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I just finished my last assignment for my freshman year english class!!!!! After writing a research paper about diversity in high school and college, our last assignment was to make a “multimodal presentation” that encapsulated what our paper was all about.  I decided to make a short “Public Service Announcement” sharing with the community what … Continue reading »

Over the last quarter I’ve been contributing to this blog twice a week, either writing about something that’s going on in my life, or blogging about a prompt that I got in my english class.  In addition to this blog, we’ve had many writing assignments that have all contributed towards a big research paper that … Continue reading »

Time Flies Now, more than ever before, people have such short attention spans that they no longer want to sit down a read an article when they can spend a fraction of the time that would take and scroll through their twitter feed.  Instead of learning an in depth view of one aspect of the … Continue reading »

National Championships  This weekend, the 20 best college frisbee teams from across the U.S. and Canada are meeting in North Carolina to play in the national championships.  They are held every year, with the location changing from year to year.  Typically, there are no major issues or complications with the location of the tournament, however, … Continue reading »

Almost Done! My school year is almost done, and as the quarter winds down, I’ve got many final projects and tests that are coming up.  In my english class, I’ve got to make a “multi-modal” presentation of a paper that I recently finished.  I’m planning on making a short informational video, that combines pictures with … Continue reading »

Do We Need Diversity? Whenever we talk about diversity in education, the first thing everyone thinks of is college.  Whether it’s colleges advertising how diverse they are or people conducting studies about the benefits of diversity in college it seems like people agree on the value of a diverse college.  However, I wonder why people … Continue reading »

Research goals Through my research I was hoping to learn more about how college students value racial diversity in an education setting.  I want to see the trends in the data that will argue which groups of students value diversity more than other students.  It will be interesting to see if those who value racial … Continue reading »

This is going to be a wordy post in comparison to the others that I wrote, but hopefully you find it interesting. A couple weeks ago, I wrote about leadership and what makes a good captain for a sports team.  Just yesterday, I decided that I would run for captain of my frisbee team, which … Continue reading »

Step 1: What do you want to learn? Whenever you decide to make a survey, you’re always interested in learning what a group of people thinks about a certain topic.  However, it’s extremely important to make sure you realize specifically what it is that you are interested in.  It can be really easy to think … Continue reading »

This week my club frisbee team is voting for three players who we want to be captains for the upcoming year.  Anyone who wants to be in the running sends an email out to the team, with what is essentially his “campaign speech.”  In it, players explain why they will make a good captain and … Continue reading »