My best FDU professor so far has been my general psychology professor, Dr. Brodhead. I am a psychology major, so I was really excited going into this course and was hoping to have a good experience. Dr. B is really helpful, and she keeps the class fun. Her assignments are actually really interesting, so they don’t feel like such a burden when you’re working on them. We’ve even done projects in class where we’ve had to color in different parts of the brain, the ear, and neurons to learn their structures, which really helped because they were easier to identify on the tests. She explains all of the information we learn thoroughly so that it’s easy to get an A on the tests and in the class as long as you study. Not only has she been a great
What I like most about being a college student is all the people you get to meet. I have meet a lot of great people over the years that I will continue to be friends with after I graduate. Most of the professor’s that I have had really helped me to become the student I am today.
Prompt: In 500 words or more, describe your collegiate experience thus far. How has this experience and the knowledge you've gained influenced what you plan to study? How have they influenced your decision to apply to St. Edward's?
This course and as in Honors Biology, we were taught in a more oneself teaching rather than a lecture. I like the idea of not having a lecture, but when the teacher took a day to do a quick overview of each chapter, I learned the material and understood the material the best. I wish that we had that in each unit because I truly do like biology and when I understand a new concept fully it made me feel 10 times more comfortable on the test and the
There I was, poised with the first draft of my masters thesis, ready to jack it under the rear wheels of my car so that I could vent my anger and frustration. Never had I felt this kind of undiluted rage in dealing with a piece of writing. As far as I was concerned, the first draft was complete and therefore the entire piece was finished; however, my thesis advisor didn’t quite agree with me. A less deranged friend of mine talked me out of repeatedly backing over my thesis, and convinced me that it didn’t really matter if I did leave tire marks on it because I had multiple drafts on my disk. But still, I knew that it would just feel so good to leave some tire tread on the paper.
During my day at the Goddard school, I had an opportunity to observe the schools loose nutritional practices. The morning starts off with parents bringing the children in and having breakfast from home. The teacher mentions that the parents choose what they’d like their children to eat for breakfast and they have no specific restrictions. I was able to see this first hand as one of the children had chicken nuggets for breakfast. One main practice that the school did stress and implement was having a designated peanut free table. If I child is allergic to peanuts they were to sit at that table for safety reasons. For snack time the children were provided raisins and dry cheerios. The teachers rational behind the snacks is that they have a low sugar content and incorporates grains. There aren't
Many of my instructors, such as a high school teacher I had for both honors Chemistry and Physics reminded me of the teacher from the television show, Charlie Brown, simply droning on with no discernable enthusiasm or interest in the subject. These teachers taught classes that I invariably found “unbearable” as there was no thinking or experimentation required on my part. However the classes I excelled in always brought new variables to the table, and combined with an interesting subject invariably held my attention for the semester and beyond. Two instructors come to mind from my 15 years of education, and both due to the different, and often interesting approaches they took to
Over the course of this class I have pieced together many things about my own life that before went unnoticed. I am now able to see things in a bit of a different light. Now that I have been introduced to the realm of psychology I understand some of the reasons for behavior around me. I have learned that there is a reason for most everything and a lot of our behaviors and mental processes can be explained through psychology. Studies have been conducted for many years to try and pinpoint the source of our behavior and it is not something that most people think about every day. Having a better understanding of why we operate the way we do will help me to better understand myself and the others around me.
All of them have wonderful reviews from me, kind, thoughtful, compassionate, smart, and most importantly, willing to put the needs of their students first in order to better them as people. I would never change the experiences that I had in school, they helped shape who I am today, and that is one amazing thought.
It is quite fortunate that I do not live in Seattle or Portland. As beautiful as those cities are and as much as I love visiting them, I could never tolerate the gray, cloudy weather. I've decided that fall is my least favorite season. I absolutely adore all the colors and the mild weather, but the time change, which causes it to become dark by 5:30pm and the gray skies, make me feel terribly blue!
When I decided to attend State University, I pictured university education as an "Ivory Tower". I thought that I would be able to drown myself in my studies and not be affected by everyday life. Boy was I wrong. I found out in the fall of my freshman year that university education isn't the Ivory Tower that I pictured it to be. I was working 32 hours each week and attending classes full time and therefore, didn't have the time to devote to my studies that I had wanted to.
Professor Stuart used a lot of discussions in the class. Everyone in class offered their opinion on all the material we encountered during the course. The class discussions contributed to helping me learn because it provided me with extra information and different viewpoints of how others interpreted the material. Also, we ended up going to the library and taking a tour. This experience added to my learning in this course because it taught me how to find the proper materials in the library and how to accurately benefit from the sources available in the library. Another contributing factor was the individual conferences scheduled by the professor. The conference contributed because the teacher discussed the current grade I had in that class and helped me understand what I needed to do to improve my academic writing along with my grade. The Prezi PowerPoints encouraging my learning by providing me with accurate information, further helping me understand the underlying material. Peer review also played a role in my learning because it allowed us to get outside ideas or criticism for our paper, allowing us to fix the mistakes, before turning it in. In addition to all these contributing factors, the hupomnemata really benefited me the most. The hupomnemata is a journal used for writing down notes on the material and some things the professor said in
Talking to old professors whom I hadn’t really established a relationship with in the past was sort of uncomforting, but I was definitely subconsciously intrigued and ready for the challenge of the assignment. The opportunity to come back as a ‘person’ to share thoughts and values was sort of eye opening. Reminded me of the time when I first learned teachers had lives outside of school (this definitely happened before third
I had an English teacher name Mr. Hesse and a chemistry teacher Mr. Griffin. So far they have been the best teachers I’ve ever had in my entire school life. They were so great at what they did and taught us, because not only did they focus on teaching us about the course itself, but they made sure to give us real life advice. They were always there after school to help us with whatever we did not understand from the course, they were there to help us with advice on moving into our college careers, for any conflicts, they were just always there for us, to guide us. We also had great counselors who made sure that on our last year of High school, we were on top of our college applications as early as possible, and I really thank them for that because now I am attending a great
With Bibles in the desks and a smile on his face, Mr. Murphy was ready to
I was really impressed on how well organized Alexia Hall was with the class she seem to know where she wanted to the class to be at the end of the semester. We were past out with the class policies and a syllabus of what we were going to do the whole semester. I thought this was very convenient so that there was no mixed signals in the group.