As some of you may know, I am a senior this year. And here at the end of my learning career, I’ve come to realize that I love passive learning. In all my classes this year, we (the students) have had to present most of the information learned. We have to dig around in our books and find important info, group it all together, find other information to clarify things, and then pull together some kind of presentation to give in front of our class. Because of this semester, it has occurred to me that this is not my favorite way of having class. I would much rather hear someone talk about something and me sit there and soak it in. One of the clubs I am in, Alphi Chi, meets to discuss various topics of interest to someone. Each week we go in and hear about some big project that someone has been working on in their classes. I absolutely love these meetings because it is so cool to hear what they have to say. I am going to miss the passive learning that is associated with school. After next semester I will be leaving school and pushed into the active learning - the part where I have to do something in order to learn things. Maybe that makes me a lazy learner. What do yall think?
This is the part of the semester that makes me very anxious. It’s like I see the end, but at the same time it seems like it will never get here. I’m talking about finals week and the long-awaited winter break. All of my classes are winding down, and the big projects and papers and whatnot are becoming due. Why is it that every professor thinks it’s better to keep the big stuff until the end of semester? Whatever…I have to do them and turn them in to get the grade - which is going to be good, by the way. The good news is that one of my classes does not have a final…at least I hope that is good news! Oh well…ciao!
So this is my first ever time to write in a blog. Yay! I’m sure it’ll be fun…I just haven’t ever done it before. But I guess that’s what college is all about: new experiences and learning to do things you wouldn’t have thought of before. I wonder what else is going to come my way that I’m not expecting to learn…who knows! So I’m sure that in the future I will have much more interesting things to write about other than being unexeperienced, but for now, this will have to do. Ciao!
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When the whole Facebook epidemic hit a few years ago, everyone warned me that if I got it, I’d be addicted. I’m sad to say that they were right. Yet, the creators of Facebook just couldn’t leave good enough alone; they had to make it “better”. First came the Mini-Feed, which created tons of controversy as it showed practically every detail about changes made to “friends” pages, displayed wall-to-walls, etc. And now, there are all of these crazy applications that can be added to your profile page. When I go to look at a friend’s wall, I have to scroll down for practically two minutes because of all the applications they’ve added to their page. Some of the applications are fun…..the SuperPoke!, Graffiti Wall, Greek Family Tree….and others just seem a little strange. I keep getting invitations to add the Zombie and Vampire Slayer apps….to me, that qualifies as strange. But hey, maybe I’m completely alone in these opinions…comments, anyone?
No not really. I actually hate mohawk haircuts, and it seems that a lot of people are starting to get them again. I say a lot, but just a few of them seems like a lot. So just because I had never had one before and wanted to officially be able to say that I didn’t really like them, I got one. Yep…see I have had a buzzed hair cut pretty reguarly lately, so it didn’t start out weird, but then there is the fin thing that sticks up. It was just gonna be a joke, but I’ve gotten some pretty funny reactions to it. The first response from one of my professors was, “What? Are you getting ready for your debut in the World Wrestling Federation?” Don’t ask me what that means, it’s just funny to hear a professor say this. So actually, it is kinda fun to have a mohawk, but I would only caution one per lifetime. It’s fun for maybe a week, but for some reason people just get really uncomfortable around them.
This coming weekend will be one of the busiest weekends of the year, second only to Scottish Fest in the spring; it’s Homecoming here at Lyon! The actual Homecoming activities don’t begin until Friday afternoon, but we’ve had Homecoming stuff going on all week. The annual Window Painting Contest in Ed’s went well as usual….if you haven’t checked it out, you definitely should. Today at lunch, I caught a glimpse of the ogre from Shrek and the pumpkin carriage from Cinderella…very interesting stuff. Also, the ever-popular “Hoop Dreams” will be held tonight in the gym. The Scots and Pipers Basketball team will play some scrimmage games; there are drawings for all sorts of prizes and opportunities for quite a bit of audience participation.
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You know those bad dreams you sometimes have the night before a big test? Where in your dream, you wake up and realize your alarm didn’t go off and you’re now late for your test? Well, in my three years of college, I’ve had many dreams (actually, nightmares) about this, but it’s never actually happened. But as the saying goes, there’s a first for everything.
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So, when I arrived (a little late, as always) for Molecular Bio lab last week , there was a sticky note on the lab door that said, “Katee, we have gone to the chapel to climb to the top. Meet us there.” I wasn’t exactly sure what Dr. Ong was thinking, but anything was better than beginning the paper presentation we were supposed to be doing. I was assuming that we were going to climb to “The Room” in the Brown Chapel, so I was a little excited because I had never been up there. You hear lots of rumors about that room….it’s one of those locked places that you’re not suppose to go into and technically shouldn’t be able to get into, but everyone does it anyway.
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Well unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the release of the newest edition in the nerd hit series, Halo 3. I guess I don’t have a whole lot of room to talk since I’ve played it as well. People, mostly guys, have been rockin aliens left and right, and taking it to multiplayer with other students across the college LAN. It’s a pretty fun game to play every now and again, but it’s funny to hear the stories of the people who take gaming a little too seriously and end up holed up in their rooms for a week or so. Anyway, have fun doin what you do, just don’t let it fail you outta school.
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Well things are all good for the year so far; Senior year has gotten a lot more busy than I thought it would be though. SGA meetings and being a committee chair as well as all my other obligations with frat and other clubs. Luckily classwork hasn’t been ridiculous. All the while though I’ve had something hanging around in the back of my mind that I rarely forgot about - my MCAT score.
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