I have to say taking this class through the summer made the class less enjoyable than what I think it should have been. The labs were few and limited. Our blood testing was done on synthetic blood, where I would have much preferred using our own. Then we were quizzed on labs that we never did, but actually did a similar - but different one. I have to say I was also disappointed in learning 4 chapters in 2 lectures leaving no time for thought, reflection or questions to our everyday experiences. Also the teacher's office hours were stopped half way though the course length.

I was told this course was a learning and understanding of processes, but this course ended up as a memorization of processes.

My recommendation, don't take it as a summer class.

I've been told to take hard classes in the summer or winter weeks to cut down on the amount and length of pain. But my experience has been, you still get most of the information (must be less), without all the full value you are paying for to learn what you can from these classes and teachers. It reminds me of how the old professors in Germany would teach. They would lecture and the student was expected to repeat the lectures back in complete. That's it. Nothing more.

Another thing I felt was missing in this class was on our research papers. Our papers were to explain the results of our lab experiments on glucose uptake and caffeine. Our teacher never went over our experiments and what the results should have been or what they meant, so we will never know if what we achieved through the experiment or research was actually correct.

In defense for the teacher, I would have to say a few labs did have a followup afterwards explaining the expected and unexpected outcomes.

But not all. Its like never getting your test back with the correct answers. How do you know if you are learning the right or wrong thing?

Well, another one placed in the transcript tally, but with a little disappointment.

It could be something little. The best essays are usually about little accomplishments, because in such cases we tend to dig deeper and exammine from a broader perspective, trying to find little gems. If the achievement is big, we rely on its speaking for itself, thus coming up with superficial flat descriptions.

People are not interested so much in WHAT you achieved but in HOW you achieved it. Your way, your struggle should reveal some of your merits.

Thus committment to something small other people find useless (e.g. learning how to juggle with 5 tangerines) might turn out to be the gem because you show you're brave and confident enough not to care about other people's opinion as long as you believe in your cause. You're also patient, etc. Well it's just another possible scenario.

Before you start writing essays about achievement, reread this text.

I hope you have 7 min. fun with my beloved George Carlin (R.I.P.) It is useful and relevant.

I have just read Janeta's essay on influence. You probably remember her speech about her parents, who taught her how to read, write and do sums, took her to piano lessons, helped her with schoolwork, introduced her to family traditions, treated her while she was will and took her on trips. Well, I would not object by saying "Isn't that what most normal parents would do? What makes your case special?" because we are humans, and we share most aspects of our experience, and there's nothing wrong of growing up in similar ways. The point is not to present the audience with a unique stunning experience that will speak for itself; the point is to present readers with your personal interpretation and meaning. It's not the experience that matters but what you make out of it. The point is to be introspective, conscious of your life and self. What Janeta inferred from her experience ran along the lines of "It made me better prepared for school." What I, as a reader, infer is, "She acquired some academic skills earlier than many other kids because her parents started her academic education earlier." Does this say anything about her personality? No. Then it's useless because as far as academic potential and performance are concerned, there's a lot of material in the school transcript, test scores, teacher recommendations, lists of achievements. All these will show admissions officers that Janeta is a brilliant student, but they will not reveal anything about her personality. And aren't essays meant to reveal personality? Well, it's true that she mentioned that her parents brought her up to be "a good and ethical person". First, I cannot easily trust that because it does not show me how they did it, and second, I cannot see any proof that she is such a person. Nobody trusts declarations. Everybody wants proof. Proof is found in experience, so ... tell stories, and don't forget that telling a story is not so much about telling; it's more about showing. You have read fiction and biographies, haven't you?

The other problem with her essay is that all the time I perceived Janeta as a blank page on which her parents wrote, a lump of clay which they moulded. So shall we infer that Janeta has never had any will of her own, that she has never been pro-active? Are passivity and obedience what colleges are looking for? Well, if they imagined you as a tabula rasa, on which professors would write, yes, but is that really the way they imagine students? If they need a number of blank pages on which to print, would they require personal essays in the first place? If producing batches of identical experts were their goal, then personality would only get in the way as it might pose some threat by resistance. Well, we all know that colleges are not looking for intellectually gifted blank pages.

