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Hands on activities, visual learning, and repitition are the best ways I am able to learn. I like being able to understand my teachers and working in groups if everyone pitches in. I don't like when a teacher moves through the information quickly and I don't like when we are constantly taking notes an entire class period. I like hanging out with my friends, playing sports, photography, and listening to music outside of the classroom. back to personal pages


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The upper left picture shows that Across The Universe and Glee are important movies/TV shows to her. She also has pictures of her friends and shopping bags on her wall suggesting that her friends are a big part of her life as well as shopping. Her bed is neat so she is probably a neat person. The middle picture is messy with tissues and water bottles all over the desk suggesting that she is a messy person. She has a hair dryer and straightener on her desk, so she cares about her hair or appearance. The upper right picture has a well made bed with an assortment of pillows. Her bed and pillows have multiple different colors and designs on them possibly saying that she likes to be different or stand out. She obviously has free time to put all those pictures on her wall, most of them her with friends, family, and boyfriend, showing what is most important to her.

5 time diaries: Sleep Class Workout Class Work Eat Computer Time Friend Time Ruth: 8hr 2-3hr 1hr 2hr 1hr 1hr 24/7 Jenn: 8hr 4hr 1hr 2-3hr 1hr 3hr 24/7 Marissa: 8hr 3hr 0hr 2hr 1.5hr 2hr 24/7 Eva: 7hr 4hr 0hr 3hr 1hr 1hr 3hr Liana: 7.5hr 5hr 1hr 5-6hr 45min 45min 1hr

These time diaries are the girls typical day-to-day schedule. Jenn has 3 hours down for computer time and spends most of that time on facebook. That shows me that she always needs to know what is going on with other people. Marissa doesn't work out which could either be she is lazy, has a lot of schoolwork, or because she's already skinny and doesn't feel the need to workout. Liana is a nursing major so her time is spent in class, schoolwork and not much time for eating, computer time and hanging out with friends. Ruth and Eva are, I believe to be typical college students all around they balance everything they need and want to do.

My Freshman Year/Coming of Age in New Jersey In both of these articles Michael and Rebekah went out of their element in order to collect data. They were reintroduced into a world that wasn't familiar to them anymore. Rebekah, for example, guessed on how freshman dressed when they had summer previews and was mistaken as a parent, which happened on more then one occasion. Michael, for example, had to watch his "high or academic talk" in order to sound more like a college student instead of a professor. Rebekah also had problems catching onto the language such as "hooked up," "lame," "awesome," "sweet" etc.. She also noticed the speed of conversation was much faster then her own. "The dialogue was so much faster than what I was used to speaking or hearing..." Michael in the end made many people suspicious especially his roommates so he had to inform them of his research. His roommates had said that his vocabulary was too advanced despite his quietness and they thought it was weird that he read the New York Times everyday. Michael and Rebekha both came from their experiences learning a great deal about how college life has changed from when they were freshman. I agree their interpretations were correct. I think they had all the information they needed right in front of them when they were conducting their research. They wrote about each experience they encountered and it was extremely similar to the experience I went through as a Freshman. I don't think that from the research they conducted is much different then college life today. I realized many similarities from the welcome weekend to the language of college. I respect both Michael and Rebekah for the time and effort they put in in order to complete their research.

The Husky offers various types of food for the faculty and students to enjoy. Lunch and dinner are when the lines are extremely long, but they tend to dwindle down quickly. Students wait in line with either friends or themselves waiting for their order to be taken. Depending on what time of day you go there could be either be no wait, a five minute wait, or a 20 minute wait. When waiting in line you see people talking to to others, zoning out, or anxious to get there food. There are refrigerated areas that hold milk, soda, salads, dressings, fruit, and other various quick snacks to choose from that kids stare at to decide what they want. If a student is undecided about what they want they will spend more time at the Husky than that of a student who knows exactly what they want. There are also tables scattered around Husky that students take advantage of either to grab a quick bite in between classes or to catch a meal with friends. The data I collected suggests to me that meals are a time to relax and replenish the body. I think that meals, especially eaten outside of the dorms or an apartment, is considered leisure time. It's time to refuel your body and have time with your friends. What's served at the Husky also says alot about college life. The food is quick to make, bought in bulk due to cheapness, and the variety is somewhat limited. The quick to make food could say that college life is fast paced or that the more food the university makes the more money students will spend. This point can also go along with the bulk of food colleges order. The food provided does not have diversification, there's the deli, the bagel line, the grill, and slushies and milkshakes serving the same thing every day of the week. The home zone has about the same meals being served every week. The meals and food facilities say alot about college life.

