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Tips for College

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1. Go to class! You will not be successful in your classes if you don’t go! 

2. Participate in class!

3. Go to the events on campus, its makes your college experience lit! Plus, you meet new people.

4. Take advantage of the resources available to you on campus!

5. If your professors have office hours, go to them if you need help or have a question. 

don’t forget, AVOID procrastinating. It just adds a lot of unnecessary stress. 

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If you ever need clarification on assignments or need extra help when you’re struggling with a specific topic, don’t be afraid to ask help from your professors or go to free tutoring sessions on campus. It’s better to ask for help than struggle even more.

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3 Tips for College

1. Go to all of your classes.

2. If possible, do your homework in class.

3. Do assignments as ahead of time as possible.

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Plus, when you get your assignments done early, you have more time to do other activities that you enjoy doing!

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College Survival 101

1. BRING A LAPTOP!! It is very helpful and keeps you organized. Don’t forget to charge it though or bring the charger with you! If you don’t have one, you should be able to check one out at the library. 

2. Try to go to all of the events, especially if it’s “free”. I mean we did already pay for it through our tuition and fees so might as well go!

3. DON’T PLAGARIZE! IT’S NOT WORTH IT! There are many free sites that detects plagiarism in your essays, but there are some good ones that do have some fees. Or check through turnitin.com, sometimes you can check there!

4. Look at where your classes are located at before school starts. You don’t want to get lost or end up in the wrong classroom.

5. Making your own lunch is cheaper than eating out everyday! 

6. Use a planner, online or on paper, it doesn’t matter as long as you are organized. 

7. Read the syllabus, the instructors actually follow it unlike in high school.

8. If you’re having trouble writing an essay, step away from it, relax, and come back to it later. BUT DON’T START ON IT THE DAY BEFORE. Give yourself at least three days before it’s due.

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Also, some textbooks are free to use online instead of buying/renting books for you classes. Look around for free things before you spend a lot of unnecessary money.

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College Survival Tips

-GET A PLANNER! I  know it sounds like a middle school thing, but planners really do help especially when you actually write things down. It helps a lot! 

-CHECK YOUR EMAILS DAILY!! DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK THEM! I  have gone to classes where classes were canceled and it’s because I  forgot to check my email. sucks being the only who shows up to canceled class. 

-SLEEP! make sure you get enough rest because its I  think that its very crucial! especially around finals! 

-MOST OF ALL HAVE FUN!!! yes sometimes finals and hwmk might stress you out but don’t let it get to you and GO OUT AND HAVE FUN!! RELAX!! 

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All these tips are very helpful in college! It’s important to get rest and take breaks to help you concentrate more!

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Blog Post #9: College Survival Tips

1. Step of your comfort zone. Do things that you have never done before; you might find an activity that you never thought that you would enjoy. YOU ARE GOING TO EMBARRAS YOURSELF AND THAT’S OKAY. It’s important to try new things, even if that means embarrassing yourself in front of people. It’s all about finding yourself and trying new activities that you might end up absolutely loving. As corny as that might sound, college is about pursuing activities that you enjoy doing and you never know what you like until you TRY! 

2. GET INVOLVED! Join clubs and organizations on campus. Attend sporting events, become a volunteer, participate in student government, go to any performances/lectures happening on campus, get free food during events on campus, and MUCH MORE. There are ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES to get involved during your college years. Find your interests and hobbies by joining various organizations. Plus, you are going to meet new people who share the same interests as you and make new friends. 

3. Take advantage of any resources on campus. Whether that means academically in tutoring sessions, counselling services, health centers, the library, campus escorts, and anything else that you can possibly think of. Plus, these resources are FREE for students and by free, I mean included in your college tuition. ;) 

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY 

4.  DON’T FORGET TO HAVE FUN!  College isn’t about sitting in your room all day studying for hours and hours every single day. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t study, BECAUSE YOU DO NEED TO STUDY DON’T GET ME WRONG, but it’s equally important to have a social life and expand your horizons. These are the years that you’re going to remember as you get older and when you look back, you want to remember all the fun experiences you encountered with all the embarrassing moments that you had. You don’t want to look back with the whats ifs and regrets; you want to look back at all the crazy moments that you had. 

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Blog Post #8

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Blog 9

Tip #1: Stay on top of your work

It can seem time consuming but it is totally worth it. 

Tip #2: Go to class

You’re paying for it. You might as well go. 

Tip #3: Sleep more than you study. Study more than you party. Party as much as you can. 

Wise advice from the internet. 

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Tip #3 is my absolute favorite! 