Choosing to write about your parents as influence / role models is tricky. Some colleges even ask you not to write about family members. If you choose to write about parents, you will have to make extra efforts to come up with a decent personal essay. As personal essays are meant to reveal your personality, they are supposed to show your own choices, your own will to pursue them. What Janeta presented us with is the choices her parents made, the obedient acceptance of their will ("I started taking piano lessons when I was five years old because they took me there.") Well, it's normal for parents to make many decisions for their young children, but these decisions mostly reveal their values and standards, not their children's, and we are not trying to send our role models to college, are we? So, let's try to promote ourselves.

I don't mean to say it's impossible to write a decent essay about parents, but we should be careful about the emphasis. We should choose experiences which demonstrate our choice and will: it should be we who choose (not always consciously, of course) whom to admire for what, and it should be we who choose to emulate him in one way or another. From colleges' perspective, it's like getting to know a person by the people he chooses to hang out with. Well, if it's your parents, you can't choose them, but you can choose whether to be similar or different or nothing of the kind.

Who is a good candidate for your mentor or hero? Well, nobody is better than anybody else. What matters is how you portray him - whether you focus on relevant features and experiences and if you succeed in showing them related to yourself. And there should not be just declarations like "My grandfather was a reliable and knowledgeable person, and I wanted to be like him." You should paint pictures showng events and scenarios, in which he stood out as such a person. You should be an eye-witness ot at least you should have heard of them, and you should have been impressed, fascinated, etc. You should show your thoughts and feelings, leading to a conscious or unconscious decision to emulate the person in some way. You should show that you picked out some experiences or responses to experiences under this influence.

You should be specific and show, paint - I cannot emphasize that enough. A solid part of your essay should be some kind of narrative. That's what makes it interesting. Do you like reading declarations like "I am smart and studious, helpful and considerate."? It's boring, isn't it? Tell stories - that's what everybody craves for. When you write your essay, read it. Does it kill you with boredom? Well, would you like to kill admission officers too?

Colleges are not interested in the role-model / influence himself; they want to find out about you, so try to persuade people that you are what you claim to be (examples, illustrations), and show them the way you adopted what you claim you did from the person. It could be a real or imaginary person. Thus, I could admit that Pippi has had a far greater overall impact on my personality than Ms Dobreva.

You have to prepare a speech for tomorrow, don't you?

Some people believe that war stimulates business as companies have to produce a lot of dispensable goods to meet military needs, and then, in the aftermath, new demand arises from people's postponed desires for comfort and luxury. However, the effect wears out with time, and business slows down until it reaches recession levels.

This is not a very promising proposition, as it suggests that peace and prosperity cannot thrive together for long. Yet, some people believe that we can have both if we build some kind of sustainable economy. Such type of economy will, perhaps, challenge some of our ideas about prosperity, especially the concept of economic growth.

How do you think?

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I substituted “dreams” for “goals”, as a goal sounds so scary – like something you have to roll up your sleeves for, something you might fail. It has nothing to do with playing safe, avoiding pain and frustration; it has something to do with guts.

Some people would have been glad to spend some time lost in reverie, visualizing themselves in contexts that have always fascinated them, being and doing what they have always dreamed of. Most of my students, though, are never keen on daydreaming. Why? Is it because they don’t want to cherish dreams that might never come true, thus getting frustration and disappointment? Or is it because daydreaming takes pro-activity, creativity and effort? Yes, dreaming is not easy – it’s like building a house on your own – coming up with the idea, the design, producing blueprints, laying foundations, and then brick after brick … It takes time, focus, passion and sweep. It’s a waste of time. Yes, developing a vision is costly. Taking orders to implement somebody else’s vision is cheap, unless you share in it, which, actually, makes it your own.

You don’t have goals? Well, aren’t you applying to college? Isn’t it a goal? Why do you want to go there? Is it because it’s the thing to do? Even if you don’t believe you have your own unique reasons, then think of common ones? Why do people go to college? What do they expect from it?

