The librarys full

Its dead day, and the library is so close to being full its unreal. Its not surprising that there are no study rooms available, but its pretty crazy that nearly every little workstation thing is taken. There are spots open yeah, but only a few in the middle of a group of people and not off in a nook somewhere where its real quiet. I should come up with a place to study at thats free of distractions but that's not the library. I don't know where to find that, anyone know?

Journal 7

Over the course of this entire semester, I have learned many critical skills that are beneficial to myself as a writer. Towards the beginning of the semester, I had just learned simple skills such as analysis of subjects, and dissecting papers. Since then, I have gained the necessary skills to critically analyze a piece of writing, then dissect it's contents, and figure out the who, when, where, and why pertaining to the subject.

Such skills have allowed me to break down the components of a speech, break down and assess the validity of points in a public argument, and even use that knowledge to write my own public discourse. These are some of the most fundamental skills I have picked up over the course of this semester.

In addition to this, I have picked up many beneficial little skills along the way that help to increase the performance of my writing. I have learned to revise, revise, and do some more revising. Revisions have become a key part of writing good papers for me, going back on my thoughts from days or weeks prior allows me to have a full scope of how I want to write my paper and use idea that may not have come to me in the first few revisions of my paper.

The five pieces of advice I would give;

1. Pay Attention, do the exercises in class
2. Go to the Writing Center
3. Revise, multiple times, 3 or more drafts before the final paper
4. Proper Antecedent's
5. Make sure everything flows well

Those are the pieces of advice I would give to new students

Real frustrating

When you are on D2l taking a quiz, and for some reason or another you stop and close the D2l window and do something else. Maybe I went to get some food or to class or something, I dont remember. D2l normally saves your quiz answers for the longest time, so you never even have to worry about stopping and then coming back and finishing up the quiz later. I was doing my business math homework, homework number 11. I got all the way to question 9, hit the save all responses button, and then closed the window to go do something. When it came back to it last night all my answers had dissapeared and it took me like an hour and a half just to get that far. I was too sick of math 115a to possible do anymore, so i just bailed on the quiz and got a 20%. Its kind of frustrating when things like that happen.

Journal 6

When it comes to the topic of voice and tone, I personally believe that it is not all that difficult to set the proper voice and tone of a paper. While it is a much more difficult feat to fully convince your audience of what you're trying to get across, your tone and voice can be portrayed jsut how you want them to as long as you follow one simple rule. The most important rule here is to write in the same style that you would use if you were speaking.

This doesn't mean to write a paper as if it were an audible speech, but rather it is easy to speak in the proper tone and voice if you are to speak, but sometimes putting it down on paper the tone gets lost in translation. The easiest way to avoid this is to speak in the same style, only substituting words so that it makes sense in the written form.

I believe many writers think thoughts out in their head, and then transfer it to paper. One beneficial exercise I have done is to say each sentence out loud as I am brainstorming on how to craft the idea in my head into a well structured sentence i can put down on paper. So far, this exercise has proven to be the most beneficial to my writing when it comes to tone and voice.

Overall, it is a difficult topic to fully master, and Im sure I haven't even come close to learning a mastery of it. The best thing you can do is to utilize all of the exercises possible and then to try and try again. These are my thoughts on tone and voice.

End of the semester cramming

With the end of the semester coming up real soon, It seems like all of my teachers pack the vast majority of the point in the class into the last 3 weeks. In all of my classes this week I have the 3rd exam, and then in 2 weeks I have the final exam. That means in nearly all of my classes theres still like 40% of the total points of the course yet to be given out.

This is both a good and a bad thing. It means that while I've been hard at work all semester, Im still really only half way to my final grades. It just means that the next 2 weeks i gotta do work on my grades because I could potentially raise all of my grades by a full letter if I put in enough effort the rest of the year.

Its lame that it all has to come at the end of the semester when Im sick of doing work and I just want to kick back and relax and do nothing. Oh well, I guess thats just life. I just gotta suck it up and get good enough grades in order to come back to zona next year. Good luck with your final exams everyone

Math 115a

This class is easily the hardest class I've ever taken in my life. It sucks because Math 115B is gonna be even harder than 115A. It doesn't help that its a math class and theyre trying to teach 300 students at the same time in a lecture class. On top of that, the homeworks dont prepare you for the quizzes and tests, and the instructors never cover the things that will be on the quizzes and tests. the instructors prepare you for the homework that night, but the tests are completely conceptual with a little bit of calculation, while the homeworks are all calculations and never even touch on the concepts. I got a tutor, that helps a lot but half of the time my tutor cant figure out what the teachers are even asking for. She knows how to do all of the work and calculation etc. but half of the time the teacher ask completely conceptual questions with terrible word choice and they make it overly complicated just to figure out what the question is asking. Please U of A, turn 115A and B back into 30 person classes so we can ask questions and talk to the teacher instead of relying on tutors and peers to figure it out. Thanks.

Journal 5

When I look at the statute outside the Harvill building, the most predominant theme I see is the battle between opposing forces. I see two sides in an eternal struggle and neither side is making any progress. On each side you have two figures, representing the different groups of people who believe in one idea but believe in different ways to achieve their goal. You have one statue in one stance and the other in another stance. This represents the way they choose different means to achieve their goal.

Then, both sides are locked in an eternal struggle of trying to push this wall, but no matter how long they stand there trying to push they wont make any progress. I believe this represents how in all of life's challenges there are opposing forces and neither side would make nearly as much progress as they would if they were to stop fighting each other and work together.

The statues overall are an analogy of how teamwork can accomplish much, while each individual working toward their own personal gain will only achieve a fraction of what good teamwork could achieve.