Final Project

For my final project I will be doing a video project discussing different angles of the college life while living on campus. I will do a survey to get data on how many students who live on campus think it would be better educational wise if they commuted. I will ask yes or no question that can give me data of what the average Southern Connecticut State University student. I will also get statistics, photos, quotes, and I will also show the differences between the Southern and other university. I would also like to ask some upper classman in what ways did the overcome the many challenges of being a freshman college student .Through this video I would like to see what are other college student’s perspectives of the on campus life style. I would also like to see if there is anything that Southern Connecticut State University students would like to change about the on campus living.

-          Does everyone feel safe living on campus?

-          Do you enjoy being a resident on campus?

-          What resources do you use the most?

o   The health center

o   The fitness center

o   The disability resource center

o   The counseling center

o   The learning and writing center

o   Other…

-          Would your grades be better living at home instead of on campus?

-          Would you like to commute next year?

These questions can be very informative about the on campus lifestyle.  I am excited to see the results and know what others opinions on this topic are.

Interfaith Office

This week I went by the interfaith office. They are currently just doing Roman Catholic masses. The people who work in the interfaith office are pay by the community and not the school. At this time the only religious group in the county who can pay for the services at Southern Connecticut State University is the Archdiocese of Hartford. Currently there is only one person working in the office. Anyone can go into the interfaith office no matter what religion. They will tell you where you can go to service in the area. They have a Catholic mass on Sunday at 5pm. The location of this mass is in the student center room number 201.

Multilingual

To have another language that you speak helps to make you more diverse in society. Knowing another language and being able to speak it well helps. When you are able to communicate with someone that does not speak the same language as you it reaches the goals of a majority of the colleges in the United States. A vast majority of colleges have a language requirement in order to graduate. This requirement ensures that unless you are exempt you must be able to reach a 200 level course in a language other than English. Since the United States has so many immigrants who speak a different language it make being able to be language diverse such a valuable skill. In Amanda’s groups article the show the value to be multilingual. In today’s society it is not acceptable to say that you took a language but forgot it. Because, in modern society there is so much diversity. Economically speaking it also looks better on a job resume that one would be knowledgeable in a language other than their native language. Although most college students do complain about having to take a language. This skill is valuable and they will be thankful for it in the long run. The most common language taken is Spanish because a lot of people in the United States speak Spanish. Many choice a language because of their back round or because that is what they started to learn at a young age. It defiantly is a valuable skill to have in the modern world.

fitness center

When I went to the fitness center I learned many things. They have different hours for week then weekends.  Monday through Thursday the hours of operation are 7am-10pm. The hours of operation Friday are 7am- 8pm. Saturdays hours of operation are 9:30am-4:30pm. Sunday’s hours are 2pm-7pm. The average cost to join the gym is sixty dollars but since it is half way through the semester it now cost thirty five dollars to join. There are approximately twenty exercise machines in the fitness center.  One class that I would be interested in taking is the beginners yoga taught by Amanda on Friday’s from 12:30 to 1:15pm.

Knowledge

I am a auditory and kinestetic learner I learned this because I find it easy to learn how to do thing by listening and by doing hand on activities. One of the ways I show this is through when I do my homework I need to have music on because when I listen to something while tring to work it helps me focus beter and I learn easier then doing work in silence. Through Krista's groups articles I learned that what type of learner I thought I was I am. This is important to know because if you dont know what kind of learner you are it is harder to learn. This is because you do not know what learning styles work the best for you. The topic that this group choice is very intresting in many aspects. Many people do not know enough about this topic which makes it harder for them to succeed.

Paying For College

The saying "Money doesn't grow on trees" is a saying that I have heard multiple times in my life. The thing is many colleges cost a lot to attend. For some people it is impossible to go to school without leaving with a lot of debt. Many will be paying off this debt for twenty plus years. The articles we read for the paying for college group was very informative about how a majority of college students in the present time cannot leave college without debt. When deciding on colleges where to go depends a lot on the cost of that particular school. For me I was told from the beginning that I was only allowed to go to states school because of how much it cost to get into out of state schools. I knew I only had a couple of choices so I looked at cost and then majors when I saw Southern had my major I was really excited and that's how I ended up coming to SCSU. I was lucky enough though that from the time I was born my grandmother put away money for me weekly to ensure that I would be able to get a proper education. This was very important to her and she set up the funds in a way that they were only able to go towards college. I still will be coming out of school with some debt but not they full tuition in debt. This article has made me realize the financial aspect if school because I have never truly thought about the cost and how expensive it is to attend a university.

Teaching

Southern Connecticut State University has always been known for their education department. Ever since I was younger I always said I wanted to become a teacher. I learned that Southerns program for teaching is a very hard program to get accepted into. For me special education is very important. I believe that every student with a disability can succeed if they have one person in their life to support them and to help them succeed. Southern offers a great program for special education degrees that teaches one student how not only to teach students with disabilities but also how to help them succeed in the classroom setting and outside the classroom. I think a big factor for students with disabilities is who their teacher is and how they teach. Southern deffinatly offers a great program and certifies many teachers in the state of Connecticut. To me teachers can play a huge part in the academic standings of a student not only students with disabilities but also students with out disabilities. Every student has that one teacher in their life that they wish they could have had multiple years again because they taught in a way which was easy for the student to learn in. Whereas you can also have a teacher whos teaching style is hard to learn off of.The goal at Southern is to make teachers that students want to be in the class room with. Also, who can teach different learning styles for different types of students.