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My first college was very interesting looking back on it. Many emotions have changed throughout the semester, but on the point of me learning about my self is if I start the work earlier rather then later it gets done faster and better because I allow my self more time to actually work on it and it comes out better. So if I start my work when its given rather then later I do a better job on the assignment, and if I have a test I need to start my studying earlier rather then the night before. My biggest challenges by far this year is doing my work when its given, I cant procrastinate as much next semester and reach out for help if I need it. I have to learn to use my classmates to help me seeing that they’ll probably being going through the same troubles as me. I really didn’t use our class to help me besides the later part of the year when we started doing the anthropology papers. My biggest achievement is handing all my major projects in on time. When I have something that has to get done with a long deadline I like to get a head start and plan it out accordingly so I just don’t have to bust out all my work in the last couple of days of the assignment. This prevents me from handing in a poor quality of work. It also helped that my roommate and a few of my good friends are in the same class so since were all together most of the time we can break out a camera and do our projects and help each other out and get our work done. So to make this continue in the next semester we have some of the same classes to help each other in the classes for the next semester. My time management in this semester has been on and off, I’ll have my weeks when I’m off the ball and hand in stuff late. Most of my time has been put into my major because I have clinicals that I have to do in the athletic training room because the state of Connecticut requires a certain amount of hours for athletic training students so I have to make sure I have enough hours each semester to move on in the classes and majors. I wouldn’t say it has effected my other classes to much but I can see how when I get father in the class like my sophomore or junior year it could affect the other classes I’m taking because of how demanding the major is. My grades in my classes, I really don’t know what they are but I’ve learned a lot this semester, all the blogs have helped my writing because I have never been that strong of a writer so constantly writing very week three times has helped me a lot. The class that I have learned the most in is my exercise science class because before this year I didn’t have that much knowledge about any of the stuff we’ve been over besides the anatomy part of the class cause I took it in high school. I need to start looking over material because I never really did it in high school but that’s not going to work at college cause the material is so much more and more difficult. I hopefully met my goals on my grades but I won’t know till I get all my grades back but I feel that I did a good job in completing my goals. I’m happy where I’m at now in my studies and if my grades are lower then what I wanted I have a good feel on what I have to work on to get better grades next semester. I just need to sit down and study more then I do because I don’t really study that much as of now and that may be my downfall so I got to work on improving my studying skills. Well my goals for next semester is to get in the high 3’s on my gpa because I plan on leaving southern next fall to play football again to I want to see if I can get an academic scholarship to expand what schools I can go to. So that’s pretty much how I feel about my first semester, leaving toady was rough because I didn’t want to leave yet I had a great time this fall.

