So first of all, lets answer my “5 Lies and 1 Truth” blog last week. Several of you got it correct than I DO have my A.S. degree. I finished that up in 2009 for Fire Technology. Everything else would be true if I tweaked a word or two.
This week’s blog topic seems to be a result from a blog I posted a few weeks ago about too much homework. Because I posted my feelings about the work load from this semester last week, I will answer the other questions. So what do I like about this semester? There are actually several good things about this semester. The new friends I have made are great. In most of the general education classes I take, I don’t talk to many people because we don’t seem to have the same interests so it’s hard to keep talking to them. The English class seems like one big family of friends. Everyone seems to talk to everyone which is nice. My other classes seem to be too anti social for my taste. Another good thing is my public speaking skills have improved a lot because of my speech class.
So what is bugging me about this semester besides the work load? I would have to say teachers that cancel class without telling us or sending an email to the students saying there won’t be class 30 minutes before class begins. Then the next day they say, “Well I sent an email. You need to check you email.” I am coming from Simi Valley so I don’t have time to check my email before school. I get up, get ready, and come to class. A 24-hour notice would be nice. It makes me want to punch those teachers in the face when they say things like that. Anyways, that’s the other thing that is bothering me a lot this semester.
So what keeps me motivated even though this is a tough semester? I would have to say that I keep telling myself it’s my last here at OC. I also think of each day that ends, is one more day done of this semester. We are basically at the start of the home stretch. Finals use to bother me but now I look forward to them because it’s the end of that class for good. I know once I walk out after the final I am done. After this semester I am either going through the fire academy or looking for a bigger and better EMT job in Los Angeles.
So that is what I like about this semester, what bothers me about it, and what keeps me motivated. If people think we still have a longs ways to go, think of it this way, we are 11 weeks down and have 6 left including finals.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
5 Lies & 1 Truth (blog 10)
1. I already have my AS degree.
2. I am an only child.
3. I was born and raised in Oxnard.
4. I have a son.
5. I have been in a minor place crash.
6. I own 2 cars.
2. I am an only child.
3. I was born and raised in Oxnard.
4. I have a son.
5. I have been in a minor place crash.
6. I own 2 cars.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Too Much HOMEWORK!!! (Blog 9)
My blog for this week is about too much homework. I know we are in college and expect some challenges but come on, we all have lives outside of school. I have couple jobs and things around the house to get done but I can’t because I have so much homework to do. I actually had to turn down work, even though I need the money, just because I had so much homework to do. We don’t need 10-15 hours of homework a week to learn; we get up early every morning and come to class so we can learn. I like the classes that give 1-2 assignments a semester. Those teachers grade those asignments hard but at least it gives us time outside of school to do what we need to do. It seems like I am doing less work in my classes and more work at home. If that’s the case, the college should just have nothing but online classes since we are doing more work at home anyways. Some of the work I do for my classes don’t even relate to the subject but the instructors act crazy if you don’t do the assignment.
The other problem I have is the grading. Like I said before, the teachers that give one or two assignments a semester do grade those one or two hard which I understand. I hate the ones that give tons of work each week and grade each one hard. They ask why we didn’t do a better job and I have told them it was because I am getting too much homework and try to turn in something. Rather get a few points on an assignment than no points.
What the point I was trying to make was either give us a couple assignments we get graded fairly hard on but have time to do or several assignments a semester that don’t take long to do and we get graded fairly easy on.
The other problem I have is the grading. Like I said before, the teachers that give one or two assignments a semester do grade those one or two hard which I understand. I hate the ones that give tons of work each week and grade each one hard. They ask why we didn’t do a better job and I have told them it was because I am getting too much homework and try to turn in something. Rather get a few points on an assignment than no points.
What the point I was trying to make was either give us a couple assignments we get graded fairly hard on but have time to do or several assignments a semester that don’t take long to do and we get graded fairly easy on.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Should Marijuana laws be relaxed? (Blog 8)
So the question I decided to answer and give my opinion on is “Should marijuana laws be relaxed?” and my response to that is NO! I’ll start out by giving you my opinion on both Paul Armentano (Pro) and Robert DuPont’s (Con) answers to the question. Then I will give my own thoughts about why the laws about marijuana should not only be enforced but also be enforced even more than it is right now.
Lets start with Armentano’s point of view. I don’t agree with the way he thinks about it. He is basically saying that since a lot of people use it in some way that it should be legal to use. That is just a dump way to think about things. Just because a lot of people do something wrong doesn’t mean it should be legal. If lots of people robbed other people, should we make it legal to steal or rob from other people? He makes another point that the government spends so much money on the fight against it and that they should make it legal so they wouldn’t have to. I say if the people would stop using/selling it, the government wouldn’t have to spend all that money on fighting it.
