Miss Osmundon asks,
What personal strengths will help you to accomplish your academic goals for this class? How can you best tap into leverage and those strengths to support your success?
What skills or personal qualities do you think you need to improve on in order to be successful?
If you have taken other college-level, CIS/AP courses, what have you learned about yourself by taking those courses? What have you learned about learning, studying, and time management? And Marco Riley responds:
So heres the deal, I'm on the internet all the time, Facebooking, listening to Pandora, watching hulu videos. I totally 100% agree with having a majority of this class' content online because I will already be online. I'm not saying I'm not going to read the book, because I know I'll love the book. My peers have had their psychology books open last semester and I may have browsed through them while they weren't looking. Lots of pictures, captions, columns--the works! All the random facts and experiments as well as the hardcore content, should I fear this textbook? I'll admit, my strengths definitely aren't the reading aspect of any class, however, discussion such as this handy-dandy blog will make sense of the content i'll soon absorb along with my classmates. I'm pretty thankful that this class utilizes all forms of technology to help its students learn, and there's no doubt that I will be learning more because if it.
By that last question, I'm getting the feeling that I will be reading a lot. Yes, I have a short attention span, and yes that most definitely hinders my reading ability.
Blogs are the spot to be honest, and Miss Osmundon, it's time to be straight up. Yes, this is my 3rd CIS class of high school. Public speaking I passed with a A- and econ with a C+, granted the "Read the Textbook" was absolute for econ and...."optional" in PS, however I loved PS and econ was always a struggle. I have a very open mind about CIS PSYCH, and am prepared to work hard. I think i can make this real to me, i when i think of something, I always ask "Why, why do we do what we do, and what caused us to react and thus continually act in the way that we do? Where was the catalyst and what nudged that in the first place. Where did it all begin?" And this explodes and can be asked in anything, but I'm thinking of culture. What pushed and crafted the people of today to believe and live how they do? The subtle geography? The Christian religion...I'm tangenting big-time. But isn't it rambling that catches loose ends? The quickest route to knowledge regurgitation? I think i'm on to something brilliant here. You know what? Better yet, let me release this philisophical beast in class; we'll be talking about something important before the test, than you'll say something really deep and BAM you can't shut me up. Get ready to have your mind blown by humble Marco.
Econ, i got the teacher to like me through this active participation, stayed after class to wrap up some last thoughts, and yet would still not be able to get the trophy A on the paper, and consistantly B/C'ed every test. Ok it's true, i didnt read the textbook despite the author's attempt to enthuse me with the bolded text and monotonous graphs, I remained unenlightened and ignorant to Loiselle's exaggerations. Yet in PS, Ms. Barbone knew that she was dealing with a crew of smart kids who were adept to public speaking, as i belive myself to be. Pickin up the A- in that class was a challenge but nontheless my most fond memory of high school to date, not because it's the only A i've gotten, but because of the grade i pushed myself to get. I am going to like this class, i know i will, you can't stop me. I know I have the resources and the desire to do well, and because of my super chill schedule, this class will be a priority unlike the neglected econ class. So Ms. Osmundon, i know you're going to challenge me, and here comes the cliche response, i'm up to the challenge.
