I'm Puerto Rican and Colombian and always been into diversity since  I came from a school that wasn't diverse . As of going there they also asked for my book schedule and they let me rent two school books for free. So my plan is to attend there a whole lot. 

"Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." Alan Lakein

       Over the last week or more so my class has been learning about time management. In my last blog post I talked about how important it can be. If your going into college about your horrible about managing your time you better start practicing on managing it because it is pretty much one of the keys to being a strong student. So for my Inquiry Interview Video Assignment I will be facing the topic of time management. As I went and selected the people to interview I went for a wide variety not just a student who lived on campus. I want more perspectives on how over people manage their time. I chose a typical first year student who lives on campus and doesn’t have and distraction like a job or such else. So I know many can relate to her but then I went to choosing someone who is a senior that’s works plays rugby and yet still has time for his self. I feel like people think that they have so much on their plate that they cant make perfect amount of time to get their homework in. you need to have their priorities straight. The typical question is will be asking will be like:

• ·      What is your day typically like?
• ·      How many hours a week do you spend on schoolwork outside of class?
• ·      What do you find yourself doing more of throughout the day?
• ·      (For the Athlete, commuter, and staff member) do you find it challenging to manage your time with playing a sport / working / commuting and school?

I want to bring out what kind of person each person is with my questions on how busy some lives can be and show that they manage their time just as much as the students who live on campus that have different priorities. This I think also helped me to and realized that I can go back to work when the Hamden edge opens and still that well-rounded student if I can manage my time right.

Change Your Ways To Be Successful

When you come to college time management is key to getting successful grades. In high school you get like at most 1-2 hr(s) worth of homework a day. I wish I can say the same. In college you have to adjust quickly and also be prepared to get more then 3hrs of homework a night. I am not going to say that I am the best person to manage my time because I am not. I am a muti-tasker / procrastinator. Since I know I have the time to do my homework I find myself putting it off till the last minute. Last week I took notes from a couple of articles to learn how to manage my time to be a better student. After this study of my daily schedule I saw where I have to change my schedule around and what to do less of. I do about 21 hours a week of homework out of 168 hours a week. So 13% of my time I am doing homework. As I read more into my schedule I find myself spending more then 46 hours doing non important stuff like hanging out, going out, etc.  So 28% of my time I am doing no worthy things that most likely wont helps getting that successful grade. With the class schedule I have I see myself being a procrastinator. Monday and Wednesday I have classes from 3:25-6, Tuesday and Thursday I have class schedule from 8:10-10:50 and 1:50-3:05, and no classes on Friday. So with this eye opener I am going to start using my time even more wisely such as during my Friday since I have no classes I am going to get my homework done which is due in the next week to get ahead , not have to stress it the night before and leaving the week up for open hours to study.

GET INVOLVED!

On September 19, 2012. Southern held an Involvement Fair,  so in which you can join clubs and get involved with the school. I had gotten to the fair late and some clubs were already had been gone. But I still saw some groups that grab my attention. One in which I had joined and the other one I really want to go back and join. The group I had joined was the West Indian Society; in which its about the enlighten other student about various Caribbean Island and making the school more diverse. It drew my attention because of the events they throw and I wanted to be involved. The other group I want to join is Best Buddies, where the strike to unite people with disabilities with others. I love knowing I can make a change and work with others that are diverse then me.

Star Material

As I went through my classmate’s blogs I felt more to closure to each and everyone. By some of there blogs I read their story and I found out more about that person. An A worthy blog needs to have :

• ·      Critical thinking / intellectual inquiry
• ·      Creativity / originality
• ·      Appropriate Structure/public writing
• ·      Clarity of ideas and writing
• ·      Interesting title and photo/link

This one blog I came across was defiantly A worthy. The blog ‘Don't be delicate, be vast and brilliant.’ By Allison I think she is a strong writer and I love just reading what she has to say because I can connect. People may think for this assignment I am only writing about Allison because she wrote about me but that’s not the case. Not to sound like a creeper but I have been checking out Allison’s blog since blogging started. She speaks well to the audience and she helps me as a writer even though she knows it. Another blog I feel deserves an A is “You are the center of your own universe as a human with existence. So, yes, you are important.” By Marissa Persico. I feel like she is A worthy because each title I have read is catching and draws my attention to read more. Her blog is vibrant and colorful so it automatically draws attention. My favorite post by her has to be “Its time to make big Changes” because yes she is a freshman just like me but she also feel the pressure of the transitioning of becoming a freshman in college. Were both learning how to time manage and not just sitting there and not listening we are taking into consideration in what we use to do to change into what we have to do.

