Blog Post #1

My Story is Just Begining
  I am a 21 year old junior at the University of South Alabama. After graduating from high school in 2008 I attended Alabama State University where I was pursuing a major in Biology Pre- Medicine. I transferred to South last year where I declared my major as  BMD (biomedical science). I was born and raised in Mobile, Al. I have a loving and caring family that is very understandable about all of my decisions. 
   I am very passionate about children. While growing up I always knew I wanted to help kids no matter what the job was I was going to give my all to help kids. I chose a major to become a pediatrician but decided to switch to education because I don't think I would have been able to handle a death of a child but knew I was able to handle teaching and watching the excitement in the children eyes as they learn. In my opinion their are too many people out there who take jobs for the paycheck and not because they love what they do. I hope to be that teacher that  make a difference in children's lives to where they can't wait to come to my class.


Randy Pausch's Time Management

   After watching Dr. Randy Pausch’s video I learned that being able to have time management is like air you need it throughout your life. I have never been great with time management but I use the planning system not to say that I follow the list thoroughly but I make the attempt to make the list and try to follow through with it. Leaving class Wednesday night I realized that the little things that I did know about time management is not going to work while taking EDM 310.  When I make my to-do list I now know that I have to actually follow it. Randy Pausch talks about that we never ask the question “why we are doing something” we just do it.  Hearing that made a lot of sense to me; we do our assignments and what our parents told us because we are getting graded for them or we know there’s consequences behind our actions but do we actually do them just because. I can honestly say I have never sat and thought why I am doing this I just done it.   While doing this assignment I asked myself why did Dr. Strange tell us to watch the video and blog about it, my first reaction was to gain the points and don’t fail his class but I thought outside the box and saw the bigger aspect and came up with if I learn how to ask myself why I am doing an assignment before doing it when I teach my class they will be able to use the same skill and give more effort into their assignment.  He also mentions that everybody makes mistakes and its okay to fail sometimes it’s a part of life and with each mess up comes a learning experience.  I had never heard of Randy Pausch before I watched his video and since I enjoyed the video I decided to Google which led me to watching another video of his "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams."