Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 10

Your Guide to College Success, chapter 10 is called Take Charge of Your Physical and Mental Health. When I began to read the chapter, I came across the second page in the chapter, and it talked about lifestyle patterns linked with poor health in college students, and a few of those listed applied to me. The ones listed that applied to me include, skipping breakfast or regular meals, relying on snacks as a main food source, overeating, and not getting enough sleep. I did not know that exercising regularly could help generate new brain cells. when I read that, I was surprised. When it said most people need at least eight hours of sleep, I immediately thought that I do not usually get that much sleep, and that I usually end up with around six hours.

Sleep

Last night, I went to bed around 4 am and woke up at 9. Sleeping that late is really tiring for me. I only stayed up that late because I had to finish my midterm for muse and i had to finish my reading for english class. Today in muse, we talked about google adsense, which I already use. We are planning on finishing our video later today, and hopefully we can actually finish it this time. In english class, we continued to work on our epiphany essay writing workshops. For some unknown reason, it takes the whole class time to talk about 5 essays. I've always wondered why it took so long. Our final draft for our essays are due next week, and i have not started my revisions yet. Maybe I should have started them earlier, but i keep getting distracted, forgetting about it, or procrastinating it. One thing that i would like to get around to working on is the banner for this website. I would also like to make some other changes in this website, in terms of making it more visually pleasing.

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 8

In Your Guide to College Success, the 8th chapter, it talks about succeeding on tests. It starts off talking about long term and short term planning. In long term planning, it says to pace yourself, find your style of studying, stay healthy, and focusing on the right things instead of seeing the instructor as a evil person. In short term planning, it says to know what to expect of the test, figuring out what is going to be on the test, not skip the day before the test, finding your learning style,and to protect your studying time. It moves on to talk about how to be smart about cramming if you need to, and to prepare for the test. It talks about how to master each type of test, and how to go about answering different types of questions from the test. Finally, it talks about grades, and the little things about other things.

Campus Movie Fest

Rendell, Sophia, Cameron, and I went to the campus movie fest. At the movie fest, we saw Joel, Patrick, Myneisha, Kimberly, Jackson, and some others from our class. When we arrived, the line was very long. The guy gave us tickets and we slowly moved into the auditorium. On our way in, we picked up an orange flashlight, random papers, and a ticket for a random drawing. Sadly none of us won anything or got a shirt, but the short movies played were all very interesting. The one that I thought was the most interesting/funny was the one about a killer who made sandwiches and the girls. It was a good experience to go see the movies, and my friends and I thought about making a movie for next year...

Your Guide to College Success: Chapter 7

This chapter is called Enhance Your Study Skills and Memory. One main thing that interested me a lot in this chapter was when it talked about memory. I was interested in the memory part because it talked a lot about how someone can improve their long term and short term memory. It gave a basic outline about memory, long and short, and then it talked about how to improve both, and how to use both to its potential. The memory enhancing techniques or strategies sound very useful, and I may be able to use some of them very soon, and some of them, I already use without knowing what it's called until now.

Driving

One thing that i tend to avoid while driving is: traffic. Yes, traffic. It is one of those things in the world that cant be changed. You may try to rid the world of traffic, but it will not happen anytime soon. So, i tend to avoid it instead of sitting in it. When i sit in traffic, it makes me so angry. Just the thought of someone driving badly that caused this makes me very upset. So, i try to avoid it. When i cannot avoid it, i try to pick the best time, when it is not a lot of traffic. Traffic can be easily caused by many things. It may not even be a reason for it. All you need, is 1 person driving slower, or doing something that is not with everyone else. Please stop making so much traffic, and try to drive off to the side or something if you have to.