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My name is Blaire Sloane. I am from Long Island, New York and I am in my second year at Bloomsburg. I hate public speaking. I am a visual learner. I love learning as long as the topic is something im interested in. Outside of class I love to hang out with my friends and family, watch movies based on true stories and listen to all kinds of music.


 * Student #1 || Hrs ||
 * Sleeping || 9 ||
 * Homework || 2 ||
 * Cleaning || 1 ||
 * Relaxing (T.v./Computer) || 10 ||
 * Eating || 2 ||
 * Exercising || 0 ||


 * Student #2 || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Hrs ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Sleeping || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">12 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Homework || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">2 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Cleaning || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">1 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Relaxing (T.v./ Computer) || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">6 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Eating || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">3 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Exercising || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">0 ||


 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Student #3 || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Hrs ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Sleeping || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">8 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Homework || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">3 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Cleaning || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">1 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Relaxing (T.v./ Computer) || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">5 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Eating || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">3 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Exercising || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">4 ||


 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Student #4 || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Hrs ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Sleeping || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">9 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Homework || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">2 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Cleaning || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">1 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Relaxing (T.v./ Computer) || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">8 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Eating || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">2 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Exercising || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">2 ||


 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Student #5 || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Hrs ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Sleeping || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">8 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Homework || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">3 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Cleaning || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">1 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Relaxing (T.v./Computer) || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">7 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Eating || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">2 ||
 * <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">Exercising || <span style="color: #ef14f0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">3 ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Clue #1: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">These three pictures come from three rooms in the same apartment. In the first room their are lots of pictures of family and friends to keep them close to her while she is away at school. She has a T.V. and a laptop in her room which is pretty standard in most college rooms. Her room is not extremely neat but i wouldnt consider it messy. You cant tell from the picture but her mirror and two of her picture frames are made out of old newspapers which shows she promotes a green lifestyle. The second room is another girls room. Her room isnt completely girly but you can tell by the drapes and the poster that its a girls room. Her room is slightly messy but nothing to out of contorl. She has a computer but no T.V. in her room. My third room has girly colors of purple and yellow. None of her walls are empty, one wall is filled completely with pictures which shows her family and friends mean alot to her. She is very neat and has a T.V. and laptop in her room. After looking over the data I collected, there are some general assumptions I can make about college life. The first being that the average student spends most of their day sleeping or relaxing by watching T.V. or going on the computer. On average college students spend two or three hours a day studying or doing homework, this shows me that students do take the time to do their homework but don’t take much time on top to study. Cleaning is definitely not a main priority. Lastly I can say that exercising is either very important or not important at all to college students.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #1

