Too Cold for Me

In general, I feel like I have a good idea of how I want to be treated by other people, and I won’t let others do things that put me down. As I was growing up, I lived by the rule “treat people how you want to be treated.” I think that is a good model to go by in life. I can usually tell the difference between when someone is joking about something, or really trying to hurt my feelings. Personally, I don’t like to joke about things that could hurt someone’s feelings because it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes. I think my personal boundaries are healthy because I feel positive about my relationships and their interactions. I don’t allow someone to get into my space, like Elenor Roosevelt said: ” Nobody can make you feel inferrior wihout your consent.” That may not be exact quote, but it gives the idea. I think I developed my set of boundaries because I was tired of feeling bad inside, and I took everything people said to heart. I wanted to develope a tougher skin, and stand up for myself because I knew I was an important person.

For this assignment, I interviewed my grandmother. She lost over a hundred pounds and was able to keep the weight off successfully. If I were her, I would be very proud of myself. Although, my grandmother had never told me, I found out from my mom that she had gastric bypass surgery. This happened long before I had been born though. Even when I was younger, I still remember my grandmother being a fairly large woman. When I was in about grade school age, she joined the weight loss program Weight Watchers. This was the turning point in her weight loss. She began to watch what she was eating, and wrote everything down. As well, she planned out the meals she would eat, and go out less often. The obstacles that she faced often came from cravings for the foods that she once ate freely, and going out with people while they. Advice she had was to consume better foods, and to track everything. This allowed you to physically see how much food you were actually intaking, and what kinds of foods. To this day, my grandmother still tracks calories, and food intake. She also goes for a walk everyday, no matter what the weather is like, she still takes the time to go to the mall.

1. Overpreparing is not necessary for test taking.

2. Three good ways to prepare for a test are dividing your time accordingly, study with others, and read handouts.

3. There is no reason to eat breakfast before taking exams, it doesn’t make a difference.

4. The best strategy for taking tests is to go through it as quickly as possible, you’re first instinct is always right.

5. Subjective tests consists of essay questions, and objective tests are true/false, multiple choice, matching, and fill in the blank.

6. 100 percent quallifying words are ones such as: all, always, never, only, none, invariably, no one.

7. Frequent, sometimes, often, many, most, may usually are not 100 percent quallifying words.

8. Double negatives are statements that include two positives in a sentence.

9. Multiple choice questions ask you to complete a statement.

10. Sentence completion asks you to get rid of part of sentence to make it true.

1. An essay has which parts?

a) beginning

b) middle

c) end

d) all of the above

2. The best way to prepare for an exam is:

a) inactivly listen to the instuctor during lectures

b) study handouts and material given by instuctor

c) stay up really late the night before the exam

3. Test taking panic comes from

a) studying, and focusing on material being learned

b) past experiences with bad test taking results

c) eating the wrong foods before exams

d) none of the above

4. A good example of test taking strategy is

a) Preview test

b) keep an eye on the clock

c) read the directions carefully

d) all the of above

5. Multiple choice questions,

a)have a stem, and options

b) are impossible to take educated guesses

c) are the biggest stress of test taking

This stupid computer!!!! Just deleted my f*ing whole essay that I just wrote. I am so pissed.

So anyway, my quote: ” Without money harmony, there is no peace for the individual.” - Warren Farrell, Author

This is true for almost every living individual. Money is what makes the world go round, and with out it, we have nothing. There is the constant struggle for achieving the greatest possible outcome in life. We want bigger, better, and more expensive things; therefore work hard to get them. These things all depend on personal social situations. What may bring peace and comfort for one individual, may not be the same for another. Either person wants to be set in their perfect situation, they work hard to get to where they feel comfortable. If they can’t get to that point, they feel the stress and pressures that wanting the money gets them. Once a person has achieved it, they feel satisfied, and safe with their life.

To be perfectly honest, I do my own special kind of note taking. I believe that it works fairly well for me, but I always look for ways to improve it. It is similar to the Cornell and the Leonard. Right now, I only have one class that is really worth taking notes, or that I actually have to take notes in, and that is my psychology class. It is actually really hard to take notes because the teacher gives us material in an unusual way for me. Mostly I just go off of what is out of my book.

