Author: ba806

Briefly discuss what you learned this semester and how you will use this information for the future.

Through the semseter, I learned how to write more effectively and that will help me personally with my passion for writing stories, and will help me academically for writing research papers for other courses. I also learned a lot about the topics I researched about, which are Schadenfreude, FOMO, and procrastination.

How has your understanding of your topic grown or changed since the beginning of the semester?

Researching about Schadenfreude has taught me that emotions could be really complex and finding the sources of these emotions might require some self-reflection. Exploring the phenomenon of FOMO made me discover that simple acts can solve difficult problems. Uncovering why I procrastinate showed me how it can be so easy to avoid procrastination if we build simple productive habits slowly but consistently.

What was the most significant thing you learned about your topic? How did you learn that information?

The most useful and important thing I learned from all my topics is how to beat procrastination if I stay focused and change my mindset. I learned that from a website called Procrastination, which is run by entrepreneurs, motivational speakers, engineers, and other occupations that require a mindset of consistency and discipline.

AI can be a great help to fight the virus when it comes to repetitive tasks, especially at hospitals. Helping medical professionals.

It can help collect data and statistics of how much the virus has spread.

Everyone should be responsible for their health before anyone else. That being said, if something as dangerous as the Corona virus rises up, I believe the government is allowed to force necessary steps to protects its citizens.

I think equality for women depends on the society they live in. In most first world countries, I think women are treated equally. On the other hand, in most third world countries, they are not looked at as equal to men when it comes to rights.

I’ve witnessed several times when women are discriminated against by men and even other women.

It would be bad of our Nova shut down because I need to finish my course ASAP.

Yes, I think I would be able to continue most classes online.

Yes, it is my first time! I am excited.. Yes, I will be involved in the upcoming election.

I don’t know much about the current president or what he has achieved so far so I will not be able to answer that.

Part 1

The things I learned from writing about the German word Schadenfreude were thought-provoking and quite interesting. The thing that caught my attention the most was that people who are most likely to be prone to Schadenfreude are people who seek a world balance between their life and those who seem to have a better life, in that they are not alone in their struggles. Researching about the word also confirmed to me that Schadenfreude is strongly connected to envy, jealousy, and other such feelings.

For my new topic (FOMO) that I picked to write my 3rd paper about, I based several questions:

1- What causes FOMO?

2- What kind of situations where people feel FOMO the most?

3- Is it a modern feeling or has it always existed?

4- How to cope with it?

To answer those questions as accurately as possible, I will need to find people who struggled with FOMO and scholarly papers that research the topic deeply. I will use blogs and YouTube to find personal experiences, and will use ProQuest to get research papers.

People who might be invested in my topic could either be regular people who are as curious as I am, or researchers who need to create hypothesis or theories on the topic.

Part 2

My claim: I believe FOMO is, most of the time, an illogical feeling created by fake exposure to the best circumstances and luckiest people in the world. That results in thinking that most people (or a big portion of them) have these kind of lives, which is wrong.

My stakeholders would be both people with curiosity and researchers.

The argument could be, “The essence of FOMO is comparison and it’s mostly formed when exposed to social media on a constant basis.” I think this argument summarizes my claim and works well as a thesis.

Sources:

1. “Fear of missing out: Testing relationships with negative affectivity, online social engagement, and problematic smartphone use.” retrieved from shorturl.at/zDEIX
2. “Fear of Missing Out: Understanding Construct and Measures.” retrieved from shorturl.at/kqDQR

Part 3

My source is: “Fear of missing out: Testing relationships with negative affectivity, online social engagement, and problematic smartphone use.”

Summary: discovering and exploring the factors that cause FOMO and its connection with mental health and technology use.

This worthy of this source to my paper is high because it talks about technology and social media use, something that I mentioned in my argument.

The authors start their paper with an intro to the concept of FOMO, and they show how studies have discovered a strong relation between it and social media and its negative effects. Additionally, they create a theory and start a study to further explore the relationship between FOMO social media with its effects. And finally, the authors lay out the results and conclude the paper.

Ideas in the paper like FOMO’s relationship with social media and phone use will directly help me build a strong support for my paper.

The role of this source in my argument is the problematic social media use and its negative effects.

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The category I would love to be nominated in is either writing or music scoring because I love the first and interested in the latter.

I have never watched the Oscars because I rarely watch movies.

Yes, I think I use my phone as a procrastination tool, so I consider I use it too much. The app I use the most is Reddit because of how many anecdotes and personal experiences people share on that and I enjoy reading them.

I would love to know what I would do in a world without phones or social media and how I would spend my extra time.

It’s hard to tell without context, but based on the huge protest that had been happening in China for months until the virus appeared, one can suspect that the government had something to do with it. The might have wanted the virus to spread so protesters stop their activities on the streets of Hong Kong and other Chinese cities.

If I were in Dr. Li’s position and I knew the government was after me to assassinate me, then I would either hide in a good place, or just leave the country using the least risky way.