EileenSON.org » School http://eileenson.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:22:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Argh! The summer homework! http://eileenson.org/2010/07/argh-the-summer-homework/ http://eileenson.org/2010/07/argh-the-summer-homework/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:05:09 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=345 Just said just done, I checked my summer homework agenda and I realized that there’s a research to be written, based on our last term paper of June. Oh great, just great! >_< And I was even going to put my old term papers for sale on come college writing site to help other students… Also, more work to do. Yeah… I hope Shotfire and Commander Police will be patient and generous enough to allow me some term paper assistance and take care of the Summer Festival by themselves. I really need to put my studying duties first this time. Sometimes it’s really tough to be a Robocity Leader… I mean, it’s a wonderful job, but sometimes you realize that 24 hours in a day is really too little to do everything you need to do. I wish I had more time, just like I complained in my last post. My only reward is seeing more robots and human beings joining this city and live happily and feel loved. That’s all that matters, I guess.

]]> http://eileenson.org/2010/07/argh-the-summer-homework/feed/ 0 The trouble of not having time http://eileenson.org/2010/07/the-trouble-of-not-having-time/ http://eileenson.org/2010/07/the-trouble-of-not-having-time/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:55:14 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=344 Sometimes I wish I could write a research paper at a much faster pace than my current possibilities. Alas, my job as a Leader and my responsibilities at home make it all so much harder. :( I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to my studies, so I had to re-invent my time gaps from work and family to be able to take full advantage of them, and study very quickly; but writing… oh no! That requires time, concentration, thinking… and a lot of drafting and rewriting and correcting. I wish I had the time for all that jazz. :( A couple of times I had to use a research paper service, or get the research paper writing done by my friend Fulmine. I downloaded a few paper sample from ResearchPaperStar.com too, to have a ready made structure on which to build my whole writing. Yeah, that’s what I do… I wish I didn’t have to.

P.S. Sometimes I wish I’d be another person so I hadn’t to live this super busy life. =_= But yeah… I should be stronger against difficulties, I know…

]]> http://eileenson.org/2010/07/the-trouble-of-not-having-time/feed/ 0 Cours de mathématiques sur mesure si possible http://eileenson.org/2010/07/cours-de-mathematiques-sur-mesure-si-possible/ http://eileenson.org/2010/07/cours-de-mathematiques-sur-mesure-si-possible/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:45:16 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=330 Depuis l’étude de français à l’école, j’ai décidé d’écrire ce post en français. :) Alors, voyons … J’ai décidé de prendre des cours de mathématiques avancées en ligne, cours pa​rticulie​rs de ma​thématiq​ues organisés par les écoles de la certification, pour les points de bonus quand je vais au collège. Les mathématiques sont un de mes amours, l’un de mes sujets favoris. ^ ^ En plus des sciences de la terre et de la physique et de l’électronique, est une discipline qui continuent des études pour le reste de la vie. Et l’industrie qui sont désireux d’apprendre la topologie algébrique. Ah, j’espère trouver un bon tuteur pour m’aider à comprendre ces arguments “dur”!

Parrainé par votre-repetiteur.fr

]]> http://eileenson.org/2010/07/cours-de-mathematiques-sur-mesure-si-possible/feed/ 0 The causes of common difficulties in English learning http://eileenson.org/2010/04/the-causes-of-common-difficulties-in-english-learning/ http://eileenson.org/2010/04/the-causes-of-common-difficulties-in-english-learning/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:13:00 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=293 Just a quickie about English courses, with particular reference to online ones. To guide you all through the most common problems, which, in my experience, are:

- difficulty with pronunciation
- misunderstanding terms/false friends
- “mothertongue-tion” of English language

More in detail:

1. English pronunciation requires a more softer labial movement of the mouth, while in other languages, such like Italian, the pronunciation is done by applying more force to the muscles. This difference causes the student to have to “re-learn” how to articulate his/her mouth to speak, and it is not always easy. Pronunciation, being one of the hardest skills to acquire, should be guided step-by-step by a mothertongue English teacher, and never left to online course (unless a tutor is provided) or self-teaching. You can only learn to speak by interaction and trial-and-error method.

2. So called “false friends” can lead to misunderstanding of words meaning, and thus an erroneous learning of said terms. It’s important that the teacher finds out as soon as possible, and helps the student overcome the perception that similar words in two languages have similar meanings (that can happen, but it’s not a rule of thumb). Designers of online courses should take this in consideration, and provide a tutor.

3. This is the case of words and/or phrases not known by the student, but “invented” by the student on the right moment, based on his/her own mothertongue and than “Englishized”. That is what I mean by “mothertongue-tion” of English language: i.e. an Italian student may “Italianize” English words that he does not know, or say/write phrases and portions of speech the same way he would in Italian. This is a common mistake, normally part of the process of learning, but a teacher should be there to correct this behavious, which may harm the student’s career if not taken care of.

I’m getting interested in educational practices related to language teaching and training, thus I shall update about this subject very soon. :)

Thanks for reading, my dear friends.

