What strategies are you using to shape/organize all the content from your blogs?

I will look for the main idea of the blogs and write them down on a list. For example from the first post of the Passion project, I will take "passion" and then from the next post I will get "Privilege" and go down the list of blog. Once I have all the main ideas/topics I will make a thesis out of them and see what is my message I'm trying to send here. I will put the blogs in order in a way that they all link together smoothly. The main thing I see is education and passion so I will use those and they will be my starting points.

Critique Education?

Should a student in the Passion class be asked to critique Education?

Yes, if they feel they are not learning or getting the adequate information given. I felt last semester a professor did not meet the standards I was looking for? I don't want to bash on a professor and be all negative but I just felt she did not like her job or was really teaching anything.. besides that she never came to class and her H.W. was always unclear. Anyways I felt that it was an online class because she was never there. I don't like online classes I pay a teacher to help but the professor did nothing fr me. I really wish teachers would put passion back into their work and not just go for a paycheck and if they don't like their choice of profession maybe not teach because its our future that are at stake and also the younger generation. So far its only professor I felt they did not like their job and I feel like I speak for everyone student that has ever felt that way. I love all the professors I've had so far at Chabot, honestly I do. So maybe we should try to remind teachers the reason as to why they started teaching and give them the drive they once had.

Should a student in a passion class be asked to look into themselves?

This is a tricky one because some students feel as if they don't have a choice. Some students don't have an option...well they do but it comes with negativity from parents. Students rely on their parents still for a home, food, transportation, etc. and know that if they speak up about changing their major or changing beliefs to satisfy their own passion, they may not have the support. Most of us are privileged into being able to decide for ourselves in what direction we want to go and others don't. Its important to be careful about the message going out to these students because for some it may be a good thing and for others it may not. I feel that we should not try to persuade anyone in changing their major because ultimately I feel everyone learns on their own and eventually they will willing change a major or a passion. I think if this done go on and its not looked at carefully it may cause problems with the parents? Also be prepared for those who did change major to have some support from the school to handle it. Its like they say "taking candy from a baby is easy but being smart enough to have a backup". if that makes any sense... see if a student does change major because of this Passion and the parent disowns them, than the school is some what going to be obligated to have some type of backup plan for these kids stay ...or another choice for living on their own. Its a tricky situation I believe because some parents are really old school or its their culture that makes them decide for their kids in which direction they want to go.

North Korea & India

From my last history class my professor told us that in North Korea the government gets to decide the job you are going to get! We had a discussion in class about it last Thursday about India and it system for college decision. Some students in the class said that it depends a lot on your background "Last name" into who you can marry and also how high you score on a test to be admited to the study you will go into in college and eventually determining your job. I feel that North Korea and India have some type of similarity when it comes to jobs.

I think we have it good in America because here there is so many opportunities when it comes to school and choices. I personally never felt like I was pushed into a career that I never wanted to do but I did feel unsure about what Iwanted to do at some point.

Focusing the lasers

I consider my self to be a seeker, because I feel I have everything under control when it comes to getting my GED classes together also getting the right prerequisites to get my AA I want. Coming into college really late in my life, well not that late I'm 21 but some come right after high school. I realized how outdated I felt and felt lost for the longest time when I first started but just after  couple months I felt like I belonged and it was were I had to be. I am very positive when it comes to college. I would have to say I'm the only one in my family to attend college. I have a couple cousins doing vocational school but not an actual college and wanting to get a AA like me. I want to set an example for my little sister and my younger brother that even though I didn't do so great in high school, I am certainly doing better now. I feel like I am a seeker and I guess I cant really explain as to why I feel that way but I do. I love going to school for so many reason: education, meeting new people, books, reading, blogs, and of course to feel good . I am just so happy with school.I feel good where I am at and being a seeker because it makes me feel some what I accomplished. I wouldn't want it any other way. I feel accomplished already just having to step into class because I know it will benefit me for my career and life. like they say "you learn a new thing everyday you just have to find it" and I think its true. Like the other day in class we had a discussion about India and I felt like I learned so much and somehow know it will come in handy one day, such as future essays or discussions. I know life is so beautiful that you do learn something new, even if its just a "life" lesson. I do not want to change categories. I don't want to change myself and feel lost. At this point in my life I feel really certain about what I want to do. I know I meant to teach Spanish to kids. why? because I feel we need more teachers that are more passionate about their teaching and actually want to be able to teach kids as if I were their parents. It is true what they say about that your first teachers are your parents and me being that I am a mother would want my daughters teacher to be passionate and love teaching. It makes a difference in a kids performance. You have to be excited when walking into class and not feel like "omg I have to go to school". I know that I keep my goals and I have my min I set I will stay focused and remain a seeker.

Success?

What does success mean to me... it means finishing or getting something that you have worked for and been wanting for a long time.

What helps me succeed... well that there is preschools. Yes, preschools because I would not be where I am at in school if it wasn't for preschools. I have a 2 year old daughter that I have to take to preschool in order for me to attend college. Our community has a lot of preschools that will help family' that are under the "poverty level" and also preschools you can pay for. I feel if it wasn't for those programs no one that has a kid would be able to work or go to school. What prevents my success... I would have to say money because it has to do with everything. To pay for school, books, gas, clothes ,food, preschool, etc. In order to have money you must work and/or attend college and get a good job. Also family because I have to exchange my daughter too when it comes to fiancés work and my school. We have very busy schedules and wish we wouldn't have much stress on our backs but we have to keep doing it for our daughter.

I decided to put this video because I see how success and happiness is different for people. In this movie that guy wanted a job, a career. He was homeless for a while and his wife left him with his son. For him happiness meant a well paid job to provide for his son "to share happiness with his son". In the book Into the Wild McCandless was the opposite of this man. He did not want a good paying job, he did not want to have money and preferred to be homeless. Yet towards the end of his life he realized that in order to really be happy it had to shared with someone. " happiness only real when shared". These two man had very different of what life meant because of their situations? McCandless had everything and finished college and probably could have hold a good job if he wanted to but he was not happy. The guy in this movie which is also a real life event, the man wanted that good paying job and the money and be someone he thought that meant happiness. In conclusion to all of this I feel that do what ever makes you happy even if it means becoming homeless, but if you do have a child maybe that concept should be reconsidered because maybe that may not be happiness to your child.