Let’s say it’s the trivial – a license to a well-paid job. We can dig further. Why do you want a well-paid job? What are you going to spend the money for? What kind of lifestyle would it provide for you? If the way you earn money does not matter to you, then focus on your leisure time – how would you be spending it – day in and day out, for years and decades? If the way you earn your living matters, then tell us how it does – what you expect from a good job.

If you believe college is more than a license to a well-paid job, then what is it? Hell, yes – isn’t it time to think what college is after all? Is it where you would like to spend four years of your life? How do you know?

Dreams and goals might be related to what you care about, what you are concerned about. These could be related to people and things outside you – the orphans and the alcoholics, landmarks, pollution, animals, energy, religion, family, etc.

If you have never cared about anything and lack the energy to build a dream, you might start in a reactive, rather than a pro-active way – by thinking of your likes and dislikes, i.e. “I would like to be surrounded by familiar people every day.” or “I would like to meet new people every day.” or “I would like to be away from people.”; “I would hate to spend time outdoors.” or “I would hate to spend all day in an office in a suit and tie.” Try to do that for every possible aspect of your life.

Why do it? Because the colleges you have chosen would like you to. Do you still want to go there?

Here is a list of suggested topics and bibliography from Williams College.

I have just opened the balcony door, so I can hear the coarse voices of teenagers walking by. Opening a window might seem like peeping into reality; a young friend of mine once told me (passionately), “Open the window and look out. The world is not what you can see on your computer screen.”

Well, can I, by opening the window and looking out into the street find out what the world is like?

If I do it, I could describe the world as follows:

“It’s hot and noisy, full of dust and burnt gas fumes. Still you can hear the songs of thousands of crickets.

People are loud and ugly, especially men, who are made much uglier by a certain hairstyle.”

That reminds me of Jivka’s answer to the question “What do gypsies purchase?” Her reality check read as “They buy expensive snacks.” You probably remember the other guys joining in to prove her wrong with “They don’t buy anything because they don’t have any money; they steal.” or “They work abroad and send money to their relatives.”

Have you ever heard the story about the group of blind men who had to describe an elephant after having examined by touching it. Someone described it as an animal with a huge trunk; another as a creature with crinkled buttocks, etc. Who offered the right description?

Forget about these blind men and get some learned men. How would a vet, a circus elephant trainer, an anthropologist, a zoologist, a poacher and an ecologist describe an elephant? Wouldn’t they know better than the blind men? If they were reporting reality, wouldn’t they give us the same reports? If their descriptions vary wildly, then whom shall we trust?

How do we get a real picture of reality? Is it by opening the only window we have? Is it a good idea to stare at the computer screen, for it can open an infinite number of windows? Is it better to go out and do some field work, or is it better to sit back in our easy-chair, close our eyes, smoke a pipe and think or … sing?

Some people believe we live in postindustrial times. Others believe it’s the good old industrial age, just grown sleeker and more technological.

Which one do you believe?

What type of educational philosophy could be more pragmatic to choose in order to succeed in the context you believe is in store for you after graduation from college?

I promised to provide a link to the full text of the textbook article on laissez innover. This one seems to be useful too.

We also mentioned “Modern Times” (the Charlie Chaplin movie), Marx, Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Richard Reich. I would like to throw in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” novel and the non-fiction “sequal”, “Brave New World Revisited”. A key word you should not miss is “knowledge society”.

Happy research!

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I had the opportunity to take some summer classes and I will admit that even though you don't want to be inside during the beautiful sunny days it made my next semester that much easier.  I didn't have to take as many courses making allowing me to spend more time doing other things.  I also took enough summer courses so that I could graduate a semester early and get out of school, get a great job and start making my own money!

One downside to summer courses was that there weren't as many people around campus so my experience was a little bit more relaxed but it also gave me the opportunity to do things that I wouldn't typically do when all my friends are around.

Avril Perez at Clark University has had the experience of taking summer classes and she shared that experience on goSwoop.  Here is a little bit of what she had to say...

July and August .

Dates in August are  5, 8 , 12 and 15

19 , 22 , 26 and 29 th

i can also give private classes on other dates

martinbrownart@gmail.com

Sounds nice doesn't it? Haa. NOO! There is no way that sounds nice in any way, shape, or form.

