As a baby,
step by step,
little by little,
kownlege starts to pull.
As an adult,
we use,
we talk,
we behave,
things we learned from the start.
12/14/2008
12/10/2008
Blog Evaluation
I feel the blog is something unique. Before this class, i didn't even know how to create a blog, don't even mention use it. I had viewed other students opinions, but it does not provide me an understanding of that student, or to know the student. I feel i was reading an anonymous paper since i just clicked the link, and not really know the name. In terms of communicating in class, i don't feel benefited from viewing others' online because opinion is just an opinion. People are having different experience, therefore will have different values on something.
There is a connection between the blog and the class activities. After we finished the activity, when we started doing the blog, we would need to refect back what did we did, and how were the things we did relate to the class materials. Thus i think the blog is effectively share my perception of the things we did in class.
In terms of professor's blog about the management topics, i feel they are interesing. However, i don't like to leave comments for those topics in a mandatory way. In the beginning, i didn't even know that we had to leave comments for the professor's blog, so we i looked through the professor's topics, and several students comments, my first reaction was that they are interesting, and that the students' comments are long compared to our regular comments to other students. For me, if there is no need to leave comments, then i would like to see more of the different management topics that are not related to the class study, otherwise vice versa.
About the counterbalance between the blog and the test, indeed, the blog is somewhat gives us a relief and a backup for our final grades. The blog grade is easy to get, and writing the blog does not cause you a lot of time. Unlike test which we have to study for a long time, and to get a good grade is something not easy. As a total, i feel that there is some degree that the test anxiety is been released due to blog.
After i finished this class, i don't think that i will use the blog anymore. I don't like to share my personal thoughts online.
I think for class activities, blog assignments are necessary since they can bring back the memory and able to let us understand the subject better. If the blog needs improvement, i think is to not force the students to leave comments for every topic or force to give a certain number of comments because sometimes i feel there is nothing to say about.
There is a connection between the blog and the class activities. After we finished the activity, when we started doing the blog, we would need to refect back what did we did, and how were the things we did relate to the class materials. Thus i think the blog is effectively share my perception of the things we did in class.
In terms of professor's blog about the management topics, i feel they are interesing. However, i don't like to leave comments for those topics in a mandatory way. In the beginning, i didn't even know that we had to leave comments for the professor's blog, so we i looked through the professor's topics, and several students comments, my first reaction was that they are interesting, and that the students' comments are long compared to our regular comments to other students. For me, if there is no need to leave comments, then i would like to see more of the different management topics that are not related to the class study, otherwise vice versa.
About the counterbalance between the blog and the test, indeed, the blog is somewhat gives us a relief and a backup for our final grades. The blog grade is easy to get, and writing the blog does not cause you a lot of time. Unlike test which we have to study for a long time, and to get a good grade is something not easy. As a total, i feel that there is some degree that the test anxiety is been released due to blog.
After i finished this class, i don't think that i will use the blog anymore. I don't like to share my personal thoughts online.
I think for class activities, blog assignments are necessary since they can bring back the memory and able to let us understand the subject better. If the blog needs improvement, i think is to not force the students to leave comments for every topic or force to give a certain number of comments because sometimes i feel there is nothing to say about.
11/26/2008
Analysis of DISC
I feel the test is pretty much guaged my management orientation. The test shows that i am a Cs type person. Indeed, i feel that i am a person that do things analytically, according to the structures, want things to be organize, like to perform things in a consistent way, just work to the standard.
Actually, i'm comfortable the way that i am right now. I don't want to be another type such as the D, the dominant type because that would not be me anymore. As a D type person, she has to make quick decisions, accept new challenges, etc, which is directly opposite of me. I know that if i want to be a D type person, then i will able to become the D type person. It is just that I will be very uncomfortable and obtained a lot of pressure. Thus i never think of becoming another type when i'm not the type.
By looking at the personality type of people, it is not a good way to understand where people are coming from. Like me, for instance, i am from China, and i am a Cs type person. That does not mean that all Chinese are this type person. Also, i feel this test can't really help me in other personal interactions because i be friends with all different people with different personalities.
Actually, i'm comfortable the way that i am right now. I don't want to be another type such as the D, the dominant type because that would not be me anymore. As a D type person, she has to make quick decisions, accept new challenges, etc, which is directly opposite of me. I know that if i want to be a D type person, then i will able to become the D type person. It is just that I will be very uncomfortable and obtained a lot of pressure. Thus i never think of becoming another type when i'm not the type.
By looking at the personality type of people, it is not a good way to understand where people are coming from. Like me, for instance, i am from China, and i am a Cs type person. That does not mean that all Chinese are this type person. Also, i feel this test can't really help me in other personal interactions because i be friends with all different people with different personalities.
11/19/2008
Registration Problem
I don't know if just me, or other students have the problems when they register for their courses. I often encounter problems when i register for higher level classes. For instance, this November 11, i had to register for the BPL class for my next semester's course. However, I couldn't do it because they said that i have to file the graduation form first, in order to take that class. Before that day, no one informed me anything about that. I then had to go to the advisement department, they told me that i had to go to the registrar to fill up the form. So i had to go to the registrar, and there was a long long line. Most students were like me who had problem on registering the BPL course, and they don't get inform either that they have to file the graduation form first for taking that class.
