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| Camp has been awesome thus far. I don't know what a perfect job I could have found this summer. It seems to be a refreshing and replenishing job from last year in school. We get to spend lots of time outside, with views of Lake Coeur d' Alene. The smells of the Ponderosa Pines are nice. The people are kind. Another thing is that I get to grow a bit more in my relationship with God. I also get to run a lot more than when I was in Alaska, so I may even get better training. I haven't been getting as much mileage as I need, and I need to get more shoes. Despite these facts, it's been the best summer I've had for awhile. I also even get to lead a Discover Center once in awhile, which is basically a time for kids to do a craft or a game, while their counselors are taking a break for about an hour. The kids seemed to love the one I lead today. They made noise makers, and then we marched around camp and basically made noise. The program director loved it, and even said that it made her day. Plus another person said that a special needs kid who was in my group loved his drum, and made his day when another person made his drum and he got to march around in the parade. I thought it was an awesome day. I know that I'll be going through some tough days, but this has been a good day nonetheless. | | |
| This week has been so busy. Seeing as it's Dead Week, it all makes sense lol. I've got my poster presentation for my statistics project that I've been working on all semester coming up in less than an hour. I think that it will be interesting to see others' reactions when they see that our sum of squares within is about 860,000...which, in lamens terms, means that what we were measuring did not quite explain our results. It could have been the way that we were measuring it. We were trying to expand on research for the Mozart Effect. We were seeing if music tempo affected spatial-reasoning performance and/or memory. Seeing that one of our tasks, a maze (the spatial task), took a considerable amount of time for some to finish, while others just blazed through it, could have skewed our results. It also could have been to do with construct validity, or if we were measuring what we were thinking that we were measuring. Our tasks, a maze (for spatial) and a memory card game (for memory), could have not been accurate measures for spatial reasoning or memory. Because of our lack of time, and, in some ways, knowledge (as we were learning the material at the same time as our testing), we weren't expecting us to have a scientific breakthrough or anything. Not saying you shouldn't doubt yourself, but, to be honest, we weren't expecting it. Because of our lack of time we couldn't make good quality testing measures. I was thinking it would be cool to use Raven's Matrices, but it would have cost money, which is something that I don't have a lot of lol. We tried our best, and that was all that we could give. It was more about learning the statistical tests and applying them than it was about getting significant results, although getting at least one hypothesis right would have been nice. It will be over soon, and then I could get started on my paper...lol/AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!.....(which deserves yet another lol). To be honest, I'm not sure as to why they call this week Dead Week if we have to attend classes, and have things due during that time. I wish that I could have an entire week to devote to studying for my finals, getting enough sleep, eating well...If only if only I guess. Almost every other college or university is said to have a real Dead Week, as compared to a fake one lol. I've been really sleep deprived for the past couple of days, getting only about 5 hours of sleep. I've been realizing how much sleep (or lack thereof) could affect performance levels (of all kinds). Mainly for me, it's athletic and academic. Anyways, I have to get ready for my poster session!
