...today im sitting here in the lab trying to kill time as usual. I havent yet revised my rough draft for the research paper. Probably tonight or at the latest tomorrow night ill revise my rough draft to get it looked at on wenesday. And then it is due on thursday morning. By then ill have the two tutor reviews and the peer reviews (which I think are pointless)..my rough drafts and sources with most importantly the final draft.
In class its pretty chill as most of the time...at first it didnt really seem like it, but I have actually learned alot in this class. In between Mr. Murphys long digresions I do pay attention and actually learn lol. Hopefully our last few weeks will go off without a hitch. It should in this class, but in some of my other classes im a little worried about that.
Last week I recieved a letter in the mail with my student id and everything to riverside cc. I was and still am pretty excited. Ill be taking some online classes during winter semester due to all the cuts here at cod. Ill be taking winter semester 2010, summer 2010, and winter 2011 there online. That will let me graduate with my associates after the winter 2011 semester. After that its off to the navy for me. Soooooooo staoked for that : )
-kyle
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
As time goes on...
into the semester I get a hang of things more and more. Getting used to the teaching styles of teachers and learning to some what "play the game." I am doing pretty good in all my classes. This week is a short week..only three days this week. Wednesday is veterans day so we have that day off then we go back on Thursday which is really stupid. I am here in the lab currently and its pretty boring as always. I'm just trying to kill some time by typing this blog entry really slow. I plan on being here for about another hour and a half at least. I need to get my research paper checked by one of the tutors. I need two of the tutor forms so ill need to come in here another time before thanksgiving comes. And ill be doing the exact same thing next Monday that I'm doing today. Its the never ending cycle of work and school...the story of my life for the next year and couple months of my life. Blah Blah Blah trying to waste time is alot harder than it seems.
One thing that I wanted to talk about is the data base that Mr. Murphy told us to check out. In my opinion it is a piece of garbage. I have a semi-common topic that I am researching and it gives me horrible sources. Mr. Murphy said if i dont like that database, to try another one. The only thing is that I dont know of any other data bases aside from wikipedia. And I dont know why but wikipedia is really frowned upon when using it has a source.
Ok so I just had the tutor look at my paper and I didnt have too many issues except for the citing in my paper. I just need to look that up in the hackers rules for writing handbook. Also he said that i need to have all the quotations in my paper in conjunction with my sentances. So tonight or tomorrow night I will make some changes to my paper and probably not until next monday will I get my paper checked again.
-kyle
One thing that I wanted to talk about is the data base that Mr. Murphy told us to check out. In my opinion it is a piece of garbage. I have a semi-common topic that I am researching and it gives me horrible sources. Mr. Murphy said if i dont like that database, to try another one. The only thing is that I dont know of any other data bases aside from wikipedia. And I dont know why but wikipedia is really frowned upon when using it has a source.
Ok so I just had the tutor look at my paper and I didnt have too many issues except for the citing in my paper. I just need to look that up in the hackers rules for writing handbook. Also he said that i need to have all the quotations in my paper in conjunction with my sentances. So tonight or tomorrow night I will make some changes to my paper and probably not until next monday will I get my paper checked again.
-kyle
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Quotationsss : )
"Pain is only weakness leaving the body."
This is a quote that I used to live my life by back in my wrestling days. Would beat on each other in practice and we would be dead tired at the end of each practice. I would always be tired from cutting mass amounts of weight every week. My weight fluctuated from 155lb to 135lb every week. The highest I ever got in weight was about 160lb. And the lowest I ever got was about 134lb in my senior year. I lived by this quote all throughout wrestling season that was all throughout high school. I started wrestling in eighth grade. I wish I would have started earlier in my life. But ohhh well...
Now that I'm out of high school I haven't really thought about this quote anymore. I am no longer wrestling because there is no team here at cod. And with my current life plans I will probably never wrestle competitively again : ( But I really need a sport to do because I'm going crazy just sitting doing nothing. Ill probably do some mma before I leave to the navy. Mma consists of wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, ju jitsu in all the forms that these come in. Currently with my super busy schedule all I really have time for is to go running every now and then. All I wish for in my lifetime is to just stay fit and not get fat!
I was going to write about the quote " The early bird gets the worm." But someone else choose that and I wanted something that no one else had. So I choose this. But for the early bird I was going to talk about how you need to come early to school in order to get a parking spot. Also the first days of school you need to come early in order to get a seat. And then the program ACES from cod gives me priority one registration...as a freshman : b
This lab is really pretty boring...
