Journal 10/29/08

In the last twenty four hours I have written my problem solving paper, submitted it to Smartthinking, proofread it, and made the brochure. I am really confident with this paper. I feel like I did a good job on it and on the brochure. My problem is sleeping too much or liking to sleep a lot. I feel that I have a good solution and support for that solution. Also in the last twenty four hours I have gone from working hard on my English paper to being bored out of my mind. Yesterday I was so bored that my neighbors and I walked all the way to Pamida. It took a while but that was good because we had nothing else to do. It was a very nice day out and it was good for me to get out of the dorm. Sometimes it gets irritating to just sit in the dorm all day and watch TV or just to sit on my computer and do homework. Over all it was a pretty good day.

Journal 10/27/08

This past weekend has been such a great one. I got to spend time with my friend Jane who has been in Reno, Nevada for the last three months for school. She came home for a visit on Thursday. She had told me that she was coming home but we didn't tell our other friend Megan. We surprised her on Friday night at the rodeo. We had a great night and went back to Sioux Falls to stay at Jane's house. On Saturday Jane had a photo shoot to do for Harley-Davidson and so Megan and I went shoping witch I havn't done for a long time. That night we met up with some people and had a "good time". After getting up on Sunday and having lunch with Megan's mother and grandmother we headed back North to Madison and Brookings. When back at DSU I spent four hours studying for the psychology midterm. I had put it off all week and now I had to cram. After taking that test today I realized how I should study for the next one. I think that I did alright for it being my first big college midterm. Over all it was a good weekend and I enjoyed myself!

Journal 10/24/08

In the last twenty four hours I really enjoyed myself and college living. Yesterday at about this time I was just getting up from sleeping in because I only have one class every other Thursday. this was nice to be able to sleep in because on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I have 8:00 biology. The only class that I had yesterday was GS100 and we talked about mid-terms and it helped to get some advice. The rest of the afternoon I spent working on homework and studying. Things were going alright through the day but then it was after dinner that things got fun. I spent the evening with my neighbor watching a movie and messing around. We decided to put on some of our Halloween costume and take funny pictures. After laughing historically for about an hour we facebooked it for awhile. We got together with more people down the hall and had a good talk with one and hung up Halloween decorations with the other. We were being so goofy and random the whole time that it made it a really good time. After that I had a really good conversation with my boyfriend. It was about time because I hadn't talked with him since Monday. We were have some problems but they all got worked out last night. After talking for about and hour and a half I went to bed. I fell asleep right away and slept all night until my friend texted me at 5:30 this morning. She had some exciting news that she had to tell me but I was not wanting to talk. So I went back to sleep and slept in until 9:30. Thursdays and Fridays are always good because I get a chance to get more sleep. Today is the start of the weekend so I am glad that it is Friday.

Journal 10/22/08

How Not To Solve A Problem:

When there is a problem to be solved it becomes important. If you are trying to solve this problem do not make it important and then it will never get solved. Don't ever just think of possible solutions. Just sit there and think and think and think of just the problem. Dwell on how bad the problem is and what all is wrong. Don't start thinking about solutions or ways to lessen the problem. Don't even think of asking others to help you with your problem because they won't have any good ideas or any ways to help you. Start thinking of ways that the problem can't be solved. Don't think of all aspects of the problem and how solving some aspects of it could help the problem in whole. Don't just except the problem as it is and don't solve it at all.

Journal 10/20/08

Problem Solving:

All of my friends and relationships know me as the listener of the group. I am a good listener and I try to give advise back and help people with their problems. Most of the time I won't tell the person what to do but instead I will help them look at all aspects of the problem and all sides of the solution or help them find other solutions. To have someone to tell your problem to sometimes helps solve it just by talking about it. To get it out in the open helps your mind look at the problem a different way than before. The person you share your problem with has probably gone through what you are going through or knows someone who has had the same problem. Their input can really help if you consider all parts of the suggestions. For the last three weeks I have been having some problems with my boyfriend and I have been talking about it with everyone and everyone has been giving their opinions and suggestions about what to do. This was alright for a while but now it is just annoying and I think that I need to just consider what everyone has said and now make up my own mind instead of doing what everyone is telling me to do. In the end off finding a solution for your problem, you just need to do what is best for you, not what everyone wants you to do. It is nice to have different minds thinking for you but it's your decision in the end and that is why when I try to help people with their problems I only help them make up their minds instead of making up their minds for them.

