Month: September 2017

Hi, My name is Chris Jones and I am a freshman from Seattle Washington. I am majoring in Neuroscience because I want to go to Medical School one day and further pursue the study of the Brain while helping people. I initially came to University of New England for the sole purpose of playing hockey with my Brother Dimitris. He’s a medical Biology major, and is in his 2nd year at UNE. I also have a younger sister Alexis who attends San Diego State University and both my parents went to University of Washington. In the Summer I worked at a chowder house as a busboy and then worked with an independent contractor to install/take out carpet and tile. I love going to the Beach. I’ve swam at Hills beach with my teammates a couple times already. I swim every week in the summer and go on hikes often. Hockey is my biggest passion in my life right now. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I’ve lived in 7 cities in the past 6 years with different host families due to hockey. I am so excited and optimistic about college and am loving my experience at University of New England so far.

The power of believing you can. Carol Dweck creates this inspiring talk about not wasting our lives with just worrying about getting a good grade. She talks about giving kids hope and provides real life example of how her teaching model has improved the lives of struggling kids at schools and transformed the way these young kids think about engaging problems vs running from them. I believe her education model should be nationally incorporated into our k-12 schools.

I Read this chapter in 1 sitting and found that this method worked for me.  Being able to continuously read without stopping is a useful skill. There were words I was not familiar with so I would re read a passage to try and figure that out. This and highlighting took up a lot of my time in this hour. Reading in an environment where your able to focus is important for retaining material. That’s why I did this in the library. I believe being in the library forces me to put my attention on my studies.  Personally thats the place where I can be the most efficient.