Peer Mentor Muse Class

I think peer mentors are very helpful because they have a lot of information that you can ask them. They always help you with your homework or work. Like when i was struggling on my research paper i went to the peer mentor center and the mentor helped me learn how to do it. The muse class so far is really fun it has helped me through transition because i did not know what to expect. Like teachers in high school would tell you due dates for homework but in college you have to check your syllabus constantly to see whats due on what day. Peer Mentors really very helpful because they can help you in many ways like homework, help finding something, or help you make a good decision. I think peer mentor are very helpful and the muse classes are really helping me transition because i usually have many students in one class and in a muse class there are a few and its more fun and you can get help one on one with the professor or mentor.

Chapter 5

In chapter 5, the book talks about thinking critically. Thinking critically is very important especially in college, but in the real world too. Thinking critically will help you expand your mind. Many career involve critical thinking like engineering, being a doctor, or playing a sport. If your stuck in a problem ask a questions to help you figure out the problem. You usually join want to think inside and outside the box. Be opened minded. Making good decisions is always the best thing you want to do. Don't make poor decisions because it might ruin something, if you do make a poor mistake try learning from it and make a better one next time.

Chapter 4

In chapter 4, it describes the number of ways people learn. It talks about learn by reflecting, learn by creative thinking, learn by doing, and learn by critical thinking.Learning by critical thinking means that the person needs to think out problems. Learning by reflecting means that the person needs to remember the information and compare that to things you already know. Learning by creative thinking means that the person prefers to use their own judgement, and write and brainstorm. Learning by doing means that the person wants to actually work on problems. I usually like doing learning by reflecting because its always better to compare things you have seen already.

Bio Poem

Kenny
Loud, Hyper, Humorous, Energetic
Brother Randy
Family, Parents, Success
Happy, Excited, tired
Sleep, Passing Grades, New Games
Help with work, Friendship, Utensils
Losing someone , Heights, Snakes
The Future, Successful, Money
San Francisco, Hamilton Street
Mai

Great America

On Sunday I went to Great America. It was really hot and a perfect to go out and ride on all the rides. I am usually scared of roller coasters, but I overcame my fear and rode on some of the scariest rides they had there. I even played on the basketball shooting to win my girlfriend a prize it was and tiring. We walked a lot that day. It was a day of full on excitement. On Sunday it was some Filipino day or something because everyone had a flag representing them. It was fun and hot. We even saw a lot of the mascots like "Sponge Bob Square Pants" and many more. It was fun a relaxing day i had a blast

Chapter 9

This Chapter taught us to prepare to write an essay and how to be successful in writing an essay for a class. The chapter taught us how to prepare an outline and first drafts, revise, and edit your work to make it look neat and professional. It even taught us how to learn from feed back from other people. It also taught us about plagiarism. It is not good to copy other peoples work. Even taught us how to make a good speech and learn how to give a good speech. A time where I witnessed a bad speech was when i was in High school. I realized it was bad speech when the person put the paper in front of his face so we could not hear the person presenting. He also did not have eye contact. The speaker didn't try to correct it because i think he was nervous when he was presenting. If i could give advice to someone that is presenting is to practice the speech someone else first. A reason why you would want to plagiarize is because someone forgot to do a paper and he would fail the class if he didn't get it so he would just find someones paper and copy it to get it. Someone wasn't thinking about the consequences when he copied the paper. You can get to jail, fail a class, pay a fine, or get kicked out of college or school.

MIME GAME: Partner: Philip

Today we played a mime game where me and my partner Philip had to copy each others movements. It was funny in the beginning because we had to copy every single movement that we were doing. We were making weird movements and wiggly movements. It was fun. After that we had act something out and I acted out trying to steal his laptop and getting away with my car. He acted out getting up doing his daily routine and rushing to school because he was late. It was hard because you had to try to guess what he was doing because you anticipate his movements. It was a good way to learn about each other. It was a funny activity.

