What's going on in my video?

Little ideas, big ideas, I really don't know where I am going with this.

I want to make a stand though in southern's community and make it know that the students want to fix it. I want to feel apart of a college. If I did, maybe I wouldn't want to transfer as much as I want to now.

I want to get some insight on whats going on, on campus. So i want to try and take some clips of things that are going on. Explain maybe why they are or aren't working, and why people don't want to go to them.

I want the video to feel like you are exploring southern and wonder what will happen next.

Maybe i'll show some students things they didn't know about southern.

In addition, i want to put more in put from students and their feelings/reactions to make it more relate-able and understanding to a more diverse group.

I also need to get times where I can interview people and add them into my video. So far my plans are moving swiftly unlike the midterm. Wish me luck!


Blurb: I tried finding help with the creativity of a video and found this funny article, maybe it could help later one, who knows.

Video Final

Our final is about a problem within or about southern and a proposal of how to fix it. It took me a little while to think about what I wanted to spend my time on trying to fix. The most bothersome thing for me, is not feeling part of a college; sadly I still feel like I am in highschool. There we go, I found my problem.

How can southern help commuters feel more apart of southern and have that 'college experience' ?

Already I have a few ideas that southern can start to lean towards. One is something Emmanuel, in boston, does. My older sister went there so I am planning on interviewing her and getting her feelings toward it. What her college did was every tuesday and thursday from 11.30 or 12 till 2 there wouldn't be any classes scheduled instead groups could meet and there would be activities. 

This would be a huge step for commuters feelings a part of the school.



My plan for the video is as follows;


An intro, describing the disconnection to the school and thus the problem.

Commuters feelings about being a part of the college(Interviews)

How people on campus feel about commuters(interviews)

My own proposal (sister interview)
          What others think of my proposal
          What people want(interviews)
Examples of events (references to other schools)

Conclusion of thoughts

Credits



Here is a commuter trying to get involved and sharing their feelings.

Commuting is a preference

After reading the two articles I felt annoyed. Personally I hate commuting every day, but I think I would hate to live on campus even more.

It's not that I don't like people or I have a problem with a roommate. It is southern itself I have a problem with and do not want to live there. I like cooking my own meals since conn hall is not my favorite place. I also liked keeping my job back in my hometown.

There is a lot of down falls though. At first most people were cold to me since everyone already made 'friend circles' in the dorms. People do not like letting other people in.

I feel distant from everyone since I can't be on campus all the time. The days I really have time is saturday and sunday, other than that every day I have to drive home and do homework before I go to my job. It is a very stressful and unexciting freshman year.

One article that talked about how commuters graduate later on I can understand. I'm only taking 4 classes next semester, not because I want to but because the classes conflicted or weren't offered other times or enough times or they were at night when I was working. If I lived on campus it wouldn't matter if I had a class at 8. But if my class ends a 10 in the morning, what am I suppose to do for that how time. I could lung my laptop and all my work around with me but since I don't live there I would feel alone and awkward there for so long.

Commuting is a preference of a person and what they like and also, can handle. I know that when I transfer, I wont be commuting, but it also wont be around here.

Something else that's worrisome about commuting.

Language is all around you

For some, the language requirement at southern is a hassle, or a waste of time.

At first that was my first thought as well. I was put into German, my mom laughed at me saying "Are you really going to stick with that?". I thought about it, and it was hard enough to change one class why bother changing my langue and see how it is.

I fell in love with it. My class is something I look forward to, my professor makes our class fun and exciting to learn German.

Today in class, Amandas group discussed the language requirement at southern and related it so everyone in our class.

Hopefully it showed everyone how important studying languages is. For me I try to tell everyone to learn a different language that most people are not use to, since they may never know if they like it or not.

Amanda's group said the big problem about learning another language is motivation so I looked up about how to learn another language. I found this article that tells the basics to trying to learn a language.

Learning all about multiple Intelligences

People of course having their own unique learning style. Since people are all different and have different qualities that suit their own way of understanding and remembering information.

Reading over multiple Intelligences I tried to think where I belonged in the different groups. It was hard to place myself somewhere, my own qualities overlapped in so many different categories.

Thinking about how much I overlapped categories made me realize how can we group billions of different people into these categories. Of course this is a generalization but then I thought about how school is not generalized.

