Time and College
How is our time being used? Is it being used effectively? How can we improve it?
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Slide Notes:
Point I - Use of Time
S1: Introduction, name and title. Covers main points, use of time, effectiveness and how to improve.
S2: Time is an important commodity, the importance of investing in ourselves.
S3/4: How do students spend our time.
S5: Common ways we spend time.
S6: "Not everything is bad, but to much of anything is." Take time to drive the importance of how we spend time.
Point II - Effectiveness
S7/8: As students are we being prepared for the world? Are we using our time effectively in a increasingly competitive world?
S9: Students commonly say we're wasting our time learning unusable facts, is it true?
S10: -Critical Point- School gives us techniques and tools to survive and be successful, not just information. How to organize and think critically.
S11/12: We need to build relationships, learn how to relate with others to get the full college benefit.
S13/14: How is our time being used as students, not just as people. Are we plugged into the resources were blessed with?
S15/16: -Critical Point- We need to form a Rebel-ution, to rebel against the status quo and to seek to really push ourselves to the limit, to try something new or to take just a step out of our comfort zone.
Point III - How To Get Plugged In
S17: Not alone, UNCC has over 370 organizations to meet other people with similar interests.
S18/19: Not only just interests but UNCC offers free leadership programs.
S20: Time can never be replayed, or repeated. So make use of it and spend it for things that can help you.
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Hey guys! So this was a topic that was kind of inspired from Ecclesiastics, a book in the Bible. It talks about how everything in this world is vapour, worthless without God. How knowledge fades away, wisdom passes and that even strength and beauty has an eventual end. I took that concept and decided to see how it applies to college, in school in the present. Ecclesiastics, which was most likely written by Solomon asks us why we do things and for what end. Do we do it for fun, for the moment now, or for Gods Kingdom which is eternal?
In the same way, thinking back to college, do we spend time to just live in the moment and enjoy life now? Or do we spend it to think about the future? Video games are fun, they truly are, but too much of it can be bad. Whats worse is to look back at it ten or fifteen years down the road and think with regret, why did I waste my time doing that. I believe that the most effective way that we can use our time is by interacting with people. Sharing joy and love and making a difference in others, because at the end of the day, that word of encouragement could save someones life or push them to apply for that job and leave an impact on their children's children. Relationship and love can travel through generations, and what one person does can be remembered in the history books. So in preparation for that day, when we meet that person who we will influence, I say we need to keep studying, grow as an individual, make friends and experience what God has to offer. So that when that time or person comes we can come up to them with a loving, organized open and understanding heart, and be the person who helps lift them back on their feet as God has done for us.
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