For this open topic, I want to talk about facebook. Facebook is a world-wide website that allows you to keep in contact with old and current friends. Almost every college student has one. It is a way of communication and even keep in touch. Every event and relationship statuses, pictures everything is on facebook. It is in a way a social norm to have a facebook. Many students get distracted from their work by being on facbeook. People stalk their friends by reading their wall posts, looking at pictures, and looking at their personal information.
I then realized how much facebook is addicting when I myself, would spend hours on facebook just checking and commenting on pictures. I decided to cut down on my facebook access. I recently read an article on facebook addicts. This mother was so addicted to facebook. It isn’t a real medical diagnosis but it is very common that people cross the line from social networking to social dysfunction. There is actually a check list to see if you’re a facebook addict. It includes, lacking sleep because of facebook, spend more than an hour a day on facebook, thought of getting off facebook makes you nervous. It is surprising that people get anxiety or stress from being off facebook. This woman on her blog decided to give up going on facebook for lent. She wanted to know what she would actually miss about facebook and what she really did value. I decided to only be on facebook for 10 minutes a day. Even this has proven difficult. Especially when seeing funny pictures I want to comment on or even catching up with an old friend on facebook chat. But through the experience, I learned to actually call people to catch up instead of virtually contacting them. Its actually more intimate and better way of catching up with people. So far, ive learned that facebook is good to keep updated with people but to really keep a friendship going, is actually calling them up. I don't think most people realize the importance of calling and hanging out to keep a friendship and not just saying a friendly message with no genuine concern to see how they are doing.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
#2 Open Topic
Posted by Unknown at 3:31 PM#5 State of Your Research Prospectus
Posted by Unknown at 3:31 PMThe state of reserach prospectus is okay. It is hard to gather information for my literature review. I dont' know where to begin with my wiritng and what needs to be in it.
#4 Open Topic
Posted by Unknown at 3:30 PMFor this free write I would like to talk about the macbook spying case. The highschool gave every student a macbook to complete their work on and off school. Like any other macbooks, they had a webcam. The highschool had the ability to turn on the webcam even off school property. A student was sent a message saying he did illegal behavior and they have pictures to prove it on the webcam. I thought the highschool was creative in using the webcam to keep track of lost or stolen laptops. However, it is ridiculous that the faculty has the ability to turn on the webcam when the student is at home. Especially, when there was no suspicion that the laptop was even lost. This is an invasion of privacy, “peeping tom technology”. Sometimes people change infront of their computers while listening to music. Or even on the computer just at home. Its big invasion of privacy and the school had no reason to activate the webcam without a report of a lost or stolen laptop. The highscshool claimed they disabled the webcam feature. But students decided to slap post-it notes over the camera lens just in case.
#3 Reading the Literature Review
Posted by Unknown at 3:29 PMI found a lot of good articles on MRSA. It was hard to organize all of them as they each covered issues and multiple concerns concerning MRSA. It was hard to narrow and find the articles i needed to use for my literature review. Not a lot of research has been done using honey and even PVL toxin. PVL toxin for example has issues in the sceintific community if it even helps in virulence. FInding articles and getting a good balance of what that toxin is was difficult
#2 Open Topic
Posted by Unknown at 3:29 PMAt first glance, and it basically looks like large iPhone, complete with a human button and glass touch.
The price is probably the most shocking, it actually cheaper than competitors.
With the iPad, Apple has attempted to blend in all the recent advancements in modern computing into one product. It brings in all the computing benefits of the iPhone . However, it will not fit into your pocket but it is still easily portable. It has an iBooks store for browsing and making a book library. It has photo features. Apple coming out with an iPad. Its reinventing a category. They are making a market that doesn’t exist. Is it going to succeed or fail. Its price is more expensive than a touch-screen keyboard. The ipad is the best tablet. It has excellent, surfing, emailing and movie watching. However, it lacks a video camera and chat capabilities and flash support. No flash means no hulu, NFL.com, et c. However, having no flash Is a benefit. Flash is slow. Without those two features, ill be using my laptop for my emailing, web-browsing and video chat needs. I can see later on in the future, that the iPad be very popular. Plus the price range will go down. Also, there is no mult-tasking. I would not want to check facebook and browse around without music playing in the background.
#5 Open Topic
Posted by Unknown at 3:28 PMfinal exams are the most hectic time of the year. It is amazing how many cram before an exam. A whole semester worth of material crammed in two or one day prior to the exam. It is more amazing when some people recieve really good grades while the majority of people bomb the exam. As a science major, it is incredibly hard to cram before an exam. As the class level raises, the material becomes more specific and detailed. It is incredibly hard for me to cram before an exam as there is so much detailed information it is hard to retain them for a long period of time. Especially in chemistry, it is difficult as you have to memorize chemicals and the different orientations of those chemicals and how it reacts in the body. I noticed that entry level or even biology classes are easier to cram for. The information is just memorization and recall. Higher-level chemistry classes demands memorization but also application. The tests consist of application questions and real life scenarios and thorugh the class information, we have to explain why certain scenarios happen. While biology classes are mutliple choice and its mainly recall. I admit that tehre ar some hard biology classes that demand more than just memorization, but for th emost part from my experiernce, it is mostly needs good memorizing skills
#4 What did you see on your way to work/school/etc.
Posted by Unknown at 3:28 PMOn my way to school I saw a lot of trees. I pulled out of my driveway and there was a red truck in front of me. I kept driving and noticed that the grass is getting greener. U reached a four-way stop and noticed a police officer hiding in another street. I slowly sped off and reached the highway. It was rush hour, so there was a lot of cars and they were going fast. The highway had quite bit of trees. I remember seeing roadkill on the road. I passed by several shopping centers and there was a starbucks. A lot of people were at the starbucks and people coming out with their coffee. I continued to go to school, i went to the parking lot. There were signs telling students taht the parking lot would be closed for at certain dates for an event. i avoided those parking lots and parked my car. There were a lot o flowers and i could smell the fragrance. I also saw a lot of students rushing to class.


