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k, well classes have now all been attended, and i am just a little freaked out. nothing that won't be gone in a few weeks when i get a hang of the topics i'm studying and on top of what assignments i have coming up. i have written two small papers tonight while at work, one on an attitude measurement test i took, and another on the values of a liberal arts major. both were pretty easy. now i've just got to get down to reading.
anyways i just came on livejournal to check out what type of communities there are, because i am taking a class in adolescent development and instead of a term paper or research project, we are doing a vitural project...or virtual activity as the professor wants to call it. one option is to join an online community, like blogspot, and ask parents about specific details of dealing with their adolescent children, which is something i've never thought about as a project idea and could turn out mighty interesting. i hope at least.
i know for my dynamics of social behavior class i am also doing a group research project, but that professor hasn't yet given the possible topics. i am not excited about doing the research project in that class, mostly because i am in soc 300 now, which is senior experience, the big culminating class of my major which is entailed of only one thing - a research project. a four month, big, scientific and researched and actually carried out and analyzed project. we are doing the whole topic as a class though, with each student (about 12 of us) taking a small part or two and developing all the necessary parts for it. by the end it is going to resemble something really nice and possibly publishable and all. i'm much more excited about this research project because it is on Hirschi's social bond theory, dealing with juvenile delinquency, my largest area of interest! so i am lucky that for the next 4 months i am going to be reading journal articles and book chapters etc on something i actually would want to learn about on my own.
my other class is about modern morality, and we are reading lots of novels about interesting topics like morality in extreme cases - like nazi germany, mountain tribes, morality of corporate CEOs, morality of the technical world. i have had the professor before, he is one for sociology, and the students are either honors students or sociology grad students, which is super cause it means most everyone in there will at least care about doing well, which makes for good dicussion and a more enjoyable experiences. it's a night class, which stinks, but it's basically just a fulfillment of my honors coursework so that i can get that designation on my diploma, which will make me seem smarter than my 4.0 GPA already does :-D. but i'm doing this cause i dunno if i can keep that 4.0 for my whole senior year. I am anticipating nothing less, but i know that this achievement is incredibly hard. it just means i have to work incredibly hard.
so a big full semester. i know the stress is going to come on heavy and thick, but when the semester is over it's pretty much like i am done, i'll just have some filler hours to take.......a strange strange thought indeed, i'm a grownup. :-/
anyways i just came on livejournal to check out what type of communities there are, because i am taking a class in adolescent development and instead of a term paper or research project, we are doing a vitural project...or virtual activity as the professor wants to call it. one option is to join an online community, like blogspot, and ask parents about specific details of dealing with their adolescent children, which is something i've never thought about as a project idea and could turn out mighty interesting. i hope at least.
i know for my dynamics of social behavior class i am also doing a group research project, but that professor hasn't yet given the possible topics. i am not excited about doing the research project in that class, mostly because i am in soc 300 now, which is senior experience, the big culminating class of my major which is entailed of only one thing - a research project. a four month, big, scientific and researched and actually carried out and analyzed project. we are doing the whole topic as a class though, with each student (about 12 of us) taking a small part or two and developing all the necessary parts for it. by the end it is going to resemble something really nice and possibly publishable and all. i'm much more excited about this research project because it is on Hirschi's social bond theory, dealing with juvenile delinquency, my largest area of interest! so i am lucky that for the next 4 months i am going to be reading journal articles and book chapters etc on something i actually would want to learn about on my own.
my other class is about modern morality, and we are reading lots of novels about interesting topics like morality in extreme cases - like nazi germany, mountain tribes, morality of corporate CEOs, morality of the technical world. i have had the professor before, he is one for sociology, and the students are either honors students or sociology grad students, which is super cause it means most everyone in there will at least care about doing well, which makes for good dicussion and a more enjoyable experiences. it's a night class, which stinks, but it's basically just a fulfillment of my honors coursework so that i can get that designation on my diploma, which will make me seem smarter than my 4.0 GPA already does :-D. but i'm doing this cause i dunno if i can keep that 4.0 for my whole senior year. I am anticipating nothing less, but i know that this achievement is incredibly hard. it just means i have to work incredibly hard.
so a big full semester. i know the stress is going to come on heavy and thick, but when the semester is over it's pretty much like i am done, i'll just have some filler hours to take.......a strange strange thought indeed, i'm a grownup. :-/