Research papers

I have never liked writing papers of any kind.  Research papers I can deal with some times because they require little thinking on my part. All I have to do is look up stuff then write it down… more or less. With other papers I have to think and plan more, and I just don’t like to do that. But, back to the main topic; my main problem with research papers is that I don’t like the length that normally comes along with the paper. The longest of which I had to do was only about 5 or so pages for my college readiness class. That paper wasn’t too bad because I got to choose the topic that I could write about and it wasn’t like choose from this list of topics I could choose from anything I wanted. If I can write about something I like I don’t do too bad.

Race and higher education

Higher education is still talking about race because the higher education schools want to have a more diverse population. In the past only well off families were able to afford to have higher educations. Now that there are more people able to afford a higher education schools want more of those people. The schools have more ways to help support a more diverse population. From my perspective I can see that higher education is still talking about race because there are many scholarships and things along those lines that are for people of minority races. Different races also have clubs and other student organizations.

Diversity at WMU

Diversity is when many different things are expressed at the same time. Western Michigan University has a lot of diversity. There are people of all different races, religions, and sexual orientations; and has programs to help all of those different groups. WMU even has scholarships for diversity and multiculturalism. That helps to show that diversity is an important thing on this campus. Diversity is an important thing in all places because it gives you many different perspectives on what is happening. With those you can have a better understanding of what needs to get done.

Peer review

Peer review can sometimes be an awkward and uncomfortable experience. There are many people who might not feel comfortable sharing their work; I am one of those people. I don’t like when people other than the person who is supposed to be grading my papers to read them in case they are bad I don’t want people to think that I suck at writing. Peer reviews are good because it can help you find mistakes in your work that you didn’t know were there. Often if you just reread something after you wrote it you miss weird sentences because you know what you meant to say and that’s what you read. Having a fresh pair of eyes look at your paper will make it better in the long run. So for those of you who don’t like having your stuff peer reviewed; suck it up, it will help you in the end. 

The difficulties of learning things.

        There are a few skills that I have not quite yet been able to master. One of them is being able to write and keep a planner for school and other functions. My main problem with this is that I normally either forget to write in it, or I forget to look back in it when I need to do my work. Being able to master this would help a problem that I used to have a lot when i was younger, which was forgetting my assignments from school. That could easily be fixed by writing the assignments down as I get them instead of trying to remember later that night when I start my homework. I have recently started putting assignments in my phone calendar and notes so it will remind me when to do things which has been very helpful. I hope that this will help me to learn to be better about writing things I need to do down.