Cold and Rainy Day

Statistics... Thanks for the help..

So, I sent an email to my Statistics teacher last night asking about the homework and what exactly he was expecting so that I did not do something completely wrong and then get a horrible grade. I never got an email back. However, today, when class began, he started to talk about getting an email last night.. To the whole class! He didn't say it was me though.. But still! He was talking about how everyone should be coming to class and paying attention and taking notes.. I just sat there and was like... "I do all of those things!!" It made me very upset. He told the whole class in a message that he sent out this morning that he will not help people on the homework because we should know what we're doing with the use of our notes and handouts that he goes over in class.. I don't think he realizes that maybe not everyone understands everything perfectly yet.. It is only the second week, and he is kind of vague about some things. He gives formulas, but doesn't explain how to use them.

It looks like I'm going to have to figure it all out myself.. I do, however, have awesome friends here that can help me out because they are second years and higher and have already taken statistics. That will be at least somewhat helpful.

World Peoples & Environments

I have my first assignment due in this class on Friday. I already sent the paper in for feedback and she told me to just finish it up and it should be good. The paper is supposed to be about Culture Shock. Even though some people have never been outside of the United States, we can still experience the feeling of alienation when visiting different places within the United States as well because of the drastic diversity of the nation with which we live in. We are, after all, the melting pot, and that does not only mean difference in ethnicity, but it means difference in culture as well.

Learning

I am certainly learning a lot here at Michigan Tech, and I am only in my second week of classes. I have learned a tremendous amount of information about archaeology, anthropology, and surprisingly, American Politics. I have an Institutions class that is based upon the institutions of the American government (economics, politics, etc.). There is a lot still that I do not know, but before I came here I could not have told you a lot about the different aspects of Anthropology as a whole because I didn't know all of the aspects yet. However, I do know some of them now. I know that Anthropology is a more generalized field of study, which incorporates psychology, archaeology, and many other subfields. The part of anthropology that interest me the most still is Forensic Anthropology. However, I will have to go to graduate school for that because they do not offer Forensic Anthropology here in a Graduate program. The Anthropology that I am studying here the most right now is Cultural Anthropology. It is pretty interesting overall. There are a lot of different cultures in the world. It is a very diverse world that we live in today. :)

Do I sound smart yet? Haha

Well, I should get started on my homework soon.. I have the rest of the day off, so I figure that I would get ahead on classwork.

"It's always easier to get ahead in classwork than to catch back up."
                                              -Every teacher ever.


~R

Roommate!

I finally have a roommate! Her name is Allison McLeod. She's a Mechanical Engineer. She's awesome. :) We had hot chocolate tonight. Haha. Anyway, I also got a care package from mom and dad today. :) it has tons of snack foods in it. I will post pictures soon. :)

College is fun so far. :) and... No. I have not been to any parties. Some other people have though.. I've heard some talk about some guys... They probably won't be here long....

I am making quite a few new friends and acquaintances. I love the campus.. sometimes, I just sit outside and watch as people rush by on their way to class.. I always find it refreshening to step back and take a look at the world from a different perspective than usual.

After all, I do want to be the person who walks through the puddles, not around them. It's important to be persistent and go for the gold. That's what got me where I am today.. a lot of people here just walked right through high school without a pause.. but me... I had to work hard to get here. And school means a lot to me. That's why me being here is what's best for me.

I'm really appreciative of all the support I have as well from my family and friends. It really boosts my confidence. :)

Well, I have class at 8am... I'll try to post more often.

Good night, world. :)

~R

Welcome to the UP

Lady On the Lawn Mower Getting Her Mail

So, it turns out that there was this lady that I saw on the stretch between Strongs, Michigan and Houghton, Michigan who was getting her mail. It was very interesting though because she just so happened to be riding her lawn mower to get her mail.. All I could think was, "Wow, that's just a bit redneck.." I made the comment to Chris about what I thought, and I got a good chuckle out of him. It was worth it for me to make him laugh.

Closer to the North Pole Than the Equator Now

We passed a sign on the way up to the U.P. that said that we were now closer to the North Pole than we were to the Equator. I believe that it was the 45th Parallel. I'm not 100% sure though. You know what that means? It means that everything is going to be colder from now on.....


I Was So Wrong!

Turns out..... It wasn't colder just yet up here. For the past week, by the way, sorry for this post being so late, it has been in the upper 70s to the upper 80s. A couple times, it even went over 90 degrees.

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Final Day

Saying goodbye to anyone is hard. I had to say goodbye to a friend that I have had for 17 years today, mind you, I am only 17 years old. It was kind of bittersweet. She is going her own way and attending Ross Medical in Davison. My friends are going their own ways, and so am I.


Houghton is a beautiful place.

Houghton is one of the most beautiful places that I have seen. The entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan is beautiful and so uninhabited.. I would really like to own some land in the Upper Peninsula at one point in my life. Maybe a cabin or something for vacations in the summer. 

This is a photograph of Michigan Tech's Campus in the fall.