True Life: SCSU on the Weekends

  I got my idea from Kelsey in class on Tuesday. I am going to make my video like the MTV show True Life to make my movie more original and less boring. I am planning on finding the music (hopefully) and make the title as much like the show as I can. I am going to improve my video by actually getting people to be video taped. My last video was all quotes because only one person was willing to be filmed. The True Life idea will add originality because it is not just a video with people answering questions, but it has originality. I am going to try to find commercials that have at least something to do with my topic so it is like you are really watching a television show.
  I could not work on my project over break because I have to ask people from SCSU the questions and I did not see anyone over break. I made questions to ask and now that I am back I have been working on it. I recorded two people already so it is already better than my last video. I will also use this picture as my first slide and add words to it.

Final Project

  For my final video projects, I have decided to focus on the problem that all residents on campus face, boring weekends. Many students who live on campus go home on the weekends not because they miss their family, but because there aren't many activities that you can do on campus. As residents, we pay so much money to live on campus, and we do not spend the entire week there. As someone who stays on the weekend, I can tell you that the campus is dead. No one is ever there and it makes it even more boring.
  For the solution, I want to focus on asking people who go home why they go home, and what could be changed on campus to make them stay for the weekend. I also want to ask people who stay on campus for the weekend why they stay, and what they do while they are here. I want to see how many people stay because they want to, and how many people stay because they can't get a ride home.
The way that I am going to do my video is:

-Title Page

-First question (Do you go home on  the weekends. What do you go home or why not and what do you do on campus.)

-Interviews and quotes to answer the question

-Second question(How could SCSU get you to stay or make the weekends more fun.)

-Interviews and quotes to answer questions

- Facts about things that SCSU offers on weekends and information about shuttles and where they go.

-There will be pictures of activities that have gone on during weekends and other things.

  I am hoping that this video will convince people to stay on campus weekend and show people that there are activities that go on. It might make the weekends more fun if people were there and it may even convince groups like RHA to create more activities on the weekend because more students are staying.

Meeting With My English Teacher

  This past Monday I had a meeting with my English teacher about redoing one of my papers. She has this rule where you can redo one of your papers, and instead of averaging out the scores, she will just throw the old score out. I was scheduled to have my meeting with her two weeks ago, but when I went to her office, there was a note saying that she was running late, so she would not be able to make the meeting. When I rescheduled the meeting, the day that I happened to pick was the day that we were having class in the library class room, so we had our meeting outside of the room by the desks, so I did not meet with her in her office, but I did meet with her.
  We went over what I had to improve on my essay in order to get a better grade on it. One of the major things that I had to improve was the length of my essay. It was too short, so she said that no matter how good or bad the actual essay was, she would not have been able to pass it either way. Just knowing this I knew I had a lot of work a head of me. Then she gave me some tips on how to improve the length of the essay and she pointed out some mistakes that I clearly missed. She told me that if I point with my finger, and read the essay backwards, I would be able to find my mistakes, like using the word you, better and easier then just reading it because my mind will already know what it is expecting to read because I wrote it. This meeting was extremely helpful and I am glad I signed up for it.

College Life

  For Hanna, Erin, Kelsey, and Ashley's group I read about college life and how to balance studying and social life. They talk about a lot of things that relate to me as a first semester freshman. They talked about how it seems like we have a lot of free time because our schedules are so spaced out. This relates to me because I feel this exact way. I am not use to have two classes so spaced out in one day, or only having three classes back to back in one day for such a short period of time. And then I have a three day weekend because I have no class on Friday. This all sounds good in general, but it's all so weird to me. I have free time, but at the same time it does not feel like I do at all. The articles suggested that you join clubs and get involved. I have done this, an although it has helped me be more social, it makes less free time for me. I love going to my meetings, but there are those times when I just can't because I have too much work to do for my classes. They also suggested for people to keep their doors open when you are in you're room so people can come in and visit. I agree with this because my and my roommates had this idea at the beginning of the semester, and it worked a lot. We still do it not too. We also like to sit out in the common area or lobby because then you just say hi to a lot of people, and you start to make conversations and new friends. I also watched the movie that they had up for us, it was a little weird. They talked as if they were on a hunt for animals in the wild. It was amusing and I got the point that they were trying to say.