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Blog Post #7

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Blog Post #6: 

The TED Talk that I chose to analyze for my rhetorical analysis essay is “Editing our evolution: CRISPR/CAS by Dr. Helen O/Neill. In her TED Talk, she argues about the importance of how genome editing is the current revolution of medicine. The video explains what genome editing is through the use of visual to help the audience better understand the complex concept. She introduces a recent, groundbreaking technology known as CRISPR and its potential to cure various diseases as more research and improvements are being done to create a more efficient technology. She also goes into the problematic issues currently in the medical industry and uses CRISPR as a solution in different situations.

To evaluate the TED Talk, I used the rhetorical pentagon and the rhetorical triangle. Dr. Helen O’Neill incorporates humor, uses statistics to address complex problems, cites examples that are familiar to the audience to connect with them on an emotional level, and includes diagrams and illustrations.

Based on the video’s criteria, Dr. Helen O’Neill successfully argues about the importance of how genome editing is the current revolution of medicine. By simplifying a complex topic through the use of visuals, the audience can easily visualize how a small change to a person’s DNA can drastically effect the human genome. By citing examples that the audience is familiar with, along with the element of humor, it allows the audience to connect ideas that they are exposed to everyday to how genome editing can influence their lives. 

I would definitely recommend this source to anyone who is interested in genome editing and its potential to cure medical diseases through the advanced technology of CRISPR. This video does a great job in explaining the potential of genome editing and its ability to revolutionize the future through multiple examples. 

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Blog Post #5

In order to understand this meme, you would need to know two things. First, you would have to recognize that Aunt Robin is a character on the tv sitcom How I Met Your Mother, one of my favorite tv shows ever. The words on top of the meme describes Ted, the main character on How I Met Your Mother, telling the story to his children of how he met their mother. Of course, before he even tells the actual story of how he meets their mother, he always tells the story in excruciating detail with stories that aren’t even relevant to the meeting between the mother and himself. As Ted is telling the story to his children, he always begins with “Kids... (with a specific date and year afterwards),” as indicated on the top of he meme. Since Ted always tells irrelevant details to how he meets the mother, the words on the bottom refers to Ted going “off-topic” again, telling another story when their Aunt Robin “went to the Avengers.” Secondly, you would have to know that the actress that plays Aunt Robin, Cobie Smulders, also plays Maria Hill on the Avengers, a S.H.I.E.L.D agent. The picture presented on the meme is a picture of Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill.

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This week I learned that clinical drug trials were only tested on Caucasian males aged 18 to 40 and male mice from the TedTalk I am analyzing for my rhetorical analysis essay. I was curious about this subject and from further research, I learned about how inaccurate drug trials are because of gender biases. I personally didn’t know that there was a gender bias in the healthcare industry concerning drug developments. Agencies are reluctant to perform clinical trials on women because of hormones, risks during pregnancy, menstrual cycles, and the use of contraceptives. By excluding women, pharmaceutical companies are limited on their knowledge during clinical research. All factors need to be considered when conducting drug trials to analyze the responses to diseases from both males and females. Pharmacological interactions are not accounted for in over 50% of the population because of the lack of accurate results. These clinical trials imply that both males and females are similar in responses to diseases. The video talks about this issue from 5:15 to 6:00. 

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Blog Post #3

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SiS is proud to feature the winners of the "2009 Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (IGP) Science and Society Class Distinction Award." Written as part of a course on science and society, these papers were chosen by IGP faculty to be published on SiS. This month, we present the following piece by PhD student Laura Hix.

This article contains a great deal of background information about eugenics and the potential it has to affect the human race in both positive and negative ways. Today, the term “eugenics” is not commonly used, but rather, the process is known as human genetic engineering. The focus of human genetic engineering is to alter and replace deadly genes that causes illnesses, such as cancer and heart diseases, before the disease is even contracted in the body. From this article, I learned about a process called gene therapy, which introduces a new gene into the human body to combat illnesses; however, the process as a whole is extremely extensive because of specific requirements that has to be met before a replacement of a gene can be made. Gene therapy is currently still in its early stages of development in clinical trials, along with other methods that can possibly prevent illnesses. This article helped me further understand genetic editing because I was introduced to different ways that scientists and researchers are trying to cure diseases and made me realize the importance of continuing clinical research to improve humanity. 

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Blog Post 1

Hello World! My name is Amy Sitkoff and I am a biology major at UNR! My interest in science research led me to the study of eugenics, my topic for my English 101 class project that I will be working on for the semester. Just in case you didn’t know, eugenics is the study of improving the human race using gene manipulation. Multiple arguments arise about whether eugenics is ethical in the world that we live in today. With the rapid advancements of technology, eugenics is becoming a more complex issue in our society.