Time transcripts of Greg+Moon_final

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[00:00:28.19]	So, Ok, I'm Gregory Moon, 

[00:00:32.00]	I'm a Freshman obviously. Bio-Chemistry/Pre-Med major.

[00:00:36.23]	Where are you from? 

[00:00:38.23]	Greenville Missouri.

[00:00:40.24]	You said that's a small town? 

[00:00:42.26]	A small town in Southeast Missouri.

[00:00:44.27]	What is the transition been like so far, from Missouri to Columbus? 

[00:00:50.7]	Well, nobody says ain't or y'all. So... 

[00:00:55.00]	What do you think of the difference?

[00:00:56.34]	It's just weird, because everybody says pop. 

[00:00:59.99]	Just little communication differences. I mean it's soda, that's what it is.

[00:01:04.40]	But different communication things are huge to me 

[00:01:08.0]	because it's like it ain't like Missouri, you know. 

[00:01:12.0]	Could you tell us a story about that? Like, you don't have to go in chronological order,

[00:01:16.50]	Have there been any times when you've been like in Columbus so far 

[00:01:21.54]	and you've been like trying to understand the language?

[00:01:24.58]	You know, I know you're not like that foreign.

[00:01:28.62]	But like, has there been any experience you've had 

[00:01:32.00]	that's kind of like "Whoa, the culture shock"

[00:01:36.67]	Everybody was like talking at orientation today, like about, oh you know, 

[00:01:41.73]	"Our football team, all this." We don't have football at our school.

[00:01:44.78]	We're too small to have football, we're too poor to have football. 

[00:01:46.80]	So we didn't have...

[00:01:48.81]	And they're like "Ah, that town that's down the road..." and everything, 

[00:01:52.00]	and I'm like "I have no... I know where Cleveland is" (Laughter)

[00:01:56.86]	I know where Columbus is obviously and maybe Cincinnati, 

[00:02:00.1]	but just different, nothing really specific, but you know it's just...

[00:02:08.97]	You know about the rivalry between OSU and Michigan? 

[00:02:12.00]	I was born in Cleveland so I know about that, yeah, are you kidding me? Yeah.

[00:02:17.02]	No, no, I know about that. I told someone, I said 

[00:02:22.0]	"I applied to U of M" And they were like "What!?" 

[00:02:24.00]	I was like "University of Missouri! You know, it's right down the road, so."

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[00:02:33.17]	So you're from Cleveland originally? Were you going to like, primary school there?

[00:02:37.20]	I wasn't even like, I was like still a baby when we moved down to Missouri. 

[00:02:44.00]	Just born here by birth, not like... 

[00:02:46.9]	But my dad grew up in Cleveland and my Mom grew up in Cleveland, so. 

[00:02:51.5]	So when you moved to Missouri, did they kind of emphasize reading?

[00:02:57.30]	Or was it just sort of like a normal thing? 

[00:03:01.00]	I mean like did they read a lot when you were younger? 

[00:03:04.00]	Like what kinds of things do you remember them reading?

[00:03:05.9]	Like the Newspaper, or...

[00:03:07.77]	Well like, we obviously only had one newspaper every week, 

[00:03:10.8]	because that's how small we are, you know? 

[00:03:13.6]	But I remember my mom, she would always read like, 

[00:03:16.1]	we would always have like story time or whatever. 

[00:03:18.2]	But it wasn't like these little tiny kids books, she would actually read a book. 

[00:03:22.00]	And we would read like a little bit every day or whatever, you know.

[00:03:25.5]	Like a couple pages or whatever. Even when we were young. 

[00:03:27.6]	Which was great because you know it kind of, you know, openned you up more. 

[00:03:32.45]	It wasn't just like you learn about the goose and the fox and the hen and all that. 

[00:03:37.00]	You're actually learning about learning bigger words and things that will help you out later. 

[00:03:43.5]	And they did help me I think. 

[00:03:45.00]	Because I got to school and I started reading a little bit faster than everybody else 

[00:03:48.9]	just because my mom kinda started out when I was young. 

[00:03:52.65]	Reading like some of the classics of literature? 

[00:03:57.0]	Or was it or was there... What kinds of books did you read? 

[00:04:02.2]	Just all sorts of kinds of books. I mean a lot of them kinda had a classical influence. 

