I had so much fun on this trip. But I feel like it went by really fast because I had no sleep any of the nights there. It started out with me trying to sleep on the bus ride up there but not being able to find any comfortable positions due to the length of my legs. To make a long and winey story short, I didn’t sleep the first night. The second night I slept like a baby after walking around all day and hanging out in the hotel rooms I knocked out. But on the bus ride home I was so comfortable but couldn’t seem to fall asleep. I think it was because I knew that I was going to be home soon and would be in the comfort of my own bed. As for the actual colleges I don't think that I would find myself at any of them but thought that Santa Cruz would be the best fit for me based on the area and the school itself was just beautiful. I think that I need a school that is in close proximity to the beach and has good weather. My social needs would be met because they said that you are grouped with people who have similar interests with and they also said that they were in a lower division of volleyball which would be perfect for me because I have been thinking about playing in college and this school would be able to offer that to me. The only thing that would be missing would be my family because I am very close with them and that would be a hard thing to let go of!
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This week I we did a lot of going through our work together things for our socratic seminar. I thought that this was a big thing to do because there were so many articles that we had done throughout the year that could have helped us with this socratic seminar. I think that the group that I went with was a quitter group and you can tell who the people that are outgoing and who the ones that were more quiet because of who was dominating the conversation. I feel like we could have had a better conversation if we were to have had opposing views on the topic. Feel like we had an alright conversation and we definitely saw the boys side and the girls side of how we feel for people but there aren't very many key points that we discussed. I took away that boys don’t tend to feel for the person but they are more likely to comfort them and then not really care as much as the girls that we actually feel a similar pain when someone we care about is feeling a certain way. Being one of the females in the group that talked about that it made me think about how my views on a certain situation is a tad different than other girls but it is drastically different than the boys. I think that in the end we all do value empathy but don't always apply it in ways that people see it the same.
I had so much fun on this trip. But I feel like it went by really fast because I had no sleep any of the nights there. It started out with me trying to sleep on the bus ride up there but not being able to find any comfortable positions due to the length of my legs. To make a long and winey story short, I didn’t sleep the first night. The second night I slept like a baby after walking around all day and hanging out in the hotel rooms I knocked out. But on the bus ride home I was so comfortable but couldn’t seem to fall asleep. I think it was because I knew that I was going to be home soon and would be in the comfort of my own bed. As for the actual colleges I don't think that I would find myself at any of them but thought that Santa Cruz would be the best fit for me based on the area and the school itself was just beautiful. I think that I need a school that is in close proximity to the beach and has good weather. My social needs would be met because they said that you are grouped with people who have similar interests with and they also said that they were in a lower division of volleyball which would be perfect for me because I have been thinking about playing in college and this school would be able to offer that to me. The only thing that would be missing would be my family because I am very close with them and that would be a hard thing to let go of! This week was the week that I had been waiting for. I feel like all the work that we had been doing for the past couple weeks such as the readings and discussions we have been having/doing had been leading up to the day that Dr. Kauffman came to our class. I was really excited to hear from a person that actually works with the brain and is a professional when it comes to this field of occupation. I was also very excited to get a taste of what college lectures would be like and this was something that left me in a really good mood. I thought that I was not going to be able to understand what he was talking about or even just the gist of what he was saying. But it was just the opposite, I learned so much in just the span of one hour and there was so many take aways. Some of the biggest thing that I took from this is just more proof that the female brain is different than the male brain. In this hour it I made connecting to what we were learning in these articles and most of all my social justice topics. My topic is beauty standards and having heard that the female brain is different and we tend to remember things in detail more than men do it made me think of how the women that are the models and the one that are being held up to these standards are thinking of it and trying to make a change ot what is going on. This just helped me realize that I am very passionate about my social topic and that the brain is the way that I want to go winting the topic and make sure that I can research more things within the topic and come up with my own conclusions to be able to inform people more about this and make a influence in the community of women. |
Cayla MaltmanI am an 11th grade student. Here I will be reflecting weekly to see my progress as a student this semester. Archives
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