Anxiety Personified In Public Schools

What do I feel proudest about regarding my learning activities during the last two weeks?

As one of my favorite classes, it is extra challenging to choose the two assignment that I would like discuses. However, I have to make the decision. Therefore, I choose, create a constitution from my Economic/ government class and a project about the Roaring 20’s from my American History class.

I was born exactly ninety-one years to the day that Dr. Alice Stewart was. Although this may seem to be a relatively insignificant coincidence, I assure you it 's not.  My role model, Dr.  Stewart discovered how x-rays were linked to leukemia and other cancers in people exposed, leading to many current methods of treatments.  Now if I told you my life ambition was to research to find better treatment methods and even a cure for cancer, a coincidence would seem more like fate. Often at family get-togethers, my mother recalls my numerous makeshift experiments she survived through my childhood. From putting tin foil in a microwave, to catching frogs and observing speech patterns, to more elaborate experiments such as finding out how protein breaks

My heart began to race. I entered the spacious lecture hall, opened the door, and before me were two hundred students glancing at me. Entering the class for the first time at Florida International University (FIU) presented unparalleled opportunities on my forthcoming journey as a high school junior. When I enrolled at FIU as a dual enrollment student, I experienced uncertainty in regard to my intended major and career choice. I took courses across multiple disciplines, yet I remained remote from the ideas presented – until I met my professor for General Chemistry during my junior year. I enjoyed the class lectures, and I attended the professor’s office hours often that she asked me to become a learning assistant (LA) for the course.

Stress among teenagers in high school or young adults in college is sadly quite common. Students go through many hard things during this time and stress is often in abundance. Often times, the main cause is school related. Nathaniel Moss is well acquainted with this kind of stress, like many other students his age. Causes for stress he’s experienced often included too much schoolwork, his own procrastination, and extracurricular or outside activities.

The hardest part of my daily routine, was the time when I knew I needed to start my homework, but I really just wanted to keep watching shows on netflix. The only problem was the voice in my head that was always telling me “ Don’t worry about your homework just yet.” and “ But since this last episode ended on a cliffhanger, I have to watch the next one to see what happens.” Most of the time I was able to ignore this little voice and do what I know I had to do, but somedays it was harder. I decided to continue procrastinating for another episode. After, I stared at my backpack that lay across the room, I could hear it taunting me, almost laughing. As time dwindled by, I could feel the pressure of the undone homework

There it was, standing in the distance, a tall gloomy gray-colored building. With a few splashes of blue paint added to the dull cement to add color to what would otherwise be a lifeless building.This building was non-other than the one and only Stoller Middle School. I never referred to it as a middle school but more as a prison, it was full of rules that were put in place just to suck away any possible fun from a child’s mind. Maybe I didn’t like the place because I was suspended five times from it. My latest suspension happened the day after I had just come back from the fourth one.

As a young girl, I had a genuine fascination with the makeup of the world we lived in. I wanted to know anything and everything there was to know about the world. I would consistently and sternly press on questions to the adults in my life. “How does a leaf grow? How many cells are on your tongue? How is a TV made?” These are a few of the millions of curiosities that I presented to my parents, teachers, and mentors. Every now and again I would receive a groan or an “I don’t know” in an annoyed tone as my answer. I’d be forced to leave it at that. But more often than not, I would receive true, scientific answers. Unfortunately for those around me, that would only raise more questions. Noticing my interest in the world around me, my parents signed me up for science summer programs and thus, my passion was born.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In April of 1968, a third grade teacher from a small, whites only town of Riceville, Iowa walked into class confounded and disturbed. The class had recently made Martin Luther King Jr. The hero of the month. Therefore, the students and Ms. Elliot could not fathom why anyone would want to harm Mr. King. The assassination made her decide to teach her students a very challenging lesson on the significance of the word discrimination. This lesson would show the students how it felt to be discriminated against, and how it changed individuals.

Rotation day five the Minden Lab. Today was a busy day got to draw many people and they were willing to let me. We also had some calls to the ER and drew on a person that was having chest pain we drew a Cardiac tube he told us that he was worried because his nice was going to have surgery. The phlebotomist asked what kind of surgery he’s niece was having he then told us the story of how his niece had been thrown up in the air and that the little girl had fallen and hit her head. He thought he was having chest pain because of how worried he was.

Up to elementary school, my cumulative treasure of science pertained only theories. My hands-on practical started during 7th grade, I dissected a cow eyeball to learn its anatomical structures. Next dissection was a frog, first time in my life I saw internal organs by naked eyes, and to see the circulatory system I dissected an Earth worm. Unlike our cardiac chambers earth worm circulate blood through vessels, which inspired so deeply that I started thinking to make my career in the

The NOVA documentary “Naturally Obsessed: the making of a scientist” shows the lives of three post-graduate students at Columbia University and their experiments and struggles they faced in the lab and the impact their research had on their mental and social health. One of the students, Rob, has aspirations to become like his mentor Larry and have his own lab and students. Personally, I relate more with Rob than the other students in the film because like him, I tend to look up to the people I admire. Additionally, Rob and I share a steadfast resolve when doing work regardless of the difficulty. Although Rob has been unsuccessful for two and a half years in producing successful results, he is still determined to finish his research and earn

Waking up at 6:30 in the morning is too much for many high school students, yet I failed to sigh and sulk through the morning. Every day for my first year of high school I got to go to biology, a class I attended with eager anticipation of the biological systems I would be learning about that day. Biology created a beautiful relationship relating the world of living things to the rest of science. The genius was that anybody was capable of discovering information about the world around them. When learning about the simplest concepts such as water, my teacher enlightened the class celebrating how “Water is an enigma!”. I knew I liked science and I didn’t want to fail at it, so I bought books and studied. It was a challenging class, yet my dedication paid off to only further my persistence and drive to

It was still the first month of school as I struggled to adapt to the new changes that came with the transition from ninth to tenth grade. Each period, I would walk into my Chemistry class with a sullen and resentful expression on my face that depicted the remorseful attitude which I expressed towards the class. The first few periods had already become an obstacle for me, as I failed to keep up with the information and concepts that I was presented with. The year began with my teacher lecturing my class on the basic structure, properties, elements, and characteristics of the periodic table. The coursework of the class gradually became overwhelming and demanding in the periods that followed. To my surprise, I had already been failing each of the tests, labs, and a majority of the assignments that were given to me during the first few weeks of school. My first thought after my failures and imperfections was why this was happening. I recall coming home after each school day had come to end and sitting at my desk for hours attempting to solve complex stoichiometry problems and mole to mole ratios, as well as understanding different types of chemical reactions, compounds, and theories. I devoted hours and hours to focusing my mind and concentrating on understanding the concepts that were presented to me in order to succeed in the class. However, despite my persistence and

How exciting would the world be if everyone was either a scientist or mathematician? What would the world be like? Of course there will be a bountiful supply of scientific breakthroughs thank we can bank on, but what how will all of the other aspects of the world fare? As of currently, all across the country there has been a jolt of urgency for the incorporation of a more STEM based education in schools. A more “STEM” based education like the type described in We Can’t All Be Math Nerds and Science Geeks by Fareed Zakaria narrows student’s once broad-based learning foundation and directs it into a more specific line of learning, which is the reasoning behind Zakaria’s disapproval of the movement.