Bibliographies

Wednesday September 12, 2012

Today was a pretty easy-going class.  We discussed how to do our bibliographies.  For this paper we will be putting secondary sources first in alphabetical order, then primary sources.  I think this will not only make it easier on the reader, but it will also make it easier on me while I write my paper and refer back to my notes.  After talking about our senior seminar paper, we discussed our reading for the day, pages 3-63ish in "What Should I Do With My Life?"  At first I thought this book was pretty uninteresting, it was just a bunch of people who were unsatisfied with their life, so they set out to change it for the better.  To be honest, I don't really see how this book fits into our class.  If I end up not liking my job I will change it to something that I do like, I am always prepared and I shall always have a back up plan!  Then we were given the assignment to write one solid page about what our dream job entails, I wrote about working as a high school history teacher.  In this job I can plan things out how I want them, educate kids, and show them that learning and history are fun.  After writing this, we were told again to write another page about what our second dream job would be.  On this page I wrote how I would like to work for something like the History Channel where I could conduct research on certain events, places, or people and then host an episode of the show.  Not only could I choose the topics that are of interest to me, I would be able to travel, meet awesome people, and teach people about what I know.  I still think if neither of these two options work out, I think I would either go back to school to study literature, or I would try to get a job at an aquarium.  I really think marine biology is awesome, but I am horrible in science.
After talking about our dream jobs, the class walked to the library.  We were told to go to some website that asks us questions and then based on our answers, it was going to tell us what kind of job would be right for us.  Well, sad to say, the website didn't work as it was supposed to because after we were done answering the questions, the website wanted us to fill in our personal information in order to get our test results (a typical research-wanting website).  So that activity was kind of a bust!  With that activity not working, we were released early because the teacher had some meeting to attend.  We were told to meet back in the library on Monday and bring ALL of our senior seminar paper stuff with us because we would be having a library day!  I definitely need this time because I have been having a very difficult time finding information for my paper.  The Aurora Historical Society will not answer my calls and then when I did get to talk to someone, she was very rude and said no one could help me.  Great.....like 97% of my paper will be coming from there and no one is willing to help me!  This paper just got a lot more frustrating and hard.  So tomorrow I am just going to show up at the Historical Society!  I know from a secret source that people will be there at 9:00 am ;)  (hopefully I will be able to get some work done!)