INFJ

  For this week's class, I took a test for Louie, Mike, and Dane's group. The test was to see what type of personality you have. I got the personality of INFJ. The website says that this is the personality of a counselor because you tend to sympathize and empathise with other people. This description somewhat fits me because I want to be an elementary school teacher, so type of personality will fit in perfectly with that type of job.
  After I took that test, I read out left side brain people and right side brain people. The articles basically say that people who use their left brain more prefer certain things and are better at certain things and people who use their right side of the brain are better at the things that the left sided brain people are bad at. After comparing the two lists and reading the articles, I realized that I have qualities from both, for example, I am both a dog and cat person, but I am more of a left sided brain person.
  I am better at algebra than geometry, I need total quiet to read, I am good at math, and I would rather be serious than clown around. All of these traits coincide with the left side of the brain and not the right. The left side of the brain also control the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. This makes sense because I am right handed.
  If there was an in between, such as a middle brained person, that may describe me better because although the left brain does describe me better then the right, there are still many things from the right that describe me.

Kids Then and Now

  This week, I am partnering up with Adriana and Stephanie to do a project about parenting skills and how they have changed since we were younger. From that topic, we took it a step further and add three sub-categories: different types of parenting skills, kids and social networks, and kids and reality television. I decided to do the main research on the topic of kids and reality television. I wanted to do this section of our project because I have heard first hand about what types of shows kids are watchng now. I coach 10, 11, and 12 year olds and I am always hearing about the new episodes of Jersey Shore or The Real World. It always amazes me because I know that when I was their age I was not watching those types of shows. I was watching Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. And what amazes me even more is that their parents do not seem to mind as much as you would expect them to. Some of the parents even watch the reality shows with them. When I was there age, my mom would get so mad if she ever caught me trying to watch shows on MTV because she saw them as innapropriate, as do most other parents. For this reason, my group and I believe that parents are way more lenient then when we were kids.

Alcohol Readings

  I found the readings for Dion, Jason, and Nick's group really interesting. A lot of the facts that are in the article are things that I did not know, and would have never guessed. There were a lot of percentages of college students who drink, and the numbers are so much higher than I would have ever expected.
  I learned that there are a lot of college students who binge drink. One person in class today talked about one possibility as to why so many college students binge drink. They said that it may be because so many college students do not drink in high school because either their parents had real control over them, or it was hard for them to get their hand on alcohol, so now that they are in college, there is alcohol all around them, and their parents are not here to stop them from drinking when they want. They are doing what they have wanted to do since high school, and a lot of students expect college to be about drinking and partying, so that is what they do. This makes complete sense to me because I have seen it happen. There are people who used to drink in high school and go to house parties, so when they came to college, drinking and partying were not as big of a deal. And then I have seen people who were sheltered in high school, and they came to college and it is an entirely different experience because they do not have people to tell them that they cannot do this or that, so they do as much as the can whenever they can.
  This is why I believe all of the facts and statistics that are in the reading that they gave us to read.

High School to College in the Blink of an Eye

 It feels like I was just in High School hanging out with my friends and knowing everyone in my school, and now I'm on my own in college. I do my own laundry when I run out of clothes to wear and I have no other choice but to wash them, I have to motivate myself to go to class everyday even if I do not feel like it, and I have to make my own food when I do not feel like going to Conn Hall because it gets tiring after a while

 It also feels weird not being at home. I can't sleep in my own bed and have my family and pets around me all the time like I am use to. I miss waking up to my cat and dogs cuddling with me in my bed. I also miss my bed in general. It was so big and comfy and on the floor, unlike my high lofted bed here. I hate when I wake up and I can’t just get off my bed and walk, I have to climb down just to go to the bathroom.

One thing that I love about being here though is having all my friends around all the time because they live all around me. I feel like I am living in a small town with all of these neighbors around with little restaurants all around you and everything you need. It is like being in your own little world, and when you go out of your little town, you forget things, like that you can’t use Hoot Loot everywhere you go, and it happens a lot to me.

I also enjoy living with my friend of five years. It is nice to have her around, even if there are days where we need time apart so we go home.