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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.

So many clubs which to choose...?

When they had the big gathering of all the clubs outside of Connecticut Hall I walked through the humongous crowd of people that gathered. I went through and found the paintball club, which was the main reason I went. My friends brother that also goes to Southern made the club his sophomore year. I used to play paintball at home with my friends in the woods of their backyards. So it was an easy choice for me to sign up for the club. The other stand I walked by was the TKE frat, the reason I stopped by there was I heard they recently acquired a new house. Which was a plus because I know how grimy a frat house can get over the years.

stressed out

The way people deal with stress is something that is different from person to person. People can have the same coping techniques, like for me personally I use working out, and today at the gym I asked someone I work out if they use it as a coping technique for stress. It just relaxes me and relieves stress and anger. It’s almost like a safe place for me to go. For whatever I have going on, stress related or not. When I worked during the school year I would go to school then work so I wouldn’t get out till about 5. Then I would go to work out when I was done. Then sometimes when I would miss it, I wouldn’t feel right, like I didn’t have time to relax in my day. But now that I’m at school I’ve been using music to relax me. It also helps me when I have to do homework makes me concentrate more. So I’ve been using music as a productivity tool. It also keeps me awake cause I’ll sing to it sometime, so I wont doze off during homework. Another thing that’s been working for me great is I’ll go outside and throw the football around in the quad. Football was always a stress reliever that’s why I loved playing it in high school. Anytime I was upset I always had football after school and it gave me a time every day to clear my head and relieve anything I had on my mind. So I have a good amount of things I can do to relieve myself of stress here at school. So I haven’t been stressed out at school which is good because the load of college hanging over you head is enough to make you go crazy and be stressed out.

Avoiding the sniffles

There are many things that don’t help your cause in college in not getting sick. You don’t always get enough sleep with is vital in staying in good health. Another factor that doesn’t help you cause either is the food you eat at school and when you eat it cause of your schedule. You eat a lot of things that you shouldn’t eat because it’s open to you everyday. On top of that you have the misfortune of skipping breakfast cause you don’t have time to eat in the morning, then eating dinner past 9 o’clock isn’t good for your body. Also keeping up with hygiene always watching your hands. You’re also in close quarters with another person so if they get sick you now have a higher chance of getting sick. If you do get sick you should take medicine and try and get yourself back to health as quick as possible. Cause if you miss class its so easy to fall behind because classes are so up beat. The thing I would advise doing if you do happen to get sick. You should have contact with someone in all of your classes that you’re missing. So you can keep up with the reading and work to keep as up to date. So when you get back to health and are able to get back to class you can be on top of all the work that you missed. I’ve been sick for the past two weeks but I haven’t missed any classes. I have been taking Advil and cold medicine to try and slow it down. But the lack of sleep hasn’t helped the cause. I would feel better for a couple of a days, then going back to feeling sick and I think it was cause of my abnormal sleep and eating schedule.

Your stressing to?

My campus safari today was to the health center on campus. It’s located next to the police station and across from the wintergreen building. You can go there for physicals; you can go there if your sick you can go there to get medicine. The main health problems that college students face are STD’s, eating disorders and overwhelming amount of stress. The one thing I was interested in was stress in college students because its something we will all go through. Either having a problem with an upcoming exam, midterms or finals. Can make you stay up for hours straight studying and could cause you to stress out. So whenever your sick or just have questions the health center is a great place to go.

Nap time

Keeping track of my time was shocking for me. I found that I finished my work in a timely matter and had a good amount of free time left over. My total amount of time for studying was 18 hours. Which may have been low because I had a slow week for work when I took down the hours. Which is one thing that you have to take into consideration, the way your work load can change. One of my biggest distractions is when people just come in and out of the room because I usually have the door open. So having my roommates and his friends and having my best friend from home living across the hall doesn’t help. I spend most on my time focusing on my exercise science, either spending time in the athletic training center, or in the gym working out and doing things to expand the knowledge in my field. I should try and take advantage of the time when no ones in the room and get my studying out of the way. I could also go into the common room, if no one is in there and try and finish what I need to get done. I need to take more time out my schedule and take time to study and keep going over everything in class. I never really did that in high school I would just do my homework and maybe study a little if I had a text or quiz. So that’s one of the bad habits I have to change from high school cause that wont work in college and I will not get the grades that I want. So I need to try and make more improvement on the amount of time I study, so I can be were I want with my grades.

