My friend Matt and I at Hebrew U
My friends Matan (right) and Nathan in my dorm
Just me and NathanSo today started out pretty well. The history essay that I was working on was turned back to me and I earned an 86% on it 13/15. I'm pretty happy with that grade. I'm waiting to get my Jewish texts essay back and I'm hoping that will get better marks considering I spent a lot more time on it. I set up my Rosh Hashana schedule that features Erev dinner at Paul Friedman's house. Excited is a sever understatement. There were 4 spots allotted from each group to attend dinner and I managed to squeeze in. Today we have a meeting with Jules Gutin about conservative judaism and I have another History essay that needs to be written. This one about an Arab Israeli citizen who's a part of parliament. He wrote an article that we're analyzing and then taking a stand with an Israeli political party and writing a letter to the writer about your opinion based on your stand. It should be pretty interesting. I have a friend who's helping me write essays, he's a fantastic writer and I'm really enjoying the college atmosphere of everyone in the same boat and doing the same work. It's a really good environment for me.
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Some other thoughts... from when I was a Professor at a graduate school... we advised students to plan on spending from 2 to 3 hours outside of class for every class hour. We also thought study partners were helpful if they did not turn into BS sessions. We advised students to read through assigned material one time to get a feel for what they were reading and then go back and re-read it, dissect it and make notes in an outline or other form that you can refer to easily when you are using it in class. Then review your notes and the material a third time to insure you can discuss it and know it fully.
Also, take good notes in class and then compare notes with another good student to see what they got that you may have missed and v/v.
If I am preaching to the choir, sorry. Congratulations on your good grade and we have confidence in you.
Lou
I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with the note taking in class, the teacher speaks really fast, and I can't get everything
z, you need to read and self-edit your blogs. Catch the typos. Severe, not sever.
Paragraphs don't cost anything extra. Use them.
Offer to help Mrs. Friedman cook dinner. Tell them you miss being a kitchen drudge.
Congrats on the great grade!
Zach:
When I was in college I found out all the happy hours around town where they serve food. For the price of one beer you can get all the hard boiled eggs & deli meat you can eat.
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