S-STEM Scholar Kathy Serrano's Blog

The way we view ourselves and our skills can have a significant impact on our life. In addition to the way we feel, the way we view our intellect and talents can have an impact on our performance, whether we cling to new habits, or if we gain new skills. As a person with a growth mindset, you believe in the ability to improve over time. As a result of having a fixed mindset, you may assume that you will never be good at something if you aren't good at it now.The way I have been before covid-19 was always a growth mindset. I always was engaged in learning a new path. I understood my abilities could be developed over time. I wouldn’t cheat or run from difficult problems or situations. I honestly didn’t know what anxiety and being scared to fail were at that time. I would want to say the environment I was in was healthy as well. Till my grandfather passes away, covid- 19 happened and everything went online. That’s when my fixed mindset hit hard. I felt so lost and useless that everyth...

Organization- Being organized makes everything else easier. It helps you get to work faster without wasting time looking for stuff. Keep your assignments and class information organized by subject. Put them in binders, notebooks, or folders. If you find yourself stuffing loose papers in your bag or grabbing different notebooks for the same class, it's time to stop and reorganize! Clean out your backpack regularly. Decide where to keep returned assignments and things you want to hold on to. Offload things you no longer need to carry around. Multitask- when I mean about multitasking, I mean about the amount of work you get during a short period of time which knocking down similar subjects together can have a good flow in getting assignments done. Work in stressful environments- when overload of work is due to be done working in a good pattern of spacing out assignments. Can still but a workload which working these stressful environments like taking a test or doing a lab re...

There are many things on what i want to use my degree for and why.the goal is set diffrently its not only will i be making a finanical stable for myself but my family who immigrated here just 25 years ago.i wouldnt be able to make any oppurtities like these in senora mexico. i would want to use my degree to be able to give oppurtities to people who couldnt. Any way i can i feel like it doesnt just stop to just my degree but with what i do in the world that would help. i would open my own business just to help people who are in need for jobs or a foot in doors of industrties that are hard to get to.

we have successfully gotten into groups which got us to learn more information about slack. Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate. which in this group we have assign a project of peppers around the world as a fake project to kinda get a feel around this program. we assaigned tasks and contients to each member which we got to research information about the pepper that we had to get information from. Then that lead to all the information being in our messages and how we analyzed others new findings as well . Now we are on to linkedin which is Having a LinkedIn account as a student proves that you are dedicated to pursuing a career. By being specific in your summary and connecting with people in the field that you'd like to end up in, you prove that you're putting in the time and effort required to succeed in your chosen car...

An academic personal website takes you a step further in terms of increasing your visibility because it is an ideal place to showcase your complete research profile. You will attract attention to your publications, your name recognition will increase and you will get cited more. Moreover, a website is also useful for networking and collaborating with others, as well as for job searching and application. this week i got started on trying to set up a website. currently with the first weeks of school have been hectic. but now with classes and assignments balancing out. i am able to work more on my website.

To create the Tauntaun harvest data, we need to simulate the Tauntaun population through time. We’ll set up a 10 year population simulation, where we will track the number of male and female Tauntauns separately in each time step (each year). Tauntaun life history has been well studied by biologists on the icy planet of Hoth, and it’s reasonable to assume that life history characteristics are the same in Vermont. Individuals can begin breeding at the age of 1, and produce approximately 2 offspring per year. Individuals that are 0 years old are called “young” because they cannot breed. One-year-old breeders are called “recruits” because these individuals have been recruited into the breeding population. Tauntauns that survive the harvest and the natural mortality period are able to give advance to the birthday again. On the birthday, the animals that were 0 years old are now 1, and they instantly give birth to ~ 2 offspring. The animals that were 1 years old are now 2, and they in...