FYE-1220-KE-Honors First Year Seminar

Welcome Back, Welcome Back,  Welcome Back!!! Hey everyone, I hope you all didn't miss me all too much. Durning the week I have learned about time management, how to implement different strategies to help with time management, apps that can limit different activities on my phone(to limit distractions), the honor's program, and other resources to help with completing certain requirements within the program. Let's hop to it... Starting off, the conversation with Dr. Engel, Dr. Desiderio, and Erin Martin was very informative, not to mention a bit overwhelming. I didn't contribute a lot into this conversation because I was so focused on taking in the information. There were a few things that stuck out to me about the honor's program: volunteer hours, thesis, and Service 912. Dr. Desiderio mentioned that Service 912 would help with the completion of the required hours needed for experiential learning. He asked the class what we thought experential learning was, and

Hey there, nice of you to join me on my blog! This has honestly been some heck of a week engaging with many new and some not-so-new people. Particularly in my FYE class, I have met many others here, and we have had great discussions about the word "engage", along with a short video about college with incorporation of book and street smarts: "How to graduate college with a job you love and less debt: Jullien Gordon at TEDxMidwest " (link within name).  link: https://images.app.goo.gl/RXCYaNEANGivpfaC9 During these great discussions, I really enjoyed talking to my partner (Avery P.) about what the word "engage" meant to us. My partner and I found similar definitions such as, "to be involved". Eventually later in the class we hear other people's opinions about the word such as: "to participate", "focus", and "be present", all of which I agree with. I must say that the video about college (mentioned above)