Success

Success can be defined in many forms. The proper dictionary definition for success describes the attainment of wealth, position, honors or the like. I believe success is a mental value to a person. I define success as the value of a goal achieved. It could be something small like cutting down smoking down to a pack a day or something major like shredding those couple of pounds. To be honest, one's success isn't minor or major, its what you make of it. How much it consumes your time and soul, is what determines its importance.

With success comes struggle. Like the famous saying, "Its easier said than done". A lot of people can share their goals with others and make it out to be successful. What I don't understand is how others set a goal for themselves, fall short of those goals, and can be content with that as success. I feel as though if you set yourself with a goal and steps towards that goal and complete all necessary steps without cheating, that is where you'll find success.

Many factors can play into what assisted in your personal success. What helps me succeed within the community would be the foundations of family and religion. A lot of these factors can play huge part in everyones every days lives.

Family will always be the sole factor of almost everything that I have done and what has lead me to this point in my life. Without my family there would be no original foundation of support. I look to my family for so many of my struggles. To me, family is the rock in which it solid for life. Like the famous saying, "Blood is thicker than water". Not all family members get along, but family is family.

With family comes culture and religion. As a filipino Catholic, I have learned many values and practices from what I've seen my family apply to our everyday lives. There are many holidays and celebrations that are big to us. They're considered a big deal because that is where we celebrate. We celebrate for good health, family, and success.

xoxo,
@K2theeLA

Zombies, AHHH!

Serious question which relates to the "Passion Project". I know that we should encourage the world to be artists, singers, whatever. But if the zombie apocalypse happened, wouldn't you be happier to have a doctor or ex policeman in your group versus an underground hipster rapper producer?

Some shit to think about. Comment on your POV.

xoxo,
@K2theeLA

Duncanville, TX

WORLDSTAR! I'm kidding. Seriously, the future of my generation is in turmoil. I guess one has to think, where does it all start. I mean its easy to assume a person's behavior derives from how their parents treat them. Then you can lead on to assume it who they hang out with and who their friends are. But then you have to think, is it the educational system that is influencing them as well? To think about it, teachers go through numerous amounts of students per year. Figuratively 31 each class, each semester. Thats most of young America today.

When a student goes against a teacher in class, the rest of us would just laugh and assume he's going to get in trouble. But isn't that what teachers are teaching us in class? Don't they tell us to fight for what we believe in? Yet when we question the exact authority that taught us that, we get punished? I call bullshit. I mean I've grown up to respect those who are older than me but that doesn't mean those who are older than me are RIGHT.

I guess its not the student but the teacher's attitude on how the class will go. Its like monkey see monkey do. If the teacher is late, the students will be late. If the teacher in boring, the students will be less and less entertained.

I had this international relations class in the spring that I wanna say I dreaded the most. I hated anything to do with history. Although its never changes, it was so fucking boring I wanted to shoot myself in the face every time I had to take a history class. But this one was different. The teacher's name was Sara Parker (probably not Parker anymore I think she got married). She made the reading material worth while. I felt that when she explained lectures in class, she did it with such enthusiasm that it was hard NOT to pay attention. I could give a rats ass about our government but she got me so consumed in the idea of the United Nations and how America is the "hegemon" of the world. Teachers like that will get you interested and pass the class.

Have you ever experienced a teacher like Ms. Parker or the teacher in the video? Comment!

xoxo,
@K2theeLA

Andrade Response

When Jeff opened up his speech with the question, is it "Half empty or half full?" opened up the question in which we choose to view our lives? Will we always be empty or full of life? Its easy to feel that sometimes without a certain thing we begin to feel emptiness. But we must look into the perspective of what we are full of and eventually our cup will be more than full to which we can share with others.

1. In what way do you view your life as? Half empty? Or half full?
2. What is your concrete? Resources to emerge from that?
3. Is education a resource or our concrete?

Something to think about people.

xoxo,
@K2theeLA

Into The Wild

The book that we are reading in class is called, "Into The Wild" by Jon Krakaeur. The book follows the life of Chris McCandless and his downfall in an Alaskan Bus. In turn the book, "Into The Wild" correlates with many aspects discussed in our class which involves, education, passion, equity, and privilege.

I think the biggest turning point about the movie would be in the case of equity/privilege. Chris was born into somewhat of an upper middle class family. Although he clearly had money, you get a sense of a battle between Chris and materialism. By Chris traveling with very little resources, he is somewhat rejecting the idea of what he considers to be materialism. There are many signs in which Chris establishes his point. He leaves the secure suburban area, donates money to charity, and leaves behind his car.

