Ruben's Blog

For this week's Learning Challenge, I read an article about sleeping. The article is entitled Data Reveals How Some College Students Sleep . The article was written with the interest of how sleeping conditions may affect learning. In essence, the study followed the sleeping habits of college students aged from 18-22 and tracked certain conditions. One things they found was students aren't that sleep deprived. The average student in this study clocked in 7 hours and 3 minutes of rest a night. I can honestly say that this was something that was confirmed for me. And if you've ever lived in a fraternity, you would have a really hard time believing it was shy of that number. Something that I learned from this study was that women go to bed and wake up earlier than men. Although, this makes a lot of sense. The two are probably correlated. Moreover, one thing that made me curious was the finding that tougher schools have the most sleep deprived students. For instance, Columbia in...

I hope we are all getting back from Thanksgiving break a few pounds richer, so I won’t feel so bad. Also, I hope everyone is coming back feeling refreshed. I think that this break is very pivotal during a fall semester. The weather is changing and it’s a weird transition to make, so a little break helps to get ready for finals. I did quite a bit of studying over the break, however, I did not let it get in the way of spending plenty of time with my family. In addition, I completed quite a bit of extra credit for this course, which I always enjoy doing. At my parents’ house back in Tulsa, I tucked myself away in my favorite place to do writing, watched the leaves fall (maybe stole a slice of pie!) and began working on my writing. With all the time spent writing and spending time with family, I hardly had time to even think about my medical school interview in San Francisco, but I did visit for a day and a half prior to the break starting and it went well. In fact, I ...

I just created a new twitter since I did not have one before. I look forward to using it to stay connected and be informed. I am really excited to start following people and putting information out there myself! Further, I have hash tagged this course and tweeted at Professor Gibbs.                                                                                                                                  Twitter Logo

I have checked up on my placing in the class and backed up. My favorite announcement for this week is not so much an announcement at all. I really enjoyed the awesome organization of this weeks post. Plus, the announcements of the past weeks were very helpful as well.                                                     Hopefully no one feels this emotion during this time in the semester!

I found these quotes on Padlet “Teachers should move to encouragement instead of criticism. It’s so easy to put a terrible grade on the paper and leave out the efforts that were put into an assignment or test. REAL: recognize, encourage, adapt, learn.”      I feel like this quote embodies the application of growth mindset. I strongly believe that this is the way that school should be. “For years, I have been saving up Pinterest posts of beautiful calligraphy, but I have never started due to the fear that I won’t be creative enough to make such beautiful art. I am excited to make a leap past this fear of not being creative enough and to see the progress I make throughout the semester!”       Growth Mindset is all about the process, learn to love it and learn from it.                                           ...