Joys of Going to School Early

With insomnia seeping in to the body clocks of more college students by the decade, it is a true struggle to wake up in the morning let alone go to school at the traditional breakfast time in one’s time zone.  It is a struggle but still attainable.  Read on for the benefits of going to school as early as the sun is just rising and setting it’s space in the sky.

Less crowded

Campuses usually start to get crowded by past 7 or before 9 in the morning. And so being at school before those times can give you a vantage point of being able to enjoy a little of solitude and more room to walk or even glide around with your bag and books and your electronic buddies like your tablet and phone.

Fresh air

Really, really fresh air is hard to breathe nowadays and are at their finest only during the mornings.  So, if you are yearning for a good blow of wind against your face, then get up and get out of your dorm a little after six in the morning and walk to school.  The air during that time of the day is fresh and pleasing to the lungs and skin and overall well-being.

Last-minute note peeking is less stressful

We are all prone to just looking at our notes a minute or so before lectures begin and so coming to school as early as the school janitor will give us more to just to sit and go over our notes and insert those much-needed to know notes that might be part of the next lecture or a pop quiz.

No heavy traffic

This is probably one of the joys of being an early-to-bed-early-to-school college student.  Heavy traffic is a source of early morning stress to college students who commute going to school and to some extent, those who live on-campus.  The beautiful hours of 5:30 to 6:30 in the morning are free from congestion of vehicles and people walking or running around.

Howard Gardner's Visual-Spatial Intelligence

According to Howard Gardner, people who are mostly considered to have highly fostered spatial intelligence include engineers, surgeons, sculptors, visual artists and sailors. Their ability involves a perception to visualize what they see very precisely. On the other hand, these capabilities are not alike, for this reason most of them may be proficient at visual perception but they are not skilled enough to illustrate, sketch, as well as to imagine.

Typically, most of the people who are adept to spatial intelligence can formulate a patterned learning model, generate mental imagery and structure graphic representations of spatial information.

Each individual has the capacity to perceive the visual realm; but it is exceptionally significant on those people who are blind as they have no access to the visual world.

Spatial intelligence encompasses not only a mishmash of the capabilities as depicted by Gardner, but also other skills like inventiveness and utilization of motor movement. The principle of a sculptor, for instance, lies in visual-spatial intelligence. In creating any form of graphic art, a high level of compassion and understanding to its categorical acumen is prerequisite.

Popular Teen Movies of the 90's

For me the finest time happened in my life was during high school. It's gracelessly surprising to conjure stuff during this stage in details about teen angst, bullying, social alienation and first love. How can I forget that? So now, I will make an outline of five memorable best teen movies of the 90s that I really love to watch over and over again.

Clueless (1995)
Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Whatever!!!

Superficial gal Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) who doesn't care about getting high grades than wearing fab clothes in Beverly Hills high school. She makes sure being so famous, as possible; Cher is fond of playing match-maker and helping out her friends with the latest trend in fashion. Apart from it, she's also amicably searching for a perfect boyfriend.

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
For the class of 1998, the last night of high school is the first night of the rest of their lives.

It's about self-exploration of teen world boozed with sex and liquor. Can't Hardly Wait revolves around an eclectic group of teenagers from Huntington Hills High attending in a graduation party and things develop revealing their secret crushes, kicking off a sweet vengeance on a lifelong bully and engaging in sexual experimentation.

American Pie (1999)
Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets pie.

The hilarious teenage flick American Pie stands out in my memory because four teenage friends enter a pact to get some girls and lose their virginity before the prom night. But the conflict was "how will they reach their objective before they graduate?"

Cruel Intentions (1999)
In the game of seduction and betrayal, how far will you go?

This is the sexiest teen movie that I've ever watched because I've turned on some of the steamy scenes, lastly for the reason that it's well acted. LOL It's a wonderfully twisted tale of wealthy teenagers; a manipulative lass Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar), her step-brother Sebastian (Ryan Philippe) and the virgin Annette (Reese Witherspoon).

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out Of My Face.

It's worth watching for the fact that Heath Ledger starred on this teenage film even if it's quite predictable. 10 Things I hate About You is based upon on William Shakespeare’s comedy play "The Taming of the Shrew"

Allowance and Math: Perfect Combination to Teach Math to Kids

When a pre-schooler gets a humble amount of money as allowance, this is your perfect opening to teach them math – a subject that most students, and even adults seem to stay away from as much as possible.

