S C S U!

The second time around with making a video from my INQ class I feel like I came out on top. I am very proud of video. Back when I first did my first video, I was new to moviemaker on the mac. I wish I would have taken out more time to do the project then I did. So this time around I made sure I had a topic as soon as possible and I got into this project. This video was easier for me to do because I was one of those people who did down play Southern Connecticut State University. This was not my first choice. I actually applied here because my mother did not want me to come here and I thought if I applied here she would actually let me go to my first choice Long Island University.  But I messed up my finical aid and ended up here. At first I was not looking forward to it.  I can say I am glad I came. I was raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut and also Shelton, Connecticut. I see myself as a city girl. I love not having to be stuck and bored like I was in the suburbs. I saw myself in the city. With being here at SCSU I love how close I am to New Haven. I feel there are so many opportunities and I don’t have to be dependent on someone to get around. I need to go somewhere I get myself on the bus and I am there. This school is amazing. I really do love it to death. I am proud I am here. And I hope that I can change peoples mind that this isn’t out to what people set it to be. It’s a great school and you will have amazing time. Also if you think about commuting I say do not do it. I say live on campus get this whole experience you will never regret. I sure know I will not.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is here, there has been many events on campus that’s been happening for Halloween. One event I attended with my friends was the Oktoberfest. It was held in the basement of Farnaham. It was a fun social gathering. They had a Carmel apple maker I got to make two delicious apples.

 They also had a photo booth, xbox kinect, and fried dough truck. My friends both got fried Oreos and a fried dough. The only thing that stunk about it was like people kind of were just sitting around instead of getting involved and it was really hot inside the basement so made you not want to stay for long.

Midterms are OVER

Mid-term week(s) is finally over. Hello less stress! During midterms I can say I had a lot going on from problems in school to finding out one of my childhood friends was in a coma. So my focus like I wanted to have for my midterms weren’t all there. Instead of spending my weekend studying like I thought I was going to do I was more focused on trying to go home be with my love ones and visiting my friend in the hospital. I am very proud of one of my grades I got back that I was most nervous about which was History-110, I scored a B+. In this class I have been struggling but improving. On that midterm I had to write an essay I was so nervous because I know writing is one of my weaker areas not my strongest. But after seeing all my grades I am proud of three of my grades. With two of them I know I am capable of more. So for the rest of the semester I am going to make sure I am more than focus. I learned how to manage my time way better. Plus with this cold weather I plan on spending more time in my room then out wasting any time. More time in my room will equal more studying and homework time. So my goals for the rest of the semester is to bring my 3 B’s up to A’s and my 2 C’s up to B’s I know I can do it and I am more then willing to try as hard as I need to, to work for the grades I want. I am very motivated to be more than successful in college. Failure will now be an option.

Let The Art Speak For Itself

This Art piece I will title it “Human Development”. You can find this piece of art (mural) in the hallway that connects Jennings to Morrill. I noticed this piece of art every time I walk to class on Monday and Wednesday. Its very illusion and trippy. This mural was painted in 1986 by Nicholas Orsini, the professor of art at Southern Connecticut State University. It is a really big mural that takes up the whole entire hallway. I love this mural I think it is really eye catching and the colors attract my attention more. Every time I walked past this mural I didn’t know what it stood for. From a guess I would think it had to do with science since is has astronauts, an eyeball, plants, underwater plants and which I would say aliens. I would also say this mural was painted by an art class of a bunch of students rather than just one person, Orsini. But the true meaning is that it represents stages of human development. This mural shows from left to right, beginning with the emergence of life from the sea, then the discovery of microbiology, next with the exploration of space, after that the botanical and biological forms depicted, and last but not least the true representation of actual portal. But after finding out the means of what it stands for I wish I can ask the artist what made him paints about the stages of human development? If I could take a guess I would probably say since this mural leads into Jennings, which is a science based building, then it would have to deal with that but in the end this is still all assumptions, It would just be cool to know his ideals and how he came up with such an attracting mural. 

Happily Ever After..

On October 17^th, 2012 at 7:00 pm, I attended a talk in hickerson hall. The talk was called “Happily Ever After”.  I heard about this talk from Monique “Mo” one of the CCs in hickerson. This talk was about how to keep a healthy relationship and everything to learn from relationships. What I thought was most interesting was:

·       The ideals of paying for a date. Be open and up to the situation

·       Having to much expectations. Having too many exceptions for someone can ruin a relationship.

·      Know what to argue you about. Pick and chose your battles sometimes its not worth to argue over something so little.

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Don't Let Stress Overcome You!

So midterms have been hectic especially for me.  I started midterms last week and still have one more left tomorrow. Wish me LUCK!! But over the past week I have been stressed out on making sure I do well and get those good grades. But not much helped when I found out one of my best friends since I was seven years old got into a horrible car accident so since then I haven’t been in the right state of mind. I am constantly worried about her health and how she is doing. I am also worried about how my midterm grades are coming out since I haven’t really been oh so focused like I want to me. But after I am done tomorrow with my final last midterm of the semester. I want to get out and have a little bit of fun. So what I decided to do was sign up for the Lake Compounce trip next Friday I believe. I hate scary thing but its Halloween season and I don’t really feel in the spirit so I want to go with my friends get scared the Holy Ghost out of me and relax and enjoy the night. I know this blog is suppose to be about letting lose and to have already done something to relieve the stress already. I am not going to lie I am still stressed out its been a stressful past week. So hopefully with in next weekend and midterms being over everything will be okay and I can push through it and let go, live life, get scared and most of all have fun! I am not going let stress stop me. I am going to let me grow. Stress sometimes stops you from being you. Saturday it caught up to me and I noticed it and had to make a change. 

