Video Project 2

I feel as if my second video is better than my first video. I didn't have to worry about trying to make it funny or to keep my viewers drawn in. For my second video i let the information i was sharing make the viewers want to keep watching so that they can learn more about Southern. It took me more time to do this video project than the other one because i actually started it earlier and planned it out better than i did my last one. My strength in this video is the fact that i did it on Sororities and Arts here at Southern, which is what i feel a lot of students look for in a college. I also tried to show that Southern was more family oriented and close together unlike the really big schools.I feel as if students want to fit in and that a big concern for a lot of them so i wanted my viewers to feel as if there is a place for them here at Southern no matter what their interest is. My weakness in this video might be that i didn't do a lot of things to make it more interesting like my last. I tried to come with a more calmer approach than my last video, but overall I think that i did pretty good :)

http://youtu.be/HhGWn1T7Q5M

Midterms

I feel like most of the grades i have now i am ok with. I always want to do good in my classes but i feel like the grades i get are the grades i deserve and if i want to get better grades then i have to put in more effort and time.There are two classes that i know that i can do better in and its not the fact that i cannot do the work or the work is too hard for me, its the fact that i like to procrastinate and i felt like since those were easy classes i could easily get away with it , but that was not the case. It was a misjudgment on my part but i know that i will eventually get those two grades up to where i feel comfortable with them. I also let other obstacles get in the way of my work and i sometimes get distracted. I let other people sometimes sway my mood which therefore sways the effort that i put in  my work which is not good. I still end up with okay grades but i should be getting great grades.Overall my GPA really isn't that bad, there is need for improvement since i set high goals for myself but i feel as if that improvement wont be hard as long as i stay focus and keep my priorities straight. I love school so getting good grades when i worked hard and stayed focused has never really been a problem for me. I intend to do better and keep my grades up so that i can succeed in school and life in the future.

Sculptures

This sculpture is on the side of Englemen Hall and it was created by Mikyoung Kim. It has a large sleek frame with many curves that accentuate this sculpture.To me it kind of looks like birds about to take lift off together. I take this sculpture as symbolizing unity , sleekness and strength within the university. Southern is usually seen as having a bad reputation but i dont believe that it should. After coming here i've realized that the University of Southern is like a big educational family with the exception of thoses ignorant individuals that we all have to meet. Also there are a lot of gifted students here at Southern and they have a lot more to prove then people at Harvard and Yale, so thats where the strength comes in at. I also believe that Southern staff and students are well organized and things just seem to come together, which is where the sleekness comes in at.

Relieving stress

I was suppose to do something fun to relieve stress from the midterms, but i don't get stressed. I feel as if the grades i get is the grades i deserve.  Just by doing my work i know what grade i have in my classes, but since this was an assignment that we had to do, i went to this gathering that my hall was having. It was a pumpkin/ Halloween get together. I was able to  decorate a pumpkin for my nephew which was really fun for me seeing as i love to do anything artistic. I was also able to make candy apples, which in my opinion is just fun to make but not to eat. There were dance games and picture taking. I also attended this like coffee hour on campus and i really enjoyed that. There were people who came and performed, some sang, read a story they wrote, or even rapped. I thought that the diversity in everyone's talent was very interesting. I love music and to be able to see how many talented musicians there are at southern was really cool for me. Even though is was about 10 degrees outside. Even though i didn't have a lot of stress for midterms this did help me mellow out a lot and relax about other things so, i particularly enjoyed this post.

For the past week i have personally been dreading my teachers posting my midterms grades. Seeing as I've been sick for the past two weeks and really haven't been that engaged in my classes. I feel as i have not fulfilled my expectations for myself for my first two months of college. My grades are no where near where they should be and i am kinda feeling as if it is too late to bring them up. I feel as if i have wasted two months of college didly daddling, and that is not good. For the second half of the semester I am going to try and work my behind off to get my grades up and not let my feelings or being too late to bring up my grades , get in my way. I also am going to try and attend every class no matter how sick i feel. Instead of waiting to the last minute to do my assignments i am going to do them right away. I also cut down a lot of my social time which  is good and i am going to continue to keep that to a minimum.College isn't easy and i learned that the hard way, but its not suppose to be and i have to start stepping up to the plate and taking on responsibilities like a college freshman should.

