Wellness

I guess I'm living a balanced college life, i try to eat healthy and walk to all my classes. But it is still hard to eat healthy with half of Russell being fast food, and normal food takes forever to get. But I still try. Most of the time I'm hanging out with friends. I still keep on top of my school work and stuff. I wish I had more time to play guitar, however it's not a time issue, it's that I don't like playing when my roomate is around. Something about that just bugs me. Probably just self-conscious about my playing. Anyways, I think I'm living a good lifestyle, because I'm trying to do good at school and make time for friends and what not.

Mentor Meeting

My first meeting with my student was kind of wierd. There were awkward silences. I learned I'm deaf though because I could hardly hear anything he said. But he seems cool, my meeting with him this week was really good. The first meeting we just walked around and he showed me his classes and what not. He plays music, which is cool because I play music too. He seems to not know exactly what subject he likes, though he is leaning towards math and science, which I'm good at, so if he has trouble I can help him out with that.

Diversity

Before college, and still today, I would define diversity as the cultural, ethnic, and personal differences among a population. A population with many different thinking people is diversity. It is when a group of like-minded people are together is when there is no diversity. You cannot just define diversity as differences in religion, skin color, and gender. Personal beliefs, interests and ideas play the major role in diversity.

Since coming to college, my view diversity hasn't changed. I went to fairly diverse schools, where I learned diversity truly was. Coming here only reinforces the definition I have, as I have met many people who may look like me, but they have completely different ideas and beliefs.

Another factor left out of diversity is economical. Some people are in poverty while others are in wealth. We learned that at Hand Middle School, there is a mixture of both rich and poor, which aids to diversity.

The Semester so far...

This semester has been interesting to say the least. A lot has changed. Everytime I see my parents they say how much they miss me, even though I literally live 15 minutes away from them. My friends changed to. I rarely hang out with a friend that I used to always hang out with. I hang out with almost every day with a friend from my old job. I've met new people and have been doing new things. School-wise this semester has been alright. The work-load isn't bad, even though I find myself staying up to 2 am working occasionally. However, even though I feel that I know the material, when a test comes around, I botch it somehow, not too badly of course. It also doesn't help that I've lost interest in my major, and most of my classes are based on my major.

The hardest thing for me so far has been just keeping up with things that I need to do, sometimes I slip and forget to do something. I want to change that, hopefully by writing down in my planner when things are due and what not.

Service Learning

To me, service learning is doing a service to benefit others but also benefits you as you learn something from it. It could be something skill related, such as helping build a playground, which helps you get better at constructing things, or it could be personal, such as mentoring someone and finding out something about yourself. Service learning gives you hand on experience and can be taken to looking at one's own life. What I mean is that while someone is helping out a poor community, one could truly see how good they have it and have a new appreciation for their life. Service learning, particularly mentoring, helps one discover new things about themselves. This is brought about by either their mentoree asking them questions about their mentor or things the mentor teaches the mentoree. So basically service learning not only helps the community but also helps the one doing the service.

First Organization Meeting

The metal club so far has had one meeting, just so we could figure out what we would do during meetings and to get to know each other. There was about a dozen of us. I was hoping to find people with extensive taste in metal and people I could possibly play music with. However, it didn't work out that way. A lot of the guys there only liked old-school death metal and thrash. When my friends and I mentioned some experimental bands, no one else knew who we were talking about. Also, everyone except for my friend played guitar, and some were already in a band, so that ruled out playing music with them. However, it was still fun and I hope to continue to go. But the guy who was in charge didn't like the turnout. He apparently thought some of the guys acted like 8th graders and were only into metal to scare people. I somewhat agree, as some people just tried to act all metal. I still want the metal club to happen, so if the original guy who was going to do it doesn't want to, I'll try heading it.