Step Into A World

The reaccuring message in this book is that if you set your mind to something, you cant do it. Everything that I'm reading is pointing to this. The shifting of mindset is a perfect example of this. She talks about expanding your intelligence, your ability to grow your mind and gain talents you didn't know you had. Its all about shifting your one perspective mindset. The mindset that only see's what the world is through your eyes. How your not good at something because the first time you tried you realized that your worse than you think. It makes you secluded in your own small talents. It will drive you to the point of unhappiness. A fixed mindset will only make you feel like your the only one on the planet. The book talks about changing this. It helps you realize that what you really want will take some time to achieve.
This is shown in the book by the story of a painter. His name was Jackson Pollock. He wasn't "born" a painter. Even though he wan't very good to begin with, he still perspired and worked at it. Pollock is known as one of the greatest American painters in the twentieth century.
The arguement that they are trying to get across is that you need to take control of your own life. Its up to you to get ahold of your thought process. Its hard to live happy if your too scarred to try new things. Its easy once you work at it. You start to not care what other people tell you about what you really want to do. You just need to get out of a short mindset. Humans have alot more ability than most people think. Everyone has the ability to learn anything they want and be good at it.

My video project

I am happy with my finished project. This was my very first time constructing a video from scratch. It was also my first time using Windows Movie Maker.
In doing this video, I wanted to get other people's perspective about Southern life. Some were for living on campus, others regret thier decision. This is understandable, it's hard going from high school to college. The upper classmen had said the same thing, they understand what were going through. With this video, I tried to form my own opinion and found a message to send to incoming freshman.
Although this isn't the most entertaining thing to watch (I don't really know how to do so) it does have a purpose. I interviewed people with different perspectives on college. I wanted to get a group of people that were different so it wasn't redundant.
Since i decided to go to Southern, I didn't know much about this school. I figure its just a college to go to. The more i ask around, the more I realize that alot of people had this mentality. Its easy to just keep letting it happen, but I don't think its right to have students come here blind. They shouldn't have to come here and not know what really goes on here. I know at orientation they didnt tell us how the food has laxitives (this is a fact) and the geography of New Haven. Having lived in Wet Haven, i always knew the area. At orientation, you'd be suprised the amount of people who had no idea of New Haven and its rank as one of the top ten most dangerous cities in America.
This video is to dismiss this. Its for they questions that they don't cover during orientation.