Blog 75
Dear future English 110 takers,
To sum up this class- to sum up any English class- to sum up college education- to sum up your life- you get out of it, what you put into it. 99% of the students taking this class are not English majors (good choice ;)) which means there is a LOT you can learn about your writing. Your teacher, whether your smart enough to believe it or not, ACTUALLY knows what he or she is talking about. He/she has way more experience writing than you, so if you want to improve, you actually can. All you have to do is get off your butt and do something. I know that seems strange. So if you want your writing to improve, practice good writing for your blogs and turn in only your best writing to your teacher. I’m not saying I necessarily did all those things, I’m just saying that’s how you can get the most out of this class. And I can’t speak about how having better writing can help every other area of your life, but people keep telling me that, so for the purpose of this letter, we’re going to assume it’s true. Advice for the blogs, yes they’re a lot, but one at a time will make it better, and always try to work ahead, because you will forget at least one day, trust me, you will. And for the science-fiction, it’s not for everyone. Try to like it, but if you don’t, it’s only 11 weeks, so just make the best of it, it won’t kill you.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Blog 74
Blog 74
I don’t think my opinion has changed about science fiction at all. I didn’t really like it before. I just thought it was weird, unrealistic, and scary. And that’s what I think now. Most science-fiction, has a lot of violence, and the ones that don’t are just really terrible. I watched Angel and Buffy for my ARP, and they weren’t scary, well most of the time, there’s this episode of Angel that still kind of freaks me out. But anyway, those shows aren’t scary, but they are just TERRIBLE shows. I understand what Leslie was trying to do, science fiction has strong messages so it will be easy to base a paper off of it, but I think there are a ton of other types of medias that have those strong messages. I’m just glad we didn’t have to read about science fiction, reading is hard enough for me to ‘get into’, but when I can’t relate at all, it’s nearly impossible. When we read Brave New World, it was kind of weird, but I pushed through, until I got to the part with the Indians, and then I was like, “WHAT THE HECK?!” I just can’t relate to that weird stuff going on, I guess that’s the analytical side of me, I just don’t believe it. And a lot of science fiction are just overdone that they seem SO cheesy. I like Harry Potter though, but that’s the only nearly science fiction that I like. But I think Harry Potter is more fantasy. But still, I was never really into those kind of books growing up, I just like the ones that were about girls my age going through things that I was.
I don’t think my opinion has changed about science fiction at all. I didn’t really like it before. I just thought it was weird, unrealistic, and scary. And that’s what I think now. Most science-fiction, has a lot of violence, and the ones that don’t are just really terrible. I watched Angel and Buffy for my ARP, and they weren’t scary, well most of the time, there’s this episode of Angel that still kind of freaks me out. But anyway, those shows aren’t scary, but they are just TERRIBLE shows. I understand what Leslie was trying to do, science fiction has strong messages so it will be easy to base a paper off of it, but I think there are a ton of other types of medias that have those strong messages. I’m just glad we didn’t have to read about science fiction, reading is hard enough for me to ‘get into’, but when I can’t relate at all, it’s nearly impossible. When we read Brave New World, it was kind of weird, but I pushed through, until I got to the part with the Indians, and then I was like, “WHAT THE HECK?!” I just can’t relate to that weird stuff going on, I guess that’s the analytical side of me, I just don’t believe it. And a lot of science fiction are just overdone that they seem SO cheesy. I like Harry Potter though, but that’s the only nearly science fiction that I like. But I think Harry Potter is more fantasy. But still, I was never really into those kind of books growing up, I just like the ones that were about girls my age going through things that I was.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Blog 73
Blog 73
Exam time! I never really studied much for final exams in high school. It was usually very studious so when it came to exam time, I didn’t need to study much, just maybe do some review problems to refresh my memory. Well that’s how it was my senior year, when my hard classes were only math and physics. In those technical classes you can get away with just understanding it the first time and then only review for the final. Spanish and biology were different. You actually had to get out those flash cards and remember the stuff again. But now in college I think I have to study! Not even that much though because I only have 2 exams, math and engineering. Engineering was laid out pretty well so our 2 midterms covered everything, and the topics built on top of each other, so the first midterm seems really easy now! Math is different though, each chapter was pretty different. We studied summations and then parametric and polar equations, and now we’re on 3-D vectors! 3-D vectors are so hard. I can’t imagine it at all! And we’ve never been tested on it before and compared to the other topics in class; I’ve never learned anything about it. The last time I did vectors was sophomore year and it was only 2-D it we didn’t do much to it. So I’m kind of nervous about that… and it’s frustrating because by teacher posts reviews and solutions to those, but the solutions are sometimes wrong, I hardly understand the material, but I know it’s wrong. Oh well. I’ll make it through.