]]> http://eileenson.org/2010/04/the-causes-of-common-difficulties-in-english-learning/feed/ 0 Protected: Kerri’s and Nightbird’s birthdays http://eileenson.org/2009/03/kerris-and-nightbirds-birthdays/ http://eileenson.org/2009/03/kerris-and-nightbirds-birthdays/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:24:58 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=148 http://eileenson.org/2009/03/kerris-and-nightbirds-birthdays/feed/ 0 Sharing help with other students ;) http://eileenson.org/2008/12/sharing-help-with-other-students/ http://eileenson.org/2008/12/sharing-help-with-other-students/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:33:08 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=85 Hello guys. I’m sorry about not updating in some time, but I’ve been busy with the last tests and interrogations at school of the year ^^ I did pretty fine though, I have a media of grades of 8.7, which is cool! hehe ^^ Also, there’s a website that I use very often for my researches and to choose schools for my future, and I want to share it with you because I know the most of you are students too, and so this one can turn very useful to you: it’s an online college reviews blog. It has more than 2000 online school reviews and they are all written by students. There’s a big list of universities, too, like University of Maryland, or George Washington University. I’ll be glad someday if I can be one of their students. ^^ because it’s really helping me through some though decisions with my life (you could read about it in my previous entries too). I’m trying to help Selenia finding something she likes as well, but she’s lucky: her parents told her to do what she thinks it’s best for her, not like mine who are so bossy and disrespectful of my dreams and talents :( Anyway, I’m going on with my studies, and on Monday I’ll be spending the afternoon at the city library to do some research on my own. Nobody will stop me. Ahah! :P

]]> http://eileenson.org/2008/12/sharing-help-with-other-students/feed/ 0 My school life saver :D http://eileenson.org/2008/11/my-school-life-saver-d/ http://eileenson.org/2008/11/my-school-life-saver-d/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:58:50 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=56 My Literature teacher gave me an excellent today. Yepee! I’ve been studying hard all day yesterday for this essay, and the high grade really paid me back for all the sacrifice :’) I’ve come home all happy about this, and after lunch I started researching online for e-learning websites that would help me improve my academic writing more and more with time and practice. You know? An excellent today, but I don’t know if I’ll do that good on next month’s essay. So, I found the perfect website for my self-teaching: dissertationblog.com. This wonderful site is all about Dissertation Writing and comes with a lot of Dissertation Example that can be downloaded as PDF documents. The first one I downloaded is the Dissertation Proposal Sample which I needed to plan my 1st semester dissertation in Maths (due on December 18th, that I shall have to report on January, soon as I’m back from Christmas break). Then I tried out the Literature Review Sample, which I need apply next week for my Literature test that will consist of a review. Usually the first obstacle I encounter when it comes to dissertations is finding the right title, though, and so far my teacher hasn’t been able to give me good advice on how to improve that :( So I looked on this site, and… cool! :D They have great tips pn how to find the right Dissertation Titles! For example, I didn’t know that a dissertation title had to contain the words “a study on..” or similar, and that they have to contain the main topic of the dissertation. You know, my parents always say I waste my time trying to improve my studies and writing skills with online tutorial, but trust me, it’s not true! Just look at this site, it just saved my school career ^_^ We students surely need more tutorials and blogs like this, not otherwise. For sure.

]]> http://eileenson.org/2008/11/my-school-life-saver-d/feed/ 1 Telephone line license http://eileenson.org/2008/10/telephone-line-license/ http://eileenson.org/2008/10/telephone-line-license/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:54 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=39 This morning at school our Maths teacher explained to us how a telephone line works. It was pretty interesting: my teacher’s very good at explaining anything technical, and I’m glad he’s giving us these extra Technology lessons once at week, since we don’t have that kind of class yet in our course (we will in two years). It was interesting when he told us he’d been in Michigan (US) a few years ago, and he’d come to about the Spectrotel telephone line, that had just been licenses to be installed in the area of Michigan on 2004, by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) :) Above I linked to the official press release about this telephone company, even though there’s more press releases available on the web of course. Our teacher told us even Robocity (our city) should get a licence for an independent telephone line, self-made maybe. Of course, everyone in the class looked at me ^^” I expected it, since I’m one of the three Leaders, heh. Well, we’ll see about that. We don’t have the finances for now :(

]]> http://eileenson.org/2008/10/telephone-line-license/feed/ 0 Layout change and grades http://eileenson.org/2008/10/layout-change-and-grades/ http://eileenson.org/2008/10/layout-change-and-grades/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:00:15 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=31 Layout change! :D Hehe. Finally, I would say. I haven’t been much around this past week since school has been hitting it real hard. I’ve had tests nearly every day, and it’s a true relief that I have a couple of days to relax now. Yeah… just a couple of days, because from Tuesday I’ll have to resume studying for the tests of the rest of the week: Geometry, History, Literature, and a short Arts essay on Friday. Eeek T_T But I shall survive, I know that.

Excluding those subjects, my grades so far have been:

  • Italian grammar and literature: 9
  • Latin language and literature: 7
  • English language and literature: 8
  • French language and literature: 6
  • Geography: 8
  • Maths: 8
  • P.E.: 7

I’m pretty much satisfied with them, expect that 6 (minimum positive grade) in French T_T But well, it’s a new language for me to learn, so it will just take time I guess. LOL.

Well, it’s late, so I wish you all a good night ;) Buh-Bye!

]]> http://eileenson.org/2008/10/layout-change-and-grades/feed/ 0 For Sarah’s school research ;) http://eileenson.org/2008/10/for-sarahs-school-research/ http://eileenson.org/2008/10/for-sarahs-school-research/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:39:06 +0000 Megatron http://eileenson.org/?p=30 A friend of my lovely Selenia has the net off for a few days because her ADSL modem got burnt, and she had to make a research about african american cosmetics, so I’m doing it for her ^^ Cool, huh? She’ll just have to read and take notes then ;) Sooo, this company I’m gonna tell you about is called Black Radiance, and it produces some of the best cosmetics for black/dark skinned people :) Eyeliners, eye-shadowes, mascaras and eyes accessories, as well as lip glosses, lip balms and any other products are all aimed to make girls look gorgeous and appealing. Cosmetics and accessories are all high quality and safe.
Sarah, if you need more informations about them, go visit their site. Good luck! ;)

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