keep feeling procrastination...
i have this problem. and it's really beginning to get on my nerves.
procrastination. it's a bad thing. it's the thing i always tend to do. pretty much everything in my life is affected by being a procrastinator. i keep promising myself i would stop being a procrastinator. but so far, i've been really bad at it.
so i did finish the paper in time. with about 2 hours to spare. well actually more like 4 hours, but then i had to get the revisions from cecil and since it was pretty much crap, and also cuz she was on the phone with jenny, it took her awhile to get the corrections to me.
anyway, the paper was really difficult to write. i mean, usually, i can bullshit something about education. but this one was tough. here's what we had to write, and i'm giving you a quick synopsis of the prompt.
okay, so your institution is going through some rough times financially. the current president was forced to resign by the board of trustees and they've just hired a new prez, dr. pat smith. (since i was writing about UCLA, i changed it from a president to a chancellor since that's what they have, a chancellor).
so dr. smith is going to re-evaluate all the departments at the institution and cut the ones that aren't necessary. you are the head of an organization at the institution and you're writing a letter/proposal/report to dr. smith about why she should keep your department.
okay, so that's the senario. here are the questions...
1. talk about the historical significance of your department and how it evolved over time. what would rudolph (professor of history and author of a book about the history of american colleges) say about your department and would he deem it worthy to keep running? describe the department's compatibility with the institution's mission statement. (yay! that would be 2-3 pages)
2. under dr. smith, the institution will recommit itself to fostering student learning and engagement, inside and outside the classroom, how will your organization contribute to the advancement of this goal? btw, what constitutes good engagement? how will you work with others to accomplish this. for instance, if you were leading an academic operation, how will you work with those in student affairs. and visa versa. how does your operation measure its contribution to learning and effect on student outcomes? what evidence do you have to confirm that what you are doing actually works for the institution and its students?
3. how does your departmen contribute to the four themes that dr. smith adheres to: accountability, diversity, leadership, learning. why are they generally important in contemporary american higher education and specifically in your operation?
4. what have you learned in this course that has prepared you to comfortably write a report such as this?
i wrote about UCLA recreation, which basically is a unit that provides recreation to individuals affiliated with UCLA in one way or another. they provide a shitload of programs and services.
but as you can see, this was a bitch-assed, one-fuck-of-a-mother paper to write. from sunday morning 10am to about monday afternoon 2pm, i was awake trying to write this paper. poor cecil... she had to revise it for me. i'm never going to hear the end of this.
so now, i have only my stats final and labs to finish by monday. of course, i'm schedule to have jury duty on monday, so i can't work on it then. i haven't done any of it the last three days. but i'm going to get started on it tomorrow. oh, god, i hope so.
yeah, procrastination is bad, umkay.
procrastination. it's a bad thing. it's the thing i always tend to do. pretty much everything in my life is affected by being a procrastinator. i keep promising myself i would stop being a procrastinator. but so far, i've been really bad at it.
so i did finish the paper in time. with about 2 hours to spare. well actually more like 4 hours, but then i had to get the revisions from cecil and since it was pretty much crap, and also cuz she was on the phone with jenny, it took her awhile to get the corrections to me.
anyway, the paper was really difficult to write. i mean, usually, i can bullshit something about education. but this one was tough. here's what we had to write, and i'm giving you a quick synopsis of the prompt.
okay, so your institution is going through some rough times financially. the current president was forced to resign by the board of trustees and they've just hired a new prez, dr. pat smith. (since i was writing about UCLA, i changed it from a president to a chancellor since that's what they have, a chancellor).
so dr. smith is going to re-evaluate all the departments at the institution and cut the ones that aren't necessary. you are the head of an organization at the institution and you're writing a letter/proposal/report to dr. smith about why she should keep your department.
okay, so that's the senario. here are the questions...
1. talk about the historical significance of your department and how it evolved over time. what would rudolph (professor of history and author of a book about the history of american colleges) say about your department and would he deem it worthy to keep running? describe the department's compatibility with the institution's mission statement. (yay! that would be 2-3 pages)
2. under dr. smith, the institution will recommit itself to fostering student learning and engagement, inside and outside the classroom, how will your organization contribute to the advancement of this goal? btw, what constitutes good engagement? how will you work with others to accomplish this. for instance, if you were leading an academic operation, how will you work with those in student affairs. and visa versa. how does your operation measure its contribution to learning and effect on student outcomes? what evidence do you have to confirm that what you are doing actually works for the institution and its students?
3. how does your departmen contribute to the four themes that dr. smith adheres to: accountability, diversity, leadership, learning. why are they generally important in contemporary american higher education and specifically in your operation?
4. what have you learned in this course that has prepared you to comfortably write a report such as this?
i wrote about UCLA recreation, which basically is a unit that provides recreation to individuals affiliated with UCLA in one way or another. they provide a shitload of programs and services.
but as you can see, this was a bitch-assed, one-fuck-of-a-mother paper to write. from sunday morning 10am to about monday afternoon 2pm, i was awake trying to write this paper. poor cecil... she had to revise it for me. i'm never going to hear the end of this.
so now, i have only my stats final and labs to finish by monday. of course, i'm schedule to have jury duty on monday, so i can't work on it then. i haven't done any of it the last three days. but i'm going to get started on it tomorrow. oh, god, i hope so.
yeah, procrastination is bad, umkay.
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