[00:04:08.00]	You know they weren't just like the newest love/romantic novel 

[00:04:12.4]	or something with Fabio on the cover. They were like, I don't know, 

[00:04:16.5]	I would almost consider them educational. I mean they were fictional 

[00:04:19.3]	but they had a meaning to them and a deeper... 

[00:04:22.9]	Yeah, it wasn't just like "He did this because..." Obviously we didn't understand all of it,

[00:04:29.98]	but that's part of what learning is, you know.

[00:04:34.00]	So then when you went to school you said you had kind of a advantage? 

[00:04:38.99]	Yeah. 

[00:04:40.99]	What were you doing in school, in terms of reading?

[00:04:46.11]	Just, what kinds of books were you reading? 

[00:04:50.16]	I can remember the first books we would read in school were really really easy 

[00:04:53.5]	because these were like 5 words on a page type thing, you know. 

[00:04:57.00]	And it's like "This isn't even difficult" You know. 

[00:04:59.99]	In our area, illiteracy is huge, so you know, it's just because such a rural community, 

[00:05:06.9]	It's just big on dropping out and everything.

[00:05:10.31]	Could you talk about that? About the illiteracy?

[00:05:14.33]	Well a lot of people are like, they kinda get this idea, they don't need education, 

[00:05:20.7]	they can just get a job at a factory. Which there's nothing wrong 

[00:05:24.5]	with getting a job there, you know but it's just the idea that, 

[00:05:28.7]	"That's what I can do, it's the easiest way to do it" 

[00:05:30.5]	And that's their mindset is, "I just want to do something that's easy" 

[00:05:34.23]	You know "I don't want to try and read, like take the AP English class or whatever. 

[00:05:40.4]	I just want to take my baby classes, you know, or even quit as fast as you can. 

[00:05:48.6]	And that's how it's been forever, so. 

[00:05:51.5]	Do you have friends like that? 

[00:05:53.2]	Yeah I did, I mean they kinda dropped off quick. 

[00:05:55.49]	Because after, you know, they leave school

[00:05:58.79]	you don't see them that much because they're always working. 

[00:06:00.80]	But I had a couple. You know and I tried telling them

[00:06:06.83]	"There is no life for you if you do that." 

[00:06:09.9]	Nowadays you almost have to have a college education to do anything, you know.

[00:06:18.90]	How did they respond to you trying to persuade them to do something different?

[00:06:22.93]	They would just shrug it off. They would just say "It's not important" 

[00:06:26.3]	or "I don't have the money" They would just make up excuses, you know. 

[00:06:29.6]	I mean they want to actually give you an educated answer. 

[00:06:32.8]	And give you a specific, reason why. 

[00:06:38.00]	I think they knew why, and they were kind of upset at themselves or something.

[00:06:44.67]	Is this like, later on when you're older and you're in Secondary School, 

[00:06:49.0]	you're in High School, and was that when this was going on? 

[00:06:53.6]	Yeah, yeah, but I mean it started early because they started out... 

[00:06:57.4]	Their parents weren't giving them the type of like... 

[00:07:00.5]	Like, you know, they weren't doing like my mom and dad were, 

[00:07:02.5]	where they'd read to us and kinda help us out, learning the alphabet and all that stuff.

[00:07:07.31]	Their parents didn't do that at an early age. 

[00:07:09.99]	And I think that kind of let... It was just kind of like a buildup. 

[00:07:13.9]	You know, their parents were expecting them to drop out, you know, because they dropped out.

[00:07:19.43]	It's a cyclical thing. 

[00:07:21.45]	Right, yeah, it's just kind of...

[00:07:23.47]	You know they keep the ball rolling.

[00:07:27.50]	So can you tell us a story about when you were in High School English class?

[00:07:35.56]	The kinds of things you were reading or the kinds of things the teacher was doing.

[00:07:39.59]	Were you reading literature? Were you reading essays, non-fiction essays,

[00:07:47.64]	about politics, about different issues besides literature?

[00:07:51.69]	Or was it focused... What was the concentration?

[00:07:55.70]	Well ours started out like... I think like Freshman year 

[00:07:58.71]	it was kind of like a basic English class, but it was all on American authors.

[00:08:03.75]	It was all about American authors. And it went from Native American authors, 

[00:08:09.0]	they had African-American authors, Female authors, a broad spectrum. 

[00:08:13.00]	And it was just like, samples of their work.

