Maybe it is hard for American folks to believe how unfamiliar international students are to American football. In fact, most of us really aren't. (Football, in other countries, is played by eleven players with one black-and-white round ball in a huge grass-y field.) Last Sunday after a long study, I went to a friend's apartment to watch Patriot vs. Colts. Only the apartment owner understood football. I can't remember how many times he needed to explain the rules to whoever came later. We called in pizza and beers. (Anyway, beer and tomato juice are good for those who don't like the taste of beer--tips from Japanese friends.) Later, screams and yells came out from the living room. (But I don't think the neighbors were concerned, since we heard screams from other units too.) Apparently Colts didn't start well, but later turned out to "miraculously" won. The whole room applauded and sang whatever languages they could. It was a very fun night even for someone who did not usually watch sports like me. Go Colts!
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Look up for Leonid Meteor Shower on November 17-19. It is going to be the greatest meteor show you've ever watched! Bill Cooke of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center predicts the Leonids to produce upwards of 500 meteors per hour.
Meteor experts Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada indicate that this year's peak activity should occur on the night of Nov. 17-18. They cite 4:00 GMT on Nov. 18, which corresponds to 11 p.m. EST and 8 p.m. PST on the evening of Nov. 17.
CNN. com advices to "head out a half-hour before the predicted peak, allowing eyes time to adjust to the dark, and stay out for up to a half hour after the expected peak." You won't need telescopes or binoculars, two eyeballs will do just right. Lie back and scan as much sky as you can. It could come from anywhere.
Don't miss it, the next one won't come for another 30 years!
Reference for more information:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/04dec_leonids2009.htm
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/spotlight_2009_Leonids_Peak.html
http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/
Meteor experts Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada indicate that this year's peak activity should occur on the night of Nov. 17-18. They cite 4:00 GMT on Nov. 18, which corresponds to 11 p.m. EST and 8 p.m. PST on the evening of Nov. 17.
CNN. com advices to "head out a half-hour before the predicted peak, allowing eyes time to adjust to the dark, and stay out for up to a half hour after the expected peak." You won't need telescopes or binoculars, two eyeballs will do just right. Lie back and scan as much sky as you can. It could come from anywhere.
Don't miss it, the next one won't come for another 30 years!
Reference for more information:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/04dec_leonids2009.htm
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/spotlight_2009_Leonids_Peak.html
http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/
So the exam went fine. It wasn't great, but I was on average (or above.) This experience taught me to manage my time, and more important, to be responsible to my study. So this week I stuffed assignments and projects to my planner and set a camp at library and IT building (which open 24/7!)
Thursday
....supposed to be relaxing day for me since I only have 1 class from 3 - 4:15pm. However I woke up at 8am, cooked (I mean really "cook" with pan and oil), check email, Facebook and stuff, then left for school at 10am. The reference desk staff nodded to me when I stepped in like we're close friends just because he saw me on daily basis in the library. Was doing an accounting project that without much progress while waiting for a group meeting. 1:30pm-2:45pm, meeting with my marketing team. We had a marketing project that designs a marketing campaign for a non-profit organization for children. Everyone was prepared and contributed some idea. The meeting was really productive. 4:30 after class went back home for some more assignments.
Friday
The first day of my weekend! Met my accounting teammate at 12pm, doing homework until6pm, then headed to Campus Center for a beutiful college life ^^ My friends were the administratives for Chinese Culture Club and they had this Karaoke Night, so I needed to show my support. The attendants were shy, but I heard people went crazy after awhile and they had a good time. Only stayed for half an hour though, went back to library to finish my part of assignment. 9pm, rushed to grocery for the coming week.
Saturday
A best friend of mine was free this weekend, so I went to her place and learned to make cheesecake. Her apartment is near the canal, so we took a walk along canal and fed the ducks with bread. The weather was soooo amazing this week! 6pm, a few friends came over after their basketball practice to try the cheesecake. I can say it was very succesful!! However, I came home feeling non-productive.
Sunday
2pm now....been staying here at IT building since 12:30pm. Around 20 people are staying here to study. I guess I will need to start too.
Some of my project teams wanted to finish the project before Thanksgiving break, so we can relax on the holiday and have more time for other finals after the break. Believe you too have plan for the holiday. Start planning and finishing your work before the break!
