It is a fun video:
I found the video I watched years ago on the product and it failed for him. I found a total of 50 videos and only three people reported back saying it worked. One guy fixed a boat and another repaired his car, but didn't bother climbing under it, he filmed himself holding up a mirror saying "See? It works!"
I didn't have any idea what I was seeing until he mentioned the mirror.
Hopefully, I have almost finished my research project.
Did I mention my advisor spending 55 minutes telling me I needed to meet with her in January?
It is bizarre because I e-mailed her on 2/4 that I finally had enough female participants and she said "Great, we will meet and discuss it."
So, four days into February was soon enough four days into February, but she almost never tells me anything without meeting, she seems to tell me as little as possible during meetings, and she seems to be avoiding meeting me at all.
I requested times which showed up as available on her calendar 10-12 times over two weeks before she finally met with me and then she cut the meeting short to meet with someone who is probably on-track to graduate, while this advisor effectively said she is holding me back a year.
Why does she want to spend another year with me?!
It is crazy, for one of my clinicals, I was supposed to come in 5 days a week for "Maybe 8 hours," which means I might never have that many.
I think that at my last site, I came in 4 days a week, from 8 until I had class two days a week, and 8-5 the other two, except I arrived early, left late, and it was never good enough, because I never did things she didn't realize she needed to tell me, she is not a mind reader!
She never gave me a moment to spare and then complained that I didn't spend vast tracts of time doing things she never mentioned.
So, this quarter, I am working with my professor, and we are doing teletherapy with one client twice a week.
There is the possibility of meeting a third time, but we haven't yet, and we didn't even meet this week.
Twice, I arrived at school, and at least started setting up before finding out they canceled.
My wife wasn't feeling well, so I was spending time with her because she seems to enjoy that for some reason.
Normally, I am awake long before Mom and my brother, and I have plenty of time to get ready, but I lost track of time, kissed my wife goodbye, and rushed to take my brother to his program before returning home to get ready.
Normally, I drove straight to school, and tried to accomplish stuff there.
I stayed home until the last possible moment, and had Google Maps on a pop-up over my school e-mail so I could see if she notified me they canceled, although she seems to call first.
Five minutes after I was required to be there, she e-mailed me, and I returned home, but not before running into the head professor, who sent me the same e-mail 3 times, which I just finally read:
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Dear [Xist],
I hope this message finds you well. I’m writing to bring your immediate attention to several outstanding components of your Cultural Growth Profile that are required for graduation.
While it’s encouraging that you have begun working toward meeting these requisites, it is critical that you complete all components as soon as possible to remain on track for graduation clearance.
As of now, the following items are still missing from your Cultural Growth Profile:
Reading Reflections: 0 out of 5 submitted
Artifacts: Artifacts 5, 6, 7, and 8 missing
Virtual ATSU President Video Reflection on Culture: Not submitted
CLD Clinical Experiences Reflections: 0 out of 3 submitted
Community Hours Documentation: 0 out of 10 hours documented
Please take action to complete and submit these items as soon as possible. Failure to do so may jeopardize your eligibility for graduation.
If you have questions or need support in completing these items, do not hesitate to reach out. I’m here to help.
Best regards,
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I didn't read that e-mail because I knew I needed to complete things, so why read a list of things I needed to complete until I completed the things?
I haven't read the articles I am supposed to reflect, but so far, I don't have feelings about these things.
I only need to write one page--double-spaced--and so far I have difficulty figuring out how to start--and then difficulty keeping it to one page.
I keep asking Gemini to help me trim my reflections to one page, and the stupid thing keeps saying "No no no! You need to write about all of your feelings like this: [nonsense about feelings I don't have]."
That is why I am Ecomodder posting about reviewing 50 videos!
I just skipped to the end of each one to see if they reported back, but it still took a long time.
I completed Artifacts 5-8, e-mailed her copies of each article, and summarized each article for her, but I would complete one, start the next, and then get interrupted, so I probably should have sent two, submitted, and then the next two.
However, she doesn't count them until I upload them to the site, so I need to do that, too.
Virtual ATSU President Video Reflection on Culture: I chose a random 90-minute video and it was some gentleman chatting while listening to the radio and chose another random video, which didn't have music.
They mentioned all kinds of things in an hour and a half, including innocent people being killed.
How did I feel about that?
[flips through my emotion flashcards]
I don't know.
