last blog, sad day

For my last blog I decided to write about the new health care bill. This bill will affect college students directly. There are many reasons of why this bill is good for college students. Currently 67% of college students are covered by their parents' employee sponsored insurance. With this new bill going into effect, this percentage will increase significantly. This is because more parents will have health insurance from the increased population coverage. Medical needs of those college age students will be covered by their parent’s policies. Students will now be able to stay on their parents insurance until age 26, and they don’t have to be enrolled at all times. Students can work at their own pace and take time off if need be. This will come to a relief to many seniors in college who are getting ready to graduate knowing that finding a job is very tough in this economy, especially ones that provide good enough health insurance. By college students having insurance / better insurance this will also keep the college campuses more healthy.

I am about to turn in my other four page paper and my three page paper, leaving me with only my two page paper left. My four page paper is on caffeine and my three is on SAT/ACT. For my four page paper it got passed quicker than any other paper. I think this is because before I turned it in to go through endorsement groups I had my mom and roommate look it over for any errors. I figured since I don’t have much time to make it to the labs this would be the next best thing. They helped me with a lot of the local issues (grammar.) I also think that by showing other people your paper and talking about it with them if gives you new ideas and new ways of doing things. I thought I was going to do my two page paper on tanning but I am beginning to rethink that. I kind of think it would be neat to write it on some random argument that I have in my head and back it up well. But I’m not sure and I need to schedule a conference, it’s just so hard with softball and never being here. I will have big weight lifted off my shoulders though when I get these four papers turned in and off my back!!

For my PSY class we are learning about child development. There is many ways for toddlers to learn new words I think that. Joint attention is a great way for your toddler to learn new words. When your toddler picks up an object, looks, or touches and object – label it for them. For example if your toddler is staring at a pen pick it up and say “pen, this is a pen.” While labeling things for your child make sure you are looking at the object and not something else while labeling it – this confuses toddlers. Viewing television (at moderation) is also a good way to learn new words. Watching shows like Sesame Street improves child’s vocabulary. Sesame Street helps because it involves the child in language actives to learn words. At the beginning of ten months an infant will point, touch, or make noise. If a baby is pointing at a toy they want usually mothers (and other people) translate the baby’s words for them, this aids the way for learning new words. After the first birthday child learn how to begin conversations with adults. Toddler’s first conversations are about themselves, it then expands to include objects in the environment. After that the conversations have more theoretical ideas in them. Preschool children give more elaborate messages to the listeners who lack critical information.

I just got my grade back from my first paper; I must say I thought I did better than that. At least before our portfolio is due I will have time for more revision. Right now I am working on two papers at once. It is not only difficult but annoying. Because it is like twice the work and I have to switch from topic to topic. But this way if I get sick of writing on one I can go to the other. I am writing about ACT/SAT’s … they really bother me and I think that we should get rid of them! So I thought this topic would be great from a short three page paper. My other four paper I decided to make it on caffeine, I am also doing a project over caffeine so I thought writing about it would have me study the information. Also I drink pop everyday and get caffeine headaches if I don’t have it in the morning. So it is also interesting learning about what it does to my body. I think I will make my two page paper on the good effects of tanning. One struggle I have is that I have already missed 3 or 4 classes due to softball this makes it difficult to get my paper read. And also read other peoples paper. I wish I did not have to miss so much for softball. Other than that the writing has been going well.