Blue Monday

Feeling somewhat depressed or blue is something that any human being can understand and relate to. Another commonly used term for it is feeling like a Monday. “Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night” is a single by American Rock band Bon Jovi, and taken from their greatest hits album Cross Road. The song writer is John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. also known as Bon Jovi, Jr who was born on March 2nd, 1962. This is a very profound song about optimism in the face of adversity. The first couple of song’s verse introduces the characters of unemployed Jim who struggles and is forced to sleep in his car, and Billie-Jean who was abused by her foster father and has turned to prostitution at the age of sixteen. The song refers to life, luck and survival, looking forward to when times are better never losing hope or optimism. In the beginning, the song talks about taking one day and night at a time meaning to keep calm and to stay positive. The first two lines of the song read: “Hey, man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time/ I’m feelin’ like a Monday but someday I’ll be Saturday night.” In these two lines of the piece the writes is very clear and…

So we need to work on this as a group. But other times I ask the group for specific evaluations and I see that these are extremely important for the growth of the group. After this Monday self-evaluations something really changed, the entire group had much more energy and much more balanced participation on Wednesday and even better on Friday. On Friday we had specific peer-to-peer evaluation and I hope it was useful to know how other group member perceive your help in the learning process. Last…

Please forgive my typos. It’s late. 1. What percentages of your events are created in ERS vs. somewhere else? -None because each of the 14-18 mentors we hire each semester must host 2 events per month and that would mean you would have that number of students logging into the system; while I could designate 1-2 students or my GA to post events on the ERS system for the PM’s, I think since we do so many, unless I could have my own section for our program, it might get confusing for students…

out to those who participate in Dream Job pictures. A location to hang the poster of dream job pictures must be located. Lastly, we will be locating the best places to set up a resume kiosk for students that will be done during the spring semester. We have split the project into two parts effectively: The first part, due December 1st includes the prop prototype design and classes where career services can find seniors. The second part, due December 12th, includes prospective locations for…

from this experience! They are wonderful, little lepidopterists! (Ask your kindergartner! They know what that word means!) We are learning to sort and graph using a variety of objects. We have sorted and graphed shapes and fruit loops, and next week we will be graphing M&M’s! We are ready to learn our second math game! We are learning the Pledge of Allegiance and why it’s important. In Art class, the students are reviewing art room procedures, and they created their own art piece after…

physical state (she appears to have lost a significant amount of weight), and her mental state (depressive, withdrawn) that steps should be taken to possibly ensure she is able to continue working . In a follow up email, I requested that I be able to speak with Ms. Walker on Monday…

pregnant. It became hard for me to work long hours every day and being pregnant. I had a wonderful successful pregnancy, but I was constantly feeling drained. I ended up failing two classes because it was too late to drop them and that brought my GPA down very low. After that, I took a break to focus more on my son and work. I try to have a set schedule for my school work and still take care of my son. If I have any assignments due on Thursday and the following week Monday, I start my…

Tonight Maya actually brought in homework to work on! Generally, when she comes in she does not have any, even though she is missing quite a few assignments in her classes. Then, when she brought in her homework once before, I was told after that I could not help her with it. The weeks following, she was not bring in anything else and we would talk. Despite that the homework was not for her biology class—considering she is missing the most assignments from there— I was still glad that she was…

1. What are your first thoughts when you hear Harris’ goals? Ans: Harris’ goals are unrealistic at this stage secondary to injury he has suffered which is T3 complete spinal cord injury and resultant paraplegia. Paraplegia is defined as complete paralysis of lower extremities and possible trunk region as well (Spinal Injury Network, n.d.). 2. What do you say in response? Ans: I will educate Harris’ on his injuries to increase insight to his deficits. I will handle situation very delicately.…

could not positively contribute to the group. Weeks went by and we had not decided on what conflict we were going to do. As we only had one week left, I made the executive decision to begin rallying the troops. Allie, Mackenzie and I decided to do the conflict about my team two weeks before the project was due. Ben was absent from class that class. Once we decided upon a skit, we did not talk again until a week later when I sent an email prompting all of the members to contribute to a google…