End of Class

Wow end of the semester already, writing is not my best thing but I had a lot of fun in this class.  I am even writing in a blog and I think it is something that I will continue to use as a way to free my mind.  My advice for writing a scientific paper is to do your outline, research it and do your draft so you have plenty of time to edit it.  It is amazing how fast the class goes and putting off writing will lead you to rushing your work.  I still need so much improvement on APA formatting it for me is really difficult to get used to and seems that there are so many rules.  I would like to thank my professor Dr. Julie Pal without her making the class interesting it would have been a real struggle for me.  Also her attention to her students is amazing, it was always great to open up your email and have something from her encouraging you.  To the class thank you all for helping make me better.  I received a lot of great constructive criticism to make my paper better.

Final Paper

Well my final paper is still being worked on and will be finished this weekend.  I found this paper actually harder than I thought it was going to be to write about.  I think the topic I chose just didn’t have that much great information as I thought it would.  I feel a combination of nervous, accomplished and tired.  The last few weeks of any semester is stressful and rewarding all in one.  With so much work its great to know that you are done and have completed another chapter on your way to finishing school.  I like writing its just not one of my strong suites, but it is something that is interesting and will have to do in future classes as well as work.  I would like to research cancer and its effect on the human body.  I think cancer is a very serious disease and something that affects millions of people worldwide.  I eventually plan to go into cancer registry to track trends of patients dealing with cancer and see if there is anything related to locations and things of that nature.  Well I have to end this blog to finish the rest of my class work.  Yall come back now ya hear!

Week 8

Wow it’s so interesting how these classes just fly by.  It seems like I just started college comp II, but yet here we are with the end near.  Its always stressful towards the end focusing on your final work and preparing for your tests mixed in with your regular course materials.  Time management is definitely key towards the end of the semester. 

My class has been great and I have gotten some great feedback.  It is tough because we have so many people to review that we don’t get that many pier reviews.  Plus everyone has so much work to do that they do the minimum reviews and cannot worry about doing anymore.  I am included in this; I have two papers two write as well as a test to prepare for so I can only do so much. 

As far as the blog the way I look at it is it is a way for me to talk about what has happened in class or in my personal life.  If someone comments that is great, if not I am ok with that as well.  I am not really sure if I will keep blogging; I use Facebook and Twitter to posts my thoughts out to people, although not in detail as a blog would be, it’s just easier for me to write something that takes two seconds.  I really don’t know what I will do, but it will be interesting as class ends whether or not I will keep blogging.  I guess stay tuned to see if I do. lol

Reviews

I love criticism; it is a great thing in getting honest responses to improve you.  I think sometimes people take them so personally and sometimes people are very harsh when criticizing someone’s work.  There needs to be a fine line of helping someone with their work and just being rude.  For me I don’t care what people say I will take whatever they have to say in a good way.  For my topic Genetically Modified Foods it is surprising that there really isn’t that much material I have found on the topic, yes there is material but its not what I would consider good material that would benefit my writing.  I really have to sift through the material that I have found and find the good points to put into my paper.

6 Weeks…….

Well I have to say that the last 6 weeks are just like the last year in school has been, stressful, tiresome, hard, rewarding, and just amazing to see what I can really do.  The last six weeks have been really stressful as I am taking two five credit classes and the amount of work in them has been kind of overwhelming.  I figured in one of my classes I would be able to handle it easily because it is something I really like to study which is the human body.  But the work that this class requires is amazing, I have never heard of having a pre quiz and then every week having a quiz.  I am not a tester by any means so for me to take a quiz every week is not helping my grade for that class at all.  I have tough time writing and never thought that it would be my better class.  I guess we change as we get older, our tastes our likes and our talents.  This past week has been kind of tough to as I have been sick for most of the last week and not feeling that much better as I sit here and write this blog.  I was just trying to write a 3 page draft and because of the medication I just cannot stay focused.  I will do more of my work on this paper tomorrow just hoping that I feel better.  Well bloggers I am off for some much needed rest, good night!

School is cool!!!!

      I have to say writing is not one of my strong suites, however I do enjoy to do it.  I am not a professional writer by any means but if I have a topic I like, I can write forever.  My best writing style is freewriting, where I can just get a topic and write whatever is on my mind without worrying about editing, spelling or order.  I think the best ideas come from the mind when there is no worries about what is being written.  Later you can go back and edit it, but for me its like brainstorming but actually writing out all your thoughts. 

     My academic challenges is time, I have a very busy schedule with two jobs plus school.  So learning how to balance everything and schedule things is very important to me and very challenging at the same time.  It also stops me from being able to join in on the seminars, which is a great way to get to know your professor and classmates.  I really like going to seminars and I hope that more of them go to flex seminars, although it may not be my actual classmates I will still get interaction with students that are studying the same thing as me. 

    I contemplated going to school for a long time, after so long of not being in school it seemed like a daunting task.  But I have to say it is the best decision I have made and I am confident I am doing the right thing no matter what sacrificies I have to make to do it.  At times it makes it stressful trying to figure out when I will have the time to do the work, but at the end of the day I get it done regardless.  There just have been so many positives since going back to school it is really amazing I wish I would have done it sooner.  But as they say everything happens for a reason and it just wasn’t right for me back then.  I am so happy to know that once I am done school I will be able to have my life back to normal get a great career and be able to provide to my family everything they need.  School is cool!!!!

What a weekend

Well I have to say I was really excited for this past weekend, but even that it surpassed my excitement.  I flew up to Boston to spend some time with my family and go to a Halloween party.  I flew in Friday night and from that point on I was in food heaven, there is nothing like going home and eating at some of your favorite places growing up on that you don’t get to have often now because you live so far away.  My sister bought me a sub from this place we used to go to a lot; I can taste it now a roast beef sub with so much meat on it you can’t even close it.  Picture this so much meat in the sub, they can’t even put any toppings on it but a few sprinkles of pickles, lettuce and onions.  Most places you go to they fill it with toppings but with this place they fill it with some of the best roast beef I have ever had.  After that my step dad had a small fire going outside and we watched some basketball (Go Celtics).  Saturday morning I woke up to my sister asking if I wanted to go have lunch.  We went to a steakhouse and met up with a friend.  I got to hand pick my 14 oz NY strip with my choice of loaded baked potato.  Then we went out and did some shopping at a few stores and this is where it got even better.  As we were walking around the local cable network had a booth setup giving away some free stuff, as we walked by they asked us if we had scratched off a ticket.  We all got one, my sisters and friend went first they all won a flashlight.  As I scratched mine I said HDTV I handed it to the lady and started to walk away, I thought they would put it in a raffle and call me later.  To my surprise she stopped me and said where are you going you can take this home you won this 32” LCD TV.  Awesome I don’t have an LCD tv at my house this is my first one so I will ship it down.   Great weekend so far but now it was time to get ready for our Halloween party, I was dressed as Jon Bon Jovi long hair tight shirt, guitar I was looking rock n roll.  We had a great night playing beer pong until 3 am.  Now its Sunday and its football day Patriots vs. Vikings patriots won and my step dad cooked corn chowda (NE Accent there) .  This was my weekend I had such a great time I am missing it so much right now, but I just got the tv today via UPS and hooked it up and it is amazing. What a great weekend, gotta love family!!!