Kutztown Food

In class we are all split up into different groups to work on a problem on campuses. My groups working on helping the food on campuses be a little more healthy. Also we want to inform the students of the different choices that they have to choice from. The students can choice healthier sides now such as carrots, apples, or bananas. We as students don’t always make the right decisions on what to eat, if we eat everything we want or enjoy we can become over weight. For some of us it’s the first time that we are out on our own. Then we may just want to eat the easy thing or your favorites every day. If we don’t eat a balance diet we can become over weight and lazy. We the students can pick to eat salads for lunch and maybe a sandwich and a piece of fruit for dinner and you will be doing better than eating chick-Fila every day for lunch or dinner just because it is something fast and easy. For myself I find that if I eat badly I feel sick or just tired. I don’t get anything done then and just want to hang with my friends instead of working on my school work. My group is trying to help inform the students about what they are eating by sharing the facts. We will be handing out information on what you are eating and show you what is in these foods. Also we will be trying to show the students the different options that they can choice from to help them stay healthy on campus. It sometimes isn’t always the schools fault for the bad food. It’s also your fault for choosing to eat the same things day after day.

Putting Mind Pumping to test

Today I when to Michael’s with my mom. I deiced to go when she said she was going to just have fun and see what I could find. As my mom shopped for things she needed my brother and I just when around the store and found different things. We found a measuring tool an article uses to make strate lines that looks like a T. To us it wasn’t a measuring tool it was a sword. We had a sword fight in the middle of Michael’s. Then we found children hats there was a frog, monkey, and a robot one of course we tried them all on and took pictures with my brothers phone. When we were done acting like little kids with the hats we decried to play the where is mommy game. After circling the store about five times we found her. I must add this whole time I am wearing a frog hat because we had decide to buy it for a friend’s birthday. As I walked through the store people were looking at me funny and I really didn’t care. What is wrong with a 19 year old going around a store and acting like a little kid once and awhile. Today was like what they talk about in Mind Pumping, you need to go out and don’t plan ever moment of your day go and have fun. If you find your inner child had just have fun days you will keep your create side of you young. When you keep your creative side young you will be able to come up with new ideas and be more productive in your work or school.

Mind Pumping

When reading mind pumping it made me think of different ways that you can use to help your creativity grow. They talked about ten topics some that i really enjoyed where the set an idea quota, Create a Brain bank, and be a travel junkie. When you set an idea quote what you are doing is different things to help your brain work each day like think of five new ideas each day for a week and then try and do some of the new ideas. Doing these things will help your mind grow to become more creative. When you use the Create a Brain bank all you need to do is when you are reading a magazine, book, or just looking at pictures if there is something that triggers your imagination you just write it down or tare it out. Then you put it in a box, when you need a good idea you go to this box and you take out your different pieces of information. I used to do this with quotes and photos i have a couple binders and a box. I would use the pictures and quotes to help me trigger my imagination to start a story or writhing pieces i would do. Another fun thing to do they mention in the article is being a travel junkie as they call it. You just pick yourself us and go somewhere, go to a store, park, go on a hike, go anywhere. I used to do this with my older sister when she would come home from college. We would get in the car around midnight and go to Wal-Mart, go all around the store pick up random stuff and pretend like we were buying stuff for a new house or apartment. We would pick everything out and then put everything back where it belonged. But the whole point of the event was going and having fun it would bring are inner child out and that’s just what you want to do with creativity. To be as creative as we can be i think you need to look at it as you are a little kid and when you had no care in the world you had the biggest imagination you could think of.

Interview with Kevin Carrol

In Kevin Corrols article he writes he describes creativity to him as the ability to have the eyes of a child. This was one of my faivor things that he had to say. It brought me back to when i was a kid and how much i used to do with my imagination. I used to be able to go out into my back yard and just sit and make up different situations or games. My friends and i would be able to create different games that we would play over and over again. I was talking to one of my friends the other day. We started talking about a game we played when we were children. We used to pretend that we were in a boarding school but there was always a teacher that didn’t like us. That teacher would always end up finding us and putting us in a jail like place we used to call it where no one would come and get us for hours, until the dog would come to save us. They were the only thing that could see us to get us out of this jail. To the rest of the world we were just two girls siting in her front yard having a fun time. To us we were in a whole different place. If you look like you were a child you can see so many different things. We need to bring this into are every day life’s and just have fun with are tasks. If we have fun with it we might come out with better papers, projects, ideas. You never know until you try it.

Another topic that Kevin Corrols goes into about creativity is to become great at it you need to put the work into it. Just like an athlete dose to become great at their sport. The athlete needs to work hard practice every day. Put the time and effected into their work to come out with a win or be proud of themselves. This is the same with are creavity we need to practice it and open our minds to what we can accomplish. If we practice every day we will become better. Why else would an athlete run day after ran but to get to the finish line first in the end. We must work hard to come up with the best ideas that we have to become the best we can do.