Final blog

Looking back on my time at Buckley, a lot has changed and this school has really shaped the person that I am and has had a huge impact in my life. It feels like yesterday that it was the first day of 7th grade and I was walking on to my brand new school. The friends and the memories I've had at this school are endless. The teachers and faculty have always been there supporting me every step of the way. I remember all the times of the middle school bar mitzvahs to the dances we would have. I'll never forget the times I've had in high school on the basketball team and all the memories of playing in front of all the students and faculty back when I was only a freshman. To all of the friends and people I have been friends with throughout high school, I enjoy all the time I spend with them and know that these are such great people, every single one of my friends, especially the ones that I've become close to this year. I know my buckley family will always be there for me. Thank you Buckley for giving me such an incredible middle and high school life.

college

I am going to bring a lot of things to college.  Most importantly I will bring my phone, laptop and i pad to college.  Those are the most important things to bring.  I will need my phone to see whats happening around campus, my laptop to work and my ipad to have fun.  I will also need to bring a lot of cloths and different outfits for school, but im not worried cause I can always go home.  I will bring a lot of books to read for pleasure.  I will bring my gym cloths as well as my tennis shoes and possibly a tennis racquet, cant forget my basketball shoes either.  I cant forget my sunglasses for all of those hot sunny days in LA.  I will bring the normal toiletries along with my favorite towel that has my initials on it.  Most importantly Im going to bring myself, someone who is willing to have a fun time as well as go and work hard and someone who loves meeting new people and learning new things everyday.

NBA PLAYOFFS

Its game one between Chicago and Philidelphia and Derrick Rose was running down the court then he went for the ball, and BAM!!! he goes down in agony.  The best player in the NBA on the best team in the NBA goes down as he watches his team luckily win.  Rose found out after the game that he had torn his ACL and is out for 6 months.  This could have been the worst thing that had happened to the Bulls.  Their best player is out and they need to win 3 more games to move on.  Their chances of winning the championship was gone.  This was very unfortunate blow to the team that was clearly the best team throughout the regualr season.  But we also saw an improbable comback by the Los Angeles Clippers who havent won a series since 2006.  They were down 27 in the end of the third quarter when all of a sudden chris paul and blake griffin rally the team together with nick youngs three point shooting to come back and stun the Memphis Grizzles at home.  This was one of the greatest comebaks in NBA playoff history.

NHL PLAYOFFS

If you were going to tell me in the beginning of the year that the LA Kings and the Pheonix Cyotes were going to meet each other in the Western Conference Finals.  I would have thought you were crazy.  I dont think anyone would have thought that two teams from the Pacific divsion, the worst divsion in Hockey, would produce the two teams that play for a chance for the Stanley Cup.  With a coaching change for the kings and the possibility of the coyotes moving from pheonix, both temas futures were in peril.  But somehow, both teams mustured up the strength to move through the playoffs.  With the kings dispatching the top team overall in all of hockey, the Canuks and then the road didnt get easier as the kings had to play the second best team in the West in the St. Louis Blues.  The kings have been playing the best hockey all season and the Cyotes have had to beat the blackhawks and the predators.  This is going to be a wild series.

GE requirements

Category 1:Western Cultures and Traditions
                 American the New Frontier, and the New West
                 The American Expericence Cultral Forms and Values 1

Category 2: Global Cultures and Traditions
                  The Worlds of the Silk Roads

Category 3: Scientific Inquiry
                  Cellular and Molecular Biology
                  Fundamental of Physics I: Mechanics and Thermodynamics
                  Advanced general Chemisty

Category 4: Science and its Significance
                  The Science of Happiness
                  The origins of the Mind

Category 5: Arts and Letters
                  Studies in Arts and Letters

Category 6: Social Issues
                  The Holocaust
                  Collective Identity and Political Violence: Representing 9/11
                 
Category 7: Diversity
                   Los Angeles and the American Dream
                   Sports, Communication, and Culture

usc plagerism

Student Integrity and Plagiarism
The USC reference guide, Trojan Integrity, provides a comprehensive explanation of how to identify and confront academic dishonesty among students. The guide also outlines the necessary steps for formally reporting plagiarism or cheating by a student, if his or her behavior merits such action.

Within the USC academic community, the more egregious acts of academic dishonesty – purchasing papers, cheating on exams, copying lab reports – are generally rare, yet it is the responsibility of the instructor to be alert to such possibilities and to create a learning environment in which such acts are openly discouraged and, if identified, appropriately punished. More likely, however, an instructor will encounter more subtle acts of academic dishonesty, many of which are conducted unwittingly by students who have yet to gain the necessary tools of effective research or proper time management.

It is the role of all instructors, therefore, to educate students on what constitutes cheating and plagiarism, to set a clear policy for how academic dishonesty will be handled, and to teach the value of maintaining academic integrity in one’s work. Examples of academic dishonesty, as outlined in SCampus, include the following:

Plagiarism:

• Submission of someone else’s work as one’s own, whether the material is paraphrased or copied verbatim.
• Improper acknowledgment of sources in essays or papers.
• Unauthorized collaboration:
• Submission of material that has been edited or revised by another person that results in substantive changes in content or style.
• Unauthorized collaboration on a project, homework, or other assignment.

Cheating:

• Any use of external assistance in the completion of an academic assignment and/or during an examination (unless permitted by the instructor), including communicating with fellow students during an exam, allowing another student to copy from an exam, possession or use of unauthorized notes, calculator, or other materials, and any instruments that can convey exam answers, such as cell phones.
• Submission of altered work after grading, including changing answers after an exam or assignment has been graded and returned.
• Obtaining for oneself or for another person a solution to homework or other assignments, or a copy of an exam or exam key without the expressed consent of the instructor.
• Using an essay, term paper, or project in more than one course without permission of the instructors of both courses.
• Taking a course or completing any coursework for another student, or allowing another individual to take a course, or complete coursework in one’s stead.

college research

At USC, especially at Marshall, I have a total of 128-134 credits that I have to fulfill throughout my 4 years at USC.  In these 128-134 credits that i need to fulfill, I have 36 GE credits that I have to fulfill, these 32 credits are classes that every USC students have to take in order to graduate.  These include classes such as western civilization (history), I have to take a science class, as well as a writing class.  Also I need to take an art class as well.  I have 48 credits of core Marshall classes that i need to take in order to graduate, these classes include a wide variety of business classes such as finance, accounting, marketing, and leadership and organization. I then have 12 Marshall upper division electives that I have where I can take whatever electives that I want from Marshall in order to supplement my concentration.  Then i have 32 credits for my minor/electives that I have to fulfill in order to graduate.  This can include any of the USC minors that are listed which would mean that I would then study in a different school other than Marshall. I am going to most likely take classes in the school of Public Policy and Planning.