Update on Final Video Project

For my video project, so far I only have some of the introduction to the video. I am doing the pros and cons to commuting and living in a dorm, so I have been trying to think of ways to do this creatively rather than just listing the pros and cons, and I decided I need to interview peop

e and ask them about living in a dorm since I obviously don't know much about that part of my topic. I think an interesting and creative way to do this might be to have like a talk show kind of thing and just ask different people about commuting or living on campus, and that would probably be more fun to watch rather than just seeing different clips of people talking one at a time. I still don't know who I am going to be able to get to do this talk show, so that's one thing I need to figure out soon. I haven't really thought of any other ideas to make this video more creative or different from my first video but I still have 2 weeks until I need to share the 2nd draft with the class so I am sure that by then I will have thought of something and have the video pretty much completed.

Final Project Proposal

For the final video project, I decided that I would do my video on commuting vs. living in a dorm. I decided to do this because I am a commuter and I honestly wish that I had decided to live on campus instead. This will be helpful to other students because they will hopefully learn about commuting if they are living on campus, and if they are commuters they will get to learn more about living in a dorm. I will do the pros and cons of each situation and try to interview some people that are commuters and some people that live on campus to get their opinions on what they like about it. Along with the pros and cons, it will tie into campus safety if you are living at college and the problems that a commuter faces like being as social as the people that are at college all the time. I hope I can learn a little about this myself because as a commuter, I have had trouble being active in the SCSU community and I think many other commuters have this problem.

My only concerns with this project are the timing and getting interviews because it was a little difficult finding people to interview for the first video, but hopefully it will all work out ok for this one.

Campus Safari #12

Yesterday, two members of the MTV show The Buried Life, Ben Nemtin and Dave Lingwood, came to the Lyman Center at SCSU to talk about their show and this bucket list idea they started 5 years ago. I have been watching the show ever since it first started on MTV so I was beyond excited to hear that they were coming to our school! Basically, these four guys, Ben, Dave, Jonnie Penn and Duncan Penn made a list of all of the things they wanted to do before they died and no matter how crazy the things may sound they want to accomplish all of them. Some of the things on their list that they have succesfully completed are riding a bull, playing basketball with president Obama, spend one night in jail and crash a party at the Playboy mansion. When they started getting well known in their town, other people would write to them asking them to help complete one of the things on their bucket list. For example, they helped a man reconnect with his son that he walked out on when he was just a baby.

This was one of the most inspiring events I have ever been to and it really made me think about all the things I can do when I really put my mind to it. The stories that these guys told really prove how you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of so many other people.

One of the quotes they said was "today is the youngest you will ever be" and that really is true so don't waste the time you have now because you will never get another chance.

Student-Led Discussions for Tuesday

I really liked taking the personality test for Louie's group, and I was interested in seeing what my results would be. I got ESJF, and I think that most of it was so true about me. Some things were wrong like that I like to be in charge and am a very sociable person in social gatherings. But other than that, it says that I am very friendly and take it upon myself to insure the health and welfare of people in my care. That is very true because that's the thing I want to do most by being a nurse. Then I read the other articles about the left and right brain and I am definitely more of a right brained person. I am a creative person and prefer visual descriptions rather than having things all written out. Pretty much every thing in the list of chracteristics of right brained people relate to me and maybe only one or two in the left side relate to me. I am glad that their group decided to do the student led discussion on this topic because I think it was very interesting to read about.

I also liked reading the articles from Dominique's group because I could definitely relate to some things in them like dating being a distraction from homework and classes. This is true for me because I went to an all girls high school, so for the past 4 years I have pretty much had no distractions by boys and dating. Now that there are boys in my classes and everywhere I go at school, it's so different from what I am used to. I can't really relate to the other articles because I am not in a relationship right now but I am glad they chose this topic because I learned some things about being able to maintain a relationship in college.

