The Creative Habit

  Everyone thinks that to be creative you have to be some type of artist and thats not true at all. Its up to you whether or not you want to bring out your creative ability. According to Twyla Tharps, "The Creative Habit", anyone can be an artist and be creative.  In her book, Twyla uses the example of how business people are creative when they try to come up with different ways to seal a deal or when parents try to come up with different ways to show their children the world. Tharp believes that all it takes is to make creativity apart of your everyday life is to make it a habit.

  In her book, "The Creative Habit", she spoke about having a daily routine. This daily routine is a part of the creative process. She gave the example of her friend Auster who met his favorite major league baseball player but didn't have a pencil to get his autograph. Ever since that day he doesn't leave his house without something to write with. Also, she talks bout how her routine starts when she wakes up in the morning and calls for her cab and tells the driver where to go. I'm not sure how this is apart of the creative process. I don't see how a routine can make you become creative. I myself have a routine. Every Monday and Wednesday i got to history and math class with my friend Vanessa and we always take the same way to class. It never fails. The way we take is starting to get boring. Maybe this is how I can be creative. We can come up with something new to do before class and take a new way. I guess that shows how a routine can get your creativity out. Maybe I should read the book a little more open minded to fully understand what Twyla is trying to say.

CLUBS AT SCSU

   From the moment we got this video assignment, I had no idea what to do it on. I had this huge brain fart for like a whole week. But thankfully while I was on the schools website, it hit me. When people look at Southern they see all the majors and sports that Southern has to offer, but they really don't look into the clubs and organizations that Southern has too. So that can make the school seem boring.(I know I thought the same thing.) So thats why I came up with the idea to do a video on the clubs and organizations that Southern has for students. I think all the clubs that Southern has makes it a very diverse school.

   In this video I tried to be more creative than what I was in my last video. I added more than one song and some pictures this time. I think I could of added another club to talk about so that I could of made the 5 minute mark. Working with iMovie is not one of my best qualities but I try. Hopefully you will enjoy my video and join a club.

   

I'm Not Too Satisfied

    I'm so thankful that my midterm grades right now are not my final grades for the year. So far I'm doing OKAY in my classes and I'm not satisfied with just OKAY because I know that I can do so much better. At the end of the year I want my GPA to be at least a 3.0 and right now I think I'm at a 2.5. I know that with the two classes that I'm having trouble with I need to put more time and hard work into.  These two classes are history and math. But with smart thinking I did went and got myself a math tutor and my friend is going to tutor me in history. This way I know that I wont keep falling behind.

    I'm a little upset with my mid-term grades so far. I feel like I put a lot of time and effort into all my notes and i study whenever I get the chance too. I guess having a job could be a reason why my grades are what they are right now. Maybe I should find more time for studying and fit in at least two more hours than what i usually study for. Hopefully that'll give me some improvement. I guess i also need to learn how to balance my work time with my studying time. I'm still getting used to it. I know when I had to study for mid-terms it was hard for me to keep up with some of my classwork and assignments. I'm just so happy that I still have time to bring up my grades. I know that my final grades will be way better than what they are now.

A Bite of Summer

  So while I was helping my friend Vanessa look for her advisor's office in Davis Hall, we ran into these different paintings. They came from a place called the Kennedy Center in Bridgeport,CT. The Kennedy Center helps and serves people who have a learning disability. All the paintings were done by  people who attend this Kennedy Center and I feel like each painting is unique in its own way.

  This picture on the right hand side is called the Watermelon Summer and is one of my favorites. The watermelon is painted like an actual melon and has the correct colors which are green and like a pinkish reddish color. It reminds me of a hot summer day, when all you want is a glass of iced lemonade and eat slices of watermelon. Not only that but it also reminds me of a family picnic with watermelon all over the table. I really like how this picture was a bite of summer.

  All the paintings that where in the room had great color and had very nice ideas. What made them even better was that they were made by people who had a learning disability. This goes to show that any one can do anything. You don't have to be perfect to be an artist.

Two and a half hours of being stress free.

   I've been stressing like crazy for two weeks about my midterms that I took and still have to take. So I had to do something to get my mind off of all the stress. My roommate Ruby suggested that we go to this group talk in Hickerson Hall that was about relationship. I thought it should be something interesting to listen to since we both are in a relationship right now. So we decided to check it out. 

  While at this group talk the guess speaker was making a lot of good points that I was able to connect with. Then she brought up the topic about love and asked what love actually is. Many people kept saying they didn't know what love was or love was being with someone for a long time. I disagreed with both answers. I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend since my freshmen year of high school and I can truly say that I love him. We both know everything about each other, have respect and trust for one another, and we know how to work out our problems. So to me love is having respect for your partner and being able to communicate. Also being able to over come any obstacle that can make the relationship stronger. 

  This was an interesting topic and an interesting way to get my off of midterms. I would of never thought that going to this group talk would actually be fun and for about two and a haft hours I wasn't thinking about any of my midterms. Doing something that can make you stress free doesn't always have to be something active that can get your body moving, it can just be a simple group talk.

First semester is almost gone!

  Wow! This first semester is flying by. It feels like just last week I started school. At the start of the first semester I was pretty nervous. I knew it wasn't going to be anything like high school. Once I started getting work from all my classes, I began to get overwhelmed. I didn't know how I was going to manage all the free time that I had and I didn't think I was going to handle all the work that I had to do. I started thinking of ways that I could manage my time and work and I came up with writing everything on a to do list as i get the work that way I will know what has to get done. This also helps me focus on the task thats on hand.

   The goal that I have for myself this semester is to make sure that i get my work done and to learn how to manage the college life. I also plan to pass my classes with a B or higher but with just a B I'll be happy. With being half way through in the semester, I feel like I'm meeting somewhat of my goals. I think I could push myself a little harder. One class that I'm doing really well in is my English. But I do have one setback and that is my history class. I feel like I can push myself when we have our take home test every week. I think I'm going to find a friend to tutor me.

   But overall I feel like I'm having an okay first semester. I still think there is room for improvement. So for the rest of the second half I'm going to make sure I push myself.

Majors Expo!!!!!

    Do you have a major or are still undecided? Well which it is that you are, if you attended the majors expo you should know what Southern has to offer. On Wednesday October 10,2012 I attended the annual majors expo. Every major that Southern has, had a table set up with ample information. I already know what I would like to take up here at Southern and that is Early Childhood Education. So that was the first table that I went right up too. At the table I was able to meet the advisor for Early Childhood Education . She gave me a paper with all the course requirements as well as information about this major. Since I have to double major in the School of Education, she also gave me a paper with all the second major that I can take. This paper made my options a lot more easier to choose from. She also gave me the date in which I can meet with her to go over all the class for this major and that date is October 22.

    When I was done getting all the information that I needed, I went around to see if anything else caught my interest. The one thing that stuck out to me the most besides my major, was the study aboard table. I'm really interested in studying in another country so I took all the information that I can get. I took papers on the different places you can go as well as how much it would cost.

     Attending the majors expo was a good idea for me. If you weren't able to make it, don't worry about. I'm sure your INQ professor can help you out.