I feel this is ridiculous about the Baruch's management about the courses. I mean they have all the students e-mail address, they should send out a mail or some other way to tell the students about it, not until the last moment that we have to find out ourselve, and then able to register.
Not only that, after i filled the graduation form, i asked the lady who works there about how long i would be able to register the course, and the lady told me that after two hours i would be okay to register. The time i went to her was about 1:30pm. But the time that i able to register was around the midnight of that day. I was worried that i still couldn't register the course or maybe the course that i wanted to take was being taking over by other seniors. Fortunately, the course was still available when i was able to register.
However, the point is that Baruch should inform us about this first. Not until we have to come to them to know about it.
I feel this is ridiculous about the Baruch's management about the courses. I mean they have all the students e-mail address, they should send out a mail or some other way to tell the students about it, not until the last moment that we have to find out ourselve, and then able to register.
Not only that, after i filled the graduation form, i asked the lady who works there about how long i would be able to register the course, and the lady told me that after two hours i would be okay to register. The time i went to her was about 1:30pm. But the time that i able to register was around the midnight of that day. I was worried that i still couldn't register the course or maybe the course that i wanted to take was being taking over by other seniors. Fortunately, the course was still available when i was able to register.
However, the point is that Baruch should inform us about this first. Not until we have to come to them to know about it.
11/10/2008
Vision of Future
The vision that i have about my future is that I may be an accountant or a financial analyst or just self-investment. After I am tired about working, then i would just be an ordinary housewife, take care of my family. Right now, I am majoring in Finance. At the same time, i am doing an internship in an accounting firm. So far, I feel i like both, Finance and Accounting. I am thinking to take an intership for Finance in the last sememster, to see which one do i really like.
10/23/2008
Evaluating The Decision Making Process
Personally, the way that i chose to use to handle the chaos during the class decision making exercise was compromise. For enhance my grade, i wanted the professor to drop the lowest score exam, to curve the exams, to give out extra credits, and to reformat the exam.
By reformatting, I meant to make the next exams all mutiple choices, but no mutiple-multiple choices or just multiple-multiple choices but tell us how many that we need to choose in one question. Also, I didn't want to have essay questions on the exam. I am not good at thinking and writing the essay in a short time. Usually I need to spend one to two hours to write an essay. For this exam, on the essay part, I lost 27 points. That meant the highest score that i could get is 73 if all other questions were correct, which is impossible. Therefore, i just got a D on this exam without curve. I can foresee the next exam if there is an essay question, i will get a similar grade.
However, I know that some students are good at essay questions, they want to have essay questions on the exam. It was impossible to get everyone to agree on this, thus this idea had to be terminated. At least, I got what i wanted of the first three: drop, curve, and extra credit. I'm satisfied.
The other way to handle the conflicts to get a more desirable result is collaboration. This is better because I can bargain with other students who are good at essay to let them agree on no essay on the next exams or change the essay to a short question problem that just require us to write a paragraph. By using the collaboration method, there is at least a chance of getting the result that i'm hoping for.
By reformatting, I meant to make the next exams all mutiple choices, but no mutiple-multiple choices or just multiple-multiple choices but tell us how many that we need to choose in one question. Also, I didn't want to have essay questions on the exam. I am not good at thinking and writing the essay in a short time. Usually I need to spend one to two hours to write an essay. For this exam, on the essay part, I lost 27 points. That meant the highest score that i could get is 73 if all other questions were correct, which is impossible. Therefore, i just got a D on this exam without curve. I can foresee the next exam if there is an essay question, i will get a similar grade.
However, I know that some students are good at essay questions, they want to have essay questions on the exam. It was impossible to get everyone to agree on this, thus this idea had to be terminated. At least, I got what i wanted of the first three: drop, curve, and extra credit. I'm satisfied.
The other way to handle the conflicts to get a more desirable result is collaboration. This is better because I can bargain with other students who are good at essay to let them agree on no essay on the next exams or change the essay to a short question problem that just require us to write a paragraph. By using the collaboration method, there is at least a chance of getting the result that i'm hoping for.
10/01/2008
Egg Project Evaluation
Our group had a successful result on the project. We had gone through all of the steps in the planning process.
First, we defined our goals and objectives, which was to unbreak the egg when we dropped from a ten feet high place, using any method as long as there was 50% of the egg uncovered by the given resources. The given resources were eight straws, an egg, a limited tape, and a scissor.
We came up three different ideas on how to build the egg. We then talked about the ideas, and discussed which idea was most likely not to break the egg. Finally, we chose Mira's proposal, the pyramid shape. Her idea was that the egg was been protected in the middle of the pyramid, no matter which way it hit the floor, the egg would not touch the floor, thus won't break. Unlike our ideas that all had a 50% of opportunity that the uncovered side of the egg may hit on the floor.
