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Last Blog Post

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For my final blog post, I will be writing about my experience with writing a blog this semester. This blog was honestly what I had expected it to be. My other english class I took at Dayton had us make a blog and have blog posts every week, so it wasn’t anything new to me, and most english classes my friends have taken have also done the same thing. I didn’t like that almost all of the blog posts didn’t have a prompt because I found it really difficult to come up with my own prompts, and it is a lot easier for me to write about a given topic. Other than that it wasn’t too difficult, I just thought of it as busy work because we weren’t writing about anything we were learning in class. I won’t continue this blog after the course, because I only started it since it was required for a grade so I didn’t do it because I genuinely enjoy it so I have no intrinsic motivation connected to this blog. I also just don’t enjoy writing, and I would rather do other things with my free time. The one thing I did find beneficial was practicing my writing outside of required papers, and being able to be creative with what I wrote. But I didn’t feel any immediate gratification from my blog posts, because I genuinely don’t think anyone reads them so I feel like they are somewhat pointless. I know everyone in my class had to post their blog links, but we never interacted with each others. My last english class we got extra credit if we commented on a certain amount of our peers blogs, and I feel like that would have been beneficial for this class so we actually interact with each other’s posts, and we know that people might actually read what we are writing.

Goals for myself

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This is my second blog post for this week, since I will be doing an extra one. This post I will be talking about some goals I have for myself. Being isolated during this time has forced me to reflect on my habits and think about my future, and there are some things I would like to change. I have always been a very negative person, always seeing the glass half-empty, and assuming the worst possible scenarios for literally anything in my life. I want to change that and try and be more positive, especially now since there is so much unknown about the future. I also have always been very bad at following routines, and I can never seem to stick to one. Whether it’s working out consistently, remembering to take my medication everyday, keeping track of due dates, or even being on time for things. I just want to be a more organized person and get into a really good routine that I can keep up and hopefully follow into the fall semester once I’m back at school. I also want to find more hobbies I enjoy, right now it seems like there is nothing I like to do and I want to find something that makes me happy. I need to try out some new things and discover something I’m good at or at least enjoy doing. This is really important to me, because anytime I’m really down I always have trouble trying to find something to lift my spirits or make me a little happier. I want to try and accomplish at least a few of these goals while I have so much time on my hands, and hopefully be able to continue some of them into the next school year.

What I have been doing the past few weeks

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This week’s blog I will just be talking about what I have been doing the past couple weeks. I have been trying my best to keep up with all my school work, except it feels like it is all piling on and is hard to learn when most of my classes never have online meetings so I’m struggling to try and teach myself. Other than school work, my sleep schedule has been so messed up I think I’m nocturnal now. Clearly being away from campus has changed many of my habits, and my routines have been so messed up but I’m trying my best to make it as normal as possible back home. I have been keeping in touch with my friends from school as much as possible, we try and zoom every week, play games and just catch up. It seems like every week we are betting on if we will be able to go back to Dayton in the fall. This just sucks so much right now because I live out of state, and so do most of my friends so none of us are really close to each other, and we don’t know when everything will calm down so we can’t plan any future time to meet up, so there isn’t much to look forward to at the moment. I have zoom meetings every week for my job in housing, and for SGA so it’s nice to be able to see the same faces I would be seeing if we were on campus. It’s hard for me to find something productive to do with my free time though, I only have a few friends back home that I’m still close with, and I don’t have a ton of hobbies either. I have been cleaning my room everyday because I feel like I at least accomplish something. I have tried painting, working out, sewing, watched just about every series on netflix, and I’m running out of things to try. I’m worried for the summer, since I won’t even have school work to be doing. I will have so much time and nothing to do with it, so I think I need to discover some new hobbies or try and get another job.