Friday Night Lights

Last night I went to the Southern Connecticut football game against Pace. It was the first home game and the owls took the game with ease, the final score was 61-0. The stands took a little while to fill up, but I was there early, but when all the students were there it was a great environment to be in. The stands were a good sixe so there really are no bad seats in the facility. So my first experience was an enjoyable one at the football game. It was exciting because southern scored about every 3 minutes in the game so you were just waiting for something to during the game at all times. Wouldn't allow to upload the photo.

excellence is achieved in the title?

How do you achieve excellence? So I was looking over the blogs and there were a couple that stuck out for me. Bobby’s blog stuck out for me because of all the sports photos. The facts are shocking in the professional one. All the photos captured your attention. The other blog that that stuck out for me was the new and the beginning of pebbles. The first thing you noticed was the background and the detail to the whole blog. All the names of the titles of the blogs were very creative. They didn’t give away the blog post but gave little insight, but they made you want to read them. The last blog that I thought deserved the excellence is the blog called The triumphs and troubles of tina. This one stuck out from the beginning because of the name. The title brought interest towards me. Then the titles to the blogs there were multiple ones that had quotes as their titles. Which I thought was very creative and added a unique touch that I didn’t see in other blogs. The blog that stuck out to me was the one that she was talking about other blogs. I thought all the artwork on the page was something that really attracted me. She also added links to every that she talked about which was very convenient incase you wanted to look deeper into the things she was talking about. So overall I pictured all these blogs as excellent because they had unique characteristics to help them stand out from the others in the classes. The titles of these captured the attention of me so, for me it was more about the title then the actual blog to get my attention and want me to read further into the blogs and see what they have to say.

blogging about other blogs

One of the blogs that interested me was on blogs.bodybuilding.com, this is because I’ve read it a numerous amount of times to research on products before I take them. So I can get personal experience from another person instead of just the company talking about there own product. It is a lot different then the blogster in the way it’s set up. There isn’t just one blog on the page. There are a number of posts on the page. Only the introduction, then you can click on the link to read further. Then towards the bottom of the main blog page there is a box that has the most popular blogs. This is calculated by the amount of views on each blog. So that was the only real difference between the bodybuilding one and blogster. An the fact that you can not personalize your blog besides the main photo that pops up.
The other blog that I looked at is the http://www.bleedinggreennation.com, with the Philadelphia Eagles blog. This is different from the body building blog and blogster because it has multiple videos and news links. It has schedule, tickets, roster, and a link to the team store to purchase anything with the eagles. It has others fans post and the links to those. It has a section or fan photos to upload photos from the game and anything and everything eagles. It also has ads from all the sponsors that support the eagles. This is the most different from the other two blogs it is jammed pack with everything. It’s almost kind of clustered. It has the rosters down the sides, then the recent news. Then fan posts of all the recent blogs, and allow other bloggers comment on the top blogs. There are multiple links to all thing eagles, and have search engines.

Why not become a CC?

Today I went to the front desk of Chase Hall and talked to my CC Joe. He told me all the positive aspects of being the community coordinator on campus. He said it’s a good leadership experience, and is also good to put on a resume for a future job. He said one of the biggest perks of being a CC is you get free housing, your own room and your own bathroom. It also gives you the opportunity to get very involved on campus in various events. You’re also there to meet and help all the new first year students at southern if your in a freshmen dorm. So why wouldn’t everybody want to be a CC?

Multitasking over brain power

The new age of technology is always expanding. People see this as a good thing, always being in touch with friends and family and things that are happening in the world. But is this affecting our brains? Not allowing enough time for the brain to rest, or give it time to remember what was done. Every day repetition is not good for the brain either. It doesn’t allow for new patterns to develop. Could this affect us from being able to critically think? Even the slightest bit of multitasking can cause the brain to drain. Technology is everything now at my gym all the elliptical and cardio machines have TV’s on them to watch while exercising. Multitasking is proven not to work, your brain cannot take the toll of doing multiple tasks at the same time. It’s acceptable to multitask in our society, but no one understands that it won’t help your cause. Why are we not able to achieve to complete multiple tasks at the same time? What causes our brain the ability to not achieve multitasking? There are a lot of distractions that are involved in the college life, but the ability to multitask is talent developed by the will to succeed. People try to multitask by doing multiple things simultaneously, but without a certain focus none of this will be achieved. There are a lot of people that don’t have the ability to multitask, and that’s due to the fact that they lack focus. Multitasking can also be affected by distractions around those who wish to complete their desired tasks, such as T.V, computers, and any type of media source. I’ve been able to multitask, because I’ve been dedicated to my schoolwork and have blocked out any other distraction around me. Multitasking isn’t something you cannot develop because it overloads your brain.

how will you use your time now?

