Category Archives: EDUCATION

Early this morning I was thinking of one more item I wanted to write and post here about how the semester break takes such a load off students and now we’re free for three or four weeks to read, write, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Or just about, anyway. I would like to go tonight to the final but optional Spanish class–it was a great group, but I may be too tied up with framing tonight which is just getting closer to mid-pile and with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Professor Jerz of Jerz’s Literacy Log has been kind enough to post proper methods of citing weblogs for use in student essay’s — or any other paper for that matter that would include quotes or ideas put forth in writing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Must be a lot of papers due tomorrow morning, I’m getting folks googling and yahooing and even aolsearching their way to Spinning for some quick info on several of the stories I’ve analyzed briefly here. Just a word to those … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What a degree and the resulting information pounded into my head means to me and what it means for others, especially the normal age group of students is most likely very different. But last night I just found out one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Great Lettuce Head wonders if students at least make an attempt to maintain ongoing study or at least retain what is learned from one semester to another, or even during breaks such as this Thanksgiving holiday. Actually, even the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to Dr. Jerz’s suggestion to try the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, I have now been categorized as to what one can expect of me and how I will most likely react to other people and situations. I have been assured … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Darned few of us are sneaking in moments at our computers, but this link to Jerz’s Literacy Log offers a link to the free taking of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. Short on time, and more curious about my reality than … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shoot. Just noticed that I got only a coupla entries under my EDUCATION Category here at Spinning. I’ll have to think up something to put in there that makes me sound very, very smart. Continue reading →

Well, the gig is up. I must make an appointment with my advisor and admit I am a Liberal Arts student who has been masquerading as General Studies for the past three years. I have received notice that the college … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Could two Associate Degrees add up to a Bachelor’s? It just seems to me that I have so much to explore at Tunxis in new media, computer graphics and programming, advanced psychology, sociology–all the courses I didn’t have to take … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In surfing for information, I came upon what looks to be a most interesting and graphically neat website called Cyber English. Check it out: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/ Continue reading →

I am at a crossroads in my life. Having received notice that I would be eligible to graduate with a General Studies degree this spring, I must decide my course—literally. Somewhere along the line I had mentally switched to Liberal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In this space should lie my last discourse of the morning on the very important subject of combining personal interests such as literature and computer technology towards selecting and pursuing one’s education. Unfortunately, techie that I am, I lost the … Continue reading → Continue reading →