Saturday, September 28, 2013
To act or not to act
i dont really understand where the soliloquy was, or started. where you said it started, it was like a teachers addition of something. im super confused...
Dear Steve
I really enjoyed reading this. Its crazy how some of the most successful people have had it the hardest. I didnt even really know who this person is, but by reading his college story, i feel like i got to know him a little better. I love the line he wrote, about you cant connect the dots going forward, but you can connect the dots going backward. This guy has some great words coming from his mouth. Its crazy that he got fired from his own company, but still became super successful. When he talks about how it was awful medicine, but its what the patient needed, that is some great stuff. Living every day like its truly your last? We were just talking about that in class last week! I dont know this guy very well, but im liking him more and more every time i read his speeches
Monday, September 23, 2013
Vocabulary List #6
Accede: give consent or approval
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: skillful
Destitute: without meaning or subsistence
Explicit: fully expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate or inconvenient
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the meaning
Musty: lacking originality or vitality
Officious: overwhelmingly helpful/ helpful to annoyance
Ominous: portending evil or harm
Pinnacle: a lofty peak
Premeditated: planned in advance, done deliberately
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic
Supple: bending readily without breaking
Suppress: put an end to activities of
Venal: willing to sell someones influence
Adroit: expert or nble in use of hands or body
Amicable: charaterized by goodwill.
Averse: strong feeling of opposition.
Belligerent: warlike.
Benevolent: kindly feelings
Cursory: rapidly over something
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct
Extol: to praise highly
Feasible: capable of being done
Grimace: facial expressions
Holocaust: complete devistation or destruction
Impervious: not permitting penetration
Impetus: a moving force
Jeopardy: hazard or risk to exposure to loss
Meticulous: showing extreme care about minute details
Nostalgia: wistfull desire to return in thought
Quintessence: pure concentrated essence
Retrogress: go backward to earlier/worse conditions
Scrutinize: examine in detail
Tepid: moderately warm
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: skillful
Destitute: without meaning or subsistence
Explicit: fully expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate or inconvenient
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the meaning
Musty: lacking originality or vitality
Officious: overwhelmingly helpful/ helpful to annoyance
Ominous: portending evil or harm
Pinnacle: a lofty peak
Premeditated: planned in advance, done deliberately
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic
Supple: bending readily without breaking
Suppress: put an end to activities of
Venal: willing to sell someones influence
Adroit: expert or nble in use of hands or body
Amicable: charaterized by goodwill.
Averse: strong feeling of opposition.
Belligerent: warlike.
Benevolent: kindly feelings
Cursory: rapidly over something
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct
Extol: to praise highly
Feasible: capable of being done
Grimace: facial expressions
Holocaust: complete devistation or destruction
Impervious: not permitting penetration
Impetus: a moving force
Jeopardy: hazard or risk to exposure to loss
Meticulous: showing extreme care about minute details
Nostalgia: wistfull desire to return in thought
Quintessence: pure concentrated essence
Retrogress: go backward to earlier/worse conditions
Scrutinize: examine in detail
Tepid: moderately warm
Friday, September 20, 2013
Time Investment Portfolio
Friday, September 20, 2013
Selling Time: 7 hours
Giving Time: 1 hour
Spending Time: 1 hour
Passing Time: 9 hours
Selling Time: 7 hours
Giving Time: 1 hour
Spending Time: 1 hour
Passing Time: 9 hours
Visual Thinking
Today we had an online conference call with Amanda Lyons. She talked to our class about doodling, and using our doodles as note taking. She really inspired me and enlightened my thinking, in the sense that i doodle on my papers all the time. If i can incorporate doodling and drawing, with notes and schoolwork. That is a huge breakthrough. Witnessing first hand, her explaining her ways and her drawings. Really wants me to push forward with my "doodling notes"
Time Investment Portfolio
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Selling Time: 1 hour
Giving Time: 1 hour
Spending Time: 9 hours
Passing Time: 3 hours
Selling Time: 1 hour
Giving Time: 1 hour
Spending Time: 9 hours
Passing Time: 3 hours
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Freedom of Choice
There are many pros and cons to being a free individual. For making your iwn decisions, and running your own life, come obsticles that everyone faces.
Pro: you can make your own decisions without people telling you what to do
Con: all consequence, good and bad, are on your shoulders. No one to blame, no fingers to point
Pro: you are the only person that truly knows whats best for you. You know what you want to do in life, you know where you want to be in the future, making your own decisions will get you on the right path
Con: if you make your own decisions, maybe you think they are the best thing, but in reality they are the best thing right now
Time Investment Portfolio
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Selling Time: 9hours
Giving Time: 1hour
Spending Time: 9hours
Passing Time: 1hour
Selling Time: 9hours
Giving Time: 1hour
Spending Time: 9hours
Passing Time: 1hour
Life After High School-Why College
Learn to Fail:
-take harder classes
-although you want to take the classes you can ace with no problem, challenge yourself
-perfection does not exist
-college admin. doesnt want to see perfection, they want to see real
-admin. is a lil skeptical when it comes to "the perfect kid"
-students try to hide imperfections, dont hide it! flaunt it!
