Hi - TemporexI felt pretty prepared for the socratic seminar as I’ve done a lot of research on my topic. But I didn’t find myself very hooked into the conversation. This could’ve been due to the fact that I had arrived late that day, and in turn I missed questions that I know I’d be happy to discuss. But from what I could tell the conversation went pretty smoothly, it proved everyone had a basic understanding of their topic. Regarding how teens are impacting the mental health world, well, I think conversations have definitely been brought up more often than ever. There's more talk about mental health care, and the issues with the system, and how it can affect everyone. A moment I felt I learned was when we were working on our mind maps, when Ms. Nuvia was showing examples on the boards and was calling on people I was able to raise my hand and explain where chemical medicine can relate to certain brain structures. AS well as applying my information to my mind map made me feel rather educated about my topic. A moment where I also felt I learned something was during the socratic seminar, through there I was able to see how people would connect their topics to brain structures, some topics which I wasn’t even educated in at all.
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I Can't Go For That - Hall and OatesI’ve never enjoyed writing. I don’t believe I have the ability to illustrate a story or poem through words. But writing research papers is different! In class I’ve really enjoyed writing my persuasive essay, my topic is chemical medicine, and I’ve really enjoyed compiling the research for it. I’ve struggled finding really how the medicine targets areas in the brain and how it really goes about triggering the brain to produce more i.e serotonin. I’ve also had the chance to speak with my advocate a doctor from ucsd. She was able to give me some insight on teen stigma as well as why mental health is so prominent within teens. And why they might be more susceptible to coping with unhealthy coping mechanisms such as drugs and/or self harm. Something I want to improve in is my specific zine page, while I do like the visuals I feel as though there could be a more creative way I could have my information shine through, rather than just a big block of text next to some pictures. I also am curious about what negative impacts medicine might have, it’s just been a little hard finding a resourceful negative standpoint.
Teachers - Young the GiantThis week...was interesting to say the least. I started off Tuesday strong, we went to UCSD and the SALK institute to learn more about the brain, as well as seeing as to how research was done on mice in UCSD. It was great, we got to do some hands on activities such as gathering slices of a mice brain.
While the trip was incredibly fun and educational I found myself feeling rather down as the day progressed, I just shrugged it off, tomorrow I had a Socratic seminar and had to perform the best I could! I prepared hours of notes and wasn’t it gonna let it go to waste. Next thing you know boom. I had a fever once I woke up the next morning. That fever lasted the rest of the week and I didn’t go to school at all. So a great five day weekend for me. But luckily I felt chipper enough to go do my SAT, and to say the least it was fine. Although I must apologize to all those who had to hear my sniffling during the test taking I’m sorry about my congested nose. But other than that, it went smoothly and I was able to pace myself really well and have some extra minutes to check over my answers (Thank you Princeton Review!). I also felt pretty confident in my essay. (Although now looking back I note a mistake I made...keep me in your prayers) I believe the SAT gave me great experience. I’m just glad I got it over with and now I can’t put in words how happy and ecstatic I am to have to take it again!! (Obviously I am not) Break My Stride - Matthew WilderSo, humanities. We’ve recently begun practicing some essay writing in preparation for the SAT. I have had some experience writing essays in the past (As last year we had to create an SAT style essay for our final project) so I’m not too wary about it. All in all it’s actually been pretty nice to get a refresher and I guess you could say I' pretty content about writing an essay.
Going back to the actual writing we’ve learned on what basis we'll be scored on, how to create an outline, and finally how to pace ourselves when writing the actual SAT essay. I’m pretty excited to apply what I’ve learned to the SAT! Humanities honors has helped me learn even more about strategy and pacing so that's a bonus. Now in regards to biology, we’ve been listening to some Ted Talks and reading articles regarding nature and the brain. I think it's pretty interesting how exposure to nature can be incredibly beneficial to mental health, I also found this information to be useful as a subtopic for my topic, which is chemical medicine. Regarding what I've earned through the Ted Talks: I believe where exposure to nature can come into play for my topic would be in the holistic medicine area; a medical practice in which incorporates the use of mainly herbs. Overall with the SAT looming behind our backs for what seems like years, it's now only a week away. I find myself surprisingly relaxed I don’t feel a sense of urgency nor fear. I feel pretty normal, but who knows. Perhaps the day of the SAT I’ll break down in tears and feel unprepared? But I quite honestly doubt that will happen. |
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