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