Magazine Reflection Take 2

1. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what improved? How did it get better? Why?

In many of my previous writing assignments, I would not start writing until Randy would ask for a third draft. I would quickly write my paper and hand it in with many errors and mistakes. But in this writing assignment, I proved to myself that creating drafts early and making revisions create a better looking essay. It also gave me more time to get some sleep and to work on other assignments.

2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why?

I believe that my picture taking ability is not what i would like it to be. I feel that I did not spend enough time on each picture to show what I was trying to accomplish. Next time, I will ask for some advice from other students who are better at taking pictures and have them critique the pictures.

3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc.

In many of my paragraphs, my introductory sentence was bland and not interesting. But after help from students and Randy, I was able to revise the sentences and make them more interesting.

4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing.
Writing is not something that just comes straight from your brain, you need critiques and revisions to create a better essay. A writer must be able to take adives from collegues and use it to form better paragraphs and sentences.

My Magazine Reflection

1. What went well for you during the process of creating this magazine?

I Was able to edit and revise my before the deadline so that I had more time to help others and revise some mistakes that i missed. This was one of the first projects that I feel I did my best.

2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product?
One of the challenges i faced was remembering to ask others to critique my article and then using that i information to make my article better. I feel that i was able to do this with this article and it helped a lot.

3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work?
I looked at many articles from National Geographic as models that I would follow. National Geographic has many photo essays that I was able to use as examples. I also looked at other students who did a photo essay and took some ideas from them.

Internship Photo Essay (revised)

Luke Hatschbach's Internship Photoessay

Many sophomores and juniors have very high hopes that there internship will be fun and enjoyable. But for many, like me, there internship was nothing like they imagined. Although this internship was somewhat dull, I have learned a lot about the type of careers without going insane. Working with my hands is one of my greatest skills and being confined to a chair all day can make me feel like a wound up spring ready to explode any second.

For the past two weeks I have had the pleasure of driving 15 mph in traffic to my internship. On my first day of internship I gave myself an hour to get to my job and I arrived in about 30 minutes. Then I decided to leave a little later so that I could have some more time to eat and get ready; bu this time traffic was worst then the day before. By the end of the first week, I found out that if I leave 15 minutes earlier I do not hit any traffic on my way to my internship. I also had to remind myself to get gas the night before because one morning I forgot to get gas and I almost ran out getting to the gas station. Overall, I enjoyed driving in traffic I was able to relax and listen to some music before my internship.

After about the third day, I decided that I am not the type of person that can work in an office and that I cannot be doing the same thing day after day. I need to have a very interesting career or something that is different each day to keep me absorbed in the project.

My mentor Rochelle Kline-Casey is very nice; she has helped me so much while I was creating my script for executing tests. At some times I had no idea what I was doing. The other employees were also very helpful and each day at 3, we would have a meeting with the programmers in Boulder, CO about errors we have found in the program that we are testing.

I had my own desk and computer that I used to test different programs. Each employee had there own room or desk and no one had to share a room with another employee. Evan though all the rooms had doors, many of the employees kept them open to welcome others in to talk or to ask questions. Evan and I were working on the same program so that when we had a question we would often come to each other for the answer.

One of the coolest things of working at Qualcomm was the free drinks and Hot Chocolate. One of the first things I do in the morning is go and get a hot chocolate. It warms me up and energizes me for the rest of the day. The Vending machines do not always have the same kind of soda in them after a few walks around the building I was able to find out where I could get Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew. The Mountain Dew was a hard soda to find; I actually found it when I was in a meeting looking in the portable fridge. The mountain Dews seem to only be in the meeting rooms the reason for this still ponders my mind. Probably over the two week period, I must have had at least one of each type of soda.

The lab was the most interesting part of the building. The lab is restricted to non-employees, so I can’t talk about what goes on inside. The only way to get into the lab is to swipe your id badge; you must have special access to go into the labs. What I can say is that there are at least 50 computers in each lab and there 22 labs in the building. These computers are used to test the brew application for the new phones coming out in the market. For the beginning of the week, we used a high speed camera to measure the speed of a competitor's applications. We would complete these tests in the lab because it was the only location with enough room for the camera.

Immersion!!!

1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?

I am excited for the feeling of being an actual office worker at Qualcomm. Working with Qualcomm will give me many skills as an intern and as a fellow co-worker to these employees.

2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?

I am concerned about the photo essay, while also working on my project for my mentor. My project is a PowerPoint presentation, and I am thinking that this will take up a lot of time.

Charles Darwin

1. What is our responsibility do we have for the understanding of science?
The word Science comes from the latin word "scientia", which stands for knowledge. As humans, we are given the amazing abilities of curiosity and questioning and we need to use them to there greatest potential. By being curious we are able to question what we see. By queationing, we have been able to discover theories that we would have never believed. The first person to use question to its full potential was Socrates and thats why we do Socratic Seminars, which include questioning others on there information. Darwin was able to discover natural selection by questioning our Earth and it's creatures. So next time your curious about something, question it.

2. What role should scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge play in our own society?

In our society, the role of scientific inquiry should be used to come up with a way where we can learn to wonder and develop technology that is useful to our current situation of depression rather than creating things we don't need and barely use. If we want to get to the top without later failing, we have to think about the most beneficial substance or thing that we can all count on as a society-not just individually.

