College the Great Debt

Midterms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...

Midterms are finally over I got my paycheck in my pocket and I feel like I can take a load off my shoulders. I know I did good in all of my classes with one exception. Inquiry 101. With my forgetfulness to constantly check the blog or getting distracted by other classes and other forms of media I am ashamed of the grade I got. Well this will no longer be the case. I'm stepping up my game and kicking it in to high gear.    Despite the long line of cliché statements that I just wrote; I am going to try even harder than ever. When life pushes me, I push back even harder.

In almost all my classes I either have a solid B or B+ to kick off the semester. The one class I thought that I would do horrible in is the one I did my best on in the exam. Italian was the one class I was so worried about that it would keep me up at night before the exam. I even spent time at drill studying for it along with art history. I got an 89 on the reading and vocab sections, and got a 96 on the speaking and writing portions on the exam.

Algebra I knew I wasn't going to have any problems with it except with some arithmetic issues.

Art History I only had a problem remembering a very few pieces but I'm pretty sure I did a good job with.

And in my critical thinking class, Interpreting Cultures, I got a B in. My midterm paper I got a 13/15 on and I plan keeping up the hard work.

Comfort Zone

Last Friday my best friend Kaitlin along with my boy friend decieded to go to Lake Campounds. I normaly do not like heights at all. Actually I'm quite teriffied (just ask my drill seargents from basic). The three of us went on a ride called the RevOlution. What the ride does is in a circle you face outword in a seat and spin clockwise and counter clockwise while going side to side in an arch like motion. While looking at the ride looked fun at a distance it soon became more terryfining as we got closer and closer to it. By the time we were seated I was ready to drop dead of a heart attack. The ride operater told us were to sit and to our surprise the only thing that keeps you in the ride is a cusion in front and in the back of you, no seat belts at all!
I know for a fact I screamed durring the whole forty seconds this ride lasted for and griped on the safety bar the entire time. I do have to confuse the adrinaline rush was worth it, everything was worth it. I was having fun with two people I care about deeply and the the cool air caressing my skin and the smells of the park hit you all at once. The only thing I could think was, this is what it feels like to be fully alive; where your senses are fully awake.
In short, some times you have to risks that you might not be to keen with, but in the long run it might be worth it. You will never know unless you actuly go through with it.  

Critical Thinking and Technology

My video is complete and ready to go to spread the word on how technology effects our thinking skills.

Midterm project

Even though I haven't gotten very far in this project I have laid out the bones/ foundation where I will be able to get through this smoothly.

Here are my interview questions:

1.How does technology cripple or expand our critical thinking?

2.How do you use technology to think in depth about certain problems and/or questions?

3.Do you think that technology is bringing us closer to on another or making us more secluded?

Critical Thinking and You

Thursday we went to Buely library to learn how to use the resources a round the campus. Everyone had to look for and bring out a book that was about critical thinking and relates to their project. My project has to do with technology and how it effects our critical thinking.
Critical thinking is how we solve problems around us, it's how we create new ways to improve out quality of living. So, it is only natural that technology is a product of this way of thinking. Technology cripples our ability to think in depth about certain things like people's view on controversial issues. With the tons of message boards on the internet people develop their opinions based on other people's opinions and not just on the facts. This creates a bias that will only eventually weaken the critical thinking process. However, technology makes think more, broadens our understanding of the world around us. With out technology we wouldn't know about genetics or the research on stem cells. Technology has both benefited man-kind and killed us. The atomic bomb gave us the power to destroy ourselves with in a few minutes and gave us the power to create power to our homes and offices. With social media aspect of technology we can connect with old friends or make new ones. You don't have to know what the person looks like or what they do in real life to make a connection with that person. There are hundreds of thousands of message boards and social networking websites it is almost impossible to escape it.      

No such thing as a dumb question....

One of the questions that I keep asking to myself and I wouldn't mind getting answers to is; what makes us humans as appose to just homosapiens. Is it our genius, our culture or maybe out innate ability to adapt to changes quickly? People have this great ability to gather together to help those in need no mater what. Whether it being running a marathon to help cure cancer or pulling a burning car off a motorcyclist. Our genius has brought us a long way from gathering around a fire; we have always found a way to make life easier and more comfortable for ourselves. Building skyscrapers, trains that can go almost 200 m/h, phones that we chat with each other via video. Before I get off track, what kind of techniques did people before us have to develop to get us to this point and what's next?