I initially had taken a class in the summer because I wanted to get ahead. So I went for the hardest subject... MATH! I really don't know what I was thinking at the moment but it sounded like a brilliant idea! So I went for it. First day was so so. I felt confident just because the stuff we were reviewing was familiar to me. Days later is when everything went downhill. The material was much harder, my brain wasn't functioning. I was just lost. Homework here and there, exams almost every other day. I just couldn't take it. Monday morning came along. I woke up early to do my homework. Getting through one problem itself was nearly impossible. Class started at 8:30 and it was almost 8am. Almost nothing was finished. I had to study for the exam and I really knew nothing about it. I was so pressured that I even started crying. I felt so vunerable about not knowing. Then I said to God, I can't do this right now. A moment of peace came when I thought of dropping the class. So I called my best friend and cried to her. She heard me out and did not judge me. She said that it was ok. I cried and cried because I felt like a quitter, I felt like I had just not tried hard enough.

The hardest part was having to tell my aunt. Why? Why was it that I was even able to tell my mother, father, best friend, friends, counselors, and etc. but not her? Maybe because she is taking more than two summer classes in a university, higher leveled and more complicated? Maybe because I thought her reaction was going to be mad and upset that I didn't continue. Maybe because she had encouraged me so much to go to summer school and now I dropped the course. Or maybe because I was trying to measure up like her?

What I can honestly say is that I look up to this lady and she knows it. Yeah I know she is not perfect and we all have our flaws but I look up to her. I felt like I had to be a reflection of her. Follow her steps to be just like her. But I was wrong. I should be a reflection of God. I was doing all this unconciously. I was fooling myself, trying to say it was God who really defined me, but in reality I was allowing others define me. Thats not how it works. Genesis 1:27 says

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him...

I was created to God's image, not to the image of my aunts. I felt like I was living in the shadow. I know I know for you readers that are just reading this now. You are probably saying how immature of me to think this way... but its me. Its true and now I see what God wanted me to see! I love my aunt. She is a great woman of God, I look up to her because of that. Now I know that I am my own self, I am becoming the woman of God that God has made me to be.

I am Simply Me.

While I am nearly not so shy as I once was, I still dread public speaking. I'm not alone, though. Glossophobia-- stage fright, or the fear of public speaking-- is believed to be the single most common phobia — affecting as much as 75% of the population. In fact, many people actually rank public speaking above death on their lists of worst fears!

I decided to take this class during the summer to bite the public speaking bullet and get it out of the way as quickly as possible. It helps that my beloved Mass Media & Popular Culture instructor is teaching it. That will soothe the pain and anxiety considerably.

My school offers three summer sessions. The 15-week session takes up the entire summer, about equal in length to the regular fall and spring semesters. Two shorter sessions each compress an entire semester's worth of study into seven and a half weeks. The format will vary from school to school, but it may be similar to this.

Time factors

Summer classes can be especially worthwhile for non-traditional students.

• Those shorter sessions, if your school offers them, can help you rack up credits quickly. If you take one or two summer classes each year, you could possibly graduate a full semester sooner!
• Taking a class during the shorter session will somewhat lessen any sacrifices for you and your family.  Any schedule disruptions will be blessedly short-lived, much to the relief of everyone involved!

Plan ahead and choose wisely.

Depending on the school, summer offerings can sometimes be frustratingly limited. However, there are several ways of planning your summer classes wisely.