Exam time! I never really studied much for final exams in high school. It was usually very studious so when it came to exam time, I didn’t need to study much, just maybe do some review problems to refresh my memory. Well that’s how it was my senior year, when my hard classes were only math and physics. In those technical classes you can get away with just understanding it the first time and then only review for the final. Spanish and biology were different. You actually had to get out those flash cards and remember the stuff again. But now in college I think I have to study! Not even that much though because I only have 2 exams, math and engineering. Engineering was laid out pretty well so our 2 midterms covered everything, and the topics built on top of each other, so the first midterm seems really easy now! Math is different though, each chapter was pretty different. We studied summations and then parametric and polar equations, and now we’re on 3-D vectors! 3-D vectors are so hard. I can’t imagine it at all! And we’ve never been tested on it before and compared to the other topics in class; I’ve never learned anything about it. The last time I did vectors was sophomore year and it was only 2-D it we didn’t do much to it. So I’m kind of nervous about that… and it’s frustrating because by teacher posts reviews and solutions to those, but the solutions are sometimes wrong, I hardly understand the material, but I know it’s wrong. Oh well. I’ll make it through.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Blog 72
Blog 72
Here’s a bit from my survey paper. Yes. I had to write a paper for survey class. I know, it sucks.
I’ve always known I wanted to be a chemical engineer, I like chemistry class, math, and I like to solve problems. However, I never really thought about what kind of specific job I would want. After doing some research, I decided I don’t want to be working in a laboratory, or in a factory, or with medicine. So what was left? Research and development. This field basically means making products better. More specifically, research and development engineers invent, reapply, develop and deliver breakthrough products, process raw materials, and packaging technologies that change the consumer market. This could be done in several ways, like by talking to consumers, creating faster processing time, create a brand new product, or making packaging more efficient. The specific area I would like to work in would be talking to consumers.
Talking to consumers is more specifically called a product development engineer. This job requires talking to consumers and translating their needs into effective product designs. This would create innovated strategies that are consumer driven and would be done by using quantitative and qualitative modeling tools to define consumers’ needs.
This is the ideal job for me because I love helping people and doing things that make sense. When I’m talking to people about their wants, desires, and needs, I’m going to make sure there is a product for them (within limits) and then after that I’ll be creating a product based on that. Any job’s purpose is creating something for the consumer, but this is a “hands-on” experience. I will actually see what the consumer wants, not my boss coming to me telling me we need a new product; it’s me actually seeing that people want a product like that on the market. Also when creating a product, it isn’t blind, I can use the ideas of the consumers and just make it real. Not only would I make products that one consumer wants, but I would use charts and graphs to summarize what the whole population wants.
Here’s a bit from my survey paper. Yes. I had to write a paper for survey class. I know, it sucks.