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| I can't believe that the school year is almost over, and that I'm going to be an upperclassman next year. I'll have to get through finals week first, which will be a challenge. Next week is dead week, although it's not quite a dead week, since we have classes. Why must they have classes during dead week? It boggles me a bit. A lot of professors want stuff turned in during dead week, including my professor. In some ways I can't wait to be done with my statistics class, but it's been fun. It's been hard, but it's been fun being in the class, and learning about all this stuff about statistics. I'm going to do my best on my final, as I haven't been doing very well the last couple of exams. I have a lot of studying ahead of me. I also want to help someone out in my statistics class get more participants for her research experiment. I feel bad for her, as it seems as if she's been working hard and things didn't work out for her. At the same time it seems as if she took a bite too big for her to chew. I don't know, I just feel like helping her. I mean, I think it's good for people to learn the consequences of their actions, but at the same time it's good to help others in need. It sucks to make it all the way to the end of the semester of a statisics class like ours (with learning research design included) just to fail it, especially if you've been working hard in the first place. Track is also over, which is nice (if I haven't said so already). I think it's nice to have a break from running once in awhile. It's nice having the feeling that you have more time available. It's hard for me to manage my time, as it goes by so fast (sometimes it goes by faster than others). I don't know if it's because of my Asperger's or what, time just seems to fly by sometimes without me knowing it. I'm also going to get some academic assistance next year, since my counselor thinks that I have trouble filtering out all the little stuff while reading my textbooks. I've never had a tutor like that before, which will be a new and awesome experience. I know that when I walk out of someplace having learn something new, I feel empowered. Hopefully I could get through the next couple of weeks unscathed! lol | | |
| Hello everyone! I haven't been blogging very much the last, say, year and a half or so, as I've been pretty busy. Because I want to keep blogging, I want to make an entry at least once a week, which shouldn't be that big of a deal. Sometimes I tend to extrapolate things, or it's because I haven't fully mastered my time management skills. I sometimes wish that I was better at managing my time. Sometimes I feel extremely distracted. It's as if my mind isn't cooperating with my want to read or anything. It's kind of stuck right now. Sometimes I think I have ADD, maybe I could ask my psychologist next week. I guess one cool thing about this year is that now I get to see a psychologist for free once a week now until I graduate, which will be for free. It's pretty nice actually. I never got anything like that before, and it will be nice to get others' input on socializing, or life in general and how to cope with it. Because I'm an aspie, I think I need it a bit more than others. It will definitely help out with things. I'm also going to start a support group at my university for people affected by Asperger's, or any kind of autistic spectrum disorder for the matter. I might get help from University of Washington Autism Center. If they don't offer direct support, at least it will be a little more advice before I actually get started with the group. I think it will be a great resource not only for myself, but for other aspies going to college here. Maybe it could also be open to the community, as there aren't many groups near my area, or at least that are listed. I want it to be a place for people to hang out and for others to know that they aren't alone in the world, which is often what it feels like to be an aspie. Sometimes it's difficult to understand the rest of the world. Sometimes I just want to be in a place where others can understand me. That's why I'm creating this group, because I know that others are wanting the same things as I am. It will take a bit of time to get started, but I think it will be worth it. I want to help other aspies after I graduate, so the group will also relate to my career path. I'm still unsure as to what exactly I would like to be. I'm still majoring in Psychology, but I'm still unsure exactly. If I attend graduate school, I want to go to University of Washington. They're huge on autism research. I don't know how much clinical work they do with autistics, however. I also think that it would be cool to go into research, and help aspies on the side. I like statistics (yet I'm not the best at it yet). I'm also creative, and love asking "What if..." questions. My Psychology advisor thinks that I don't only have to limit myself to Psychology-related careers. I could also get a Master's degree in Social Work, or Special Ed. if I wanted to. I don't want to kill myself on the social aspect of it, but at the same time I'll have to socialize with people sometime lol! My school year has also been getting better, with track over, and the fact that I don't have to interact with Lexie all the time anymore. It's still difficult, but I'm trudging through it.
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| It's a nice, sunny, crisp day outside and I'm unsure as to why I'm in the library typing a blog lol. The past few days have been pretty good, as I just got done with J-term, and it's J-term break right now. I've also sold a couple cookbooks yesterday to a couple people that I knew, which feels good. It will definitely help me to pay for cross country and track expenses. Our cross country/track teams are selling cookbooks with our favourite recipes, our times/marks, and our pictures to earn money for our program. My first track meet is on February 28th, and I'm still running the 10k. It seems crazy, but it's actually pretty fun lol. My History of the Vikings course was awesome. I don't know how well I did in the course, but it was sure awesome to learn how to translate Old Norse rune stones. It was also interesting to learn more about the Vikings rather than the fact that they raided and pillaged towns and monastaries. I definitely know a lot more about the Vikings now than before. Now Spring Semester is coming up, and I'll have to say that my course load is definitely going to be heavy. Not only am I doing Concert Band and Private lessons and Military Science, I'm going to be taking Biology, Stats, and Latin (both the Stats and Latin are the other parts of the course). It will prove to be a very, well, interesting semester. I think that at the end of it, I'm going to be very worn out. I have been trying to get ahead on some reading, which will prove useful later. I don't know how next semester will go. Hopefully, if anything, it will be a little easier than I first thought. Anyways, I'm going to get ready for track practice and enjoy the nice weather before it goes away.
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