Time Is Money. How will you handle it?

This Monday I started putting time and thought into my video project. It took me a while until I figured out what I wanted to do as a topic and then the light bulb switched on. What’s a better topic then time management? Everyone has their troubles with time management in college and everyone has their own way of describing these problems as well as how they plan to solve these problems. After I figured out my topic I put some thought into what questions im going to ask my interviewees and I came with three questions that I believe will get the perfect amount of info on the main topic. The three questions are: 1) How is managing your time different from high school to college? 2) What do you spend most of your day doing? 3) What would you do differently to be more productive with your time?. I feel that these questions are important to not just ask freshman but others as well. Freshman, staff, and CCs can all answer these three questions and all have various responses to them which is why these three questions are perfect. In result, all of the interviewees having different responses will make the video more interesting. My plan is that everyone will have very different responses which will help trigger people to keep interest in the video.

Eat,Sleep,Football,Study

Throughout my normal week I usually spend 5 hours plus on school work. I am mandated due to football to get at least 5 hours of study hall a week which I happen to like because I am able to complete the majority of my home work for the entire week in those 5 hours. The time I put into school doesn’t compare to the hours I put into resting and eating before practice which is kind of funny but it does not surprise me at all because I believe in order to get important things done such as school work you need to have a well, rested and full stomach so that you are functioning at your body’s full capability. The most hours of my week without a question go to football. Football is my life basically if you do the math it easily takes up over 20 hours a week. I don’t hate that it does this but it does give me trouble with being able to complete other things. Luckily I have learned to manage my schedule it a proper manner resulting with me being able to get everything done even though football does take up most of my time in college. Once, this semester is over that will mean that football is over. This results in me having a very different lifestyle for second semester. This means there will be other things that will become scheduled into my life such as activities during the day that don’t involve school and other fun things. At first it will be hard to manage my schedule since it won’t revolve around football but after the first few weeks I think I will get a grip on it and after all college is about learning how to adjust to different things.

The club fair

This past week I took a walk through the club fair. I was quite surprised when I attended this because I never imagined there to be over 60 clubs that any southern student can join. It was very fascinating to see all the different clubs you can join starting with the radio club  if you’re a fan of socializing over the radio or maybe you find interest in sports and want to try out rugby which is a very physical and competitive club sport. Personally I was most interested in the club sports such as hockey soccer flag football and even rugby. Knowing me I probably wont join any of these since I already play football for the school but id like to attend some of these club events because they sound pretty intense definitely the hockey games during the winter season.

A's only please

After searching the side bar for a solid 15 minutes I finally found a few blogs that I think deserve an A. The name of the first blogger that I feel deserves an A is Bethany Castellano who wrote about what she has learned in her first few weeks of college. I feel that this blog deserves an A because it grabbed my attention with the tittle and the blog was well written and straight to the point. She hit every question you asked in your blog and made it into her own style as she responded to them. Another strong point was how she related back to her life before college and how she had to change her ways from highschool life to her new college life style.

                The second blog that I found that I feel deserves an A is Gabriella DiPretas. She talked about the tips to being a successful student in school. Her tips were to not procrastinate and manage your time wisely. She did a great job explaining why these two tips are very important in order to be a successful student in college. She deserved an A for this because she did a great job explaining how to not procrastinate and reasons why not too. She also did a great job on explaining how to manage your time wisely and how she’s had to change how she managed her time from high school life to college life. Another reason I feel she deserves an A is how she structured her blog her blog is very well written and shows she put a lot of time thinking of what to write and making it interesting enough that someone would want to read it. It’s not too long but gets straight to the point and I feel that that’s one of the biggest things with blogs. Make it short but sweet.

"I just wanna be, I just wanna be successful" - Drake

The biggest tip I have gotten, that has affected me the most is definitely to not procrastinate in college. This tip has affected me because I now know in order to be successful in college I must get my work done on time and not save it for the last minute. It’s good to get assignments done the day you get them because in college you’re always busy and there’s always things going on in your schedule; classes, sports, meeting and of course the non-school related activities. A good way to avoid procrastinating is get an agenda and write your assignments in it and complete the work once you are done for the day with your classes. An agenda is very benefitial because not only does it help you not procrastinate but it helps you by being organized and knowing what you have to get done. Some aspects that I have been informed about that aren’t the greatest are going to class early or staying after to ask specific questions. This doesn’t work very well because most teachers are very busy and either have classes before the class and aren’t there in time to ask specific questions, or are in a rush to get to their next class so don’t have time to answer the specific question. This has been a problem for me because there is one class where my teacher just makes no sense and she hasn’t been sending me emails so it’s causing me some troubles. In order for me to continue following my goals I will have to find other ways to get info and responses on my questions. In order to do this I will have to ask friends after class and hope that they have an answer and can help lead me in the right direction. Also not procrastinating will help me succeed in school because my home work will be completed on time and I won’t have to be worried about saving things for the last minute which is why I bought my self an agenda.