-learn to let go of shame, dont be ashamed of your work, fail or pass, show it all
Hidden Intellectualism:
"Sports after all are full of challenging arguements, debates, problems for analysis, and intricate statistics that you could care about, as school conspicuously was not."
-colleges take "street smarts" and can channel them into academic work
-not being book smart isnt a bad thing, they look for diversity
-street smarts can relate to intellectual life more than people think, or want to think
-relating life to school is the best and easiest way to learn
-as long as you can see "through academic eyes," relating anything you enjoy to school and/or academics will make you understand things more
10 Rules For Going to College When Nobody Expected You To:
10. Be a total student: even if you are not enrolled in school full-time, act as if you are. Work as if you are
9. Resist temptation: you dont need to buy the most expensive things, even though you are on your own, you dont need to buy everything
8. Always put college first: dont excuse yourself from college things, dont leave for anything
7. Go to the best school for you: dont worry about the price, or how long it will take, go for what you want to do. Everything is worth the student loans
6. Study harder in college: professors dont care about what you were doing the night before, they want to see results when they ask
5. You will become homesick: it will pass, it will get better, be prepare for you to miss your family
4. Get to know the students: know the students with different racial, ethnic, an social backgrounds
3. Ignore career confussion: it is okay to change your major, its okay to not know what you are doing
2. Study what you love: your much more than your career title, dont let the title be who you are
1. Remember: remember where you came from, and who got you to where you are now
Not Going to College is a Viable Option:
-if you are not 100% sure this is what you want to do, you dont have to
-college is a ton of debt, loans and agony that isnt necessary if its not the right path for you
-many can make it 6 months to a year, and then drop out, with many of bills to pay, and no degree
-you are not a failure if you choose not to go to college
-a huge choice people make is going to the military
-there are no better alternatives for college then serving our country
-just because you dont go to college, does not mean your life is over
Why Go to College:
-average four-year cost of tuition at a public college is $19,434, less than a new car
-annual income of a college graduate is more than double the average income of a high school graduate
-you will get more mileage out of college than that new car
-college can expand your interest and intellectual thinking
-college can start a new chapter in your life
-colege can payback more than any loan
-you will get farther from a college degree, than years of A's in high school
-take harder classes
-although you want to take the classes you can ace with no problem, challenge yourself
-perfection does not exist
-college admin. doesnt want to see perfection, they want to see real
-admin. is a lil skeptical when it comes to "the perfect kid"
-students try to hide imperfections, dont hide it! flaunt it!
-learn to let go of shame, dont be ashamed of your work, fail or pass, show it all
Hidden Intellectualism:
"Sports after all are full of challenging arguements, debates, problems for analysis, and intricate statistics that you could care about, as school conspicuously was not."
-colleges take "street smarts" and can channel them into academic work
-not being book smart isnt a bad thing, they look for diversity
-street smarts can relate to intellectual life more than people think, or want to think
-relating life to school is the best and easiest way to learn
-as long as you can see "through academic eyes," relating anything you enjoy to school and/or academics will make you understand things more
10 Rules For Going to College When Nobody Expected You To:
10. Be a total student: even if you are not enrolled in school full-time, act as if you are. Work as if you are
9. Resist temptation: you dont need to buy the most expensive things, even though you are on your own, you dont need to buy everything
8. Always put college first: dont excuse yourself from college things, dont leave for anything
7. Go to the best school for you: dont worry about the price, or how long it will take, go for what you want to do. Everything is worth the student loans
6. Study harder in college: professors dont care about what you were doing the night before, they want to see results when they ask
5. You will become homesick: it will pass, it will get better, be prepare for you to miss your family
4. Get to know the students: know the students with different racial, ethnic, an social backgrounds
3. Ignore career confussion: it is okay to change your major, its okay to not know what you are doing
2. Study what you love: your much more than your career title, dont let the title be who you are
1. Remember: remember where you came from, and who got you to where you are now
Not Going to College is a Viable Option:
-if you are not 100% sure this is what you want to do, you dont have to
-college is a ton of debt, loans and agony that isnt necessary if its not the right path for you
-many can make it 6 months to a year, and then drop out, with many of bills to pay, and no degree
-you are not a failure if you choose not to go to college
-a huge choice people make is going to the military
-there are no better alternatives for college then serving our country
-just because you dont go to college, does not mean your life is over
Why Go to College:
-average four-year cost of tuition at a public college is $19,434, less than a new car
-annual income of a college graduate is more than double the average income of a high school graduate
-you will get more mileage out of college than that new car
-college can expand your interest and intellectual thinking
-college can start a new chapter in your life
-colege can payback more than any loan
-you will get farther from a college degree, than years of A's in high school
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Time Investment Portfolio
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Selling time: 9 hours
Giving time: 3 hours
Spending time: 3 hours
Passing time: 2 hours
Selling time: 9 hours
Giving time: 3 hours
Spending time: 3 hours
Passing time: 2 hours
No Child Left Untableted
Reading this article, kind of interested me a little bit. I think its awesome that these teachers and learning to teach from tablets. A ton of teachers hated them, from the article, but as a student i think they could really help with the learning process.
