It’s a school in cambridge, elementary. It’s a cool program, they still use dual immersion. The children learn in english one week, and spanish the next. It’s amazing. The school of education has a partnership with them, and they go and read to the kids once a week. They just started a spanish version of the same program. I wanted to participate, the ed school was going to let me, but I have a class scheduled at the same time. I’ll have to look for another volunteer activity.
Archive for January, 2005
TIRED!! :-(
I am sooo tired. I got back late Friday night and just crashed. I was exhausted. I spent Saturday, Sunday and most of Monday learning Chapters 12-16 of my calculus book in order to do the homework that was due before midnight on Monday. I wasn’t here when they went over those chapters so I was behind. The worst part was that it mostly dealt with logarithms and exponential functions, something I never quite grasped in high school. The good news is that my super math genius blockmate helped me through most of it and for the first time I can say that I understand logarithms. I was so proud of myself. 
Now. I have to focus. I have two papers due on the 14th; one is a final paper and the other is a make up for a paper I still hadn’t turned in. Meanwhile in my other sociology class I must also work on another final paper that has a TBA due date. Originally, it was due today at noon. I couldn’t make that deadline and get the others done so I had to ask for an extension. If I hadn’t gone home early I would have gotten all the research done before I left but I did. Unfortunately on my computer at home I couldn’t view most of the documents I needed to write my paper. I love the topic:
In what ways did welfare reform work or not work? To make your case you should first provide a set of criteria by which we can evaluate the success of welfare reform, and then test this criteria against evidence from any of the following sources:
a. evidence presented in the texts we’ve studied in class
b. summaries of “welfare leaver” studies available at this website: http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/welfare/leavers02.htm
c. any other sources of information that you have, academic articles, or information on the web.
My other final paper is very open ended and I’m enjoying writing that one as well. I have to write a proposal for a research project I am interested in. I’m doing mine over urban education and poverty.
Anyway, right now I’m trying to relax. I’m listening to Ricardo Montaner. My final exams are the 20th and 21st.