As the semester flies by...

The beginning of this semester was I can say something else. College is way different this high school. And on the first day of my classes you learn that. Some of my teachers just went straight into learning. You have to learn to set your priorities straight. Not going to lie I am still struggling with making sure they are correct. I see myself sometimes waiting till the last minute to do something or put it aside for a while because I don’t want to miss out on what my friends might be doing. But now its midterm time, so far I had my History midterm and it had to be an essay. I am praying it I get higher then a B. I really studied hard and focus for this midterm. But I struggle with writing and getting all my ideas down on paper. So I hope my professor sees all the effort I put in a shows that I know my material. But I feel like she would know that because I make sure to participate and get as little or many points I get can. My next midterm coming up would be my csc midterm, which is all you, have to follow the directions in the book and do it on the computer and you will be fine, in which in class and homework assignments go over it to make sure you learn it. And my last midterm will be my math midterm that is Wednesday. I am really great with Algebra so I am not so worried but in that class I always make little errors on my test and quiz and get the littlest things off. So this week I am going to do as many practice problems as I can and I know as I go into the test to take my time and go over each question when I am done to make sure its correct and there’s no errors. But with the opening of the semester I learned what not to do and what to do so now I hope by the end I will pull out good grades. But it all depends on my focus and time and making sure I can manage it right which I now taught myself how to do.

All Laughs

Ever since I was little I always rocked a smile on my face. I love to laugh and have a good time but as you get older people get more interested into comedians. So I would hear about funny comedians and how I should watch it because I would love it. I thought I would too since I always laugh at non funny things. Over the past year I started to watch comedy shows on Netflix and for some reason they just were not funny to me. I would sit there with a straight face and felt nothing. I heard the John Witherspoon was coming to campus , but I wasn't really interested because I just don't laugh. Tonight as I went open minded the opening act didn't have me laughing. Then 'pops' came out and he had funny jokes that had me chuckling. I got frustrated into thinking why can't I just laugh like other people. Then started to tell a story and I can say I was laughing so hard I was crying. So now instead of watching a comedian on TV for me to get the full effect I learned I really just have to go to the shows.

Failure = Mindset

After reading mindset it opened up eyes to the different mindset. Growth mindset is the belief that basic qualities are things you can cultivate through effort. Fixed mindset is belief that you have a fixed amount of ability or intelligence and cannot change that. I think I have a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. I am fixed mindset sometimes when learning new things if I know something I hate and refuse to learning something over and over again. Like for instances in college, I am taking an algebra class I hate sitting there learning what I learned in high school. I get annoyed and bored. I understand it is an easy A but it just still bothers me and feels like I am wasting my time. But I am more growth mindset to other things like I am willing to learn new things I love to take on a challenge. In the future I wish to be a pediatrician but my mother sees that as a hard thing to accomplish and says I should be a nurse. She’s having a fixed mindset and I am growth because I want to be a pediatrician. Failure is not an option to me. Failure comes into play with mindset. When you have a growth mindset you take responsibility to learn from failure and self improve. When you have a fixed mindset you take less responsibility for your failures. I always see things as if something failed you it helps you grow as a person to keep going. In the book mindset and failure comes into play with sports if you have a growth mindset you will have 10,000 hours of practice and when you fail you will keep going and fix what’s wrong to get better. When your fixed you usually have a natural ability and put less effort in something and when you fail you get discourage and wont try again.

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” -Denis Waitley

      Since coming to college there have been many things that I have faced that pushed me out of my comfort zone. Like I am a very outgoing person but in the beginning of getting to know someone I am very shy and quiet to myself. I usually liked to have few friends and be to myself and do my own thing. As being here I had to try and change my ways be this outgoing person I am. I can say I have made more friends here then from living in Shelton for seven years. But I can say it was easy to come out of my comfort zone on campus everyone is very friendly and especially freshman  are on the same boat as me that everyone on campus is new to them they will have to expand their comfort zone to making some friends and meeting new people. Over this weekend for some reason my friends all went home I was literally the only one left on campus. My comfort zone has gone that I am an independent person but for some reason I hate going to eat at Connecticut hall by myself. But with none of my friends here I had to try and find someone to either come with me which I couldn't or just go by myself. So I had to go by myself I felt very weird and came to find out as I got there , there wasn't many people in Conn Hall but I did see faces I did recognize . I wanted to go back to the old shy me but if I didn't want to sit alone I couldn't do that. So I put on my big girl panties and be myself and go up to them and talk, I can say college makes you face a lot of things that make you uncomfortable but if it feels rights go with your gut. If I stayed to my comfort zone as being shy I would be with the few friends I had in high school compared to the variety I have here in college.