Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 5

Expand Your Thinking Skills: Chapter 5. It starts off talking about thinking critically, asking questions, and offering criticism. It talks about the internet, and how to find the most useful and accurate information. The chapter talks more about reasons, and how to solve/ come about reason. Problem solving also comes into this chapter, like finding solutions, mindfulness, and characteristics. It goes on to talk about decision making and creative thinking. Near the end of the chapter, the book talks about how to lead more creative lives. I thought it was really interesting because it tells us how to be more creative and move away from a plain or boring life.

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 4

Chapter 4, called Diversify Your Learning Style, talks about people's strengths and weaknesses and how everyone has their own unique strengths. There are different types of learning. It talks about the MBTI which i have taken before. When i took the MBTI I got INFP. It was strange to read about it somewhere else because i learned about it in EDCO already. The book also talks about how to create a good relationship with your teachers. Personally, I did not do everything correct according to the book. Especially the first impression.

peer mentor

The peer mentor in our class is very useful. When I have questions or have anything I want to talk casually to about, they are the person that I feel like i can go to. The professor sometimes seems a little too intimidating. The peer mentor is also helpful because she is in the same situation as us, like when we are confused, she can help us, and help guide us. Especially like last class time, when the professor was not around, and she help lead the class. Although I haven't personally talked with her outside of class or gotten help from her outside of class, she already seems really helpful in our class.

4-5 people per group
Scribe  (script writer) script due 10/9
Actor
Director
Producer
Editor
Camera Operator
30 seconds - 3 minutes
Titles?
Music? (Audio Track) optional
into/ titles optional
Video due 10/26
cell phone, laptop camera, digital camera, go IRC and borrow camera, whatever!

class

This blog is like a blog that is a record of the small portion of my life. In class, our telephone game of a cop turned into a gangster. I tend to like to write my blog during class time because it helps me think and it helps me stay on topic. The teacher wasn't in class today, and we still had class time.

Bio poem

Sherman
Kind, Persistant, Easygoing, Funny
Shirley
Family, Friends
Happy, Tired, Sleepy
Food, Air, Water
Rides, Food, Friendship
Water, Heights, Losing a Family or Friend
Girlfriend, The World, Sister
Albany, Key Route
Lam

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 9

Chapter 9 in Your Guilde to College Success was called Express Yourself. Being able to express yourself is important, and even in jobs where you don't think you need to be able to perform good public speaking. Writing is also important, if you cannot write well, you cannot express your ideas. In the book, there are many things it suggests to do to create a better paper. It also talks about writer's block and how to overcome it, and it also talks about plagiarism. It gives tips and tricks on how to avoid plagiarism and how to properly cite your sources so that you don't have a problem with plagiarism. Finally, it talks about public speaking. It talks about techniques and other ways to improve your public speaking skills.

Class

During class, we had a excersize where we were in groups of 4-5 people and we would talk about plagarism and public speaking. After talking about internet and technology, we started getting off topic and started talking about illegal downloads at the school. It was an interesting thing to talk about because it is something that many many people do online.

Tired

After driving back from LA, I had to finish my essay for English class. It took more time than I expected, and so i slept late. When I woke up on Monday, it was already 10 A.M. and class was starting in 30 minutes. I quickly showered and ran to class. The whole time during class, I was really tired and it was hard for me to concentrate on what the teacher was talking about. After all my classes for the day, I went back to the dorm and took a short 2 hour nap. I will try to sleep earlier from now on!

class

In class, we talked about the scavenger hunt. We then split into groups of 4 to talk about assertiveness, and we were given 2 situations, the first situation was that you think a professor does not like you. The second situation was that your girlfriend has body odor. In our little groups, we talked about how we would handle the situation. Then we talked about the homework, the internet, and some other stuff. The last 15 minutes was spent playing and ice breaker called "I Love My Neighbor" this ice breaker is played by having a group of people stand in a circle( or sit) and then one person is in the middle, who says "i love my neighbor who...(and they insert something they have/do/or anythign about them). The people in the circle who the sentance applies to have to move away from their spot to another spot in the circle, and whoever does not have a spot is in the middle and must continue the process. For example, the person in the middle says "I love my neighbor who wears black" then everyone wearing the color black has to move.