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This reading offered great insight into what college life is really truely like. It is so honest about what dorm life really consists of. The idea that you cant study the average college study is extremely interesting to me because it is so true as Rebekah Nathan puts it in " My Freshman Year" "there is little that is automatically shared amoung people by virtue of attending the same university." Then after you through in all the clubs, majors, meal plans and jobs you can get almost no two college students will have the same exact daily activities making it hard to pick which student is the "average." I also found it very intersting when Rebekah Nathan was talking about the decorations she observed. You would think students would put pictures on their doors that show them looking there best and with the people that mean most to them yet " the images typically are not serious; they are often posed." Students just but up pictures of themselves that make them look like the type of person other people would want to hangout with, whether it be hanging out with people there age looking like their laughing having the time of their lives, or making a stupid face in an outfit their parents most likely wouldnt approve of. For the second reading I found it very interesting and funny that one of the first things that both the girl Judy and his roommate John said was " wait till i tell my mom " when Michael Moffatt showed them the paper showing he was a professor as opposed to a student. Another thing I found very interesting was during the ice breaker exercise Moffatt took part in where each student was asked to write down their biggest fear and biggest hope (page 17) most of the answers were the same. In general they wanted to do good at school, make friends, and go on with their lives in their career choice, they feared failing. I find it interesting that though everyone comes into college with the same general goals and fears each college students life take such different paths, some that will cross and some that couldnt be headed in further directions, there is no way to know where youll end up in the begining.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Clue#2: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I spent an hour sitting at a table at the Husky Lounge. I watched hundreds of college students quickly walk in wait on line for an average of 10 mintues then after a quick meal swipe be on there way out the door. Most of the students took their lunch to go, and the ones that stayed we almost almost sitting in groups of two too four people. Anyway that sat alone isolated themselves by sitting by a window and playing with their cell phone or ipod the whole time or reading/ doing homework. Students that were sitting with others seemed to be very comfortable as if they were with close friends. No conversations seemed too deep or instance just light and comical. I think society paints this picture of teenage social life in the cafeteria or any eatting setting, that being if you sit alone your a loser and have no friends and if you sit with a large group of friends your a cool kid. That is why I feel kids dont want to sit alone and I am guilty of this myself. I would rather avoid the ackward stares nad just bring my food to my room. I feel students like to eat with their peers because eatting is a form of relaxation for college students. In a group of say four friends the odds of everyone having the same major is slime to non, therefore each student will have differnet classes at different times. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are suppose to be universial needs for all students therefore it is a common demominator for all the friends and a way to keep in contact and stay connected in some way. While students are away at college their friends are their family so it makes sense to want to eat with your family and people you love and you can be yourself around.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #2 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I find it very interesting that the ideas of college students have'nt changed since 1980. As Moffatt shows freshman are scene as the immature babies who are going crazy their first years because they arent used to having no rules. Living in dorms is the main way to make friends your first year. Sophmore year you may stay in the dorms again because you dont feel like looking for an apartment yet but by junior year your dying to get out of the dorms. You want you own space and you dont need to be mr. or mrs. social anymore because as Rebekah points out " networks were formed, usually by the end of freshman year." I found it very interesting that as pointed out by Rebekah rooms built for socialization like lounges were and still are mainly used as places to escape socializing. I just like her question why with so many opportunities to be a strong community it rarley exists on dorm floors. It is so werid because what she is saying is true when students say they would love a strong sense of unity and friendship they are telling the truth, I know this because I am in this position now. Yet I don't do anything about it and even when activities are handed to me on a golden platter I dont attend them. I think people are just afraid to leave their comfort zones. There already in a brand new place, for some people a brand new state, there surrounded by thousands of different new people and they get overwhelmed. So we such for what we had at home, a group of people you get along with and that can make you happy and laugh so you dont miss home and your friends from home so much. No one likes to go around searching for friends, I am guilty of this too because my feeling is true friendship happens natural. Once we find atleast one or two people that you enjoy their company and feel comfortable around you feel like your job is done and your search is over. College is a totally different experience than anything most kids entering it have ever had. That with the combination of the insercurities and judgement teenagers hold inside them its no surpirse to me that individualism is becoming increasingly more popular amoungst every aspect of college life.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Clue #3

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">1. What activity takes up most of your day?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. Being on the computer, going on facebook and doing homework.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. Sleeping.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">2. Do you feel like you've made true life long friends while at college?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. Yes, two or three

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. Yes, like two maybe

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">3. How did you make most of your friends at college?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. My freshman roomate, people on my floor my freshman year.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. People on my floor.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">4. Do you feel you can be completely yourself at college?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. umm...Yes ( Do you think I am?)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. I mean I guess, I think im the same person I am here that I am at home.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">5. Is there anything that is common amongst all college students?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. It seems that everyone has the same mind set to just party and sleep.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. We all sleep and eat and drink.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">6. Are you happier at home or a college, why is that?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. I would say half and half, because I like living around all my own things at home, like my own bedroom and shower and I like being here because I have fun and its something different.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. ( asked other girl being interviewed what she answered to this question) I dont know, I'm happier at college because my parents aren't yelling at me all the time.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">7. Are you worried about your future?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. Yes I am, because I thought that I wanted to be a teacher but after really looking into it I realized I dont really want to be.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. Uh yes because in my major I need to get into grad school to get a degree.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">8. Do you feel independent?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. Um, yes and no because i still call my mom for stuff.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. No cause my parents still pay for stuff

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">9. Is it hard to be an individual at college?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. Uh, I would say it is, think about it whenever you say you want to stay in everybody is going out and then you feel like you have to go out.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. Yeah I think its hard to be yourself at college, because you want to fit in so badly that people will do anything.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">10. Three words to describe yourself?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a. friendly, bubblely,..... (over a mintue later) loyal....no! trustworthy use that one.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">b. outgoing, loveable, friendly (cause i cant think of anything else).

