What Every College Freshman Needs to Know

http://www.society19.com/every-college-freshman-really-needs-know/

This article is about what I should know before I go to college. I find myself reading multiple of these types of blogs because I honestly don't get enough of a heads up from family members. They all tell me how proud and excited they are for me but a list of things I need to know is the best. Here are the 7 things that the author tells me that I need to know and my opinion on them.

•Get involved on campus: I will definitely know I will be involved on Campus because of how involved I am in High School. I will not be the girl who just sits and does nothing. I will want to be involved because I am a very active girl who doesn't want to be bored. This is one thing I will not have a problem doing.

•Connect with your professors: I have a thing for making friends with teachers in High School so I am thinking that this will not be any different. I am going to a small school so it's not like I will be lost in a lecture hall and get to skip class. I will have a relationship with my professors regardless but I will try my hardest to go above and beyond with connecting with these people so that I stand out for recommendations.

•Be smart with your money: This will be kind of hard for me considering I want to get a job at the hospital as a CNA. Yes, I will be getting more money but I won't be able to do my homework like a "warm body" job would. I also am really bad at saving money. I will have to discipline myself on money when I get to college.

•Get an internship: I feel like it will be easy for me to find intern opportunities because I hopefully will be working at the Maryville hospital. If there is some type of Occupational Therapy internship that I could be a part of, I hope I would be there first pick since I will live nearby the hospital.  

•Keep healthy: I don't plan to drink in college so I think that will help when it comes to not gaining the freshman 15. They also have a free gym membership with your tuition that I will take advantage of. Hopefully, my roommate will like to workout and take zumba, yoga, etc. classes.

•Avoid drama: I hope that drama doesn't follow me like in high school. I also hope that my roommate is good. I don't know anyone that is going to the same school as me so I had to do pot luck. Hopefully, I get someone that I can at least deal with.

•Get the cheapest textbooks: I didn't even bother to read this section because Northwest Missouri State gives free textbooks with tuition. They also give us laptops that we can download class books onto.

Grey's Anatomy terminology

Summary:

Amanda Kirzner wrote an article about how after going into med school she changed view on the show and how real it is. At the end of the article she states, "Despite the unrealistic nature of 'Grey's Anatomy,' it is still one of my favorites."

Author's argument:

In this article Kirzner seems to argue that she knew that the facts about residency in Grey's were incorrect but they became more obvious after becoming a general surgeon. I knew that her evidence was true because I am a watcher of Grey's Anatomy and this is how I came to the realization that I want to be a Nurse. She uses well known events from the show that could never happen in real life. For example, when Izzie cuts Denny's wire on his left ventricle assist device to get him a spot on the transplant list she gets close to no punishment. In real life, not only would she be put in prison but would never practice medicine again. It is also illegal to have a relationship with a patient. I think that this article was a good way to put it. I was looking more for the actual medical errors in terminology then rules of the residents but she did an amazing job otherwise. Kirzner's general conclusion was that the show mostly steps over these errors to make the show seem more dramatic. It sure succeeds because it is many peoples favorite show on Netflix. 

My Critique:

The authors argument does support her main points. I enjoyed reading this article because I really connected with it. I am sure that if a person that didn't watch Grey's Anatomy or didn't like it read this they would not enjoy it as much as I did. The evidence she provides are very convincing because it makes since that the real world of medicine would be more strict. 

Conclusion:

I have concluded after reading this article that I can't just want to be a nurse because of a show. The world of television likes to make things a little bit more dramatic than they are in real life.

The Article

Carrie

          In my English class we are supposed to read a book a quarter and then write about it. This quarter I read Carrie, a famous book by Stephen King. After reading this book and picturing it in my mind, I decided to watch the movie so I could see how they would put this into a film. I choose to watch the 2013 version instead of the older one because I felt it would be more understandable for me since I live more in todays technology. I also heard that the 2013 version was a lot less creepy and I am not much of a fan of creepy movies. This movie was about a unique teenage girls high school experience as she deals with bullies and her insane mother.
          I really enjoyed the movie because of its plot. It really kept me entertained and wanted to see the end of the movie. At the end of the movie when Carrie kills everyone the special effects didn't look very real to me though which was a real damper on the movie. It was like we finally got to the big ending where it gets intense and the bloody scenes reminded me that this was just a movie. I guess this is good for people that get scared easily but its just a real damper.
          When watching this movie there were a lot of shots that I really enjoyed. For example when they first introduce the closet that Carrie's mother locks her in. All of the shots in this closet are very different in looking up and around the closet. I remember the way that they shots were made me feel scared about the situation. It really put myself in Carrie's shoes.

Personal Project Review

Project: As Though Lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8nCEIiazpA

• What was the scope of the project?The scope of this short film was to film a video as a team. All of the entertainment classes worked on this and got together to film. It was very hard to stay organized with so many people on the job. Yes, it was like a real movie would be but with the crew made up of teenagers it was kind of hard. When it comes to cost it was kind of expensive to do because of costuming and props. We each sent out 3 letters asking for money and made about $2,500.