It was very difficult to understand how to build the model from the picture she drew. So then she used the pens to roughly showed us the structures of the model. From the model, we clearly visioned the structures that we needed six straws to build the outside of the pyramid-three straws for the heights and three straws for the bases. The other two straws we needed to cut them into half, this was the only time that we needed the scissor. This four half-sized straws were for the inside of the pyramid, where we supported the egg in the center by connecting it into the four different corners.
There were six people in our group. For the model, we needed a designer, a writter, a dropper, a person to get the scissor, and two people to build the designed model. Becasue of the time limit, at the end, almost all of us were helping to set up the model. Finally we built up the model within the given time.
I think our performance is effective because we shared our ideas and listened to other people's ideas, then chose the best one, and we used all the resources given effectively within the limited time.
I feel our planning task is very effective, and i don't see anything that i can make corrections from. Maybe someone can tell me what can we do to make our group task more effectively.
First, we defined our goals and objectives, which was to unbreak the egg when we dropped from a ten feet high place, using any method as long as there was 50% of the egg uncovered by the given resources. The given resources were eight straws, an egg, a limited tape, and a scissor.
We came up three different ideas on how to build the egg. We then talked about the ideas, and discussed which idea was most likely not to break the egg. Finally, we chose Mira's proposal, the pyramid shape. Her idea was that the egg was been protected in the middle of the pyramid, no matter which way it hit the floor, the egg would not touch the floor, thus won't break. Unlike our ideas that all had a 50% of opportunity that the uncovered side of the egg may hit on the floor.
It was very difficult to understand how to build the model from the picture she drew. So then she used the pens to roughly showed us the structures of the model. From the model, we clearly visioned the structures that we needed six straws to build the outside of the pyramid-three straws for the heights and three straws for the bases. The other two straws we needed to cut them into half, this was the only time that we needed the scissor. This four half-sized straws were for the inside of the pyramid, where we supported the egg in the center by connecting it into the four different corners.
There were six people in our group. For the model, we needed a designer, a writter, a dropper, a person to get the scissor, and two people to build the designed model. Becasue of the time limit, at the end, almost all of us were helping to set up the model. Finally we built up the model within the given time.
I think our performance is effective because we shared our ideas and listened to other people's ideas, then chose the best one, and we used all the resources given effectively within the limited time.
I feel our planning task is very effective, and i don't see anything that i can make corrections from. Maybe someone can tell me what can we do to make our group task more effectively.
9/17/2008
Managerial problem in balancing the school, work, and entertainment
Since I'm taking five classes this semester, and all of these classes have homeworks, not including the reading. The most difficult homeworks are from ACC 2203, ECO 4000, and FIN 3710, especially the FIN 3710. For that class, i need to spend more than two days to complete the homework. For instance, the first homework includes Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, one additional problem, and a group assignment. All of them are just as one homework, and were due on the 15th. The second homework for that class is due on the 24th, and it also includes three chapters. Plus the homeworks from my other classes are also due next week, and they are all not easy homeworks.
As you can imagine, our life is not just about school. We have other things to do also. For me, I have to do the house cleaning, cooking, and sometimes helping my mother to do part of her job in the fashion factory, and sometimes helping my sister selling the bags during the weekends in Chinatown.
When i planned the schedules and the courses to take for this semester, i thought i would manage them well. But now i realized that i was too optimistic. Now i just have little time for myself.
Sometimes i even take job off in order for me to have more time to do the homework and study.
I hope there is a way to balance them.
As you can imagine, our life is not just about school. We have other things to do also. For me, I have to do the house cleaning, cooking, and sometimes helping my mother to do part of her job in the fashion factory, and sometimes helping my sister selling the bags during the weekends in Chinatown.
When i planned the schedules and the courses to take for this semester, i thought i would manage them well. But now i realized that i was too optimistic. Now i just have little time for myself.
Sometimes i even take job off in order for me to have more time to do the homework and study.
I hope there is a way to balance them.
9/10/2008
Introduction of Myself
I am a senior at Baruch College. My major is finance & investment, and I am double minoring in Psychology and Natural Science.
I came from China. I've been in this country for 11 years already. People sometimes call me night cat. Those are people who really know me. That I don't like to wake up early because morning is the best time to sleep, wihile I don't like to sleep in the night because my mind is very conscious, and i usually do the homework during that time.
My hobbies are reading Chinese novels and watching Japanese catoons.If someone has similar hobbies, you can join in my blog or leave a message. I have good websites for Chinese novels and Chinese movies, and i would like to share with you about the things I like either from the novels or from the movies
I came from China. I've been in this country for 11 years already. People sometimes call me night cat. Those are people who really know me. That I don't like to wake up early because morning is the best time to sleep, wihile I don't like to sleep in the night because my mind is very conscious, and i usually do the homework during that time.
My hobbies are reading Chinese novels and watching Japanese catoons.If someone has similar hobbies, you can join in my blog or leave a message. I have good websites for Chinese novels and Chinese movies, and i would like to share with you about the things I like either from the novels or from the movies
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