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I started off my interview asking the common questions of what activity takes up most of your day and how did you make most of your friends. The answers I recieved were nothing that I didn't expect. I figured either sleeping or watching T.V. would take up most of there time and I could have guessed that they met the majority of their friends because they all lived on the same floor freshman year. The answers didn't help me expand on any of my ideas for the final project we need to do, but as I went on with my interview I realzied the format of my interview could maybe give me some new or reaffirming insight. I chose to do my interviews at the same time, I didn't choose to do this for any perticular reason but by the end of it I was happy I did. When I asked the question do you feel completely yourself at college, my roomate first answered yes but after alittle pause, then she proceeded to ask me if I thought she was herself. When it was the other girl's time to answer she said something along the lines of well I think I am. What I found interesting was that my roomate asked me if I thought she was completely herself, how would I know, only she knows if she is acting completely herself. She was scared that I or the other girl in the room were judgeing her or didn't think she was completely herself. After that happened the other girl being interviewed didnt immediately say yes she said um I think I am. If you really feel you are completely yourself their shouldnt be any part of you that is unsure about being questioned about it. Just in the way that she answered and the tone in her voice I could tell that she wasnt telling the truth or atleast not the whole truth. So I thought to myself why would these girls answer yes to the question when they both were clearly not 100% about their answers they could have said they werent sure or answered back with a question like is anyone completely themselves which is what I would have done. The conclusion i've come up with is that college students really do want to be 100% themselves because no one wants to be seen as "fake" or " not real." I feel changing little parts of yourself like certain habits you have when you come to college is more like adapting as opposed to being phony or not real. College students are afraid of being judged or seen as "not cool." Truth is not every one is a laid back, go with the flow, friendly outgoing person yet I feel like U.S. college students are all trying to fit that roll. The answers I got to the last question I asked confirms this thought. I didnt give them any time constraints I just simply asked what are three words to describe yourself. Both said friendly,and the other answers were loveable, bubblely and outgoing. Nither choose words that are unique to their personalitys the words they choose were very common. They were scared to give any answers outside of the box, and when they answered it they answered this question as if it were the most important one, as if these three words were the only responses they would be judged on. Its almost like they didn't want to have the exact same answers yet they didn't want to be too different than eachother. There answers to the questions had an big effects on one another, I found that extremely interesting. It also made my wonder, would they have the same or different answers if I had interviewed them seperately <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #3 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I very much agree with Rebekah Nathan when she talks about how students just go to class take their notes then leave. This goes back to how U.S. college students don't take advantage of opportunities that are presented right infront of their faces. If you have classes with people you automatically have something in common with them and something you can talk about, so it would make sense to ask them after class to go eat lunch. Yet instead students count the seconds down till class ends then speed out of the classroom and call or text their "real friends" and ask them there they are and if they want to get food. If their friends say yes then it's off to go get food and if they say no students either call someone else, hold off on getting food till their friends arent busy, or go and get food and bring it back to their rooms to eat it. I doesn't make sense but it just goes back to my thought on college students are to afriad to leave their comfort zone. No one wants to be " the werid girl or boy in that class that asked you do go get lunch today, that you don't even know and made things really ackward." All it would take is one person to ask someone else and than it could be a damino affect. Having a social life is college is nothing like having a social life in the real world. Being really social in college means going out, drinking, and being able to say "hey, we have to hang out sometime soon, give me a call" to a number of different people but, can you even consider these people friends, do you even have their phone number or more than that do you even really have the desire to hang out with that person. In more cases than none I would think the answers to thoses questions would be no. There is a quoting Holden Caulfield from the Catcher in the Rye "phony" aspect about college that I dislike greatly but I don't think will ever go away and can be very hard to see from the inside. I also think college students would rather deny or turn their cheek to this fakeness than deal with it and try and change it. Moffatt says the results of his friendship questionnaires conducted in the middle of the year showed their was a lack of friendliness between black and whites, I feel if survives were taken at basically any college the results would be similar. I dont just think that these results would be confirmed amoung different races but also different religions and sexual orientation. I believe college students become aware of other's that are different from them because of diversity in college but, I don't feel a majority of the students are truely willing to open their eyes and get to know these people that are different than them. For example they are willing to say hello and be friendly with someone of the opposite race but if that person asked them to go home with them for the weekend and be fully submerged in that other persons culture the other person would deny the offer, politely ofcourse. This goes back to the same thing i've said about basically all the readings i've done I feel the main thing I message is that U.S. college students are willing to bend alittle but mainly just go threw college staying in their comfort zone.

