studying

coming to college has made be become a better studier. in high school i did not study at all for test and did well on them to the tune of mainly just A. i thought that i could do the same in college as i did in high school. i realized that this is not possible an i have stated to study more for class. my first few test i did well on and really did not have to study. in Bio though my tests grades started dropping now to low B so i realized that to keep my scholarship i need to study more for class. to become a better studier i have set times up that all i use them for is to study for different class. i usually go  over my notes and make sure i read the questions in the book over the chapters and if i can not answer them i read them again to make sure i know what is in the ideas of the topic. also i have started to leave time open on days before test so that i can study homework and test. another thing that i do so that i get better score is to eat a good breakfast and get a good night sleep. i plan on using this same strategy for both my chem and bio final on Monday and Tuesday. 

MRI

While i was home for thanksgiving i went to have an MRI on my hip. i need this MRI because i had first felt pain in my hip about month and a half before i went to have the MRI and the pain had not gone now after many different treatment types or exercises. getting the MRI done was kinda weird. first they made sure you had no metal anywhere on your body before the would even yet you in the MRI room. they then strap you now so you really could not move unless you really had to. i got to listen to music otherwise they wanted me to lay still for about half an hour while the machine did its work. i think i fell asleep because it did not seem like i was in there for  a half an hour. what was kinda funny though was that the doctor asked me about my other hip/butt muscle first than the one i had hurt. the reason for this was that on my way to my car after IS i was riding my scooter and hit some ice and took a hard spill on the ice and it left a nice bruise on my butt. after the MRI machine stop the doctor just let me walk out and go home with out any more test. i got the results back a few days later and learn that i might have a particle larburm tear in my hip which means that i get to go back to the doctor over my winter break keeping my streak of seeing a doctor after each break. 

Thanksgiving

thanksgiving is a time that we get to spend with family. for my family that usually just means my dad, mom ,brother and myself. this year was special in that there was not extra people there just that i was there. since i am going to college in Iowa and i am originally from St. louis i have not seen my family much in the past four months. this year i real saw the true meaning of thanksgiving by just coming home. also it was good to be able to see my parents and brother and not just talk to them on the phone. there was some part of be who wonders why i am in Iowa but i feel that i like it here as long as i get to go home once an a while. the other part of thanksgiving that i liked was not having to do laundry or cook. while i was home i was able to learn how my brother baseball was going something i did not care about in high school but i realized i missed small talk with my family. being home did make me miss college in the freedoms that college lets be have. also being at home made be thing about how even though we can dislike our family at times that it is still important to get to see them and talk to them at times because they are still family.

global warming

i believe that global warming is a real thing but unlike which side i was on at the debate i do not fully believe that. i believe that the real truth lies in between the two sides. i fully believe that the heating and cooling of the earth is a natural process.  this is supported by the fact that the earth has had periods of hot and cold times before. also the earth has changed before as evident by the fact that the Sahara desert was once a tropical place and now it is a desert.  i do believe that humans might have some effect on how this process in that we might have speed it up but not have started it. humans claim that they started global warming but in reality it is most likely part of a larger natural process that we have just speed up. the biggest thing about global warming for me is the simple fact that we do not have enough information about what has happen in the past to really know what is happening in the present.

studying for a test in bio

tonight i am trying to study for my upcoming test in biology. This might seem like a common thing for most people but this is one of the first times i have studied in the past few years.  for all of high school i have never had to study due to the way that i am able to memorized facts and equations in a class. since i have these memorized i do not have to study and am able to recall them for a test. coming to college i knew that i might have to change this because the class were harder and there was more information. for the first few test i was still able to go with out studying but even though my grades were good they were not as good as i wanted them to be. so tonight i have decided to study and it has been fun so far.  between my crazy floor mates and the TV  i have been trying to stay concentrated and feel like i am make some progress.

state of fear

after reading state of fear there is one chapter that stands out to me as the most important chapter in the novel.  this chapter does not really contribute to the story plot or even have to do with global warming. this chapter is when professor Hoffman is talking about how governments control people by fear.  this might sound like it is completely untrue but if you thing about it it actually makes sense.  the presidents that are consider the best and greatest leaders are those who lead during a war. one reason for this is because the nation fear something it was untied and the lead was able to use his powers more effectually. in times when leaders are not very strong if you look you see that there is no major immediate threat letting the people become diverse and not have as much faith in the government.  Hoffman is not saying that global warming is all government lies but he is saying that the government did try to make it larger so that they had a threat so they could have more power. the state of fear is something that is really and it is true that the governments do want a fear that is dire so that they have better control of the populations living under them.   

State of Fear Enviromentally

After reading the novel State of Fear for IS101 i have decided to blog about the issues that are presented mainly the issue dealing with global warming. Micheal Crichton based his novel on how environmentalist are trying to cause more natural issues to  make the public more scared of global warming.  it is obvious that Crichton is not a support of global warming as the heroes of the story all end up believing that global warming is false. also the bad guys of the story are the ELF which is an extreme environmentalist group. from reading this novel it got me thinking about my own feeling towards global warming. first i should point out the new term for global warming is now called global climate change. if you have not figured out which side i support from my statements in class i feel that there s not enough evidence to support global climate change or disprove global climate change but i do lead more to the side of it is not true. i feel this way because there is some evince that the earth goes in big warming and cooling cycles and humans have no control over these cycles.  also it is hard to believe that this increase in temperature  is not cause partially my all the more humans that now live on this plant. also i feel that the global warming  is not something that we can solve over night but rather something that we need more information and time to figure out if we can ever effect what is happening on this planet.