I did see a lot of the students in the results from the survey and the students doing a lot of work and trying to do their work and getting away from all the troubles that they go through. Students that choose to work in the dark help them be able to focus when they are doing their work in the study rooms. Just being able to not have other people like their friends bother them when they are in the middle of studying. Working in the dark while studying for an exam or test is helpful for the students. When people are in the study rooms working alone a lot of their friends would come into the study room with them and start to talk at times and kind of get away from their work. I feel like I was like an observer watching people and trying to see how people’s moods are while working. Either if their work is stressing them out or if they enjoy having their friends with them in the room to help get away from their work if it starts to stress them out a lot. I felt like an insider among my peers because I use the study rooms in the SSC and normally, I am there alone and then at times my friends are with me too at times as well. A lot of people that go to the SSC go there for all different reasons to either study or just meet their friends in the study rooms as well.
Month: March 2026
Memories held in check
Summary: Memories held in check really centers around how people can manage, suppress, and reinterpret their memories rather if it’s dealing with painful or formative memories. another main point is how people’s memories aren’t freely expressed but can be controlled or even contained.
Key terms: Redolent- strongly reminiscent or suggestive of., Manifest- clear or obvious to the eye or mind., Mementos- an object kept as a reminder or souvenir or a person or event
Discussion Points: Checks
Quotations: “I do not believe he even rode in an airplane until he was forty-six years old, for a one-time only business trip to Chicago, an event I now remember as a source of some excitement.” “Like the grid of streets in the suburban development on Long Island, New York, where I was born, my father’s neatly stacked checks map a whole postwar way of life.”
“Muddiest point(s)”: money
Chapter 5 Comparative historical research- Give Methods A Chance
Summary: Chapter 5 explains how sociologies studying the past by comparing the different places and time periods to understand why certain social patterns exist today.
Key terms: Immigration- the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Discriminatory- making or showing an unjust or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability. Gazettes- a journal or newspaper
Discussion Points: Immigration
Quotations: “For them, looking into the post was powerful because it allowed them to understand historical trajectories and how “something that might seem natural in one given setting can actually vary quite a bit across other cases”.” (ch.5 pg. 41) “A researcher could, for instance, do a similar study by looking at institutions or organizations instead of the written law.” (Ch.5 pg. 48)
“Muddiest Point(s)”: Law
- Rose: Being able to focus on myself and spend time alone.
- Thorn: Remembering to take my allergy medicine and making sure not to be behind in my classes with work.
- Bud: Going home and spending time with my family and friends.