My Conference

I'm not really sure what to say about how my first multi-draft conference went. I basically talked about how my paper was going and how it was set up and i guess she liked it? She didn't really say anything else about it so i figured that i was on the right track. I think it was hard for her give me a proper conference since i didn't have a physical copy of my multi-draft. I'll remember to do that sometime. I don't really know what else to say. I guess my conference went all right? If i had a physical copy of my draft I'm sure that my conference would have went very well.

President's 2012 Budget Reveals Conflicted Priorities on Immigration

President's 2012 Budget on Immigration

Reading this blog entry made me realize that our government isn't really taking immigration seriously in regards to making it better for immigrants. The administration is giving much money to custody operations, border fencing, programs to identify immigrants in jail but the government is not giving much to programs that could reshape the immigration system. I feel that our government is helping the negative side of immigration but not the positive side of it. I don't understand why our government does these kinds of things.

Border Patrol

I thought that this article was a very good read. It made me think about immigration in our society today and what's being done to control it. I didn't really realize the extremities of what is being done until reading this article. Silko's predicament is a pretty unreasonable one. The border patrolmen took it a bit too far with the whole situation. Their treatment was unfair and unjust. The border patrolmen take their authority a bit too far and it's scary to think that they could just kill you or attack you in an instant, like in the case of Michael Elmer that Silko mentioned. A lot of the things border patrolmen have done are horrible and they seem to be extremely racist. Although this was being done to help problems with border crossing and immigration, the border patrolmen took it too far. I also agree with what Silko had to say about how there is no use and borders haven't worked. At this point in time, I don't think borders will work. Sure border patrolmen could help with immigration problem but I feel that they are too vicious to deal with and I don't think a 10 foot high steel wall will help anything either. Immigrants will always find a way to get across.

Mom: A Nurse

My mom is a nurse who works at the Atlantic City Medical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. To be more precise, she is an operating room nurse, which i think is the most difficult out of all the jobs that nurses are eligible to have. My mom helps doctors with operations and she is one of the head leaders to operate the new DaVinci surgery system. I admire my mom for what she does and she is a very hard worker. In regards to whether or not a career becomes a part of a persons identity or not, I feel that it depends on the amount of time you have had that career. It also depends on the person and whether they like their job or not. Overall i feel that it does become a part of a person's identity. It's your job and people will associate you with your career. With my mom I feel that her occupation somewhat has become part of her identity. She's been a nurse since the 1980's and she's worked very hard to be where she is at right now.  Many people know that she is a nurse and people assume she's a nurse because she is Filipino. She uses a lot of her skills to heal our family and she uses things from her career in her everyday life.

T.V Series: The Office

The office, one of many great T.V shows. The whole show revolves around people working in an office and chronicles the lives of the works from episode to episode. The show is very comedic and the show has one numerous awards. Personally, I love the show and i watch it every time it is on. It's funny and it always gives me a good laugh. The characters are hilarious and the antics the cast members get into are funny as well. I don't recall any immigrant workers in the show and i'm not really sure why. The first thing that came to my mind while thinking about this entry was maybe there aren't any immigrant workers because they're not fit to work in an office. I don't mean to sound harsh but that is the only reason i could think of. There maybe no need for immigrant workers on the show? It's kind of a tough question to answer without sounding harsh.

Stockton Colelge: Using my time wisely

My use of time during the first two weeks of this semester have been very efficient. I changed my habits from my first semester drastically in regards to studying and school work. I've spent more time on my school work and I'm on top of my school work in all my classes. Since i have a long break in between one of my classes i use that time to eat lunch quickly and finish my work. I feel like I've become a work/school obsessed during this semester though. I haven't spent as much time with my family and friends as i would like too. During my first semester it was like this, family and friends first before school. This semester, i decided that school would come first. I feel like i have managed my time efficiently in the school area but i think that my personal life, which i stated in last entry, needs a bit of improvement.