I was reading the blog “Work Hard or Get Smart” and it made me think about one of the things stated in the reading. It said we are all smarter then we think we are, and we are all stronger then we think we are, and more creative. But the thing that I want to know is how do you bring yourself to achieve this. How do you reach that point? How do you know when you’ve worked hard enough? I guess there can’t be any real answer to this because there is someone always out there that will do more and know more. So you must have the drive in you to keep pushing, keep doing the hard work and maybe that one time you’ll get the feeling of achievement.
The second blog I read was about, how to become a deep thinker. It brought up a point that I never thought about. The students who do great, and have great sophisticated thoughts are the ones who have to the time to think about it. So if you have enough time will that make you a better thinker then those with a lack of time? It said calculate the hours of time you’ll need to finish the work and then double if for the proper amount of time to achieve the best amount of time for thinking. Is this the reason that most of our college professors tell us to study the double amount of time were in class?

GETTING SWOL

I went to the fitness center in the student center this afternoon. The hours at the gym are Monday to Thursday: seven am till ten pm, Friday: seven am till eight pm, Saturday 9:30 am till 4:30 pm, and Sunday 2 pm till 7 pm. There are thirteen cardio machines and the rest are weight training machines. The cost is sixty dollars a semester. There’s a class every Tuesday call kick and sculpt class its from 6:15 pm till 7 pm. I would try the class but I go to the gym in North Haven because I have the same gym where I live so I can use the subscription there.

College

College to me is almost a surreal experience. I wake up and go through the motions every morning and still doesn't feel like I'm at school. I think its like this because its not like high school. It's not the same routine, same classes same people. Your out on your own now living by your self. You don't have your parents to tell you wake up cause you have to be at school in 10 minutes. When we came to orientation it sorta hit me that i finally getting out of High school, meeting all the new people and staying in the dorm. Then seeing my schedule and not having to wake up for a 7:15 am class and having a class at 7:30 at night. My goals are the higher then they were in high school, I want to keep above a 3.2 gpa and stay active with the school . Play club sports to stay active and use it as a way to meet new people. My only worries is not to do to much and keep time to stay focused on the important things.

5 Words That Describe Me

Family: Family is one of the most important things to me. It holds a special value over anything, family always come first. I come from a big family half Italian and half greek, so were loud an obnoxious. Unfortunately I do not get to see most of my family from the Greek side because they all still live there but we keep in touch when we can. I feel also, most of my friends I consider family because they behold a special place. That ill go out of my way to do something for and basically do anything for. So unlike most I don't distinguish between the two. Theres a special bond we've created so I treat it uniquely.

Responsible: Whatever I do, I do it so that its right and gets done the right way. I like to be on time all the time, and try to arrive early if I can. Thats because the one thing I hate is waiting on people, if I say ill be there at a specific time ill be there and if I do have a problem I would let the person know. Also if your responsible it keeps you out of trouble. An from being from a small town word travels fast so I try my best not to be put into bad positions. Also if you show I feel if  your responsible you will earn respect and be trusted and be able to do more of the things you want to do and won't be held back by the little things because people don't think you responsible.

Leadership: I have learned how to be a good leader from football. It had taught me so many things on how to motivate and lead a good of young men. Leadership is a good role to know in life, cause when life goes down hill for you and the people around for that moment you'll be able to stand up and help pull things together. Also be able to stay calm and not lose you mind in the situation, will help you with all life situations and help the people around you when they need someone to guide them. Its an essential thing in life that if you have it, it will benefit you and the people around you throughout your life.

Outgoing: I don't have a problem talking to anyone about anything. I'll talk to anyone, I have a good personality and have no problem keeping a conversation going. I think I'm very easy to talk to if people approach me and get over the fact of my size, that could drive people away. I'm not shy at all, I would approach anyone and always okay with doing public speaking and activities in front of a lot of people. It also helps when you need to do something or get something done, because if your outgoing you know more people that can help you with things.

Funny: I like to think that I'm funny. I have a good personality that lets me keep me and the people around me. By saying something funny or doing that I get a kick out of. I hate when something is too uptight, I always try to ease the tension. I feel life's better when your having fun and laughing. Theres somethings that ill take seriously but I will always try to bring a softer side to everything cause you can't enjoy something if your not having fun. So wherever I go and whatever I do I'll always try and have a good time and bring some comedic relief to the table.