A Mentor: My Grandmother

When i was younger, I lived with my Grandmother. To be honest, I think I talk more to my Grandmother then any other family member. She taught me to always be optimistic. She always stressed three things: goals, standards, and consequences.
When I left for college, she told me "always keep my goals in mind and be open for new experiences." But along with new experiences, which can be different life situations with different people in your life, always comes with consequences. When people talk about consequences, they are usually talking about the negative ones. My grandmother always stressed that consequences can be both good and bad, they are two streets.
My Grandmother believes that in life you can't truly be happy unless you are helping others in life. One of my favorite quotes from her is "keeping goals and standards that help yourself and others is the most important thing a person can do."
When I was younger, I had this calendar in my room and it had a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr that said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" When I first saw this quotes I thought "Hey! My Grandmother used to always tell me to help others.
Another thing that my Grandmother told me was to be flexible because when people try to accomplish goals they often try to be perfect. But, no matter how perfect a person can be, something can always go room. Another quote from my Grandmother is "don't be floored by trouble." This means that no matter how bad something is, keep moving.
Growing up, I've come across A LOT of different situations that stressed me out and made things more difficult then they had to be. When I found myself in these situations I would always think about something my Grandmother said, and this is why I consider her my mentor. She is always there when I need to talk about something and she seems to always have the answer to any problem.

3rd Colloquium

The third colloquium took place in the end of November at Cramton Auditorium. The speaker of the night was Dr. Fatima Jackson. My Freshman Seminar teacher told me that this colloquium would be especially good for Biology majors, which i am.
Dr. Jackson started off the lecture by saying, "anything that impacts African Americans is a part of African American studies." She then went on to say that, "Human heterogeneity and bio cultural variability presents a change to classical racial stratification models of epidemiology and public health." Dr. Jackson spoke about people needing a new approach to comprehensively capture the nuance of human biodiversity as it relates to health. She said "models must compare cultural behavioral diversity, genetic variation, non-genetic biological differences, and be contextualized by the appropriate biological linease histories." I didn't understand anything was she was trying to say, i knew she was talking about science and she sounded very educated. However, she didn't take the time to try and explain it to the college students in the room.
Towards the end of her lecture she stated that, "methods and materials include historical assessments, geographies, appraisals, cultural reconstruction, and genetic evaluations. In closing, Dr. Fatima said evidence from molecular anthropologist genetic reveals small differences between humans. As a suggestion for her next lecture at Howard students, I would say that she should take more time to explain what she is talking about instead of putting up a slide show written in jargon.

2nd Colloquium

The 2nd Colloquium was Thursday the 29th of October and took place at Cramton Auditorium. On Thursdays I have Chemistry Recitation until 5pm and then tutoring. I was not able to go to the Colloquium because my grades in Chemistry were falling and i needed the extra tutoring to help me understand the material we were going over in class.