Practicum!

I started my practicum last week and have been doing stuff here and there for it since. But it's really fun and more like a job then a class. So guess what all of you who aren't seniors yet? When you become a senior you have to do really hard classes, but then you also get to do practicums and stuff like that which aren't really hard. Because it's basically just correlating with all those other classes that you've taken for the last couple of years, but more like a job type thing. And then you also get lots of credits and yeah it's great!!

What's wrong here!

I've had this rather frusterating class this semester, and the main reason why it's been frusterating is just because the teacher has kind of been treating it like a graduate class and none of us in the class are graduate students. But today our teacher was gone and so the TA had to teach and anyways he basically told us that on some of the papers that have been turned in people have actually written stuff like "your stupid", basically referring to the teacher. And when I heard that I was completely shocked, because sure I haven't always liked the class and the tests are pretty hard but I'm not going to be rude about it. And I guess what really annoyed me was that I have had alot worse math professors in college then FCHD professors. But I've never said stuff like that to any of those math teachers, so it's just sad that just because people aren't getting A's in a class that they're going to be that angry about it. Sure grades are important, but not so important that your going to be disrespectful and angry about it. Because I've been working at a elementary school this school year and that is one thing that makes me not like working with 4th and 5th graders, is that they can be really rude to other kids, teachers and probably even siblings and parents. So even though things aren't going as planned it's a good idea to keep in mind that there's a line between being civil and being rude. Because at first I didn't really like this particular professor to much, but I quickly noticed that if I went and talked to him about problems with the tests or papers that he usually was cool about it. So honestly getting the highest grade in the class isn't always the best thing, but being a decent and nice person is.

Exciting News!

So it's very interesting because it seems like things always seem to work out and so that's when you can tell that your going in the right direction. Basically my reason for saying all of this is because I've been slightly worried about after-graduation since my major isn't exacally a money making field. And it's not exacally my idea to go to college and then graduate to only get a job that pays like $8.00 an hour, come on I could go back to Roosevelt and get a job at Stewarts for that much. But anyways suddenly this semester alot of random things have suddenly just started happening. For example I went to a graduate school meeting with my major today and it was brought up that there is a professor in the major who is doing like three or four research projects and would love to have students come and do undergraduate research with her. Just so you know I would have done that along time ago, but I didn't even know that there was undergraduate research in my major until today. So I e-mailed this Professor right away and anyways she e-mailed me back all excited because she wants students in on it I guess. And anyways, so starting next semester I'll probably be doing undergraduate research. Also, I found out at this meeting that due to two school years ago when I didn't have a major in mind and I was just randomly taking classes that I'd actually taken some classes that go towards the gerontology certificate. And so to this very day I could do the 3 credit practicum and join the gerontology club and get the gerontology certificate quickly after. And not nessecarily do my own research on aging, but I could be an assistant. Which probably wouldn't pay as well as someone who did their own research, but it would pay most likely alot better then working in a daycare or preschool. And it's great because I would want to do research, so it's working out perfectly. So, it's just cool when things start falling into place, especially after two years of waiting for that exact thing to happen.

Propostion 8

I have been hearing alot about how the homosexuals are mad that proposition 8 passed in California and they're surrounding the Los Angelos temple I think it is. And so I was talking to a couple of people about it and just how it's really frusterating that alot of other people in California voted for it who were not LDS. Basically saying that it wasn't only LDS people who voted for it, so I just think it's really annoying that it's turning out like this, but then I got this from a friend:

"SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The following statement was released today by Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and former Bishop of Salt Lake City, in response to attacks on the Mormon Church for supporting California's Proposition 8, defending the traditional definition of marriage:"Catholics stand in solidarity with our Mormon brothers and sisters in support of traditional marriage--the union of one man and one woman--that has been the major building block of Western Civilization for millennia."The ProtectMarriage coalition, which led the successful campaign to pass Proposition 8, was an historic alliance of people from every faith and ethnicity. LDS were included--but so were Catholics and Jews, Evangelicals and Orthodox, African-Americans and Latinos, Asians and Anglos."Bigoted attacks on Mormons for the part they played in our coalition are shameful and ignore the reality that Mormon voters were only a small part of the groundswell that supported Proposition 8."As the former bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, I can attest to the fact that followers of the Mormon faith are a good and generous people with a long history of commitment to family and giving to community causes."I personally decry the bigotry recently exhibited towards the members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints--coming from the opponents of Proposition 8, who ironically, have called those of us supporting traditional marriage intolerant."I call upon the supporters of same-sex marriage to live by their own words--and to refrain from discrimination against religion and to exercise tolerance for those who differ from them. I call upon them to accept the will of the people of California in the passage of Proposition 8."SOURCE: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento"

So kind of the point here is that it's not really religion that inspired the voting for of proposition 8, but it has alot to do with a society that supports traditional marriage in general. So I just thought that it was cool that this Roman Catholic Bishop sent out this letter, because it most definately was not only the LDS church that passed that propostion. We most definately live in some very interesting times that is for sure.