Greetings Mr. President

Hello Mr. President

I would like to discuss to you about some steps we could follow to help the economic crisis that is affecting our nation. Just as the Depression created many unemployed workers we cannot let that happen to our nation today. From past economic failures, I have noticed that FDR's New Deal helped create jobs and took control of many factors of our culture. We should try to use ideas from his New deal and as FDR said,"wage a war against the emergency". We should also create colleges to help more people earn a degree. If that is no possible, we could give more money to community colleges to create a better learning environment for our generation. This would help create some jobs for the many unemployed as faculty. If we are not able to fulfill the Americans demands right away, we should create the necessary image to fool these Americans into what they demand is actually happening. In your article “The Action Americans Need", you said "We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time" You gave people hope by including them in your so-called quest to defeat this crisis. I hope you take my ideas into consideration for your next plan.

Works Cited

Obama, Barack. "Barack Obama - The Action Americans Need - washingtonpost.com." Washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines. 13 Feb. 2009 .

Roosevelt, Franklin D. ""Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": FDR's First Inaugural Address." History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. 13 Feb. 2009 .

This makes a great interview.

Flexibility: questions should serve as starting conversation, a type of guideline, not a script.
Example: How are you today? followed up with why, what put you in this mood.


Storyline: ask the questions in a way that can be told in a story. This will help others relate.
Example: How did you find yourself in this job. Why did you pick this career?
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/09/foxs_bill_oreilly_obama_interv.html

MR. O'REILLY: Okay. Let's start with national security. Do you believe we're in the middle of a war on terror?

SEN. OBAMA: Absolutely.

MR. O'REILLY: Who is the enemy?

Correlating Questions: have a theme. This will have a more structured interview where a point can be made.
Example: how did you get involved in this job? what was appealing about it? These questions focus around the subject's job.

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/9217-kris-holm-interview

My 20 Questions

1. What will I actually do here?
2. How did you decide this as a career?
3. What did you major in?
4. Was this your first career choice?
5. How do i view my voicemail?
6. How do i set my voicemail message?
7. What will we be testing?
8. How do we test phones?
9. Will we create programs for phones?
10. What will my schedules be?
11. Why did you decide to be a tester?
12. Do you enjoy your job?
13. Would u go back and major in a different degree if you could?
14. What will my project be?
15. How will it help the company?
16. What skills are needed to test programs?
17. Should I research anything to help me test?
18. Whats the best restaurant by Qualcomm?
19. Are you happy that you will have an intern to teach about working in a office?
20. What are your hobbies?

My First Day At Internship

What happened today?????
When I got there, I had lunch with Gary Osumi and he gave us some backround information about Qualcomm. Then we got our badges. After that I met my mentor and she showed me around the offices. I logged into my computer and set up my information. After that, I left and walked to my car and went home.

How did you get to internship????
I drove myself.

What did you do for lunch???
I had lunch with the other interns from the hth schools/

How did you get home??
I drove home through traffic and it took an hour.

How did everything go?
I think that I gave a great impression to my mentor and Gary Osumi. Overall, I cant wait to start working on the cell phone software.

Barrack Delano Obama

Obama tries to follow steps simialr to FDR's New Deal, to solve the economic crisis of today; but he should also learn from FDR's failures. As with most Presidents, both Obama and FDR asked for more power to help fix the Great Depression and the economic crisis.

Obama's stimulus package is said to help "create jobs and to get people working and to get the economy moving again." This is very similar to FDR's New Deal because it also helped create jobs using the WPA (Workers Progress Administration). But the New Deal was created as a long run project while 75% of the stimulus package's $825 billion will be spent in the first 18 months. Also, The New deal affected all aspects of our nation, while the Stimulus Package will create for our 7.2% unemployed Americans.

Even though FDR's new deal was a big step to help our nation, he was a very cautious man. Many time, he vetoed a bill until it suited his ideas. Obama, on the other, is a spontaneous man. only 2 days after he became President, he created this huge package that he thinks will fix our problems by giving us more debt so that we can get rid of all the debt.

Citations:

Krugman, Paul. "The New York Times > Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 26 Jan. 2009 .

"Obama backs rapidly spending stimulus cash: W.House." Breaking News, Business, Financial and Investing News, Personal Finance & More | Reuters.co.uk. 26 Jan. 2009 .

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989." Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more. 26 Jan. 2009 .

thesis

1. Thesis: The connection between my sketch and my quote includes a sense of happyness, and determination for a new life.

2. Body Paragraphs:
How Woody Guthrie's songs helped people live through the depression

Two Face Bush

The"Bush to Protect Three Areas In Pacific" article seems to be a contradictory article. In the past week, Bush opened three new marine safe havens totaling up to 195,280 sq. miles. He proposed this only two weeks before he leaves office. From what im seeing, he is trying to leave a legacy that we will remember about him. Many fisherman were concerned about the issue, Michael Nussman, president of the American Sportfishing Association says that it presumes recreational fishing is "an evil activity." 'If you're going to keep the public out of a public area, you need a darned good reason to do that."We don't think they've met that 'darned good reason' test." People thinks it's critical of what people (fisherman) are thinking about this.

The other article, "Bush's Seven Deadly Environmental Sins", talks about seven sins that he didn't accomplished that helped the environment. Then it gives a short summary about Obama's plans to fix and the environment better. This article was very one sided and it did not show bush's many accomplishments with the environment.

Both article was filled with evidence and quotes. They both have facts and opinions of each topic which gives a twist to the story. In my opinion I thought the second article was really interesting to read and it was informative that made it easy to understand about.

your Internship

1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?

I hope to learn many skills that will help me excel as an adult. I also hope this internship will help me pick a career that i might want to follow when i am an adult. i would like to learn how different people work together so that i will know what type of boss i want.

2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?

I would like to learn if im an office worker or working in the field. I would also like to learn my strengths and weaknesses.

3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?

Find a great mentor, do well at my job and to get a great reference to a real job or to colleges.