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My first college was very interesting looking back on it. Many emotions have changed throughout the semester, but on the point of me learning about my self is if I start the work earlier rather then later it gets done faster and better because I allow my self more time to actually work on it and it comes out better. So if I start my work when its given rather then later I do a better job on the assignment, and if I have a test I need to start my studying earlier rather then the night before. My biggest challenges by far this year is doing my work when its given, I cant procrastinate as much next semester and reach out for help if I need it. I have to learn to use my classmates to help me seeing that they’ll probably being going through the same troubles as me. I really didn’t use our class to help me besides the later part of the year when we started doing the anthropology papers. My biggest achievement is handing all my major projects in on time. When I have something that has to get done with a long deadline I like to get a head start and plan it out accordingly so I just don’t have to bust out all my work in the last couple of days of the assignment. This prevents me from handing in a poor quality of work. It also helped that my roommate and a few of my good friends are in the same class so since were all together most of the time we can break out a camera and do our projects and help each other out and get our work done. So to make this continue in the next semester we have some of the same classes to help each other in the classes for the next semester. My time management in this semester has been on and off, I’ll have my weeks when I’m off the ball and hand in stuff late. Most of my time has been put into my major because I have clinicals that I have to do in the athletic training room because the state of Connecticut requires a certain amount of hours for athletic training students so I have to make sure I have enough hours each semester to move on in the classes and majors. I wouldn’t say it has effected my other classes to much but I can see how when I get father in the class like my sophomore or junior year it could affect the other classes I’m taking because of how demanding the major is. My grades in my classes, I really don’t know what they are but I’ve learned a lot this semester, all the blogs have helped my writing because I have never been that strong of a writer so constantly writing very week three times has helped me a lot. The class that I have learned the most in is my exercise science class because before this year I didn’t have that much knowledge about any of the stuff we’ve been over besides the anatomy part of the class cause I took it in high school. I need to start looking over material because I never really did it in high school but that’s not going to work at college cause the material is so much more and more difficult. I hopefully met my goals on my grades but I won’t know till I get all my grades back but I feel that I did a good job in completing my goals. I’m happy where I’m at now in my studies and if my grades are lower then what I wanted I have a good feel on what I have to work on to get better grades next semester. I just need to sit down and study more then I do because I don’t really study that much as of now and that may be my downfall so I got to work on improving my studying skills. Well my goals for next semester is to get in the high 3’s on my gpa because I plan on leaving southern next fall to play football again to I want to see if I can get an academic scholarship to expand what schools I can go to. So that’s pretty much how I feel about my first semester, leaving toady was rough because I didn’t want to leave yet I had a great time this fall.

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What will be missed?

I think we all got close because we had all the same problems and it gave us a sense of unity. It gave us a common cause for us to come together. In my other classes I don’t know all the kids in my class, never mind their names. I sit in the front of the class so I rarely turn around to talk to someone. No other of my classes use group activities in the class or circle up in the class and have a discussion with every one. It will only be a few kids in class that actually participate, so it didn’t have the feel of our two Tuesday and Thursday classes. So it was a nice relief from being the only one participating. So the thing that I’m going to miss the most it how close the class was because out of all my classes none were this close. It would have been the only class that I wouldn’t have felt awkward talking to one of the kids in the class to get help on a project or a paper. It allowed for a way of getting other opinions and help with all the anthropology work. Because we all had to work together to get the work done, class wouldn’t have been as easy if we didn’t work together. That’s what I will miss most is being able to discuss our class work together and help each other, we most likely won’t have the opportunity like this again to have a class as close as ours. It was something unique that we have had this opportunity to help each other grow. But maybe we will have some of the same classes together next semester to try and keep study groups together to help us through a tough class.

The long road

My ideal life after college would be working at job that would hopefully be paying for my graduate school. My goal is to be a licensed personal trainer and own my own gym. I want to do something that keeps me interested. I never want to get bored in life and keep life interesting. I just want to do some thing that I enjoy doing every day, and not be a person that doesn’t enjoy going to work everyday. I want to start a family and have my own house. Cause I want to be young enough to have kids at a young enough age to be able to have an active life and be able to have fun with them and not be an old man that can’t have active part in there life. I have some interest in joining the military and become apart of the rehabilitation program and become part of the physical therapy unit. Be able to help wounded veterans and help them get back to shape. Plus I would be able to get money for school and not have student loans when I get out. So I have a lot of options and thoughts that are going through my head that what I want to do now and do after school. But I defiantly don’t want to do anything that I wont enjoy and don’t want to get up every morning and frown on my way to work. I just want to get the most out of my life and be able to travel when I’m older to see the world and get the most of it. I just don’t want to look back on my life and not be happy, I just want to be able to say I’m happy with what I did with my life. 

day of peace campus safari

This weeks campus safari me and my roommate went to the day of peace at the Lyman Hall Theater. It was put together by and inquiry group and there teacher. There were four times that they were having shows 3 pm, 5pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm. I went to the 9 pm show, which was there talent show. Their opening act was a zumba dance where they asked people in the audience to come up and dance and I they did you would get one of the shirts the class was wearing. The first act was a girl with hula hoops that were light up and she was very impressive then the had some people there that were singing. I didn’t take any photos because they had a sign on the door saying no photography.

