Blog 11

Ten things I learned in ADV 1101
- Desk calendar is a must
- Memorization takes a lot more effort than I thought
- Drugs aren't a good thing... especially CRACK COCAINE
- Doing exercise while studying will help memorization
- I have interpersonal intelligence
- How to write a proper email
- How to set goals and  motivate
- study skills... concept map... note cards
- Classroom etiquette
- Don't ask Ms. Janelle for late work or extra credit if you haven't been in class. She gets mad!

Ten things I learned personally about myself
- I am stronger than I thought
- That I am very blessed.
- That I barely tried my first semester
- Don't ask security for a lighter
- Not doing your laundry makes your room smell like butt
- Dancing to music helps me remember things I study
- How to control unpleasant emotions while doing homework
- How to ignore pain while working out
- Nido Quebein will look at you with a death stare if you don't wave back.
- I love hard work now

Blog 10

1. Auditory

2. Kinesthetic

3. Visual

4. Kinesthetic - Make up puzzles and games, construct diagrams, work problems,

Auditory - teach the material to someone, explain the steps for solving math and science problems.

Visual - create charts, take online test, write word and question cards

1. Interpersonal

2. Language

3. Yes because, I want a logical career path. It's a lot of math to be a fighter pilot, and kinesthetic working.

4. To be successful in you career path and would be easier for you.

5. I know I want to be a Military Pilot. It's a kinesthetic and auditory learning process.

6. About 4000 a month starting out with all the military benefits.

7. Linguistic - Barrack Obama
Logical - Mathematical - Michio Kaku
Musical - Beethoven
Bodily - Kinesthetic - Cristiano Ronaldo
Spatial - Visual - Dwayne Wade
Interpersonal or social intelligence - Ghandi
Interpersonal - Siddhartha Gautama

Blog 6 - Memory

First, read chapter 4 on your textbook on memory

1. List 10 tips from your textbook or class on Improving Your Memory.
- Dance to increase blood flow to brain.
- Blueberries that have good antioxidants for your brain
- Try to memorize stuff on an empty stomach because, the body releases an enzyme that helps memory.
- Make sure you take care of your body... sleep, eat, drink, and exercise
- Repeat the material a few times like definitions.
- Chewing gum slightly increases blood flow to the brain.
- Use mnemonic trick to memorize things
- Vitamins taken daily will help your memory
- Highlighting will help memory because, it activates two parts of your brain and helps remember
- Trying to relate things to images help it to go into your memory

2. Define the term pseudo forgetting?
- It is when you never really learn something in the first place. You can sometimes remember when it was told to you, but you won't be able to recall the information... "I forgot".

3. List three theories about why we forget information?
- Only put into your short term memory
- Never really learn it - pseudo forgetting
- Not having a "healthy body"

4. Put the following sentence on your blog with the correct % :
"In 24 hours we forget 75% of the information if we do not review."

5. What is the MOST important thing in having a great memory?
- a healthy body

6. List 10 Super Memory Foods. (You can find these easily by doing an online search!)
- Fish/Fish oil vitamins
- Blueberries
- Tomatoes
- Blackcurrant
- Pumpkin seeds
- Sage
- Nuts
- Apples
- Rosemary

7. Explain why taking Flinstone Gummy Vitamins would be good for memory?
- Taking flinstone gummies have many things that help with memory. It contains B12 that helps with brain activity. Also many other vitamins like vitamin A, C, D, and E that all are essential for your body to be healthy. And a healthy body helps memory.

Links on Memory:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Ks7OPD_T0
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNP8DLcdqHE

Link on Forgetting:
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-happiness-project/201111/forget-name-6-tips-faking-it

1. Make a Top 10 List of Things Professors Find Annoying
   1.Talking
   2. Texting
   3. If laptop open and on a different site off task
   4. Packing early
   5. Comparing your teacher with another in front of them.
   6. Playing dumb
   7. Going for help on the assignment the day it is due
   8. Tardiness
   9. No assignments turned in then ask for extra credit in the end
   10. Asking the day we miss class if you missed anything important


2. Make a Top 10 List of Things That Would Impress Your Professors
   1. Answering the right answer
   2. Good questions
   3. Good grades on assignments
   4. Introduce myself
   5. Email a respectful message if I miss class
   6. Be a teachers pet (buy things for the teacher)
   7. Coming for help on assignments with time before due
   8. Be very appropriately active in class.
   9. Write assignments down in agenda to seem very organized
   10. Try to find common grounds with your teacher, and communicate often.


