Halfway

Today I officially got all of my midterm grades.  I think that in every class the grade on my midterm reflects the amount of effort I have put into each class.  My overall GPA would be around a 3.  These midterm grades have shown me that I need to put in a lot more studying into my classes and same with work.  I think that a B average is a good one to start out with because it is definitely a big change from high school that takes used to getting too.  I know that I can do better than that though if I set high standards.  I expect nothing but good grades from now on and I hope I can continue only to get B grades and better.  I just need to put in more effort after class, but it’s hard because I’m tired when I get out of my late classes.  Because of these later classes I stay up until one a.m. doing homework and studying and I do not do enough sleeping.  I need to fix my schedule around.  I have been trying to work my schedule for next year so that I get up early and I don’t have late classes, so that I can go to bed at a reasonable time.  I am hoping this works, and I am excited to see how I will progress throughout the rest of the semester.  I expect only good things!

Campus Safari

Last night I ended up going to the Owls football game against Assumption College.  I heard from my friend that Assumption had a record of one win and five losses so I figured Southern could potentially kick butt.  Boy was I wrong!  I showed up at 7:30, because I was told that’s when the game started.  It had started earlier and the Owls were already down 14-0.  At the half it was 28-0.  I’ve been to other football games with the Owls and I noticed they did not have their usual starting quarterback in.  He was on the sidelines and was suited up so I questioned why he was not playing.  The game was a quick and brutal one.  44-0 was the final score and it was quite embarrassing for the Southern football team who could not move the ball all game.

Midway

So we all have made it to the halfway point.  I wish midterms meant that we were halfway done with the year and not the semester.  So far I think that I am doing well in most of my classes.  I know that I can do more so I’m hoping that I can change that around.  I took some midterms today and I feel as if I did quite well on most of them.  I just feel that I have no free time anymore.  Like now that I think about it really want to read my book, but there is other homework that I should really be doing.  Once I am done with this post I want to play Xbox or go hang with friends, but I’m thinking that I should probably start my video project.  The work feels endless right now, and I’m not even stressed though! That is the weird thing.  Some of the things I will continue are the way I am studying for things, but things I still need to change would be my sleeping schedule and my free time.  I also want to change when I do my homework.  I usually do my homework the night before the class, but I want to switch it up so that I do the homework that is assigned that day.  The first semester so far has been easier and harder than I expected.  I figured I would get a lot more homework, which I have done, but I did not think that it is all on your own work.  It is still taking time to getting used to, but soon I will be in the swing of things.

Lets Have Some Fun

Nobody likes taking tests and no one likes to take midterms!  This week is about doing tests that review the entire first half of the semester.  What that means is:

•          Late Nights
•          Library Life
•          Little Sleep
•          Jam Packing information

No one likes this week so on Thursday I decided to have a little fun by going to the pep rally in the gym.  I originally planned on playing Fifa ’13 in my room, but soon persuaded by my friends I found myself with a thousand other people.  I did not think I would have fun so I wasn’t really into it at first.  The first performance was a bunch of dancers.  They were great!! Everyone erupted during their performance and it was really cool to see.  They introduced fall and winter teams like the basketball and soccer teams.  There was a big dance off between one player from each team and the winner won an xbox 360.  A kid from the football team was going really hard and once he spotted a girl doing a split he thought he should match her.  He went down into a split and when getting up everyone laughed very hard.  Number six on the football team had just ripped his orange jeans in half.  It was a necessary laugh for everyone to have especially before this stressful week.  Other people in the stands won raffles like a T.V.  My friends and I left early to beat the rush of people leaving at the same time.  I definitely had more fun than I thought I would, and I am glad I went!

Stand out

Does anyone fear failure?  I personally believe that most people are not afraid to fail anymore.  Possibly when you were younger and you had bad thoughts if you failed at something then your parents would not be happy with you, but that changed.  I know with myself when I was young I believed if I did not do my homework that my parents would kill me.  Not literally though, they were not that mean, but I knew my mother and father were very strict about me doing my homework.  Every day at school I would hand in my homework and never did I think about what if I did not hand something in.  One day in eighth grade I was coming down to the wire on this physics project and I decided not to do it.  For once I did not hand it in and I failed the project.  I realized that it did not affect my grade to bad so I thought that it wasn’t bad to not do it.  That was when I first failed doing my homework, and ever since that day I have been on and off with homework.  I have learned to cope with failure in life and I am not alone.  Lots of people are used to failing.  In the book Mindset they talk about failing and when your child fails what advice should you give to her.  I was happy to read the gymnastics tournament did not hand everyone a ribbon because it seems that today; everyone gets a medal for showing up.  Effortless won ribbons and prizes.  Out of the five options the one that you would never have the guts to tell your kid was the one you truthfully need to tell them.  Everyone needs to know that you will fail in life, but it’s the want to not fail which makes you stand out.

