Comments on: Hunger to Learn

By: Iva @ HorizontalYoYo

Iva @ HorizontalYoYo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:05:10 +0000

I find that since being in school, I tend to write my blog posts in APA format (and to think I thought I wouldn’t be able to get used to it). I believe if you italicize the title of your blog, it will stand out. Amanda is right though: for proper APA format, your blog title would look like this – Ignorant historian.

But that just feels kind of wrong…

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:48:37 +0000

Once again, I feel the same way. I want to be that person in the crowd who knows the facts and stats and is smart about a lot of things. Right now I know a lot about ideas, but not a lot of facts. I don’t want to ever stop learning!

By: GZOE

GZOE — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:41:42 +0000

Way to go, Amanda…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:29:50 +0000

Your blog titles are fine–however, if you want to conform to AP guidelines, don’t capitalize (sp?) all the words unless they are proper nouns or the first word in the title; that’s the biggest thing that’s hard for me to get used to with writing for Examiner.

As for what I want to study…I’m going to have to side with GZoe on this one. I am still trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up, and will probably not find out for a long long time. I don’t like to restrict my learning to one arena however.

By: GZOE

GZOE — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:25:28 +0000

I am still trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up. Thinking over the teachers I have had, the ones that were the best…I got what they were talking about…were the ones that struggled more in their studies. The “knowledgeable” ones knew so much that they couldn’t bring it down to the average student’s level. I just enjoy things around me and then want to move on. Does that make sense?

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:08:32 +0000

I, too, love to learn new things. Right now I’d have to say that if I could learn more about one topic it would have to be Art History. I LOVE art museums, but I really have no idea what I”m looking at – only if I like it or not. I’d love to know more.

By: WhatACard

WhatACard — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:07:06 +0000

We’re similar in so many ways! I was completely unfocused in my undergrad studies, stuffing as many courses into my schedule as I possibly could. I was an accounting major, but I also ended up with a degree in psychology just because I found so many courses interesting that before I knew it, I had enough credits for my BA. I was also only 2 classes away from a finance degree, and pretty close to an English degree, education degree, and biology degree. That’s what happens when you take 8 classes per semester :) I also have my MA in Elementary Ed, which is actually a wonderfully broad topic since while the focus is on teaching, the subject matter is so varied: writing, math, science, children’s lit, special ed, inclusion, etc. Very fun topic to study! If I went back to school, it would probably be for a special education degree. Not sure if I will, though. We’ll see!

By: Audrey/brizmus

Audrey/brizmus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:05:13 +0000

I totally know what you mean. . .I have a masters in math, and I started my doctorate. I really enjoyed doing my masters, and there were so many more things I wanted to explore! As I got further and further in, though, I started to feel more and more claustrophobic about it. I wanted to study MORE, not LESS, and doing a doctorate was sort-of forcing me to study less. So I stopped.
I think if I had to choose ONE area to study NOW, it would be grammar. . .but then I am sure I would end up being forced to refine that even more and more and more until it just wasn’t fun anymore. It’s so hard, this higher degree thing.