I’ve always known I wanted to be a chemical engineer, I like chemistry class, math, and I like to solve problems. However, I never really thought about what kind of specific job I would want. After doing some research, I decided I don’t want to be working in a laboratory, or in a factory, or with medicine. So what was left? Research and development. This field basically means making products better. More specifically, research and development engineers invent, reapply, develop and deliver breakthrough products, process raw materials, and packaging technologies that change the consumer market. This could be done in several ways, like by talking to consumers, creating faster processing time, create a brand new product, or making packaging more efficient. The specific area I would like to work in would be talking to consumers.
Talking to consumers is more specifically called a product development engineer. This job requires talking to consumers and translating their needs into effective product designs. This would create innovated strategies that are consumer driven and would be done by using quantitative and qualitative modeling tools to define consumers’ needs.
This is the ideal job for me because I love helping people and doing things that make sense. When I’m talking to people about their wants, desires, and needs, I’m going to make sure there is a product for them (within limits) and then after that I’ll be creating a product based on that. Any job’s purpose is creating something for the consumer, but this is a “hands-on” experience. I will actually see what the consumer wants, not my boss coming to me telling me we need a new product; it’s me actually seeing that people want a product like that on the market. Also when creating a product, it isn’t blind, I can use the ideas of the consumers and just make it real. Not only would I make products that one consumer wants, but I would use charts and graphs to summarize what the whole population wants.
Blog 71
Blog 71
I forgot to blog yesterday! I remembered over and over again, and then forgot! And then I remembered this morning that actually didn’t, darn it!
To be complete honest, I didn’t pay attention much to this episode. Not because I did not want to give it a chance, I actually did. But I’m not into that kind of violence, or science fiction. It just gets me queasy and sick to my stomach. And at the beginning in the club, that was so freak, with all those bright lights and screaming. And then at the end, the guy kills that girl! I have a problem separating television from reality, so this episode was pretty bad. I just think, oh no! he just killed her! And it’s like I’m almost there and saw it for real and that she really died!
But at the beginning Zoe got into a fight with her mother. This is tough. Mother-daughter relationships are so volatile. They can be fine one moment and terrible the other. But it seemed like this one was pretty bad most of the time. The fight started because Zoe doesn’t want to do what her parents want to do and her mother thinks she is ungrateful. Apparently they donate a bunch of money to her school and stuff, but it means nothing to her. And it really shouldn’t. Her mother thinks that Zoe has EVERYTHING she could ever want, but apparently not or she wouldn’t be acting out. She probably wants a caring mother that actually cares about her.
I forgot to blog yesterday! I remembered over and over again, and then forgot! And then I remembered this morning that actually didn’t, darn it!
To be complete honest, I didn’t pay attention much to this episode. Not because I did not want to give it a chance, I actually did. But I’m not into that kind of violence, or science fiction. It just gets me queasy and sick to my stomach. And at the beginning in the club, that was so freak, with all those bright lights and screaming. And then at the end, the guy kills that girl! I have a problem separating television from reality, so this episode was pretty bad. I just think, oh no! he just killed her! And it’s like I’m almost there and saw it for real and that she really died!
But at the beginning Zoe got into a fight with her mother. This is tough. Mother-daughter relationships are so volatile. They can be fine one moment and terrible the other. But it seemed like this one was pretty bad most of the time. The fight started because Zoe doesn’t want to do what her parents want to do and her mother thinks she is ungrateful. Apparently they donate a bunch of money to her school and stuff, but it means nothing to her. And it really shouldn’t. Her mother thinks that Zoe has EVERYTHING she could ever want, but apparently not or she wouldn’t be acting out. She probably wants a caring mother that actually cares about her.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Blog 70
Blog 70
Remember at the beginning of this quarter where we were actually excited to blog and we actually had stuff to talk about, not anymore! Oh well, in less than a week we’ll be done, forever!