Just like writing essays, teaching math to kids is a task that parents should not solely leave to teachers.  It is a task that everyone should pitch in order for kids to fully understand the subject.  And here are some ways to blend the two and create a financially responsible and possible mathlete child.

Be detailed when it comes to giving them their weekly allowance

The amount should not be that dig, especially if they are like five or six years old.  Having money in their hands and teaching them how to handle it through math will instill in them a sense of responsibility and accountability.  Teaching them the ropes of addition and subtraction will make them aware of what happens when they spend money that is given to them.

Write down an allowance plan with them

Don’t use an excel sheet for this task, just write it in a piece of colorful paper with a pencil or a crayon. Then post it in the fridge or in their room so that they know that the whole family is watching how they spend their allowance.  Knowing that everybody knows how much they were given and how much of it should they spend and where they should be spent on will instill in them a sense of honesty and transparency.

Monitor how they actualize that allowance plan

Tracking how they abide with the allowance plan will then give you the chance to teach how adding money and spending it is related to math – a subject they will have to learn all throughout the first half of the lives.  They will unknowingly learn about the four basic mathematical operations-  addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division – when  trying to work around their meagre allowance as pre-schoolers.

Battling Homework Overload in 3 Steps

In today’s competitive academic setting, teachers are now giving tons of homework for students to devour on a daily basis.  The rationale behind this homework surge is that students need to always on their guard and learn as many things as school time permits.

When homework overload is not managed, students can feel drained and tired and might grow weary of studying.  If you are about to experience or is on the brink of giving up on a mountain- sized of homework.

Come up with a planner

A planner is like an organizer which will allow you to put your homework into perspective.  You will be able to organize which assignments should be completed on a certain day.  In writing in your planner, which can be anything such as notebook or a calendar,  you have to evaluate which homework takes precedence over the others in terms of difficulty, because the harder the assignment is, the longer should it take time for you to finish which means it will eat up more days or hours in your planner.

Seek outside help

Getting assistance from homework help websites, family or friends or other learned people can make your mountain of homework more tolerable and easier to finish in due time. Just make sure that seek help in advance, not when the homework are due for tomorrow or something for that will only bring additional stress on your part and that person you sought help from.

Stick to the plan

No matter what circumstances occur, stick to the homework plan.  Avoid procrastinating, your plan will be useless if you put off doing homework that should be done today, tomorrow.  Even if you feel lazy, get on with doing your homework.  Committing to your homework planner will pay off in the end.  Accomplishing it hours before daybreak will have health and emotional and academic consequences.

Most Broadcasted Murdered Students

An Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong was murdered in Tokyo after attending from Nicki Minaj concert. Two of her newly found friends were charged with quasi forcible indecency, as they were being held by the law enforcement for interrogation. Nicola Furlong is a 21-year-old Business and Language student at Dublin City University; she had been studying overseas for one-year exchange programme at the Takasaki City University of Economics. According to Japan's Mainichi reports, "An autopsy says that Furlong was likely strangled on May 24th." The investigation of Nicola Furlong's murder still continues.

There are more other related stories of murdered students that were garnered great media coverage throughout the world. Let’s take a look of other undergraduates who were bump off to death.
 

Dru Sjodin
Suspect: Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.
She was born on September 26, 1981; Dru Katrina Siodin is a student of the University of North Dakota (UND). She’s a Gamma Phi Beta sorority member. A 50-year-old suspect Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., a registered level 3 sex offender, was under arrest due to Siodin’s disappearance. The UND undergraduate’s body was discovered on April 17, 2004. Her body was found partially unclothed, stabbed, sexually assailed, and had several slashes on neck.
 

Brooke Wilberger
Suspect: Joel Patrick Courtney
A student from the State of Oregon was kidnapped and later murdered by Joel Patrick Courtney. Brooke Carol Wilberger’s disappearance was reported by the national media. The suspect kept Brook Carol alive throughout the night of May 24, 2004 before sexually attacking her the following day. Joel Patrick smacked her to death when she attempted to fight off. Wilberger’s case was one of the most broadcasted murder investigations in Oregon history.
 

Taylor Behl
Suspect: Benjamin Fawley
She was a 17 year- old first year college student from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Taylor Marie Behl disappeared about two weeks later on Labor Day. VCU authorities found her remains on a rural area in Mathews County, Virginia. The police narrowed down the track of the suspect Benjamin Fawley through a social media called MySpace. It also steered the crime squad to Behl’s body.
 