[00:08:15.80]	You know, we kind of just studied them and stuff, more composition, 

[00:08:18.4]	and then obviously grammar work was thrown in. 

[00:08:20.83]	But then our sophomore year was more like the classics type thing. 

[00:08:27.5]	And we learned a lot, we did a lot with Shakespeare. And a lot of plays is what our... 

[00:08:32.99]	Because our English teacher was also a Drama teacher, 

[00:08:35.65]	she pulled a lot of plays and stuff, which I liked. 

[00:08:38.8]	Like we did Julius Caesar and stuff like that, which was really, you know, nice.

[00:08:43.93]	Then our Junior year it was more essay type thing, current issues was a pretty big thing. 

[00:08:49.7]	We would write papers on different modern problems and stuff in the world. 

[00:08:54.5]	Like we had to do a research project, it was about a 5 page paper,

[00:09:00.01]	and you know you had to have your sources and everything. 

[00:09:02.02]	It was really a college prep and she was trying to get us to get ready for college. 

[00:09:06.7]	And we had to do it over a problem or a controversial topic. 

[00:09:13.9]	You couldn't just pick like "Why do apples grow out of the ground, or off of a tree" 

[00:09:18.38]	You had to pick steroid abuse, or drug abuse, or abortion, or homosexual marriage. 

[00:09:25.2]	Something that was very debated in politics, in social exchange.

[00:09:33.9]	That was good. And then Senior Year 

[00:09:35.9]	I took AP English, Comp. and Literature or something like that.

[00:09:40.36]	And that was mainly British influence, 

[00:09:43.8]	so we had a lot of British authors and stuff, which was pretty nice.

[00:09:48.42]	Can you tell us a story about writing an essay? 

[00:09:51.8]	Or writing a paper for one of your classes? 

[00:09:56.48]	One of the papers that you particularly remember?

[00:10:00.53]	As being kind of something you really put a lot into?

[00:10:07.0]	If it went black is that...?

[00:10:08.61]	Ok, yeah, well, my paper that I did, 

[00:10:13.8]	I can remember the controversial paper that we wrote. I remember writing that. 

[00:10:18.00]	We would always have debates in class too. 

[00:10:19.9]	Someone would bring up what their topic was, and then we would all just go at it. 

[00:10:23.9]	And mine was steroid abuse in Major League Baseball. 

[00:10:27.4]	Because I played baseball in High School. So it was kind of like a personal type thing. 

[00:10:31.9]	Which was good because that's what she wanted. She wanted us to bring something 

[00:10:35.0]	out of ourselves that we really liked or that at least we were interested in.

[00:10:40.81]	So I did steroid abuse. And it was really, I loved it because

[00:10:44.84]	like you learn so much about the research part than you ever would expect. 

[00:10:50.6]	I never expected to go to our library and I didn't know they had like these books, 

[00:10:55.65]	where you can open them up and they have all the magazine articles on different things, 

[00:10:59.0]	you know reference books and stuff. I didn't know they had that, 

[00:11:01.11]	because how many times do you go to a library and do a reference paper?

[00:11:05.5]	Just on... And then you had to have your sources and everything, 

[00:11:08.99]	you had to document everything. Which was like a new thing for me, 

[00:11:12.35]	because we had never done that before. And it was really, really nice. 

[00:11:16.99]	I mean I liked the way it brought stuff out of everybody, helped us develop. 

[00:11:23.1]	You know it helped me in all my other classes that I took in High School. 

[00:11:26.7]	I hope it helps in college too, I mean I think it would.

[00:11:30.8]	What position did you take, in that paper? 

[00:11:36.1]	Well that was the thing like, our English teacher, she had told us,

[00:11:41.27]	"You're going to take this, and you're going to start out maybe thinking

[00:11:45.30]	you don't want homosexual marriage. Let's say. But you might do your research, 

[00:11:51.6]	and you may run through all the information you know, all your sources. 

[00:11:55.7]	And your point of view might totally change. Maybe it won't, that's fine, 

[00:11:59.9]	but you never know, it might. And mine it kinda did. 

[00:12:03.48]	I mean it was.... Like my thesis was 

[00:12:06.51]	"Major League Baseball players accused, not convicted of steroid abuse 

[00:12:12.9]	should not be allowed into the hall of fame." 

