Category Archives: Students

Students

How to Thank a Professor

As the end of the semester approaches, it’s time to think about thanking those who have contributed to your learning, including your professor.

Unlike K-6 education, professors aren’t used to receiving cards, gifts, or even thanks. Therefore, if you decide to offer these, your instructor will likely be surprised and delighted. At minimum, please consider sending an email of appreciation to your instructors. Its means a lot to us.

Here are some suggestions from The Clever Student, http://thecleverstudent.com/?p=223

Students

Managing Your Communication Anxiety

Learn how to manage your speaking apprehension through the Oral Communication Center.

Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety Workshop

  • Identify your level of public speaking anxiety.
  • Learn techniques to manage nervous habits.

Tuesday, October 16
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
CM 363 NOVA’s Annandale Campus
RSVP to occ@nvcc.edu by October 9th.

Students

Barbie – What a Doll?

I’m reading about a woman, Valeria Lukyanova, who is a Ukranian model. According to New York Daily News writer , Ms. Lukyanova has had some surgery.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/real-life-barbie-heats-internet-a-hoax-article-1.1066314

Search You Tube and you will find several “Barbie Transformational Tutorials.”

Hamilton College student Galia Slayen writes in the Huffington Post, that “If Barbie were an actual woman, she would be 5’9″ tall, have a 39″ bust, an 18″ waist, 33” hips, and a size 3 shoe. Slayen estimates Barbie would weigh 110# and have a BMI of 16.24.  She would have anorexia and have to walk on all fours because her legs couldn’t support her. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/galia-slayen/the-scary-reality-of-a-re_b_845239.html

What messages are we giving our girls about their bodies?