How I feel about remote learning

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This week I’m going to write about how online classes are going, and how I feel about them. For starters, although it may seem like us students have a lot more time on our hands, we are also balancing many other things like living at home and learning remotely with family around always bugging us, not having the same resources available, oh and struggling with a national pandemic that is causing many people a lot of health issues and anxiety. Many of my professors start all their emails out with “I know this is a very stressful time for all of us” and then proceed with a to do list for the week of about 20 different tasks, since we have “more time on our hands”. This has really ticked me off not gonna lie, like we shouldn’t be given more work than we would have had on campus or be held to the same standards while teaching ourselves. I understand professors are stuck at home teaching their children and trying to balance their lives as well, and they seem to always say how stressful it must be for us students but then continue to add on to the stress. I’m just very unhappy with how it is going, especially since we aren’t given the same resources but are paying the same amount in tuition to not even have classes being tough by professors, and having to learn everything on our own. I am happy they put in place a pass/fail grading system though. I have heard rumors about potentially not going back to school in the fall, and I’m really considering taking a semester off then. I’m paying to go out of state to a in person college for more than just the classes but for my friends and the campus experience, and I don’t want to pay the same price to do online classes, and not be able to see my friends or even be taught by my professors. I’m just getting increasingly frustrated with online learning and I’m happy it will be over in two weeks. 

My perfect day

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This weeks blog post I will be writing about my perfect day since coronavirus is taking the last drop of my happiness, I thought it would be a good idea to write about what I’m going to do once this shit show is over. For starters, the day has to be warm and sunny, which sucks because the weather is never consistent in the midwest. I’d be in Petoskey, Michigan where my family has a cottage that we all grew up going to. I have 19 cousins so any time we are all up north on the lake together it is so much fun, and we are all pretty close in age so we enjoy the same things. The day would start at the ass-crack of dawn since we get up around 5:30-6:00 to go water skiing when no one is on the lake so the water is calm. Then once we get back we would warm up by making breakfast and everyone eating together on the back porch watching the lake come to life. The day would probably entail some tanning, more water skiing, wake surfing, swimming, card games. There would be plenty of snacks throughout the day because we constantly are eating, and a cooler filled with drinks. Our family is really into booze cruises, so ideally we would be cruising around the lake with a cold white claw in hand, and ending up at the sand bar for an hour or two just throwing a frisbee, tanning, or socializing with the other boats of people there. Eventually making it back to the cottage, we would have a fire going and sit around and talk for hours, and play card games with each other. Whenever I’m up north alone I think there is nothing to do and it is so boring, but any time my cousins are there with me it always seems like we never run out of things to do, and it always makes for a perfect day. 

How Remote Learning is Going

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This week’s blog post I’m going to be writing about how the transition from in-person classes and normal everyday living to remote learning and stay-at-home orders has changed my everyday life. Since Dayton has announced we will continue to have remote learning for the rest of the semester it has been super difficult for professors and students to figure out how to make their learning experience as normal as possible, but it has been a very tough transition. The one thing I am surprised about since I never thought the university would be willing to do this, is the decision to allow students to decide if they want to have a pass-fail grade or regular grades for each class this semester. This has alleviated so much stress off of me and my peers and makes it a lot easier to just try my best and not be worried about how my GPA will be affected. Other than that the transition has been a tough adjustment, to say the least. I live in a different time zone, so I have to remember all my due dates and class times are actually an hour early. Learning through zoom chats, or not even video chats at all just isn’t the same education we were getting before and I feel very unconnected from my friends, professors, and Dayton community. It is disappointing, and I understand the need for social distancing in order to flatten the curve, but I just wish there was still some sort of community intact or that Dayton was offering more than just a housing refund. I pay to go to school out of state for a reason and to have professors that I interact with every week. Our tuition goes towards more than just classes, it goes towards our rec plex membership, counseling services, the health center, maintenance, the library, facilities management, and so much more which we are no longer receiving being sent home. I just really hope Dayton tries to do good with their students and offer refunds for services no longer being provided or finds a way to be able to provide these things. Not everyone can waste that much money to not be receiving many of the things that help students keep on with their school work and support their mental health. I just hope the school figures everything out and does good by their students during this difficult time.