[00:12:15.2]	But then it kind of changed after I was doing it and I had to change my thesis, 

[00:12:19.7]	Because I was like 

[00:12:20.6]	"Wait a second, you know there's some people that shouldn't, 

[00:12:23.69]	but then there's some people that should because there's no proof, you know. 

[00:12:28.00]	So it was kind of like, I don't know, it was just, you know what I mean, it was just kinda...

[00:12:33.76]	Turned your mind around stuff. It got you thinking is what it was. 

[00:12:37.79]	It got you to see different ways you might think this problem through. 

[00:12:43.7]	It's not necessarily you have to set your guidelines, and you can't. 

[00:12:48.8]	It gives you a broader perspective than just your narrow...

[00:12:53.89]	Open your mind up. 

[00:12:56.91]	Was the internet a source you used? In addition to the reference books at the library? 

[00:13:02.5]	Yeah, definitely. I mean obviously we couldn't use Wikipedia, 

[00:13:07.50]	but we used like Encarta you know, different online Encyclopedias like that. 

[00:13:12.4]	And then obviously we went to like mine was over sports, baseball, 

[00:13:17.6]	so I would go to the MLB website and I'd go to ESPN, 

[00:13:20.9]	just the different newspaper and magazine websites and get sources. 

[00:13:25.00]	But our teacher, she gave us requirements. That you could not use all internet websites. 

[00:13:31.5]	Because you know any kid would get on there and get your 10 sources and you're done. 

[00:13:35.7]	You know, whatever. Like a day, right, copy and paste. 

[00:13:39.4]	But she made it, you know, you had to get one newspaper article for a source, 

[00:13:44.1]	one magazine, and like 2 books at least, as sources. 

[00:13:48.7]	Which really helped us because that kind of allowed us to see 

[00:13:52.4]	all the different types of articles we could look up. 

[00:13:56.7]	What did you think about that? Did you think it was acutally necessary 

[00:13:58.99]	to get your sources from a diverse set of materials? 

[00:14:06.0]	Or do you think that was just sort of a guideline that she would post?

[00:14:10.61]	Well I think it was a good thing to do, because, well you can get anything on the internet. 

[00:14:17.0]	I mean you can probably get research papers if you really wanted to I guess. 

[00:14:21.00]	But what you're thinking or whatever, and it's not definitely accurate,

[00:14:26.75]	you can get anything on the internet and it can say whatever it wants.

[00:14:29.2]	But getting these sources, and if they're all saying the same thing 

[00:14:33.5]	then that kinda you know, oh, Ok, you know. 

[00:14:36.85]	But if like you get these newspaper articles that say this but an internet thing says this, 

[00:14:40.8]	well then you can sort of cross reference and say 

[00:14:43.40]	"Well I don't know if I can use that source or if should use that source"

[00:14:46.92]	Because maybe it's not accurate. If I have these hard copies of... 

[00:14:50.96]	And all those different sources had different authors. 

[00:14:54.98]	So each person that wrote the article or the piece or the book 

[00:14:59.9]	had his own point of view or her own point of view. 

[00:15:01.99]	And that really helped us see different sides of the story.

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[00:15:11.15]	So you're going to be majoring in a Science. 

[00:15:18.6]	How much do you think literacy relates to understanding science?

[00:15:25.9]	Well I think it's like one of the cornerstones or foundations, whatever you want to say. 

[00:15:32.0]	It's like the basis of any study. I mean even if you do mathematics, 

[00:15:38.1]	I mean yeah you can read the problem, but can you read a word problem? 

[00:15:43.44]	Communication is like the thing.... But it really...

[00:15:47.48]	Literature and different things is a big thing in science

[00:15:51.52]	because they have journals and science journals and different things, 

[00:15:53.99]	and that's how we get our, as scientists that's how we get our voices out there 

[00:15:57.9]	and are able to communicate to other people. It's a huge thing. 

[00:16:02.0]	You know, writing skills I think are going to be really important to me. 

[00:16:06.0]	If I ever do write a research paper for my BioChem degree. 

[00:16:09.7]	Or if I ever do do anything related to that. You have to document it, 

[00:16:14.6]	you have to keep your sources accurate. You don't want to give credit to some professor

[00:16:19.70]	when it was another guy down the hall. And that guy is ticked off at you now.

[00:16:23.73]	So, it's really important to learn those skills.