Amir Mansour
Robert Hauser
GEL 101
December 9, 2012

Time Management.

For the time management, even though people came in out class room to give the class advice on how to manage your time to make the most of the time that you do have, I still did not use any calendars to stay organized. Although this got me through this semester, I do not count on just winging my schedule like usual. I feel like I do stay in my comfort zone, but once I feel like too much is on my plate, I will start to write a schedule for me to follow. This semester, I was not too overloaded with school work, and work outside of school. I was still able to find time for my homework and also time to relax when needed.
I tried to use my little calendar that was given to us at orientation, but I just did not keep up on it. I know that it works for many and I am sure that it would have worked for me, but I just did not feel the need to carry that around with me. Luckily I have cougar courses where my teachers would post assignments so I could just rely on that opposed to having to write them down in class. In highschool, I did not have a website that I could contact my teachers, and find what assignments have been assigned. I guess I could find their emails, but never once did I ever email them, so that is why it was more important for me to write things down in class.
The activity we did in class for time management, where we figured out on the chart what we needed to cut out in our schedules, really taught me a lot. I learned how much extra time I had left over at the end of the week. I had well over 20 hours according to the sheet. I really ask myself where those hours are, because I can’t find them. I know I have quite a lot of free time, but I never recognized that much. Well I guess it is a good thing that I have those extra hours. Even if I was over the amount, I could always take time out of my sleep.
The time management activities that we did in class did help me understand how to manage time. Although I did not incorporate into my schedule, I will still always have that information for when I am in need of it.

Blog Assignment #3

For my blog assignment I went to the coming out monologue, which I found to be really fun and fascinating. I did not know what I was exactly getting myself into and I was really unsure about what this experience would be like. When I first got there I did not really know anyone there and I felt a bit out of place. People introduced themselves to me, and I thought it was really nice of them. It looked very formal so I felt I was a bit under dressed. I found one of my sisters best friend there and I went and talked to her and she introduced me to a lot of people. I honestly do not remember many of the peoples names that I met but I can at least recognize the faces when I see them around campus. The food looked great, for some reason I did not get any. I guess at the moment I was not hungry, or some some odd reason like that. It turned out that Andre from our class was there and I got to meet him and I got to know more about him to.
I was really fascinated by the monologues, and many of the stories were very funny sad and all other emotions that come along with it. I really liked how the monologues were not just people sitting in a chair, instead there was dancing, acting, singing, pictures, stories talking to their young selves, and little set ups and props for their presentation. Some of the stories really made me realize, that there is a lot more to people than what you just see at first glance. I mean that in a sense that, you can not judge people until you really know what they have been through. Many stories, I was in shock of how hard it is to come out. I learned that people had gone through a lot of depression, and have even come close to killing themselves. The things that people do to others for something they do not choose amazed me, bullying wise. I was really unaware what LGBT people went through. I did not know that they were mentally and physically harassed to the extent that I was informed on.I really thought that the people presenting were really brave for standing in front of an audience of people, not knowing over half of the people, learning about their personal lives that many others would not share with others.
I think that I had learned a lot more about LGBT people throughout the starting of college, the week inside the pride center, and going to the coming out monologue. I was really pleased with the experience I had going to the monologue, and plan on going next year. I found everything about that experience a plus and encourage more people to go to the future ones.

Hey, I'm Amir Mansour. I went to Mission Hills High School, which is about a ten minute drive from here. I played high school football all four years. Football is my favorite sport. I really like all kinds of music and all sorts of food. I believe I am a pretty easy going person, but I am kind of picky when it comes to certain things. My major is Pre-Kineisiology, and I got into it because it was just recommendation so I looked into it and found it was pretty interesting. Well that is basically myself in a nut shell.