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Learning Challenge: Deskercise

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Workout At Home by the Washington Post I browsed through the workouts by the Washington Post.  My favorite ones are "Punching", "Side Lunges", and "Walking".  I will post a follow-up post next week on my continued experience with these desk exercises. You don't need a treadmill to be healthy at your desk

Growth Mindset: Motto

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Always as a child, I've been conditioned to always make straight A's because it will "give me a good job".  Growing up, I didn't pay too much attention to making good grades, but now, I see that my parents just wanted the best for my future.  I read stories of people in poverty who struggle each and every day wondering how they're going to pay off the house or even feed their own family, and that really sucks and is unfortunate.  I definitely never want to have to put my family in that situation.  So while the meme is talking about money, it really has a deeper meaning.  Money isn't always greeding to have.  As long as you don't base your life around money, money is an amazing tool to have.  In my case, I view money to take care of my family and make sure that my family is secure.  In order to do that, I have to do well in school, and so that is a big inspiration for me to do well.

Tech Tip: Canvas Calendar

For this week on my Tech Tip, I took a look at my Canvas Calendar.  Usually, I will go to my Canvas Calendar on the Canvas Website in order to see what assignments I have for the week.  However, with just using the Canvas Calendar, I cannot see my personal events, and it just makes it a hassle to see how my schedule is like overall.  A good tip is to use the iCal link by clicking on "Calendar Feed" on the right of your Canvas Calendar, and you can import your Canvas Calendar into another Calendar such as Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar.  A drawback for this is that it does not import events in Canvas that you, yourself, created, so you have to do that manually in your own calendar.  This brings me to my second tip for the Canvas Calendar, which is "creating your own events".  A couple of my professors do not put their assignments on the Canvas Calendar, because their assignments are either in-paper or on a 3rd party website, and this has cost me so...