FINAL Blog!!!

What's up? As you know by now this is the last blog which means the last blog you actually have to comment on to get your points cause lets be honest you don't care about reading my blog lol You're just doing it for the points and I don't blame you, I find myself in the same position but I feel like blogs were good for us and helped us express whatever issue it was we had or topic we talked about in our blogs. Through the blogs that I've read they all had different subjects some about peoples school work, sports, make up, and just different interests really. I believe that this made it easier for us as students since they are our interests we can just go on and on about our topic. Since this blog is labeled "FINAL Blog!!!" I am gonna explain to you guys that doing blogs was cool but I felt extremely stupid when I would forget to make one on a Monday or forget to comment on someone else's blog by Friday. To me these blogs were easy and I'm sure you guys will agree with me how easy it is to make one comment on a peers blog and receive easy points, I believe that me knowing this is what sometimes made me not worry about them as much but in turn it did mess with my grade a bit. Also although I'm explaining my struggles or issues I had when it came to blogs I would highly appreciate it if you would comment some of your ideas or issues that you guys had or came up with when it came to blogs. I appreciate the comments Ive received while doing blogs and jope that I didn't bore you while you read through my blogs. Thanks for reading my final blog! Great job this semester and if not, I believe you now have something to work towards for your new semester.
Peace, Love, and Positivity.

Essays

     Essays are a major part of college. You see peoples social media stories and many of them who arte in college from time to time tend to post a video or a boomerang about their essay and when doing so that individual is usually up really late finishing up. I don't blame them, sometimes things happen and get in the way of our day so we have to push things back a couple hours. For me I have realized that if I want a good essay and great sources I know that writing the essay and coming up with ideas and making sure its formatted correctly or the best to my ability is for sure going to take me at least 2 hours. For some people writing essays are extremely easy but not for me. I mean I was capable of writing an essay in 45 minutes inn high school but I always received like a C on it maybe a B-. Now when I write essays I kind of get worried if I'm just really slow and are going to take me a while to finish. Although my last essay wasn't that good and had limited sources and research on I came up with a new essay and totally changed my confidence when writing essays. I learned that if your not interested in the topic of the essay chances are the essay isn't going to be that good compared to writing about something that actually interesting to you or at least in my opinion. Thank for taking the time out of your day to read my blog!

Works Cited

Welcome to another one of my blogs. This weekend I was able to get some extra hours of sleep as I stated in my last blog in which I went over how lucky I was to get some extra hours of sleep and how my body reacted towards it. But this week I was extremely busy which is good, staying busy lets me know I'm being productive instead of just staying at home doing nothing. This Sunday I wrote an essay. I have been having trouble with my essay and finding a great source or sources that give sufficient amount of information about my topic. Lately I have been struggling trying to structure my essay in the right way and put everything that my professor wants into the essay. This weekend I just decided to change the topic and rewrite a whole essay, yes I'm sure it took more work than to just revise my old essay but I feel more confident about my new topic and essay. Finding a source for my old topic was extremely difficult and finding an article written by an author instead of a Olympic lifter also was a headache. With my new topic and sources I found, I've found varies articles and opinions on the issue/topic. With significant amounts of websites and articles on the internet it can be difficult to find a source that contains the information you need specifically along with the article being a valid article meaning it has an author, date, publisher, and etc. I spent my Sunday afternoon googling a lot of information on my new topic which is definitely interesting to me and was able to get what I needed done! Thanks for reading my blog!