FIGHT BACK

I’ve changed my project from college firsts and all the new experiences that you get at school to how to handle your battle with the freshman fifteen. It’s something that has an affect on every single freshman that first goes to school. It has to do with everything that goes on in your life. Your weight can be affected by your workload the amount you sleep and when you eat. If your eating schedule is messed up it can put unwanted weight on. You may not be used to eating at nine or ten o’clock maybe even later sometimes and your body isn’t used to it. So my project is taking a sports center approach form the IMoive app that allows you to use different themes. So the intro has a sporty feel to make the movie have a full feel affect on the viewers. Plus many of us have heard some of the information before so it is going to help with the boredom. I also want to put videos of people lifting on there to show some demonstrations on working out to encourage people to go to the gym and not be afraid of doing things wrong. A lot of people admit of not going to the gym because they have no clue what to do and are afraid of asking a stupid question so I want to be a calming affect for them. I am also going to put on the local gyms in the area to help you with the search if you are serious about looking for a gym. Tell them about the two gyms that are on campus, ones free and one has a semester price that your able to pay with hoot loot in the student center. My project is going well I just need to get more information of the surrounding gyms and have to work with the new sport app in the IMovie because applying things on there so that they flow well is not easy.

Are you proud of your first semster?

So I had some troubles with this part of the project just like most of the people because we have to do it on a tight subject that were all familiar with but we don’t want it to be long and dry and have to watch the same repetitive thing over and over again for eight minutes. So I started to brainstorm over the major problems that first semester freshman have. There are many that we share and probably one of the biggest is being with all your decisions on you and what your priorities are for your self. For the majority of our lives we have had our parents there on our butts about every thing that we do and ever decision that we make, so going to college it’s a major change not having that constant authority over us. We have a lot more freedom and that’s definitely not a good thing at some points. You won’t have some one there telling you, you shouldn’t had gone out last night when you sleep through your first class and have a hang over for the rest of the day. It’s all on you now and those decisions are going to affect everything that is going on down the road for you. So my focus of my project will be how have you’ve grown over the past semester what were you doing in the beginning that you shake your head at now. What would you go back and change if you could start the semester over again? Would your parents be proud of the decisions that you’ve made over your first semester or would they frown upon your decisions? There are a lot of pressures that we have to deal with and things could have gone better or it could have gone worse.

College isn't as easy as we thought

This is a common thing between all college students, trying to balance there social life with there work. In college that’s the real struggle because we don’t have our parents there telling us when to do something that needs to be done. Were all on our own and some of us can manage how we use our time and some of us fail miserably because we cant balance the two out in a productive way. Our workload was increased tremendously and then our free time is also at a new high. Having class one time a day three days a week is a great thing but it also could be come a down fall because we use the time to our disadvantage. But were in luck because were not at a party school. My first choice in schools was University of Arizona but my parents would not let me go because of its reputation. It’s a great academic school but it has forty thousand kids and is constantly ranked in the top ten of best party schools. When we visited it wasn’t hard to tell this was apparent. So it also comes down to the school you go to because if you’re at a renowned party school your going to run into issues with balancing you time productively. There’s always something to do and something always going on at the campus.  Meeting people at school was easy all we did was have our door open and kids would walk in and out. We were also always outside throwing a football or a baseball so kids would come join us outside. It all depends the type of person you are if you have a good out going personality you’ll have no problem meeting people but if you quiet or shy you should try and apply your self more or hang out with that loud person to help you out.

my brain hurts

I was reading on the left and right side brain parts and noticed that I’m a predominately a right side of the brain person. I’m good at sports, I like to work in groups, and I’m good at art and more of a visual type of person. So this was actually interesting for me because I always here people talking about this left brain and right brain stuff and never looked into it. Now I know more about what makes people either left sided or right sided and to see that the information is generally spot on. But I also feel that I share some of the left side brain techniques like having every thing planned out for a project, but I rather work in a group but have a strong position in the group.

