Perception is Reality

This was the last week to a have guest speaker at forum. It’s very bitter sweet to think that 1^st semester of college is almost over. Hopefully it won’t end like they do in High School, where I have A’s up until before finals, because I procrastinated and didn’t do my projects or essay. Whatever we just have to pray about that.

Our Speaker this week was Mr. William Hargett.  He discussed Corporations and The Availability of Networks. First off he asked the girls if anyone of them had a part  of Lululemon yoga pants and somebody said, “they too high, ain’t nobody got time for that.” He told and illustrated to us what values were important. They consisted of the following:

Showing Up

Be Prepared

Be Professional

Do the right things, the right way, consistently

Exceed Expectations

Capture Opportunity

Learn Continuously

The one thing that stuck out to me was the quote “Perception is  Reality” , because it’s the truth.

Stephens Pierce: "It's Always Good to See a Familiar Face"

This forum started out with some good news. No Forum Next Week!!! Due to the Thanksgiving Holidays. Trustee Stephen Pierce was our speaker this week. He discussed networking. He said something that I have been saying and told all my life " The answer is always no if don't ask"! That's my life's motto, every opportunity I get to do something I want to do, I go for it. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. First of all you cannot be afraid of failure or rejection. he told us that speaking  and communication skills are important to have, which is true.

He told us the values employers look for:
1. Respect
2.The extracurrilar you do, that you want to do
3. Invovledness

If your not ahead your behind!!

The 90s are Back

So after watching the Soul Train Awards last night, I decided to go listen to New Edition, which had me listening to other people of that era. It 's the greatest music of my lifetime. I started listening to it today, and it calms me down; which allows me to get work done !

Being an underdog is "flusterating" . . .

Man, school has really taken a toll on me. sometimes I just start to get stressed out over nothing at all. Just sitting in my room stressed out about nothing at all, my body be tingling with anxiety. I'm such an anxious person and my mind is just going all over the place. I don't know what going on. . . Nevermind I lied. I have set some many high standards for myself, that seem impossible, and I just get a little flustered trying to be perfect. I guess, but not perfect in a perfect sense. Perfect by my own standards. I wanna be the best, I see myself as the best. That's another problem right there, I see myself differently than everyone else. I try to make myself look like something I'm not. I am really just ranting. You know I try my hardest not to be annoying Maurice, the one that ignores everyone, but it's hard not being annoying. Ummm. I just want to be perfect. All this sounds crazy right, but I'm not crazy, just stressing out over nothing. I just gotta keep trying harder and harder everyday, if I wanna reach my goals. I wanna have a 4.0 all the way through college, be SGA President, be a great Lagrange Society Member, make my family and community proud. Be in every honor society, be a member of an unnamed fraternity, be a great christian example to everyone I meet, I wanna be come that person that everyone loves to be around, I wanna learn how to relax. I wanna become a promising alumni, I wanna have a quadruple major in Non-profit business mangagement, Human Resources, Music Management, and Political Science. Umm . . . But the biggest shock to me coming to college is not being on the top, not being the best in everything, and that maybe the main reason I'm ranting right now, all through High school I was the person incharge of almost everything, I was apart of everything, I had special privilleges. I hate growing up, there will always be somebody better than me. Umm. . .

This blog has really helped me out, I should've got a journal a long time ago, or something lol. Again I am not crazy. Laugh Out Loud.

SGA Code of Laws

So, I was reading through the code of laws the other day, paying close attention to the guidelines set forth for UNA SGA's Freshman Forum, when I notice something odd. Under the committees regulations, it said that the service committee was supposed to due at least one fundraiser per semester. I thought to myself that it would be a good  idea to add a Finance Committee to the forum to assist the Vice President/Treasurer with the budget and fundraising, so that the service committee could focus on service projects. I told Hailey about it and she told me to write a proposal, and specifically state what the committee was supposed to do. So I did, thinking no one would take it seriously. Then one day at the Freshman Forum Issues table, it all of a sudden just worked it way in to the conversation, and that's when I pulled out my proposal and gave it to our advisors. Then we talked about in our meeting the next day, we all voted on it and so we gave it  to a senator to put it in bill format. Hopefully, the Senate will vote to pass the bill! 

A Moral Foundation . . . Audwin

This week in forum we had a Real Renaissance Man come speak to us. Mr. McGee is a artist/craftsmen. He talked about the Pursuit of Happiness, not the movie, but on that note I haven't it. In order to pursue happiness you have to know what makes you happy. I tried thinking about what made me happy. I'm one of those who really didn't care about money, being around my family made me really happy. Spending time with my cousin, are the majority of memories. We used to fun and crazy things like play hide-n- go-seek on 4-wheelers. Which in all reality, I don't understand how it worked, but it did. We used to sit on my auntie couch and watch every movie like Scary Movie, Love and Basketball, Boyz N' the Hood, and Waterboy, and other things of that nature. As I got older, nothing made me more happier than being able to work for free. Volunteering!!! I love to volunteer, if I can fit in my schedule I will. I kind of want a degree in Professional NonProfit Management, but I would have to transfer and I wouldn't want to do that, but I'll have to think about that though.

He also said something along the line about when you make plans for the future, you need to set goals, and I strongly agree with that. I haven't really made plans for the future, but I have set some many goals for myself, and I will reach them (if God's Will). But overall We neeed to build a moral foundation, a set up of our own principles.

Choir Director!

So, I went home this weekend, because we had choir practice at church (David's Temple Missionary Baptist Church). When I walked in I was happy to see that we had a Choir Director. For the past few months we didn't have one, because our other one had to do something at her father's church. Her name is Mrs. Jackie, and she told us she was the choir director from "hell". Lol. She really worked with us and encourages us to hit our notes and do better. She may be a little strict but I think that's what our choir needs a little more direction. We ended up practicing 3 hours this past Saturday! But I enjoyed it, I just love singing. I see it as my way to minister to people. I think God's has placed music in my heart so I can share His word through my music. That's what our new choir director is saying. "Singing for the Lord ain't nothing to play with, because you never know who you're ministering too."

We took this song and reworked, it in so many ways, and it sounded legit. It was much different from the  way they are singing it, but it pretty close. We add leads and modulations and stuff like that.

We worked on this song again . . . 

Ricky DIllard

So I'm starting to build an ear for Ricky Dillard and New G. There are one of the few choir groups still left and their are going strong, they remind of how church used to be when I was little. If we sing one of their songs during service, the spirit just moving in that place. I really do love their music, it's so uplifting and encouraging . . .

A 12 Hour Flight? Ain't nobody got time for that!

This was my favorite forum so far. Dr. Chunsheng Zhang started me off talking about how people new to Alabama would have to study "Alabamian". I was rolling laughing, in my mind of course. I WAS interested in doing a study abroad program, but I just don"t believe I would be able to sit on a plane, in the air, buzzing, ears popping, and hungry for 12 hours. While he was talking I was bouncing places around in my headed, and I would love to go to Costa Rica, Australia, maybe Hawaii. Okay! that last one probably wouldn't count, but you catch my drift.

After listening to Corinne talk about China, I really wanted to go, but then I heard 12 hour flight again, and ain't nobody got time for that. I really dislike doubting myself, but I don't like being in a confined space for more than 4hrs. I have flown to Boston and D.C., but we had lay overs. So maybe if they get lay overs on the way to China, then I will go.

I would love to go to Costa Rica, but I just don't know if I really want to do an immersion program. I would actually love to do what Lauren did if I could find someone to go with me.