Time Strategies

Being smart with ones time management skills is important to helping someone get through college. managing your  time properly will help lead you to success. This is something I told myself through college and even when working. I plan to stay ahead on the class so I do not fall behind. 

I read the article "The Important Habit of Just Starting." From what I read is it is important to start something and work on it with a schedule with breaks so that one may finish on time but it is important to start rather than procrastinate. Its a good habit to start something and continue to work on it until its finish through time. take breaks as needed but once again get it started.

I read the article " How to Beat Procrastination".  the article gives good ways on how to start on something rather than to wait until last minute to do it, My favorite idea it gave was to think about being finished and how it will feel because this is something I do myself. I hate to procrastinate and like the ideas the article provides. Though there may not be a whole lot to the article it helps on something every body has done before.

You will nit be this happy by Procrastinating 

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My thoughts on the technology

A lot of the technology for this class is new to me. I have never used a blog before but from the assignments so far seems simple. I have never made an website of my own, so that will be an exciting new thing for me. I have never used bookmarking and have wanted to learn how so that will be something that will be useful even outside the class. I am ready to use the technologies that are new and use all the sites that will be used in this class. I am ready to become one with the modern technology.

Do I need to explain this meme

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My thoughts on the assignments

The way that you have described the class is very strait forward. I am excited about the readings for the the class for i want to learn new stories that I can share with people. The interacting online with people through their blogs will be something that is new for me. I usually do not interact with others in an online class.I also like how their are multiple option for the extra credit if we are unable to do all the assignments throughout the week. I have high hopes for the class to be entertaining and teach me a new way of learning through the blogs.

To have courage to do something brave and new 

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Growth mindset thoughts

I had never heard of growth mindset before. I would have to agree with the ideas that the modern education system does discourage students with the pass or fail systems. Though there are grades in most systems, students still see the grades as passing or failing. This in my opinion causes students to be encouraged when passing but discouraged when failing. this system even had these effects on me. This made me want to take easy classes so I may pass and not have any abstract thoughts. I did not learn how to face challenges until I was in college and my professors helped to push me forward and face challenges. I think that the growth mind set would be a better system for the upcoming younger generations to help develop confidence toward challenges and make abstract thoughts that other generation were not taught . These are my thoughts on the subject.

meme on facing a challenge 

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Introduction about me and things I like

Hello,

My name is Nicholas Thomson. I am a mathematics major at the university. I have always loved math so that is why I chose it as my major. What caused me to like math was I have always exceled in the subject. Apart from doing school all the time I do have hobbies of my own that I make time for. I am an avid gamer. Unlike most people who tend to stay to one type of game I like to play many different types of games. I like to play first person shooter games such as Call of Duty or Battle Field, but I will also play games such as Final Fantasy which I don’t see first person shooter players play very often. I also have the hobby of coin collecting. I like to collect older coin especially old pennies. My favorite coin is an 1832 large cent pennies that I found at my grandmothers. One of my favorite things to do when not gaming is to watch movies. Some of my favorite movie are all the dc and marvel movies, James Bond movies and Alien and Predator movies. There are many more movies I love but too many to names to name. I also love to spend time with my family and friends. When I spend time with them we tend to do my hobbies at the same time. My favorite food is a dish called shrimp scampi and the grossed food in the world to me would be olives. I’m not afraid to try knew weird foods either. To prove this, I have eaten crickets and jellyfish before and they were both still better than olives. There are some places in the world I would like to visit. I would love to go to Japan, Europe in general, and Antarctica. I hope that once I am out of college to find a good stable job that would allow me to able to afford to visit these places. Along with the stable job I hope to have a family that I love and support. This is just so simple information about me and I hope that one of you is like me.

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Storybook favorites from previous students

Death's Story

This story caught my eye because it was about death himself. In most stories we see death as the being who takes someones life or shows someone the way of what there doing so that shall fix themselves. In this story this is not the case. This story gives the details of how the life of death begins and ends. It also states how death can die like everyone else and be replaced showing there are more than one death. The reaper is an interesting subject and this story provides that information.

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Back to the Inferno 

This story caught my eye because it started off with making me think about the levels of hell. I have always had an interest in the story of the inferno from the games and story's that have been developed from Dante's inferno. In this story the authors talks about how death, another interesting subject, takes Charley, a man, to three levels of the inferno. The three levels are lust, treachery, and wrath. This is the type of story that spike my interest. 

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Tragically ever after 

This story caught my eye because the idea that not all stories happy is realistic. This article goes over how the Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast do not have the happiest endings.It discusses how there stories stop being told at the highlight of the story and go down hill from there. The realism of the stories spoke to me and made me want to read more. Not everyone's story will always have a happy ending even when you are a princess.

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Because of the involvement of death and tragedy the image of the reaper makes sense 

The reaper 

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Noble Oklahoma my favorite place

Noble Oklahoma is where I grew up and went to school. Its where my parent live and where I made all my childhood friends. They say home is where the heart is and its where my heart lies. I loved Noble, where we have great restaurants and lots of rose rocks because it is the rose rock capital of the world. I love my home town.

Main street of Noble


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