I wrote a page about how no-knock warrants are dangerous for the officers and people in the building they are clearing.
No feelings!
CLD Clinical Experiences Reflections: Specifically why I am wasting time on-line.
I am supposed to reflect on experiences on working with culturally- and linguistically-diverse individuals during clinicals.
The gentleman with whom I am currently working only speaks Spanish and I have only spent 3 hours or less with him--doing therapy.
We had five minutes extra one session, so I chatted with him about work, but how do I write a page about that, especially when my research advisor knows the guy and should have some idea of how little I have experienced cultural and linguistic differences.
I worked with some kids who didn't speak English my first site--from September to December 2023.
I don't remember anything, just testing them in Spanish.
We spent an hour a week working with Headstart kids who only spoke Spanish, but I don't know that I can really talk about that.
My second site was at a clinic, but they got rid of me after a week, so I can't talk about that.
I returned to my first supervisor, another white guy, but now he mostly worked at a wealthy school with white kids.
I don't know what to write about that.
It was still a while ago.
Then I worked at a behavior school, where I didn't use Spanish, and I don't know that my students were culturally diverse.
I am sure they were, but it didn't come up in speech.
I do remember one student living in a group home and while everyone else was excited for Thanksgiving and then Christmas, he just said "I live in a group home. They don't do much."
I worked in a group home in 2005 and my consumer chased me through his complex with the biggest knife in his home.
I have had speech clients in group homes and one beat up adults before me and adults after I stopped working with him.
He attacked me.
He punched, kicked, and bit, but he didn't scratch or bruise me.
However, he ripped my favorite work shirt.
He was removed from my caseload, though.
So, one time someone in a group home chased me with a big knife, and another time, a client with a history of assaulting adults started attacking me.
Gemini insists this doesn't have anything to do with culture, but while I may not have [had] a great relationship with my parents, they were there.
They didn't get divorced until I was an adult and they got back together after two years.
I could always try to talk to them.
It might feel like a frustrating waste of time, but I always had the option until Dad passed away.
This guy may be on his own when he turns 18 with zero tools to survive on his own.
A local group home pays staff $16 hourly, but managers earn $55-75k.
The minimum wage in Arizona is $15.00 an hour and I found a place paying that little, so it shouldn't be difficult to find better pay somewhere, and it seems like, on average, there was a new staff member every week.
So, instead of ideally living with two parents for 18+ years, and being able to ask them for help for decades afterward, you have hundreds of people who come and go, without really helping you, and then everyone turns their back on you.
According to The Sentencing Project,
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Juvenile facilities, including 1,323 detention centers, residential treatment centers, group homes, and youth prisons held 24,894 youths as of October 2021. (These data do not include the 291 people under 18 in adult prisons at year-end 2021 or the estimated 2,000 people under 18 in adult jails at midyear 2021.)
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https://www.sentencingproject.org/fa...-incarceration
So, 27,185 minors are detained.
What are the chances they will get out and stay out of trouble?
Arguably, it doesn't have anything to do with being culturally- or linguistically-diverse, but it is important.
Then I was supposed to work for a clinic, but despite me following up regularly for 3 months, they eventually said "Nevermind! The SLP we picked out doesn't see clients with us! Good luck!"
Then I was assigned to a charter school, but despite spending 4 months following up regularly, the SLP told my coordinator she couldn't work with me.
Classmates who worked with her found her to be especially frustrating.
I returned to the behavior school, continued to exclusively use English, and we didn't discuss anyone's culture.
Then I worked at a clinic for 5 weeks, but my supervisor criticized me for not doing things she never told me to do and for which I never had time, and loudly announced she was failing me for finals.
We worked with some clients in Spanish and the white lady's skills were atrocious.
We did one evaluation and it was weird. It was my fourth or fifth week and I was told to only observe, but my supervisor wasn't asking nearly as many questions as normal, so I asked them, in vastly better Spanish, so I was talking with the mom more than the SLP was, when I was told to only observe.
She didn't criticize me for that.
I just don't know what else to discuss and I really don't want to make up something.
I worked with another SLP at the last site more than my actual supervisor and the other SLP is Muslim.
She had Muslim clients, too, but we spoke English, and religion never came up.
We just never had the time to discuss anything outside of work.
How about the culture of a clinic where they overwork you and underpay you?
I guess that I will read the articles and write about them before circling back.
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