In Freshman Year there was alot of talk about college life as a community or lack there of. From my experience getting involved at your school is easy, but making the commitment is hard. The community factor related to college is bringing people together. In the reading there various options available to students for getting involved more with the school or the college community. I look at Bloomsburg in a very similar way as the reading; there is always something going on on campus that the students can get involved with, posters all over campus advertising concerts, plays, jobs, games, etc., but I don't see many of these activities being utilized. I think that students are so caught up with their own lives that they forget how much their school can offer them. The students have their own social network to keep in communication with and grades to uphold. I believe that those are very important priorities and getting involved in school activities gets put on the back burner. "University community was experienced by most students as a relatively small, personal network of people who did things together." This quote caught my eye in that I believe it to be true. We don't stray much from what is unfamiliar to us and we stay with what we know and feel comfortable with. In the other reading, Coming of Age, the class ranking is pointed out. High school compared to college ranking of classes is very different. High school ranking was huge in that freshman were ridiculed, bullied, and pushed around where as the seniors were the top, the head dogs of the school. In college I think that ranking is not as important. Freshman are still the newbies as well as Seniors the top dogs, but you don't see the same type of behavior towards different ranks as you would see in high school. The different ranks of class do look at college life with unalike eyes. Take the dorms for example, freshman and some sophomores the dorms are their living style, juniors and seniors feel that the dorms are to young for them and decide to move off campus (aka apartment) in order to feel more like an adult in the sense that you're living on your own with bills etc.. Both of the readings bring up important points about college life and community.

1. What do you do in your free time? 2. How do you spend your weekends? 3. What do you value most at college? 4. What do you think the culture of college is here at Bloomsburg? 5. What does being in college mean to you?

First response: 1. hang out with friends and study 2. party, use the weekend to catch up (sleep, work) 3. freedom 4. sex, drugs, alcohol ( people being free to do what they want) 5. "I get to become a real person" ( not having people tell me what I can and cannot do, developing as an individual, finding yourself)

Second response: 1. study, watch TV, yoga (to rid of stress) 2. hanging out with friends, doing community service 3. education 4. to most its one big party, but to me the culture of college is experience 5. I'm training for my future career

The data I collected suggests to me that college life is about getting an education and finding out who you are as a person, but having fun along the way. In both of my interviews I found that studying/education, hanging out with friends, partying, and inner development were the most important things. College is a new chapter in everyones life and in those four years you have the opportunity to grow as an individual, determine what you want to do, in terms of a job, and try to grasp what works for you and what doesn't, for instance; what people clash with who you are, how to stay organized, ways to de-stress, and many more. College life is different for each person, but the experiences and lessons learned carry us through life.

In both of the readings they talked about international students and racial differences. My Freshman Year talked about how the international students didn't understand American ways in many different aspects. I realized that I don't quite understand them myself. For example, the need to change an outfit even if you'll be with the same people, but you're just changing locations, or when it comes to partying that it's either you get drunk or there's no point. These students point out interesting facts that even I can't wrap my head around. In Coming of Age racial differences was a big issue that was brought up. I think that even today there is still a racial barrier between different groups. We may not talk about it the way we used to, but that doesn't mean it's not there.





Examples of 3 different EAR parts:

I choose to do my EAR assignment on trying to get the attention of future students. I tried to capture the best of Bloomsburg in my photos and the types of activities and academics Bloom has to offer.

What does it mean to be well educated? The writer pointed out some very interesting ideas about what being educated means. I think his thoughts about schooling being organized around problems, projects, and questions instead of facts, skills, and disciplines is a new and different way of looking at our current schooling system. I think that a person can be well educated, but not be well educated throughout multiple areas. We go to school to become trained in a specific field, we don't have the time, money, and capacity to be trained in all other areas outside of our specific fields. The video talked about IQ tests and how they don't show much information. They talked about multiple intelligences and that one person can be very good at one thing, average at something else, and bad at something entirely different, it just depends on the person.



Claiming An Education Adrienne talked about looking at being at school to claim an education instead of receiving one. I agree with this statement because getting an education is a two way street. There is the school and you, the school gives you the opportunity and not the education and you give your effort and time back to the school. It's an unwritten contract between school and student, the school provides the materials in order for the student to succeed and the student needs to show his commitment and effort in order to receive that education. She also said to "demand to be taken seriously so that you can also go on taking yourself seriously." This statement I also agree with because if we don't take ourselves seriously than how do we expect others to take us seriously.



__College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less In Job Market__ I don't think that college is for everyone and I feel that now a days if you don't go to college you're going to be looked at differently then if you did attend college. I also think that more and more people are getting degrees and like the article said if everyone has it, it doesn't make anyone special or stick out from the pack, in terms of an education. Everyone having a degree doesn't allow anyone to stand out from the crowd, no one one ups another. __Should More People Skip College?__ I think that employer's feel more comfortable hiring someone who has a college degree over someone who just has a high school diploma. If I was looking to hire, I would go for a college graduate over a high school diploma because I'd know that they'd have a higher level education. I think that for certain jobs you don't need a college degree, some jobs require experience or street smarts over book smarts, but I do think that a college degree gives you an advantage when looking for a job. A higher level degree is better than just a high school diploma. __Plan B:Skip College__ I think if someone feels that college is right for them they should go. I think that college gives more then just an education to students. It gives the students an opportunity to grow, college is one step closer into the real world and there are many important things that can be picked up on the way through college. For example; responsibility, independence, life lessons, and many more. I don't think that students should look over going to college.