3. What has Ms. Janelle been trying to tell you about the relationship you have with your professors in college in relation to your future in the professional world after graduation? Elaborate what this means in terms of career success or failure. 
   -  Well you have to have good etiquette in the professional world. For example, texting in front of you boss is a big no no. You can give the wrong impression even though you are a hard worker. You got to develop a good relationship with you co-workers and boss. This doesn't mean suck up, and be a brown noser because, they are people who don't like that (me included). Anyways, here in college is where you develop your professional etiquette to take with you to the professional world after you graduate.

4. What are 5 things to keep in mind when writing an email to your professor? 
   1. Always adress the person correctly. Spell his/her name correctly. Use their correct title
       such as "Dr."
   2. Always put a Subject in the Subject heading.
   3. Always use spell check.
   4. Do NOT use texting vocabulary. Such as "lol" "tnk u" etc.
   5. Always use the closure "Respectfully".


Link Required: 

1. Put a link on your blog to an article/website/video on respect in the workplace. 
   - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xinF_XZTdIk&feature=related

Blog 4: Listening & Note Taking

1. What was the result of your quiz (what level listener are you)?
- 80, "You listen well"

2. Do you agree with the result? Why/not?
- I disagree. My was always able to pay attention to many things at once. Proof is that I played goalie in soccer all through high school. So as a goalie I had to watch the player with the ball as well as look for possible open plays and men then give commands to my defense so that they can cover while still keeping my attention to the ball holder. Even though this is not listening, I think it still applies.

3. After some tips about listening/note taking, what are 5 things you can do to improve your in class listening skills?
- I always look, ask questions, emotions under control, and don't interrupt. However, I must admit that I do assume sometimes which is something that I have to work on. Also I don't like the Cornell Note Taking System however I don't think it matters right now because, I have to learn it for class.

4. What will be the approximate cost of 1 HPU lecture hour (50 minutes) for you this Fall?
- (18,400/15)/18 is approximately 64 dollars per lecture hour.

5. Now consider the day/s of the week you have the most classes (ex: 3 or 4 a day). How much $ are you paying that day for all classes combined.
- 64*4=272

6.What about for the whole week now? How much do you spend for a week's worth of classes?
- $1154

7. Write a paragraph, about your reflections on knowing the cost of classes. What does this mean to you?
- This means absolutely nothing! Nothing at all. The fact is that the money is not an important issue. The issue is that you need a college degree to have a better chance to be successful so either way you got to put in the work!

Links:
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/resolution-not-conflict/201111/the-art-listening-how-open-are-your-ears
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychology-masala/201201/beyond-brainstorming

Blog 3 - Goal Setting & Motivation

1.  Make a GPA goal for the Spring semester. What GPA would you like to earn?
- 4.0 GPA

2. Use the online GPA Calculator (at http://www.back2college.com/gpa.html) to figure out what grade you will need to get for each course in order to achieve this GPA. (There could be multiple combos - give me one.) List ALL of your courses - and corresponding grades you must earn to make that GPA
- All A's in my classes!!!

Next, read Dr. Phil's 10 Life Laws Article. Students in the past have really found this article to be thought provoking, I hope you will too. 

Now Blog These ?s:

3. For Each of the 10 Life Laws, write how this affects you, how can you relate it to your own personal life (could be academically, socially or something personal) your thoughts, etc.

 - Life Law #1 is very true. To succeed you must learn how to play the game. In this case, you need to learn how to play your teachers game. Once that is figured out then you should do all you can to beat the game! YOU CANNOT try to make the teacher play your game because, you are not the one with authority. The teacher is. However, you can learn how to play the teacher's game better than they can!

- Life Law #2 has a lot of sense behind it. If you think badly of every situation then bad things will come. As you play the victim then others will treat you as one. No one will treat you with any respect, but instead they will feel pity for you. There is a saying, "The body can achieve what the mind can perceive." That's really only a saying until you actually try it out!!! Once you start acting then you start seeing results.

- Life Law #3 has some sense. Depression in people is caused by a chemical addiction that is produce when you are sad, angry, or self punished. That's no way to live. The best thing to do is to look in the mirror and take an honest assessment. See your faults and instead of just punishing your self, change it! Change yourself for the better because, that's when the real rewards come. Change yourself to become stronger, and smarter instead of being depressed all the time.

- Life Law #4 as i said in number 3 you have to look at yourself in the mirror. Life Law #2 & #3 are connected because, you need to have a positive attitude to finally look at yourself in the mirror to make a serious no BS assessment. Once you know what's wrong then you can do what you need to do to change!!!

