SCSU Clean Up Day

Two weekends ago I participated in the Southern Connecticut State University day of service with the Omega Zeta Pi sorority. It was an amazing experience, I got to meet so many new people and I was able to help clean up New Haven. The group I was with was sent to clean up a couple of parks I enjoyed cleaning the parks because it felt good to clean up for the kids. While we were at one of the parks there was a peewee football game going on and the kids took the time to come thank us. As well one of the mothers came over and gave us all little waters because we were thirsty. I really enjoyed seeing how grateful everyone was and I would love to do it again.

 

***** my phone deleted all of my pics but hopefully I can get them back and I will put one up of me!******

Stepping out of the box

I am a fairly outgoing person, I love to talk, I love meeting new people and trying new things however a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Greek life a try which is something I’ve never done before. A friend of mine invited me to a rush event for one of the sororities here at Southern Ct State University. I wasn’t really sure about going because it wasn’t anything I had ever seen myself doing but after a little thought I decided to give it a shot and in the end I turned out to really like it.

That nights rush event was a ton of fun. We played a capture the flag game against one of the fraternities here a SCSU. I had a great time, it was a lot of fun meeting the girls and some of the guys, it was also a plug to kick the boys butts. I didn’t feel pressured into anything it was a very welcoming and fun community.  All of the girls were so much fun, the sister of the sorority and the other girls rushing. I was very glad I went.

I had so much fun I didn’t stop with the capture the flag game I continued to go to some of the other events and I got to know a lot of people I didn’t know before.  We played a couple more games including kick ball which was a lot of fun although we didn’t win.

I think being a freshman here a southern brings so many new opportunities to try new things, they have many different clubs and organizations, there is something for everyone. It’s so important to expand our minds at this stage in our lives because this is the time when we are experimenting and becoming an individual. It’s also important to step outside of our comfort zones because who knows what you will end up liking and who you will en d up meeting.

 

 

Lights, Camera, Action!

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Taylor Spielburg

Although I am no Steven Spielberg I think I did an okay job on my first video project. It was a little complicated at first and I won’t lie I was a bit overwhelmed but I am happy with the way it has turned out. Going into this project I thought finding people to interview was going to be the easiest part but I was very wrong. I thought making the movie was going to be super difficult but I was also wrong.

I started out this project by making a check list of what I needed to do because I knew if I didn’t have it all written in front of me I definitely would forget parts of it. I made deadlines for each task that needed to be done and for the most part I was able to stick to it. For me the three hardest tasks were one, making it informative yet interesting, two finding staff/faculty willing to be interviewed and three, picking a song. I feel that for the most part I was able to overcome my obstacles, the video is informative and hopefully isn’t too boring for most people and although it took a while to decide on a song I think the one I chose was good. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get two staff/faculty members to interview I was however able to get one of the cafeteria workers to talk to me for a little. I asked him he thought no one wanted to talk to me and he said he thinks it was because of the topic. He said that because healthy eating and school cafeteria foods are such a controversial thing that most people don’t want to get involved. I guess I understand that and now looking back I probably should have planned ahead of time and left myself extra time to find more interviewies.

Using Windows Movie Maker was actually much easier than I expected! I enjoyed getting to know the program however there were a few things I still don’t understand so I wasn’t able to do as much as I would have liked to but I am happy with the way my video came out.

                                                                  

 

 

***** The link to my video won’t work so I will try to post it separate and hope for the best!*****

Sleep Eat Play

Sleep, go to class, eat, hang out with friends, sleep, go to class, eat, hang out with friends. That seems to be the basic overall pattern of my life as a college student. However I’ve become pretty good at splitting my time up fairly amongst the four pretty well, now I’m no professional and there are areas for improvement but so far it is working pretty well for me.

Now, when I’m not sleeping or eating during the day I’m almost always doing my homework. Often times I take a nap after my first two classes which end at 9am on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays after my nap I normally eat and do homework which for me works best because if I’m tired while doing homework I mind as have had a 10 year old do it. Looking back at my data this week I spent about 60 hours sleeping and 30 hours in class or doing homework. I also found that I tend to do more homework on Mondays and Friday’s this is probably due to the fact I only have two classes during the day and both are over by 9am, leaving me a lot of free time.

My nights mostly consist of my friends. My friends are a huge part of me and without them I would probably go insane, so for me it is important that I make time for them. Sometimes we go out and sometimes we just stay in and watch movies. I spent approximately 48 hours with them this past week including the weekend when I went home. Although I do spend a lot of time with my family and friends I am almost always able to get my work done and in on time.

Although my system has worked for me so far there are a couple of things I can definitely work on.  One not spending so much time sleeping during the day, I need to start getting to bed earlier so I am more awake during the day. Next I need to figure out time during every day to do enough homework where I won’t have to do so much on Monday’s and Friday’s. Last I would like to try and not go home so much on the weekends but that is definitely going to be a struggle. Although we are only a month into school my system I have works pretty well for me and I am happy to say there are only a few things I need to tweak.

So many clubs my head is spinning

For my safari this past week I decided to take a look around the club fair and I’m very glad I did. Sothern is a very diverse group of people and it shows through in the different clubs, there was a drill team, army club, sororities and fraternities, math clubs and education clubs. Everyone was so welcoming and friendly. Me being so friendly I stopped to talk to a great deal of the tables and one of the tables I stopped at was the NAACP table, now at the time I didn’t realize it I was just talking to the ladies behind the booth about the outcome and the variety of tables I started to ask her what their organization was and if it was diverse like the others, they started to giggle so I looked down and realized what table I was in front of. I began to laugh and walk away partially because of embracement and partially because I smelled the food. After lunch I found the isle with all of the sororities and fraternities including the one I’ve been rushing. Overall it was a great day, it was really nice to see all of the different ground and talk to so many different people. Southern really has a great community and I’m very lucky to be going here.

An A+ is more than just effort

After reading through tons of blogs it is clear not me that I definitely need to redo my home page mine seems so boring in comparison to most. I loved reading everyone’s blogs they were all so well written and interesting. I think I enjoyed looking at the titles of the posts the most. It was interesting to see how people pulled the readers in, it was also a good insight into the creativity of the writers. Out of all the blogs there were a bunch I loved but only a few stood out.

Although I don’t know much about grading a blog I feel that the blog titled Next Generation deserves an A+ it is beautifully written and the pictures are a great touch. The way she makes her sentences flow seem effortless. All of the posts are interesting but I especially liked the post about her hardship in life titled One word: Optimism. I enjoyed reading this one because I felt a great sense of compassion it takes a very strong person to not only deal with the death of a close family member but also act as a fill in parent. One of my other favorite pieces she wrote was the post about the club fair, it had a sense of humor in it when she said “they didn’t have to ask me twice to put my name down” taking about the photography booth and it didn’t feel like she was just blabbing on about nonsense it felt like she was having a conversation with me.

Everyone has done a great job with their blogs. So many have their own personalities and they are all very interesting.   It is easy to tell that most people have put in a lot of time and effort into these assignments. Over all I feel that Venice definitely deserves an A+ for her blog. She made it fun, relatable, all of her posts are written very well and most of all I highly enjoyed reading it!