Reflection The Lonely, Good Company of Books

A Custom that all the Resseguie children have had including me is singing. Since Both my parents are music teachers we kind of had no choice singing in the church choir or the chorales at our school. Another custom I was born to was my faith. Since my father is also the choir director at First Presbyterian we had to sing in his choir when we were old enough and attend church every sunday. Another tradition that I share with my family is sports. My father is a huge football fan and played all kinds of sports growing up. Another custom my parents and I share is loving the cold weather. My dad grew up in northern Iowa where it snows all the time starting from October all to sometimes March. So I just grew up loving the winter.

Quotes from "Where College Fails Us"

Bird states "The unhappiness and disconnect of young people is nothing new, and problems of adolescence  are always painfully intense" (196).

"If the young man went to a public college rather than Princeton the investment would be lower" (Bird 201).

Bird says "Young people cannot go to college for the good of mankind" (202).

Reflection of Task Three

For my task three essay I am using Caroline Bird's essay " Why college fails us". Although Bird makes great points in her essay, I will use quotes from her essay to mostly show how she is wrong in some cases by using facts and experiences from my life and  my family's. If there has been one thing I have learned in my education experiences from Kindergarten to now, it is that education is the most efficient tool to find a field of study you love, get paid for it, and make a career out of it. Bird is right when she talks about how college is not the right path for people especially for students just graduating high school. But I think if you take the proper steps to grow up, mature and treat college more like a job, then you will see that college is the easiest and efficient way to be successful. In a way college shows you the reality of living on your own. It gradually forces you to deal with the reality and in return you become more responsible from this. In return you grow as a person and know how to deal with real life situations when they are brought to your attention. I do understand why some people cannot attend college right out of high school whether it be because of pregnancy, family issues, or just not being able to afford it. In the long run if people start to understand the importance of college and how it really is a gateway to having a successful future, people will, more people will attend college.

Response to Task Three Question

I think our education system for the most part overall is effective. Could it be better in certain areas? absolutely. I think for the student that attends most suburban schools or huge public schools, the education will be good and will prepare you for in college. That doesn't count the poor or inner city schools who struggle to get the books they need just to teach a certain class and cover certain material. You also have to take into consideration how teachers all teach differently and schools have different expectations and different agendas. It's very important for schools to keep up with the technology so we are familiar with it and understand. This will help us be able to come up with new technology faster if no one falls behind. I don't think we should add or take away any years of schooling. It's already predicted that the older we get it will take more years of schooling just to compete for a job. taking away schooling such as middle school for example can only hurt our education system. Everybody knows how there early teen years are the worst because of hormones and kids developing at different rates and figuring out who they are. At least I know how I was in junior high and I definitely needed those years to develop and get prepared for high school. But for the most part as far as I can see at least my education has been effective for me and no huge changes should be added to our education system.

Response to Where College fails us

My experiences for the most part have been good, although there are some classes that I will have to take that I will just need to ride out or survive which i'm not looking forward to. But for the most part I can tell right away how much knowledge I am gaining rather than if I didn't attend college. Some of the important reasons why i'm attending college is for one, I didn't really have a choice considering I was pressured by my parents, two, I want to be a pharmacist, and in order to do that I have to go through college. My last reason would be to be able to make enough money to provide for my future family and I think college is the most efficient way to do that. To be honest I really wont know if all this time, effort, and expences will pay off until after I have graduated and have seen where myself has ended up. But I think I wont have any worries and me attending college will be worth it in the long run.

Self evaluation for task two

My thesis for my paper is how my father still succeeded even though he had a knee injury during his football season and how his ideal path was a football player changed to being a choir teacher. the main points I make in the paper is my dad growing up without a father, how he was a high school football player, how his knee injury effected him, how he overcame his injury and turned to choir, his success and love for choir. Good advice I recieved from my peer was to not have so many run on sentences. The most important information I received in class was to have supporting details to support my thesis. I typed my draft the day after i wrote the interview responses on paper. I wrote three drafts with an outline that Ms. Chastain helped me with. In my paper I probably added an extra main point that I didn't need that made my paper longer. I'm most pleased with my detail and description of my events about this paper.

Response to Becoming Educated

My early thoughts on what college would be like are, the classes would be a lot harder and would have to put more effort in the class to get a good grade. Another thought was that the teacher's would cover a lot more material faster. Reality was, The classes are as hard as you make them to be, and yes, they do cover a lot more material in a shortened amount of time. Chemistry for example is kind of like Jordan's law school for me. I have to read a lot more than usual and I can't bull shit my way out of any discussion we talk about because the professor and other students would know more about the subject and force you to back up your answers.