I Did What?

This weekend I did the craziest thing that I have done in a while.  I was going through my wallet getting rid of the millions of gift cards that I have used already, and I found some that were not used.  This one was a twenty-five dollar visa gift card.  I immediately sat down on my computer and went straight to some of my favorite websites.  I went from Google to Macy’s.com, and from Macy’s.com to amazon.  I went all over the internet searching for clothes or shoes I could buy with this gift card.  I was thinking of what I should get when all of a sudden I looked at the corner of my desk.  Sitting in the corner was an autobiography of a book that I got for a present.  Not once since getting the book have I read a chapter, but I realized that I need to read more.  I have read half of the book now and I am so glad I chose to read this book, because it is an autobiography which really interests me.  That brought me to the idea that maybe I should use this gift card to purchase another book.  I have never bought books online and I thought maybe this cold that is going around was getting to me.  This weekend, instead of using my money to buy a jacket or jeans, I used my money to buy three autobiographies.  One was the autobiography of Tim Tebow.  The next one was Hope Solo’s memoir, and the final one I purchased was Benjamin Franklin.  I don’t know why I got that last one but it was dirt cheap, and I figured why not learn about history!  I am excited to finish this book I am reading now called No Easy Day.  I cannot wait though to receive my other books.

Campus Safari!

Professor Tracy Roberts

Office Hours:  T R 2:15-3:15 in ENC210.

This week my professor ended class earlier then usual which was odd because it is math class and usually we need the entire hour and fifteen minutes.  I saw this as a perfect opportunity to do my campus safari, since I clearly have not been up to date with them.  I asked Professor Roberts how many Chapters in the book we would be doing.  She told me that we would be going from chapter six all the way to chapter ten.  Then being very curious I asked her; how is this class different then a high school class?  She responded by saying that although some of the material may be a repeat from previous years; this class would be moving at an incredibly fast pace.  She also mentioned if I was not on par with the lessons that I better learn fast!

A Person’s True Potential Is Unknown

We are reading the book “Mindset” this week and so far I have learned that there are two types of mindsets people have.  One of the mindsets which can be found on page 6 is a fixed mindset.  It believes that your qualities are carved in stone.  This is saying that if you only have a certain amount of intelligence then that is all you can get and you cannot expand your knowledge.  The other mindset is called the growth mindset.  The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.  This is saying that if you have that same intelligence as the fixed mindset that you believe you CAN expand on to it.  These types of people believe that a person’s true potential is unknown.  I like that last sentence a lot.  It is a quote from the book found on page seven.  I believe that I have a growth mindset and that nobody in this world knows what each and every person is capable of.  When faced with a difficult challenge everyone seems to cope with failure.  Most of these people do end up failing.  I think that if people did start to have an open mind and when faced with a challenge displayed a different attitude towards things then they would have more achievement in life.  When you just cope with failure after a while you are just going to give up.  We need to have a positive attitude towards things.

Movie Project

I do think that my video came out quite well.  I think that it is interesting compared to other peoples.  What I did yesterday was I went on to other peoples blogs and watched a few minutes of theirs to see what they had going on.  I could only find two that were posted and the first one that I had viewed was incredibly boring.  There was not one thing of video in it because it was ALL text slides.  I can tell you that I shut that video off very fast because I did not want to read all of the words.  The project was to make a movie, so that is what I did.  Besides the first slide that has my name and the project, my entire movie is all video.  I was unable to bring my lap top to my class so I took down some notes on a piece of paper and I still took a video on her answers.  It makes it more entertaining to watch.  My movie was made around one main question.  What is there to do at Southern?  With it being one main question I was able to receive tons of new ideas by people and the question is answered in every single interview.  The answers were some things people do.  Some things you could do and some things they would recommend you do.  There were a lot of good ideas in it and I am happy with the way it came out.  Not happy about how my voice sounds on camera, but I could care less because my project is done.  It only took a little time to get all of my interviews so I did that early on in the week.  I spent only an hour or two putting in music and editing it.  I found Windows movie maker to be really easy to use and I would definitely recommend using it to anyone.  This project was easy and I would not mind doing something like this again.  I know we will have to a couple more times so I’m not upset about that.