Chris's education in the book kind of describes the type of person he is to become in a sense. He attended a highly accredited and expensive school, Emory University. I guess the privilege of being able to explore the world started with his education. It would be idealist and cheaper to go to a university of the same state although he attended an out of state university in Atlanta, GA. Into the Wild basically explains the journey of a young man, of his energy, his idealism, and the arrogance that ultimately kills him.

Passion Project - What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Passion Project

(Link for Video)

In class my teacher made me watch a video called, "The Passion Project". I guess in some case it spoke to me in a more deeper level. It made me question myself if there is anything in my life I am passionate about. In most cases, the lucky ones would say, "Education, Music, Food, Art, Love". When I asked myself what I am passionate about, I didn't know much.

I liked this one saying a student shared in the video. She said something like, "I wish someone would have told me earlier that it was ok NOT to know anything at this age". I thought that was pretty deep. I mean I'm only 20 years old and all but it was deep because I'm being constantly told this. When I would share my stories about a night out with friends consisting of bad decisions, my older friends or coworkers would shrug me off and explain that, "I am young, you're suppose to do all that to get it out of your system." & I actually believe them. I wonder if anyone told that girl that anytime in her earlier years.

Passion VS. Poverty. I think this is an interesting topic to connect to each other. The video clearly explains that, "Do what you love, love what you do". But what if the thing you love to do doesn't pay the bills? Skye's right. When we are younger we are constantly bombarded with the idea from our parents that we can become a ballerina, actor, singer, princess of the fucking world, but do they really mean it? I mean think about it, once you hit a certain age, presumably 12 or 13, they start to assume you want to get into a specific occupation and that imagination of being a princess is gone.

For the longest time, I wanted to be the next Britney Spears. I wanted to act, sing, dance, and model all at the same time. I want to say by the end of 13 years old, most my family members start to ask me what I wanted to become when I grow up, I then answered with a big fat I DONT KNOW. I guess in turn the aspect of poverty can affect what you become passionate about. I can't say I'm still passionate about becoming the next Britney Spears, but I'm certainly going to be paying these bills regardless. I don't know if that makes me a typical American following societies rules ... but I know one things for sure. I'm young and I got all the time in the world right now.

xoxo,

@K2theeLA

Blogger Help - Experimenting

So when I first got blogger I really did NOT have a clue on anything. Like any other typical social media site, it may take the time for the human brain to correctly function. Kinda like when you get a new cell phone, you become totally consumed with every since aspect of it. You spend all day studying it, wrapping your brain on its functionality. So I guess here on some tips about B L O G G E R.

1. If you want musica like my blogg, you can actually click on the music box and it will take you to some site. Pretty self explanatory from there. Then you need to go to template. Click Inster HTML codes & paste the code after you see <body>

2. All the cool fonts and background pictures you can edit through template, I had to figure it out on my own. Make it pretty and stuff.

3. Adding pictures was a bitch for me to figure out. Basically if you had a MySpace you can just go old school with it and enter the HTML code <img src="url of picture"> or you can go onto your post and click the mountain looking picture and insert the url code from there.

Any more problems? Lets figure it out together cause I barely got my head wrapped around this thing.

xoxo,
@K2theeLA

Deal Breakers

Deal Breaker - A "catch"that a particular individual can not over look and ultimately outweighs any redeeming quality another may posses.

Theres a lot of aspects in college that might attract you to it and there are some that make you just want to give up. I remember my first day in college. I did not have a clue what so ever on anything. I didn't know how to register for class. What the heck was a W number and do I have one? Many questions popped into my head and I had to go on my own to figure them out. 

Granted there were a lot of sources around campus you can use to figure your way around to help you with the simple things. There are a lot of classes in the 700 building that assist future and current students on picking the right classes, figuring out what major is fit for you, and counseling.

I felts counseling was one of the biggest solutions to all my problems. When you first sign up with Chabot you actually get assigned a class that introduces Chabot to future students. Although this may seem affective, I think now in the age of Technology we should provide more insight through email communication. The reason I suggest that is because some people can't make it to those classes before the semester starts. Since everyone has a mobile device or a computer now a days it would make more sense to communicate with them through those portals.

Potential Deal Breakers of A Chabot Student

1. The cafeteria only accepts cash (ITS 2013!)

2. There are not enough printing stations besides the library and 700 building

3. No campus security for night students ( we are people too )

4. Parking is a major bi-otch in the beginning of the semester

5. Chabot has no clue what International Baccalaureate is an weather they should be accredited

6. Stop favoring athletes

7. Nobody really cares about the student government activities (which they should, scholarships HELLO!)

8. Some of the teachers are boring in which case they are the easiest to pass, so we keep them around.

xoxo,

@K2theeLA

Giving Up Worth It?

Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not good enough. In most cases its just someone trying to rain on your parade. Giving up is NOT worth it.

xoxo,

@K2theeLA