Michelle Gardner-Quinn
Suspect: Brian Rooney
Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted on October 7, 2006. She was an undergraduate student of University of Vermonth. A surveillance camera captured her and Brian Rooney heading north on Richmond.  A week after her disappearance, an examination revealed that she had been sexually assailed, beaten and strangled. Her dead body placed along the highway in the nearby town of Richmond.
 

Morgan Dana Harrington
Suspect: Unknown
Her death remains mystery and unresolved, Morgan Dana’s body was found after three months of her disappearance.  She was a 20 year-old Virginia Tech undergraduate who went missing from a Metallica concert. She’s wearing a Pantera tee when she was discovered outside of an apartment building not far away from the showground of the concert. 

Most Scandalous Teacher-Student Relationships

As a decree in academe, lecturers should discipline students. A great educator inspires his or her students in a right and proper approach in demonstrating wisdom and optimism, by means of awakening the minds of each individual in classroom.
 
On the contrary, in pocketbooks and novels that deviating school policies, there are customarily tales encompassing “teachers and students relationship”. Fabricated romantic stories surrounding instructors who take advantage the innocence of his/her pupil and so forth…

In real life, there are much more head-in-the-clouds fairytales arising in lecture halls. There’s a recent news item about an 18-year-old junior high school student in Manhattan Theater Lab High School named Eric Arty who was caught in camcorder lip-locking his 26-year-old Global Studies instructor Julie Warning in a park in New York. The high-school senior was videotaped and made headlines on tabloids while kissing his sexy teacher. He explained that he just won a bet with four of his pals, a stake to get bang and hook up first with their scorching hot mentor.

 
The appalling teacher will not face any immoral charges for the reason that Eric Arty (the teacher’s pet) is not a minor as he’s over the age of consent.  However, the student contends that Julie Warning wasn’t the lady he was photographed with in daily journal’s front page.

It seems like this teacher-student romance is somewhat rampant these days. But not all issues are for short term bond, just like the love affair in in Manhattan Theater Lab High School, there were more starry-eyed Teacher-Student stories indicated below that will certainly ruminate everyone whether it’s apt or not.
 

 
Christopher James Hooker and Jordan Powers
Christopher James Hooker left his family to go out with his former business class student Jordan Powers. The 41-year-old ex-teacher was arrested and charged sexually assaulting other student in 1998, aside from the 18-year-old Jordan Powers. Their inappropriate affair began in late-night phone calls and sweet text messages, which arose before the young lass turned 18. Hooker appeared on national TV programs and leading broadsheets to profess his admiration to Powers.
 

 
Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau
A 43-year old schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau joined in matrimony with her student 22-year-old Vili Fualaau after 7 years in jail for having an illicit affair with a minor. Their sexual relationship started when Letourneau was 34 year old while Fualaau was 13. The blond-haired ruggedly built lad claimed that they had sex 300 to 400 times throughout the school year, and this scandal has shattered tremors among their families and friends, and also the whole nation.
 

 
Brenton Wuchae and Windy Hager
Meanwhile in North Carolina, a 16 year old South Brunswick HS student Windy Hager get hitched with her 40 year old former coach Brenton Wuchae. The latter couldn’t find any reasons to terminate him as a trainer; he shortly quitted his position and married the sophomore student Hager who is also the one of the top runners in South Brunswick.
 

 

Natasha Finley, 16, attests in courtroom that she desires to be with Robert Swalstad, 31, far right, her spouse and former instructor.

Robert M. Swalstad and Natasha Finley
Ex-teacher Robert M. Swalstad, 31, was jailed for six months after having a forbidden relationship with a 15 year-old Columbia High School freshmen student Natasha Finley. He was convicted to a single gross misdemeanor charge of communication with a minor for immoral purposes and should enlist as a sex offender. Swalstad and Finley got married after the teenager became pregnant with their first child.
 

 
Lorraine Belmont and Matthew Clark
Science teacher Lorraine Belmont (33) and second year student Matthew Clark (16) have allegedly started off an affair sexually. Some eyewitnesses have defined it as being a bit congenial and undeniably pleasing to watch. According to some campus officials, their clandestine romance is the greatest thing for both of them.