MLLL-3043 Myth and Folklore Blog

My other classes are pretty good. I'm not too stressed right now as it is syllabus week. In Pathogenic Lab we did review of basic Microbiology techniques. I have been a MBIO lab every semester for awhile so it was a breeze. Although I do feel guilty because there are some people that really struggled with the basics. This same correlation happened in my Capstone class. There were some kids who couldn't gram stain or even see anything by navigating a microscope. In the Pathogenic Lab, I let this girl observe how I did quadrant streaks to get isolated colonies. I've done hundreds of these streaks and I don't know if they just dropped the ball on her training. In Capstone lab, I had to leave my microscope at one point while people walked by to see an example of things they should be observing. I thought these classes were going to be challenging, and I still think they are. However, I just think they are gonna progress really slow which is only mildly nerve racking. My Phy...

During the week I was freaking out about school. I was scrolling through tik tok one day and I found a whole video of Llamas and Alpacas just smiling. It made me smile and I feel like everyone should be blessed with it in their head.  (Smiling Llama from Pixabay )

 I've had to repeat this phrase repeatedly over my short time on this Earth. Everyone has gone through hardships and struggles. Sometimes it feels like they are never ending, but in reality they do. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions. As long as they fall within your beliefs I don't feel like you should dwell on the fact you made that decision for too long. You can be putting your time and energy freaking out or obsessing over something else.  (Cat meme from Emirates Women)

I used Monkeytype as my online typing test platform. I liked the aesthetic  of this website and how the words were very random. I honestly thought I was a faster typer than what I got. It told me my average was 70 words per minute. My accuracy was at 98%. I have never taken time to improve my typing. When I was in the 7th grade there was a required keyboard class, but computers wasn't anything I worked with daily until college. I type a lot more now for this class and technology is so ingrained with society I feel like I need to become a better typer. 

For the two articles, I chose " Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head " and " A fixed mindset could be holding you back — here's how to change it ". Earlier today, I was actually talking to my friends about Imposter Syndrome. We all felt like in one way or another we didn't believe that we belonged where we currently stood whether it be in school or personal relationships. We were talking about this upcoming semester and our impending futures after college. I think the stress of this semester, even though it just started, as already taken a toll on us. I found that these articles were exactly what I needed to hear today. I think it's kinda funny how that works sometimes.  I think things I need to improve on that were highlighted in these articles were: to stop magnifying my mistakes and to look at the positives, and to change how I think. They are really small changes when you talk about them. However, I feel like my current routine in how I process ...

I would potentially like to retell King Arthur and some members of his round table. Each section it could be retold in a different character's perspective which could be interesting into diving in on how they felt. Growing up, I was captivated by knights and shining armors. I feel like doing research over this topic will feel nostalgic and interesting. Not to mention that  King Arthur and Excalibur is a pretty well known story. I think it could be fun trying to turn it modern and maybe doing a twist of it in school. I also think it could be fun retelling King Arthur as a girl. Link.  Another topic I would like to explore is Fairytale Villains. Villains are always the antagonists, but I think it could be fun to retell a story or two as them as the protagonist. The stories that they are told in are always black and white. If life has taught me anything is that it is never just black and white and that it is a whole rainbow. Giving humanizing qualiti...

It was a windy and cold day in Oklahoma as the leaves were just turning red.  There were three good friends: Nick, Beth, and Ruth.  Nick was the "goody goody" of the group. He always pushed Beth and Ruth to be better people in life. He advised Beth and Ruth to be charitable and to be nice to others regardless of their situations. Beth that day went running around the park. As she was running she found a beanie that had fallen on the ground. She looked in front of her to see if anyone was around. After looking in front of her only she decided to take the hat for herself because she liked it.  Ruth was at school when she found an extra lunch sitting on a table near her. It appeared to be untouched. She looked around to see if anyone was going to claim it. She deemed that no one was going to collect it and put it into a bag to eat later.  Nick, Beth, and Ruth made plans to go to the store that day. Nick was a working student who had his necessities and lived a very...

I really enjoyed the main theme of The Hare that was not Afraid. The story starts by starts by stating that Buddha was reborn as the hare who taught other animals lessons. The Hare was a selfless rabbit that was devout compared to the other characters in the story.  (A Rabbit by Pixabay ) "One day the Buddha said: "Tomorrow is a fast day. Feed any beggars that come to you by giving from your own store of food." They all consented." With this in mind the other animals collected food. Each animal found food, however, the Hare usually ate grass so he did not collect extra as other "beggars" will most likely not eat it. When the King of the Gods, Sakka, heard of the lesson the Hare told the animals, he wanted to test the animals to see if the animals would follow Buddha's lesson. The animals all gave their food. The hare aka Buddha did not have food so he offered his body/meat.  Now I think the theme was not to offer your body as meat and kill yourself for...

Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4. Week 3: Adam and Eve  Week 4: Women and Saints Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6. Week 5: Twenty-Two Goblins Week 6: Santal Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9. [Week 8 is review week.] Week 7: Japanese Mythology Week 9: China Folktales  Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11. Week 10: Cherokee  Week 11: Great Plains Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13. Week 12: Aesop's Fables  Week 13: King Arthur Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15. Week 14: Crane Week 15: Librivox I chose most of these because the topics were familiar. I think it would be really fun to retell these iconic stories with a spin on them. On Weeks 7 and 9, I was really unsure what I wanted to choose because I was pretty unfamiliar with all of the suggested topics. On weeks like this one I always like a trickster story. I also love fa...