This is actually a very big subject the summer before leaving for college, will they stay together or break up. I know a lot of kids that are doing the long distance thing and its working for them so I guess it depends on how long they have been together because all of them were dating for a long period of time. I was with some one during the summer, but did not bring it to school because I didn’t feel like it was going to last. You never know what is going to happen at school or who your going to meet that may change your mind on things. So I think I didn’t want to do it because of what I could get into at school. You honestly meet so many people at school its ridiculous and you create new friend ships that may go somewhere one day, so I believe it comes down to the relation ship and how the people in it are feeling about the long distance thing.

Freshman 15!

So before we all left for school we all heard about the freshmen 15. Some thing that was drilled in our heads, that you are going to get fat your first semesters in college. Is it because of all the freedoms we have at school? Being able to stay up as late as you want, and being able to eat dinner at any time of the night, even if its midnight? Even though we know it’s bad to eat so late in night but we may have class till late. Maybe we are jammed pack with work so we can’t eat at a reasonable hour. But there are so many more things that factor into this too. The stress that college brings to first year students is a lot more then most of us expected, which many of us have never experienced before. All of this leads to different things that don’t help our cause. The article says that cutting out little things could make a noticeable change. It said that the average change was about 174 calories. So cutting out a soda in the course of the day or cutting out a snack could make a significant change in your diet and may help you not gain the freshman 15. But we should all look past the freshman 15 and look down the road at real things to worry about. Sudden weight gain could cause our body more harm then we want to believe. Sudden weight gain could lead to diabetes, heart disease, and obesity and develop certain types of cancer. So this all could be dodged if you watch what you eat or cut out one thing a day could have a huge impact. If you’re a person with a lot of free time the gyms are open all day till 10 pm and the field house is free form 6:30 pm- 9:15 pm every night except on the weekends.

Growing up to fast?

These articles on kids getting into things at a younger and younger age every year is astonishing. But I could tell this was going on, it’s very noticeable. Face book is the easiest way of telling that kids of a younger age are getting into older things. I know my cousins who aren’t in high school yet have them. But you can’t blame parenting styles on this. It may be frowned upon because of all the dangers that could come out of having a face book at such a young age. It’s that kids are growing up faster, even if you raise your child the way you want, you’re not the only one that is having an affect on your kids personality. Parents obviously have a strong influence, but the media and all the new social cliques have a strong affect. The article talked about being an authoritarian parent, authoritative parent, a permissive parent and an uninvolved parent. These will obviously all have different the Authoritarian parenting styles may lead to children who are obedient but they rank lower in happiness, social competence and self-esteem. An Authoritive parenting tends to result in children who are happy, capable and successful. Permissive parenting ranked low in happiness and self-regulation. Uninvolved parenting ranked the lowest out of all of these. So even though kids may hate that there parents are too strict on some things it may help them in the long run. They will have a proper personality that people will like and respect. While the uninvolved parenting technique lead to unhappiness, even though they may have had little or no rules as a child and had a lot of freedom. So while a lot of kids would want a lot more freedom it’s our parents that stayed on us when we didn’t want to do some thing that in the end helped us.

