Growth Mindset: Week 14

This is the first time I have done a Growth Mindset challenge. I chose to look through the memes. With the semester coming to a close things tend to get pretty hopeless. I scrolled through the list but one caught my eye. The "Difficult is not Impossible" meme caught my attention because something things being difficult is the central theme of a college student's life during finals week. I need to try to stay positive and stay confident that I can tackle any challenge that I face. Good luck to everyone on their finals!!

Finals Week

Famous Last Words: Week 14

The semester is coming to an end! I think it’s safe to say I am ready for it to be over and the end cannot come soon enough. Now that the end is approaching I have been primarily focusing on prepping for finals. I have always hated this time of the year. Sleepless nights, caffeine binges, not eating right, and stressing out way too much make for a pretty rotten time. I started preparing sooner than normal to try to avoid the great deal of stress I normally face during this time of the year.

This past week my biggest accomplishment was probably the essay I wrote for my History of Science class. It was an analytical essay over Galileo’s Letter to Christina. This was the longest letter I have ever seen but it was pretty interesting. The purpose of it was to seek the help of the Grand Duchess Christina to avoid condemnation for the Copernican theory and overall the harmful side effect this would have on the study of the physical sciences all together. It was a pretty interesting piece that had points applicable to today’s society in addition to Galileo’s 1600’s world.

Looking forward to the infamous dead week I hope to stay on top of my studies and not procrastinate! I have my Principles of Physiology final this Tuesday and a Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy lab practical this Thursday. I really wish that OU had a true dead week that allowed students to have time to prepare for finals. How does it make any sense that I should have presentations, practicals, and assignments due right before finals?  Shouldn’t my professors want to give me all the time in the world to study for their tests, rather than cramming because I have to worry about other assignments.

Overall I am ready for the end of the semester!

Peace

Reading Diary A: Brothers Grimm Librivox

This week I chose to read the Brothers Grimm Librivox unit. I wanted to read this one because it contained stories I grew up loving as a child. The second story within the unit is the story of Rapunzel. I really enjoyed this story and I honestly did not expect a happy ending for the two of them! My favorite was the story of Briar Rose. I grew up loving the Disney movie and I really enjoyed the Maleficent remake from just a couple of years ago.  It's really interesting to see the exact same story in three different ways. I have to say I was kind of disappointed that there was no dragon in the original story!!!

Sleeping Beauty