Readings for Student-Led Discussion on 11/10/11

When I read the first article that was listed for Adriana's group and I saw the list of parenting styles, I started wondering which style my parents use and my parents style would probably be a mix between authoritative and permissive. My parents do have rules and guidelines that they expect my sister and I to follow but there are very few. We also don't really get punished like most kids, for example I have never been grounded in my entire life and I know most of my friends have been grounded numerous times, but I also don't really do anything bad enough to deserve to be grounded anyway. Then I read the effects of these styles and the effects of a permissive style of parenting do not match how I am at all. I don't think I do poorly in school and I definitely do not have problems with authority.

Then when I read the second article about the innefective parenting techniques, I realized that whenever I am around kids and their parents try any of the things like counting to 3 or saying i'm not going to tell you again to stop, the child usually doesn't stop. I think this article would be helpful for parents that are having a hard time getting their child to listen to them because it gives examples of a better way to handle the situations and if I had a kid, I think they would be helpful.

I asked my mom if she ever had any trouble with this when I was a kid and if these methods would have been helpful, and she said that she never had any problems getting me to stop doing something and I was a very well behaved kid. :)

my sister on the other hand was a pain and very hard to control sometimes. I remember this because I was 8 when she was born and she has been like this for her whole life. She's 9 years old now and still as annoying as she was when she was born.

Readings for This Weeks Student-Led Discussions

First, I read the articles from Ashlee's group and I thought that they were very helpful. They tell you all about how to stay healthy in college and give specific examples of foods that are good options instead of always eating unhealthy things in the cafeteria. I also liked how one of the articles talked about being prepared for emotional eating because I know that many people including myself tend to over eat or even under eat during stressful situations or just when you're bored. It gives alternatives to eating like reading or doing something else productive instead of eating. The article also gave an eating schedule which is helpful because I know that being in college has changed my eating schedule and having an idea of when you should be eating which meals is a very good thing.

Next, I read the articles from Dion's group and there was one thing that particularly surpried me in the alcohol and college students drinking fact sheet. It says that student athletes are more often the heaviest drinkers in the overall student population. I always thought that most athletes wouldn't drink because they would know that it effects their performance in the sport they play. I was also surprised when I read that a study found that college students have higher rates of alcohol or drug addiction than the general public. I obviously knew that a lot of college students drink and use drugs but I didn't know that they have the highest rate of addiction, especially since most of us aren't even legally allowed to drink yet.

I can't wait to hear these student-led discussions in class tomorrow so I can learn even more interesting facts.

Something That Interests Me but is Somehow Connected to SCSU

One thing that interests me and is connected to SCSU is nursing. That is my major and I am really interested in it because I want to be able to help heal people for the rest of my life and really get to see how the body works, other than just reading about it in a textbook. I want to be a surgical nurse, so I really hope I can reach that goal because it would be so interesting to actually get to see inside a human body and help perform heart surgeries and transplants and things like that.

the nursing program is really hard to get into at southern, so I hope that I can work hard enough and really try my best to do well in all of my classes so that I can get into the program. I haven't wanted to be a nurse for that long, I probably decided when I was around 14. before that I wanted to be an architect, because that's what my grandfather was. then I wanted to be a hairdresser, because I'm pretty sure every little girl goes through that phase once in her life. then I wanted to be a crime scene investigator, and I would still love to be one but nursing just interests me a little more than that. the biology class I took freshman year of high school really made me want to become a nurse because I was really good at biology but I knew I didn't want to be a science teacher or a scientist or anything like that.

Something That Interests Me

this post was due on Monday night but I have not had power at my house...

One thing that really interests me is photography. I took a photography class junior year in high school and that's when I first got into it. I'm not the best photographer in the world, I don't even have one of those fancy cameras that you always see photographers using but I think it's really cool. I like how people can take a picture of the simplest thing and make it look really different just by the way they change the angle and that can make you view something it a completely different way. if my goal of becoming a nurse doesn't work out then I think I would definitely consider going into photography. maybe I could be a crime scene photographer, because then I could be doing both the things I love; taking pictures and getting to see all of the crime scenes up close. that probably sounds kind of weird but I am obsessed with the show CSI...

I haven't really been taking a lot of pictures since a little while after that photography class but every now and then I will get inspired by something and just start taking pictures again. I would post some pictures on here that I have taken but they're on my computer that I can't use because I have no power at home. :(