Response #4

                As a fanatic for math, I chose the TED: Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic”. In this TED 
Arthur does "tricks" with numbers. He tries to calculates squares of number with 3 or more digits faster than calculators. He also tries to guess the exactly day in the week for an specific year, month and date.

                   I was expecting something more interesting and challenging. I'm not saying that he was doing on this video is easy but it is not difficult like impossible too. I was expecting something that I didn't see yet. I know that it was my fault because I didn't read the resume but I still kinda disappointed with this TED, especially because I have been watching really incredible TED Talks since I arrived here at CSUF. 

Response #3

    There was once a man who was well known for his intense and strong personality. Some says he had a lion inside him because he was courageous and determined. Moreover, he did not show his weakness and he also had a huge dark mane. Like a lion, he valued his “pride” and he was capable to do everything for them.

    Although he enjoyed relaxing and lazying around, he was missing something challenging. Something able to get him unstuck from the boredom of the easy stuffs that he was doing(or that he was supposed to be doing). Weeks later, he was chilling around with one of his good friend when it happened….. While they were walking across a famous bridge on his “kingdom”, his good friend said:

- I BET you cannot do this before this week!

    Obviously he got really stoked and motived again; further, not only did he accept the bet, but he also won it!

Response #2

 Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

Skillful sailors aren't made by smooth seas.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

       I’m not saying I have been in a painful life but like everyone I had some bad and difficult days. Days that can be considered as stormy seas, days that taught me a lit bit how life works. Thus, I chose those 3 proverbs above because I think that they fit pretty well with my life experience.

         From my point of view, the first and the second proverbs go really well together. While the first proverb says to forget the bad things and remember only the good things, the second proverb says that without bad experiences and struggling moments in life we wouldn't improve our "skills". So, it is more like forget what happened because you cannot changed the past and also is not healthy overthink bad things; however, learn something from them because one day these learning will be useful.

          The last proverb reminds me a lot my parents. They have been saying this for me since I was kid. Although they've been saying in two different situations, it has the same idea, which is like everything takes time until gets done. When I was younger my dad used to say "You can achieve any goal you want but remember Rome wasn't built in a day" which means that if I be committed and work hard everyday, one day I will achieve my goal, don't matter how difficult it is, whereas my mom used to say this proverb for me every time that I had a serious injury (it wasn't once) that would make me incapable to walk or practice sports.

Response #1

       Hi, my is Matheus Cornejo aka Matt. I'm from Brazil and I'm about to turn 21 years in July. My hometown is beautiful and small city called Vitoria, which is the capital of Espirito Santo. There I live with my parents, my sister and my lion.
       The main reason that I came to the US is to study my major but I also came here to learn about new cultures, which is something that really interest me. Since I arrived in the US, I've been living in Fullerton; a nice city located in Orange County, California. Living here it's a dream becoming true and I couldn't be happier.
        Growing up in front of the beach made me love be in the ocean. Moreover, it made surfing my favorite hobby. I started to surf when I was 13; I know I started a little bit late but I couldn't start early because I broke my femur twice when I younger. If wasn't for surfing I wouldn't traveled to lot of countries, I wouldn't made good friends and I wouldn't be in California.

My lion

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