Possible Class Improvements

I do really like a few of the class improvement options that were given to us.

First, I really liked the idea of expanding the storybook planning option. I was a big fan of planning stories because it gave me a lot of time to think of really cool ways to write my story. With a week a part between the planning and the story, I was able to take that time to think of different ideas for every aspect of the story. Also, it was good to even take a week away sometimes without even doing research, then come back to my storybook idea. The second time around, I was able to read through my plan and immediately spot out things I want to change when I'm writing.

I also really liked the idea of tutorial videos for writing. This would have been really cool and helpful for somebody like me, who did very little writing before this class. The video presentations don't even have to be amazing because a lot of people are visual learners and would prefer it anyway. Videos about complex grammar topics, like the ones suggested, would be awesome.

Famous Last Words: Hasan Minhaj and this current administration

Last Night, I watched Hasan Minhaj's 20ish minute routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner. If you don't know, this is where a bunch of very rich people and people from news agencies meet up at the White House and they make jokes about each other. Disappointingly, Trump and his people didn't want to make an appearance. But that was to be completely expected, honestly.

First off, I must say, wow! I was laughing throughout his routine. I will admit that you probably have to have more liberal views to laugh at his jokes. Hasan was able to make fun of this administration better than anyone I've seen. The jokes he was throwing out were on point and nearly, but not quite crossing the line. However, that wasn't the best about his performance. What I liked most was, while his jokes about this current administration were hilarious, he spoke a lot of scary truth.

Hasan was able to identify just how scary this administration and others have made politics as a whole. While even most conservative people must admit that the time that this administration has been in the white house has been complete amateur hour, there are still those the support the president fully. Now, I don't want to attack Trump for making promises throughout his campaign that he won't be able to follow through with (all candidates do that), but I will attack him for still acting like he is running a campaign. Where was president Trump during the White House correspondents dinner? Holding a rally in Pennsylvania. What is that about?  A president shouldn't hold rallies while they are in office. A president shouldn't be celebrating his victory over five months after the fact. These are signs of a very strange leader. It doesn't make much sense to me how anybody can support him, but hey, that's politics.

                                          Hasan Minhaj performing stand-up. Link

LEARNING BY H.E.A.R.T.: My favorite attention meme

I decided to choose the Learning by H.E.A.R.. option about finding a favorite attention meme and making a blog post about it. I found the meme with the "Rent is too damn high guy!" and had to choose it. The video featuring this guy was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. What's great about this meme is not only does it feature one of my heroes, but I can actually relate to the message. There have been numerous times when I have been doing an online assignment for a class and opened another tab for something completely unrelated, I have NEVER done that for this class, of course. 

This is sort of an intervention for me because I've just realized how much of a problem this is, haha. I will open several tabs and turn what could be an assignment that takes a few minutes into one that takes thirty minutes to an hour. This is definitely something that I need to change, and I will remember this meme every time I think about opening another meme while working on school stuff.

                                              By far my favorite meme relating too attention. Link

Growth Mindset: Best Buy

For this week, I decided to write about my growth mindset beyond school. This was interesting to me, because everything I had previously read about Growth Mindset was related to school. I was very intrigued to think about where a Growth Mindset could help me outside of school.

I thought about a place where I spend a ton of time outside of school, and Best Buy is what immediately hit me. I have worked at Best Buy for almost two years now and work about 20 hours a week. 

I have many opportunities to implement a Growth Mindset that will benefit my work skills. What makes me want to try this at work mostly is because it will not only benefit me, but also everybody around me. My coworkers will be affected because they will see that I am trying to improve myself everyday. They may even want to try a Growth Mindset challenge in their life. If I am more helpful with customers, I will be able to increase their appreciation  as well. SO, starting sometime soon, I will try to increase my communication skills with my co-workers and customers in order to implements a Growth Mindset that will benefit us all.

                                             The type of mindset we need. Link

Famous Last Words:Finals are coming...Dun, Dun, Dun

It's that week again...you know what I'm talking about, dead week. As I know how much studying and preparation I need to do, will I do everything that I expect from me? Absolutely not. I am a senior at the University of Oklahoma, yet I feel I still haven't learned to do everything that I need to do to be completely successful. I think what I find the hardest is to balance my time appropriately. School, girlfriend, friends, work...it's hard to figure out how to manage all of these. But it has to be done. My GPA depends on it.

So, I am challenging myself this year. I HAVE to do everything possible to do well on finals this year. I am expecting to graduate in December, and it would be nice to finish off my last few semesters well. While there;s not much I can do for my GPA, at this point, it means more than that anyway. I have never gotten all A's on my finals before, so why not now? Even if it may be hard for me to accomplish, it's not by any means impossible. I feel that I can succeed if I start NOW. In past years, I haven't prepared for finals until the weekend before finals. This has been for a variety of reasons (work, sickness, death in the family, etc.), but this year, barring anything crazy happening this week, I will plan on getting a lot of studying done. 

I won't have time this Monday, because I have four classes and work, but starting Tuesday I will get a lot done. That is the only day this week that I won't have any class or work. I am going to therefore wish myself the best of luck! And the best of luck to anybody reading this!

                                         Yep, pretty much me. Link