Hi,
I created this blog to communicate with my advisees and especially so that the new ones will learn from the more experienced ones.
Please write your names (first name and three letters of last name)
and write a very brief description of your current situation.
1. Courses you currently take and any feelings and comments about them.
2. Ideas about direction and major maybe
3. For the "older" advisees, write your situation w.r to choosing a major.
4. For advisees who have a major (Math), please write a few words about it. Be honest. Are your needs met? You can also email me privately to novak@ithaca.edu with additional information.
Thanks,
--Dani
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Kerry Pin
1. A. Spoken and Written Communication in French: I'm enjoying this class a lot. The professer is close to my age, very funny, and a native speaker. I believe the class is going to greatly improve my fluency, because I've never had the opportunity to practice so much before.
B. Selected Topics in Mathematics: This is mostly about mathematical modeling, something I have little to no prior experience with. So far, I haven't found the subject matter as beautiful as some of the stuff Dani has shown us during the seminar(and as other things I know about math), but it's a different kind of challenge for me. Right now we're working on probability, which I have to work hard to understand, since it's an area in the field of mathematics I've never understood intuitively. I confess I hope that we move on to something else soon.
C. General Psychology: Since I plan to major in psych, and psychology fascinates me, I think this class should become very interesting to me as soon as we move on from the introductory chapters. I don't really enjoy the large lecture format, and I really hate doing large amounts of readings (not only is it terribly boring and time consuming for me, but I hardly ever retain any of the knowledge). However, I still think I'm going to learn quite a bit of good stuff once some momentum gets going (if nothing else, maybe I can work on conquering my fear of readings).
D. Ithaca Seminar, "Math as Art of the Soul": This is by far my favorite class. Dani teaches with such enthusiasm. I'm learning as much from his about life as I am about math.
2. I've always been sure I want to become a psychology major. The reason I chose to be exploratory for the first few years I'm here is because I want to take a wider variety of courses than I would be able to if I declared right away, and also because exploratory students have the opportunity to choose classes first.
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Christina Del
Hi my name is Christina but everyone calls me Chrissie. I am in the exploratory program. I have no idea what I want to do with my life at this point. At times that scaries me but I've learned to accept it.
1. I'm taking French level 1, Psychology, writing, and your seminar class. I am enjoying all my classes right now. French is difficult for me and my Psychology has a lot of students in it which is sort of annoying but beside that I love my classes.
2. I have no idea. I did take psychology to see if that could be an interest but at this point I still can't tell. In my last year of high school I did do a senior project where I spent three weeks helping out a middle school counselor. It was a wonderful experience and I have thought about becoming a school psychologist. Althought I would have know idea how to become one. I'm not sure what I would major in or what qualifications I would have to achieve and I really have not settled on this ides.
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1) Intro to sport management, Leisure Travel, Microeconomics, Outdoor Adventure Skills, and Intro to Business. I'm an exploratory student picking and choosing classes all over. I chose courses that were interesting to me that caught my eye. I highly recommend taking the outdoor adventure skills class. It's not like most classes in that everyone has pretty much the same interest and is willing to talk and be friendly. The teacher Chris Pelchat is a great guy and makes the class fun and interesting.
2) Like i said i'm an exploratory student and as of this moment i am not positive where i want to go. I'm not real worried about having to choose a major although i should be but i know things will work out and it will be for the best. Right now i'm trying to enjoy my classes, as best i can, play sports, and have fun messin around. I think i might be going towards the business major or the recreation major. If you don't know what you want to do then talk with Dani, he's a great guy, and figure out classes to take. Make sure you take classes that interest you because it will make the week go by faster. Good luck everyone and see you around. Thanks Dani-
Mike
1. Right now I am taking Linear Algebra (Helpful but a challenging, have to do a lot of 'teaching yourself'), Intro to Stat (Good professor, he really tries to do fun things to make the class interesting, next week he's bringing in a roulette for us to play!), Field Experience for Teachers (I'm really excited about working with students, but until then we spend our time learning how to deal with different situations we may run in to), Sign Language II (awesome professor, very interesting and interactive, I like it because it's very different from learning French/Spanish/etc), and Visual Culture (Interesting but much more suitable for those interested in art and art interpretation).
2.Next semester I'm going to declare my major as Mathematics with Secondary Teacher Certification, I also hope to declare a coaching minor but may have to take care of that in grad school since I may not be able to fit all of the required courses into my 4 years here.
3. My first semester here I took a variety of classes (everything from math to anthropology to astronomy) and all of it was interesting but it helped me realize that being a Math Teacher is what would be best for me. However, Exploratory majors get to pick classes first so stick w/ that as long as you can while making sure you're taking all the right classes for what you want your major to be eventually!
4. Math is a challenging major but it all fits together. It is common to talk about your other math courses and what you're learning in them and how they apply to what you're learning in a different math class. Of course, it can be frustrating and boring but just keep in mind that it's for a purpose and in the end it will be important to our career!
Good luck everyone,
Brittney
I am currently taking Industrial Organization Economics, philosophy, OBM, great spaces and urban design, and elemenets of architecture. Philosophy will give you a headache but it's all relevant information and critial thinking that everyone should dabble in. The economics class is pretty interesting. What makes the class is the teacher, Patrick Meister. Hes great. Get him for whatever economics class he is teaching. The OBM class is ok. Theres not too much substance in my eyes. Its all about how humans communicate in organizations and the workplace. It just doesnt really do it for me. Both architecture classes are great. We get to analyze buildings and even design our own. I havent declared a major yet but I'm leaning towards a business degree. Although, I'm not really interested in business, it just seems to be the path I fell in to. My main interests currently lie in Architecture and the game of baseball. I'm workin away here at IC trying to incorporate both of those into my life. So far so good i suppose. Just find something you love to do and do it. Cause thats all that matters. Godspeed.
-Richie Shallcross
I think I have a fairly good idea of what I want to take next semester, but I'm open to the idea of taking some more "non-traditional" courses (the "outdoor adventure skills" class I saw mentioned here by Michael sounds like it might be really cool!). It's also important to me to figure out a schedule (in terms of what times classes meet) that I can handle. Maybe you (Dani) and I could meet to talk about these things?
The courses I've already thought about include Intro to Sociology, General Psychology Lab, Acting II, French Literature (I think it's called - it's taught by my current French professor, I can ask him more about it), and What is Math if there's room. I also want to continue taking piano lessons.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it would be really helpful for me to get together and talk about what direction I want to head in. I know I want to end up with a psychology degree, but a wide range of subjects really interest me, so I guess I need to spend some time figuring out which elective classes are good uses of my time. How are we supposed to go about setting up a meeting time to discuss this and to sign up for classes?
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