CLC success seminar Portfolio by Nicholas Lipinski

My learning style:

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 20:03:12 UTC

To be completely honest my learning style is a combination of what I've learned in the past and believe it or not it works. I mean as you can tell I finished this project one time, got a decent grade on it, plus my grades in my two classes I'm currently taking are a A+ in this class and a B+ in my English class and its amazing.
I may not know what my learning style is unconventional to most but it works for me and that's all needs to work for and my grades can back me up on that. My learning style is both visual with notes but also I like pictures in my notes so I can see the data, I also enjoy reading textbox and or listing to podcast in my spare time which is both visual as I read and audio as the book is read to me. I'm proud of my learning style even if it took me a while to figure it out, I still made it in the end.

Time management, sometimes

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 20:07:11 UTC

My time management comes and goes as it wishes, right now I'm scheduling everything in this new yellow notepad I got from work. When I lose control over my school life, or work, or even home life it could scew up my scheduling a lot or even ruing everything.
How do I plan when I do plan? easy, I don't sleep much. I mean I sleep a good amount but on the days I'm not as organized as I would like to be I would be going to be around 10 or 11. On the days I would spend scheduling I would stay up most nights till two or three doing homework or planning something fun to do and how to save for it.

STUDY!!!

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 20:12:52 UTC

If you asked me 3 years ago when I was in sophomore in the halls of warren would I change how I took tests and actually started studying. I would probably put my headphones back on and continue to my class as I did the day before.
You see when I would study for a test and expected to do score higher then I usually would and cause of that pressure I would instantly forget everything I studded for the night before. Now a days I focus one hundred percent on homework and projects so when a test or paper is assign I can rely on what I learned from my homework to help me on the assessment and it's work so far so I'm going to keep using it until it doesn't anymore, and then maybe just maybe I'll consider making flash cards and "studding" with them

Brain POWER

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 20:15:51 UTC

Just like time management taking notes is something that comes and goes, I will take notes for topics that mean nothing and completely miss the important stuff. All though in some occasion I've noticed when the teacher allows a cheat sheet on test I'll spend the rest of that day and the following night making the best, most in depth color coded cheat sheet any teacher has seen. I would spend so much time on it I would end up never using it, cause I would spend the whole night rewriting the whole chapter the night before.
Fun fact about me, when I was in High school my senor year my math teacher would have us fill out a note packet the day before the test and do the work on a different paper so she can see our work and make sure we did it. One time for some what ever reason I spent the better of that night making the worlds best math notes I have ever seen. I was so proud of it I left the teacher a note saying "So not to brag BUT GOD THESE NOTES ARE AMAZING (extra points :D)<--Joking. Unless" I got the points and my god was it an ego boost for me that day forward.

Kinda works

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 23:31:12 UTC

My first time in high school was like everyone else, but because of my Learning disabilities I was placed into a class where I was taught how to read and right. They started off the class with fun fact about Growth mind set all because warren was trying this new "mental heath means stuff" campaign and my god was it annoying.
The reason I put seeker here was cause in High school this was a pod cast I would listen to in that class instead of reading my book in independent reading time thought my earbuds, and to honest I learned a lot more about math and science then I ever did in in high school, this podcast in away helped me turn my fixed mindset into one that was more optimistic about learning. I highly recommend the episode about sleep its really interesting.

Stress???

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 23:40:28 UTC

Stress management is something I let control small parts of my day but it always ends up controlling more then I would like. Me and my therapist have been working on taking control of my anxiety, one of my goals is to go to the groceries store alone and find the produce, meat, and seasons that I need cook some diner or lunch that's really good and follow a recipe to a tee. That's how I would love to mange my stress, I would like to cook though my stress and let the recipe control what I think about.

Work in progress

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 23:48:11 UTC

I really want to learn how to budget my money and spending. I would like for next semester to save 2,000 dollars and pay car insurance as well, it's a task that I did before given I'm typing this on a PC that costs will over 2,000 after all the games and money this PC has eating form my pocket.
My plan to save 2,000 dollars so far is to use half of the check I get from work on fixed things like car insurance and gas then spend a small portion on things that I count as self care items, then I'll save the rest. I'm also working as an uber eats delivery and use that money for gas and self care items

Its a challenge

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-10 23:58:55 UTC

Making friends has always been a challenge for me. In new settings my body goes on high alert and doesn't calm down till I'm forced to make new friends. I would love some friends to talk about things we have in common, but my scheduling with my classes doesn't allow much club times.
The good thing is that ever since I cut off my hair people at work have opened up to me and actually started to talk to me and ask how my day has been every day I come in and see them, and its a nice surprise and well I'm not happy that it took a haircut to get people to talk to me I'm not mad at the fact that people are talking to me.
I'm looking forward to next semester where I start my horticulture classes and where I start my first actual part-time semester.

CLC!!!

nlipinski2 — 2023-04-11 00:04:11 UTC

To be frank, I have only used the one stop people and they have been the most helpful people I've ment. I have made friends with all of them and they all know me by name and say hi to me every morning. They helped me with so much Financial aid stuff and family stuff, they are they best thing CLC has and I stand by that.

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The famous Notes

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What did you say??

nlipinski2 — 2023-05-08 16:22:23 UTC

I'm not one hundred percent sure what I'll do after life at CLC. I could continue my education and become something I could love and am super passionate about. Or I could go straight into work and get a meteoric job that I kind of like and get paid a decent amount to use for bills, gas, and self care stuff (SPENDING MONEY). Both of this option are great one; but what jobs would I want to work for, what colleges would I transfer too?
A job I could see myself working at with out going to college would most likely be , construction. Why, you may be asking yourself right now. Because building houses and owning a truck sounds nice, only cause the new electric ford Lightening looks sick and I could right the truck off as a work vehicle for taxes I could defiantly see myself getting up really early to go to work and actual use my brain and problem solve on the fly. Yes I'm aware of the fact that I have to get an apprenticeship and work my way up the ladder that is the work force so I can archive my dream but I honestly think I could do that.
Now for the hard one, what college would I like to transfer too. This one is hard causes I have a really hard time applying myself to classes that are in a new environment and picking a college is picking a whole new environment, or is it?
Before I started high school I got the opportunity to travel northern Wisconsin but more importantly I got to tour and sleep in The University of Wisconsin, Stevens point, and when I tell you I felt at home there I did. The classes where all focused toward the environment, they had their own water treatment and I got to see and learn about all the chemicals and machines that they use to clean and reuse for the University. I also got the chance to learn about the most amazing thing, dirt. With some scientist and Stevens point me and some of my friends took some soil samples and we got to test out how deferent PH and fertilizers levels affect the plants heath and what are the positives and the negative ones. A soil scientist sounds really fun and with that job I can work in a whole punch of deferent places which is perfect for me cause I love living in a bunch of deferent places.

STEVENS POINT

nlipinski2 — 2023-05-08 16:23:08 UTC

This old house

nlipinski2 — 2023-05-08 16:26:01 UTC

This old house was a show me and my mom used to watch together, its problem what made me so crafter and why I want to build houses for a living