FYE-1220-KE-Honors First Year Seminar

480 × 480 I hope that everyone is enjoying their break. If you are lucky, you don't have to worry about typing up two essays, applying for scholarships, or having to study your butt off for a chemistry final. All that aside, I hope that we all will be able to take advantage of the Black Friday sales. Without further ado: Motorcycle Diaries  330 × 499 When we first began the movie in class, I found the movie to be quite funny. As I continued to watch the movie outside of class,  the movie still had its funny moments, but you started to see the character development in Fuser and Alberto. Fuser and Alberto are like day and night, but they are good friends. Throughout the movie, they went through a lot, so much so that Fuser ended up going down a different path than where he started originally.  With all that being said and done, it turns out that the movie is a piece of background information on Che Guevara, also known as Fuser in the movie, and how things began

Research Papers?! Thank goodness, we do not have to write a research paper! I did, however, found it helpful to learn more about C.R.A.P.P. and how to use it to find credible sources.  craap.jpg This week we had to do some research about a topic of our choice. The topic had to be a powerful question that had a correlation with our career unless you already had a choice from another class. Coming up with powerful questions can be hard considering that fact that you don't want to cause too much of an emotional response.  After I choose what I wanted to talk about, finding the sources was another ball game. I was able to brainstorm the topic with the help of the assignment sheet given to the class on Monday. The assignment allowed you to think of several topics, and then it would help you get more specific with whatever choices you made. On the other hand, trying to find sources wasn't the hardest thing, it was just making sure you would be able to check off e

  What to Ask, What Not to Ask, That is the Question. This week in F.Y.E., we talked about setting up our schedule: tips, advice, and warnings; we also read and talked about the reading, The Art of Powerful Questions . https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4215/35761331445_ccfc556390_z.jpg ho Tomorrow, Tomorrow is the big day. November 4, 2019 at 6:00am honor students will be able to register for classes. Although we are not registering with the entire campus, it can still be a headache when more than 24 honor students are trying to take the same honor's class. Luckily, we received some advice that can relieve any tension as far as finding, making, and scheduling classes.  Erin Martin, the honor's adviser, talked about how to check your registration time, how to check if you have any holds, the different types of holds, how to find classes, what each icon meant on the course search, and how to register.  How to Register for Your Classes: My screenshot

800 × 535 What are Your Values? This week in class we talked about CORE, values, the catalog, and Working Backwards . It was an interesting time this week as we learned a bit more about ourselves.  Many of us have an idea of where we would like to end up, but may not know exactly HOW we will get there. Some people already have their life planned out about the when and where. Others, like myself, go with the tide of life. We know where we'd like to be in life, but we also know that life happens and that the road can be a little rocky. Where ever we end up, we are meant to be there. All anyone can do it give it their best shot and work hard for what they want.  500 × 375 With that being said, as my classmates and I continue our journey here in college, there are plenty of resources that can be used to make sure that we are doing what we are supposed to do. If we are not sure about certain things, there are plenty of sources that we can use to guide us in the

The Gray Area... https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/mixing-paint-renee-trenholm.jpg                                               When you mix black and white paint, you get the color gray. Granted if there's more black than white then it's a darker gray, and if you have more white than black, it is a lighter gray. Mixing colors is one thing, and if we take the analogy above and compare it to the racial issue with the blacks and whites we can see how the outcomes changes in different situations. https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-privilege.html  * Before I get into that, in class we discussed white privilege . With the understanding that you already have about it, I am hoping you'll be able to understand my analogy. http://dailytrojan.com/2015/06/23/mass-shooting-indicates-white-privilege/  * Georgia Southern is predominately white. There are so many people with different personalities, beliefs, majors, life stories, i

So much for making a new home... FYE Read (link within caption) Good news or Bad news first? Good news: The book, Make Your Home Among Strangers, was ... boring. I know this doesn't sound like good news, but it is definitely better than the other news. However, I did enjoy what I read. It was relatable in some cases and mind challenging in others.  Bad news: I don't feel as though I can make my home here at Georgia Southern. While the school and faculty are nice, the students (some, not all)  seem as though they are afraid of diversity.  Diversity includes me as a student, others as well, no matter where they came from. There have been comments after the author spoke here at Georgia Southern that are not so pleasing to the ear; I'd rather not say. It doesn't even feel as safe as I thought it should be on this campus. How can I speak up when there are larger numbers ahead of me? On the other hand... In the FYE read, there were some questions pos