Chapter 2 section 5. Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments by Erin Mallants Rodriguez

In this chapter Erin goes on to explain the gender gap in enrollments, she talks about how women are attending college more than men. She gives examples such as statisics to back her arguments and even uses witnesses to help express her point. One person that she uses in her article is a getntleman name Albert Cruz he says tha he chose to forgo college for two reasons "work would inteferev with classes" and hes already making "more money than some people who go to college." Personally i believe that albert is making the right decision, he has a job that pays well enoigh for him and for his family (if he has one). I believe that my advice is sound because as a man, your sole purpose i life is to provide for your family and he is able to do this with his current job.

Chapter 2: section: 6. Earning and learning: are student working too much? by Martin Kramer

Kramer talks about student attending college in the early 1990s as members of the "overschedule generation." In this chapter he goes on to talk about how students are working too much, so much that they are mssing out on what a college is all about. He then goes on to talk about how students are suffering from this, he gives many examples and statistics to back is assumptions. Personally I do feel that I am part of that overschedule generation. Being a Biology major is not the easiest thing the world, there is a lot of reading, a lot of homework and a lot of work to do in such a small amoiunt of time. Not to mention that it is only going to get harder as time goes by. A few thigns that i could do to ease my schedule is drop out of one of my clubs, and spend a little more time in my school work and less time socializing.

Making connection : chapter 3. Question 3

A lot of essays on this chapter suggest a couple of things that student can do to enhance their experience as a college student. these are a couple of things that I personally do to attempt to pass school:

• I try to write down all the assignments and the due dates so I wont forget them
• I try to label all of my work so I wont lose it
• I have separate folders for each class
• I have highlighters so I that I can highlight important information in my textbooks

I am successful when I follow these guidelines because they help me to stay organized and they help me not forget when assignments are due. Another thing that they help me do is remember certain information that is important for test or quizzes. While these guidelines help me in school, I am still not doing as good as I should be, these are a few things that I could do in order to improve in school

• make a calendar in order to organize my weekly schedule
• show up to class everyday
• do homework/ assingments as soon as they are due and not leave them for the last minute
• but most important, I need to stop being lazy

Making Connection: Chapter 3. Question 2

Both Julie Gilbert in "ADHD": A Cloud Lifted" and Malcom X in "Saved" talked about the huge impact that reading had in their life. For Gilbert, she learned new ways to perceive and understand ADHD. As for Malcom reading the dictionary and an endless amount of books help set him free from the enslavement set on his mind by the white men. As for me, reading has had a big impact as well. We live in a world where knowledge is the key to sucess. I have read many books on biographies of people, on wars and even fantasies book. One of my first books that I rememeber reading at a young book was "A Survivors Guide" I cant recall the author. The book was about 100 pages long and it talked about basic ways to survive in case you were ever dropped on a desserted island. This book gavwe me so many tips, some were on how to collect water, what type of berries to eat, where people should build a camp fire and many other things. Although, if I ever get dropped on a deserted island my chances are slim to none. After reading this book I feel that my chances went from 0%  of a survival rate to 5%. So its better than not knowing anything about being desserted.

Chapter 3: section 3: Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway

April 16 was the due date for my final project of my english class. I can recall on April 15 panicking about my assigment as it was worth 20% of my final grade. I then had two options, either copy whatever I found in the internet and get a good grade or stay up all night and hope to finish before sunrise. So I began copying all that I could from the internet  and finished about 3 in the morning. The next morning, I rememeber turning in my assingment as if I had not plaigarisied.  Aweek later, I remember getting my assingment back and being happy that I received  a 90. About a year later, I took an english class in my high school, and we we're learning about plaigarising. It was there that I realised that I could have gotten in so much trouble. After taking that class i will never plaigarise again.

Chapter 3: Log On to Learning by Jodi Morse

In this chapter, Morse talks about her first day of school and how she always dreaded it. I have always been the same way, but especially my first day of college. Since I can remember I have always been a pretty shy person, so coming to a college where I didn't know anyone wasn't the easiest transition in the world for me. My first day of college was filled with a lot of nail-bitting, concerns and anxiety like I never experienced before. Hundreds of faces I never seen before, I just wanted to curl up into a small ball and go back to high school, where the world seemed so tiny. I arrived at Plattsburgh with my mom, worried whether I was going to get a psycho for a roommate or if I was even going to make any friends. As the day progressed and I went to my classes, I eased up a lot more, after meeting my teachers and actually making a couple of friends I realized that college wasn’t going to be as bad as I first thought it was going to be.