This is my regular weekend, how is yours?
Thursday
....supposed to be relaxing day for me since I only have 1 class from 3 - 4:15pm. However I woke up at 8am, cooked (I mean really "cook" with pan and oil), check email, Facebook and stuff, then left for school at 10am. The reference desk staff nodded to me when I stepped in like we're close friends just because he saw me on daily basis in the library. Was doing an accounting project that without much progress while waiting for a group meeting. 1:30pm-2:45pm, meeting with my marketing team. We had a marketing project that designs a marketing campaign for a non-profit organization for children. Everyone was prepared and contributed some idea. The meeting was really productive. 4:30 after class went back home for some more assignments.
Friday
The first day of my weekend! Met my accounting teammate at 12pm, doing homework until6pm, then headed to Campus Center for a beutiful college life ^^ My friends were the administratives for Chinese Culture Club and they had this Karaoke Night, so I needed to show my support. The attendants were shy, but I heard people went crazy after awhile and they had a good time. Only stayed for half an hour though, went back to library to finish my part of assignment. 9pm, rushed to grocery for the coming week.
Saturday
A best friend of mine was free this weekend, so I went to her place and learned to make cheesecake. Her apartment is near the canal, so we took a walk along canal and fed the ducks with bread. The weather was soooo amazing this week! 6pm, a few friends came over after their basketball practice to try the cheesecake. I can say it was very succesful!! However, I came home feeling non-productive.
Sunday
2pm now....been staying here at IT building since 12:30pm. Around 20 people are staying here to study. I guess I will need to start too.
Some of my project teams wanted to finish the project before Thanksgiving break, so we can relax on the holiday and have more time for other finals after the break. Believe you too have plan for the holiday. Start planning and finishing your work before the break!
This is my regular weekend, how is yours?
As business students (or faculties. or alumni or just any friends of Kelley), we know about the newest technology of marketing---internet. Bunch of advantages given by internet marketing, you name it--low cost, growing net population, flexibility, easy to collect data, target market segments more precisely and so on. But I am sure many of you feel the annoying side of it as well, like I do.
I was looking for information about graduate schools online. Not that I decided to go, just was looking for other alternatives after finishing my Bachelor degree (YAY!!). I got to this popular website, at least I thought so because it was listed quite up on Google search engine (most search engines list the results of your keywords by the highest visited or highest bidding website--that is who pay the most to be up there). Like other websites, this website asked me to clarify what kind of schools I was looking for--online or traditional schools, which geographic areas, what majors, costs, admissions etc. The website then asked about my personal information, otherwise it wouldn't show the results. So I went ahead filling in my information: name, phone number, address, email. And this is my very first mistake, fellow! One minute later my cellphones started ringing!
The first call was from the website staff, confirming the data I entered. H mm, this is exclusive, I thought. Soon after I hang the call, another one came. This time is a representative from a college.
I was looking for information about graduate schools online. Not that I decided to go, just was looking for other alternatives after finishing my Bachelor degree (YAY!!). I got to this popular website, at least I thought so because it was listed quite up on Google search engine (most search engines list the results of your keywords by the highest visited or highest bidding website--that is who pay the most to be up there). Like other websites, this website asked me to clarify what kind of schools I was looking for--online or traditional schools, which geographic areas, what majors, costs, admissions etc. The website then asked about my personal information, otherwise it wouldn't show the results. So I went ahead filling in my information: name, phone number, address, email. And this is my very first mistake, fellow! One minute later my cellphones started ringing!
The first call was from the website staff, confirming the data I entered. H mm, this is exclusive, I thought. Soon after I hang the call, another one came. This time is a representative from a college.
"Good morning, mam! Can I speak to Siannita?"
"Speaking." (Be careful of fraud!)
"We are calling from XYZ college. I heard you are looking for a master degree?"
"Well... I guess sort of." (Hmm...this is fast!)
"What specific major you are looking for so I can connect you to the right advisor?"
"I was just looking around, not sure yet." (Their advisors sound are really available!)
"What do you have in mind?"
"What do you have in mind?"
"Okay. I think I would rather to be contacted by email." (Started freaking me out)
"Oh this won't take a long time. Out advisors sure can help you decide!"
