Engaged Learning- My "ah-ha" moment about my education.

I'm a senior in college, almost done with my Bachelor's of Science in Business Management. This week has been the very first week where I'm not watching the clock during class, and when class is over all I can say is "I want more time!".

For the first time in my entire life, I had a class that was too short, and that I didn't want to end. Don't get me wrong, I have had many interesting classes that I enjoyed going to. Classes that I loved learning about. But during class, ultimately I was just there to fill a seat until it was over.

The big difference this semester? It's going to sound really simple, but it is an amazing difference.

I read the chapter before class.
I turn my phone and tablet off during class.
I participate in group discussions.
I do all of the questions at the end of the chapter.

Yeah. It's that simple. All you have to do is make the effort to be part of your education, and not just get an education.

Class went from only taking copious amounts of notes and stressing over every little thing, to taking a few notes and learning a whole lot more. I'm not worried about any quizzes or tests now. I finally figured this out.

I may do a post on how I read textbooks, a modified version of what my AP Bio teacher tried to get us to do in High School, but that's for later.

And now, in resounding UVU fashion, a complete lack of school spirit, I bid you ado.

Weekly update(ish): Paleo, car accident, new job

So last week was Teddy Beast's b-day. It was a rather eventful week. I remember Teddy Beast saying that he had a feeling that last week was going to be a bad week, I didn't really believe him. I thought it was just going to be a normal finals week, but I was so wrong.

We went up to Salt Lake and wandered around, grocery shopping. Yes. We're the kind of awesome people that go grocery shopping for a sexy date. Exploring Trader Joe's and Whole Foods was fun, we figured out it's actually cheaper to pay gas to drive up there to go grocery shopping. Funny, huh? High quality and organic foods were the same price or less than most of the conventional stuff we can find down in Orem. We also found two amazing bakeries. The first one, Vosens, was amazing! Teddy Beast was thrilled to find the same pastries he had in Germany. The cheese danish was amazing! It was flaky, buttery, and cheesy; with no sugar after-coma. Pure bliss!

Here it is! http://www.vosen.com/ Tiny little place next to a storage unit, but it was worth the trouble finding it. Mmmm. We're going here again tomorrow, it's that good.

We also found a more French Patissere, with all these frou-frou desserts. They were amazing, and not super sweet either. I want to know where European pastries have been all my life. Amazing bites of heaven, instead of sugar frosted with sugar held together with more sugar and a bit of flour. The cannolis were amazing, and the rosemary cookies. Oh wow, I'm having a flashback foodgasm.

Overall, it was an amazing day. Until the drive home. We got on I-15 and quickly realized there was a huge accident, so we took a detour over to I-80 and down state street. While waiting at the light on the off-ramp, some guy with a huge white truck rear ended us. I pulled over into a nearby lot, thinking he'd be a good person and follow. I was just going to say it's all good and let it go, but he rushed out of there like he was late for something. Long story short, we waited for about an hour for UHP to show up. About the time UHP showed up was about the time I was losing coherent thought, getting nauseous, couldn't move my head, and couldn't hold a fist. I'm glad we decided to report it. After filing the report and everything, we started the drive home. I just got worse the further we drove. We got back to the point of the mountain, and I knew I wasn't going to make it home. I could barely hold onto the steering wheel, and could focus on speed or staying in my lane. We met my parents at the ER so I had a way to get my car home. It turns out I didn't break anything, just got a concussion and whiplash. Still have no idea where it all came from since I didn't hit anything and the airbags didn't go off.

After a few visits to the chiropractor I'm starting to feel better. I still have 12 more weeks or so of treatment. And the worst part? I can't use weights over 10 lbs T_T So not fair. I have enough problems maintaining muscle mass, I don't need a 2 month forced vacation from actual weight lifting. I guess I'll get over it? And just move onto less intensive stuff. Maybe. I'm going to miss my weights.

Flufflepuff- IRL

So I found this picture on icanhascheezburger, and all I saw was flufflepuff. Made my day!

Fluffle puff reminds me of using some recreational substances without any of the side effects, other than Teddy Beast leaving the room and not coming back.

If you're not familiar with flufflepuff, the following videos pretty much explain everything.

First, "Kiss Kiss"

Lolz.

Next, "PFUDOR"

See? I was nice and only posted the 2 minute one, not the 10 min, 10 years, or any of the other terrible ones.