Should the SRC be open 24/7?

By Samantha McLean

Abstract:

In this experiment students were asked questions about when they work out, when they have time to workout, and when they prefer to work out. This experiment was done to find out if the SRC’s hours worked out for students. The questions were asked to compile data about when students were free to see when the SRC should be open. In this experiment it was found that most students are free during the evening and prefer to workout then too.  As a result to the findings the SRC should consider staying open a little bit later for students.

Introduction:

As of today the SRC is only open from 630am-11pm Monday through Thursday, 630am-10pm on Fridays, 11am-7pm on Saturdays, and 1pm-9pm on Sundays. Many students here at the University of Louisville love to go to the gym, so the SRC was added to the University’s campus so students could have a free facility to use. Well most students have other obligations besides going to the gym, like work, school, other campus activities, etc. With that when do students have time to use this great facility? That’s why this experiment was done, to show that this facility should be open all the time for students just like a normal gym would be.

This current research could be extended through the whole campus to compile information about the SRC to see when the average student was available. This can then be used to show the University that the SRC should be treated like any other gym and be open and available to students all the time.

Methods:

Participants-

All were currently full time students at the University of Louisville. 1 works full time, 17 work part time, and 16 don’t have a job.

A survey was posted and students were asked to answer a few questions. The first question was, When do they have free time for the gym? Next was, When do they prefer to workout?, Third was Should the SRC be open 24/7? And lastly, If the SRC was open all the time, would you use it more?

Results:

Table 1 shows that most students prefer and have time for the gym later at night. It Also shows that the majority of the students asked agreed with the statement that the SRC should be open 24/7. The average of students who currently have a job was 52.94% and 48.06% do not currently have a job. 20.59% have free time before 5pm and 38.23% prefer to workout before 5pm. Whereas 79.41% have free time after 5pm and 61.77% prefer to workout after 5pm. This suggests that maybe students have classes and work during the day, so they are not able to go to the gym. The findings overall suggest that the majority of students has more time after 5pm to workout and they prefer to workout then too.

Table 1

Participant	Average who currently have a job	Have free time before 5pm	Have free time after 5pm	Prefer to workout before 5pm	Prefer to workout after 5pm	Average amount of students that agree with the statement “the SRC should be open 24/7”
Student	52.94%	20.59%	79.41%	38.23%	61.77%	27.2

Discussion:

This study shows that most students have time and prefer to workout after 5pm.  The majority of the students asked also agreed with the statement “The SRC should be open 24/7.” These findings could be expanded throughout the whole campus to get a better idea of the actual majority of students that would agree with that statement. If this study was to be further expanded the University would probably consider having the gym open longer for the facility to be used to its full potential. The University already makes the SRC out to be like any other gym they have everything a normal gym like planet fitness has, from great locker rooms to having group fitness classes. The University should really consider changing its hours especially for the weekends, because that’s when most of the students have the most time.

Reflection

This paper was kind of interesting. I enjoyed researching my topic because it was something that actually I was actually interested. I came up with my topic after choosing many different topics. Then I was watching TV one day and a comercial about Michelle Obama's campagin came on. That commercial inspired me to pick this topic and to find out more about how the government is influencing societys diet. To write this paper first I looked up information on the internet. Then I made an outline using the information I found. After that my piece came together. After submitting my first draft and reading the comments I was quite confused. Then I re read my paper again and found out some places that needed fixing. For me that was the hardest part. I am one of those people who after writing a paper can't find anything wrong with it. For this assignment I think peer review wouldve been prety helpful to me, just because I like to get a lot of opinions on my papers. This paper was a lot different from the first paper because in the first paper you were telling the audience information you weren't persuading them to pick a side where in this paper the goal of an argument is to get your auidence to agree with you. The first paper had no argument it was just information about a topic.

Outline

Samantha Mclean
Outline
English 102
3/6/15


I. Introduction
a. Description of topic

II. Body
a. American Diet
b.Why they should have a say
c. Why they should not & Government regulated meals
d. My opinion
III. Body 2
a. Obesity in the states
b. Fast food industry
c. Does population care

IV. Conclusion
a. Summary of topic

Is global climate change man made?


I picked this topic because it is a biology topic but also one of the most controversial arguments of today. Not only have we heard about global warming but we are starting to see it actually happening in the world today. I think this topic is very interesting because i can see both sides of the argument. Global warming could be due to all the pollution making the ozone layer thinner causing global warming. But then i see the side of the earth getting sucked in the sun's gravity making it closer to the sun as a natural thing causing everything to become warmer. Im really exciteted to do this paper and think it could be a very interesting topic.

Informational Report

Samantha McLean

English 102

Informational Report

            My report is about writing in the Biology field compared to writing in the English field. To learn about the differences I interviewed my brother Robert McLean who is a scientist, and my Biology TA. I also gathered information from online. Two academic sources and two nonacademic sources. In this report I will discuss the main differences between writing a piece in Biology compared to English.

            Writing in English is what we were originally taught to do way back in Elementary school. A teacher would give you a topic and told you just to write what ever came to your head when you heard those words. Fairly easy right? Well, getting older writing in English becomes more difficult. You learn how to write different types of paper. You’re probably thinking what different types of papers? Writing in English is easy all you do is express your thoughts. Well you’re wrong. In English there are many different styles you learn like; literary narratives, rhetorical analysis, argumentative analysis, summaries, book reports and many more. Writing in English is all about placing all the right sentences into one big piece. Or looking at something like a book or picture and trying to think what the author was thinking, and what they were meaning. If you take any course its going to be all about grammar and essay building. Those are very important skills and are used in every type of writing.

