With the end of another semester nearing brings me to the realization that time flies and you can never take it back. This semester was extremely eventful and very positive for me. I was accepted into UI’s dietetics program, inducted into the Phi Upsilon Omicron honors society, attended the MANRRS national conference in Denver and became a CALS Ambassador. All of these events have been very enjoyable and have taught me how to multitask and plan my weeks and months before they arrive! Along with these events, my classes have been very fun. My microbiology class is very interesting and has an interactive lab to accompany it while my foods class allows me to be creative with my projects. Overall, this semester has been very productive and gratifying. Although I am always sad to leave Moscow, this summer will allow me to unwind and prepare for fall semester, which will be here in a blink of an eye!
With the start of a new semester comes excitement and enthusiasm for new classes and familiar faces. This semester started off well for me, with five classes and three labs, I stay busy everyday. Along with my challenging classes, I am applying to the Coordinated Program in Dietetics this spring. The dietetics application is very extensive and culminates with an interview at the end of March, which is another experience I will be preparing myself for in the upcoming month. Other than my wonderful classes and dietetics application, I have had the privilege to attend the etiquette dinner on February 12 th. This was a great opportunity to learn how to dress for success, endure an interview dinner and catch up with fellow MSP students about their winter breaks and classes. With all the fun and excitement the semester has brought to the table, it feels great to know spring break just around the corner!
MEET JOSE G. ALCOCER
This year, my experience here at the University of Idaho has been great. I am taking a really fun course in genetics related to my major, as well as a course where I’m learning the American history of film. In this class we watch a Hispanic film every week during the evenings and afterwards discuss the main ideas behind the film.
Right now, I am really exited about the trip that I will be taking to Washington D.C. through the Multicultural scholarship that I received from the College of Agriculture. During this trip I hope to gain more knowledge and as well as being able to network with other students and professors around the nation. I will also be taking another trip to Austin, TX where I will be presenting my research that I have worked on over the summer. This is a national conference held for biomedical minority students from all over the nation.
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MEET MANUEL F. DIAZ-GONZALEZ
This semester, besides academics, I pretty much been involve mostly in sports, the only organization that I went to meetings regularly was the ASABAE. I have a lot fun playing intramural sports, with ambassadors as well with my classes. I am doing better than last semester in my grades and I work my first real paper for 2 classes. Also this semester I took 7 of my very good friends to Puerto Rico where we have a life changing experience. For the summer I am looking forward to work in soils research and go camping, fishing and play softball.
This semester has been a very interesting and entertaining one for me, I am having a ton of fun and I’m doing decently in classes. I’m the kind of person that really likes to be busy reason why so far (7 weeks on the semester) I am playing many sports with different teams. This semester I am a Resident Assistant over the LLC CNR house which also keeps me really busy; with the CNR house teams of intramural sports I am playing whiffle ball, softball, volleyball, dodge ball, flag football and coaching the soccer team. I still the president of the Latin American and Iberian Student association and with them I am playing soccer in the intramural sports. I am a CALS Ambassador this semester too, so with them I was pretty busy during Ag Days and with some meetings, also with the Ambassadors/Agribusiness club I played softball in the Ag Days Softball Tournament. I love to play softball, that my favorite sport among all the ones that I am playing right now, so I am also playing with the Army Bratz Team on the Moscow Parks and Recreation Fall Softball League. In classes I am doing well I got mostly A’s and B’s in the first round of test, and I am having 13 credits right now, I am taking some interesting classes like Forestry, remote Sensing of the Environment, Engineering Circuits Analysis and Engineering Analysis and Design. About CALS Ambassadors, I am having a great time, I kind of start with the left foot but now I’m switching to the right, I have such a good partners and what we do as Ambassadors is fun and useful. About the been a Resident Assistant, everything is going very well, my residents are very good and not needy at all, and besides the first 2 weeks everything have been peaches and cream.
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MEET RUDY SHEBALA
To say that the fall, 2007, semester has been an adventure for me is an understatement. My semester started a week late. My second hour class of my first day began with a quiz. My second day of class in my first hour class was not any more accommodating as it also began with a quiz. I had to hit the ground running. I didn’t have a choice. I did not give myself easy choices. I chose to be a full time college student and this is what it is all about. My classes as a senior in the College of Agricultural and Life Science’s, Animal and Veterinary Science program are so full of information. My education this fall includes courses that cover tools used for management of financial capital on farms, ranches, and other agribusiness operations. I have tracked the myelin sheath of a multipolar neuron during Anatomy and Physiology and have met the challenges of reproductive physiology in my Animal and Veterinary Science 452 class. I have learned that my purebred Akhal-Teke stallion is a minimum splash white overo. I am thankful to my tutors, graduate students who are Teacher Assistants, my professors, and the Deans of the College of Agricultural and Live Sciences and the Animal and Veterinary Sciences department for their continued support of my efforts to succeed as a student.
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MEET RACHEL SANDFORD
One of the things that I most appreciate about the University of Idaho is the willingness of the faculty to help students. It was a little frightening to walk into a lecture hall for the first time this year, to have no clue about what to expect or what was expected of me. Most of my understanding of college life had come from the media, where college professors are most often portrayed as harsh and difficult to please. What I have found at the University of Idaho is exactly the opposite. My professors are eager and willing to help me in any way possible. I feel that here my success in learning comes first. One of just many examples I could give is that of my chemistry lab instructor. He is always willing to answer any and all of my questions about chemistry, and on a normal lab night it is not uncommon for him to stay late with a student and explain a concept again and again until the student understands it. After he has explained something to me, my most common response is, "Oh, that is so easy!" My experience with the University of Idaho thus far has been incredible, in large part due to the dedication and service of the U of I staff.
On November 17, 2006 I went to Memory Drives This Bus: Tools & Tips for Faster, Easier, More Effective Study, which is one in part of the college success series offered by the Tutoring & Academic Assistance Programs. I learned about the way that our brain processes information and ten steps to better memory. I had fun putting the tips that I had learned, one of them being to associate a topic with something bizarre, into practice. We played a game where we had a minute to look at a list of words grouped into two, then one half of the words were taken away, and we had to remember what words were grouped with the words remaining. I was surprised at how fun and easy it was to remember all of the words by using this tip. For example one of the word groupings was diamond and house, which I associated with having to have a diamond wedding ring in order to have a house. It made studying like a game and helped me to realize that learning is my own process, and it doesn't matter how I remember things, just so long as I learn the concept and it makes sense to me.
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