Reflect back on this semester. *Have you met anyone new who is important to you?
I really haven't met any single person that was all important, but I have met a few individuals that i consider to share the same interests as me so I hang out with them.
Have you rekindled any old friendships that have made you stronger?*
Not as of this year.
Have you experienced any major changes academically or personally?*
Ha yeah. Academically, I'm actually doing a hell of a lot better than i expected at the beginning of the year.
What is your one BEST or FAVORITE memory of this semester?
My favorite memory of this semester was tomorrow for the pizza party/final exam time...i know this doesn't make sense...but it will be my favorite memory.
*How will you live your life to the fullest?
I will continue to work hard to achieve the goals that i have set for myself to have a bright future in my career and my life.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Blog 11
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” –Stephen Covey
1) Reflect upon what you read in Chapter 11 of Thriving in College. What does this quote mean to you or how can you apply it to your life?
This quote can be interpreted in many different ways for many different people. To me, I can use this quote as a guide for seeking answers to complex situations in life. If there is something that I have an issue with, i can think of this quote. It will allow me to believe that I have to know why the conflict with the certain issue is there and comprehend the opposing view of the conflict. When I can decipher the opposite view point I can try and compare my view with the opposing view. From here, I can find a compromise for the problem and accept the reasons why the issue exists.
2) (Refer to page 380 of the text): Are you a “Crisis Tickler,” “Withholder,” “Irritator,” “Blamer,” or “Gunnysacker?” Explain.
This is awesome. I am definitely an irritator. If i want to voice my opinion on something debatable, I will. I disregard everyone else's opinion when I am pissed off and try to piss them off by saying something that isn't really necessary and refute their view. If there is a political issue, for example the fact that Obama was elected as president for our downtrodden country, I can say that Americans have no right to bitch about him struggling when they were the ones who voted him in the first place.
1) Reflect upon what you read in Chapter 11 of Thriving in College. What does this quote mean to you or how can you apply it to your life?
This quote can be interpreted in many different ways for many different people. To me, I can use this quote as a guide for seeking answers to complex situations in life. If there is something that I have an issue with, i can think of this quote. It will allow me to believe that I have to know why the conflict with the certain issue is there and comprehend the opposing view of the conflict. When I can decipher the opposite view point I can try and compare my view with the opposing view. From here, I can find a compromise for the problem and accept the reasons why the issue exists.
2) (Refer to page 380 of the text): Are you a “Crisis Tickler,” “Withholder,” “Irritator,” “Blamer,” or “Gunnysacker?” Explain.
This is awesome. I am definitely an irritator. If i want to voice my opinion on something debatable, I will. I disregard everyone else's opinion when I am pissed off and try to piss them off by saying something that isn't really necessary and refute their view. If there is a political issue, for example the fact that Obama was elected as president for our downtrodden country, I can say that Americans have no right to bitch about him struggling when they were the ones who voted him in the first place.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Blog 10
Chapter: 11 - please answer the following question on your Blog.
"Who are the people in your life that you tend to turn to for social support when you are experiencing stress or need personal encouragement?"
The people that i turn to for social support when I am experiencing stress or other issues would be my friends, family, and my girlfriend. If I am struggling over a certain issue, I usually vent on everyone that I know and let them know what is going on. Usually they can give me advice on what to do and i can take each individual advice and combine it into one whole plan. It really helps when you can get 3 different sides and be able to decipher the information. My lone example of this, is my problem with CIS 110. This class is a bitch to get into and I've been working hard on receiving information from anyone i know....even Dr. Kahn...lol...I will be seeing her on Wednesday about the issue, but I dont know if i will actually get anywhere...
"Who are the people in your life that you tend to turn to for social support when you are experiencing stress or need personal encouragement?"
The people that i turn to for social support when I am experiencing stress or other issues would be my friends, family, and my girlfriend. If I am struggling over a certain issue, I usually vent on everyone that I know and let them know what is going on. Usually they can give me advice on what to do and i can take each individual advice and combine it into one whole plan. It really helps when you can get 3 different sides and be able to decipher the information. My lone example of this, is my problem with CIS 110. This class is a bitch to get into and I've been working hard on receiving information from anyone i know....even Dr. Kahn...lol...I will be seeing her on Wednesday about the issue, but I dont know if i will actually get anywhere...
Monday, November 10, 2008
Blog 9
1) What are you most stressed-out with at the moment? Why? Is your body re-acting to this stress? Devise a plan to deal with it.