- Life Law #5 yeah... talk is definitely cheap except for rappers. SO unless you are a rapper then you should start thinking of doing something. Yes, pain is very motivational. In my case, my pain is from my broken pride because, of my poor showing in my first semester!!! I use my broken pride and try to rise myself up where I use to be and then beyond. However, you must get mentally ready because, to climb out of a hole, a big hole, you must be able to go through the uncomfortable even pain. As the U.S. Marines say, "Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body."

- Life Law #6 challenges your way life. Possibly what we perceive who we are. However, in a constant adventure to improve yourself. You must be able to be flexible with your way of life. Through time you will find out that this won't work so I should do this. Then again, something changes and you have to look at the situation in a different way to succeed in that environment. A person must be able to adapt to their surroundings!!! You shouldn't say what's wrong with life. It be best to analyze the situation and adapt accordingly!

- Life Law #7 is rather obvious. We all are the masters of our souls. It's our decisions that make who we are!! Managing our lives is essential. We must learn how to control emotions, fears, and how to be responsible. One best example is, Nelson Mandela. He was in jail for many years. Over 2 decades almost 3. He could have let his life crash into a ditch, but rather he read and kept pushing. His life management skills have taken to great heights to finally being President of South Africa and making a wonderful change in that country!

- Life Law #8 I call this playing chess. You gotta know what the best move is to control their actions. They treat you bossy and aggressively then you gotta think a few steps ahead to get the results you are looking for. If giving in doesn't give you those results then don't give in. It takes a lot of strength to be in control. However, it is not wise to be in so much control that you have become what you have despised.

- Life Law #9 is a big one for me. For years, I have had lots of hate and anger towards people for how they have affected me in life. However, once I've let go I realized that I only got myself to blame to have let them controlled me as they did. Never again, I will be controlled and affected so negatively like that! I've forgave them and got my power back! Once I did that I started to see improvements in my life. Thank God!

- Life Law #10 is very important. Goal setting is what everyone must do. Short term and long term goals are important to steer you through life. A long term goal could be that you wanna loose 50 pounds, but the short terms are 5 pounds a week. In a month, that's 20. In 2 months, that's 40, and in a half month that's finally 50. However if you are not specific on where you are heading then you will be stuck in neutral because, you haven't decided to put it in D and go!

Links Required:

1.  How Bad Do You Want It (Success) [Inspirational Video] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok8OHYQdDDI

2. 
- Invictus by William Ernest Henly http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/invictus/

- Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

-  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Blog 2 - Education's Evolution

1. Your personal reaction to this video. (Does this make you view HPU any differently?)
- The video didn't offend me nor I disagree with him. I sincerely think that the universities today do not teach to inspire creativity, but teaches what previous people have achieved. So far at HPU it seems that this is true, but I don't know if I would have to wait 'till my later years. Maybe my first two years or so are to get me up to the level that I have to be to be creative in my last 2 or 1 years of college. Either way, a college degree is essential these days to get a job. So however you want to put it. You are going to need a college degree if you want to be payed more.

2. Discuss the importance of technology in today's educational system. Mention things like twitter, applications on your BB/iPod/Droid, internet, smart pen, kindle, podcasting, etc. and state how they are helpful in your education. 
-  Technology is so important because, the world has became accustomed to have information at their fingertips. We are able to look up maps, celebrities, WORLD news, type down notes faster than we can hand write notes, videos, etc. to further our education. However, technology like technology in the passed has to be used well so it can be effective. For example, a very primitive tool, the knife, can be use to make sculptures, and cook food. However, misusing this tool can loose you a finger, or maybe even a persons life. Extreme as it may seem it is not too far off. People today have committed suicide because, of cyber bullies, but more common misuses of technology is obsessive amounts of time on social networking sites. So my point is that technology is important and must be used well to be effective.

3. Somewhere in your blog entry, use the word "antiquated" and mention how the world of education is changing...
- Right now, as the video explained, higher learning is becoming obsolete because, the value of education is tumbling down due to technology. The internet makes it easy for us to obtain knowledge. So as the value of education dwindles the less we need higher learning institutions as it becomes antiquated. It is a shame really because, we see the government try to stop this. Just recently the government is trying to censor the internet. Which is why you see Google homepage image covered up by a black box. However, it won't go through because, in the first few hours 3,000,000 signed a petition against it. People would probably be clueless about this, but the internet, like usual, informed us. It's also a shame because, I'm going to spend 160,000 dollars.

 Link:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzi2RIt8_nk