Miscellaneous #12

                Today is an exciting day! This will be my last blog; I have finally reached fifty blogs. I never thought this day would come. Unfortunately I still have to comment, but that is not too hard. I actually kind of liked blogging, it is a great way to express myself. I feel like it has also helped me as a writer. I guess it is a bittersweet feeling. I hope you all feel the same way as me, but if not that is okay.

                Yesterday I wrote a blog explaining how my life is changing. Well it did for the better. I finally got a job. I have been trying to get a job all semester, and I finally had some luck. Ever since the Village Market went out of business I have been unemployed, except for babysitting of course. The job I got is at Chiefs in Delphos. Chiefs in a supermarket just like the Village Market, so it is not much of a change for me. This will be great considering I have experience in this field. I will continue working in the deli the same job I had at the Village Market. Overall my life may be changing, but I guess it is for the better. Who know I may like working at Chiefs better than the Village Market. I will just have to find out. Well this is about it, my last blog. I hope everyone is about done with their blogs. The blogs are due Tuesday! I wish everyone the best of luck, and thanks for taking the time to read my blogs! :)

Miscellaneous #11

                Wow how my life is changing my first semester is almost over, I am going to job interviews, and my sister is getting married in less than a year. I never thought I would be going through all the changes in life at once. It’s not a bad thing because it keeps life interesting, but it is still scary at the same time. The other changes in life I am facing is a change in friends. I remember thinking in high school my friends and I would be friend’s forever, and I would not need other friends because I had them. I now know people change and this allows more people to be invited into my life, which is a great thing. Who knew I would be such great friends with a person in my chemistry class. The funny thing is we scheduled are classes the same.

                The other change in my life is my sister moving on into a new life. It is scary that my sister won’t be living with me next year. My older sister is just not my sister she is by best friend. It hard to believe I grew so close with her this past year, and soon she will be moving out. I am very happy for her, but I am just not a person who likes change. The great part is I will get her room and a new hang out spot at her house. I haven’t told her that yet. I just might keep that a secret for now. Now I guess I will just embrace the changes in my life!

Other Class #10 Computer Class

                Yesterday was a great day; I have just now completed my computer class! It is not like the class was hard or anything, but it is great knowing I have the class done. I now can leave school early on Tuesday’s. Although the class was not supposed to be over until next Tuesday I finished my last assignment yesterday. I could have left early, but I decided I wanted to get the class over with. On my last day of class we learned about PowerPoint. Of course I had no problem learning this material, because I did PowerPoint all though high school. I think I even learned Power Point in sixth grade. So never less to say I knew PowerPoint pretty good. I feel as if our teacher knew we known how to do PowerPoint, but she felt it would be a good refresher for all of us.

                Now that my first semester is coming to an end, I now have three of my classes done with. The three classes that I have done are Sociology, First Year Experience, and of course my computer class. Being able to accomplish finishing these classes feel great and it makes me want to get my other class done with as well. The current classes that I need to finish are Com 110, my math class, and Chemistry. Of course with all the classes I have taken these are my hardest courses. Although I want to be done I have to remember work still needs to be done in the classes, and I will have to finish strong, but for now I will still be happy that I just finish one of my college classes!

10 Minute Writing #15

                Today in class we played jeopardy, with all questions having to do with Com 1110. In the game our class broke up into three teams with five members on each team. The questions consisted from previous reading to quoting and paraphrasing. All of these subjects we have learned already, but were put to the test of us knowing the material today. I liked playing jeopardy today because it really put us on the spot to know the material. Unlike other days we will just talk about the material as a class, but today we were truly tested. It really made learning so much more fun. I also feel like I learned a lot today. I feel as a student I am not the best at paraphrasing or quoting, but when I see certain questions being asked it almost answered my questions. I felt like it was a nice review for when writing our papers for class as well. Also being able to talk about the questions also helped to express what I thought about the material. When being on the spot and wanting to win it helped each group member to want to dig deep in order to say the right answer. I also feel like today really helped me learn to cite sources and give credit to the authors. Overall I feel like todays class was a success. Being able to review the material we have been learning throughout this semester was nice. I hope everyone in our class feels the same, and if not I am sure you took something positive away from class!