2) FFN: Chapter 8 / This is a creative writing exercise! Read the following scenario and finish it based on your knowledge after reading Chapter 8. You are "Raul" and have just immigrated to the American West illegally from Mexico. You brought your wife and two young children with you on a frightening and expensive 4-day journey in the back of a beat-up truck to arrive in Texas. You can't find work there and Border Patrol is cracking down, so you decide to migrate north a bit where you have relatives in Colorado. You are hired on the spot by ConAgra to work in one of their "beef processing" plants. -Describe in sensory detail your place of employment. (What's it look like, what is going on, how do people act, what do you wear, what is your job? etc..)-How much $$$ do you earn?-How do your days go? What are your work hours and what do you do after work?-Where do you live, what do you live in, how is your quality of life?
The plant is very large and smells of death. I can smell the cut slabs of meat from cattle being processed in the assembly line. Many workers are constantly cutting each piece smaller and smaller when it reaches to each individual post. They start off with a large half of a cow and rip away the bones. It is a disgusting and degrading place to work. No breaks are allowed and we are working for only about 4o cents an hour. Just last week, a fellow co worker got his hand lacerated in a large meat slicing unit. It was a deep cut, and the bosses made him keep working, until it was to the point where it wouldn't stop bleeding and they were forced to replace him. He was not allowed to come back when he was sent to the hospital. A new guy took his place and is doing the same shit he was doing. We all wear the same uniform; just blue old rag-like unis. My job during this miserable job is to bash the cattle in the head when they are being prepared for slaughter. It is a horrible thing for me to do, but I must do this to support my family.
I typically earn about 50 to 75 cents an hour because of what i do. However it's definitely not enough to support my family and it's a downtrodden situation at this point. I never have good days unless a raise is put in place up 5 cents, but that doesn't really happen. My work hours suck since i typically work about 12 hours a day with no breaks for not very much. It is a difficult and stressing job and I hate it with a passion. Usually after work, I go home and sleep for awhile and then ponder how the hell I'm suppose to keep doing this and make it in the real world. My family and I are currently living in a small house (if you want to call it that) just outside of Colorado Springs. We struggle for food and my job is the only thing keeping us from complete poverty. It is miserable and wish things could be different. We are all miserable here, but we have no choice. Living in the middle of nowhere is not the best thing for me or my family and things will hopefully change in the future if U.S. doesn't collapse first....if the U.S. falls...our quality of life will just drop to one step above being slaves....
The thing that i am the most stressed out about at the moment is the fact that i have a major Anatomy exam tomorrow and i really hope i pass it with flying colors. It's crucial I get an A on it so i can be well on my way to my 4.0 goal. My body is not really reacting to it because i am not getting headaches or anything like that.
2) FFN: Chapter 8 / This is a creative writing exercise! Read the following scenario and finish it based on your knowledge after reading Chapter 8. You are "Raul" and have just immigrated to the American West illegally from Mexico. You brought your wife and two young children with you on a frightening and expensive 4-day journey in the back of a beat-up truck to arrive in Texas. You can't find work there and Border Patrol is cracking down, so you decide to migrate north a bit where you have relatives in Colorado. You are hired on the spot by ConAgra to work in one of their "beef processing" plants. -Describe in sensory detail your place of employment. (What's it look like, what is going on, how do people act, what do you wear, what is your job? etc..)-How much $$$ do you earn?-How do your days go? What are your work hours and what do you do after work?-Where do you live, what do you live in, how is your quality of life?
The plant is very large and smells of death. I can smell the cut slabs of meat from cattle being processed in the assembly line. Many workers are constantly cutting each piece smaller and smaller when it reaches to each individual post. They start off with a large half of a cow and rip away the bones. It is a disgusting and degrading place to work. No breaks are allowed and we are working for only about 4o cents an hour. Just last week, a fellow co worker got his hand lacerated in a large meat slicing unit. It was a deep cut, and the bosses made him keep working, until it was to the point where it wouldn't stop bleeding and they were forced to replace him. He was not allowed to come back when he was sent to the hospital. A new guy took his place and is doing the same shit he was doing. We all wear the same uniform; just blue old rag-like unis. My job during this miserable job is to bash the cattle in the head when they are being prepared for slaughter. It is a horrible thing for me to do, but I must do this to support my family.