Mind OVER Matter

Transitioning from a high school student to a college student has been very changing. In high school it was easy to get an A. I would sometimes do my homework before class, stay up late, and rarely study for test and quizzes. As a senior my habits I can say got worst I would not pay attention as much as I did as a freshman, I was also that student who was a texter In class. It also didn’t help with having two study halls and cooking classes were I would sit and talk to my friends and literally do nothing. Senior year was easy. Coming into college within the first two weeks I can say I did more reading then I did my whole senior year. Usually with high school they baby you and get you got of summer mode. Not in college, I already had homework for the next class. With Inquiry it has helped me learn to:

• ·      Hunt for a good teacher
• ·      Not to alienate your professor
• ·      How to become a deep thinker in college
• ·      Make sure I notice my “invisible work”
• ·      Work hard and work smart
• ·      Not to multitask
• ·      How to take correct notes
• ·      Making a successful schedule for planning out your day
• ·      Time management
• ·      Managing your goals

I can say I have taken each of this tips and had applied them to becoming that A student. But some tips that was not helpful to me that I would kind of seemed pointless would be to make a to do list everyday I always have any idea of what I need to do for each day homework and studying. I feel like there’s nothing more important that I need I have everything such as my books and if I don’t have something it is usually on my mind till I do what I need to do. From being in college I am proud of the student I have became school is my top property and every single homework assignment and all my studying has been my top priority. 

LETS GO SCSU!

Growing up with football Sunday in my household every weekend. I grew to love football. So coming to college the one thing I looked forward to be football games. You see college games on television and they look so amazing. So when September 12, 2012 came around with our first home game I was more then excited to go when to the student center went and bought a shirt to support. When I got to the game I got very disappointed I wish our school had more school spirit and more people would go. I know it’s not a division 1 team but it’s still your school take pride. The people behind me were cheering for the other team as they were to be attending that school which they don’t then attend S.C.S.U.  At the end of the game the final score was 30-14 . We had yet another lost. Even with this experience my face will be seen at every home game.

Be Yourself DO NOT Change to Fit In

In the sixth grade I had move from Bridgeport, Connecticut to Huntington (Shelton), Connecticut. It was one of the nerve wrecking things I had to do. I went to a magnet school that was so diverse. I loved my school, had my group of friends. My older brother went there his friends were my friends so this was my home, my second family. So having to leave was something I wasn’t ready for. Coming into the Shelton school system I noticed on the first day this school was predominantly white, something I wasn’t use to. Also sixth grade was the grade of the cliques. Everywhere there was a cliques to the mature popular girls to the kids that were still trying to be just kids. At this age I was 12 I was seeing girls already wearing makeup shopping at Hollister and Abercrombie. I didn’t know what those stores were I just wore whatever my mother bought me. I felt like an outcast. I wish I can say everything gotten way better the next year going into intermediate school still was all the same except more cliques. When high school rolled around made grade had the worst amount of cliques and I was back into a school system with my bother that was a senior. His grade had no cliques everybody just got along. From freshman year to junior year I still had trouble trying to fit in. But when senior year came around something change in me I was done trying to fit in wore funky outfits since I was obsessed with trends and I stop caring that I was fitting in because the whole time I had my family to have my back and all my cousins who were in the end my true best friends. When I applied to southern I can say it wasn’t my first choice because of a lot of kids in my town go here. But I happy I came I feel like I am at home just how it was when I was in Bridgeport. Its diverse and everybody is friendly. I am not trying to fit in I am being myself and making so many friendship by that.