Sleep schedule

Welcome to another one of my blog posts! This is my second semester of college. In my first semester I wrote about time management and my sleeping schedule as I'm sure so did other freshman. What is weird or to me at least is how your body responds to it. For example today I got to sleep in and wake up at 6:45am I usually wake up at 4:45 every day. I know I got a lot of sleep compared to how much I usually get but my body responded differently and my body felt way more fatigue when I woke up. But later I felt extremely energized in the classroom and didn't feel tired how I usually feel which I found was really funny and weird. Also, I was able to concentrate more which I found extremely beneficial. I felt more alert and feel as if I grasped more of the material my professors where teaching. Through an extra 2 hours of sleep/rest I felt made a significant difference on how I went on about school and handled or have handled my day so far. This day through off my schedule a bit because once I woke up I would usually already be headed to school so it felt a bit weird. My whole schedule was off until I got to school then it felt normal. Also I had a big breakfast which I felt like was a factor in my ability to engage in class activity and follow what my professor is instructing. I would encourage everybody to at least get 7 hours of sleep. I have found that as a college student whose life consists of running around and being in a hurry you should reward yourself with a good nights sleep and occasionally a power nap if possible. Share comments or just feedback in general on your guys' thoughts thanks again!!

Spring Break

Good afternoon and thanks for deciding to read my blog post. This spring break was definitely something I needed but at the same time didn't. It felt kind of weird having a break and not doing anything scholastically. I would catch myself checking mycsustan and blackboard for notifications just in case something was due or something came up for a certain class. It turnes out that I go back to school today and in English my professor graded our second essay and gave his feedback on it. This hyped me up a bit because I know this essay is something that I'm struggling with and finding specific sources that go and relate to the structure of the paper. I mentally know that ehat my teacher is asking for isn't difficult nor impossible but I keep having a hard time finding information and formatting my paper correctly. In a way its stressful but not at the same time. After a while of thinking about the topic and speaking with my professor I believe I'm gonna go to the tutoring center and ask for help. I mean why not..thats what they get paid for and I think ill benefit from the experience and learn something new along with asking help from my professor.

Essays

     All throughout high school especially junior and senior year my teachers really cracked down on us when it came to writing a 5 paragraph essay. Throughout junior high is when I remember when we were taught how to correctly write an essay and knowing what each paragraph needed. For example I remember my teacher going over how many sentences each paragraph should contain and the 5 paragraph's which are labeled as introduction, first body paragraph, second body paragraph, third body paragraph, and the conclusion at last to finish it all off. From that point till about sophomore year all of my essays were simple. Later on about half way through junior year I believe is when I started learning more about citing and using sources from books, articles, magazines, etc. to create an essay. I then learned how to cite certain references since there all used differently so have a little twist here and there when citing and formatting. Now in college I continue to keep on learning about using references to create an essay and gathering certain information in certain paragraphs to develop the purpose of my essay. In middle school I probably would've said writing an essay is easy and to some it might be, but over these last 2 years I have figured out that I struggle a bit on putting or phrasing certain sentences in the right place in my paragraphs to connect the overall purpose in my essays depending on what the professor wants me to do. Generally speaking I continue to learn and haven't reached a point where I would say my essays are "good" there just average and is something I want to work on.

Thank you for taking your time and reading my blog!!!!

Consistency

Consistency is something that I can struggle with and I find myself having trouble with. I am really good on being something for about 1-3 weeks max and then somewhere in between there or after the 3 weeks I tend to fall off and make an error and find myself messing up or not doing as good as I should be doing in that certain task. Usually I found myself struggling with school as you have seen if you've read my previous blogs. In the previous blogs I've talked about time management in my life and dealing with schoolwork or assignments. I was doing very good and was on my stuff but recently this week my streak so to say stopped. I completely forgot about some assignments and didn't complete them on time. This affected my grades in two classes. I find myself in a way of going through phases, as in I'm really consistent with something for a while but then stop and then hop back on it when something begins to go bad. I sometimes tend to focus to much on my future and lose track on my present with school. I've realized this past week that I need to prioritize my school work first. Meaning over money, fun, friends, and even family. Its token me a while to realize why I'm in school and acknowledge the privilege I have to be here and be majoring in something and make something out of it in my future. But I've realized I need to focus on the present which is getting my stuff together and do this school thing for these next 4-5 years. Comment below if you can relate or have any comments in mind thanks!!