Drew Myth & Folk

     The two articles I chose to read about time management strategies was "The Important Habit of Just Starting" by Jory Mackay and "How to Beat Procrastination" by Caroline Webb. These articles were very useful in giving tips and ideas for worth ethic ideas that i can use in my future career after OU. One of the things the author said that stuck out to me in this article was " The guilt and frustration we feel from not starting is often worse than the pain of actually doing work", and this stuck with me because often times in my past semesters I have experienced this exact feeling, which in makes me strive to enable these concepts and ideas that he his providing even more. Based on last semester, my biggest time challenges will be spreading out all of the courses work with ZERO procrastination. Currently my time management skills consists of taking an initial look at the different assignments i have to complete and assigning about how long i believe each...

   I am fairly familiar with some of the technology tools that were listed such as Wikipedia, bookmarking, cropping. I have some experience with blogging and posting, from last semesters epics of india course. The online environment is unlike any other I have experienced in other classes because most other classes I meet up with colleagues to work, or it is face to face in class, but in this blogging form nothing will be face to face everything is over the internet. Website creation is probably the only skill I would like to work on in this class that I believe could benefit me. (The picture above closely relates to this course I thought. Online course )

 The Assignments that intrigue me most in this class are the weekly story books. This is unlike any of my other classes have done, because most of my classes are not interactive on a weekly basis via the blog. But I am looking forward to this new challenge that will span the semester. The extra credits grab my attention because I look forward to getting ahead in this class, and expand the knowledge acquired from this class. Image is of the Sower on the South Oval. Image Info: Sower )

  From what I have learned growth mindset is the idea of two mindsets fixed and growth. Fixed mindset is the idea that someone believes they can only be so smart or so fast and so on. While growth mindset is the idea that someone believes that they may not know something yet or can not do something yet, but they can get there over time and over a period of learning and training. In Dweck's talk she had a big emphasis on YET, you may not be there yet but you will be there, you may not have passed the class YET but you will pass over time.      I have never personally heard Carol Dweck's talk on growth mindset, but I have heard the idea of growth mindset in many things that I do. I use to have a very fixed mindset in many aspects of my life. Thinking I would never get down to this weight or I would never qualify for a national championship, over the past two years of training I have lost 65 pounds and qualified for the college national championship in the spring....

Hi all,           My name is Drew Fazzino, I am a Senior at the University of Oklahoma. My major is Mechanical Engineering. The coolest thing about my major is seeing how different systems work together and operate. Another cool thing about my major is making parts in CAD and generating tool paths to machine your own parts in a CNC. The best class I took last semester was Computer Integrated Manufacture because I learned different CAM platforms and how to generate your own tool paths to the parts you make in platforms such as solidworks. My biggest accomplishment last semester was boosting my gpa some and just having a good semester in general. Over the summer break, I went to Colorado for a couple of weeks and relaxed a little before and after my internship at innovex downhole solutions. It was a blessing to receive the internship this summer because it gave me some great relative infield experience working with lead mecha...

The three-story books I have chosen to write about is flood myths, within a dark forest and Tales of West Africa: Isnana. The First storybook Flood Myths is a topic that is completely new to me. The title did a great job at giving me an idea of what this story book was going to cover.   The introduction did a really good job at drawing the reader in, he made the reader work to see what he would be reading about. And ended up giving a great overview of the three following stories. Overall, I thought that the pages layout was nice, instead of a white background I might have changed that background color. The second storybook Within a forest dark, this as well is a completely new topic for me and should be interesting. The Title did an alright job at giving insight into what the storybook would be covering in the stories. This storybooks introduction did a great job at thoroughly giving an overview of the stories that would be told in the storybook. The storybooks page layou...

I love being outdoors so choosing one from many places was really difficult, but I decided on the Colorado. Whether it is winter time or summertime you can find me in the mountains, hiking, skiing or fishing. There is something so surreal about it being dead quiet in the mountains that you can not really find many other places. One of my favorite places in Colorado is Mount Elbert which is the highest mountain found in the Colorado with an elevation of 14,440 ft. (Pictured above is Mount Elbert Picture Source: proactiveoutside - WordPress.com) This mountain is classified as a "Fourteener" Which is one of 53 mountains in Colorado that rise above 14,000 feet in elevation. All fourteeners have trails that you can hike that take most of the day, I have been able to do three fourteeners so far and look forward to doing many more.