Do you like riddles? Are you feeling competitive? Are you ready for a bit of harmless addiction?
Check out this link...
http://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html
This is going around the baby blog I list on and I just can't stop playing! It took me the longest time to get past level two. Now I'm currently stuck on number 9.
Let me know if you get it figured out before me!
:-)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Scholarship competition & insights into our youths' minds
This weekend at Aquinas we held our annual scholarship competition for incoming prospective freshmen. High winners get full tuition, room, and board here at Aquinas for the fall. The competition is all about brains with a writing component, a math component, and a "how well you function in a group" component. Faculty here at AQ help out with judging the group work test. Basically, three faculty listen to 7-8 students at a time while they discuss a problem put before them. We then are rating them not on their solution to the problem, but on how well they worked together to arrive at that solution.
This year's topic was to rank order problems facing the United States in the order that they should be addressed by our new president. 18 problems. It was VERY interesting to see how different groups worked with each other or not...of which students are total extroverts or introverts...of who tries to get everyone involved and who always talks to here their own voice.
It was also interesting to learn what are important concerns to these students and what is NOT too problematic to them. I always cringe to here "The environment isn't really a problem" or "If people were smart, they just wouldn't get sick and need health care" or "alternative fuels will put too many people in the oil industry out of work." In the end, of the 24 students I watched, I saw a handful of bright, level-headed, well spoken students that I hope come to AQ and major in Biology. And then I saw at least one ass student who bowled people over with his opinions, showed little respect to anyone (include us), and was, well, an ass. I'll lay down $20 that says he thinks he'll be a doctor and he'll show up in our introductory course next fall. Yeah.
So what do you all think should be addressed first out of this mini-list?
This year's topic was to rank order problems facing the United States in the order that they should be addressed by our new president. 18 problems. It was VERY interesting to see how different groups worked with each other or not...of which students are total extroverts or introverts...of who tries to get everyone involved and who always talks to here their own voice.
It was also interesting to learn what are important concerns to these students and what is NOT too problematic to them. I always cringe to here "The environment isn't really a problem" or "If people were smart, they just wouldn't get sick and need health care" or "alternative fuels will put too many people in the oil industry out of work." In the end, of the 24 students I watched, I saw a handful of bright, level-headed, well spoken students that I hope come to AQ and major in Biology. And then I saw at least one ass student who bowled people over with his opinions, showed little respect to anyone (include us), and was, well, an ass. I'll lay down $20 that says he thinks he'll be a doctor and he'll show up in our introductory course next fall. Yeah.
So what do you all think should be addressed first out of this mini-list?
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