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| I already posted about this in the newsfeed (see "Note: Thesis Update (It's not pleasant):
Advisor re...") but I felt that the character limit there was hindering my ability to properly express my feelings. I've also drafted (now sent) a response to Mary (the Honors advisor who was working with me on this case) : Hi Mary, Thank you for helping me with all of this. I also received Professor Reich’s email. In response to what Professor Reich said, I missed the deadlines because I was waiting for her feedback. For example, I began the submission process in November (11/13) for the introduction, sent a literature review in December, close to Christmas, and the methodology on January 14, which was when she replied saying what I had sent her weren’t full sections- her feedback was vague and difficult to understand, and while she made specific comments and suggestions, she didn’t exactly guide on what constituted a “full” section- having never written such a paper before, I felt somewhat lost. I eventually got overwhelmed with struggling from the lack of direction, and my friend who graduated from another honors program ended up giving me her thesis to use as a template for this draft I wrote and just finished. I understand Professor Reich herself is in Budapest, but is there anything I can do in person in Irvine to help this situation? I can drive down any day this week to discuss the situation, and really don’t want this thesis to be the only obstacle preventing me from graduating the CHP! Is there anyone else I might be able to get advising from for the thesis? I do want to get this in and finished before the new July 15th deadline. I've been accepted into the fall intake for the Multiple Subject Credential Program at CSULB and they still need an official transcript saying I've "officially graduated" from UCI. Please kindly let me know what I can do about this. I really appreciate your help with this process. Thanks, Dragon I'm just really upset about this whole situation- I mean, she's essentially messing with my future. I've gotten into CSULB for their Multiple Subject Credential program, I've already set my schedule for the fall, and I'm so ready to move on- in fact, I'm excited to start my classes because I know from here on out, the classes I take are going to be related to my job. No more GEs, no more strange philosophy teachers who are convicted of DUIs and refused admission into Canada... This thesis is literally the only thing between me and graduating from the Honors Program. Anyways, I really don't know what I can be doing about this because, yeah- after June 10, (her last email with me before she essentially dropped me, and her latest email pretty much confirms that too) SHE DIDN'T WANT TO WORK WITH ME ANYMORE. So HOW in the heck is she supposed to "meaningfully advise" me if she won't work with me? Seriously.  Like, that doesn't make sense at all.Granted, she may've gotten upset I missed the very first deadline in November by like, a day and couple hours, and then thought I was a flake because I submitted some low-quality work I didn't know was low-quality (only in May was I told that the introduction to the thesis is a giant literature review- had she told me that from Day 1, or back in January, I think things would've been a little different, no?  ) I've also gotten off the phone with Grandfather and Mom- Grandfather thinks it's discrimination. I wouldn't put it that strongly, but I also wouldn't put it past her to be discriminating against me. It's not Asian discrimination for sure, though, because I don't think the doctorate student in charge of our lab had issues with her, and she was also Chinese. *shrug* So given that, I don't think it's discrimination? Although, I don't actually know if she had any actual, international students in her cohort- like, the ones who needed to take the TOEFL to come and study here to make sure their English was competent. From what I saw, her students have mostly been of European or Western descent, soooo  Maybe it is. Who knows? Regardless, this is literally the only thing holding me back from graduating right now and I will not have it, soooo this thesis is getting signed one way or another.  |
| Respond to a current news story with your opinion. Share a link to the story if possible. https://time.com/5619999/instagram-mosseri-bullying-artificial-intelligence/  Well, there's my link.  Let's just start with, this is a very long article. So if you wanna know what's in it, but you'd like to skim, the main points are: IG is starting to make AI to counter cyberbuullying, and they're hoping Facebook (their parent company) won't cut ties with them because they (IG) are depending on their (FB's) AI systems to help with this countering. ^^ That's essentially the whole thing in a very abbreviated nutshell. I'm very happy Instagram is doing this, actually. As I mentioned in "Invalid Entry"  , a person I'd barely met in real life had decided to send me a string of somewhat harsh and pretty rude messages in response to a blog I'd posted here that mentioned meeting him and the Hi-5 cast. I did end up reporting him to Instagram, but nothing came of it because they deemed he wasn't bullying me.  Yeah, a 40-year old man (probably?) sending put-down messages about a blog post a 21-year old had written definitely isn't bullying/harassment, but whatever. Now that I'm rehashing it, actually, I remember that I reported him because what happened was this- he sent those messages, then he blocked me. Okay, whatever, right? Then he unblocks me and sends another string of messages. That is what went down. I unfortunately can't find the second string of messages anywhere. It's really weird, because it's as if it completely disappeared from existing anywhere in cyberspace- it's not in my email, it's not in my screenshots, not in my Instagram message history....Anyways. Going back to the topic of the article, I'm applauding this guy (Mosseri) for taking on this endeavor. If anything, yes, it will make me want to use Instagram more because of what he's doing with it, and use Facebook less, because of what they're not really doing. Two very powerful paragraphs in this article say: What it comes down to, according to Mosseri, is whether one thinks connecting people, and even the Internet itself, is a net benefit for humanity. “Technology isn’t inherently good or bad in the first place. It just is,” he says. “And social media, as a type of technology, is often an amplifier. It’s on us to make sure we’re amplifying the good and not amplifying the bad.” Instagram didn’t invent bullying. It’s a problem that crops up anywhere that people congregate online. Adults, from the President on down, are normalizing online abuse. Experts say that, as a society, we are failing to teach kids how the Internet works before setting them loose on it, at a time when they’re just starting to understand what it means to exert power in relationships. And they say that the fight against bullying can’t be waged by tech companies alone: there needs to be buy in from parents, schools and kids themselves. And it's so true. It's kinda like food. Food isn't particularly good or bad, but depending on what you do with it, it is what you make it to be. One scoop of ice cream won't kill you, but eating a whole tub most certainly won't be great for your health. Tying this back to tech and social media, isolated situations might not kill you, but constant reminders of what your peers are doing without you, or what celebrity is doing what, might just, if the peers know how to purposely push the right buttons. That's why my social media numbers usually stay low- I only add people who A. want to add me, or B. I'd like to know what they're up to every now and then. As for bullying, it happens everywhere, yes. I remember in elementary school, this girl (purposely) poured dirty paint-water on my hand as I was washing up, then claimed it was an accident. Her response? "Ooops! Accidents happen." I think even without hearing her tone, you can tell- that's not even a "sorry"- accident? Definitely not. So yeah, people get very creative with what "bullying" can be. Purposely including (or excluding, for that matter) someone or something in a picture can easily be some type of jab to a targeted person. And seeing that Instagram, having previously been rated worst for people's self-esteem and self-image is now getting a makeover of sorts in terms of AI, I applaud them for taking this on. It's not an easy task, as they discussed in the article, but in my opinion, it's a worthy one and one that might just be a little overdue. |
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