Famous Last Words: Surviving Career Fair week

The reading this week went really well. I listened to the audio books because this week was so busy. This gave me enough time to do both parts of the reading. I remember the journeys of Sinbad the best. I didn't get any ideas from the reading though. I am still working on my reading strategy. This is the only class that I had to do any writing for unless you count a resume. I spent hours working on my resume for the career fair. I loved one of the stories that I read that was in letter form. There was also a poem that I read that I wish I could write like. Things in my other classes are going well it has just been busy with homework. This next week is the end of rush for my sorority, that means that I will not have two events every week just for my sorority that I will have to attend and I can get back to going to Paradigm and Village. I have been extra busy this semester and miss spending time with different organizations. I also miss the time to cook my own meals. I am hoping after this week I will be able to go home during the evenings and cook instead of eating out every evening. I also plan to get ahead on my homework if it is possible. For example, in the past weeks I haven’t finished the homework in this class until the day that it is due. Today I finished most of the work that is due tomorrow a day early. I want to keep this schedule up so I don’t end up like last week and do the wrong homework and run out of time and miss turning in an assignment. I also am about to start exams so I will need to study for those.

Engineering Career Fair 2016

By: OU Gallogly  College of Engineering 

Link: Engineering Career Fair

Wikipedia Trail: From Sinbad the sailor to Calypso

For this article I started off with Sinbad the sailor. I did this because I read the voyages of Sinbad this week for my reading. His stories were very interesting and sort of reminded me of the journey that in the Odyssey. That is why I chose Homer to go to next. I had read some of Homer's book so I knew very little about him. After reading and learning new facts about Homer it reminded me of why I liked his book. It kept my attention and was very interesting to me. That is why after Homer I went to the Odyssey. It has been a while since I read this book. That is why I decided to read a short story about what it was again. After reading about the Odyssey it reminded me of Calypso. I never really liked Calypso because she distracted men. To me that didn't make sense on why she would keep me detained as a prisoner. That was my Wikipedia trail.

Sinbad the Sailor
Homer
Odyssey
Calypso

Homer and the guide 

Link:Wikipedia by: William Adollphe Bouguereau

Health and Happiness meme: Learning Challange

Where is your happiness?

Photo By: Laura Gibbs, Judith Macias, Link:Passion

The reason this one stood out to me is because I really think this is how I feel sometimes. I had a brief period when I wasn't sure if mechanical engineering was for me. During that time I was super stressed out and seemed like I was drowning in school and life. After deciding that this was truly what I wanted to do classes didn't seem to stress me out as much, I loved getting to finish my work and have me time. That is why I think this meme is the important to know about whatever your mindset is towards work. 

Growth Mindset Meme

Entering a New world

By: Laura Gibbs, Link: kittens

I really like this meme because to me this is completely true. You have different mindsets for each thing that you do. For example my mindset changes from when I am working on my engineering home to when I am working on my business homework or even this homework. Each subject takes a different mindset.Each mindset you use will take you into a new world. That is why I like this meme because it describes the way I have to handle my school work. 

