Happy Birthday, Lewis! To my partner in crime, I hope today ends up being a blast :).
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Nmpfh
Up at 5:30 today.
Studied and just finished last bit of notes.
I actually read through all the slides from 10 lectures.
10 chapters of human memory.
Judgment call at 10:30.
I have 1.5 hrs.
At least it's my last final ever.
I just want to sleep and eat.
Studied and just finished last bit of notes.
I actually read through all the slides from 10 lectures.
10 chapters of human memory.
Judgment call at 10:30.
I have 1.5 hrs.
At least it's my last final ever.
I just want to sleep and eat.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Game
Every time I'm in my "hard core" study mode, I always find myself playing back sound bytes from video games.
Every page I finish I get a point.
Every chapter I finish I get a lucky coin.
Every practice exam I finish I get an edible flower.
Hopefully the actual exam will let me win bonus point (har har).
Man I just want this to be done and over with. Tomorrow's going to be my very last final as a senior! Next quarter is just going to be a whole bunch of papers.
Every page I finish I get a point.
Every chapter I finish I get a lucky coin.
Every practice exam I finish I get an edible flower.
Hopefully the actual exam will let me win bonus point (har har).
Man I just want this to be done and over with. Tomorrow's going to be my very last final as a senior! Next quarter is just going to be a whole bunch of papers.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sarcasm
I'm not one to judge, but sometimes I can't read what people are saying online, especially when it comes to sarcasm. Out of panic I emailed my professor when I realized the date for our final was Friday. We usually meet for lecture Tuesdays and Thursdays so I figured our exam would fall on one of those days.
Here's what I emailed:
Hi Professor _________,
I was double checking EEE and it said our final is on Friday, March 19th at 10:30-12:30 pm. Friday, not Thursday. I was wondering if that was a mistake or if the date is right since our lectures are usually Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Sincerely,
Anne
Here's what my professor wrote:
Anne,
Way to stay on top of things. Not only has it been posted on the website since before the quarter began as well as on WebSoc much longer, the first slide in the last 6 lectures reminded you.
--Dr. ___________
That was total sarcasm right? Or am I wrong? If it was truly sarcasm, this gives me more of a reason to despise this class.
Here's what I emailed:
Hi Professor _________,
I was double checking EEE and it said our final is on Friday, March 19th at 10:30-12:30 pm. Friday, not Thursday. I was wondering if that was a mistake or if the date is right since our lectures are usually Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Sincerely,
Anne
Here's what my professor wrote:
Anne,
Way to stay on top of things. Not only has it been posted on the website since before the quarter began as well as on WebSoc much longer, the first slide in the last 6 lectures reminded you.
--Dr. ___________
That was total sarcasm right? Or am I wrong? If it was truly sarcasm, this gives me more of a reason to despise this class.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Emoticons
A lot of my old blog entries from high school contained a lot of the following after each sentence: =), XD, -_-;, @.@, ^_^, :O, =_=, and the classic <3. Sometimes <33. Gag me. I'm psychoanalyzing myself from 4 years ago. It's a little horrifying. I hope I've matured and stayed out of those stages.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Self-taught
I'm actually looking forward to going home next week. Next week! This quarter will finally be over and I can relax. Sort of. I think I have a fear of being unproductive. I'm feeling behind my classmates.
Well for today, out of exhaustion, I skipped class to study. It's sad because I should be learning the material in class, not just by myself. I greatly despise PowerPoints. My tuition money should not go to a professor that reads off these retched things. They take up at least 4 MB of my hard drive, which isn't much, but should be taking up a lot more space in my notebooks. It's not. Paper is obsolete. I hate having to go through 70 slides a lecture. I think out of my college career, at least half of my professors insist on relying on these slide shows. It's finicky and they just zoom by mini novels a slide, expecting us to capture them with our photographic memories. It's worse when they can't find their way out to show us a link online. My professor has habitually opened up YouTube twice every time she clicks on a video link, close PowerPoint, then reopen everything. What happened to good ol' video cassettes and DVDs? I probably learn a lot more from the TAs and the practice tests.
I'm just rambling here. And I'm a little cranky. Grumble grumble grumble...
