Samantha's POV

  Balancing School and Life Balancing your school life and your personal life can be pretty challenging. This can especially be because you feel you need to prioritize one thing you may think is more  important than another. It feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to balance school and your personal life all at once. There are many strategies to maintain a special equilibrium between the two. Today, I will mention a very important strategy. Time Management According to Coursera, time management is "the process of consciously planning and controlling time spent on specific tasks to increase how efficient you are". Some strategies to back up this strategy is setting deadlines, writing to-do lists, utilizing a planner, and giving yourself small rewards for accomplishing certain activities. Some tips when completing time management include setting setting your goals correctly, prioritizing wisely, setting time limits, taking breaks between tasks, organizing yourself,...

Mayhem Promposal The author of the ad wants the audience to experience a feeling of being  encouraged to purchase their insurance. They want the audience motivated to consider buying Allstate.  I think this advertisement is trying to promote that basic lifestyle that everyone lives. The targeted audience is to the people that have homes and a family. This is because this ad is promoting home insurance, while causing a problem that only home insurance can pay for, instead of out of pocket. The ad is a promposal gone wrong right outside of a home and for this purpose, Allstate insurance should be purchased to fix the problem.  The context of the advertisement is to demonstrate how a simple promposal could go a different route than what was planned that resulted in a house fire.  By looking at this ad, I can conclude about American culture that something as basic and easy as a proposal to prom could put their lives in danger if gone wrong. Meaning that the average Ameri...

 IT'S ALMOST TIME Hi blog. As many of you may know from reading my old blogs or if you have seen me in class, I am expecting my first child by the end of April. This is such an exciting moment for me. Although, I am scared and nervous too. Time is going by fast and there's no way to slow it down. For me, this is a very important moment in my life where I feel like I will be whole again. Even though my baby girl is not here in my arms yet, just by looking at my belly knowing that she's in there but will be out one day brings me so much happiness. I have always struggled with trying to bring myself to be happy, but considering other factors in life it was just a hard process. But, this nine month process has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me. Of course in the beginning, I was happy but sad at the same time because I always had a feeling something would not go right. Yet, here I am months later beating the odds and having a healthy baby in a few weeks. Because of my size...

Have you ever had something taste so clean in your mouth? Something like a sweet that feels like your mouth has revived? Looking at these leaves, I can picture myself eating and chewing what this specific confection is made out of. I also love the ice cream flavor that's made from this. It goes well with the chocolate pieces added into it. When you tap on the box with your nails, it sounds as if it were plastic. When you shake it, it sounds like a box containing small round solid pieces being hit side by side in the inside. Just by looking at it, I can tell it is two inches tall, maybe one and a half inches by length, and around a centimeter in width all around the box. It feels small and light in weight. It is a clear box with white jelly bean looking sweets inside and a green label on the outside and a white lid with a small opening the size of each lolly. It melts very, very slowly and takes around three to five minutes to dissolve in your mouth. Because it is round, it is impos...