Karla's Brilliant Blog

I have never before written a “Before I die” bucket list, really I have never written any type of bucket list at all. This is a first for me. Of course, I have set goals in my life and accomplished them. I have always wanted to just travel, anywhere; and I have done it. I wanted to get my Associates degree and I did. I wanted to transfer to SDSU and I also did it.  Now, for the next 5 years I also have some goals that I want to accomplish:  1. Travel somewhere out of America every year.  For this year, I will most likely be accomplishing it during the summer. I am planning on studying abroad in either Prague or Scotland. This of course will be my ideal scenario. Traveling and studying at the same time. But if for any reason things do not go as planned, I will go to Japan sometime before the end of the year.  2. Get an Internship or a Research Assistant position. This goal really has to be met by this year as well. I have already applied for an Intern...

In an article written by Annie Murphy Paul, " Secrets of the Most Successful College Students ", she supports the statement by Ken Bain, that there are three types of learners: surface learners, strategic strategic learners, and deep learners; and that deep learning should be what we aim for. In the article, surface learners is described as people who do the least possible required to get by, strategic learners as people who forget about understanding the topic and focus only on getting the best possible grades, and deep learners as people who actually worked for their grades and understood the concepts they were taught. If I had to classify myself according to these types of learners, I think I would be the three of them. For example, last semester I was surface learner for a nutrition class. I decided to took the class in the first place because I needed as a GE requirement. I though it was going to be an easy and interesting class because it was online. By week 4-5 I was...