Tonight, I made dinner for my roommates by using the skills that I learned in my Cooking Class this week.  I made a delicious frittata and it turned out great.  I was really happy that I learned how to make this in foods class and all of my roommates and friends loved it!  I also had lemon poppyseed muffins.  This shows just how important it is to keep learning about as much as you can, you never know when you will need the knowledge!  Here are some pics:

Hugh Nibley: “If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he’ll do if he comes. He’ll just quote the scriptures to you—so you’re wasting your time waiting for what we already have.”

I love this quote from our readings online and it really made me think.  Many people pray for a manifestation or an angel to come to them and to tell them that God is real and that faith is sure.  This quote assures all that the scriptures hold everything we need in them and more.  The rest of the talk was excellent but this was my favorite part.

Brigham Young said: “There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.”²⁴ It would be punishment enough to go to hell and not hear a note of music for all eternity.

This quote just speaks to me because I love music and I could never live without it.  I think constantly about what a world without music or sound would be like and I shudder at the prospect.

The paper about Indian culture is also very interesting.  The idea that organization just creates chaos is really mind-boggling.  But I do believe that organization is good in many ways.  For instance, the Church could not run as it does without the organization that it has now and maybe, if everyone lived like the Indians, it would be ok but not everyone does and so organization keeps things running.

Education in Zion

For my assignment this week, I went to see the Education in Zion exhibit at the JFSB.  It had lots of stories and quotes about the rise of church academies and the fall that came after.  It talked about the struggles between science and religion and the horrible things that occurred due to this.  Teachers were fired, students enraged, and the public was in uproar.  But the University pulled through all of this and emerged into the world-class establishment it is today.  The exhibit also spoke about the creation of seminary and institute and it was very interesting to learn all about it.  Here are some pictures of the exhibit itself:

Mapworks Survey

I took that mapworks survey for my class and it asked me lots of questions regarding my study and friend personality and my habits at school.  When I got the results, it told me that I needed to focus more on the quality of my study time than just the quantity.  It also told me that I was among most of the students when I said that I wanted to graduate in the next 6 years.

In reading these results and the many other results that the survey offered, I felt better about where I am as a student and I think that I will be able to do well this year because of the hard work that I am putting in already.  I also know that if I just improve a little more, I could excel even more and I could get more out of school this year.

Metacognition

By definition Metacognition is "thinking about thinking." ;D

~Think about thinking and how it affects your academic success

~Understand personal way of thinking about and walking through assignments

~Self-awareness (regulate your thinking and monitor your progress)

~Increase skills that support you in becoming a disciple-scholar

~4 key steps:

          ·       Identify the assignment

·      Determine an initial approach (identify knowledge, skills, learning, strategies you already know)

·      Monitor yourself as you work

·      Evaluate your work

After we took these notes, we discussed these steps to metacognition and how it could help us clear our minds when we are stressed.

Also, we took a survey on MyMap that asked us questions about us and our daily lives.   With the results of this survey, the website told us about our study techniques and about where we could use some help.  It was an interesting survey that compared my habits to those of other BYU students.