Pip Pip Hurray!

There's no time like the present to strategize my time and prioritize the different aspects of my schedule. Something I have continuously learned over the past three years of my college career is time management. I was horrible at first...absolutely horrible. I could never find a balance between social life and schoolwork, and I struggled to figure out my priorities. Each semester, I have found myself improving my time management skills because I have figured out what is most important to me. Last year as a whole, I finally was able to find a really good balance between school and social life, and so I plan on continuing that this year. In order for me to be successful, I have to schedule my days meticulously. I allow myself the mornings to have "me time;" reading, working out, and finishing up little tasks that I did not complete the day before. After my morning time, I go to class, and then I make myself work on school and studying until after dinner (around 7pm). Afte...

I am not good at technology in the slightest, so I would be lying if I said I had no fears or hesitations for learning a lot of new websites and technological information. I am unfamiliar with many of these tools, but I am anxious to learn about them, and I am also really grateful to have the opportunity to branch out and not be stuck on Canvas. All of my other online classes have strictly used Canvas, and so this is all new to me. Yay technology! Technology by Nick Young 

If you are a Bachelor fan, you'll understand my reference when I say I am going to award one assignment the First Impression Rose. The assignment that caught my attention most, seems most intriguing and fun, and is what I am looking forward to most is Storytelling. After reading about the different types of assignments and extra credit opportunities we will have, I found myself drawn to the Storytelling because of its open-endedness. I like that we can be creative and come up with new types of storytelling, and I am excited to stretch myself in order to become more creative. I also want to try the Wikipedia Trails extra credit- this seems right up my alley! This class is very different from any class I've ever taken- it's more creative, more flexible, and seemingly more fun! I am really excited to see what this class is going to be like, and what I will learn over the next 15 weeks. First Impression Rose- by Liz West 

Growth Mindset! I think this is the neatest thing. In the past, I had never heard of the term "growth mindset" but I do know what it is and I have had teachers and older mentors in my life instill the growth mindset in me and encourage it in me, which I am really thankful for. I think my personality type is incredibly focused on growth (sometimes too much, I often find myself seeking perfection instead of healthy growth), and I have seen this in my schoolwork and other extracurriculars. Schoolwise, I haven't always had a healthy growth mindset perspective. It wasn't until this year that I learned to appreciate failure and challenges as opportunities for growth, and learned that one does not have to be perfect or perform perfectly in order to grow. Realizing this and going through this perspective shift really helped me to decrease my stress levels, enjoy life more, and actually perform better in school and extracurriculars. I also think the growth mindset can apply to...

Hi friends! Welcome to my blog :) My name is Piper, but most of my friends call me a slew of nicknames like Pipe, Pipey, Pipes, Pipeydoodle, Pip (hence Pip Pip Hurray)... you get the point! I am a student at the University of Oklahoma, and I am currently finishing up my last semester before I graduate (don't remind me, I'm getting emotional about it). I am from Tulsa, OK originally, and I would love to go back someday, but my future is pretty up in the air right now so I am not sure when that might be. I am studying Health and Exercise Science with an emphasis on Pre-Occupational Therapy, and the goal would be to start OT school in Summer 2020. I'm super passionate about people and forming relationships, which is what drew me to OT. I love the idea of working in a profession that allows me to make new friends, love others, and solve problems all at the same time. As well as my many nicknames, my friends call me an old lady at heart. I love to read (most recent book- Where...

I looked through many of the storybooks, but I was drawn to stories that I could best relate with. The stories I will be summarizing are BadAss Biblical Women, Sponge Stories, and Odysseus Goes Shopping. Reading the titles, it's hard to understand how I could relate to all three of these because they are so different, but this will become clear as I summarize them. Thanks for reading, friends! Yes please! Sticky buns   BadAss Biblical Women: I loved this storybook because I was able to relate it to my own religious background and because I think there are so many bad a** women in the Bible who are not spoken for or remembered! These women would not have been spoken about in the Bible if they did not have a purpose, and so I think it's super cool that the author of this storybook noticed that and did her part to represent and share their stories. The author did a great job of giving biblical details while also finding outside knowledge of these women, and weaving it tog...

Since the age of 3 years old, I have spent every weekend in the summer and most weekends throughout the rest of the year at Grand Lake in Oklahoma. This place is special to me in so many ways. From every Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, to countless family reunions and gals' weekends, Grand Lake has been home for me. Over the past 18 years I have spent at Grand Lake, I've learned so much about living a "lake life" on the water, as well as life skills that I use when I'm not even at the lake. My parents taught me all of the water sports imaginable, how to generously and lovingly host others by sharing things and places we love and know well, and encouraged me to not be afraid of the unknown or of new things that come with time on the lake. Not only is this lake absolutely beautiful and vast, but it carries sentimental value that is unmatchable in my book. Grand Lake Oklahoma- Photo by JDMcGreg  I come here with my fami...