Well the first blog that I need to post is called my Introduction so I thought I needed to include a picture of myself. So this is me.
My interests and hobbies include reading, watching movies, and I really love to go on walks just for the fun of walking around. I also really love watching fireworks and just relaxing or rather lazying around is one of my favorite things to do.
My major is Composite biology with a minor in chemistry, and the reason why I chose to major in that is because I have always hated biology during high school. I know a weird reason right but the reason why I hated it was because I was not able to get into the material. Another way of putting it is that I was not able to get my hands dirty and actually get to understand everything, but then when I took a biology course in college I fell in love with the topic until that point I had really been debating between a math major and a biology major. That one class tipped the scale in the biology favor. I just really enjoyed biology over math. I would define my discipline as the study of the world around you, because biology really does include everything. It is the study of living organisms. That is another thing that drew me toward biology is because it can be tied into our everyday lives. Science is an amazing thing!
When I think of the term literacy, honestly the first thing that comes to mind is books. Maybe that is because I am currently helping elementary students to be able to read better, but that is the first thing that pops into my head. As I looked deeper into the term literacy though this is what I came to define it as "a persons knowledge in a particular subject or field." So the term literacy can also be applied to our everyday life as well as my major biology. So I can become literate or a person with knowledge in the particular field of biology.
I really look forward to this new semester and I am excited about this blogging idea. I have never done this before so it is going to be an exciting new experience.
My favorite type of flower is the cherry blossoms or sakura blossoms I was able to see them for the first time in my life and thought that this picture would be the perfect thing to describe me. The next picture that you see is a sakura blossom.
My major is Composite biology with a minor in chemistry, and the reason why I chose to major in that is because I have always hated biology during high school. I know a weird reason right but the reason why I hated it was because I was not able to get into the material. Another way of putting it is that I was not able to get my hands dirty and actually get to understand everything, but then when I took a biology course in college I fell in love with the topic until that point I had really been debating between a math major and a biology major. That one class tipped the scale in the biology favor. I just really enjoyed biology over math. I would define my discipline as the study of the world around you, because biology really does include everything. It is the study of living organisms. That is another thing that drew me toward biology is because it can be tied into our everyday lives. Science is an amazing thing!
When I think of the term literacy, honestly the first thing that comes to mind is books. Maybe that is because I am currently helping elementary students to be able to read better, but that is the first thing that pops into my head. As I looked deeper into the term literacy though this is what I came to define it as "a persons knowledge in a particular subject or field." So the term literacy can also be applied to our everyday life as well as my major biology. So I can become literate or a person with knowledge in the particular field of biology.
I really look forward to this new semester and I am excited about this blogging idea. I have never done this before so it is going to be an exciting new experience.
Hi Rieley!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your first blog posting. I have never seen a sakura blossom before but it is beautiful. When I was in college, I was roommates with a biology major, and I was always impressed at how she could identify the trees and flowers around us. (We always had dead bugs in our freezer, too, but that's another story...)
I think it's great that you hated biology because you will really be able to empathize with students who might enter your class with some resistance. Your posting reminded me of April Jones's blog...she said that the reason why students don't like mathematics is just because they haven't seen it taught in a fun way yet. You could say the same about biology--the reason why people don't like biology is because they haven't seen it taught in an engaging way yet. I'm glad you had a professor who opened doors of possibility for you in this area.
When we have class next, I'm going to ask you for recommendations of good biology professors because I actually want to audit a biology course! I love earth science but I want to brush up on my life sciences too.
Thanks for a great first posting and I look forward to reading more as the semester progresses.
Math is pretty awesome, but I'm glad that there are people who love other subjects and are excited to teach them. It would be hard it we all wanted to teach the same subject.
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