To be honest, the past several weeks have been a bit hard to keep up in terms of my workload, lectures, and personal life. I found it hard to balance my priorities as it seemed like every minute, there was something more important for me to do. Sad to say, I did put my project on the back burner, so I won’t be able to talk much about the project. However I was able to make moves on my HAPstone. I have reached out to a contact provided to me by my IA Susie (shoutout to SUSIEEE). She was extremely helpful and enthusiastic about the computer literacy program I am working on and we have scheduled a zoom meeting next week to discuss how I could improve and distribute my program. She also mentioned how she has several other projects that fall along the lines of my program and it made me think it’d be great if I could collaborate with the other programs as well. In all honestly, I have been thinking since last quarter how I can implement this program the best way possible considering Covid-19. Is having an event on campus where its a computer literacy seminar a good idea? But then it brings other issues like being able to even reserve a spot on campus and if it is even allowed under the Covid-19 guidelines or if the seniors will be able to find transportation. I also considered having a tutor go to the senior’s residence, but then it is exposing seniors and the tutor during a pandemic. That leaves me with digital tutoring, but then it kind of is preposterous to teach how to use a computer… from a computer. Hopefully, my meeting with the aging services will help me with my issue.
Over the course of the last few weeks, the biggest assignments I did were the book club with the book Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland and the current event presentation with my fellow classmate, Abigail. We are four chapters into the book, and the book is such an eye-opening and easy read. It is really easy to digest while also learning life lessons. Sometimes it feels like I am meeting the same seven seniors the author is meeting. I learned how joyous life can be as a senior if you want it to be. For example, Ping says how she has no worries because all is set for her, and she just wants to live and breathe mahjong with her friends. She sees no point in worrying or reminiscing about hard times. During one of the book club discussions, my group and I talked about how it’s almost a privilege some seniors get to have, in terms of selective memory and choosing not to stress. We related to each other about how it’s a blessing and a curse that we have our whole lives ahead of us, unpaved and ready to be trailed. It’s a curse because it makes us worrisome, stresses us about the unpredictability of life, but it is also a blessing because it’s an opportunity for us. We need to look back and learn from the good and the bad, so we can be more knowledgeable onwards. I guess when you’re older and retired, the time between present and future is more foreseeable versus being 21, so we all yearned for the day we can freely live with selective memory. Another assignment I did that left a lasting impression was the current news presentation about seniors and video games. According to the news article, more seniors report playing video games in the last 5 years. We discussed as a class what it would mean for more seniors to play video games. It was mentioned that it’ll create a positive effect for seniors as it’s better to join more communities and to have more social interactions, even if it is through video games. We also talked about the potential downfalls like online bullying or hurting their physical health
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Jenny KimJenny is a Human Developmental Sciences with a Specialization in Healthy Aging and Urban Studies & Planning double major from Cypress, CA. A fun fact about Jenny is that she likes her 'warm' foods to be SCALDING hot or else it doesn't taste as good. Archives
May 2021
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