This week i went to a Jubilee Choir with my CC Ebony. At first i was kind of second guessing going cause I'm not really big on getting involved and joining clubs and stuff. I originally decided to go to this Jubilee Choir because i wanted to show that i was involved in something, so i could apply to be a CC, i also wanted to be able to say that i participated in something other than party's my freshman year in college. Before i even got into the choir room i was very anxious, thoughts of not being a good enough singer or that these students were not going to like me kept running through my head. After about the first ten minutes, i started to ease up a little bit. We went over a couple of songs that i didn't know but seemed to catch on pretty quick. This whole time i was beyond nervous about singing to my full potential so i was kinda lip singing for a while, and praying that no one  noticed it. A couple of times i hit the wrong notes and felt like everyone was staring at me but when i looked around, it seemed like i was the only one that caught it . Overall i think that it was a great experience for me to go through, and i actually feel like i will continue to go to this Jubilee Choir.

Failure

I feel as if everyone has a fear of failing, but not everyone uses failure or takes failure the same way. Some people might look at failure as a way to work harder and others might look at failure as the end of the world. In the book MINDSET, the author explains how parents would reward their children with praises and gifts if they were to get good grades or make a goal in their soccer game, and their kids would get use to it. This can be beneficial to the kids self-esteem but also hurtful, because when their kids do not make that goal or do bad on a test their going to feel as if they are less than what they should be because they wont be getting that praise that they are so use to . This goes back to the idea of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset those with a fixed mindset will do as i previously stated and look at that failure in a negative way, but those with a growth mindset might just look at as if its a step back but not the end of the world. I feel as if i have a fixed mindset because when i do bad, i beat ,myself up for it and give up , i feel as if there is no coming back from that bad grade and that it is the end of the world. Sometimes i just have to realize that i am in the only one who is standing in the way of me succeed instead of failing and the more i drown in my emotions about failing the longer its going to take for me to better in my classes.

Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset

There are two types of people in this world, people with a fixed mindset, which take almost every situation and look at it as if it’s a determinate of how much their worth. Where people with a growth mindset look at situations in their life and see it as a way to improve their life or raise their worth. Personally I am someone with a fixed mindset, I almost always take situations in my life and make myself feel as if because of them, I am somewhat at less of an opportunity than others. I feel as if a lot of people in college or around my age have a fixed mindset. We look at failure and see it as were never going to get better or we can’t, while people with a growth mindset look at failure as a way to improve themselves. I believe this has a lot to do with the idea of 10,000 hours. People with a growth mindset tend to apply the 10,000 hours to their work because they let failure motivate them, but people with a fixed mindset tend to not apply the 10,000 hours because once they fail they feel as if there is no improvement needed. People with a fixed mindset feel as if they always have o prove that they are naturally smart, without actually having to put any effort into it, while people with a growth mindset nurture their intelligence and let their hard work speak for itself.

Roommates!!

http://youtu.be/SjZAvrRQeoU

The topic i chose for my video was first-year roommates. I chose this because when i was about to go to college, this is the first thing i worried about. I was scared that my roommate might be, mean,scary, weird, or insane. I was convinced she would turn out like the girl in the movie "The Roommate". My parent suggested that i'd move into a single so I don't have to worry about it but i didn't want to miss out on that experience. When i cam to Southern a lot of the students and staff from Reslife talked about the support that is here on campus if you were to have a problem. I felt like it was very useful and if everyone knew about the help provided they wouldn't worry as much. Which is what i tried to incorporate into my video. I only put two interviews into there because I didn't want to make it a boring video. I used a lot of visual examples to show what is a good roommate and a bad one. I feel as if my visuals will entertain my viewers as well inform them.

Reslife!!

For my Campus Safari I interviewed my CC Ebony. She explained how being a CC has it's perks but also its downfalls. In order to become a CC you have to fill out the proper paperwork to even be considered. Then you have a group interview and after the group interview you have your individual interview. They have a 2 week seminar before school starts to learn how to deal with a variety of situations, involving students and their roommates. You get to have your own room,free housing, and a weekly pay check. The job consist of monitoring your floor and getting your floor to mingle a little.