Author Archives: Laura
This is why I teach
Today was a good day teaching. I taught my web design students at my University of Utah class the basics of coding a web page. For most of the 16 students, this was their first experience coding a web page, and their first time connecting to a remote web server to upload files. They all [...]
I got a 4.0 last semester!
I am way excited because all my hard work during Spring semester has paid off with a 4.0! I finally got a full A in a methods class. It was a qualitative methods class, so I have finally found my research niche. This is also very cool because I am finally in a quality doctoral [...]
I have started on getting published, again
Now that I am in a quality doctoral program with quality faculty, I am free to work on research and submit papers for publication, again. You see, the first year of my doctoral work in Educational Psychology was spent working on publishing my research on pretraining to help with online training. I was successful at [...]
Katie the homework inhibiting cat
I am racing through another heavy reading weekend as I prepare for this next week’s classes. I have been reading journal articles for my Qualitative research methods class on my iPad. Katie cat decided she wanted to sit on my lap, so she first jumped up and straddled my iPad. I certainly could not see [...]
Why do mean men call beautiful women Fat?
I have a couple of new friends in my new graduate program of Communication Ph.D. at the University of Utah. I have met two fellow, beautiful Ph.D. students, Lindsay and Lexie Kite who are fighting the redefinition of beauty. Look at Barbie and marketing ads. All “beautiful” women are size 0 with perfect features. These [...]
Two-Tiered Cats – Photo Friday
Our kitties have been staying in the house the past few days because it is so cold outside. They like to hang out with me and Ray as we work on our computers at night. We have both been goofing off between semesters and getting ready to teach our Spring semester courses. I think I [...]
Photo Friday
It has been cold and snowing a lot the past few days. We have a frozen pipe, again. Every time it freezes, I pray it does not break. I took a picture of a snow drift in an upstairs window well for my home. I found it interesting that I could see the drift sit [...]
Ben’s Anime Hat
Ben had his new Anime costume show up today. It is a custom fit costume we ordered from China through eBay. The hat is too small, but he likes wearing it. I love my son very much. I am so glad he was smiling when I took this picture.
Giant Hail Storm
This morning, I woke up to a very hard-pounding hail storm. The hail stones must have been quite big because they were VERY loud hitting the sides and roof of the house. Ben’s giant pumpkins and the rest of my garden received a lot of damage. Notice all the damaged areas on his beautiful 50 [...]
Frustrated with Educational Psychology studies
I have become increasingly frustrated with my studies in educational psychology. I am no longer driven to do my research with only quantitative research methods. I believe this frustration has grown from several roots: I have an advisor who refuses to help me or back me up in my learning needs or my research needs. [...]