Schools over look students multiple intelligences, but then again I feel as if everyone is grouped together in different categories and are actually generalized as well.


The discussion of multiple intelligences is somewhat vague and conflicting. 

The chart above helped me think about the different ranges a person can have in  the different categories. It also showed me that every single person in the world can be and is most likely have different styles they need to be taught in order to achieve their full potential. 

Take a quick test :)

Debt And College go Hand in Hand

Based off of all of three of Tina's, Nina's and Mike's reading, I wish I could become a teacher without going to college.

In this article Mr. Castillo is having huge problems trying to get ahead in life. It worries me about all the others in America who can't keep up with loans and end up going back to college because they can't find a job.

College is becoming a vicious cycle of lost money. Graduating and being 40,000 in debt is a pretty big deal, especially when you know you have to go back to school.

In addition, this article  tells how the government is trying to help students with the loan rates. Even so will that really help all those who are under right now?

America needs to help its people with education. Everyone wants to go to school here but each year it seems harder and harder to pay for it all.

Soon marriages wont want to have children in fear of not being able to pay for college.

All in all, money is a huge problem for college students. Personally I know a lot of students who do not work though. I feel like everyone needs a head start and needs a part time job well before going to college to learn how to save up and be able to deal with the loans after college.

Too many teenagers miss out of a good education about MONEY, and I feel we should start there.

 Start Early

Some Secrets Aren't Forever (Safari 10 or 12?

At the lyman hall on Friday November 4, Frank Warren the creator of PostSecret came to southern.

A friend of mine that came home for the weekend from college loves PostSecret and when I told her the creator was coming here she insisted that we go. Of course I knew what PostSecret was and saw a few cards that friends showed me, but I never was really into knowing others secrets until last night.

Mr. Warren showed everyone some secrets that weren't allowed in his books, some of his own secrets, facts, and how it all started.

But most of all he gave an underlying message to everyone. I believe it was a message that you can take in anyway you wanted, good, bad, helpful, hurtful.

For me that message was, no matter what happens through your life even when you feel like you are so alone and everyone left your side, you aren't alone, you have to open your eyes for just a small second and realize that there is so many people around you willing to give you a hand when you need it the most.

Some people might have gotten a different view, others may have wanted to go help someone. In the end Mr. Warren, I feel, is set on giving these speeches and reaching out to everyone through others. To me that is a goal that hopefully he will meet one way or another.


For anyone that reads this, I hope you take the time to read more postsecrets and hopefully go see PostSecret Live.

What's Interesting at SCSU?..

You tell me.

What there is, or isn't. Should be or shouldn't. All at Southern.

(Maybe an art gallery)

But something at southern that is interesting, is there Study Abroad program, which I am actually going through the process now trying to get all my paper work. For someone who lives on campus I don't see any problems trying to get appointments. For me however I have limited times when I can be on campus, and sadly teachers are not there on the weekends.

The study abroad programs has so many different countrys opened up to its students to pick and study at. Personally I am going to Germany next fall to study art. I can't believe it.

Their advisors are very nice and they help you out step by step to make sure that all the paperwork is done and collected.

Just simply being able to study in Germany for the same price as southern blows my mind. I can't wait for the experience and I can't wait to study art in another country.




If you ever wanted to study abroad or were thinking about it, click here.

Fun in the...SNOW

With the early snow the only thing that comes to mind is the awaiting snowboarding season. For some that might sound scary, others may be intrigued, and then there is those you like to ski... We wont get into that.

Something that interests me ever since I was little was the thrill of snowboarding.
At first, I wont lie, it was extremely painful to learn how to snowbaord.

The first time I got onto a ski-lift, I wasn't sure what to do. One, I forgot to unstrap a foot from my board, two I almost missed getting off the ski-lift, and three, I went the wrong way getting off and went into the woods. Nothing is easy the first time.

None the less, snowboard has its benefits. Exspecialy when you start to go down the slope, slowly picking up speed, weaving here to there, up and down. Your body heats up but the cold winter air freezes your face.

Yes winter is slowly approaching and I can't wait till snowboarding season. This year hopefully my doctor will pass me and I will actually go unlike last year and the year before. I have missed it so much.