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 3

In the third chapter, the book talks about time management, a skill in which i still have to learn how to do. When it talked about time wasters, i had a few seconds of connection as i checked my phone for text messages. The Swiss-cheese method and the set time method are both methods that help some people, but personally, i do not like to set a time for myself to do things, and instead i like to do things when i have nothing else to do. This may also contribute to my ever increasing procrastination skills. Reading or writing about procrastination is a lot easier then actually following through with what you read or wrote.

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 2

Chapter two of the book talks about communication. I think that communication is important to everyone's lives, and that without noticing it, we tend to develop bad habits in our communication skills. This chapter not only addresses these problems that we have in communicating, it also tells us what we should do instead of our bad habits, and how to deal with other people. I think that there is a lot of important information in this chapter, because communication is important to everyone, if people could not communicate, this world would be a disaster, and so the things talked about in this chapter is important. Of course we don't just develop these skills overnight, unless you are some kind of prodigy or something else, so we have to keep practicing these skills until it becomes second nature.

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 1

The first chapter talks about college, and things that will help you on your way to graduating. It also talks about majors, and the use of the internet and other resources like social networks. I think that I use facebook too much, and sometimes i use it unwisely. When it talked about what people shouldn't do on it, i seem to have achieved almost all the problems at least at one point in time.

The mime and the mirror

During class, we did an activity where one person was a mime and the other was the mirror. My partner was Joel. When we started, Joel was the mime first and he was a little confused and did not really know what he was doing. When it was my turn, my plan was to confuse him a little bit. I turned around and did some confusing hand movements to confuse him. I thought that this activity helped me get to know Joel better. It helps people concentrate more on a person's body movements. It also creates a chance to pay more attention to what someone is thinking by looking at their body language. I thought it was a fun activity with a lot of chances to do whatever another person is thinking.

The Library

Today in class, we went to the library. The library is very big, it has eight floors and an underground basement floor. The teacher was not in class today because he was injured, but a person from the library came to talk with us instead. In class, he talked about library cards, the library, the library website, databases, and other library services. After the librarian stopped talking about the library, we talked about the blackboard and the greensheet. We ended class a little bit earlier and then we were allowed to walk around the library and to get a library card.

Top 10 Websites

My top 10 favorite websites to visit are:
1. Facebook: (www.facebook.com) I enjoy going to facebook because it is a good place to communicate with people I haven't seen or heard from in a while.
2. OMGPOP: (www.omgpop.com) I like this website because i can play games with my friends.
3. AllKPop: (www.allkpop.com) This site has a lot of information of current K-pop songs, and gossip, which I enjoy reading.
4. Youtube: (www.youtube.com) I like to watch videos.
5. Baka-Updates: (www.baka-updates.com) I like to watch anime and this website lists the torrents for a lot of the anime that i like to watch.
6. Soompi: (www.soompi.com) I like to be updated with asian music and k-pop, so i enjoy going to this website.
7. OneManga: (www.onemanga.com) This site because i like to read manga.
8. StarcraftII: (www.starcraft2.com) I am waiting for this to come out.
9.Wondergirls Spectacle: (www.wgspectacle.com/forum/) I like going to the forum because they talk about my favorite girl group artists.
10. Imeem: (www.imeem.com) For my music needs.

Class

Today in class, we talked about setting up a blog, and the professor even helped a girl set up her blog in class. Next Monday is labor day, so we don't have class, which i think is good. So, the next class time we meet is going to be next Wednesday, which is a week, and we are going to the Library on that day.

Small Groups

I thought that the small group thing we did in our Muse class was very helpful in getting to know people in my class more. The small groups help us have some time to talk with people, and to get to know them further. I thought the idea of it and the idea to have us talk about our weekend was a good idea. Weather it was planned specifically for that reason or not is not important because either way, it was successful.