Final Video Rough Draft

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14V Investment

Investment: a devoting, using, or giving of time, talent, emotional energy, etc., as to achieve something.

During my first semester of college I learned that it is very important to invest.  In order to be successful in college you to invest a lot of time and effort into what you are doing.  If you aren't investing a lot of your time into doing work and studying for test, you will most likely not do well in school.  When I find out I have a test coming up I make sure that I invest time in my day in order to give myself a lot of time to prepare for my test.  Many college students are pretty good at investing their time into their work  but there are some students who aren't good at investing their time, and they learn that the hard way.

New Vocabulary:

Socialization: the action of establishing on a socialist basis.
In Media I am learning about how different people conform to culture.

Productivity: the state or quality of producing something.
In Economics we are learning about marginal productivity.

14I A Trip To The Writing Center

Last week I had an English paper due.  Writing has always been one of my weaknesses and I always like having someone read over my papers after I am done.  I got B's on my first three writing assignments and I was determined to get an A on my last paper.  After I finished my assignment I went to the writing center to make an appointment with someone to read over my paper.  The writing center is located on the bottom floor of Engleman in room A102.  The writing center gave me many helpful ways in order to make my paper better.  My teacher gave us our grades on our papers and I was very happy when I saw that I received an A.  The writing center was very helpful
and I will definitely be using it in the future.

14B Everything That I Am Thankful For

Thanksgiving is a time for everyone to appreciate everything in life that they are grateful for.  After my first semester at Southern, I am very grateful to a good education.  I am thankful that my parents are able to afford sending me to college.  Some people don't get the opportunity to go to college because their family isn't financially stable.  Attending college is something to be very thankful about.

I am not from Connecticut so coming into college I didn't really know anyone.  Making new friends was something that I was very nervous about coming into college.  Luckily I made a great group of new friends.  I am so thankful that I made friends with such great people.  Its crazy how close we have already gotten and they make my college experience so much more enjoyable.  I feel like I just met them but I feel so close to them already.  Im going to miss all of my southern friends over thanksgiving break!

I am on the lacrosse team here at southern.  Coming onto the team as a freshman was very intimidating but they were all so welcoming.  I love my team and we are already like a family.  I am so grateful for every single one of them.  Deciding to play lacrosse is college was perfect because it was like coming to school and already having a whole group of friends from the team.  The upperclassmen on my team are all so helpful and I know that I can go to them for anything whenever I needed it.  I am also going to miss my team very much over thanksgiving break.

Overall, my time at Southern has been amazing already.  I am so thankful that I am able to enjoy the college experience.  I am also very grateful for all of my friends and teammates here at Southern. I am going to miss the Southern atmosphere over break but I am going to be back before I know it!

14A Finally Some Time To Relax!

Knowing that the semester is almost over is crazy.  I can't believe how fast this semester went, I feel like move in day was just the other day!  Tomorrow I get to go home for thanksgiving break.  I am looking forward to spending time with my friends and family.  Since this semester is coming to end I am stressing thinking about finals.  Luckily I only have two but I am very nervous for my micro economics final.

In order to give myself some stress relief I am going to relax all week with my friends and family.  Although I do have a paper to write over break, I am looking forward to having some time to just relax and not having to go to any classes.  I am very excited to spend thanksgiving at my grandmas house will my cousins from arizona who I haven't seen since summer.  I also can't wait to spend time with my two sisters.  One of my favorite parts of thanksgiving is watching football all day with my family.

Over thanksgiving break I am going to start to prepare for my finals.  I am going to look over my economics notes and come up with questions that I may have for my professor before the final.  My economics professor emailed us a practice final so I am also going to print that out and try to get started on that so I have an idea about what the final is going to be about.  For math I am going to do some practice questions in my textbook so that I start to refresh my memory about what we learned about in the beginning of the semester.

I am going to use this break as some time to relax and stay stress free.  But my break isn't going to just consist of relaxing.  I also want to start preparing for my finals so I am not cramming everything in right before I have to take my finals.  Spending time with my family and high school friends will help me stay relaxed and stress free.

13V Purpose

Purpose: the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Everything done in life has a purpose.  If you are doing something and their is no purpose than there is no point in doing it.  Now that the first semester is coming to an end I learn a lot of different things.  This semester taught me that only focus on something that has a purpose to you.  The word purpose is related to our education.  We should be taking classes that are related to our major.  So the classes that we take have a purpose to us.  We learn the purpose of each class we are taking and why the classes will help us for our majors.  It is important to have a purpose before doing something!

More Vocabulary:

Misogyny: The hatred of women.
In my media class we are watching a documentary on our culture and reasons why the media discriminates on women.

Production function: The relationship between quantity of inputs used to make a good and the quantity of output of that good.
In economics we are learning about productions and costs and how the economy is made up of many different firms that produce different goods.

13I It's That Time of The Year

A common problem that many college students face is getting sick.  The common cold or flu always goes around colleges because germs spread so easily.  This past week I had a sore throat  and a fever so I decided to go to see the health center about it.  They gave me a prescription that would make me feel better.  The Granoff Student Health Center is located on campus on Wintergreen Avenue across from the Moore Field House.  Their hours are Monday through Friday from 8am-4:30pm.  The health center has HIV and STI counseling and testing for students.  College students can go to the health center if they are feeling stressed, have a eating disorder, having sexual health issues and for many other reasons.  The health center has a lot of helpful information and everyone is very helpful to you if you are having health issues.