Investment -

• The action or process of investing money for a profit or result.

Investment is a huge part of college.  Yes the word investment is part of college, but this word also has other meanings to it.  You have to invest time in college, between work, family, and your time.  We definitely have to invest our time in college.

Other Vocab

Thwart-

• prevent, frustrate 

Brawny-

• muscular 

Thankful :) (14B)

This semester I am thankful for many things.  I am thankful for my parents for paying for my college and helping me get through the semester.  I am also thankful for all my teachers and how I can talk to them if I am having problems in the class.  I am thankful for the different things we learned in INQ with all the articles and especially certain ways to study.  I actually took some of those things and put them to use.  They actually helped me as well.

I am also thankful for my friends that I have made through out the first semester.  They are so nice and they are always there for me and we get along really well.  I am also thankful for my roommate as well.  We get along really well and she is one of my good friends.  I was really lucky to be put with a good roommate.  I am very thankful for that.

I am also thankful for all my friends from home too for supporting me and always being there for me as well.  They will always be there for me just like I will always be there for them.

Stress Relief (14A)

With finals coming up in the next 2 weeks, many of us are stressed about taking them and studying for them.  I always get stressed when I have big tests coming up because I just freak out.  I have made up and decided to do some things this week and the week after to keep my stress at an all time low.

One of the things I am going to do is go to the gym.  I always go to the gym.  I feel that it is an awesome stress reliever and working out will definitely get all the stress out.  Working out makes you feel good all around and if I am studying and doing homework it is always good to take a break and go to the gym.  In my opinion it's an awesome way to keep your mind off things and gets the stress all out. I always do it, & it always works for me.

Another stress reliever is to eat healthy.  I think eating healthy or even eating in general is a stress reliever to me.  Besides eating, sleep is good too.  I am going to take some quick naps these next weeks to keep me not as stressed if I have a lot of pages or papers to write for my finals.

Anybody can do anything to be stress free.  Every one is different and whatever works for you is what all that matters!

I hope everyone does well on their finals and find ways to not be as stressed.

Registration (13I)

This previous Monday Freshmen had to register for classes at 6:00 a.m.  It was so early to wake up.  I had many problems with registration and could not get into Banner Web until 7:00 a.m. To register we had to sign into banner web and click on registration and click add/drop classes.  You then typed in your CRN's for your classes that you should have had written down right next you so you could just type in all the numbers right away so you could get all the classes that you wanted.  When i typed my numbers in all my classes were closed.  I then had to make up a whole new schedule and I was really upset I didn't get the classes I wanted.  My schedule now is pretty okay, as of right now I do not have any friday classes which is exciting!

Vocabulary (13V)

Purpose -

• the reason for which something is done, created and why it exists.

The purpose of school.  This is to get an education and to major in the subject that you want to in order to get a good job when you are older so that you can support your family.  My goal is to have a lot of money when I am older so that I won't have to worry about anything.

Other Vocab

Credible - believable 

Enigma- puzzle mystery 

Creativity is Key (13B)

For the final exam video project , we are using the App IMovie, or Windows Media Movie Player.  I am using IMovie.  When I was assigned the first video project I had no idea what IMovie was and had no idea how to use it.  I went on youtube and they gave you specific directions on how to use it and it was very helpful.  The app has many different features such as the different animations and transitions you can add to and from each clip you have.  It also has a music button that you can add to whatever clips you want and for how long.  You can adjust how long it takes for the clip to be on the screen and how long it takes for it to go into the next one as well.  There are a lot of awesome features to IMovie and I enjoy using it.

My topic procrastination is creative because there are so many ways that you can prevent it and it is easy to put a skit together for it.  You can really do it however way you want to and still make it really interesting to watch.  Buy watching my video I think kids will actually take the advice on how to prevent it and actually try it.

With the IMovie app it is going to allow the video to look more creative and make it more enjoyable to watch instead of it being just a dull video with no features what so ever.  I think people are going to enjoy watching it and like the creativity that I am going to add and actually have a good time watching it.

Making it Perfect (13A)

We have been assigned our Final video Draft for the upcoming final that is coming up really soon since the Semester is already almost over.  On my Mid-term video I received a 78.  I was not happy with this grade at all and I felt that I did way better than that to receive that grade.  When I got back my rubric there were things on there that I could have done better or even worse, such as the timing.  My video was way too long and I got point taken off for that.  For the final video I figured out the way I am going to make it to a high level college critical thinking.

I am doing my video on procrastination, which is something that many college students struggle with.  To make my video a high level of critical thinking I feel that I need it to be easy to understand and that my video doesn't have certain parts somewhere and all over the place.  I will make sure that I keep my video interesting and that it has a beginning middle and an end.  This means making sure that my beginning is very catchy, I have a catchy title, an interesting opening and the same as the rest of the video goes on.  

I need to make sure when publishing this video that It is perfect and completely done with and that all the key points are touched.  I am going to have many of my friends in the skits and make sure that there is no laughing and that it is taken very seriously because it is for a grade.  I will have the names of the people who are in my video, just to make it known that they were in it and who they are.  

Procrastination can be an interesting thing to do a video on because many kids do it including me.  It should be really interesting doing this video because I am also going to include how you can prevent and fix procrastination for those who are doing it.  I think that it is going to be really interesting to watch and that people are going to enjoy it.