Sunday, March 7, 2010

Observation and Description Exercise: One Hour of Uninterrupted Listening

for this excercise i was in the engineering building at the afternoon. I remember listening the noise. I heard the air conditioning system turn on and off. It was hard to not turn on the music or even try to login into facebook. After the first 15 minutes passed, it was easier to stay focused. At times, I would hear the door open and footsteps. Other times, i would hear the toilet flush and then the faucet turns on and they wash their hands. I also heard distant talking of people. I even heard people in the peer advising room recieiving help and even conversations.
In this focused manner, i was able to concentrate on my studies and even more effectively complete assignments.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

#6 Open Topic

google chrome is one of the best google applications. I like how it saves your most viewed pages and it allows you to click on those pages and view them. It also has good addon pages that allow you to translate into other languages. this is helpful as im learning a language and sometimes its hard to read that text. its easier to just use google translator and help understand that sentence. Another helpful feature is when you get a new email on your gmail account, it pops up on your browser without going directly into gmail. It is a very helpful tool to check your email. Also another feature is the tab organizer. I tend to open up a lot of tabs and its hard to browse through those tabs. This tab organizer allows you to see all your tabs. it makes it easier to browse through them and know what tabs i opened. It also has a lock tab, that allows you to not accidentally exit a tab. It keeps it locked, so there is no accidental deletions. the only bad thing about google chrome is that it dosen't save your browser history.

#5 Learning Styles

#4 Refine Your Research Topic/Question/Problem

#3 Survey of Current Topics in Your Field

#2 What Are You Passionate About?

Research or diagnosis is something I want to do. I do like learning about the proteins in the body and how it relates to our bodies function and metabolism. It could relate to the fact that I like a challenge in figuring out a problem. It can be very frustrating but at the same time, it is fun. After college it is unclear what I will be doing as a career. I have several career choices which includes research at NIH, or even a different country. Iam interested in medical missions or even going to a place in the US that is low in research or hospital labs. I would love to work with people and also beable to be in the science field. Being able to that would bring me great joy. I love interacting with people and not just help them medically but also beable to be a friend and supporter. Which is what medical missions entails. However, this might not be possible. I think working at NIH would also bring me joy. It is located near home and iam able to still be in my community. It would still give me the opportunity to work in the research/medical field but also still beable to have my community. I love being involved in my church, so Iam still able to help and mentor people. I guess I wouldn’t say I love my major or what im specifically doing. But I love how it gives me the opportunity to help other people. Not just by trying to create a cure or help heal people, but the ability to be a part of people’s lives. That is the part that gives me great joy in doing this major. Research demands other masters degrees but I wouldn’t mind going that route. I still have a year left to decide what I will do, but I know whatever I decide, it will atleast deal with people.

#1 Recent Dream

The most vivid dream I remember was a scary dream I had a few years ago. I was driving on a road I normally drive on. It was really dark and trees were everywhere. There are no lights. I was driving a volkswagon beetle, and the car stopped in the middle of the road. There were cars driving by but none of them stopped to help me. It was compelely dark. I walked out of the car to start walking. But a man started following me, he had a hat on. I couldn’t see his face cearly, and he wore all black. He had a vicious dog with him. I started running and the dog started running after me. I kept on running until I reached a house. It was a two story house and it was white and ancient looking. I ran to the door and started banging on the door. But it wouldn’t open and I kept on banging on the door and trying to open the door. The dog soon caught up with me and I was trying to fight the dog off. He bit my hand and then I woke up