            Writing in Biology to me is a little bit easier. My mind doesn’t think like an English teacher’s mind. I have more of a scientific mind where I need evidence to support my answer and to help me come to the correct conclusion. I cant just read a book and then write a piece on what the author was thinking and what the message of the book was. My response is just ask the author. So writing in the scientific world is a lot more natural for me. Writing in Biology is mostly taking an experiment you did and writing up the lab report to justify your findings. Writing in Biology there are many pieces to basically one type of piece. You do  a lab report most of the time and you need to include an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and a works cited.

            After researching and interviewing people for this paper I have concluded that the two are completely different. “I always felt I had a bit more freedom writing for English class as opposed to science classes like biology.” Biology is more strict than English. English you can write in any order you choose, and almost any way you would like. “Reporting results in science papers requires one to follow a very specific format describing your approach to the scientific method (e.g. intro, methods, results, discussion), whereas for English papers seem to allow more creativity in the way you get your message across; there's no required format to follow.”  For Biology there are pieces to the whole piece. You have to justify your own work which may not seem hard at first but that is usually the hardest part. Writing in Biology you have to take your work and place it into another field and describe how it would effect that field. But with this strict format sometimes it is easier for people. Like me for example, when I am given the freedom I have no clue what to do.              

For which one is more useful it all depends on what field you are going into in life. If you are going into a science field obviously learning how to write scientific papers is going to be more useful than the two small semesters of English you are just taking for a requirement. Yes some things learned in English are going to help with writing a Biology paper, like the grammar and the how to structure a sentence in the correct way. But all the other stuff like how to analyze a book is not useful to someone in the science world. As my brother says “ I suppose I would like writing a biology paper better since it comes very easy to me; primarily reporting what you're done and how it impacts the field.  English papers are somewhat more difficult as there is often a lot of interpretation of what someone else is writing about, and that requires a lot more thought.”  But just as things in English help with all topics things in Biology help with all topics too. “I think scientific writing has enhanced my ability to build a case for and justify any thoughts or hypotheses I might have about anything, as well as how to present them in a very clear way so that anyone reading my work, scientist or not, can understand the message I'm trying to get across.”

                  Writing in these two different fields are very different but a like in the same way. They both have ways where they are similar but different. They share some of the same qualities like making sure your audience understands you. Or making sure you are writing to the correct audience. They both help with different things and if you can do both than you would be considered a well-rounded writer. For which one would be more useful in todays world, it really all depends. If you go into a science field obviously nothing in English is really going to help opposed to what you learn in Biology. And for the other way around what your learn in English is probably going to be your career and nothing in Biology would even be relevant.

Works cited:

https://www.edx.org/course/english-grammar-essay-writing-uc-berkeleyx-colwri-2-2x#.VNDzyqbF-Hw

https://www.coursera.org/course/basicwriting

http://writing2.richmond.edu/training/project/biology/biology.html

http://www.cbs.umn.edu/explore/departments/eeb/writing-science

Summary of source

                   My source is from the University of Connecticut's writing center. This source tell you all the elements on how to write a paper for Biology. It gives all the pieces and different assignments you could possibly need. It goes from writing a Biology reseach paper to writing a lab report. Not only does it just list the types of papers, you can click on a type of piece and it will bring you to a page with more information. This source is really going to help me because thats really what my paper is going to be about. I was thinking about writing a paper on all the different types of writing in Biology and how they are different. This source really captures that too. I feel like finding another source just like this with this one is really going to help my paper.

Rhetorical Situation Assignment

               The purpose of this assignment is to get the class to realize there are different types of writing based on the subject. If it's scientific then the piece is going to be very different from an english narritive. My purpose of this piece is to write paper with my major as my topic. My major is Biology. So with this im going to have to interview teachers and look for scientific research papers online. The audience of my paper is going to be anyone that appeals to the biology topic or anyone interested in biology as a major.

Analysis of an English 101 Paper

                      In English 101 we wrote a rhetorical analysis on an argument of todays pop culture. In my essay I wrote about the topic of abortion. We used a rhetorical writting format to make our argument stronger by using Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Those really helped our argument because it appealed to people and made them actually think about the argument. The assignment had to be persuasive and those three techniques really helped my argument be persuasive. My argument was a very touchy subject so I had to make sure I wrote it in a way of making people think about abortion in depth but without offending anyone. My argument was on the side of pro choice so I got to find out a lot about abortion I didn't know about. I feel as if my argument came out pretty well, when we did peer review it was really making the other kids in my group really think about abortion and that was my goal. I took this peice to the writing center and they said I didn't really hit the Ethos, Logos, Pathos aspect, that I should go back and revise that part. I did that for my final copy of my paper and it actually came out better than I epected.

Syllabus

                      The syllabus for this class was very explanitory which left me with no questions. My last teacher told me what English 102 was about and so far from hearing the over view of the class it seems pretty much the same as what she said. The only thing that I heard different was that this course only had one big paper, and over the semester we would be adding and revising. I was told it was a class on how to learn how to write a research paper. For this class there was more than one paper and it threw me off a little bit.

                       I think this class is going to be a little different but manageable. The whole blog idea is a great idea its just hard to remember to post a new homework every time before class. I hope that once I get into a routine of doing one every night I wont ever forget about posting my homework. I like how its an easy way to earn points though. This class looks fun and I am looking forward to it.

My name is Samantha McLean. I am from Niskayuna New York. Niskayuna is a small town right outside Albany, the capital. I came to the University of Louisville to study Biology to hopefully get into a Veterinarian school in Kentucky. With that I would like to become an Equine Surgeon. An Equine surgeon is a horse vet with the focus of surgery.