So we're currently learning about the development occurring during adolescence years.
Apparently the U.S. has the highest rates of adolescence pregnancy in the world. I question how many are planned and how many are not. Also, how does that affect the demographics of the United States?
Our speaker is apparently from a health outcome center in New Jersey and has interesting things they're during for sexual education for teens. She told us some very interesting stories. I actually like the real stories that she told, it really helps with modeling what we can do if we ran into the same situations. For example, there was a girl who was bulimic and could not tell her parents, so they role played the different ways she could tell her parents and she apparently did that.
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Within the ivory towers
So after you worked so hard to get into the ivory tower of elite educational institutions, what happens?
Fend off the sharks by yourself of course. I'm hopefully kidding, in actuality, most people have quite pleasant experiences in college if they managed to choose the right college for themselves or managed to secure their niche in the wrong colleges.
What your experience is like is all up to you. Usually, these steps will help you to survive college whether you're in the right one or not:
1. Find a circle of good friends
-Most likely they will be people who you live with Freshmen year
-Try as many club as you're interested in during Freshmen year and then shave off the ones you really don't feel like doing
-For those who are religious, finding a good fellowship is crucial to your experience or else you might find yourself adrift in this period of life where there are no rules or guidance from the adults around you
2. Ask the people who have done it before
-Most upper-freshmen do not eat freshmen for lunch or torment them for sport, most people will happily answer questions like which class did you happen to like your freshmen year? or which Professor would you recommend?
3. Talk to your Professor
-If you are paying such a large amount of money for tuition and whatever else, the least you could do is to reap from the benefits of the money that you have spent. Granted, there are Professor who are too busy to give you a second glance, but most will be more than happy to accommodate questions you have about their field of work as long as you're there for their office hours or send emails.
4. Take advantage of the on-campus events
-Especially the big name speakers, most clubs will work their behind off to bring these well known speakers to the campus and you better believe that some of your tuition money goes into making that possible, so if you don't have classes, GO!
5. Do attend classes
-again, why pay when you don't even attend?
6. Subscribe to as many listserv emails as you can
- If your school does not have a campus wide calendar, then your best bet of hearing about world-renowned speakers is through this listservs, plus, if you've signed up for listservs that pertains to your interest, you'll actually hear about events that you're interested in
Fend off the sharks by yourself of course. I'm hopefully kidding, in actuality, most people have quite pleasant experiences in college if they managed to choose the right college for themselves or managed to secure their niche in the wrong colleges.
What your experience is like is all up to you. Usually, these steps will help you to survive college whether you're in the right one or not:
1. Find a circle of good friends
-Most likely they will be people who you live with Freshmen year
-Try as many club as you're interested in during Freshmen year and then shave off the ones you really don't feel like doing
-For those who are religious, finding a good fellowship is crucial to your experience or else you might find yourself adrift in this period of life where there are no rules or guidance from the adults around you
2. Ask the people who have done it before
-Most upper-freshmen do not eat freshmen for lunch or torment them for sport, most people will happily answer questions like which class did you happen to like your freshmen year? or which Professor would you recommend?
3. Talk to your Professor
-If you are paying such a large amount of money for tuition and whatever else, the least you could do is to reap from the benefits of the money that you have spent. Granted, there are Professor who are too busy to give you a second glance, but most will be more than happy to accommodate questions you have about their field of work as long as you're there for their office hours or send emails.
4. Take advantage of the on-campus events
-Especially the big name speakers, most clubs will work their behind off to bring these well known speakers to the campus and you better believe that some of your tuition money goes into making that possible, so if you don't have classes, GO!
5. Do attend classes
-again, why pay when you don't even attend?
6. Subscribe to as many listserv emails as you can
- If your school does not have a campus wide calendar, then your best bet of hearing about world-renowned speakers is through this listservs, plus, if you've signed up for listservs that pertains to your interest, you'll actually hear about events that you're interested in
Monday, March 2, 2009
My Human Anatomy Class on March 3, 2009
So quite a few interesting things happened in my life today. I love it when I can say it.
For our Human development class, we had moral development lectures given by a high school teacher from St. Joe's prep, which is apparently an all boys school which this teacher recounts how after he got his Ph.D for Human sexuality at Penn's graduate school, the boys there gave him the nickname of "sex master" which definitely raised my eyebrows, but I think this men was trying too hard to cater to college students. He said this was to illustrate the people have moral development by ceasing to call teachers nicknames. Okay.
So we did go through the 10 commandments of the old testament, technically 7 of them, it did sadden me to know that many of the nursing students don't know it. I am beginning to believe in the myth that highly educated people are atheists and their children are too. It also saddened me to see the majority side on that suicide is fine for old people and that abortions are fine too. It reminds me of that one line from the Great debaters, peace through desolation where a roman general say he brought peace to the nations he subjugated when he really just killed off everyone. I wonder about Jonathan Swift's proposed solution to eat babies. It's ironic that the people who say everyone should have their own choice in when to end their life also say that is is fine for someone to decide another person's fate too. There seems to be a majority that it is okay to kill people who can't make decisions.
The class we learned:
How we judge a decision to be moral:
1. consequences
2. intention
3. action itself
4. circumstances
5. law
6. conscience
For our Human development class, we had moral development lectures given by a high school teacher from St. Joe's prep, which is apparently an all boys school which this teacher recounts how after he got his Ph.D for Human sexuality at Penn's graduate school, the boys there gave him the nickname of "sex master" which definitely raised my eyebrows, but I think this men was trying too hard to cater to college students. He said this was to illustrate the people have moral development by ceasing to call teachers nicknames. Okay.
So we did go through the 10 commandments of the old testament, technically 7 of them, it did sadden me to know that many of the nursing students don't know it. I am beginning to believe in the myth that highly educated people are atheists and their children are too. It also saddened me to see the majority side on that suicide is fine for old people and that abortions are fine too. It reminds me of that one line from the Great debaters, peace through desolation where a roman general say he brought peace to the nations he subjugated when he really just killed off everyone. I wonder about Jonathan Swift's proposed solution to eat babies. It's ironic that the people who say everyone should have their own choice in when to end their life also say that is is fine for someone to decide another person's fate too. There seems to be a majority that it is okay to kill people who can't make decisions.
The class we learned:
How we judge a decision to be moral:
1. consequences
2. intention
3. action itself
4. circumstances
5. law
6. conscience
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