“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” Ruth E. Renkl

As a little girl I can say I have always been taught the key way to be successful in life is working hard. As I grew up I did work hard, but I also spent time trying to find shortcuts into learning something instead of learning it how It was suppose to be taught. For instances with math I was always head trying to figure out easier ways of learning a problem and doing that problem, took time but I always got ahead. High school I can say was always the easy way out of doing something. I liked to spend less time on stuff then thoroughly going through everything the right way. In the article “Work Hard or Work Smart” written by Tom Weber the key points I took note and learned were

• ·      Work both hard and smart
• ·      Observe and evaluate the situation, a good hard look at what you are working with where are you in relations to your goals and what would take hit those
• ·      By working smart you have to make sure you have a plan
• ·      By working hard you have to make sure you are working hard on that plan

From the transitioning to high school into college I can say I have made sure I have been on top of all my work. I bought myself a planner at the southern student enter bookstore, I write down all my work / homework my teachers given me on my syballas. Since my class schedule I free Fridays I try to do my work on Mondays and Wednesday after classes around 6 till 11 , Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 till 11 and hopefully have the weekends free to relax or even at that use up my whole Sunday to do extra work. “Work smart, Work Hard & live strong.” 

WSIN RADIO STATION

As I viewed Southern's radio station webpage, I can say I wasn't please. I felt like it had many key elements missing. It didn’t have any of the shows listed to be found. The website wasn’t easy to use. It kind of made me not as interested in the radio station. But I would have enjoyed hearing what they talk about. Plus I am a huge fan of music and some songs they played on the website wasn’t my type. As a diverse school I feel the radio station need new hit and up coming songs and it will have a lot more viewers and listeners.

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without” Cecil B DeMille

First of all I want to set the tone about a blog. A blog is a Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other web sites. But I feel like there is more to a blog, a blogging let’s us as writers write about how we feel and our views and beliefs. Blogging is also letting my fellow classmates and I explore whole new levels are bring out our creative sides without getting judge. As I went through some blogs I liked how some peoples blogs were just so open. They really speak to readers and make you transitioning to there thinking. Also the blogs are interesting to see what people have said and how very different we all are from each other but yet can understand each others point of views. For me as a blogger I want to interest my readers put them in my shoes and feel and understand how I feel and also to connect with me. I have read blogs before that’s been boring and you just skip to the next I don’t want that to be my blog. I’m not new to blogging I have been on tumblr.com for almost two years now. But when I was blogging on Tumblr I didn’t really write much about my feelings and views because I don’t really open up. I just always re-blogged pictures I like of celebrities and outfits never really was much about me. On Tumblr is showed what I like but not who I am. I am excited to do these blogging assignments because it'll shows my creative side but also get me involved and hopefully get my readers reading cool information I will try to get around SCSU. 

First Time For Everything

Moving into college was probably one of the scariest things I had to face. Since freshman year of high school I just wanted to get out of my town and go to college. The night before move-in I started to think is I really ready? This summer I worked three jobs and spent a lot of time at home. So it was hitting me hard that my little sister would be by herself all the time. That I won't wake up to hear my parents laughing at each other about events that happened the night before at a party before or wake up on Saturday mornings to the salsa music playing because it was cleaning day. My family is very close and pretty big at that. So it was also hitting me that I wont see my little cousin every weekend like I use to since I was little. This will be the first time that I would be away from my family. I didn't know how I would take it. But within the first week I think that my parents miss me more then I miss them. They call me more then once just to say hi.  I was also nervous what if I didn’t like Southern just like I didn’t like my high school. I love the freedom that I'm getting College. Southern is more diverse then high school not just with everybody’s nationality but also with people’s beliefs. Coming here I feel more like myself. This has been the first time I felt like this since forever. People here are just so friendly and open and I can say I’m starting to love this college life. I know that classes , the work , and finding a job but College will be a new challenge that I'm more then excited to accomplish and overcome.