Even though I have been writing since middle school, it has been the same since the senior of high school.  It was mundane and boring to write. The only excitement that I got from writing was when writing it night before it was due.  I took a writing a college writing class when I was a senior in high school which helped me be more creative when I wrote. Before going to college it was always the same pattern when writing, there’s a topic, research, and then write.  

The advice to give someone to incoming freshman about college writing is to do the work and do everything on time.  Writing is very difficult and takes time. You will not want to write a six pages essay before its due. Also, if you need help ask the professor ar teacher assistance for assistance because they want to help you to do well in the class.  Also ask questions if you don’t know what is going on when there is a paper, it is very helpful to know what is going on before a writing an essay

The biggest ideas is that I got to choose the topics I wanted to write.  It is very liberating to write what you like and very easy to research because you are passionate about it.  What I was taught in high school wasn’t really important because they focused on the format of the paper and what was thought in class.  It wasn’t really what you believed in.

I would do more revision for the papers and switch project 3 into the middle of the semester because it is the hardest of all papers. By doing students will have the meeting day with their group members and have in person feedback which helps people make the changes to their paper.

My project is about how YouTube change the genre for workout youtube videos.  I used giphs to for my visual presentation because I thought it was to understand. I first start of where home workout video began which was with VH tapes.  This was the first time that people can workout at home and not go to a gym. It was very popular in the 80’s because it was convenient and this was when people have VH tapes at home.  As technology advances people started using CD workout videos. This has intense workouts than the VH tapes. A popular known brand of workout videos is P90x and most people used it because it was convenient for them to workout at home since people are busier during the 2000s. The internet became more develop and it brought us YouTube.  That platform is everywhere and people use it for entertainment or how to videos. The fitness wasn’t trending till around 2010 but YouTube sparked it. People are able to make there own workout videos and share to other people for free. Not only that people can have a real connection with the person making the video. The difference between the YouTube fitness platform and the VHS tapes/ CD workout video is that YouTube cares about how people do in the long run.  People make the videos because they want to.

It is easier to show to people because it gets the point across faster.  With pictures/ giphs people can kind of understand what you want them to know.  What I did was that I picked giphs from that represented from that time and added somethings in between for the transition of the new genre. For writing a paper you have to write in details and find evidence which takes time.  It also requires proof reading.

“Hey Curlfriends!”: Hair CAre and Self-Care Messaging on YouTube by Black Women Natural Hair Vloggers

This article is about how black women doing videos about their hair. Having a tightly coiled hair is very difficult to maintain and also on top of that exercising and other self-care things to do. This hairstyle is very expensive and time consuming. So why am I using this for a workout paper. Well… like this article said it’s a form of self-care and working out is a form of self-care. It takes time and money to maintain a physique that you want with all the food and the gym membership you have to buy.

An exploratory assessment of weight loss videos on YouTube

Obesity has been a big a problem in the United States. This article talks about how people may use the internet to lose weight from workouts, diets, and personal stories. YouTube comes to play because the fitness platform is very big to share people’s experience for weight loss. But YouTube was not the first to the workout/ weight loss video. Commercially advertised workout video were big but they didn’t offer something that fitness YouTuber do. It’s the connection between the content creators and the audience that help who wants to lose weight to be long term.

How do online communities matter? Comparison between active and non-active participants in an online behavioral weight loss program

This article is about how social can affect health behavior change programs. If a person is more active they will be more positive and follow instructions more precisely , and have a more positive mindset. This works with mine because YouTube is a platform that has a lot of active members and have a connection between audience and content creator.

Commenting on chiropractic: A YouTube Analysis

The chiropractic practice has been around for only a short time on YouTube. People watch those videos because the loud crack of someone bones is satisfying to people. This relates to my topic because it discusses a health topic.

Have you ever thought about losing weight? Many people have because today people are more into getting fit and getting a good body. There are many ways on how to lose weight. For example; intermittent fasting or the paleo diet.

First of all, what is intermittent fasting? Intermittent fasting or IF for short is when a person doesn’t eat for long periods of time. There are many ways to fast, it all just depends on your body and your will power. One example is the 4:3 method. This method lets you eat only 4 days out the week and fast three non-consecutive days of the week. A woman named Sumaya lost about 50 pounds in seven and a half pounds while doing this diet. She explained that she tried everything before fasting for example going to the gym four times a week and meal prepping. She ate on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Even though this sound insane, she said after the two weeks she got accustomed to the diet. Even you don’t want to try this diet than maybe do the paleo diet.