Reading Response: I only had access to two of the stories when it said there were three. I thought the Animal Story was an interesting one. I realized that it was related to education. Some of the animals were better at activities then the others, and it's the same for people. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses and we can't expect everyone to be good at everything. I think that if everyone was good at everything, there wouldn't be a point to teaching or learning because we would know everything about everything. I also don't think it's fair for someone to be penalized for not being good at a certain task. We are trained in one field of study, that's why we go to school to be educated and informed about our future career. If someone is going to school to be a doctor they shouldn't be expected to know how to play chess or rock climb, because they were not trained in those areas. The College and Technology article made me nervous because Im afraid that's what our society will become. We put so much emphasis on technology now-a-days with computers and the new phones that have been coming out. I think that online schools and the students that attend them don't receive the college experience. They miss out on the teacher student relationship and the interaction with other students. I also think that cheating is probably a big problem in online colleges. There are all the necessary materials to cheat from home to get a degree from an online college and to think that someone may know nothing about they're degree is a scary thought to think about. I don't think I would feel comfortable hiring someone that graduated from an online college. I do feel though that online classes are more convenient, since they're online you can work them into your schedule instead of the other way around with actual classes on a college campus.

Here is my revised EAR projects



Step 1 TELL I think the purpose of a college education is to better yourself as a person and to become more educated in the field you're majoring in. I also think that it's to become more independent and to find out who you are as a person. I don't think that there is a set definition for what being educated means. I believe that being educated could mean an array of different things. For example, you could be well educated in knowing random facts, you could be educated in the field of study you majored in, or educated in construction, etc. I know many different types of people, all of which, I think are very well educated. My experiences have led me this belief because our landscaper is a very well educated person and he's amazing at landscaping, he knows where the best areas from planting different things so that they won't die and informs his clients about how to take care of the landscape after he leaves. My father went through medical school and he's an extremely educated person with all the information he was taught throughout his schooling process. He looks at x-rays and figures out if there is anything wrong with them. My mother, on the other hand is an educated because she is a people person and knows how to read people so I think that she's educated in that aspect. She uses her own experiences that she's lived through herself and helps others to figure out problems that they might have or uses her problem solving skills to decide how to approach a situation. Both of my parents graduated from college, but I think that they are we educated in different ways in that my mother is better with common sense and my father is really book smart.

Reading Response: The first article I read, //Life is a Spiritual Struggle,// I thought his story was very empowering. I think that what he's saying about how life is a spiritual struggle is very true. I think that we all go through hard times or struggles in our lives and we have outlets to remind us why we keep pushing forward. In the article his outlet is fighting, mine for example, is listening to music and actually hearing the words or writing in a journal. It helps me to realize why Im doing what Im doing with my life. The second article, //Admittance to a Better Life//, was also extremely empowering. I think the man in this article is trying to say that anyone can change and be a better person. He was a street man, but turned his life around to become a better person. I think that everyone has the ability and power to become a better person, if through an education or picking up something that someone else has dropped, everyone can be better. I think that everyone also has the ability and power to get an education. I feel that people that have grown up on the streets, that may be the only thing they know and may be scared to turn into something different, but because the man in the article decided to take charge of his life he is not dead or in jail, he's bettering himself and has made goals for himself. In the third article, //This I Believe//, is a heart warming story. I think that just because her nona hadn't any formal education that she's not smart or educated. I think that nona was a very intelligent person, just not in the typical way people look at what educated means. She has common sense, can speak five languages, has kept the same job for 40 years, can multiply large numbers in her head, and passed her knowledge down to her granddaughter. She may not have formal education, but that never stopped her from doing what she wanted to do. I think more people need to have an attitude like that. Some people just give up if they don't have an education through formal schooling and settle for a mediocre job. If they pushed themselves they can do so much more with their lives, just like nona did.



Reading Response: The first story I thought was very sad. I think that students should be proud of their accomplishments and shouldn't hide from them. I think that the teachers meant well with the money as a reward, but in the end I don't think it really worked. I feel that they could've approached the situation differently by possibly giving the students that actually want to succeed more help in order for them to excel in school. It's sad that some students resorted to taunting because of other's good grades. The second story was also sad to read. It reminded me of when we talked about being uncomfortable. He was so used to his native language that he was scared to go outside his home. He looked at himself as a foreigner. I don't think that because he did not speak the same language as everyone else he still should've pushed himself to travel outside his comfortable four walls he called a home and made an effort to learn and become oriented with his outside surroundings. I also found it very hard to follow both of theses stories with pages missing left and right.\