Well for today, out of exhaustion, I skipped class to study. It's sad because I should be learning the material in class, not just by myself. I greatly despise PowerPoints. My tuition money should not go to a professor that reads off these retched things. They take up at least 4 MB of my hard drive, which isn't much, but should be taking up a lot more space in my notebooks. It's not. Paper is obsolete. I hate having to go through 70 slides a lecture. I think out of my college career, at least half of my professors insist on relying on these slide shows. It's finicky and they just zoom by mini novels a slide, expecting us to capture them with our photographic memories. It's worse when they can't find their way out to show us a link online. My professor has habitually opened up YouTube twice every time she clicks on a video link, close PowerPoint, then reopen everything. What happened to good ol' video cassettes and DVDs? I probably learn a lot more from the TAs and the practice tests.
I'm just rambling here. And I'm a little cranky. Grumble grumble grumble...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Earlier Exposure
In lighter events, 9th grade students in San Francisco have the opportunity to take ethnic studies that counts towards credit. This is based on the program that will help motivate students to apply for college. SF Gate wrote an amazing article that can be found here. I'm thrilled to see that we're branching out and trying to expand the curriculum for our young students.
Un-Racialize Us!
I meant to write this a long time ago. Like at least a year ago. This draft has been sitting in my inbox for 3 quarters now and it's about time I start updating meaningful posts.
On February 22, 2010, Hanna Guthrie posted an article about the significance of Black History Month, about it now being outdated and that we need to embrace the "modern-day form of segregation". Insert a cartoon with bulging eyes and a jaw drop complete with sound effects. Did she just what I thought she said? There's more. She argued that "focusing on everyone's ethnic background in forms of club organizations and holidays makes us racist". Since when did celebrating our efforts and representations of our heritages racist? Dismissing "holidays" such as Black History Month as a waste of time just excused decades of hate crimes, innocent deaths, and the efforts of not just the Black community but of all other minority groups to fight racism in America.
Guthrie used Raina Kelley from Newsweek as a source in attempt to voice her opinion about modern-day racism. Kelley wanted to address the issues of educating and protecting impoverished black children. Instead of having just one month dedicated to Black history, she made a statement that every month should then be about Black history to teach these children how to succeed. Her article continued on about how our country's money has been poured into funding for a greener environments than the education system. There wasn't any mention about "bemoaning the existence of the month" wastes time. That was completely out of context. You do need to teach your children about history, whether racism related or not, how else are they going to learn how mankind evolved? Histories are supposed to help us avoid our mistakes or at least remind us how to be better people.
Guthrie made our government sound as if we poured all our time and effort into this overstated month and ignore other issues at hand. I wonder if she has ever taken the time to step back and try to understand how serious racism still is in the world.
In our Asian American psychology class, our professor asked us if it was possible for our country to un-racialize our population. That's just opening a can of worms. If not race, we'd argue about beliefs, and if not beliefs, sexual orientation. There's always going to be a label that we can argue about years on end. As humans, we naturally categorize (a nicer word we can use instead of segregate). Toddlers learn to differentiate not only shapes and colors, but also sound based on what they've learned on their own. Circles go into the circle section, blue blocks go into the blue box. We've been so accustomed to organize our memories or tangible objects into different sections. You cannot ask us to suddenly dismiss the category of race and not organize it somewhere.
Guthrie had the notion that race is purely 2-sided. It's no longer between Blacks and Whites, it's within the same race, between countries of many backgrounds, religious groups, it's everywhere. She had the audacity to say that she preferred that we stop hyphenating our identities and "wishe[d] we can just all be Americans" and "accept that we live in a country that accepts people from all nationalities and backgrounds". If our country truly respects us from all backgrounds, why do they still hyphenate us? And why do we still carry those labels around? Calling everyone an American here is just rolling over racial tension. We can't hide that some of us have red hair, some have freckles, others rough hair, slanted eyes, or darker skin. There is no such prototype for what an American is supposed to look like and those physical features hold us back from being purely "American".
