Roommates :)

For my video project, i am choosing to do it on residential life. I am going to concentrate more on roommate issues and how to solve them. For example if someone's roommate is being loud and inconsiderate at 2 am in the morning  to the other persons request for silence, then they need to get that resolved. Some students might not like the idea of confronting their roommate so they might want someone else to do this for them. That's what i want to help people with. I want to show students how they can handle certain situations when their faced with uncomfortable situations with their roommates. I also want first-year students to be mindful of their roommates and respect any rules or beliefs that they may have. Also first- year students should  be able to go to someone if they are having any type of disagreement. I believe that these type of issues are important to first year students because a lot of them, are not use to living with someone they don't know, let alone someone who might be express different beliefs from them. Hopefully this will allow first year students to be able to handle roommate situation the correct way instead of the wrong way. This might also make them mindful of how to be more considerate of their roommates  How to respect their boundaries as well as creating their own. When people watch this video /I want them to be able to somewhat relate to it. I don't want to make it boring to where as student won't want to watch it. Everyone loves a good laugh so I am going to try and make my video more of a comedy so that when people watch it , they will be informed but also entertained.

Agenda

While doing the assignment for the inquiry class i realized that i make a lot of time for socializing and very little time for my homework. I usually wake up at the last minute for class and try to squeeze in time for an ice coffee, so i will be able to stay awake during class. I am so tired from the night before that my brain is barely functioning for my classes in the morning.I usually go asleep around two in the morning every night, and wake up a 7:30. My homework is usually started around 11 o clock at night and i finish around 1 in the morning. When i finish my classes, i usually end up going to a friends room for a while, or i'm on Skype for hours. I usually wait until the last minute to even think about doing my homework, and sometimes i'm so tired, i don't  reach my full potential in my work. I spend about over 40 hours a week socializing and about 12 hours a week doing homework. I feel as if i should make more time for my homework, since that's whats more important. I should have a set time everyday for homework, so that i wont be side tracked during that time. I also should cut down some of my socializing, because that's what most of my days consist of.  I socialize so much that i probably eat once or twice a day. I often forget to do a lot of my homework or i miscalculate how long it will take me to do it. I know that time-management is very important in college so the schedule that i am on now is not going to help me in the end. After doing this assignment it really made me realize how much i need to get my priorities together.

"This I Believe"

I went to the "This I Believe" lecture by this man named Dave Guettamen. He was on a public radio station called NPR and he is the editor of the "This I Believe" book.It was at the Lyman Center at SCSU at 8 o clock. He was there to tell us the back story of the "This I believe" book. One thing that I thought was really interesting was the fact that this book originated from a radio show that talked about problems in World War 1 and 2, and how people were not sticking to their own beliefs. It was also cool to find out that Albert Einstein, Jackie Robinsonand so many others were apart of this whole genre. I never thought that this book would have such a great back story to it but it did, the fact that people came out and spoke up about what they believed in to people they knew was not accepting of their beliefs.

I feel As if the blog The Next Generation deserves and “A” because they have lots of pictures, well written thoughts, and interesting topics to read. I feel as if they really draw their readers into what they are trying to talk about. For example when this person was talking about their experience with the fair, they gave quotes from people they talked to and even expressed how they felt about who they me. I also feel as if you could actually tell that this person enjoys blogging. The tones of her post are mostly positive and well written. Instead of doing the minimum she goes above and beyond. Another blog that I thought deserved and “A” was called “A New Beginning”, I believed that this person deserved a “A” because they made their blog more personal and professional at the same time. When she wrote about an obstacle she had to overcome, I felt as if she was letting us get to know her better but also taught us that we should not pull away from our teachers but towards them. There were a lot of other good blogs by students in our class, but I just felt like these blogs stood out the most to me.