budding scholar

I have the bulk of two papers to write in the next two weeks. We were told at the beginning of the year (in orientation I think) that writing the same paper for two classes was not cheating, but a smart way of doing things. I tried for it but it didn’t quite work out that way in my History of American Education class, and my Power and Inequality in Higher Education sociology class.

For History I’m writing about responses to immigration in schools for the past 100 years. How have the changing purposes of education more broadly impacted the way that immigrants are integrated into public schools? Are immigrants different today than they were 100 years ago?

For Sociology I am writing about Latinos in higher education. Who are Latinos, and what do trends for college look like for them (compared to other groups, and comparing different Latino groups, like Cubans and Mexicans)? What is the role of higher education in integrating or assimilating immigrants into a new culture?

I write best in the morning, so plan to spend time each morning from now until I turn these in really working on my writing. Trying to break out of the academic bad writing that is so prevelant in academia in general, crafting my prose a little more carefully. I’d like to take some writing classes at some point, to improve my writing for professional purposes and because I have always wanted to take some creative writing classes.

When I finish the semester at last I will be going to China! At the end of May I have a trip for work. Also hope to buy a new bike (ours were stolen a week ago), and start riding up Twin Peaks again. Looking forward to having only one job again for a time…having time to spend with the people I love, read some novels, and enjoy some of the movies I’ve missed in the last 9 months, like The Namesake. Also looking forward to cooking!

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