The paleo diet is derived from what the cavemen and cavewomen ate during their time. This means eating natural and unprocessed food. Which is hard for this time because most of our food is processed. Kirstie did this diet for two months and she ate fresh fruits and veggies, lean meats, seafood, and nuts. She wasn’t able to eat grains, dairy, legumes, and any other processed food. She had a problem with sugar cravings but she only cheated occasionally. After the two months, she began eating processed foods again but Kirstie said doing the paleo diet made her feel less sluggish and even lost some weight in the process.

https://medium.com/personal-growth/myifguide-38037b3b1ec4

https://www.allure.com/story/paleo-diet-clean-eating

The main difference between those two diets is IF doesn’t restrict the food you eat but when you eat and paleo is the opposite. Also, Sumaya did the diet for more than seven months and Kirstie did it for two. People just have to realize what diet works for them and experiment. Everybody is different.

IF and the paleo diest are two completely different things but Kirstie and Sumaya managed to lose weight without exercising. Before they did the diet they have to research what they were getting into and make sure it safe to do.

Have you seen this picture of a student dressed up as toaster before? The person in the toaster costume was actually a student in my high school. This picture was clearly taken during Halloween or else it would be weird if a student just dressed up like a toaster on a normal day. So it was a normal Halloween day a guy was dressed up like a toaster and someone took a picture of it. The person who took the picture and the person who was wearing the toaster costume never expected that this would become a popular meme. At first, it was just probably a student posting it on Snapchat or Instagram to let everyone know there’s this kid who dresses up like a toaster, how funny. This is how I think every meme is made and become popular, one person takes a picture, screenshot, or photoshop something that is funny to them and then posts it to the internet. People behind the screen are the one who decides if it’s funny. Image 1 is the first step to make a meme but a person needs to think of a caption for it like Image 2.

Image 2 clearly interprets something. If you don’t know what bread means in slang, it’s money. The saying “let’s get this bread” is popular saying to teens and young adults. There are memes and gifs of “let’s get this bread” because it basically saying “let’s get this money.” The person who created Image 2 thought about how he can implement and make content with Image 1. I’m guessing his thought process was;

Thought process: “What do you put in a toaster? Bread! Let’s get this bread.

The person who created Image 2 change the wording a little bit so it would make sense. The difference between the two picture is that Image 2 has more content because it tells you something and can relate. On the other hand Image 1 is just a picture.

                Writing for me, for the longest time was about just grades.  In school, I had written many essays, but it didn’t really matter to me because the writing was not what I wanted to do in life.  As I apply to colleges, I had to write an essay to get into colleges. This was hard because there’s no research, I have to let someone know the real me. It was hard writing for myself because I don’t do it often.  There were many trials and errors to distinguish what I am like.  I wasn’t sure to go for a serious or funny approach.  Many teachers told me to be unique but what was that supposed to mean? I knew that everyone was struggling with their essay and it is very common.  As time passes, I decided to do a funny story that reflects me.

                What I thought was a funny story was when I had cramp during a rugby game.  It was one of the worst pains I had in a long time. Every time I think about, I hear my coach on the sideline yelling “oh my God, that the worst cramp I’ve ever seen” in his Irish accent.  I feel like this spoke to me the most because it was very ironic.  Every time before practice he told us to drink water and eat a lot of potassium.  I didn’t do any of those because I didn’t listen to, I got the consequence.  This event helps me see what I can write because I was able to express myself.  I had a story that I like doing and was excited to write.  It struck me that writing should be fun and not just writing.  I feel like now I knew why colleges wanted students to this was because they want to how students would express themselves in a limited word count.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

                As a student who has been writing since middle school, I didn’t see much of it at first. I despised writing because I didn’t have the freedom to write whatever I want during middle school and some part of high school. There were always topics that you had to follow for class that wasn’t interesting to write about. Writing for me should be whatever topic what I enjoy or don’t enjoy and express it in my own way.  The dictionary definition of writing is similar to mine which is a “form of communication that allows students to put their feelings and ideas on paper, to organize their knowledge and beliefs into convincing arguments and to convey meaning through well-constructed text” (MSU). 

                People write because that is how we express our feelings.  Writing has expanded into greater meaning today because of social media.  People in social media always express how they feel about something people are doing, themselves, and public dispute.  Application such as Instagram, Twitter, Yelp, and Facebook are some common social media that people post to express how they feel.  But people do need to be careful what they post about things. An example would be a Yelp review (people expressing how was the restaurant: service, food, etc. One bad yelp review can ruin a restaurant business because a “Yelper” wrote a bad review when having a bad day and want to express their feeling in a negative matter to hurt people.  Negative comments can hurt people really these days because people can be anonymous when writing those stuff.  It’s a form of bullying to exclude people.

                There are some positive forms of writing or authors who expressed their thoughts and made books about their form imagination.  I could see now why we were supposed to read and write about books in school.  It is to give us a foundation to for later on in life.  The purpose of writing in a college is to express how you feel about the subject you are majoring in.  You are more intrigued in the subject thus writing better.