So it would appear that I have already failed one of my goals. What is this goal you ask? Updating! This is my second update. By now there should be at least three of these bad boys. Well I'm going to actually do the blogs now, because I just realized I hadn't done a single one, tossing my grade in the toilet.
So let's get to the point.
Today was actually Super Fun!I'm not even being sarcastic, I actually had a good time today. We played a pretty interesting game where people were essentially sorted into the upper class, middle class, and lower class. Everyone was distributed money, and had to try to get resources. BUT we all had to stand in boxes, and if we stepped out of our box we went to jail. The biggest box was for the rich, middle was for the middle, and the smallest box was for the MOST AMOUNT OF PEOPLE the poor. I was in the poor. Oh also the box wasn't a cardboard box, it was a square made of tape. The poor were sent to jail all of the time, the middle class occasionally, and the rich were sent to jail ONCE.
This is an accurate reflection on what happens today. You even see it in this game called SimsCity. In SimsCity, you can make your neighborhoods low income, medium income, and high income. You can upgrade each grouping of people with sports areas, parks, and venues. If you have a huge swath of low income neighborhoods that you haven't upgraded, criminals will start popping like crazy in the low income neighborhoods. This happens in real life too. More crime seems to happen with poorer people. Not ALWAYS of course. I'm sure Ted Bundy is rolling in grave. But it can't be that rich people don't commit crimes. We KNOW they do! They typically have bail money however, so if they get in, it isn't for long.
I think that we need to share the wealth! And I don't just mean money. I mean food, water, housing, health care. Everything! We need equality. I guess that kind of sounds like communism. But I don't want a communist government. I just want the sharing of the wealth bit. How can we walk past dying people in the streets and be okay with that? I ask myself that question a lot, and I still don't have an answer.
Emma
OH WAIT
Actually today I gave a news blast which was pretty cool. I talked about how humans are feeling empathy for robots when the robots are put in human situations. The robots were loved, but they were also brutally abused which made people sad.
You can find the full article here! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423091111.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy There's Ted Bundy if you want to learn more about this fantastic stand up dude that has nothing to do with my news blast.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Spring Term Blog!
So today, I am going to talk about my personal goals for this term. First, I'll give you a nice tidy list. After, I'll go into detail about each one.
- Don't save the hard things for last.
- Do work early!
- Calendar all assignments.
- Blog entries AT LEAST twice a week.
- Read the book, but keep on track with rest of class. No reading ahead, or falling behind.
- E-mail professor when I am confused about assignments. Potentially set up meetings.
- Make use of library--don't always study in room.
- Eliminate as many distractions as possible.
- Calendar not only assignments for FRINQ, but also for other classes to compare.
Don't save the hard things for last.
I like easy things. Who doesn't? When you see an easy task next to a hard task, you want to knock out the easy task first. The problem for me is that I do all the easy things first, and then procrastinate on the hard things. Then, at the last minute, I realize I have a whole lot of work to do. This term, I want to make sure to get the hard things out of the way, and then breeze through the rest, knowing that it will be simple and easy to get it done.
Do work early!
Saving work to do at the last minute is something I am excellent at. There are tons of things I'd rather do than write a 10 page paper, like doing my laundry five times. But when the due date comes, and I realize that nothing has been done, I go into panic mode. The work gets done, but not as well as it could've--no, should've--been.
Calendar all assignments.
Everyone always mentions calendaring assignments so that you know when you should work on it. Monday: Math for 2 hours. Yes, that is one of the things I'm planning on doing, but the major thing is calendaring the
due dates. Making a study schedule is pointless if I don't know when things are due.
Blog entries AT LEAST twice a week.
This blog is the easiest thing in the world to forget to do. But when a few entries aren't done, that awesome grade I earned goes in the bin. Making blog entries about my observations in the class, but also to the outside world a few times a week should help this. I need to just make the blog apart of my daily routine.
Read the book, but keep on track with rest of class. No reading ahead, or falling behind.
When a book is REALLY good, it's hard to stop yourself from reading the whole thing in one sitting. But when you're ahead, it's really easy to stop reading because you feel like you don't need to. The problem with both is that you're never on track with the class, and participating in class is difficult. It's hard to remember what happened in chapter one precisely, when you're on chapter 20.