<span style="color: #bd0510; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #4 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I agree with alot E.D. Hirsch's ideas but I don't believe his method of cultural literacy alone would cause a huge increase of literacy in America. I do agree with him on his thoughts about learning being all technical now-a-days. The main concerns are how you do it and wether you do it this way or that way. Kids are more concerned with understanding each word indiviually and making each word one hundred percent grammatically correct that they don't take time to look at the sentence after its formed and as a whole and comprehending what it saying. Backround information is also important when trying to understand what your learning. I also agree with the views of the critics who disagree with Hirsch. Real literacy requires kids able to question the content of the curriculm which wouldn't be possible if everyone had to learn and agree with a 63 page list of core facts. Cultural literacy does take away or at least reduce diversity amongst students in schools across America. Besides knowing significant people and terms of the future students also need to be aware of change and whats going on in the present so they can form their own ideas and not just accept the ones that already exist. Whether you agree or disagree with E.D. Hirsch's views on content learning you have to respect the fact that he is trying to come up with solutions. While others sit back and just watch the literacy rate in America drop, not thinking of ways to fix it Hirsch keeps up with his research in schools and trys to promote his methods.

<span style="color: #ba0808; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #5 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">After reading Kristi Oloffson time article The Job Market: Is a College Degree Worth Less? I was more worried about my future then before reading it. After actually seeing the statistics for example the total amount of money loaned to students has increased 18% to $81 million dollars and the record high recent grad unemployment rate reaching an record high 10.6%. Now-a-day going to college and getting bacholers degree has become a norm, just like an extra four years added onto college. It scares that me that while I'm trying as hard as I can in college and still not getting perfect grades, when I get out of college my employers wont look at my grades as much as looking for experience I had outside the classroom. The only thing I'm doing outside the classroom is studying with alittle socialization just to keep me sane, and the crazy part is I dont even have a major yet. After reading the second article Should More People Skip College? by Daniel Indiviglio I started to think about the thrid part of the Ear project, when he made the statement "whether or not a job actually requires a degree isnt really asking the right question.Employer demand matters." College and if not them as a whole then at least college students need to individually focus more on the requirements and demands of their future employers as opposed to class requirements. I like his point that to say college is valuable for all or even most young adults isn't clear. In the third article Plan B- Skip College from The New York Times brings up some great points. If you encourage students not to go to college it could be interpreted as having low expectations. Also you are shortchanging them for an experience that could provide them with great personal growth. Its a double edge sword. I agree with Peggy Williams the high school counselor that it would be easier to support leading students away from attending college right after high school if more options existed and were made public. All together these articles made me question my furture and college experience further. I question if there is any solution to this problem about growing master degrees being earned verse the growing unemployment and student loan rate increasing as well.

<span style="color: #ba0808; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reading Response #6 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I liked reading the first satires because it simplified the intense college exerience into a simple story about animals. The best part was at the end when she notes the the prairie dogs did not go to school yet they were sucessful in the end. Just like most fairytales or childrens books at the end you learn and lesson. This lesson is, being able to do a number of different things will help you out in the long run as opposed to focusing all your energy and only being good at one thing. Relating to this class there was also the lesson that you dont have to go to college to be successful just work hard and you will end out okay. The second satire reminded me off this class. Im sure 20 maybe even 10 years from now classrooms and lecturehalls won't even exist. This class is a good balance between using technology( computers) and the regular teacher talks you take notes style class. Everything we need in online but we still have group discussions that at times involve the whole class. When we break up into groups to do projects we are given the option whether to make a hang drawn poster with are findings or create a powerpoint only with our results. Each project we get in different sometimes using a computer is fasting and easier but sometimes just using markers and a poster board is the better options. This story made me think what the future holds for education and it scares me but also in a way excites me to see what they will come up with next.

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