This only further makes my point and argument last year about why we need ethnic studies to stay, not only on college campuses, but in middle schools, high schools. You would be surprised how rigidly practical some students are when they that taking an ethnic studies course for their GE is a waste of time and tuition money. It's downright baffling to me why they could not even understand a fraction of why we need to keep classes like those. Do you not see the protests on campus that's happening right now? It's not just about tuition hikes. You have many groups of students trying to support minority groups on campus for proper employment pay and treatment. And in current events, fight hate crimes that happened in UCSD or UCD. If you watch documentaries from the 1960s or 70s, you would think our campuses had a major flashback. It's frightening to see that some people think it would be a great joke to tie nooses and hang them in public parts of a university campus or to carve a swastika on a dormitory door of a Jewish freshmen. It's definitely not a laughing matter or something to just dismiss.
On February 22, 2010, Hanna Guthrie posted an article about the significance of Black History Month, about it now being outdated and that we need to embrace the "modern-day form of segregation". Insert a cartoon with bulging eyes and a jaw drop complete with sound effects. Did she just what I thought she said? There's more. She argued that "focusing on everyone's ethnic background in forms of club organizations and holidays makes us racist". Since when did celebrating our efforts and representations of our heritages racist? Dismissing "holidays" such as Black History Month as a waste of time just excused decades of hate crimes, innocent deaths, and the efforts of not just the Black community but of all other minority groups to fight racism in America.
Guthrie used Raina Kelley from Newsweek as a source in attempt to voice her opinion about modern-day racism. Kelley wanted to address the issues of educating and protecting impoverished black children. Instead of having just one month dedicated to Black history, she made a statement that every month should then be about Black history to teach these children how to succeed. Her article continued on about how our country's money has been poured into funding for a greener environments than the education system. There wasn't any mention about "bemoaning the existence of the month" wastes time. That was completely out of context. You do need to teach your children about history, whether racism related or not, how else are they going to learn how mankind evolved? Histories are supposed to help us avoid our mistakes or at least remind us how to be better people.
Guthrie made our government sound as if we poured all our time and effort into this overstated month and ignore other issues at hand. I wonder if she has ever taken the time to step back and try to understand how serious racism still is in the world.
In our Asian American psychology class, our professor asked us if it was possible for our country to un-racialize our population. That's just opening a can of worms. If not race, we'd argue about beliefs, and if not beliefs, sexual orientation. There's always going to be a label that we can argue about years on end. As humans, we naturally categorize (a nicer word we can use instead of segregate). Toddlers learn to differentiate not only shapes and colors, but also sound based on what they've learned on their own. Circles go into the circle section, blue blocks go into the blue box. We've been so accustomed to organize our memories or tangible objects into different sections. You cannot ask us to suddenly dismiss the category of race and not organize it somewhere.
Guthrie had the notion that race is purely 2-sided. It's no longer between Blacks and Whites, it's within the same race, between countries of many backgrounds, religious groups, it's everywhere. She had the audacity to say that she preferred that we stop hyphenating our identities and "wishe[d] we can just all be Americans" and "accept that we live in a country that accepts people from all nationalities and backgrounds". If our country truly respects us from all backgrounds, why do they still hyphenate us? And why do we still carry those labels around? Calling everyone an American here is just rolling over racial tension. We can't hide that some of us have red hair, some have freckles, others rough hair, slanted eyes, or darker skin. There is no such prototype for what an American is supposed to look like and those physical features hold us back from being purely "American".
This only further makes my point and argument last year about why we need ethnic studies to stay, not only on college campuses, but in middle schools, high schools. You would be surprised how rigidly practical some students are when they that taking an ethnic studies course for their GE is a waste of time and tuition money. It's downright baffling to me why they could not even understand a fraction of why we need to keep classes like those. Do you not see the protests on campus that's happening right now? It's not just about tuition hikes. You have many groups of students trying to support minority groups on campus for proper employment pay and treatment. And in current events, fight hate crimes that happened in UCSD or UCD. If you watch documentaries from the 1960s or 70s, you would think our campuses had a major flashback. It's frightening to see that some people think it would be a great joke to tie nooses and hang them in public parts of a university campus or to carve a swastika on a dormitory door of a Jewish freshmen. It's definitely not a laughing matter or something to just dismiss.
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