So I talked to my RA today, one thing about my roommate situation. We’re not having any fights, but we just don’t ‘click’. This is mainly because we speak different languages and have very different social circles. So what I’ve been thinking is that we should just separate and put all of our stuff in each of our rooms. We have two rooms, why shouldn’t we take advantage of that. No one likes to share space, unless it’s cheeper or something. But it really doesn’t matter. I know this will be ‘frouned upon’ by some, but I don’t see why. We understand that we have many things different. We don’t fight at all. Why shouldn’t we just be a little bit happier with our own space? So I was afraid of asking my roommate about this because I thought it would come across that I don’t like sharing space with her, and that I don’t like her. I like her fine, we’re just not close at all. So I overcame this by just asking her if she would be happier if we each had our own room, and she seemed very excited! I mean after I explained it to he twice and she actually understood it. So I wanted to talk to my RA about it to make sure we weren’t breaking rules, and I think we’re good! So I’m excited for next quarter!
Remember at the beginning of this quarter where we were actually excited to blog and we actually had stuff to talk about, not anymore! Oh well, in less than a week we’ll be done, forever!
So I talked to my RA today, one thing about my roommate situation. We’re not having any fights, but we just don’t ‘click’. This is mainly because we speak different languages and have very different social circles. So what I’ve been thinking is that we should just separate and put all of our stuff in each of our rooms. We have two rooms, why shouldn’t we take advantage of that. No one likes to share space, unless it’s cheeper or something. But it really doesn’t matter. I know this will be ‘frouned upon’ by some, but I don’t see why. We understand that we have many things different. We don’t fight at all. Why shouldn’t we just be a little bit happier with our own space? So I was afraid of asking my roommate about this because I thought it would come across that I don’t like sharing space with her, and that I don’t like her. I like her fine, we’re just not close at all. So I overcame this by just asking her if she would be happier if we each had our own room, and she seemed very excited! I mean after I explained it to he twice and she actually understood it. So I wanted to talk to my RA about it to make sure we weren’t breaking rules, and I think we’re good! So I’m excited for next quarter!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Blog 69
Blog 69
I have completely run out of things to talk about for this blog. But here goes my best. I woke up today surprisingly rested for the amount of sleep I had gotten. It was like I was actually excited to go to class, that was really weird. But then by 8, I crashed, and I am still up and so tired. I’m going to bed soon after I finish this. I have my lab practical tomorrow for engineering. Tonight there was a review session. It was really annoying because our GTA kept saying that we should go and then we’ll do fine on the test, but there wasn’t anything posted anywhere about what was actually covered. So she wasn’t just suggesting we go, it was basically like go or study EVERYTHING covered in labs. I wish they would have posted the power point somewhere online. So then when I looked online to see where the review session was going to be, and the power point said Caldwell 200. So I showed up there at 6:30, and the door was locked. There was another kid there confused, and I texted one of my friends and realized it was in Campbell 200. At the time I thought I was just being an idiot going to the wrong place. I even joked to my friends about it, this silly thing me and this other kid did. But then just now when I got back, I checked it again, and it actually did say Caldwell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so angry. They’re going to hear about this in my weekly journal.
I have completely run out of things to talk about for this blog. But here goes my best. I woke up today surprisingly rested for the amount of sleep I had gotten. It was like I was actually excited to go to class, that was really weird. But then by 8, I crashed, and I am still up and so tired. I’m going to bed soon after I finish this. I have my lab practical tomorrow for engineering. Tonight there was a review session. It was really annoying because our GTA kept saying that we should go and then we’ll do fine on the test, but there wasn’t anything posted anywhere about what was actually covered. So she wasn’t just suggesting we go, it was basically like go or study EVERYTHING covered in labs. I wish they would have posted the power point somewhere online. So then when I looked online to see where the review session was going to be, and the power point said Caldwell 200. So I showed up there at 6:30, and the door was locked. There was another kid there confused, and I texted one of my friends and realized it was in Campbell 200. At the time I thought I was just being an idiot going to the wrong place. I even joked to my friends about it, this silly thing me and this other kid did. But then just now when I got back, I checked it again, and it actually did say Caldwell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so angry. They’re going to hear about this in my weekly journal.
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