Journal 10/17/08

(Serious) problem,
(Creative) solution

What is considered a serious problem? A family tragedy, loosing your paper when it's due in ten minutes, or not getting your hair to look right in the morning? What is a creative solution? To many different people, a serious problem can be a range of things. How to deal with them can also be different to many people. There are always problems in life. Everyone deals with problems and solutions everyday sometimes multiple times a day. How serious a problem is depends on who/what the problem is. How creative the solution also depends on who/what is being dealt with. Maybe the best way to deal with a serious problem is to have a creative solution for it or maybe the best way is to just use the obvious solution. To have a creative solution to everything may make it more serious or complicated. And to make a problem more complicated it isn't helping it at all. Sometimes a creative solution is ideal because the problem is very serious.

Journal 10/15/08

The last twenty four hours have been very uneventful. I got back to school after having a four day weekend. The weekend was very good for me because I got to see my family and spend time with my friends and nieces. For at least four hours everyday I just layed and watched TV. I really don't do this in the dorm so it was nice to have time to catch up on my TV shows. I know that it was quite lazy of me but I really enjoyed it. I think that I really enjoyed it this much because it isn't the same when you have a roommate who is always in the room and watching TV. I usually just let her have the remote because most of the time I'm doing other homework or chatting online besides just watching TV. This doesn't bother me but it is nice to have alone time.

Journal 10/10/08

In the last twenty four hours not much has happened except for school. Yesterday I spent most of my afternoon working on my English concept paper and it didn't go very well. I has looking at my computer screen for a half hour with only one sentence on the paper. I eventually got into a better mood to work on it. It turned out that I spent about 5 hours working on it and I'm still not quite done. I think that it was just one of those days that I didn't feel like sitting down and getting things accomplished. I think that I felt this way because I knew that I had to get it done because I am going out of town this weekend and I knew that I wouldn't have time to work on it. I was also excited to have a four day weekend and I couldn't wait for it to start.

Journal 10/08/08

In the last 24 hours my emotions have been everywhere. There had been troubles with my relationship with my boyfriend. Yesterday I woke up and sat on the edge o f my bed and started tearing up because the night before I had had a fight with him. Things are really complicated right now and it seemed that he didn’t even care. Instead of letting myself turn over and cry again I got up and showered so that I could get on with my day. After my only class I broke down and took a two and a half hour nap. I didn’t feel like doing anything but staying in bed. My friend finally made me get up and go for a walk. We ended up finding really awesome things for our Halloween costumes. That cheered me up and the rest of the day was good. I talked to my boyfriend again last night and we worked out a lot of things that had been bothering me. We talked about what had been happening and what we wanted to happen in the future. I went to bed last night feeling alright about where we are in this relationship. I know that in order to move on and work this out I need to not worry about it and just focus on school and other friends. I think that it can work out…I hope.

Journal 10/06/08

Today is Monday and it was one of those typical early Monday mornings. Meaning after a long fun weekend it sucked to get out of bed this morning. It might have been because I am actually tired from the weekend events or maybe it is just the way we perceive Mondays to be. In America Monday mornings are probably the most disliked morning of them all. I think that I am more affected by the dislike for Mondays than the actual events from this weekend. This weekend I spent my time in Brookings for Hobo Days. It was so much fun to spend time with people from there, to go to the parade and to go to the football game. Even though they lost the game the school spirit is so inspiring there. After many long days and nights it was nice to get back to DSU. I had to work on my English outline so I headed back to the dorm at about noon on Sunday. I knew that if I waited until later in the day I wouldn't have gotten much done at all. I think that I am the type of person who would rather just get my school work done right away during the day so that I can have free time later on. I am not a night owl so when I have to do homework at night it doesn't go very well and usually doesn't get done. This is probably a good quality to have when going to school otherwise nothing would ever get done.