Author Archives: lmaguire

While I’m not sure if this is what Kantz was aiming for, the main thing that I learned from this reading was that nothing is fact unless you believe it is such. For example, if I were to claim that … Continue reading →

My research topic is about the changes in social life on college campuses since the 1920s. As I was looking for scholarly articles, I realized that my search results could go two ways: it could be extremely interesting, detailing the … Continue reading →

As someone who has always liked writing, I sometimes find it confusing when people tell me that they would rather be finding the derivates of complex functions than writing a simple essay. Why is this? I’m going to go out … Continue reading →

In our most recent class, we started learning about and crafting sample survey questions that we could use to gather information for our next assignments. In high school, I had to make my fair share of surveys. I made surveys … Continue reading →

When I hear the terms “hunter and gather”, I’m brought back to my Biological Anthropology course from last quarter. Klein mentions in his article, “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This?” about his newly created research … Continue reading →

College has changed quite a bit. At least that’s what school websites and pamphlets will tell you. But has it really? For one thing, colleges have grown quite a bit. In the late 1920s, dorms were nowhere near as crowded as … Continue reading →

I’ve known about archives for a while and since I started digging into the black hole of genealogy, I’ve been curious about what stuff I could find there. At the Santa Clara Library (not the University library) there are no … Continue reading →

As a Biology major, I don’t have many classes that ask for research papers. Sure, I’ll have the occasional paragraph to write about explaining the effects of titration or perhaps describing the synapomorphies of two species in a phylogenic tree. … Continue reading →