Career Path #5

                Last week I went to the hospital for a drug test. I know this sounds bad, but it was mandatory for the job I am applying for.  So the drug test was not a bad thing because I knew before I even took the test that I passed. When I was in the hospital it got me thinking about my career path. Here I am trying to apply for a minimum wage job, in order to pay for school to be a Physical Therapist Assistant. While I was at the Hospital it made me happy that I have chosen this field. I realized I don’t want to work as a nurse. Being a nurse was my second choice. I did not like the atmosphere as much as the Physical Therapist Assistant atmosphere. I feel like Physical Therapy can be intense, but it is not as strict as nursing. Nurses can be put is stressful situations, and I don’t know if I could deal with. This made me feel like I have made the right choice picking Physical Therapy. Now that I am sure I feel like I am working harder to complete this goal. I know what I want in my future, and now is the time to work towards this goal. So for now I just need to keep working hard at school, and hopefully get a minimum wage job. I just cannot wait for the day I am working in the career I want to be in. I must say the day cannot come soon enough!

Miscellaneous #10

                The bad news is today is Sunday, and Thanksgiving break is almost over. I must say I had a good break and I am not ready to go my classes. I loved having free time and spending it with friends and family. Over break I was able to hang out with friends that I have not seen in forever. Like I mentioned previously we had Friendsgiving. During this we were able to celebrate Thanksgiving with each other. I also celebrated Thanksgiving with family. Like every year we get to together with each side to catch up and celebrate the holidays. I must say it was nice seeing all of these people again, and talking about how our lives are going.

                During break I also went Black Friday shopping. Every year I feel like Black Friday shopping gets even crazier. The fact that people don’t care about one another is truly heart breaking. I understand most people want the same items, but I still feel people should treat people with respect. While some people were rude others were very nice. I was waiting in line to get a printer and this guy was very nice. When it came time to get the printer he made sure I got mine before he got his. Overall I feel like if you treat people with respect you will get respect back. Just because others are rude does not mean I have to be rude too. The great part is I had a great break, and I am ready to get back into school mode!

Reading Response #8 Burnett

                Burnett is well known for being associated with things relating to the environment. He often makes appearances in newspapers, along with radio shows. In this article Burnett is making the proposal on how to improve forest management. The problem starts with conservatives and liberals arguing on how to spend money for the environment. The problem with spending money on recreation for the environment is this program loses money. When it comes to recreation use hikers, birders, and campers do not make the environment money. The other program losing money is loggers. This program did not lose as much money as the recreation fund though.

                Although these other parks lose money, the parks making money are the state and county forest. The reason these parks make money rather than lose money is for the fact that nations parks cost more to take care of. Although these are both parks they both have different argument made about them. Burnett explains since state parks are doing better than national parks, that if the state can make a positive outcome of the park, the state will be able to run the park. Overall I think this is a good idea. The reason is if a park can contain the nature feel, and not lose money it would be a great outcome. I feel if parks can make money it will help our economy. Why keep spending money on parks that lose money, it will only keep putting out country in debt. Burnett did an excellent job explaining how national and state parks work. Until this article I did not know the difference.

10 Minute Writing #14

                It was the breakup of the century Jim and April just recently broke up. The breakup came to a surprise to everyone; everyone who knew them thought they would be together forever. Especially Jim’s parents, who loved April more than their son it seemed. Well of course his parents could not let the breakup last so they helped their son to get her back. In the beginning they told Jim she was the best thing that ever happened to him, and without her he will never be the same guy. This did not completely work so the parents of Jim had a different idea to help him makeup with his girlfriend. They decided to throw a party a surprise party for Jim, and made sure April would be there. This was a good plan until Jims parents seen him talking to other girls. Luckily April did not notice because she was talking to other guys. The parents of Jim were not happy, so they sent everyone home early. They were on the verge of just giving up until they had the brilliant idea of setting up a date for both of them where they originally met. In order to do this is meant meeting April unexpectedly. When April and Jim first met it was volunteering at a soup kitchen. This made them like each other because not very many young people like to volunteer. So on the next day April and Jim seen each other once again and Jim could not help, but make up to her. He left her know she was the only girl for him, and he wanted to get back together with her. In the end she wanted the same and they began dating once again. Jims parents were never so happy that there plan worked.

Other Class #9 Computer Class

Tomorrow in my computer class I have an exam. My exam is over excel, something that I don’t find very hard. The only problem is I have not been to class for three weeks because they were lab days. On lab days we just have to work on homework, and I got mine done on the first lab day. This is why I am feeling a little nervous for the test. I feel like I will forget some of the material causing me to make stupid mistakes. For computer class I feel like it is hard to review because the tests are mostly like a project. The test does not really have questions on it about the material. The test consists of giving us directions on how to make a spread sheet for excel. This may sound easy, but if you forget how to do something the whole test could be messed up. I am scared I will forget something, and this will cause me to get a bad grade. As of right now my plan is to look over the notes to get refreshed on the subject. I am hoping by looking at my homework it will help me as well. I guess all I can do is look over the material, and do my best. I felt like I did fine with the homework so I should be okay. I guess like every test I get worried, and computer class is no exception. Hopefully like the other test for the class I will get a good grade!