Chapter 2 and 3 Summary

Chapter 2 in my guide it told us about good communication. Communication is key because it can solve many things. Like if you have a bad grade and you wanted to communicate to your professor about your bad grade or if your just talking to a friend about a situation to resolve the situation. It gave me tips about how to communicate with each and real world situation to prove the tips they gave me. In the second of chapter 2 my guide talks about gaining a relationships if its either with a loved one or a family because relationship can be key when in college because you will gain networks by if you needed a job you would go back to someone you knew already and a relationship was already built. In chapter 3 it talks about time management. Time management is mostly common sense but not most of the time. If you are doing well in school and learning and getting work done that means your time management should be good and you are being successful. You should have a weekly planner to plan out what needs to be done. Procrastination is something you should conquer in my guide it gave us tips about how to conquer procrastination like being organized or putting deadlines on your calender to remember what needs to be done. These chapters were real useful and reminded me what i need to do in college to be successful

MLK Library Tour

When we went on our tour to the library the librarian Paul Kauppila was giving us the tour and how the library works. I learned many new things when he taught us how to use the library and what the library would have for us. The library was really nice when I first walked in, it was the nicest library I ever seen. He told us about the quiet floors where people can study and how each department has there own librarian. You can even reserve a study room to have group studies. All you need was a library card and your tower card. He told us how to use the search engines and how to narrow down something you search from 4,000 to 71. The search engine would be really useful because you can search books and if they don't have it then it will show other libraries that would have it and transfer them here or it could tell when the book is due so you can come in a get it. He also showed a great website which was could Refworks. Refworks would make your bibliography for you and all your resources in any format you would like. He also showed us Academic Search Premier which he said was really common and most useful when you are looking for resources after that we all went down to get library cards and it was a great adventure and tour. I learned a lot about our library.

Coming Back to SJSU

Today I came back to SJSU from San Francisco. I spent the weekend at San Francisco my home. I spent time with my family while I was home and got to eat a fine home made meal. On friday night i went to the movies and watched Final Destination 3. I didn't think the movies that good. The thing I liked about it is that it was in 3D. On Sunday I went to my girlfriends house and ate steak that her mom prepared for us. It was delicious then today I went to a BBQ and had very good ribs I loved it. After that I drove back to SJSU with my girlfriend before that we made a stop to Fry s to buy some headphones and a new mouse

Your Guide "Your Journal" - Chapter 1

The Room Advisers have helped me a lot while I am on campus. They have helped me by telling me where things may be or how i would get help with other things on campus like meeting a adviser or joining a club. What I need help with now in college is how to keep myself focus and not slacking off or getting distracted. A person on campus can just tell me to do my work and stay focus and not slack off and have my back.I have many computer skills like using Microsoft Office, surfing the internet, checking my e-mail, scanning my computer for viruses, and I know some of the parts of the computer and what they do like a video card or a hard drive. I don't really have any fears regarding computers, but if i did it would how to install new parts to my computer and installing them the right way. The library service at SJSU is very useful here. You can do many things and get a lot of resources from the library. You can study in the library, they have study rooms for group studying, and computers to use if you don't have one.

Your Guide "Your Journal" - Prologue

College is different from what i am used to because college has more freedom than in high school. High school my counselors chose what times my classes are and when I have to go to them. Now in College I can choose when to go to my classes and I don't have to go to school for 8 hours a day you can separate the hours in college. What I am excited about in college is meeting new people and joining organizations to know whats around school. The most stressful experience in college so far is finishing all my homework. It was so stressful because I was loaded with homework and I didn't think I would finish in time. I coped with it by focusing and making sure I finished it. If it happens again I will make a better schedule for myself to complete all my work

Drawing Blood

This weekend was quite fun and interesting. On Thursday night I drove back from San Jose with my Girlfriend. We went to go to San Mateo first to help her brother do his final. He had to draw blood from us. It was interesting. I went first he first drew blood from me from my arm. It didn't hurt so much. The second time I went was the time when it actually brought pain to me, but it was not the same because the second time he drew blood from me from my hand and it was more painful, but i got through it and I'm glad I helped someone out. He passed his final and got his lobotomist license.

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Naruto manga - www.onemanga.com
Youtube - www.youtube.com
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