Recyclopse special sauce

The goal of Recyclopse is to send the message of sustainability and living a life of healthy habits by following the methods laid out by environmentalists.  What I can bring to the table is my ability to converse and ameliorate myself with any type of person.  Whether they be an athlete, a member of greek life, or a workaholic; I have the ability to work well with any type of personality.  This allows me to teach every single person I meet on campus about the new movement towards sustainability.  Also, what I lack in knowledge I can more than compensate in with drive in order to send a positive message.  I already have my connections within the freshman class as well as with upperclassmen at Babson.
  I also can understand the truth about being sustainable which is that it must be practical for people to want to implement these ideas in their everyday lives.  Many environmentalists think that if they share facts with the unknowing pubic they will immediately begin living sustainability.  This is a common misconception, the public needs to learn the basic knowledge about living alongside the environment that isn't taught at schools.  The root of all problems in sustainability among the public is the lack of education in living a environmentally friendly life.  If I am successful in teaching as much of the public as possible in being sustainable and conscious of the environmental I will be able to honestly say I have done my job as eco-rep.

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Behavioral Challenge

  One of the toughest adjustments for me in college have been sleeping habits. On average I have been getting only 5 hours of sleep a night because of the extra work and numerous activities I've been involved in.  That is why I challenged myself to get a good night's sleep every night which would hopefully lead in me not wasting my time in the day by taking naps. The method I used was negative reinforcement. If I take naps during the day then I will force myself to not listen to music for the rest of the day.  For the past two weeks it has worked extremely well because I have only taken one nap.  When I took the nap I couldn't listen to any music for the rest of the day which really upset me.  This led to me being more diligent and not napping/wasting time during the day.
After this few weeks I have become better at working throughout the day and resting throughout the night.
  The benefits are that I have more time to do work and social events that create a positive college environment.  With this experiment succeeding in the way it did, I am confident I will continue to work on limiting the amount of time I waste in the day and having more time to rest at night.

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my transformation into RECYCLOPSE

I have recently inherited an alter ego known as "Recyclopse".  You will see where this name comes from later in my blog and will know why it's so fitting.  This alter ego has come out just recently as I have decided to become more involved in the sustainability movement.  Recyclopse's job is to help people who do not know how they can help the environment become healthier, stronger, and better.  His first action was to talk to all of his friends about his new position on the environment.  At first they thought it was more of a joke but realized that it was serious.  When talking about the environment it's easy to brush it off as someone else's problem but the reality is that it is everyone's concern.  Recyclopse was able to teach and show several students the real meaning of being sustainable.  One of the most impressive things that he learned was that although teaching is incredibly helpful, the best way to influence others is by being an example.  Instead of forcing other students to become sustainable, I chose to show them how easy it is to do the small things.  These things being recycling, using less electricity and water, and wasting as little as possible.
The most difficult group of people to influence is the "cool" people.  When Recyclopse was trying to influence a more popular social group they immediately when to joking about the matter and paid little attention to the importance of it.  Many people can find being sustainable a lame or uncool thing to do when it should be seen in a completely different light.  It bothers me that being environmentally friendly should be seen as something weird or outlandish when it is in fact an altruistic ideology.  When one cleans up their environment they aren't just thinking about themselves, they are thinking about how they can positively influence the entire environment.
It was easy to notice those people that respected Recyclopse but just as easy to notice those that saw him as outlandish and weird.  The biggest argument against his ideas was that the environment is not being affected and that it is all just a crazy hoax to disturb peoples' way of life.  On the contrary, this movement is the only effort trying to preserve our environment and our lives. If people continue to ignore Recyclopses' message they will see that an even bigger monster, ecocide, will soon come and destroy our way of life.

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