1) Have you ever felt overstressed in school? If so, what techniques do you use to relieve stress?
I feel stressed during some point almost everyday. From schoolwork to papers and tests, but I have to be prepared for the stress because I came into college expecting stress. The main thing I do to relieve some stress is exercises or lifting weights because I can release some steam. Also, I found out that eating food and drinking water makes me focus and relieves any worries I had on an assignment and taking a shower relieves stress because it wakes you up and makes you feel fresh.
2) Have you ever cheated on a paper or a test?
Personally, I haven’t tried to cheat in college yet because I realize that it is not worth it. The only time I even came close was when I forgot to cite the right source on a paper, and paid for it on my grade even though it was not on purpose. I think it is just human nature to cheat because everyone is looking for that extra edge to get ahead of the other competition.
3) Rebekah realized that instead of using a planner, it was better to plan your schedule in advance, and know your professors and their expectations. What do you do to sharpen your time management skills?
In high school and in college, I never used a daily planner. Writing stuff in my planner never seemed to keep me organized for some reason, so I always used my phone in case I had important dates to remember. To manage my time better, I usually will plan at least fifteen minutes in between appointments just in case I run over my time limit.
4) Just in the first semester of college, do you think your time management skills have grown?
I definitely think my time management skills have grown, because I have been able to handle the stress of a first year student in college. At the beginning of college, I was over whelmed with the workload my professors gave me, but overtime, college has been getting easier and easier and I figure out my professors tendencies. I think I had a difficult time keeping up with school in the beginning because in high school I was not used to studying, and my whole senior year I never had homework.
Rebekah Nathan uses Helen Horowitz’s historical text Campus Life to help introduce college campus cultural traditions. Rebekah uses this text to interpret the dynamics in college life in details of what she has observed so far while living on campus. Rebekah then goes into talking about the importance of time management and a daily planner. She discovered through her observations that a daily planner was not the key to time management but it was controlling college by shaping schedules, taming professors, and limiting workload. She then goes into talking about how to perfect ones’ schedule and how picking classes that fit your biological clock and have good professor will help manage stress and time. This whole chapter talks about the art of college management and how a student will develop it over time.
Vocabulary by Jessica Dulli
1. paradigm (p.107)- a set of forms all of which contain a particular element
2. monolithic (p.107)- characterized by massiveness, total uniformity, rigidity, invulnerability
3. perturbed (p.107)- to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate
4. salient (p.107)- prominant or conspicuous
5. bureoned (p.109)- to grow or develop quickly; fluorish
6. accolades (p.108)- any award, honor, or laudatory notice
7. purveying (p.108)- to provide, furnish, or supply
8. repudiated (p.109)- to reject as having no authority or binding force
9. predilections (p.111)- a tendency to think favorably of something in particular
10. relegating (p.121)- to assign or refer (something) to a particular class or kind
Summerizer by Mark Van Den Broeke
This chapter is very interesting in the fact that it gives a lot of insight about college students and course-work. Rebekah Nathan first talks about how students need to budget their time wisely in college. She explains how students are torn between all the offerings of college such as program offerings, office hours of professors, extra curriculars, and work. The students make sacrifices to fit all this into their busy schedule along with homework as they set priorities for themselves. Rebekah explains college students and the labels that they fall under as well such as; punks, geeks, Goths, and the rebels known as feminists and environmentalists. A lot of information from outside sources is incorporated into this chapter as well as she describes the national statistics of students who cheat and how some define cheating, whether it be looking at someone else’s test, working on homework with others, or simply having someone else sign you in for class if the student does not want to go. She pulls all this together by explaining how students try to make more time in their busy schedules by cheating or skipping every now and then. Lastly, she describes the senior students and how they have grown over the years to cheat less and how they have learned to have less “fun” because they need to make time for more important things in their schedules such as work and school.
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