5I. Art

Since starting college as a commuter student at SCSU I always park in lot 9 and every day I noticed a piece of art that is always.

I don’t even know what the name of it is but for some reason it always catches my eyes because it’s something that I never seen before. The structure of it is made of metal and rocks and it is very unique. My mission for the upcoming weeks in my spare time I will try and find out what’s the name it and where it originated from.

here's a picture of it

5B. Time Schedule Reflection

For the past week my INQ teacher told us to keep a time schedule to show what each student does each hour and my there were some outrageous numbers of hours students were doing. But in class our professor told us to break the time schedule into sections and the biggest sections that she wanted recorded was the number the hours you do your homework/ time your doing outside work and the number of hours you socialize throughout the week. As I started to calculate the total of hours I did each activity, the amount of homework/ time doing my work outside of class was 23 hours. According to her statics in class I fell into the C range of a typical college student because the students who do at least 40 hours a week earn an A, students who do 30 hours a week fall into the B range, students who fall into the 20 hours earn a C, students who do 10 hours are in the D range and for 0 hours are in the F range.

Doing this experiment taught me a lot about my self and things that I need to work on the most. Some of the things that I need to work on are that I tend to procrastinate quite often and that leads me to either do homework late or finish early because I don’t want to do it or just quit.  With doing this week schedule it was sort of a wake up call for me and I’m glad that I did it.

When it came for me to calculate the total of number of socializing I did over the week it came out to be about 18 hours and I felt that that was a great amount due to the fact that I still manage to get things done and still have time for my friends.  Which is always good so that you have that balance with your academics and personal life.

Over the course of my studies in college I plan on being more organized and making sure that I set a set schedule for myself to follow because throughout my education life I have always been on a set schedule and I learn best when I have one because now that I am in college I really don’t have a set schedule and that’s why I feel that I procrastinate on so many things.

 Heres a quick 3min video on creating a schedule for college.

5v. Agency

Agency

When I searched them term “agency” on Google the definition that it gave me was a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties.

For instance “Social Work Agency”. 

When I searched agency in the Merriam-webster website the def. they gave me was
1

a :  the office or function of an agent

b :  the relationship between a principal and that person's agent

2

:  the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power

I can relate to this term is because after I graduate college with my bachelors degree in Social Work I plan on working for an agency that deals with what I’m passionate about.  

5A. 12 weeks left

So much has already happen during my first four weeks as a college student. During my years as being a high school student all my teachers have repeatedly told me that the college workload is ridiculous and now that I’m in college I can see why they kept saying it. I receive triple amount of homework now then I did in high school. So far I have been getting my work done and handed on time and feel proud of the work that I do. Being in college is a whole new ball game then being in high school because in college you have lots of time on your hands when your not in class to do whatever you want and you have the choice on doing your work or hanging out with your friends. Reason I say that is because your professor isn’t going to bother you and see if you’re doing your work unlike a high school teacher because its all on you weather or not you pass the class and graduate on time. That’s probably one of the difficulties that I have with Time Management because it’s something new to my life that I have rarely practiced.

However I find that I am learning this new skill quite fast because I have always seem to find the balance between doing my school work, hanging out with friends, and working part time.

For the next 12 weeks I plan on setting a schedule for myself because I find that if I’m a set schedule I know that I can overcome the college stress level just a tad bit. Also with me setting a schedule for myself it would teach me how time management is easy to set because I will set a time for everything that I do. 

4I. #25. Quite

It’s already the 4^th week I college and there is so much things to do. For me as a commuter I need to find a nice quite setting so I can focus and do my work. Many people think the library is a good place but for me I feel it’s a distraction because there’s a lot of movement going on. The place that I go to do my work and know that it’s going to be quite is the 4^th floor fire place room in the student center. Reason why I find it to more useful for me is because everybody is always working and mainly being quite which is nice. Even though it is in the student it tends to be loud but that doesn’t bother me because I always listen to music so to me it’s a quite place.

4V. Delayed Gratification

Delayed Gratification

When I search the Delayed Gratification on Google the definition that they gave me was Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward. Generally, delayed gratification is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later. To me having Delayed Gratification means that in order to get what you want you have to work for it, you may have to work for a long time to get but once you get the wait would be worth it like being in college. You’re in college for 4 years and all you’re doing is earning your degree to be successful in life.

4b.

The question that I have come up with for my inquiry question this week. What if the test subjected was never brought up on having food and growing up hungry. When they see anything kind of food or sweets their initiative response would to eat it because they are starving and they are being pressured and tempted to eat it. However they are being forced to wait 15 minutes not to eat what’s in front of them and they will receive double the amount as their reward. But that cause them to have a self-debate because it’s like eat it now or wait the 15 minutes and receive more. I know that if I was brought up on not having food and for men to see food in front of me I would grab and eat.  

Another question that I had come up from the readings was that how can I marshmallow predict a person’s future. The reason I came up with this question is because people change. With people changing so does their willpower, in the article it talks about how kids don’t have the willpower and since they can’t wait 15 min. to eat a marshmallow they are destine for failure in life. I feel that, that’s inaccurate because majority of kids don’t learn about will till they are in preschool or even kindergarten. So while they learn about willpower the more they begin to change. This is the reason why I came up with this question.

            Here’s a video of the marshmallow experiment

4A. Delayed Gratification

When I hear the words delayed gratification I automatically think about something that takes a longer time. However the real definition is the ability to wait in order to obtain something you want.  In my life there has always been a delayed gratification like graduating high school and earning my diploma and now that I’m in college I expect that the next 4 years (hopefully) will be my delayed gratification. Reason why is because I have patience in order to graduate on time and earn my degree in my major Social Work. In today’s society people often think that Americans hate to wait, that we have no patience. I find that statement to be believable, but its not just only Americans but people in general because not everybody has patience or love to wait. Think about it, who loves to wait nobody. Everybody wants what they want when they want it. So it’s not really fair to stereotype Americans on how they hate waiting and not having patience.  As a society I feel that majority of the population value instant gratification because again if they want it they want it they don’t want to wait because some think if they wait they will loose the passion that they had for it. I feel that we should change the way people think and provide that tool that we need which is delayed gratification because nothing comes easy in life. I do feel that technology plays a role because technology is everywhere and if you want it you get. There are million things you could do on the Internet and get what you want.
Having delayed gratification is a skill that most people develop around the 3 or 4 but it’s a skill that anybody and any age can live so there’s no reason why people cant have patience.

3I. #9 Join a club

After attending the Involvement fair I came to realize that Southern actually had quite a few things to join like; Spanish club, Step Team, Dance Team, NAACP Organization, Fraternities and Sororities.  After looking at all what they had to offer I decided to join the NAACP organization. I felt that it would important to me, because through high school my history teacher would talk about this organization but they would never go into depth about it. So I hope that when join the club I would further my knowledge about them as well as becoming a member. I look forward on attending their first meeting this Monday.

 

3v. Motivation

What is Motivation? Well motivation is the act of process of giving someone a reason for doing something: the act or process of motivating someone.

In my own words motivation is what drives a person to be successful, however they are too lazy to do it.

What are some things that can motivate you?

1.    Figure out what you need to do.

2.    After figuring out what you need to do set an accomplishment or reward for yourself.

3.    If you are a person that is lazy, start off very slow because you don’t want to rush yourself and stop what you’re doing.

 

Overall try your best, because if you try and try hard you’ll feel great about yourself