"..." (Great! Now a stranger will help me decide my life.)
I ended up talking to an advisor about nothing....and promising to look out for his additional information through email.
That first day after my "click" I received 4 other similar calls from various colleges. It made me scared of unknown number, specifically those with strange area code. I rejected a few calls. Those numbers later kept calling for almost everyday in a week!
I think the moral of the story is: be careful of anything that you fill in online. As a digital generation, we are used to take control of what we want to know, and not passively become the marketing target anymore. Realize that the second you submit your information, it becomes a public information. Consider the consequences.
Thanks to the World Wide Web to let me found "Criminal Minds" from the very first episodes. The series talk about Behavioral Analysis Unit, a team under FBI department who analyze and predict criminal behavior according to criminals' psychology patterns learned from the crime scenes.It is similar to CSI, but more to the psychology aspect.Just by analyzing the crime scenes, they are able to recognize the convicts' personality.
I just finished a 22-episodes-season within one week plus a couple days when I opened up my agenda and ooops...an exam in three days and I haven't study anything. I imagine if the team examines my personal items, they might evaluate me as "a planner but not an executor, a passive but a hard-worker, enjoy friends' companions but also a heavy potato couch that could forget an important exam." Ergh...I guess this is how college different from high school. In high school you have your parents and teachers that remind what homework due what time, what are you supposed to be doing now and bla bla bla. In college, you keep track of your assignments, plan your own schedule for group meetings and study time, and also keep an eye on yourself if you've finished a family pack Lays on the couch.
Yep, so I guess I have to stop here to read my textbook now. I'll tell you what happen with this exam later. Hope it's a good news.
A few weeks ago I went to Chicago Badminton Open-- an annually badminton games sponsored by Midwest Badminton Association. (For those who don't know what badminton is, please check Wikipedia.=) There were hundreds of players and the event lasted from 9am to 11pm-- with unfinished final matches for the second day. To encourage the athletes and keep them endured, (and of course mostly because of sponsorship, my Kelley fellows) the association provided free Red Bull on courts.
Playing sports could be tiring, and Red Bull sounded like a big help. Actually, not really. A player consumed five cans of Red Bull at once while he was on break. Less than one hour later, his legs were red, hard and swollen. He looked twisted and his muscles apparently were cramping. Luckily there were a few medical students and physicians at the scene. They strongly recommended him to drink a lot of water; plus salt if possible. The player wasn't able to play the rest of his games that day and still needed to rest on the second day.
Medical students explained that Red Bull contains an ingredients similar to Sodium that absorbed water from your body. Five Red Bulls were too much for a body to handle at once. The player's muscle was lack of water and that's what made he cramped. Actually, Red Bull is banned in come countries such as Denmark, France and Norway because of controversial use of it.
I have no negative view on Red Bull or whatsoever, just think that consumers should know about this side effect. Plain water or sports drinks that add minerals are safer choices for those who play sports.
That's right! IUPUI Health Services will provide FREE H1N1 Vaccine for IUPUI faculty, staff and students with priority to those who are in the CDC list, starting from next week! (I tried to find this list but no result.)
As you all know, H1n1 is a new influenza virus that just detected earlier this year and has caused deaths (fifth in Indiana.) The symptoms are pretty much the same as common flu: fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headaches, chills and fatigue.
I enjoyed writing journals since I was kid, especially on my middle/high school period. That was the time when we (mostly) were all confused about things but didn't know who to talk to and journals helped me got through the hard time. I found out that journal could actually become a friend, a teacher or even a parent. Journal was my friend because it let me vent out my emotions. Journal was my teacher because it showed me what I did and how I felt when I read it again the next day. Journal was also my parent because it taught me what actions cause what consequences to me and to my surroundings.
The senior year was a crazy one for Chinese students. We studied when we were not sleeping, showering or eating. Then I stopped writing. Not until in college I began to write again. This time on blog. Let's keep up with the new tech, I thought. But then I stopped again for the amazing freshman year. When Prof. Chappell offered this blogger position I think "yeah, why not. " Barriers and laziness always accompany me anyway, so they shouldn't ever stop me. I'd said let's give blog another chance!
