This week was a shortened week because of the Christmas holiday. I decided to come to Fresno with Sonia on Wednesday morning (yesterday). Yesterday I did nothing but be on the Internet and waste time. Oh, how easy it is to waste time doing nothing. I say that because today I did the same. Absolutely nothing. Before these days I was so good. I started reading a Chomsky book that, like always, makes a lot of sense. I know this is going to sound stupid but real life is like the movie “The Matrix.” In that there is a reality under layers of fantasy world, here in the U.S. anyways. Chomsky shows you reality, he gives you the red pill (or is it the blue?). Sometimes I detest reading his books because they make me feel so pessimistic. The majority of the time Chomsky is my favorite ‘intellectual.’ I haven’t written much for about a month because of the two week stretch of finals preparation. I somehow managed to pull it off(21 units). Yeah Right, I know how I did it. There is always a way! At my last final(African American History), Dr. S told me that he enjoyed reading my research paper. I was like “huh, you talking to me ese?” I thought I was mediocre on that paper, but hey I guess he liked the subject. By the way, I wrote about the invention of black racism to support slavery and the suppression of class conflict amongst white indentured servants.
Monthly Archive for December, 2001
I have not written an entry in a while and so I am back to talk about what’s going on. The time is actually 12:10 a.m., and so that means that it is actually December 6. But to avoid any confusion we will say that it is still yesterday. Being a mentor/tutor at WFMS has definitely been a learning experience :P. I help out Mr. C’s (math class) 8th grade class(I think it’s 8th grade) and my first day I was exposed to math that I had not seen in years (duh). I felt like such a dummy, I couldn’t remember how to do certain problems. Am I the only university student that seems to forget how to do simple algebra problems? To make things worse on Tuesday of this week, I was helping out my second class with Ms. C (6th grade), I was confronted with a little brat asking me to convert millimeters to centimeters. Another little punk asked me to solve the following problem: ½ x 26; and 9/8 (convert imperfect fraction to mixed fraction) which I felt was, and still feel that it equals 1 1/8. I am wondering if it is still right, as for the first one, ill never know. JK. It is so frustrating since am so more advanced than these simple problems, but I seem to freeze at the sight of fractions and multiplying fractions, etc. As for the class, Ms. C seems to be a weird nice lady. She has a hard time controlling the class. There is no discipline. The kids get up when they want to, they walk around the class, they talk, they horse play, etc., etc., etc. Thank GOD for Ms. D (I think that’s her name), she’s a teachers assistant and she brought her kids skillz with her. She has a magic marker with her at all times and when someone misbehaves… “write your name on the board, you’re staying with me for recess and lunch, and after school, so you better call up your mamma and tell her to find you a ride!” What a lady! She demands respect and the students give it. As with any class we have 2 or 3 students that happen to get out of control. In this case Devon, Jorge, and some other boy, are the culprits. These little guys are so loud and disruptive, they also manage to interfere with learning by other students. I am going to concentrate on “neutralizing” these kids (I sound like the CIA) and turn them to the good side. I have another little girl that I have to take care of. Araceli only speaks Spanish. Her English is minimal if anything. I have not dedicated much time to her, but I will tomorrow. Although I have no experience in teaching a non- english student how to learn the language, I will make my attempt. Hopefully I am somewhat successful. As for the rest of my life, I am in a downward spiral, ending the semester. I still have two (10) page research papers to do: one for my African American history class, and the other for my CLS diversity class. That shouldn’t be too hard. What will be hard is studying for the finals for every one of my seven classes. Oh well, it can’t be too hard, I already completed the majority of the semester, I cant blow it on the final exam. I am better than that. Please rid thyself of procrastination, and laziness, READ! STUDY! RESEARCH! GET A 3.5! GET INTO LAW SCHOOL!