2020: Hannah's Blog

Picking Up the Pieces: Daniel My heartbeat bludgeoned the silence as I stared at the two words on my phone. "You suck." My best friend, Sloan, was asleep with her head in the toilet in defeat of a successful birthday night. I so badly wanted to ask for her advice, but since everyone in the apartment was comatose, I allowed my emotions to take control and ring his number. "Who the hell do you think you are sending me something like that?" "Hannah?? Hold on, don't go anywhere. I have to get out of here." "What are you talking about?!" Daniel was in Cabo for spring break and had sent me the text message drunk at a club with his friends. I learned as soon as he broke away from the club and started heading home as he explained with me on the phone. This infuriated me even more. Daniel could hardly utter any words against my fervent wrath. Why now? Why would you say that? Why after all this time? Do you know how you hurt me? Why can...

two dummies  I managed to plow through a good portion of this week's worth of assignments and I'm feeling so good about it. It's literally a record for me! It's nice to have a lighter load on my shoulders. This week has been strange so far, to say the least. I heard some provoking news from a friend I didn't expect, pertaining to someone I used to date. It shook me up more than I thought and I wound up sleeping in super late on Monday. I panicked at first because I had planned to get up early to get ahead on the work ahead for all of my classes and ultimately failed my electromechanical systems quiz. It really bummed me out. But then I got home and told myself "you can't change it now, change what's ahead." As soon as I saw my best friend/roommate and talked to her, ate some food, and started working, I felt okay. I had this awesome moment of appreciation for my best friend and I got inspired. Her 21st birthday is tomorrow and I'm defin...

https://bestlifeonline.com/funniest-cat-memes-ever/ Wow! I'm really impressed with the progress I've made in just a week versus how I was doing the whole time prior. At the beginning of Week 7, I was 21 points away from a C... ouch. Since then I've cracked down on finishing most of the regular class assignments plus a bunch of extra credit points... 52 points in total! Now beginning Week 8 I'm sitting 12 points away from a B and I'm determined to surpass that by the end of the week. Therefore, I'll need to accumulate about 30 points to reach that goal. This week is seemingly a bit lighter than it has been so far so this goal sounds reasonable to me! Ultimately my goal is to end the class with an A, so I determined for every class assignment there is, I would also do an extra credit. I've also learned last week that I had a lot of enjoyment out of the bio-writing extra credit assignments, so I'm looking forward to writing more!

http://growthmindsetmemes.blogspot.com/search/label/Feedback%20Cats Like I mentioned in my previous blog post, this style of class is totally new to me. I've taken online classes before, but none of them had any interaction with the rest of the class. It felt really isolated. This online mythology class has a creative way to interact that combines peer-editing and meeting the classmates on a level similar to that of a traditional classroom setting. The comments on my posts so far were encouraging and uplifting, and it's funny how nearly everyone was impressed that I'm from Germany. I think I'm pretty basic, but after reading that I got a little confidence boost. Sometime when I give feedback myself I worry if I'm being too harsh or not. I tend to be too honest sometimes since I think being overly sweet and generic sometimes comes out as ingenuine. I can't wait for people to start commenting on my project story once it's published!

https://www.slashfilm.com/hook-honest-trailer/ Hook is on Netflix now, so guess what I'm watching! Ahh, nostalgic comfort. I've been quite pleased with the reading material and progress I've made thus far. It's definitely a much different style of class than I'm used to taking, so I'm still learning! I would definitely say I want to up my game in personalizing my blog and website to express who I am. Perhaps I can use it to my advantage when doing some of the extra credit assignments. As for my project stories, I have such big ideas, but it's been so long since I've done any kind of writing that when I read back on some of the stories I wrote, I cringe. It's very piece-y and scattered. I remember in grade school there's a ton of methods to organize and plan before you write. I tend to stray from that completely and just dive in. In that case, my new goal is to plan a little better before I write my first project story in hopes to create so...

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-sites-to-download-weather-widgets-for-your-blog-or-website/ This week couldn't have come at a better time! After seeing a lot of the other blogs in the class I noticed they're quite elaborate compared to mine and it always made me want to add a little bit of my own flair. But as of right now I've just been managing to stay caught up with the class work.  This week gives me the opportunity to do that, though! I now have a nifty little weather widget added to my blog showing the daily weather in Norman thanks to Accuweather!  Comment if it's visible or not! I can only view it as a link on my end and although the website instructions assured me that's just how the wireframe is, I want to make sure I didn't do it wrong! 😅

My favorite picture of my 12-year-old sister, Sophie, as my continuous mood.

https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/12/02/lucid-dreaming/ I'm typically a sucker for science podcasts and articles especially those medical or chemistry related. Sleep studies are such a fascinating mystery that I would love to participate in for research both on myself and in general.  My father struggles with insomnia and sleep apnea, of which I can't be sure he's had all of his life of developed it later in life. I definitely have sleeping problems. I can't be sure it's one thing exactly or if it's just because I have the typical college student sleeping schedule. The article I read was a transcript of an interview with sleep researcher from Harvard, Berkeley, Northwestern, and Mayo Clinic (we got the big boys out here). The discussion was quite lengthy to read but I was completely immersed in the topic range. The interview caught my eye because it presents how memory if a function of sleep. However, once you dive in, the experts touch upon a wide ...

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-pet-imagery-tells-us-about-social-anxiety-disorder-4104157 This week I chose an article called Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind for growth mindset. I struggle with perfectionism for as long as I can remember. I used to believe that it was simply how I functioned and that I actually required an environment of high stress as a driving force to succeed to my standards. Now that I've matured some since then and have been exposed to extreme cases of poor mental states that I realized my mindset could actually be sabotaging my efforts.  Dr. Nair points out that perfectionism goes hand-in-hand with performance anxiety, which is interesting because it made me reflect on all the early signs of performance anxiety I had. As young as three years old I've been a dancer. I performed often in many styles including ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and modern. Then as young as four years old, I started playing piano and performed often at recitals. I...