• What was your process?Our process started at the end of first semester when we got our jobs and started planning. I was the costume designer so as this I started to come up with what each character was going to wear in each scene. This was kind of hard considering everyone had different opinions on what this should look like. Will, the director, and I had the same idea but our entertainment teacher did not so we had to meet her needs and ours, which was difficult.

• What did you learn along the way? When it comes to technical learning, I learned how to use websites that involve how to lay costumes out for easy access. Professionally I learned how to work with a big group of people and experienced how long the planning, filming, and editing process takes.

• What would you do differently? Why? If I was to redo this project I would have made it more organized at the beginning. I also wouldn't have changed the story line half way through. That really got people off and our whole class had no idea what was going on.

• What would you do the same? Why?If I were to do this again I would probably keep the same story but give the characters different words. I enjoyed the idea of the story but it just wasn't portrayed as well as it could have been.

• What experiences will you draw from to enhance your next project?I have drawn from the whole As Though Lost experience mostly including all of the bonding with my peers. I feel like working with almost the same set of people this upcoming year will be so much fun because I know the people I am working with.

RDT JV Slideshow

For my Dance Team I was in charge of making a slideshow for the JV team. It took me about a week but i feel like it turned out well. Here it is!

CST Spring Show and Banquet Video (Music Video)

Instead of filming a Music Video we were working on finishing up our client work. We made the slideshow for the CST Dance Teams Banquet. We also went and filmed their spring show. We learned how to deal with certain situations. Heres our finished projects.

Client Work (North by Northwest)

Last week, Mrs. Morris showed the class a short film called, "North by Northwest." Instead of watching that we were editing for our client. This is what we were supposed to blog about but since we were doing something else, we decided that we could tell you a little about what Abbie, Jayleah, and I have been doing for the past couple week.

Mrs. Morris always assigns client projects to people based on if she thinks these people based on if she thinks these people would work good together and if she thinks they would be interested in working with these kinds of people. Morris gave us the Chisolm Trail Dance Team Slide Show and Spring Show videos. Both Jayleah and I are dancers and we usually work with Abbie because we work well together.

To get started we emailed Megan Hankins, the coach of the CST dance team, to get info about this project. She told us that to start off we would make a slideshow for the dancers to watch at their banquet. She got us connected with a Google Drive with all of the pictures she wanted in the slideshow on it. She told us she wanted each dancer to have three pictures and their video of them saying what their favorite memory was. Abbie did most of the editing but we all helped out by watching over her shoulder and giving her feedback and our opinions. Once we were finished we emailed the finished project to Mrs. Hankins. It took about two and a half weeks to edit due to the big number of girls. She loved it though.

Our next step was to go to their Spring Show which was on the 2nd of May. Here's where it got complicated. Jayleah and I were the ones who went to film because Abbie had previous plans. On Friday we realized that Jayleah wasn't there to check out the equipment because of a Dance Competition and I went home sick earlier that day. That left Abbie to check out the equipment and then somehow get it to me. I had my own Spring Show at the school so Abbie checked out everything and then put it in my locker for me to pick up later. I successfully got the equipment and went on to perform at my show.

The next day was show night. The show started at 7 o'clock so Jayleah and I showed up 40 minutes early to set up and get ready. Here's were everything started to go down hill. Going 40 minutes early, we thought that we would be the first ones there and have a place blocked out to get a good angle and not have to pay to get in. We were wrong! We got there and the place was packed. When we first walked into the front hall there were 3 teenage girls and I asked them where we could find Mrs. Hankins and that we were here to film the show for her. They said she was busy with the team and to just go ahead and go on in. We got asked to pay and went on in to there being no seats. We ended up setting up really close to the from and sitting under our camera tripod on the ground. Once the show started we pressed record and it was working fine until the 4th dance. Our screen said "Movie automatically stopped." I tapped Jayleah trying to stay quite in the process and told her. She told me to stop recording and start it over. So i did and it went back to normal. We hoped that that wouldn't happen again. It of course did a couple dances later so we started stopping it and starting back up every dance. Then it eventually told us that the card was full. We were so confused because that card could hold so much that that couldn't be right. We didn't know what else to do but take out my phone and record the last couple numbers. We started freaking out and left hoping that we could work with what we got.

The next morning which was a sunday I checked my email and there was an email from Mrs. Hankins that said, "I didn't see you at all last night, Please tell me you were at my show???" Then i went on to tell her exactly what happened. She was so grateful that we actually were there and got some. She told us that since she didn't see us she had a dad record the whole thing on her iPad so if we for sure didn't get something she could give it to us off of there. We were so grateful and started editing.

This is why we were not watching North by Northwest. We were focused on the crazy weekend that happened before.