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I. I chose to do the Guided Body Scan by Gil Fronsdal.
II. A. I was feeling a little frustrated and overwhelmed today. I had my wisdom tooth pulled out yesterday and I couldn’t eat any solid foods. I didn’t want to take a day off from work because the holiday season is coming around and I need money to shop.
B. I would say my level of anxiety today was between a 6-7.
C. Most of the tension was around my neck and back. I would judge it to be around 7.
III. A. After the meditation, I felt more relaxed. The pain in my mouth was still there but my overall mood was much better.
B. I would judge my level of anxiety to have dropped to around a 3 or 4 after meditation.
C. The meditation also helped me to feel more physically relaxed. The tension around my neck and back area was a lot more relieved. I would rate it a 5 on the scale.
IV. I chose the body scan experience by Gil Fronsdal. In my mind, I doubted that this would do any good since most of my stress resulted from getting my wisdom tooth being extracted. During the beginning of the recording, I kept thinking “this isn’t going to work”. But as the recording went on, I started to slowly let go of that thought and concentrate on the meditation. I listened to Fronsdal and I could feel my body and my mind relaxing. I would definitely do this again because it is a great way to relieve stress especially with finals coming up and all.
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Hey everyone! I’m Ming and I’m currently a freshman at Baruch. This is my 3rd semester here. I haven’t declared a major yet, but I’m leaning towards something in the nutrition field. I’ve always wanted to be a pilot but that I’ve decided to push that aside until much later. Aside from school, I work part-time in a health clinic. So pretty much I don’t have a lot of time to hang out or join any clubs being that I have to rush back and forth in between school and work.
When I do have spare time, I like to go biking along Shore Road in Brooklyn. Its a really relaxing place for me I guess. I also LOVE watching Friends! It always gets me laughing especially Joey.
I wish everyone the best of luck this semester!
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"1. Your decision to keep all your memories is a good move. Happy memories you would definitely want to keep because they're...happy. Negative memories might trigger sadness, frustration, and whatnot but they let you relearn not to make the same mistakes. Your memories make up who you are; without the good AND the bad memories you're not essentially going to be the same person.
2. I'd be a little frustrated because we're supposed to be long term friends which means years and years of memories. However, I can't blame you because its not like you purposely forgot all your memories. I'd still try to help you recover your memories asap.
3. I'd bring you to all the places we used to hang out at, eat all the foods you used to like, listen to all the music you used to listen to, and show you photographs of you and your friends and objects that you deemed to be important. I'd also take you to see all your other friends and important figures in your life.
4. For encoding, the foods and music you used to like.
For consolidation, I'd show you the photographs and objects and explain to you the significance of it repeatedly.
For retrieval, I'd try to recreate a few events in your life that were important, maybe your sweet 16, 18th birthday, and any holidays we spent together."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Memory"1. Your choice of which memories to keep is a good decision. Of course everyone wants to keep their positive memories and maybe leave out the bad ones, but you can learn from mistakes and not repeat them again.
2. I'd feel pretty discouraged and frustrated. I mean if we're supposed to be long term friends, there should at least be some memory retained of me. It would not change my perception on helping you get your memories back as fast as possible though.
3. I'd take them to the places we used to hang out at, show them photographs and objects of importance, eat foods you used to like, listen to music you used to like, and bring you to see all your other friends.
4. The foods and music would be encoding. The photographs and objects are consolidation. For retrieval, we could recreate an important event to try and trigger any memories."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post memory reflection"1. The fact that you are choosing to keep both your positive and negative memories is impressive in itself. I would guess that most people would choose to just keep the positive memories. But since you’re deciding to keep them all, you get to experience your life all over again and you might even learn something new.
2. It would depend on who else you remembered. If you remembered one of your newer friends and not me, I'd be a little frustrated. But then again, your recovery of memories is the most important thing and that comes before anything else.
3. I'd recall events that we've been through together such as birthday parties or holidays. And also bring photographs and other things that might trigger your memories.
