INQ FINAL PROJECT

My Video

10I- Pumpkin Me Happy!

Last weekend, I attended a pumpkin decorating assembly in the basement of Farnam. The event was put on by the D.A.R.C. program.  A girl on my floor in my residence hall works for this program and gave me an invite. There was fried dough, fried oreos, candy, and other delicious treats.  When walking into the basement you could find lights and music.  This made it very hard to focus on decorating a pumpkin, but everyone made it work. There was a very good turnout in my opinion.  I am happy with my pumpkin and it is now on display in my room. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!

10V- Word of the Week

http://www.littletikes.com/kids-toys/pink-double-easel

The vocabulary word of the week is creativity.  This word is uniquely important to me because of the fact that I was raised in a house that focused on art and music.  Although I was also focused on school, a big part of my down time was spent at art school. The definition on creativity means the use of your imagination, in my words. Any activity that requires you to think out of your box of comfortability.

 Two other words that came up during this week were, connotations and demographic.  Both words came up while I was reading a book.  The word connotations means an idea or feeling that a word or phrase evokes.  I also had learned about this word in my critical thinking class. When it popped up in reading, I decided to reexamine its meaning.  The word demographic means something that is related tot he structure of populations. Although I do not completely understand this word yet I hope to learn more about it.  

10B- Creating Me

Ever since I was in first grade, I've known what I wanted to be when I grew up. I sat in my room, watching movie after movie.  From watching media I started developing a sense of style.  I began noticing that people give off a certain aura.  This is when I decided that I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Ever since I was little, I wasn't afraid to look different than everyone else.  I wasn't afraid to try new things and push the limit when it came to what I wore.  Some of this came from my brother.  He taught me that it is okay to be out of the box.  On weekends, we would go to New York City. We would sit on a bench for hours at a time and simply look at the people who passed by.  Some people dressed safe, while others pushed their limits. I slowly learned what worked and what did not from my "people-watching" hobby.

Ever since my brother discovered my interest in design, he buys me a fashion book on every occasion he can. Every Birthday and Christmas, I waited to see what new things I could learn about it.  One year I got a book filled with Valentino dresses through out the years.  To this day, this book is still the place I turn when I run out of ideas.  It is my inspiration to continue in this field of work.

My greatest dream is to become a fashion designer.  I want to style for broadway plays.  I would also be interested in designing formal dresses or other avant garde garments. I had once designed my own prom dress, but never executed it.  Maybe one day I'll be able to achieve this goal. 

10A-

I would write my blog critiquing my midterm video, but I was never able to post one.  As many of you might have noticed, I have failed to post many of my blogs recently. Although I am not proud of this and do not excuse it, I have not been in the best place recently.

 Almost every weekend, I have spent at home.  Most people would assume that I would have more free time, but this is not the case.  My weekends were spent packing, and if I was not packing I was thinking about moving. My mom couldn't of picked a more inconvenient time to decide to leave my childhood house.  With college just starting, I have been very homesick. Lately even when I am home, I don't feel like it.  My house no longer smells of incense and home cooked food. It now smells of cardboard boxes.

On top of being preoccupied with house arrangements, I have also been dealing with computer issues.  My computers camera and audio features have completely stopped working. This is why my midterm project did not get finished.  

My problem when facing a difficult situation, is that I freak out and in turn tend to give up more easily.  I give up and become so stressed that nothing can seem to get me out my "phunk." Although it does not excuse what happened, I believe that now that I am more aware of my actions, I can take control of the situation before it is too late. 

This photo shows what is left of one of the rooms in my house.

Video Rough Draft

Although I only have a minute finished, I intend on interviewing my RA and many other influential Greek Life participants. I intend to first show the stereotypes that are made about greek life and then explain how it truly is. I am going to show how people can get involved with this part of southern. This is what I have to start off with:

6V-Keep on Going

http://cloudyco.com/2005/01/the-honorary-title/

Persistence is when you continue on in the direction of your goal, no matter the road blocks or dilemmas that arise.  This was a very prevalent word this week because of my anxiety.  In many ways it hindered me from doing my work and keeping focused on school, but I continued to focus on school.  Although I may not have put in as much effort as I have in previous weeks, I continued to stay fairly caught up with the rest of my work.

A word that came up this week that I did not recognize was damping.  I read it in a definition in one of my textbooks. The definition I found for damping is a decrease in the amplitude of an oscillation as a result of energy being drained from the system to overcome frictional or other resistive forces.  Although I do not completely understand the definition of this word completely, I found it interesting.  It seemed like it might have a simple definition, so when I found out that it wasn't I was surprised.

The second word I did not recognize this week was, honoraries.  This word was not brought up in a class, but in a conversation between a friend and I.  We were talking about the advantages to being involved on campus.  She talked about how she wanted to know the campus honoraries better.  Although you can infer the definition from the context of the word, I wanted to get the exact definition.  As expected it was an elite member of a group of people.