Time Strategies

I read the article called "Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives" and that was unexpectedly a lot longer of a read than I was expecting. But MAN! I felt like I just went through ten minutes of an existential crisis reading that thing. I'm going on my fifth year here a the university of Oklahoma and for the past four years including the summer time has just been non-stop going. Everything has gone by so fast that I often find myself a little bit sad at how fast the year has gone by. As a matter of fact, when I don't do anything for a day I feel like an absolute sloth. Being busy all the time has created this anxiety and and fear of not being busy. It was a great read and I decided to bookmark it to read it again when I'm a little bit more alert to read again!

I found this picture when I was looking for a relevant picture for this post
travis with a ch

technology

I never realized that you could make a game out of Twine. That's a great idea for a class project and I might try to incorporate twine into my project this year. Last year I used word press which was really easy so I might use it again this semester and add some funny podcasts. Refreshing myself with these tools I completely forgot that I learned how to do all this!

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thoughts on the assignments

One of my favorite things about the Indian Epics class was the "storytelling" assignments. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of adding my own spin to all the stories and trying to make it as funny as possible. Also, story-telling was a lot of fun because regardless of whatever I wrote, I know other people had to read it for their blog commenting assignments! So there was a thrill in thinking about how people would respond to these stories and that always gave me a good laugh.

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Growth Mindset

Over a year ago I read something about growth mindset in the Indian Epics course and briefly skimmed over some of its criticisms and flat out rejected it. I felt completely okay with the notion that I knew everything that was going on and that there could possibly be no criticism to a growth mindset. 

Today I took this assignment on again and read the articles criticizing the growth mindset and am completely blown away. I really felt like I cheated myself on having my beliefs challenged by not reading the articles as closely as I did this time.
For the past four years of college, I have entrenched myself in this belief that your attitude is everything and have completely disregarded any arguments that stated otherwise. One of the most profound connections that I found when reading these arguments is how conservative of a narrative that I have adopted in my progression throughout college and how those conservative views that I have fostered are not perfect.
I'm really thankful I read through all three of those articles criticizing grit and growth mindset!

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Story Book Favorites

Heroes Revealed was a great storybook that I browsed through. I thought it was super creative how the idea of different paradises are portrayed in each story. The introduction was really funny as well. I liked particularly how Valhalla had Beowulf in the paradise and the other stories included different heroes that I have not learned or read about yet. The organization is great. The storybook definitely makes me interested in learning and reading more about what is ahead.

Alice's Friends was pretty fun to read too. Also along the same lines of different perspectives like the Heroes revealed one, I enjoyed the idea of reading the wonderland story through different character's perspectives. Specifically, I like the one about the rabbit and how interesting it must be to see the Alice in wonderland story through the perspective of the rabbit. The organization was easy. The introduction was fun too and got me thinking about the idea of different perspectives as I progress in my future storybook.

When Brothers Cross Paths is pretty neat. I was not sure what I was expecting at first but the introduction explained things pretty well. The storybook takes the perspective of Sam and Dean Winchester, the protagonists from Supernatural. At first, I expected kind of a spooky storybook but it ended up being a lot cooler than that. The storybook was pretty interesting because each new part was like a new chapter in the previous thing that I read. I was not sure how it was organized at first but it's cool. This is different from the other storybooks because the story continues. From the introduction, I expected more of a continuation story so this makes sense.

Overall, my favorite ones are Alice's friends and heroes revealed one. I might make my storybook a combination of the two through the perspective of other people viewing Patrick as a hero in different paradises?

9th sphere of Dante's Paradiso
https://historylists.org/art/9-spheres-of-heaven-dantes-paradiso.html

Introduction - Patrick...a story of creation.

Hello everyone, my name is Albert, and I am a letters-constitutional studies major here at OU. I'm a fifth-year senior and will be applying to medical school this spring! For the past four years in college, I've run my own business every year in different states with Southwestern Advantage and have had a blast! facebook.com/bmswalbert. Also, Every summer, I bring a little wooden Patrick Star with me and take pictures with it... sometimes with my customers.

Here is Patrick being sported by one of his fans last summer in Michigan

Uploaded from my Iphone

A little over a year ago I took the Indian Epics course with Dr. Gibbs and wrote everything through the persona of Patrick Star. https://patrickstartrick.blogspot.com/ I really enjoyed the creative process of it so I'm doing the same thing for this course! Join me as I explore different myths and legends with Patrick!

Before we do that, here is a little bit of background on who and what Patrick is. Patrick is a wooden figurine that I created in 10th grade in my ceramics class at Classen SAS. He was created completely by accident. My friend and I were designing a sculpture out of two pieces of wood. Both pieces failed, but from the rubble arose possibility. My friend ended up throwing his piece of wood away, but I saw potential with my half. At first, the block looked potentially like a long sword. I shaved the piece and sanded it down into what later resembled a magnet shaped device. The final product was a wooden figurine that resembled Patrick Star from the popular show on Nickelodeon, Spongebob Squarepants. I decided to paint the figurine a shade of pink and had another friend draw a face on him.                             
                                                       

All photos were uploaded from my Phone

Anyways, I thought Patrick was super funny and started taking pictures of Patrick. It started off as a joke between me and my friends and we took pictures of him everywhere.

                                                      Here this is Patrick Skyping with one of my friends

                                                  Patrick with a baby photo

                                          Here Patrick is part of my Science Fair project

                                          A rad picture of Patrick in my physics class with the Tesla Coil

                                        Patrick at a Mexican Restaurant (Featuring my sister in the background)

                                      Here Patrick is being sported by one of my friends as a pocket square
                                              Also, all these photos were taken from my phone

I even created an Instagram page for him at one point and it went viral (not really).
                                           
                                                     All pictures were taken from my phone

I admit it was hilarious for the first few days and then everybody expected the joke to die down. But it never did. As a matter of fact, I still think it's hilarious! Even in college, I think this is hilarious and will randomly take pictures of him, kind of like a weird zany continuous art project will no definitive goal.

Patrick in somebody's garden statue with a frozen donut.
Uploaded from my iphone

Anyways, the blog turned out pretty well last time I did it so hopefully it is pretty decent this time!
Have fun reading!

Patrick in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina... My Favorite Place

One of my favorite memories this summer was this summertime when Albert took me along with him during his adventure in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina. Sneads Ferry is a tiny shrimping community with lots of cultures and the community was absolutely amazing and welcoming. It was on June 10th at around 5:40pm that he took me out and positioned me for some cool photos on the horizon of the pier. The second photo is of me on the hood of his car next to the seafood restaurant Blackbeard.

Both of these photos were taken personally from my iphone SE