Motivation and Determination is the Root to Success

Basically in this write up it talked about the theory of mastering anything if you put in 10,000 hours into it. I have mixed feelings about this theory because there are some people that are just born with natural talent for example tiger woods. He started playing golf as soon as he began to walk at the age of 5 he was already in the golfers digest magazine. That’s incredible and we all know a kid that young does not have the attention span to put in 10000 hours into anything. Although this is where my mixed feeling come in because I do believe that if anyone dedicates there time and effort into something for 10000 hours I do believe you can master whatever you are putting all your heart and desire into mastering. I have a great friend who was always just the average athlete and worked every day. He would put in the extra hours after practice and even on the weekends ever since he was in middle school to get better. As he worked on speed and strength he began to excel in his position which was running back. He ended up starting all four years in high school as the running back and defensive back because of his hard work and extra hours of training. His name is forever known in our high school for breaking all records possible. He is now playing at a very well-known D1 school called UConn. Where he plays special teams and is second string running back.  All because of the hard work and extra hours of work he put in during the summer and after practice. So at the end of the day yes I do believe that if you put in the right amount of time into something that you want to master it can happen. It’s all about how bad you want it and how much you are willing to work for it.

the overcoming of dificulties

There have been many obstacles and situations that I have had to overcome through out my life but I think the biggest one I had to overcome was facing the fact that my knee that I had two surgeries on was never going to be the same. After the first knee surgery I wasn’t really sure what was going to happen it obviously still killed and I couldn’t tolerate the pain anymore so that’s when the doctor told me your never going to  feel the same again but we can try and make it a little more comforting for you by cleaning it out. That’s how surgery two came along. Although this second surgery helped me get rid of some of the pain I still wasn’t the same. I lost a lot of athleticism and just wasn’t the same guy I once was when it came to athletics. Facing the fact that I lost a lot of the athletic talent I once had was hard but that’s when I really started just focusing on my main talent which was kicking.  It wasn’t easy for me to get that my knee was never going to be 100%, but as months went on I mentally grew stronger and learned how to block the pain out. None of this stuff is easy to do just like handling college. College is big change in your lifestyle you have to learn how to handle things way differently then you might have had to in highschool. For example home work in highschool you might have not even had to put any effort in your work to succeed but college is totally different you need to put effort in if you want to earn the grades you want. In order to do this you have to manage your time by studying some times that means even passing up on a party but that’s college life for you. Your going to be faced with tough decisions all the time and its up to you how to handle these situations in order to be successful.  At the end of the day you have to overcome the pressure to do the fun things so at the end of the day your successful and they are not because you put in the extra time to get that grade that you wanted. 

The football game SCSU vs Stonehill

After A long ride to Stonehill College the football team got off the bus and was ready to get the win. Right from the start the game was intense both teams kept on being forced to punt as the game continued to play on Stonehill ended the half at 3 to 0. Our defense was playing great but so was Stonehill’s. Try after try we failed to put points on the board. Once we left the locker room after half time we came out with the same attitude as we did getting off the bus feigning to get the Win. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. We ended up losing 13 to 0 but we played a great game. Next week we face Saint Agustine at home and hope to capture our first win of the season.

 

 

making things intersting

 The other blogs I looked at i liked but that’s most likely because I looked up blogs that would interest me such as sports blogs. When I looked at these sports blogs I found them more interesting than the blogs the class and I have written. Once we start writing blogs without having as much directions I feel that they will become more interesting to read and also make writing them more fun. Although the sports blogs I looked at were a lot more entertaining and interesting to me some could be lengthy I feel that if you cand find a way to create a blog post with around 300 words but be able to get all that you have to say in it, then it will be a lot easier to read and more people will want to read it. Having to lengthy of a blog will send the viewer away fast even if it is an interesting topic because I feel a blog should be short but contain enough info and interesting stuff to make the viewer enjoy it within a quick time of reading it. What also grabs a viewer is the layout of the blog. Does it have a cool background are there pictures in it. Little things like that can get the viewer more interested. Some things I’d like to start doing to my blog posts once I get more used to it is those little things, like have picture that go with the topic and make the viewer more likely to read it. Sometimes a viewer will be more likely to read your post if you have something interesting to look at while reading. In my opinion once you start writing blogs with fewer instructions they will get easier because you won’t have to follow each question being asked in the post. I feel that once Saturday comes and I get to write about a school topic I will be more likely to excel and have a more interesting post because I am much better at writing freely without so many instructions.

Setting the Tone for This Semester

College for me is the next step in my life to lead me in the right direction of having a bright future with a sucessful job, as i plan to become Atheletic trrainer. Going to college is whats going to help me learn a new life style of working and becoming a profesional at what i wanna be. Id hope that i will achieve and be academically sucessful in the class room as well as learning new things and meeting new people along the way throughout my 4 years at southern. Ive been told college is not going to be easy i am going to actually have to work for my grades and put in the time and effort but i believe that i am ready to do this. i was always told to put in 110% in anything i do if i want to be sucessful and i plan on doing that in my classes studying as well as in my sport football. As the year goes on things will continue to get harder in the classes and outside the classes. There will be plenty of oppurtunity to go to clubs and partys instead of studying or doing homework but one thing i am really trying to do well with is my time management. That doesnt mean im not going to attend those festivities but along with those im going to have to balance the class work and studys  as well as football. my goal for this semester is to get a 3.0 or higher and thats not going to be easy as i have already found out from the first week of college, but by staying focused on what important to me which is getting my degree and having a bright future i think ill be able to achieve that as long as i keep everything well balanced.