Reading Reaction Journal #5

Reference:

Sussman, B. (2007, July 26). Early class Friday? More sober Thursday, study finds. USATODAY. Retrieved October 1, 2007 from www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-06-26-drinking-thursday_n.htm

Summary:

In the article, "Early Class Friday? More Sober Thursday, Study Finds," Beth Sussman claims that college students who have Friday morning class tend to drink on Thursday nights less than the students who have no class on Friday morning. According to study, the students who don't have Friday class drink an average of 2.41 drinks on the Thursday night; on the other hand, the students who have Friday morning class drink an average of 1.39 drinks. And she mentions that almost 1,700 college students die from drinking incidents a year and it shows how drinking is dangerous. And, she mentions that reducing drinking on Thursday nights can encourage reducing overall drinking campuses, so the authors of the study recommened that the colleges make Friday morning classes required to students. However, in fact, it's difficult for colleges because of the size of the school and classes.

Reaction:

I thought it is very interesting because most college students tend to drink a lot. Actually, when I chose the article, I was pretty worried because it is not about my major. But, because drinking is thought a big problem in all society, I think it's a good way to solve th problem, even though it's a little thing. Actually when I was in Korea, I had been drunk a little. Then, if I had no plan the next day, I tended to drink more than usual. It's a little different case with the article, but I think it happened for the same reason. Because I had no plan, I didn't care whether or not I couldn't wake up early next day. And, for this reason, I drank more than normal. So, I agree with the author and I think his recommend action is a good way to reduce drinking of students if the colleges can.

Reading Reaction Journal #4

Reference:

Brown, S. (2007, July 20). $200 Million Uptown High-Rise project Planned. Architecture Online Magazine. Retrieved September 20, 2007 from www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1012&articleID=536847

Summary:

In Brown’s article, "$200 Million Uptown High-Rise Project Planned," the author says that two developers decided to build a very huge building In Dallas' Woodall Rodgers Freeway corridor. The author explains it is the huge plan in both scale and cost and this plan will start work in January and will be finished in 2009. And he describes the project will include 296 apartments and 330,000 square feet of office space. It shows us how huge the project is.

Reaction:

This article is about one of the huge projects of building in Dallas. I know how huge a building project is in the U.S. through the article. The cost planned by the project is almost over two times rather than that of the biggest plan of Korea. Also, I can know how architecture markets in America are working now with the article. And, it makes me have a challenge about my future. With this article, when I will be an architect, I hope to be one of the biggest architects like in the article. The article gives me huge interesting.