One Week is left

Spring Semester 2011 will end in one week. Everybody is looking forward to go back home. The last week will mostly be a review week because students will prepare for exams. The weather is not warm, and I hope it will be sunny and warm next week and during the finals week. Students must focus only on their classes, and work hard for ten days until the semester is over. Spring semester passed quickly, and the summer break is not far away.

Oligopoly

Oligopoly is a when a few sellers dominate the market. They offer similar or identical products. Later it becomes a game theory situation, where players decide to cooperate with each other or to compete. Players will be better off if they compete in the short period and cooperate on the long period. Based on the game theory, prisoner's dillema appears. It is a game between two firms or people, and they choose to compete or cooperate. When prisoner's dillema occurs, players choose their dominant strategy which is the best strategy for each player regardless of the chosen strategy of other players. Oligopoly is a difficult thing especially when players start to play a game.

Wedding

Weddings are on of the most happiest events in life. People who marry are nervous and happy at the same time because they will live without thier parents, and it is a completely a new life. Prince Willian will marry soon, and two thousand guests will be at this wedding. Kyrgyz new marrieds usually invite about 500 people at weddings. But they can invite more if they are able to invite such amount of people and pay fot it. Weddings are good, but it is expensive. A lot of money goes to celebrate a wedding. People who are going to marry must be good in financial planning because they can estimate and save enough money to run a wedding.

Estate Planning

Estate planning is the passage of your wealth to your heirs. This is very important thing in life. People must make wills, trusts, or gifts to make sure that their heirs will receive inheritance. Estate planning is made for the event that after person's death, there will not be a fight over the estate between heirs. It is not a simple process because it includes many procedures. A lot of forms must be filled out, and people need to select executors of the will, beneficiaries, guardians for children, and power attorneys. This will make beneficiaries' life easier and property will be distributed according to wishes if the estate planning is done.

Final Weeks

The Spring Semester will end soon. It will end in three weeks. The weather is not warm, and everybody hopes that it will be warm before they leave the campus. Those weeks will be intense because most projects will be due during that period. Semester passed quickly. Going back home after the school for break is a great feelings, especially if someone has not been at home for a long time. Not a lof time is left, so students must do their best to finish the year and go back home happy.

Hot Dog Day

Hot Dog Day will be tomorrow on Saturday, April 16. It is going to be a funny and interesting day. Hot Dog Festival will be on the Main Street of Alfred village. People hope that tomorrow weather will be warm, but according to forecast it is going to rain. Students from Alfred State and Alfred University and commuters will celebrate this day. A lot of hot dogs will be tommorow available to eat. This day is an annual holiday. Hopefully this day will be good, so people will have something to remember.

Poetry Evening!

The poetry evening was held in Allegany Room on April 13, 2011. Professors from english and science departments came to this event. Professors were talking about poetry and how poetry influenced their lives. President Hunter was also speaking about poetry. He was a president of Alfred State College in 1980s. Later Jerry Fong, professor of chemstry, presented his presentation about chemistry and its relationship to poetry. His presentation was interesting, and then he read some poems. Poetry is the one more thing where people can express their desires, ideas, and thoughts.

Honors Convocation 2011

On April 10 was the 27th Annual Honors Convocation in the Orvis Auditorium. Too many people came there. Students, parents, relatives, friends, and faculty members were at this event. President Anderson, professors, and special guests gave speech. The interesting speech gave Andy Glanzman. He is the CEO of Northern Lights Candles. His speech was about success and how to be a successful person. Later students got their awards and had a banquet. It was a good event because students were recognized for their achievements and success.

Team Working

Working in teams is very useful. Creating teams of 3-5 people will result in more productivity than working individually. Different people are involved in team decision process, and people might be from another cultures. Foreigners can share their experience with other people and tell their thoughts. It will improve humans' ability to communicate with others too. The process of making a decision is faster because more people involved and more choices are available. It will engage people to work cooperatively and show respect to the whole group. Teams are a good tool to make decisions faster and better.

Kyrgyz Revolution

On April 7th, 2010, was a revolution in Kyrgyzstan. It is a country in Central Asia. 84 people died while they tried to seize the White House. It was very scary and situation in the country was unstable. That night many riots occured in Bishkek. This is the capital of Kyrgyzstan. People were not satisfied of former president and his regulations, so they decided to change the government. President fled the country, and new people took the country under control. The fisrt half of 2010 was very tense and outrageous. The ethnic clash occured in June 2010 after the revolution between Kyrgyz and Uzbek. The clash lasted three days, and it was stopped with the help of public squads and police. It is quite in Kyrgyzstan now. Today was commemoration marsh and meeting. Kyrgyz citizens hope that it will be calm, and such bad events will never occur again.

April 4th

Monday of April 4th was like an evening. It was dark and cloudy, and it rained. Today in classes, I learned sone new things. I learnt about estate planning, and how to make your estates tax-free and to avoid probate. Also, we covered monopoly in Microeconomics class and policies toward monopoly. In my first class, I reviewed how to document work. It was about how to give credits to somebody's works and ideas.

Summer Job or Summer Classes

Increase in tuition makes students to find summer jobs. This issue arises a lot of questions about taking extra classes or find a job. Getting a job for students in summer is a good thing because they can get experience. Students earn money during the summer and be able to pay off the loan or to pay part of the tuition by themselves. If students found a job that relate to what they want and to their field, it is a good opportunity to know how to apply knowledge to work learned in college.
Studying during the summer can allow students to graduate school sooner because they can take extra credits. They will be available to get out of school at 21 years old.
Students should go to school because summer courses are almost all online, and those course will not be counted as real physical classes. Students must study and get a part-time job during the summer, but be able to review materials they learned during the year. They should be able to match their school schedule with job. Students should be a high-qualified workers in their field when they graduate from school, so it is more important to get knowledge than go to work full-time job early. After graduating a school, they can find a job that meet their needs and pay off their loans and earn money. It will be more efficient to if they will study eight months and get a part-time job during the summer because they will go to actual classes during the academic year and make themselves busy in summer.