Like always, I’m not quite sure how we are supposed to be doing this assignment. I mean, am I supposed to complete the assignment, and blog that? Or, am I supposed to just blog a response to the assignment- and if so, where am I supposed to complete the assignment? Maybe I’m looking too far into this whole thing.

Okay, as far as external distractions go, I definately have problems with my roommates. One just can’t seem to do things with out my help. It’s really frustrating when I’m trying to do homework, because I keep getting interrupted and lose focus. Another problem is the fact that I have to do my homework and studying in the living room/ kitchen because I do not have a desk, or anything to sit on in my room. Because I am in a common area, I try to ask my roommates to keep it down, and listen to their music quietly. A lot of times, I will take my work to school, so I can use the library. Another problem is that my roommates will stay up late on week nights drinking. They are often times very loud. I try to be nice, but sometimes I have to yell at them so they will go to bed or be quiet. I also try to get them to go to bed at normal hours, but that seems to be a lost cause.

As for the Internal distractions, there is too much going on and it won’t stop. I am constantly worrying about my health. Also, the emotional problems I am trying to deal with. I have made an effort to get rid of these, or at least stop thinking about them. I took the iniative to get health insurance so I can go to the doctor, and see a mental health professional. I still worry about my health because I haven’t been to any of my appointments- they schedule out a month. I just hope everyday that I’m not dying.

Right now, I’m ultimately confused about my future plans. I feel completely stuck in the now and future. Moving to Duluth was a mistake for me, and now I am going to move back to Minneapolis. But, the problem is, I don’t know when I’m moving back, or even where I’m moving to. My aunt wants me to live with her, and I want to. She is in the process of buying a home. Also, I signed a lease until January, but she thinks I can just move back in may or June. Am I supposed to be trying to transfer, or signing up for a summer class at LSC? As for the fall, I don’t know about that either. If I can’t get out of my lease, I should be registering for classes here. All I really want to do is get those AA credits and go to a four year. That’s about all I know right now.

Arrrghhh… So who thought that 3 months would go by with so much procrastination? I have not done well on doing my campus events, and I have especially slacked on writing about them in my blog. Okay, so if I use Advisory 101, and the career expo that I briefed, I’m only short two campus events. I looked on the calender, and I am going to make plans to attend the spring open house on Friday, from 3-6 PM. The other event that I am going to attend is the Natural disasters informative gathering on April 19th, at 12:30 in room E2156. As a side note, I am also going to get ontop of writing my observations from the other campus events that I have attended. Because I am responsible!

Well, what I found when I logged my schedule for a week is that I spend a lot of time doing nothing, when I could be doing some homework. Or even some physical activity. I know that my biggest problem is doing my homework. Instead i will watch movies, read, take a nap, or do sudoku. I love sudoku. But that’s besides the point. From now on, I will try to make an effort to make sure that my studying, and my homework get done first before I do much else. I would say that it’s much harder to focus when you are living on your own. Once it gets down to it, I notice all of the little things like “wow, I need to vacuum; or the dishes need to be done.” etc. etc. But I will be trying to focus, and schedule things much better.

Signing up for this class, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was told to take it, not really knowing anything about it, or even if I actually needed to take it. For one credit though, why not? I was pleased to find out that it would actually help me with my college career. The number one thing that I liked about this class was that it pushed me to do some things that I wouldn’t normally do, unless I absolutely had to. Things such as getting my school I.D., my library barcode, and my print card. Although, I haven’t used my barcode, I have used my I.D. and printcard multiple times. I feel confident that I now know how to print off assignments, and use the copier. At first, these things can seem pretty intimidating. The workbook that we got for this class has also been very helpful, I think. Each chapter has skills, or techniques for dealing with college, and careers after college. I think the chapter that I especially liked was the one about stress busters. It really pushed me to apply for medical assistance so I could talk to someone about my problems. In hopes of relocating my stress so I could focus on my school work, and not be worrying all the time. I will admit that some of the guest speakers tended to drone on about things I cared little about; at the same time, I do believe that the general message was still good. They shared some good information about financial aid, and where to receive help about almost anything. Which is very important. In the future, I will know where to go if I have any questions about almost any topic. For this category, I really liked visiting the fitness center. Although I may never use it, I was happy to find out the things that you need to do to start using the place. As an overall, I’m really happy that I took this class. It helped me figure out multiple things that will help me continuing with my education, and hopefully beyond that.

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