What does the Luddite mean?
What does the Luddite mean?
Declaration of Independance
I, Alyssa Barajas, declare that I will try my absolute hardest to get an A in this class. I will try my hardest to get every assignment done, and turned in on time. I will try my hardest to read every book assigned, and to answer all the following questions assigned. I know the way you teach Dr. Preston, and I will do my best to accomidate myself to your teaching ways. Not only in this course, but in my Senior year of high school, i will try my hardest to get a 4.0 GPA both semesters.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Time Investment Portfolio
Monday, September 16, 2013
Selling time: 6 hours
Giving time: 4 hour
Spending time: 9 hours
Passing time: 0 hours
Vocabulary List #5
Adroit: expert or nble in use of hands or body
Amicable: charaterized by goodwill.
Averse: strong feeling of opposition.
Belligerent: warlike.
Benevolent: kindly feelings
Cursory: rapidly over something
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct
Extol: to praise highly
Feasible: capable of being done
Grimace: facial expressions
Holocaust: complete devistation or destruction
Impervious: not permitting penetration
Impetus: a moving force
Jeopardy: hazard or risk to exposure to loss
Meticulous: showing extreme care about minute details
Nostalgia: wistfull desire to return in thought
Quintessence: pure concentrated essence
Retrogress: go backward to earlier/worse conditions
Scrutinize: examine in detail
Tepid: moderately warm
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Essay Notes
About obesity
Persuasive essay...?
Physical and emotional problems
Cause and effect of obesity
Eater Vs. distributer
Obesity and poverty
Get the most for your money
FAST food is BAD food
Persuasive essay...?
Physical and emotional problems
Cause and effect of obesity
Eater Vs. distributer
Obesity and poverty
Get the most for your money
FAST food is BAD food
Vocabulary #4
Accede: give consent or approval
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: skillful
Destitute: without meaning or subsistence
Explicit: fully expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate or inconvenient
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the meaning
Musty: lacking originality or vitality
Officious: official
Ominous: portending evil or harm
Pinnacle: a lofty peak
Premeditated: planned in advance, done deliberately
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic
Supple: bending readily without breaking
Suppress: put an end to activities of
Venal: willing to sell someones influence
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: skillful
Destitute: without meaning or subsistence
Explicit: fully expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate or inconvenient
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite of the meaning
Musty: lacking originality or vitality
Officious: official
Ominous: portending evil or harm
Pinnacle: a lofty peak
Premeditated: planned in advance, done deliberately
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic
Supple: bending readily without breaking
Suppress: put an end to activities of
Venal: willing to sell someones influence
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Vocabulary List 3
Accomplice: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing
Annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgement without restrictions
Brazen: shameless or impudent
Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change
Exodus: a going out, a departure
Facilitate: to make easier or less difficult
Incorrigible: bad beyond correction or reform
Latent: present but not visible
Militant: vigorously active and aggresive
Morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored
Opaque: not transparent or translucent
Paramount: above others in rank or authority
Prattle: talk in a foolish or simple-minded way
Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof
Reprimand: severe reproof or rebuke
Servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind
Slapdash: hasty, haphazard
Stagnant: not flowing or running
Succumb: to give way to superior force
Annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgement without restrictions
Brazen: shameless or impudent
Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change
Exodus: a going out, a departure
Facilitate: to make easier or less difficult
Incorrigible: bad beyond correction or reform
Latent: present but not visible
Militant: vigorously active and aggresive
Morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored
Opaque: not transparent or translucent
Paramount: above others in rank or authority
Prattle: talk in a foolish or simple-minded way
Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof
Reprimand: severe reproof or rebuke
Servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind
Slapdash: hasty, haphazard
Stagnant: not flowing or running
Succumb: to give way to superior force
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