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!!

Time Management Going Well

  Welcome to another one of my blogs. In my last blog I talked about how time management is one of my biggest issues and I have a hard time balancing out school, work, family, and time for myself. I also talked about how a planner helps me out and keeps me on track for the most part. This weekend I was able to do all of the above and I still have about 8 hours until I go to bed right now. I was able to get everything that needed to be done and still have time for family and myself. I'm not going to lie to you I was in a rush to get everything done and took little breaks here and there but I believe what really helped was getting up early yesterday and today I woke up at 7. To some that's not even that early but for me it is because on weekends I don't get up till like 9 or 10 since I'm so drained throughout the week. I feel a bit accomplished but now I have a fair understanding on how I should go on about my weekends from now on. For me personally I've realized that for me to get things done I MUST wake up early because then I feel as if it gets late really fast and before I know the day is over and I haven't completed the tasks I wanted to complete. I hope some of you will learn from my experience, relate to, and even disagree if so comment below. Thanks

Managing Family and Time

     I'm sure you have some type of freedom or break on the weekends. Even if its just for 20 minutes. With college being day to day for most or just Tuesdays and Thursdays life can be a bit hectic especially when professors assign a lot of assignments in that one week. Some of you also has jobs which might add on to the stress. I'm in the same boat, I love my job but school and work sometimes are a bit too much. Especially when family gets involved. My parents are always checking on me because I don't get to see them much since I'm just in and out of school and work,I basically just see them before I go to bed. Lately I've been getting to see them on the weekends a bit more but my school assignments have been getting in the way of spending time with them and vice versa so to say sometimes my family is pushy on for me to go and do some type of activity with them and I find myself not doing my assignments when I wanted to do them. I still get them done but its always ion a rush or on Sunday which is the day I wanna have off but I've learned that I don't really have a weekend anymore since I'm busy with school and work. When I thought about this I was a bit whiney and complained to myself a bit but then I thought about it and thought to myself that this is good. The semester and work is keeping me busy and has me doing more. I've learned to manage certain hours to certain activities with family and the others to work and school. Having a daily planner has helped me out and I encourage you all to get one if you find yourself struggling on managing your time!

New Semester Means New Essays

     Today our first essay of my second semester of college was due. For many of my peers English and writing essays is extremely easy and I can agree with them in some ways except when it comes to essays. For me I tend to struggle on them. I worry too much about if everything in the paragraph is making sense and if its formatted and each paragraph contains what the teacher wants or the rubric. I sit and think about how long an essay should take and how good of an essay I should be able to write and what concrete details, examples, and ideas I can come up with to add to the essay. Ive always got feedback on my essays that I'm a bit blurry and certain sentences stated in my essay disconnect from the topic and what not. I've pretty much gotten bad feedback from some of my peers and teachers. This is when I started realizing that I put a bit too much thought into the essay and trying to make it sound extremely scholastic (not saying that's a bad thing to do). About a week ago my English professor assigned us and essay about a book were reading and we had to write an essay on it (the rough draft). It took me about an hour and a half to complete the essay because I wrote it out on a piece of paper first and got my ideas and jotted them down then I typed it up. I felt like I did a good or acceptable job on the essay but was waiting to see what my peers would say. We switched essays and did a peer edit and I actually got positive feedback today, although I'm positive there's something I could have done better or structured a certain paragraph out a different way I felt better and more confident about writing essays. I know I have A LOT to work on to make my essays way better and scholastic. I hope this semester I can improve my writing skills and become a better writer and not have to lack confidence in that area of my school work.

New semester

   School has started again so that means long nights, early mornings, stress, and an overload on assignments. So far my semester has gone good but I've checked my syllabus for several classes and it seems like I'm going to be very busy these next two weeks. I try to manage my time and make sure that I use every hour that I can for school because I always feel as if I'm behind. This semester has consisted of many reading in ALL of my classes and a lot of homework which is only online. Luckily I haven't had a test yet in any of my classes yet but I am wondering or trying to strategize new ideas and forms of studying that will benefit me and hopefully let me pass the test or tests with more than a C. Although I am not taking any math classes I feel like studying might be a bit easier this semester than it was last semester since I wont be having to deal with formulas and numbers. I hope my semester turns out great and I hope yours does too!