Not a sport, its a passion

Some thing that’s always interested me football. I was supposed to play here but after camp I did not enjoy the environment. But deep down I still want to play. Its one of the main reasons that made my high school were so great and probably kept me out of trouble. Also probably why I got out of trouble sometimes. But since we had such a small town, our town would be at the football games every Friday and kept up with every thing that happened with football. It provided me with things that will stay with me for the rest of life. The leadership that football provided me is some thing I can never forget. Being a captain provide roles that I never expected and gave me responsibilities that would help me later in life. It also provided me with relationships with people that I’ll never forget. All our seniors have been together since Pop Warner football, so we’ve been close for almost 13 years on and off the field. So the group of kids that we played with were like family. But that didn’t mean we always got along but the up and downs were what made us closer. Just like our coach always told us, “ Football is like life, you’ll have your up and downs, but it’s what you do with your up and downs that will make you.” It is inspiration like that drove us to strive for greatness. This is probably why when we had our senior dinner with our coaches we heard all their stories about their high school football memories, and how passionate they were about the sport. The thing that was so shocking is that they still kept in touch with all of there fellow seniors still. During my senior year my coach had to go to a funeral of one of the kids he played ball with. So football is something I’m very interested and will always be a passion.

What will you do?

So for this blog assignment we had to find something interesting not just for ourselves but our classmates. So I just got out of the gym and figured I might as well doing something pertaining the gym. So I decided to connect to it to the last week blog doing something out of you comfort zone, and I googled some things on gym that popped in my head. The first was many of the excuses that people use for not going to the gym. Forty six percent of people said they don’t go to the gym because they said its’ too crowded. This doesn’t make sense for me cause there are times that they gym could be to over crowded but there are times that are dead times so people could work around it.  Another twenty one percent say they don’t go because they don’t know what to do. Which I find another bad excuse for not going you can always ask someone that works there. That’s the reason their there getting paid. Nineteen percent said they didn’t want to go because they didn’t feel like they were in good enough shape to go the gym. This is the worst one I heard out of all of them because you can’t get to where you want to be with out going to the gym. You can’t say you don’t want to go to the gym because you don’t feel buff enough, your not there because your too worried about going to the gym. So all this leads to one thing. Are there things that hold you back, that you’re afraid to go get because you’re too worried about the little things that don’t matter outside of your head. This matters in college because there’s going to be many things in college that you’re going to really think about and go outside your comfort. Will you do it?

comfort zones

Since being at college we have done a lot of things that put us outside of our comfort zones. Living on our own and now having all our responsibilities on our shoulders, having no on there to help us with many of our things. One thing that I did that was out side of my comfort zone was helping a kid with his public speaking project. I’m not use to helping or tutoring some one when it comes to work. I’ve always been some one, when working in groups to do my section and hand it in or do the whole project. I always felt better if I did the work cause I knew it would be done right. So helping someone and having to show them everything was kind of weird for me.  But I did help the kid with his project. He had to make a power point of easily describing a cover 2 defense to a person who doesn’t understand football. So we had to make some thing very complex and break it down enough for any one to under stand. So first off I had to help him with using the power point program because he did know how to make it look good. Making all the fonts pop, and come out in different ways. I also had to help with breaking it down to make it simple enough for every person. Which was probably the hardest part because it’s a complex defense to run and if you have no football knowledge it would be hard to understand. So we needed to get multiple slides of the defense and break it down from what the line does, to the line backers if there in zone or man, the corner backs in zone or man. Then the two free safeties playing there zones at the top of the defense. So that was something that I went out of my comfort zone to do.

Semster grades

My grades this semester that I have received have been just we I had expected. I haven’t received a midterm in this class or in my exercise science class. But in Italian and Anthropology I have received both of my midterm grades. I have a B+ in my Italian class, and it should go up because I just took a test and did well on it and I have another test in that class on Friday. Also my participation in that class is very high and all my homework is completed and always on time. So even if my test grades are lower I have things too help in that class. I also have a lab in that class that I have completed all the work for every time it’s due. Anthropology is going well as long as I keep up with the work ill be fine. If you complete the homework and participate in class you should do well in the class. Since the class is based on the four main essays I also have to do well on the other three that are coming up in the class. In exercise science we don’t have homework so it’s mainly based on tests and the inquiry papers that we have once a month. We also have to turn in papers once a week from our clinicals that we have to do weekly in the Moore Field house athletic training center. All our tests are on our power points so if I keep up with those on line and study them before tests I should be doing just fine. In this class as long as I do all the blogs and make them to the right amount of words ill be fine. I also participate regularly in class which is a plus and I never have missed a class so I don’t have to worry about that either.