DuPont has lots of points about how you don’t really get into that much trouble if you are caught with it. You get more into trouble if you are selling it. That is true but I don’t see why using it is less bad than selling it. I’m not saying the people should that use it should get into lots more trouble but make it equal. He also states all the health problems users get from what else, using it. Ok, if people want to harm their own bodies in their own homes that’s one thing but when they are out in public I don’t want to smell that stuff or have to inhale the smoke. That’s my views on those two interviews.
My opinion is if people were able to obey the law and only use it in their homes, I’d be fine with it but they aren’t. I know that once the government makes it legal people are going to get high and then drive their cars. That’s what worries me is I’ll be going home from a long day of work and get hit by someone that is under the influence. Just like drunk driving, the person doing the right thing will get injured or killed and the person breaking the law will walk away without a care in the world. So that is my opinion of marijuana in short. I could go on but this is getting too long as it is.
Lets start with Armentano’s point of view. I don’t agree with the way he thinks about it. He is basically saying that since a lot of people use it in some way that it should be legal to use. That is just a dump way to think about things. Just because a lot of people do something wrong doesn’t mean it should be legal. If lots of people robbed other people, should we make it legal to steal or rob from other people? He makes another point that the government spends so much money on the fight against it and that they should make it legal so they wouldn’t have to. I say if the people would stop using/selling it, the government wouldn’t have to spend all that money on fighting it.
DuPont has lots of points about how you don’t really get into that much trouble if you are caught with it. You get more into trouble if you are selling it. That is true but I don’t see why using it is less bad than selling it. I’m not saying the people should that use it should get into lots more trouble but make it equal. He also states all the health problems users get from what else, using it. Ok, if people want to harm their own bodies in their own homes that’s one thing but when they are out in public I don’t want to smell that stuff or have to inhale the smoke. That’s my views on those two interviews.
My opinion is if people were able to obey the law and only use it in their homes, I’d be fine with it but they aren’t. I know that once the government makes it legal people are going to get high and then drive their cars. That’s what worries me is I’ll be going home from a long day of work and get hit by someone that is under the influence. Just like drunk driving, the person doing the right thing will get injured or killed and the person breaking the law will walk away without a care in the world. So that is my opinion of marijuana in short. I could go on but this is getting too long as it is.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Family (Blog 7)
What is family? Family is something everyone has. It could be the normal mom and dad family. It could be close friends and their families. Some people even consider their pets as part of the family which I would agree with. Yes, people might say, “I never had a family growing up.” They might not have grown up with them but they still had a dad and a mom even if they never really knew them. Those people also have aunts and uncles somewhere in the world whether they know them or not.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with both my parents, two brothers and one sister. To some people that might not be anything special while others have said that I am lucky to have grown up with all of them because they just had one parent growing up or lived with other people like grandparents or foster parents. I consider other people lucky to have their grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles around them during their childhood. All my family like that live 2,000 miles away so I don’t get to see or talk to them much. I could never go to a relative’s house for the holidays or help celebrate a birthday with them. Last time I got to see any of them was back in 2002. To me they were all strangers when I finally did get to see them again because I moved away from them right before my fourth birthday. Just recently I have been able to talk to a few of my family members because of Facebook. It’s nice because I am getting to know some of them all over again. It is still a little weird calling them family because I don’t know them and I seem to talk to them more like friends than family. I am also asking certain family members how I am related to them because there are so many.
Now I do have one person right here in California that is not related to me by blood but we are so close we consider each other family. We went to high school together but didn’t really know each other then. It was after high school that we were introduced to each other from a mutual friend and ever since then we haven’t gone more than 3 days without talking to each other in 5 years.
So no matter how you want to look at it, I say that everyone has family in some way or another.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with both my parents, two brothers and one sister. To some people that might not be anything special while others have said that I am lucky to have grown up with all of them because they just had one parent growing up or lived with other people like grandparents or foster parents. I consider other people lucky to have their grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles around them during their childhood. All my family like that live 2,000 miles away so I don’t get to see or talk to them much. I could never go to a relative’s house for the holidays or help celebrate a birthday with them. Last time I got to see any of them was back in 2002. To me they were all strangers when I finally did get to see them again because I moved away from them right before my fourth birthday. Just recently I have been able to talk to a few of my family members because of Facebook. It’s nice because I am getting to know some of them all over again. It is still a little weird calling them family because I don’t know them and I seem to talk to them more like friends than family. I am also asking certain family members how I am related to them because there are so many.
Now I do have one person right here in California that is not related to me by blood but we are so close we consider each other family. We went to high school together but didn’t really know each other then. It was after high school that we were introduced to each other from a mutual friend and ever since then we haven’t gone more than 3 days without talking to each other in 5 years.
So no matter how you want to look at it, I say that everyone has family in some way or another.
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