The Story of Mercede's horrible plane ride

One day Mercedes and Lucas decided to go to Africa to see animals they had never seen before. Mercedes loved wild animals and luckily Lucas loved Mercedes and decided he would go with her. They packed up their bags and headed to the airport. Mercedes had never flown before and she was pretty scared about flying but the excitement of seeing such a new environment kept her going. Once she was aboard the plane she thought all was well. Halfway across the ocean between America and Africa the seat belt light came on and the captain came over the intercom, “Ladies and Gentlemen, please be prepared we are headed right towards a storm so the turbulence will be pretty rough. Please stay in your seats if at all possible.” Mercedes started to get nervous, she had heard of turbulence but didn’t know how bad it would be. A few minutes after the captain came over the intercom the entire plane started shaking. Mercedes and Lucas were scared and they didn’t know what to do, the plane was shaking so much that the oxygen masks fell down and they were told to put them on as an extra precaution. The captain came over the intercom one more time, “Ladies and Gentlemen I just need you to know that the storm clouds we thought we were going through is actually a hurricane. Please brace yourselves as the plane might be going down. After about twenty minutes they thought they were going to be okay and not have to make a water land until there was one flash of lightening that hit one of the engines. One of the stewardesses grabbed the intercom speaker and gave them the instructions to prepare for landing, “Brace! Brace! Brace! Your seat is a floatation device! Brace! Brace! Brace! Please follow the exit signs when we land!” Everyone was going insane; they were screaming at the top of their lungs. After a few minutes the plane made a water top landing, the captain cleared out the plane and everyone made it into the life boats. The life boats got separated but were going in the same direction. After what seemed like days of being stuck on a life boat they finally made it to an island. Once they arrived on the island everyone was so happy to see land. Once everyone was on the land the captain set search groups to look for food, water, shelter, and people. Each group had a responsibility, each group came back almost empty handed. There were no people on the island, very little food, and there wasn’t a good place for a shelter that would be big enough to fit everyone. The captain then decided that it was fend for yourself because he knew that there was no way that everyone was going to make it off the island if there weren’t any people or ships around. They started getting their supplies together and split up all of the goods and tools that were on the plane. After dividing all the supplies from the plane each person only had one days’ worth of food to last them who knew how long on the island. After being stranded on the island for 9 days they experienced their first death. Every day after that more and more people were dying from starvation. Mercedes and Lucas were among the last 5 of the passengers that were still alive after 2 months. They had the mindset that they knew people were coming to save them. People knew the plane went down, now they just need to find the passengers. After 2 months and 5 days they finally saw a helicopter. The helicopter lowered down a rope ladder which they then climbed up and into the helicopter. The crew gave them food and water. Once they finished the food and water one of the crew members asked, “How many of you are there left?” Mercedes answered, “We are the last 3” signaling to Lucas and the Captain. The helicopter took them back to the United States. The next day the president awarded them all with medals of bravery for fighting to live so long on such a deserted place. They also set up scholarships in their names, and gave them a place to take a vacation and recuperate from their journey.

Africa trip

Wikipedia

Bibliography:

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Link: Sinbad: Fifth Voyage

Authors note:

For this story I took the fifth voyage of Sinbad and mixed it a little bit with the plot line of Cast Away. I tried to be creative and come up with another way to be left alone on a secluded island but plane and ships are about the only way to get to those islands. 

Reading Part B: Voyages of Sinbad

For this part of the unit I had a very hard time of coming up with creative ideas I could write a story about. I feel like this whole unit could be wrote in the setting of a distopia. Each having different events to go along with the voyage of a Sinbad adventure. For example instead of huge Roc's from the Fifth Voyage you could use a mother and father alligator and they would be lost in the swamp lands of Africa. The Alligator could pop a tire on their stranded vehicle. Swarming the vehicle so that it can't be replaced. You could use a Star wars ship for the Sixth Voyage. They could be stranded in outer  space after a collision with a asteroid. All of his companions would float away into the depths of space. I really don't have any ideas of how to make the   Seventh and Last Voyage, I am thinking along the line of maybe having a lion get zebra separated from his heard and a lion takes care of the zebra and asks the zebra to track the warthogs. I am not really sure for this story. There is not an abundance of action that happens in this story.

Asteroid collision, by Pizabay

Link: Pizabay

Bibliography:
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang
Fifth Voyage
Sixth Voyage

Reading part A: Voyages of Sinbad unit

This week I am reading the stories of Sinbad and his voyages. There are many stories that you could come up with based off of  these stories. One story could be about First Voyage where a child is riding a bus and falls asleep on the bus and has many obstacles to face to find his way back home. Another idea about a story you could write from these stories would be your could use the Second Voyage where it could be a continuation of my last weeks story of a distopia.  I received a few comments though that I didn't include enough information about the distopia and I could fix that problem this week. The Third Voyage and the  Fourth Voyage I am not sure how I could change them. The Third I guess I could set in the Alps with a huge snow monster and you burn the monster down. The fourth you could make about a distopia too I guess. It's kind of like the Hunger Games almost.

The Snow monster, photo courtesy of pocolover1957

link: Abominable snowman 

Bibliography:

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang

First Voyage

Second Voyage

Third Voyage

Fourth Voyage