Second Video

If the second video was about me, it would have many pictures of my friends, my family, my team, the service work that I've done, softball, classes, and my future.  I know that in the future I want to be successful and I want to have a job in business but I am not sure exactly what I want to do yet.  I want to show that college will hopefully be the happiest and most fun four years of my life.  This includes softball, a social life, service work that i'm involved in, and learning to make my future better and brighter.

5 Greatest Stressers

• Not enough hours in the day
• Lack of sleep
• Balancing class, softball, homework, social life
• Extremely loud hallways
• Being far from home

Free Write 2/9/2012

If I were to create a video that contained the stresses of a college student it would contain many things.  The early mornings of 6 am practices.  The running from class to class because they are on opposite sides of campus.  The long mid-day practices that take up most of your afternoon.  The cramming in homework in the little bit of free time that you have during the day and having to stay up late just to finish it all and start all over the next day.  I think that I would create my scenes in a fast forwarded kind of way because I feel like that accurately describes my life at the moment.  I would also point out that I do not have much time to breathe, have time to myself, because of all the different things that have to be accomplished in one day.  I would also make this video a time laspse of a few days to show that I am usually doing the same thing over and over everyday.

Free Write 2/7/2012

A conversation that I was not listening in is when my parents are mad at me and are barading me.  They go on and on about the things that I'm doing wrong and I just sit there and I am a yes man.  These conversations seem to go on forever and the information seems to just get lost.  A conversation that I was listening in was a conversation with my old travel softball coach.  We had a very good realtionship last season and I would be the person that he would go to when there was a problem with anything that realted to the team.  We would have long conversations about the problems on the team and ways that these problems could be fixed.  This realtionship made last year my favorite year of travel ball out of the seven years that I played because of the lack of drama and openness of communication.

Free Write 2/2/2012

Looking at both of the buckets that were displayed in the video about paradigms, I feel like I am in the first bucket.  I have so many different things that I want to do or have to do but there is never enough time to fit it all.  I do my best to get the things done that I believe are the most important but I also fee like I do not have enough time in one day.  There are some leisure activities that I leave out of my day because there is just not enough time.  I also feel like, since the start of this new semester and the start of longer practices in the middle of the day, I am up for a long period of time so that I can stay on top of my homework.  When games start in March, there will be less space in the bucket.  The only things that I can think of that will be able to fit in the bucket will be softball, school work, and classes most of the time.  The one thing that cannot be taken out of my bucket are basic necessities like eating and sleeping.  Lack of sleep is different from not sleeping at all.

Free Write 1/26/2012

A circle of influence is a group of things that have directly changed a person in some way, shape or form.  A circle of concern is what someone is worried about and might want to change.  The circle of influence will give them the ideas and the motivation to complete a project that they are concerned about that would be in their circle of concern.  In order for someone to enlarge their circle of influence, a person needs to expand their views on the world.  If a person meets other people and sees the things that they are going through, they could be able to give them more of a perspective about why the project that they are doing/are about to do is important.

Free Write 1/24/2012

I thought that the video that we watched in class today showed that the people around you can have terrible things going on in their lives and can put on a good face to show the world.  A person who is not in their shoes should show more empathy towards these people because their lives are not as challenging as what those people are going through right now.  A person should not get angry and the small things in life such as traffic or having to wait in line for a coffee because there are more important things in the world than those.  I know that many people do the same things that the man did while he was in his car, myself as one of them.  Being able to change your ways and help others because of it is what service is all about.