-kyle
This is a quote that I used to live my life by back in my wrestling days. Would beat on each other in practice and we would be dead tired at the end of each practice. I would always be tired from cutting mass amounts of weight every week. My weight fluctuated from 155lb to 135lb every week. The highest I ever got in weight was about 160lb. And the lowest I ever got was about 134lb in my senior year. I lived by this quote all throughout wrestling season that was all throughout high school. I started wrestling in eighth grade. I wish I would have started earlier in my life. But ohhh well...
Now that I'm out of high school I haven't really thought about this quote anymore. I am no longer wrestling because there is no team here at cod. And with my current life plans I will probably never wrestle competitively again : ( But I really need a sport to do because I'm going crazy just sitting doing nothing. Ill probably do some mma before I leave to the navy. Mma consists of wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, ju jitsu in all the forms that these come in. Currently with my super busy schedule all I really have time for is to go running every now and then. All I wish for in my lifetime is to just stay fit and not get fat!
I was going to write about the quote " The early bird gets the worm." But someone else choose that and I wanted something that no one else had. So I choose this. But for the early bird I was going to talk about how you need to come early to school in order to get a parking spot. Also the first days of school you need to come early in order to get a seat. And then the program ACES from cod gives me priority one registration...as a freshman : b
This lab is really pretty boring...
-kyle
Monday, November 2, 2009
Progress on research paper..
Career research paper...
Its coming along, they call it a rough draft for a reason. Overall I think my paper is pretty decent. According to Mr. Murphy I need to "fix in text!" I don't really know what he means when he circled the source that I was quoting or using stats from. He gave me a 4% out of 5% and I think this is ridiculous. It was turned in on time and more than five pages long. There was hardly any grammar mistakes. Ohhh well, what can I do? One problem that I am having is getting my last name to appear at the top of the page in the right hand corner. My word program wont give me the option to put it there. I think if anything ill just have to type it in manually. And Ill probably end up getting another source or two. My sister as well as Mr. Murphy said that many teachers hate wikipedia. And of course that was one of my sources. Soo I guess ill check out the databases offered by the college. I think my sources are cited correctly...he didn't mark me down for that. Except that I spaced it too much.
Last Thursday we were presenting our blogs in class. Not that many people presented, only a handful. Mr. Murphy asked alot of people to present theirs but most of them didn't have one at all. That or they didn't have much and it would have been an embarrassment to present that. I was a little worried that I was not going to have alot or enough, but compared to everyone else I had the same amount or even more. So I'm not too worried about the blog anymore. I'm getting in a decent amount of hours into the lab. By the end of today I should have around a total of ten hours in. We are supposed to have around sixteen. Although I have not done any of the "all write" program exercises. But Mr. Murphy is not stressing to us about that at all so I'm not going to worry about it.
Last Thursday we also had our midterm, we had to give a summary and our opinion of an essay. It had to be two pages long, not double spaced. It took me a while to get it done but all the work that I put in will pay off for my grade. I got a good grade on a very similar assignment that we did the previous week. I was really stressing about this because I knew that it was a big day. Our midterm was that day as well as our essay was due that day. But I'm really glad that its over.
-kyle
Its coming along, they call it a rough draft for a reason. Overall I think my paper is pretty decent. According to Mr. Murphy I need to "fix in text!" I don't really know what he means when he circled the source that I was quoting or using stats from. He gave me a 4% out of 5% and I think this is ridiculous. It was turned in on time and more than five pages long. There was hardly any grammar mistakes. Ohhh well, what can I do? One problem that I am having is getting my last name to appear at the top of the page in the right hand corner. My word program wont give me the option to put it there. I think if anything ill just have to type it in manually. And Ill probably end up getting another source or two. My sister as well as Mr. Murphy said that many teachers hate wikipedia. And of course that was one of my sources. Soo I guess ill check out the databases offered by the college. I think my sources are cited correctly...he didn't mark me down for that. Except that I spaced it too much.
Last Thursday we were presenting our blogs in class. Not that many people presented, only a handful. Mr. Murphy asked alot of people to present theirs but most of them didn't have one at all. That or they didn't have much and it would have been an embarrassment to present that. I was a little worried that I was not going to have alot or enough, but compared to everyone else I had the same amount or even more. So I'm not too worried about the blog anymore. I'm getting in a decent amount of hours into the lab. By the end of today I should have around a total of ten hours in. We are supposed to have around sixteen. Although I have not done any of the "all write" program exercises. But Mr. Murphy is not stressing to us about that at all so I'm not going to worry about it.
Last Thursday we also had our midterm, we had to give a summary and our opinion of an essay. It had to be two pages long, not double spaced. It took me a while to get it done but all the work that I put in will pay off for my grade. I got a good grade on a very similar assignment that we did the previous week. I was really stressing about this because I knew that it was a big day. Our midterm was that day as well as our essay was due that day. But I'm really glad that its over.
-kyle
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