E-mail professor when I am confused about assignments. Potentially set up meetings.
Nobody cares about your problems with an assignment if you haven't at least emailed the professor first. I never set up meetings or email my professor. A lot of times that means I am stuck in a bog trying to tough it out on my own. That's ridiculous. The professor and his or her office hours are there for a reason. Utilizing the office hours and the existence of email will help me to better understand and learn what's happening in the class.
Make use of library--don't always study in room.
Studying in my room is really easy. Just plop on down and work. But there are so many distractions. I have good books to read, things to eat, dishes to wash. But in the library, it's just me and my work. And the internet. But mostly me and my work, which will make it way easier to concentrate on the task at hand.
Eliminate as many distractions as possible.
This goes hand in hand with the previous point. Distractions make work not happen. Books, people, texting, the internet. Working in a setting that minimizes distractions will help. The library, Cramer Hall. It's impossible to eliminate ALL distractions, but when most of them are gone, work happens.
Calendar not only assignments for FRINQ, but also for other classes to compare.
Calendering the assignments for this class is important, but it's also important to do the rest. This is because I need to know when I have time to study, instead of scrambling at the last minute for every single class. I have not done this one AT ALL, except for test dates. I think this will really help me so I can better organize my study time.
Well! These are my goals for this term. I'm really hoping that I can be super successful! Last term was a good term for me. Hopefully I'm on an upward trend.
Emma
Do work early!
Saving work to do at the last minute is something I am excellent at. There are tons of things I'd rather do than write a 10 page paper, like doing my laundry five times. But when the due date comes, and I realize that nothing has been done, I go into panic mode. The work gets done, but not as well as it could've--no, should've--been.
Calendar all assignments.
Everyone always mentions calendaring assignments so that you know when you should work on it. Monday: Math for 2 hours. Yes, that is one of the things I'm planning on doing, but the major thing is calendaring the
due dates. Making a study schedule is pointless if I don't know when things are due.
Blog entries AT LEAST twice a week.
This blog is the easiest thing in the world to forget to do. But when a few entries aren't done, that awesome grade I earned goes in the bin. Making blog entries about my observations in the class, but also to the outside world a few times a week should help this. I need to just make the blog apart of my daily routine.
Read the book, but keep on track with rest of class. No reading ahead, or falling behind.
When a book is REALLY good, it's hard to stop yourself from reading the whole thing in one sitting. But when you're ahead, it's really easy to stop reading because you feel like you don't need to. The problem with both is that you're never on track with the class, and participating in class is difficult. It's hard to remember what happened in chapter one precisely, when you're on chapter 20.
E-mail professor when I am confused about assignments. Potentially set up meetings.
Nobody cares about your problems with an assignment if you haven't at least emailed the professor first. I never set up meetings or email my professor. A lot of times that means I am stuck in a bog trying to tough it out on my own. That's ridiculous. The professor and his or her office hours are there for a reason. Utilizing the office hours and the existence of email will help me to better understand and learn what's happening in the class.
Make use of library--don't always study in room.
Studying in my room is really easy. Just plop on down and work. But there are so many distractions. I have good books to read, things to eat, dishes to wash. But in the library, it's just me and my work. And the internet. But mostly me and my work, which will make it way easier to concentrate on the task at hand.
Eliminate as many distractions as possible.
This goes hand in hand with the previous point. Distractions make work not happen. Books, people, texting, the internet. Working in a setting that minimizes distractions will help. The library, Cramer Hall. It's impossible to eliminate ALL distractions, but when most of them are gone, work happens.
Calendar not only assignments for FRINQ, but also for other classes to compare.
Calendering the assignments for this class is important, but it's also important to do the rest. This is because I need to know when I have time to study, instead of scrambling at the last minute for every single class. I have not done this one AT ALL, except for test dates. I think this will really help me so I can better organize my study time.
Well! These are my goals for this term. I'm really hoping that I can be super successful! Last term was a good term for me. Hopefully I'm on an upward trend.
Emma
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