• In the early spring, when meeting with your academic advisor to plan your fall classes, discuss possible summer classes too.
• Hold on to course catalogs from previous semesters! You can look for patterns of when certain courses are offered. Some classes might usually be offered during the fall, others only during the spring. Plan strategically for the coming semesters. Also, if you miss a spring course, you may get lucky and find it available during the summer.  Nowadays, course schedules are usually posted online, too, but might not be available after a certain amount of time.
• If any of your courses have pre-requisites (one or more introductory courses required before taking a more advanced course), take them during the summer. That way, you can jump right in during the fall semester.
• Consider the summer offerings at other schools in your area. If another school has a course that's comparable to one at your college, you may be able to take it and transfer the credits.  Check with your registrar first to see if it's transferrable, of course.
• Community colleges are always a great bargain, especially for general education requirements and introductory courses.  My school charges about $312 for a three-credit summer class. They also often have easy credit-transfer agreements with local four-year colleges. You can save a lot of money this way!
• If your financial aid department does not fund summer classes, though, you will have to pay for them out of pocket. Set aside a chunk of your fall and spring financial aid money and earmark it for summer class(es). If you work during the school year, save your money! Even if you save only $10 (roughly two Starbucks lattes) out of each week's paycheck,  by May you'll have about $360 to pay for summer tuition!
• Find more money-saving tips for the starving student on my other blog!
• Look up the instructors on a site such as  ratemyprofessors.com to help make your decision. You can learn a lot about teaching styles, expectations, and work-load. While you're there, do other students a favor and take a few minutes to honestly rate the teachers you've had, too! It's a great tool, but only works if everybody particpates honestly.

Other thoughts

While summer classes are sometimes more relaxed in atmosphere, they are still more concentrated due to time constraints. Once in a while, you might get lucky with a much-easier course load during the summer version of a particular class, but there's no guarantee. Think about your strengths and weaknesses. If there are subjects that naturally come easily for you, consider taking them in the compressed summer-time format. Save the more difficult courses for the regular semester. For example, I probably wouldn't want to take Statistics or Pre-Calc during the short session! I'd rather stretch something like that out through an entire full semester, so I have enough time to absorb it. Everyone is different, of course.

Well, for the rest of the summer, I look forward to working part-time, conquering the fear of public speaking, and spending plenty of time at the pool.

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June 24, 2008 7:48 pm
Feeling: Confused
Craving: A break
Hearing: Frank sighing at me cause I'm not writing my paper
Last Movie: 27 Dresses
Last DVD: What Dreams May Come
Last on TV: How It's Made
Reading: The Iliad by Homer, The Giver by Lowry, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: Frank
Plugging: Madness Letters

I don't like this week. I have too much to do, and I didn't get anything done over the weekend because we had a big religious convention all weekend and my parents were here for it, so even after the religious stuff was done, I was hanging with my parents. Because of this, I barely studied for my quiz that was on Monday, but hopefully I did okay on it; I think I did. I have a four page paper due Thursday, and I'm still iffy on my topic... and my midterm is on Friday.

Frank was telling me I should've just taken both my summer classes during the first summer session, but with just this one class' assignments piling up on me, I wouldn't want a second class to worry about too. If I had taken a second class, this weekend probably would've killed my grades.

I watched 27 Dresses this weekend and I LOVED it! Especially the ode's to Elton John haha. It was an awesome movie, so I decided I need to catch up on the recent romantic comedies. Frank doesn't like them, plus we're both skint, so I haven't seen many movies recently. I've like Katherine Heigl ever since I saw her in Wish Upon a Star, the old Disney movie, but my respect for James Marsden went up.

Since the end of this fiscal year is ending at the library (and everywhere else) this weekend, my boss told me I could come in and work a couple long days, so I'm going in on Saturday, and hopefully Sunday too, to work 6 hour days to make a little extra, but I'm not sure how many hours I'm going to get once I get my work-study paperwork in. Hopefully at least 14, because that's not even enough for all my bills.... Bleh. I hate paying for everything with my credit card. It feels so immature, but the truth is I just don't have the money and no one down here is hiring.

Speaking of that, Frank had a job interview scheduled for yesterday and they called him a half hour beforehand to say, nevermind because they filled the position. That's super-lame if you ask me, but Frank says he bets the person they hired knew someone else who worked there. Most likely. Probably nepotism at it's finest.

So I plugged the page I did because of the recent blog on Shaq's rap about Kobe. As much as I hate Kobe and love the Suns, the rap's kinda dumb. I didn't listen to it that closely, but just the "Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes" is a tad ridiculous. I'm just gonna link it, cause I don't particularly want it on my page haha.

Okay, Frank is nagging me about starting my paper, and I guess he's right. I don't want to be stuck with all four pages left to write by tomorrow night. OH, but I'm excited because of the Before You Know It software I plugged in an earlier post, I know 14 animals in Greek and I can write them and everything haha. silly me.