I typically earn about 50 to 75 cents an hour because of what i do. However it's definitely not enough to support my family and it's a downtrodden situation at this point. I never have good days unless a raise is put in place up 5 cents, but that doesn't really happen. My work hours suck since i typically work about 12 hours a day with no breaks for not very much. It is a difficult and stressing job and I hate it with a passion. Usually after work, I go home and sleep for awhile and then ponder how the hell I'm suppose to keep doing this and make it in the real world. My family and I are currently living in a small house (if you want to call it that) just outside of Colorado Springs. We struggle for food and my job is the only thing keeping us from complete poverty. It is miserable and wish things could be different. We are all miserable here, but we have no choice. Living in the middle of nowhere is not the best thing for me or my family and things will hopefully change in the future if U.S. doesn't collapse first....if the U.S. falls...our quality of life will just drop to one step above being slaves....
Monday, November 3, 2008
Blog numero huit
1. Now that you have been in UN100 for 10 weeks, have your study habits changed?
I believe my study habits have changed to a more routine pattern of how i want to study for classes. I make sure i know the dates of important exams and quizzes and write them down. Then, if there is about a week remaining before an exam, i will take my notes and review pieces of them each day up to the exam date. It seems to work since i'm almost at my goal of a 4.0.
2. What is the most beneficial skill/concept you have learned in UN100.
The most beneficial concept I have learned in UN 100 is time management. This allows me to have a less stressful agenda with the many classes that i'm currently attending and sort out time I need for each class for studying.
I believe my study habits have changed to a more routine pattern of how i want to study for classes. I make sure i know the dates of important exams and quizzes and write them down. Then, if there is about a week remaining before an exam, i will take my notes and review pieces of them each day up to the exam date. It seems to work since i'm almost at my goal of a 4.0.
2. What is the most beneficial skill/concept you have learned in UN100.
The most beneficial concept I have learned in UN 100 is time management. This allows me to have a less stressful agenda with the many classes that i'm currently attending and sort out time I need for each class for studying.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Blog VII
1) Post your favorite lyrics, poem, or quote for this week.
Favorite Quote: " I would sacrifice the strength and wisdom that i've gained, for the happiness that i spent to be better off." ---C. Uhazie
2) Develop two reflection questions that you would ask your students at this point in the course if you were a UN100 Professor.
Question 1: Have your goals changed since the beginning of your college career?
Question 2: Are you satisfied with the results of your classes over the course of the first semester?
3) What are you passionate about? Why?
I am passionate about my grades because I feel that if i can handle the workload i have this semester, i can handle what the real world has to offer. I like knowing that i can do well in these courses and have a chance at a 4.0 gpa.
4) How are you going to finance your three years of the Radiology program? If you will be in debt from student loans at the end, calculate roughly how much you will owe upon graduation?.
I'm going to use financial aid and grants from Michigan to pay for at least my first 2 years..and figure out what i'm going to do after that....hopefully move out west and take out a loan for my 4th year. I would have to guess that i would owe around $10,000 after school.
5) Have you changed your mind or do you have any new concerns about your program of study after our guest speakers today (Dr. Foley & Joanne)? Are you thinking of a different major or are you dead set on Radiology? What behavior(s) will you maybe have to change in order to keep up with and make the cut?
I have not changed my mind about the radiography program. I have dealt with people in the past and I feel that if i can volunteer at nursing homes to help the elderly, i should have no problem with helping cancer patients. I will have to keep studying and working hard towards the best grades possible (basically Anatomy i need to bring to an A) in order to keep myself in a great position to be accepted into the Radiography program.
6) FAST FOOD NATION (You should be reading through Chapter 7 at this point)Reflect upon the opening lines of Chapter 7:"You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it. The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food."
I would have to say that i would hate driving through the town, smelling the foulest things possible. It is awful to suffer through the headaches caused by the smell and trying to sleep through the stench would be horrendous. It would get sickening and the factories are a hazard to human life.
-Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? If so, how does it relate to FFN?-How high is the employee turnover rate in the meat industry and why don't the packing plants see this as a problem?
I have not read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, although I have heard about the book. It is terrible from the facts that i have heard in his book that actually take place in the meatpacking business. The employee turnover rate in the meat industry is 400%. They didn't see this as a problem because most of the employees are unskilled immigrants who work for cheap and are very disposable according to them. They are pretty much just numbers to the owners and can be replaced within months.
We discussed captive supplies of cattle versus regular farming. Reflect upon this quote from page 150:"To supply the beef slaughterhouse, ConAgra operates a pair of enormous feedlots. Each of them can hold up to one hundred thousand head of cattle..During the three months before slaughter, they eat grain..The grain fattens the cattle quickly, aided by the anabolic steroids implanted in their ear." -Do you think that these animals' emotions (fears, stress, anger) affect the meat we eat derived from them?
