Tag: college

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 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. 

Advice to my 10 year old self

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This blog is about some advice I would give to my ten-year-old self. I’m turning twenty this year, and I have learned a lot about my self and others throughout my life that I wish I could tell myself. The biggest thing I would say is that you cannot please everyone, and you will damage your mental health if you try and do so. You are given one life, you never know when it could end. It is a complete waste of your time worrying about people who don’t like you, or people who don’t value your presence. Overtime friends will come and go, and you will be left with a few quality friends who will never leave your side and your family who will love you no matter what. I got so hung up on the friends that would leave me, that I didn’t take the time to see the value in the friends who were still by my side helping me get through it. The second thing I would tell myself is that you shouldn’t be afraid to do what makes you happy. It took me so long to finally be able to be myself around my peers and family, and openly share what I’m passionate about. I found out by doing this that I attracted more friends who also shared similar interests as me, or who think the things I’m passionate about are cool. People who judge you for what makes you happy aren’t worth being in your life, and you are better off without them. Don’t be afraid to truly be yourself, live with no regrets, and don’t care about the people who don’t like you because they don’t matter.