10 Minute Writing #13

                So today when watching the films in class all I thought about were people saying don’t play with your food. During the process of watching the art being created I realized it relates to the process of a paper being written. In the beginning of the film of the artist creating their picture I could not tell what he was making. This relates to researching for an essay, we have the material, but they are yet to show the product. Like the artist he had an idea in his head of what he was making, and this relates to us writing our essays. We have an idea what we are writing, but are yet to show everyone. The film also helped me to prove like making the art the essay takes time. I may have points in writing the paper where it is unclear, but with work it will eventually get there. Also using food as art material was such a different idea, and it made me realize there are so many different approaches in art. Like art writing can be the same, we don’t always have to use the same material. There are different ways of forming ideas by brainstorming. Not only can brainstorming be different, but there are different ways to write. The options are endless. Overall I was so happy we had a fun video to watch in class, and still learn. I am just so happy I seen that with everything has a process and it takes time to see the end product!

Reading Response #7 Hopkins's Essay

                Megan Hopkins is the author of Training the Next Teachers foe America: A Proposal for Reconceptualizing Teach for America. The essay uses studies to support her ideas to improve the teaching program in America. The article starts by telling about her experience going into teaching first grade. She was completely honest saying how she did feel comfortable because of the lack of preparation. I feel like this is completely true, not amount of schooling prepares you for your first teaching job. This is a completely new thing, just like any job. She then comes up with the idea that first year teachers should be paired with a veteran teacher to get the full idea. She then goes on to tell that studies shows by doing this, the new teacher will feel better prepared to teach. The article then shows the proposals made in order to better Americas teaching staff. The proposals go into great detail, which I find to be great idea. With these ideas of having teachers work with one another comes more teachers being employed. The problem with this is funding and capacity.  Even though it would be great to give first year teachers more experience, which requires money the states don’t have. With pairing a new teacher with a veteran teacher come an overload of teachers being hired maxing out the capacity to pay each one of them. Overall I agree with the ideas, I just don’t know if they will work. I do agree with the author they are worth looking into.

10 Minute Writing #12

Today when watching the movies in English class I realized what copying was. Throughout the whole process of learning to write in school we learned that if you took someone’s idea that was copying, and to make it okay you had to source your resource. Today from the videos we watched I learned most things that we think are original are not. These things are movies, books, music, products, and so on. When I listen to old music such as Led Zeppelin I always thought it was original, and boy was I wrong. I was so surprised to learn most of the songs were slightly copied in one way or another. Another thing that surprised me was Star Wars using a form of copying. I never thought this film would takes ideas from other movies! I guess the films we watched to today just proves our world is formed around copying other ideas and products. Although we do copy others products I learned sometimes it’s not on purpose. When song writers add background music to a song, they may not know they are using music from an older song. Sometimes in our brains we think it is original, but it is not. So overall today I learned we have to be careful about copying in our papers for school. We have to learn to use more of our own ideas, rather than copying from others. Although copying is a broad word, this meaning we can use others ideas. We still can’t take the complete idea; we have to put it into our own words. This is what I took from the videos, I hope everyone seen it the same way as me.

Other Class #8 Chemistry

So I decided to blog before I am about to take my Chemistry test online. I am so nervous to take this test. I have been putting off taking this test all weekend, and I finally have to take it today. I currently have a B in the class, and I am scared if I so bad my grade will go down. I have studied all I could and I have no choice but to take the test. I am hoping it will be easier than what I expect, but considering previous quizzes I have a feeling it will be hard. I feel lucky I have a good grade in the class so I am in a good position. I just don’t want my grade to go down since I need a C in the class to pass. I am excited to get the test over with so I can start to learn something different. Plus getting this second test over with means this semester is almost over with. I cannot tell you how much I want to get this class over with so I can be in anatomy. I feel like I will like anatomy better than chemistry. I have no interest in ever taking a chemistry class ever again. I just hate learning about gases, solutions, and so on. I just want to learn about the human body, the stuff that find interesting. I guess you can wish me luck since I will soon be taking the test. Let’s just hope it goes better than planned!