A,B. COLLEGE

As my first college semester comes to an end there are so much that I found out about myself that changed. First I noticed that I've became such a stronger person, meaning that with these 16 weeks of classes it taught me to be mentally stronger. Reason is because ever week there was something new, either it was a pop quiz, a test , blogging, or having to a group project. There was no room to be weak and I feel that I have overcame it and I feel extremely proud of myself on handling these obstacles. Also another change that I noticed about myself is that I'm being an excellent time management person and reason why I think so is because I found time to do everything I wanted and everything that I needed to do, and with that it also taught me on how to be more responsible. However even though there were great moments and improvements that doesn’t mean that there were challenges, and boy were there challenges. First that big challenge that was dealing with and still dealing with is having to work part-time. Reason why is because there were some weeks that I was working closely to 40 hours and still managing on studying and doing my homework. art of the reason why I found this challenging is because I always had self doubt on if I can make it through and overcome this obstacle but I may never know until the end. That’s something that I'm going to have to face through out my college semester. With these challenges my immediately reaction was stress, and as a college student that’s very bad because it shows in your work and you can receive a bad grade on and that can cause more stress. But the way how I handle it is that I took one day at a time and with that I made sure that I had at least 30 minutes to myself, wither it was watching TV or just having a quiet time to myself trying to find some peace with myself. 

But even though there were challenges there were improvements. One huge improvement is that my writing has become much, much more stronger and since it is becoming more stronger my confidence in my writing is becoming much more better and I'm starting to feel that I can handle any essay that will come across me, and I feel very proud of myself of that and also is just being able to say that I am a college student. Those to are most definitely my biggest achievements. Some of the habit that made me accomplish my achievements is having a positive attitude on everything and being determined, and looking at the outcome of why I decided to attend college and that outcome is having a successful career and being happy with life. It was all about having the right mindset that made this semester possible for me. 

As being a college student doesn’t mean you can escape from that grading system that we all know. For me grades this semester was a wake up call for some of my classes. The one class that I was an actual wake up call for me was my  math class. Reason is because when my professor posted my midterm grade and when I seen that I was a F my heart dropped. I knew that I was having trouble with that class but never knew that I was having that much trouble. However with hard work and determination I was able to rise my grade from an F to a C plus just in time for finals. Overall being able to see my grades were very helpful.  

As this semester ends I'm starting to come up with goals for next semester. One goal that I am coming up with is just being true to myself and being determined to do my best at whatever I am doing.

16V. Freedom

For our Final Vocabulary blog our word of the Week is Freedom? 

So what is freedom? 

Well Freedom is  the quality or state of being free, the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action, liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another :  independence, the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous 

Two relatable words 

Liberation- the act or process of freeing someone or something from another's control : the act of liberating someone or something 

Release- to allow (a person or animal) to leave a jail, cage, prison, etc. : to set (someone or something) free 

Final Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0iw-o_lW_Y&feature=youtube_gdata

http://youtu.be/f0iw-o_lW_Y

15I. Joy Ride

For this week's involvement was kind of an accident. The reason why it was an accident was because since I'm a commuter I park in the Wintergreen building and since it's winter it's cold outside and I dont feel like walking to wintergreen. So I hopped on one of the shuttle buses so they can bring me to the parking garage. Turns out they didn’t bring me to the parking garage it brought me to Union Station, downtown New Haven and boy was I confused. During the drive I seen so many store and much diversity I also seen the school Yale and many stressed out Yale students. Overall even though at first I didn’t appreciate the drive it turned out it was ice to see other places of New Haven 

15V. Autonomy

Autonomy 

what exactly is Autonomy 

Well when I searched the term Autonomy the def. they provided me was the state of existing or acting separately from others, the power or right of a country, group, etc., to govern itself; self-directing freedom and especially moral independence  

these are the def. that I found when I searched the term Autonomy 

two related words: 

Device- an object, machine, or piece of equipment that has been made for some special purpose 

Alternative-  offering or expressing a choice, not usual or traditional, existing or functioning outside of the established society 

These are the related words to the word Autonomy. 

15B. FINALS

Since finals are approaching fast, well next week. There's a lot of things that still need to get done like my INQ final video and my ENG portfolio. Overall I feel confident with finals coming up because I know I know through out the semester I did my best that I can do. Since finals are next week what I decided to do is call off work for this week so I wouldn’t I have that burden of taking a test going off to work and then staying up late to study for the nest finals so since I did cancel work I know that I will have a great amount of time that I can use to study and get things done. Also another way that I am preparing myself for finals is that this week I'm getting the proper sleep that a college student should get because even though I did cancel work for this week I know that I am still going to be up studying. However I feel that I'm not as stress as the other students are about finals coming up and it feels weird that I'm not stress sometimes I think that my classes are basic and that’s why I'm not stressed or trying to cram in last minute things to my professor. I also think that those who are cramming in last minute things are the ones that didn’t take this semester for granted and didn’t try there harder. I'm just glad that I'm not one of those students because I always told myself that I don’t want to experience that college level stress because I know that sucks from what I seen from my older brother. 

I'm just glad that we have winter break because it’s a well deserved break from all college students because the last 16 weeks everybody work their butts off. 

15a. Review on The videos

Throughout the last days of classes our prof. had our class watch each others rough drafts of our final videos. And there were very impressive videos that the class came up with. As I was watching my classmates videos I was coming up with ideas that I can use for my video and how I can reedit my video and make it professional but also I have that creativity aspect of it because creativity is highly important in this video because it is our final video. But one reoccurring theme that I was watching from the videos was that mostly all of them had music added to them and this seemed to please the professor because I guess that was creative to add music to the video. But to me I felt that is a was a gimmy because I knew that adding music was just plain and not so much creative because everybody was doing it. But I guess I was wrong because the prof. was pleased with it. But overall watching theses videos did give me some ideas to do with my video like how much words should be on the screen and how the background color should be and how the font should match and be a proper size. All these ideas were running through my head while watching the videos. Then when It was my turn to present my video the feedback that my peers gave me were very great because it gave me more ideas that I can use for my video. One common statement that everybody seemed to agree with was that I should add in my of me in it because in my video I do have a video clip that was created in BBC and its about 3 minutes long and if you count the time that I did its about 2 minutes so I have more to add in about more. 

Overall I feel that this video will be huge improvement from the last video I did.