look how far we've come

The time management on this project could have been planned better on my part. I should have looked into the IMovie more in the beginning then I did. But the tutorials online helped a good amount. My roommate also helped a lot in the beginning on showing me the little things and some things that I wouldn’t have found out from the tutorials because he had used in high school for a couple projects. But the part that hasn’t been to bad for me is getting people to do interviews for me. I still need to get one of my professor’s opinions. But all the students have been very willing to let me interview them. I still have to transfer all my information onto my IMovie and get it into the right places so it flows in a proper manor. That will probably be the most difficult part of the assignment, because if you want the movie to be enjoyable and not a drug on for eight to ten minutes. I also want to do it in a comedic way if I can to get a little relief throughout the video and have it flow better then it would. Interview after interview then some quotes would be a bore to me, so I want to make it something that I would want to watch and not have the class sleeping on me. We have to watch about 20 of these so I don’t want the to get old after the second one. Plus I want to put something in my video that makes mine stand out from others. So I don’t want it like every other video have something distinct in it have a little flare and make it an enjoyable experience for you and our class to watch and keep the awake.

critical thinking project

My progress on my video is in the beginning stages. I have set up some times with people to do interviews. I have interviewed my good friend across the hall so far and have an idea for a creative introduction. I’m thinking about getting slides that say what is critical thinking in all-different languages to show the diversity of the question. I know that many of us will have the some of the same answers from people, but many will have very different opinions on this subject. I think it depends on the person’s outlook on life if they truly use critical thinking. I think it could affect a person’s outlook if they have a job that they have to constantly think out side the box. Would it make them a better problem solver when things go wrong? After learning about critical thinking, I realized I used it in random aspects of life that I never thought I would be using it during. So when I’m about to interview someone and they tell me they don’t know what it is and I explain it to them and they have a look on there face like they knew exactly what I was talking about after a couple seconds of explaining. But I think that this project could give a creative aspect and that everyone will learn something from everyone’s project. It has so many people’s opinions good or bad that, you’ll have something to discuss at the end of the class. Then we have professors telling us what they think, and I feel that their aspects of critical thinking will really broaden our views of what critical thinking actually is. So I think that this project even though it’s hard, it will help us in our anthropology class and make us better thinkers.

Critical Thinking in Sports Medicine

My major is Exercise Science- Athletic training portion. This was a difficult thing to connect the two together. We’re taught by the book, so the one way were taught is the way we should do it. But obviously every person has there way of doing something their way. “… Critical Thinking means simply good problem solving.” (Pg 59) So I guess the way critical thinking would be involved is, if an injury happened and we didn’t have the proper utensils to help an athlete. We would have to go outside the box and find a way to put things together to stabilize a site of injury. “What are my assumptions in this situation” (Pg. 59) this is an important step because your gut feeling is usually the one you should go with. You have to trust your instincts because if you second judge yourself in front of someone it could make them have an uneasy feeling about the situation. So I Say an athlete breaks and arm or a leg and we didn’t have an air cast to stabilize. I would find anything that I have with me to stabilize it such as a firm piece of foam or anything that I have on me that will keep the leg or arm straight to relive pressure off the site of the injury. Keeping the injured person calm would be a key component. Another aspect that could arise if I were to come upon an injured person would you stop and help? The only reason that this would stop me from doing anything is I could mess up or do something wrong. Which already puts a feeling of second guessing my self from the start. I would also have to worry about a person coming back and trying to sue me for practicing out of my field, not having enough experience in the things that I would be helping them in. So Critical thinking could be used in any aspect of life.
Alfaro-LeFevre, Rosalinda. “What is Critical Thinking.” Critical Thinking In Nursing. 1999. 59. Print.