Epics of India

I chose to read two articles that focused on the psychology of time management. The first was The Psychology of Checklists , which is a Trello blog about how checklists can improve your productivity. Personally, I rely on checklists during the semester to make sure I accomplish my schoolwork and other personal things. I use the Todoist checklist program to schedule when I need to do tasks. This program allows me to create different projects (each of my classes is a project) and assign deadlines and priorities to tasks. It even has a good extension for chrome and firefox. This article reinforced my current strategy that I've used for every college semester - it has been a successful strategy and I plan on using it again.   Checklist cat from the Trello blog post ( Link ) My second article was the 3 Steps to Recapture Time . This article hit on an interesting idea - organizing your day during the first 15 minutes of the day. I normally take time on the weekend to revise my tim...

The technology in this class is familiar to me, but is not what I use in my average class. Normally, classes use canvas for quizzes, or even tests, and normally post some resources there. However, this class opts to use a blog format and does not have quizzes or exams. I have used PBWorks with previous classes and find it normal to use. While Canvas is nice because you can easily scroll through all the modules, the blog layout of this class flows really well - maybe the team at Canvas could take a look at that when looking at how to improve their website. The main web skills I want to focus on developing this semester are in creating my own website. I've done this before, but I want to manage the server myself and run multiple websites at once. It'll be an interesting engineering challenge, but I will be potentially trying to set that up during the semester if I have the time. I find working on technology fun; personal picture of an OU robotics emergency stop remote cont...

Overall, I think this class will be a good one based on the assignments. I think the Famous Last Words and Tech Tips extra credit assignments sound pretty interesting, and I may participate in some microfiction writing as well. I think the act of blogging really helps me reflect about what I've learned because I can write things in my own words and read them back to myself - this creates a feedback loop that really works well for me. It's different than most of my engineering classes, where those are more focused on studying techniques to solve problems. I'm ready to start another semester at OU (Personal photo of the OU campus taken from Volare roof, 2019)

This is the first time I have heard of a growth mindset, and the first time of Dr. Dweck. I found her TED Talk interesting, and agreed with many of her points. From experience, I would say that students who believe they can improve are the ones who improve the most. On the robotics team I mentor, I teach students how to program robots - the students who believe in themselves the most are the ones I find are the most successful. I think Growth Mindset's detractors also bring up excellent points, but they are mainly focused on how our education system fails to implement the growth mindset strategy. From the article by Paunesku, I thought it was a good idea to try to measure students' opportunities, but I think it would have been even more helpful if he had proposed a more concrete way to do that. I believe that their ideas for improving how children are assessed could be integrated with the simple philosophy that students with a mindset toward improvement tend to succeed more i...

Hi everyone! My name is Justin Kleiber, and I am a senior in Computer Engineering. My passion is robotics, which is the main reason I ended up choosing my major. At OU, I am the president of Sooner Competitive Robotics, which is one of the engineering college's competition teams (hit me up if you want to join!). I also do research on campus, where I mainly work on making a quadcopter fly around without a pilot controlling it. I help a group of high school students in OKC build and program a robot for the FIRST robotics competition, a worldwide high school robotics program. I love robotics, and as such, robots tend to surround my life. A picture I took of the research drone flying in its cage Additionally, I am really competitive and love sports. I've gone to every home OU football game in the four years I have been here, as well as to the Rose Bowl, the Peach Bowl, and two Red River Shootout games. Growing up, I was a huge Virginia Tech fan because my parents went there...

Here are my favorite stories from the storybooks. Each of the titles is a link to the story so you can read more! Sitapedia Sitapedia is a page dedicated to Sita, written in the style of a 2000's era fan blog. I found it really interesting because the style of the writing in the story is clearly from the internet-era, but the original story and character are from a far earlier time period. I liked how the author thought to make Sita into a modern celebrity by writing a gossip column, showing diary entries, and making a merch store in the introduction. The introduction really set the tone for what to expect from the story, and I thought it was really well put together and outside the box thinking. Merch is for sale on the Sitapedia blog! (Source: Sitapedia Intro ) Karma: The Good Place This storybook is is an Indian Epics take on The Good Place , a TV show about the afterlife where characters are in a heavenly utopia. I personally like the TV show, which is why I was...

My favorite place I've been is Oxford, UK, where I had the opportunity to study abroad during the summer of 2017 as part of the Honors at Oxford experience. For 21 days, I was immersed in the environment of the University of Oxford and lived at Brasenose college. I went punting on the Thames, visited Christ Church college (where parts of Harry Potter were filmed), and had weekly tutorial sessions with an Oxford professor. Near the end of the study abroad experience, our Oxford professor was able to arrange for the whole group to go to the top of Magdalen tower, which is the tallest tower in Oxford. At the top, I was able to get a picture of the whole city. Picture I took of the Oxford skyline from the top of Magdalen tower, July 2017 I highly recommend anyone thinking about going to the United Kingdom to visit this amazing city. It is a magical place, and it is no wonder that writers like Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were inspired by living there.