4. I can try to re-encode your memories by giving you foods you used to like and music you used to listen to. Consolidation would be through the photographs and other objects."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Retrograde Amnesia"1. Yeah, like Hanna said up there, it's pretty impressive that you write in your diary every night since you were ten. The fact that you are choosing to keep both your positive and negative memories is impressive in itself. I would guess that most people would choose to just keep the positive memories. But since you're deciding to keep them all, you get to experience your life all over again and you might even learn something new.
2. I'd feel a little discouraged but again like Hanna says, what's important is retrieving your memories. You're the focus and priority; nothing else really matters until you get your memories back.
3. Since we're long time friends, I'd walk you through where ever we met, the places we hung out at, stuff like that. I'd play the music you liked as well as bring you food you liked. I'd also show you photographs of events we were at together and bring you to see some more of your friends.
4. For encoding, it would be walking you through the places we hung out at, bringing you foods and playing you music and showing you photographs.
For consolidation, it would be a constant recap of everything with explanations.
For retrieval, we could recreate an important event such as your 18th birthday."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Precious Memory"-My hypothesis is different from yours, people who play video games moderately will have no impact on their grade and those who play excessively will have a negative impact.
-I agree with Andy's point; experimental research would give you better results. You could have kids who play an 1-3 hours of games and kids who play over 3 hours and then have them take an exam of some sort.
-A drawback of this could be that people who play moderately might see that there's no impact on their grade and then increase their gaming time thinking that their grades won't be affected.
-For your next step, you could test the type of games people play and see the exam results by game type."
posted on Oct 10, 2011, on the post gaming and grades"-My hypothesis would be the same as yours; people who take notes with laptops will get lower grades than people who don't use laptops.
-I don't think experimental is the best for this type of research. I think questionnaires asking the participants of their laptop usage in class combined with the grades of these participants would be better, and all anonymously of course.
-There aren't any drawbacks; in fact there could be a positive result of this research. If the hypothesis is proven correct, maybe students will take advantage of this and change their note taking ways."
posted on Oct 10, 2011, on the post would the students who use the laptop in class have a better chance of achieving a better grade?"-My hypothesis for this would be that students who are more sports involved will not be more alert and do better than those who are not involved in sports.
-I would limit my participants to those who are in sports and those who are not. Club activities could include a wide range of things and that could ruin your research.
-There are no drawbacks to this research.
-For the next step, you could compare the grades of people who have jobs vs the grades of people who aren't."
posted on Oct 10, 2011, on the post exersice and learning"-My hypothesis would be the same as yours; more holidays should result in more happiness.
-My suggestion would be to take the ethnicity of the participant into consideration. Holidays like the Lunar New Year and Rashashana aren't celebrated by everyone so that might mess up some of your results.
-I don't think there will be any drawbacks to this research; this might even improve happiness with some if the results come out to be favorable and shown to companies which will then increase holidays given to its workers. (Not really but its worth a shot.)
-Your next step could include the amount of paid sick days and relate that to happiness in accordance with your results from the previous research."
posted on Oct 10, 2011, on the post Amount of holidays and misery level."Hi Michelle! I'm actually planning on transferring to Hunter next semester haha. I'm sure your English will improve as you spend more time at Baruch, the writing center can be real helpful!
Good luck this semester!"
posted on Sep 22, 2011, on the post Hello~"Hi Nan! Glad to see you're having fun at Baruch. Good luck this semester!"
posted on Sep 22, 2011, on the post Hello!!!"Hey Anna! I'm glad you're enjoying your time here at Baruch. I'm a little jealous of your 10 minute commute to school seeing as I take a little over an hour to get to Baruch. I've played Ultimate Frisbee like twice before, its really fun! I hope you have a great semester!"
posted on Sep 22, 2011, on the post HELLO!"You seem to be a really athletic girl! I'm glad you enjoy swimming. Personally, I don't know how to swim :l. Wish you the best of luck this semester!"
posted on Sep 22, 2011, on the post Hello everyone!