My plans after I graduate

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This week’s blog will be about my plans after I graduate (ew I never want to graduate). Clearly, since I’m only a sophomore I have no clue what the hell I’m going to do after I graduate, or even if I will graduate, but I got some ideas so I might as well throw them out there. At this point in my college career, I still like being a marketing major and would love to get into the sports and entertainment industry, more specifically doing marketing for an NBA or NCAA team. I just love watching basketball and football, mainly college and then the Milwaukee Bucks, but I’m also fascinated with the behind the scenes stuff. I follow/keep up with many of the students who work for Dayton’s athletic marketing team, and I love seeing all the content they are making and where they go once they leave UD. It is just a field that really interests me and I want to have a job I love, not just one that pays the bills, so I can wake up every day and do something I’m truly passionate about. I’m sure I won’t have much money once I’m done paying to go here, but I would like to find sometime after I graduate to go travel since I’ve never left the country and probably won’t be able to study abroad since it is so expensive. Ideally, I’d like to just take a gap of like 3-5 months and go visit all of the places I’ve been dying to go, experience new things, and get out of my comfort zone. I’d also like to go visit family abroad and maybe try learning a new language. 

My Dream Job

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This week’s blog will be about my dream job (emphasis on DREAM). I have always been really interested in film making, videography, and editing videos I take to tell a story. In grade school I would always be playing around with our school’s video cameras with my friends, making short movies about literally anything. It was just so interesting to me how to come up with fun ideas to shoot, unique angles to shoot from, and taking the ordinary footage and editing it into something really fun and visually pleasing to watch. To this day I still am constantly taking videos of everything I do and editing montages or short films. In high school, I started following a lot of self-made videographers and people who shoot sports and edit them into the marketing content. I’m a marketing major right now and really do love business and the concepts behind marketing, so I thought it was a good choice for a major and I want to incorporate my love for videography and filming into a future job. My dream job that has been in my mind for the past few years is sports and entertainment marketing. I want to work for either the Milwaukee Bucks, University of Wisconsin, or the University of Michigan in their athletic/marketing teams and be able to shoot a variety of sports (mainly men’s basketball and football) and create the marketing content for their social media accounts. I really want to get involved with something like that at Dayton while I’m going to school here to get my foot in the door and see if its something I’d be good at or passionate about.

People in my life that support me

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This week’s blog is about people in my life that support me. This interested me because when I was younger I thought no one was there for me or supported me in any way and that I was the forgotten child since I’m the youngest.  Although this might have been true when I was younger, at this point in my life I think my family’s view on me has changed and I can clearly see who is here to support me and who is not. My mom is the hardest worker I know. She practically raised me on her own,  supported three children, and paid to send them all to college solely with her interior designer salary (which if you ask me is way too little for the amount of work that woman does). She has supported me so much these past two years in college, and anytime I’m going through something she is always there to give me advice and try and do anything she can to help me out. My mom not only financially supports me but emotionally supports me as well, always telling me I can do anything I put my mind to and being my biggest fan 24-7. She has experienced so much in her life, and I always feel like she knows the right thing to do in any situation or what to say, so I’m always asking her for advice on new things I’m experiencing, and she always makes me feel prepared to handle anything. If I ask her for help I know she is willing to do anything and then some. She also went to Dayton, so she is always trying to make sure I have the best experience possible, wants me to create special memories as she did, and wants me to let Dayton help develop my morals/values as it did for her. 

I have the worst luck flying

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I had the worst experience flying of my life on September 23rd. I had a flight from Lansing to Detroit, and then Detroit to Dayton. My flight to Detroit kept getting delayed due to “mechanical issues”, and eventually after it getting delayed by 3 hours I was going to miss my connecting flight to Dayton, and the person at the Delta counter told me that the plane still hasn’t left the ground to come to Lansing. She said if it never ends up coming I won’t have a way to get to Detroit the next morning, since I had already missed my connecting flight and she booked me to fly out the next morning. She said I needed to take a hour and a half taxi to Detroit with 6 strangers, and I had to get to the Detroit airport before I could get my hotel voucher. I just turned 18 and taking a taxi with strangers and staying in my own hotel in Detroit was not what I had planned for. Also to add on top of this the hotel I stayed in was dirty, and had not been cleaned properly. The whole situation was not handled well and I missed 3 of my classes Monday morning due to this mix up, and didn’t get to my hotel until 11pm. This was the worst experience I have ever had flying, and I want to be reimbursed at least for my flight from Lansing to Detroit because I was told to leave, and I don’t find it reasonable for me to have to pay for a flight that I was told by a Delta employee not to take. As well as being reimbursed I would also be happy if Delta were to find a way to make up for what had happened to me, because if nothing good happens out of this awful experience, then I will choose to never fly with this airline again, and tell my friends and family not to also.