Momentarily Improving

On Saturday, April 8th I was able to be part of BronchoThon at UCO. BronchoThon is a new organization on our campus which raises money for the Children's Hospital Foundation. The student leaders that helped plan the actual day of BronchoThon had different events throughout the year in order to help raise more funds. Students across our university were able to join different groups to be part of BronchoThon. The group that I was part of, Diversity Round Table, hosted a Barbecue fundraiser in which we were able to raise about $140! When we first got to the actually BronchoThon event we didn't know what all we would be doing. Other students told us we would basically be dancing the whole night. We got to learn different dances, play icebreakers, and eats lots of food. My favorite thing about BronchoThon would have to be listening to the different Miracle families stories. These Miracle families, families that had children in the Childrens Miracle Network Hospital,  opene...

On Sunday, April 2nd I was able to attend and volunteer at the UCO Annual Spring Powwow. This is the oldest multicultural event that UCO has! When I first signed up to help, I didn't really know what to expect. I thought that I would just be volunteering at their cakewalk, but I was able to experience more things. Towards the end of the powwow the MC opened the dancing floor to non Native people. My friend encouraged me to go to the dance floor, but before I did she gave me a shawl to wrap around myself. She explained to me that before a woman goes into the powwow circle they have to do this. Besides volunteering to help with the popcorn machine, I was able to experience this Native American tradition, socialized with others, and listen to Native American chants.

I am the chair of the Human Diversity committee for the University of Central Oklahoma Student Association(UCOSA). UCOSA is the student government at our university and the voice of the student body. During my Fall 2016 semester in UCOSA, the current president and a past president of the Black Student Association(BSA) approached me with an idea that they had.  At our university we have a building that serves as an alternative for a student union, the Nigh University Center. There are many rooms in the Nigh University Center that are dedicated to caucasian individuals that have impacted our state. The current president of BSA, Keyanna Irby, introduced me to a past BSA president, Jordan Broiles. Jordan and a few other BSA members spoke to me about wanting to renovate a room in the Nigh to be dedicated to civil rights activist Clara Luper.  Clara Luper, a teacher and civil rights activist, is mostly known for her sit in movement leadership role in Oklahoma. Luper foug...

This blog will be a little different from my last post. In this post I will be writing about the things that I have learned about blogging and my journey through it. A thing or two about writing... I have learned a lot by writing for my blog. Writing on my blog has given me the opportunity to express my thoughts in different topics, and experiences that I go through. My readers are able to read about things that they may never have the opportunity of experiencing.  I have also learned how blogging online works. I get to choose the pictures, fonts, colors, and headlines that will appear here. I would like to work mire on the design of my blog and customize it to fit a style that represents who I am and what I want to share with others. Cinder(elsa)... When I first started my blog, I wanted to give advice to other college students. I still try to do that once in a while, but my blog has become more like a journal. My blogpost recently have been more about t...

This blog post is about why college students should blog and the positive impact that blogging can have on them. This blogpost will also include information that will help students realize that blogging can not only change their life, but others as well. I will also write about an successful college student blog.  College Info Geek , a blog started by Thomas Frank, is a blog for college students that are looking for college advice. Frank wrote a blog post in which he gives his reasons of why you must start blogging in college. The most important ones that stood out to me were, teaching others useful things, building a network, become a better writer, express yourself and your ideas, and you’ll be able to make your own money.  Frank says that blogging can help teach others useful things, others can learn from the experiences that you have gone through. There is a big chance that someone out there is most likely going through the same things as you. By creating a bl...

At the Hatton W, Sumners Student Leadership Conference I had the privilege to meet students from across the nation and also from different countries. Thursday, February 23rd 2017 The first day of the conference. I was spilt up from the students from my university and was put into a group with students from different universities. At first I was not sure what to expect and was nervous about how the whole conference would go. During the first night of the conference I was able to hear Nadia Lopez speak about her growing up on the Latino community and her journey to starting a school. I was amazed by her speech, because earlier during the day I was speaking to one of my group members and he was talking about his passion for education and helping his community. Friday, February 24th 2017 I was able to listen to Dr. Howard T. Prince. Dr. Prince is a clinical professor and holds the Loyd Hackler Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affai...