Chapter 3: From Single Mother to Sucessful Student by Danielle Barbuto

In this chapter, Danielle Barbuto gives very helpful advice on how to be a successful college student, with a part-time job who is raising a 15 month year old baby on her own. Although most of her advice is directed towards single mothers and people who have learning disabilities, there are still many helpful tips that the average person attending college can take from this. One example of this is when she states “you have to make sure you are organized at home, at work, at school, and even in your car.” this is very helpful tip for anyone because if you are not organized you can feel very overwhelmed, and the less stress that people have, the better they can focus on their present task. Another helpful advice that she gave was when she wrote “Label everything and find a safe spot to keep your papers.” this advices is very helpful to anyone because labeling your work can help you stay organized and even help you finish your work at a faster rate. These two advices can apply to everyone whether you are college with a learning disability or not.

 

Chapter 3: Saved by Malcom X

In this chapter Malcolm X states that curiosity is a great motivation for learning, I believe this to be true. One example of this is myself, I have an enormous curiosity for UFOS’ and Extraterrestrials. My curiosity extends to virtually an obsession, I habitually spend many hours reading books that I purchase and articles online about UFOS’, I just can’t seem to learn enough about aliens. I often have debates with my friends about the existence of extraterrestrials, and other related topics. Just like Malcolm X  says “Bimbi first made me feel envious of his stock of knowledge”, my grandfather similarly embedded this envy of knowledge on to me. He knew everything that there was to know about aliens and it made me curious to learn and expand my knowledge. Ever since then I have not stopped learning about aliens. Today I can rattle off dates, events and conspiracy theories off the top of my head with little to no help from outside knowledge about everything that is UFO or extraterrestrial related.

Chapter 3: Good and Bad Procrastination by Paul Graham

In this section instead of providing advice on how not to procrastinate, Graham offers advice on how to do it well. Graham starts of by saying that there are three variants of procrastination. He states “ you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more  important. The last type, I’d argue, is good procrastination.”  I agree with Paul's statement because it is human nature that forces us to be lazy, so finding a cure for procrastination is basically impossible. Therefore we need to be a type (c) procrastinator, this procrastinator he calls the “absent minded professor.” This is the professor who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he is going while he is thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another. He writes that the most impressive people he knows are all type (c) procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff. “Small stuff” as he calls it, is any work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary, for example doing your laundry, shaving, cleaning the house- basically anything that might be called an errand. To sum it all up, good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.

Chapter 3: ADHD: The Cloud Lifted

Questions for writing and discussion:

2. Personally, I loved the way that Julie Gilbert began writing her essay. Although the opening sentence was misleading to the rest of her essay, it really intrigued me and captured all of my attention. It forced me to ask questions about what she was referring to when she stated "I'll never forget sitting in the child psychology ward of floating Hospital in Boston. I was ten." I began to ponder on why a ten year old girl would have to be in a psychology ward. Was she crazy, did she murder another human, was she mentally challenged? all of these questions fluttered my mind as I continued to read the rest of her essay. Later on I would come to realize that she was neither crazy nor a murderer, but actually a unique individual who the world misunderstood.

In the essay, Julie Gilbert argues that students with ADHD are “overmedicated and misunderstood.” I could not agree with her anymore. While I was a summer camp teacher in the summer of 2015, I had a student named Marcus, within a few days of first meeting him I knew that he was different from the other students. Marcus was very disruptive, loud and he would not stay focus for more than two minutes. A week after camp began, his mother approached me and explained to me that Marcus had ADHD. I was not qualified to teach students with ADHD and Marcus being my first student that had ADHD, it was very difficult for me to deal with him, and understand him and I found myself getting frustrated with him very easily. As the summer went on, and I talked to his mother every day about him she would help me understand him better. She gave me tips on what to do when he would not pay attention, and tips on how to calm him down. Gilbert points out that most kids that have ADHD also have above genius intelligence, indeed this is very true. Marcus excelled in the classroom, on Fridays we would do multiplication tables and while the other students were still sharpening their pencils, Marcus would be done with his assignment and jumping around on his chair. By the end of the summer I understood Marcus a lot better and why he acted in the way that he did. Marcus had grown on me. I even developed an emotional attachment to him and I was sad to see that summer camp was coming to a conclusion. Marcus taught me that students with ADHD are very intelligent, unique individuals who the world misunderstands.