blog #3

Ø Describe your ideal Instructor/Professor.
my ideal instructor is very organized, lays out what you have to do when you have to do it, and how they want it done. I'm really not all about the crazy out there teachers who say "hey make me a project on what you read..." leaving it at just that. I have to have a teacher say i want a poster, a speech, or a scrap book for example.

Ø “I knew it when I studied it, but I forgot it on the test.” How can students study differently to prevent this from happening?

there are several ways of remembering the studied material but the material must be in your long term memory to recall. To study, give yourself time, days not hours. you can't simply memorize, you'll forget because its only in your short term memory. What i do is use my notecards, i memorize the information on these cards ( definitions, placement, or background information on the topic), i then find something to relate it to. for example, The zygomatic bone, i say ( under the zz-eye) so when it came to taking the test i say zzz-eye is under the eye, so the zygomatic bone is under your eye. you must relate information to other knowlege to recall things. By relating information it stores your knowledge in your long-term memory not your short term memory.

Ø How do you study for quizzes/tests?
note cards, reading notes, reading the book, if its math i simply do more and more problems till i understand the concept.

Ø What do you have trouble with on quizzes/tests?
not freaking out, and sometimes recalling information becasue i am so anxious.

letter to Mcdonald's:

This letter makes the image of Mcdonalds all seem so clear now. Mcdonald's, the perfect fast food resturant, is clearly not all that its cracked up to be. When picturing a Mcdonalds at work, you think about a bossy, kind manager, who is keeping the employees on task, all dressed the same with a greased over polo, hat, hair up and a name tag to seperate them from one another. The so called kitchen should be clean, organized, supplies labled, and floors swept. Wait, stop! Apparently we were all wrong. The perfect fast food resturant we all thought Mcdonalds was is just an imagination. This resturant is what I like to call gross. The managers, if any are working, are usually underdress, hair down, no hat, on break, or extremely late. In the article "letter to mcdonald's" you find this to be all true and much more. It makes me sick thinking about how dirty, unsanitary, and uncaring people are. It seems to me Mcdonalds has all the dirty, rude, unthankful kids other employers didn't want. I'm not saying all people are uncareing and dirty, it just makes me think how someone could simply not clean up a grill because they wanted to go home 5 mins early to sit on the couch and watch the new episode to "the real world" while you eat a "freshly" cook hamburger on that so called clean grill.

Ok I'm really glad i don't eat at Mcdonalds at all. This is so gross the coffee, oh my goodness, thats crazy.