4 more days till my new phone - I CANNOT WAIT!

καλμνúχτα - aka Goodnite!

Growth and Development

Think of events and scenarios to show how you have changed. Well, it does not have to be a revolutionary change – any small on counts. It does not matter if changes were sudden and abrupt or gradual.

Goals – personal, academic, career

Think of all three categories as much as you can. You might come up with specific and “realistic” responses, but you might also come up with hazy, fuzzy, “wild” daydreams. Do not dismiss any of them.

Role Models and Influence

Think of the forces that shaped you. You don’t have to describe them in great detail; it’s you who colleges are interested in. Think of how these shaped you, how you changed under their influence.

Achievements

These do not have to be the most impressive ones by mainstream standards. It’s important to choose the really meaningful to you, no matter how small and unimportant they might seem to the conventional Bulgarian audience. They might be about meals you have cooked or the day you learned to tie your shoelaces. Anything that has brought you satisfaction and pride counts.

Hobbies and Interests

Don’t just list them. Elaborate on them. Include even the ones you have not had the chance to pursue.

Childhood Experiences

Think of your most vivid childhood memories. Then pick out the ones that can be related to who you are today.

Your Favourite …

Book, character, historical figure … anything. I’d like to hear of as many favourites as possible.

This apartment I'm in, I won't lie- is simply dismal. True, the price is right however I'm right on the border of finding ways to afford a more expensive place if it means getting out of Heritage Park Apartments. Perhaps it's because the tenants before me left it a mess, and the fact that no amount of cleaning seems to make any sort of difference. But I don't like the location, and I really hate the layout of the place. This means, on to house-hunting yet again. An activity that I spent way too many hours doing last semester. Joy.

Mother will be coming out to visit me on the 3rd of July, and will be staying through my birthday on the 6th to leave on the 7th. I haven't seen my mother in a very long time. Surely we've communicated by phone, email and instant-message conversation, but I haven't seen my mother in nearly six-months. Sure, being 1800+ miles from home has something to do with it, but I can't help but wonder if I'm a terrible human being for letting it go this long. She won't be here for very long, but I find myself wondering how to even handle her visit. How is one supposed to act when he is going to see his mother for a mere 5 days when he hasn't seen her in nearly half a year? I'm at a loss. The 2 hour drive home from Denver International is going to kill me I'm sure of it. The murderous silence in the Town & Country just might be sharp enough to actually do me in.

Clearly we haven't been on very good terms for a long while prior to the last time I saw her. Thus, this should be interesting. I'm hoping that my new Maine Coon will be some source of relief, as love of cats is something that my mother and I do have in common, no doubt about that. She hasn't met Anna Belle, but has only seen pictures and heard the occasional "meow" in the background of our phone conversations.

I have many goals to achieve before her arrival, yet as I reflect on this list it makes me sad that I even have to embark on such a journey:

1. Have the cat professional groomed & bathed. (So my mother can't find even the smallest bit of matted-fur and call me a horrible person.)
2. Clean all three of my fish tanks. (So my mother won't be suspicious when the water is not crystal-clear.)
3. Remove all wall-decorations sans family & friend photographs. (So my mother doesn't assume from my collection of movie posters that I've been wasting away watching movies.)
4. Get the car cleaned and detailed. (So my mother doesn't give the lecture of being responsible and taking care of one's things and how "owning a vehicle is a big responsibility...")
5. Box and hide all but 2 pairs of shoes. (So my mother doesn't think I'm wasting money of trivial things even though I haven't bought a new pair of shoes in over a year.)
6. Box and hide all DVDs, DVD Player, Television. (So my mother can't assume I spend my time with such distractions instead of my studies, which she would totally do.)
7. Fill my kitchen with whole-grain cereal, pumpernickel bread, fruits and mineral water. (Obvious reasons.)
8. Many, many other things...

Cheer Registration for team Flames & Fire was also yesterday evening and team practices start this Wednesday. If you missed the registration you can contact Rose @ 515-710-2793 or rosefarver@yahoo.com to register by phone and bring your tuition to the first practice this Wednesday. 

Have a GREAT day!