I really don't know if emotions would cause a noticeable difference in meat, however what they are doing with the cattle, is dispicable and steroids will change the chemical composition in meat causing those emotions to come about. It is harmful for people to consume tampered beef and something needs to be done to correct this major issue in the meat industry of the United States.
How?
I'm not entirely sure how the emotions would affect the meat, but I know the steroids would increase hormones changing the composition of the muscles and other parts of the cattle.
-How do you feel about eating steroids via consumption of "USDA Inspected" beef?
I cringe at the fact that we are eating manipulated chunks of flesh that may or may not be real by the time the beef is done going through every false flavor process that allows us to perceive the information provided to us is real. It is hard to know the truth, and it would be nice to know whether or not anything is real anymore....in the U.S.
Favorite Quote: " I would sacrifice the strength and wisdom that i've gained, for the happiness that i spent to be better off." ---C. Uhazie
2) Develop two reflection questions that you would ask your students at this point in the course if you were a UN100 Professor.
Question 1: Have your goals changed since the beginning of your college career?
Question 2: Are you satisfied with the results of your classes over the course of the first semester?
3) What are you passionate about? Why?
I am passionate about my grades because I feel that if i can handle the workload i have this semester, i can handle what the real world has to offer. I like knowing that i can do well in these courses and have a chance at a 4.0 gpa.
4) How are you going to finance your three years of the Radiology program? If you will be in debt from student loans at the end, calculate roughly how much you will owe upon graduation?.
I'm going to use financial aid and grants from Michigan to pay for at least my first 2 years..and figure out what i'm going to do after that....hopefully move out west and take out a loan for my 4th year. I would have to guess that i would owe around $10,000 after school.
5) Have you changed your mind or do you have any new concerns about your program of study after our guest speakers today (Dr. Foley & Joanne)? Are you thinking of a different major or are you dead set on Radiology? What behavior(s) will you maybe have to change in order to keep up with and make the cut?
I have not changed my mind about the radiography program. I have dealt with people in the past and I feel that if i can volunteer at nursing homes to help the elderly, i should have no problem with helping cancer patients. I will have to keep studying and working hard towards the best grades possible (basically Anatomy i need to bring to an A) in order to keep myself in a great position to be accepted into the Radiography program.
6) FAST FOOD NATION (You should be reading through Chapter 7 at this point)Reflect upon the opening lines of Chapter 7:"You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it. The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food."
I would have to say that i would hate driving through the town, smelling the foulest things possible. It is awful to suffer through the headaches caused by the smell and trying to sleep through the stench would be horrendous. It would get sickening and the factories are a hazard to human life.
-Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? If so, how does it relate to FFN?-How high is the employee turnover rate in the meat industry and why don't the packing plants see this as a problem?
I have not read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, although I have heard about the book. It is terrible from the facts that i have heard in his book that actually take place in the meatpacking business. The employee turnover rate in the meat industry is 400%. They didn't see this as a problem because most of the employees are unskilled immigrants who work for cheap and are very disposable according to them. They are pretty much just numbers to the owners and can be replaced within months.
We discussed captive supplies of cattle versus regular farming. Reflect upon this quote from page 150:"To supply the beef slaughterhouse, ConAgra operates a pair of enormous feedlots. Each of them can hold up to one hundred thousand head of cattle..During the three months before slaughter, they eat grain..The grain fattens the cattle quickly, aided by the anabolic steroids implanted in their ear." -Do you think that these animals' emotions (fears, stress, anger) affect the meat we eat derived from them?
I really don't know if emotions would cause a noticeable difference in meat, however what they are doing with the cattle, is dispicable and steroids will change the chemical composition in meat causing those emotions to come about. It is harmful for people to consume tampered beef and something needs to be done to correct this major issue in the meat industry of the United States.
How?
I'm not entirely sure how the emotions would affect the meat, but I know the steroids would increase hormones changing the composition of the muscles and other parts of the cattle.
-How do you feel about eating steroids via consumption of "USDA Inspected" beef?
I cringe at the fact that we are eating manipulated chunks of flesh that may or may not be real by the time the beef is done going through every false flavor process that allows us to perceive the information provided to us is real. It is hard to know the truth, and it would be nice to know whether or not anything is real anymore....in the U.S.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Blog 6
Procrastination sucks...and at this very moment I am procrastinating by doing Seminar homework instead of studying for Froiland's monstrocity of an exam tomorrow. It will be a complete bitch and I'm going to regret not putting more work into the lecture notes if i don't get back on track....However, I'm still doing pretty good and i believe that procrastination will no longer be a problem in the upcoming weeks as this semester continues to go by extremely fast.
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