10I Anxiety is Predictable

At any college or university there is always stress. No matter what may cause the stress is either the amount of schoolwork, managing your time, working, too much on your plate, or any other problem. Stress leads to anxiety because you just have so much to do. I went to the Health Center and picked up a plan-fit on anxiety. Anxiety can cause you to fear or make you panic because you are just so overwhelmed. It can lead to you being anti-social and if you commute to not be able to drive. 

These effects are crazy to think that it can affect us so much. Many students may either have phobias, obsessions, or generalized anxiety. Generalized anxiety is more common because this when you are stressed all day everyday about everything and worry about everything. This can lead to panic attacks. In order for students to treat this is to go to counseling and with medicine. This will help the student be able to relax and chill for a period of time. It will help control their anxiety and minimize it little by little. It crazy to think that this can affect students, but there are cures and resources to reach out to for help. So never be afraid to reach out to anyone for help because you are the not the only one that is going through that.  

10V The Beauty of Creativity

What comes to your mind when you hear creativity? To me when I hear creativity I think of art, music, dance, and fashion. But creativity is much more than that. When you are creative you can be it in so many different ways. The actually definition of creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas in the production of artistic work. In other words you use your imagination or inspiration from around you and create something that is more advanced than what it was already. 

Some creative words I learned this week in my sociology class are homogenous and heterogeneous. Homogenous is when people marry the same people from similar or same backgrounds. Heterogeneous is when people marry different people from different backgrounds. These are creative words because they describe groups of people that do and believe in different things. You can make it more creative by adding to the definition. 

Creativity is something that everyone has and should take advantage of. By using inspiration and other peoples ideas can create something so different than what everyone else thinks of. You can never go wrong with being creative because it always will affect you in a positive way!

10A Reflecting is Key

Our midterm video assignment was definitely something stressful for me even though we had a reasonable period of time to do it. Going over the requirements for the topic I think I did a good job on having a beginning, middle, and end because I had imaged to ask questions and give answers to them and show students and staff members perspectives on the questions. I think my introduction of what the program is was very strong because I showed what it offered and the steps towards making our academics successful in our first year. Something else I thought I did well was getting all the little details in because I made sure that everything made sense and that the video ran smoothly. 

Something’s I think I could have worked on were the amount of people I interviewed (I had three students and one staff member of the FYE program). I think I could have interview possibly a professor to show a professors perspective of this program. It would give a little more of variety to the answers of each question. My time limit was 5-6 minutes and mine was 5 minutes and 7 seconds, which I think, is ok, but I think I explained what the program was and its advantages for us in the time that I recorded. 

The technology part of this project was working with me when I was making my draft and trying to post it on my blog. I still could not figure out how to put the actual video on my blog for my final either, but instead I put the link to the YouTube video on my blog and once you clicked it would automatically bring you to my video that was posted on YouTube. Other difficulties with the project was trying to figure out how to do certain things on iMovie, which was a struggle, and annoying, but I got through them and managed to make a good insightful video of the FYE program. 

I think I did a good job getting the audiences interest because I made it run smoothly and added music so it was catchy. It was very insightful and the beginning where I explained what the program was and how it worked, I thought was very insightful. The grade I would give myself would be a B+ because there were something’s I could have tweaked and re-done, but I just had no time to re-do things cause of the deadline. What I would change if I had more time would have been to make sure the interviews were clear enough. The voice in them was shot a little because of the noise in the background. Making this video was definitely a challenge, but I managed to make it work and create what I think is a great view of what the FYE program is.

10B How does your creativity begin?

Being creative is a key to everyone’s life. Some of us may think we are not creative because we know others that are more creative than us. But in reality we all are creative in some way and at some point in our lives and we do not even realize it. Being creative does not mean being creative just in the arts, music, or dance departments. You can be creative in so many different ways that there are way to many to name. Applying creativity to myself, I sure do not think I am creative at all. That is probably one of the things I know I am not good, but still managed to have had some creative moments in my life. 

When I think about creativity, what come to mind are art, music, and dance. To me dance has always been something I loved, but never really got into, but wish I did at a younger age. Dancing is in my blood considering I am Hispanic! ;) When I was lets say middle school, my friends and I would always make up dances in my living room or at their houses because we were just bored middle schoolers that loved to be creative when dancing. One of my friends was a dancer and she was usually the one that led everyone. But we all pitched in ideas and came up with creative moves to add to the dance. Looking back I never really looked at the era of ours as being creative until now. 

When someone asks me to be creative I shut down because I do not think I am creative. The thing is being creative is not being wrong, but just have different ways of thinking about the same thing. Any ideas you have people may say you are wrong, but in reality you are being creative so it does not matter what others think. The way you create things and think differently is not wrong; it is just a different way of thinking. My attitudes towards, money, power, praise, rivals, work, and play can be different then someone else's attitude towards them. I think that money is one key of having power, and that when you have power and money that you have rivals and people that praise you because of your accomplishments. When it comes to work and play, I think work is serious and have to concentrate on it when play is having fun and going out and enjoying yourself when you are not working. My views towards these can be different or the same as other people, but everyone is creative in how they think about these words and how it may impact them differently. Being creative is good and without it we would all be boring human beings!

FYE Program Video

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9V Critical Thinking to Learn Words

When I hear critical thinking I think of thinking by picking out every part of any argument or topic. The actual definition of critical thinking is analyzing, applying, synthesizing, and evaluating any concept or argument. By doing this thinking you become more informative with the concept you are talking about or learning about and you become a better thinker in making life decisions in the future as well.

Two new words that I have learned in my microbiology class this week are tinctures and ionizing. Tinctures are solutions in an aqueous alcohol. An example of this is Iodine. Ionizing is when it causes water to release OH and damage the DNA. Examples of this are x-rays and electron beams. 

Every day we learn something new and we never know what it is going to be so it's a nice surprise!