Our First Long Day

September 9, 2013

Today we saw a video about what is going on with the United States and Syria. At the beginning I was excited for the video, I didn't really know what was going on or what problems these countries were having. Well, the point is that I really didn't like the video. I believe that it was a hater video, in which whoever did the video attacked the US. It seemed to me that the video was one of those conspiracy videos in which many of the things are assumed. I mean, I don't know if the US really did or plan all of the things that the video was talking about, but if I have learned something it is that when there is a conflict, both of the parties have a little blame. So yeah, maybe the US did bad things, but probably Syria did too. Who knows, I just now that I shouldn't really believe all of the things these kind of videos talk about.

The thing that left me somewhat concerned today was our mechanics dialogue. When we started commenting on our understanding of the book I believe we weren’t really understanding it correctly. The worst part of it all, is that I had most of the things clear, but it seemed like my classmates didn't. Maybe part of the slowness of the dialogue was because I had some understanding of the concepts and I barely spoke; I probably could’ve helped my friends but didn't. Another part could be because (I am assuming here) that my classmates didn't read through the whole part that we had to read. I assume this because many of the things that we were discussing were, I believe, clear in the book and even clearer in the propositions that were in the book. This got me thinking that maybe my classmates read, but didn't do the propositions. If this is so, I’m kind of disappointed. I guess what I really worry about is having another experience like the first and second semester, where I read many of the books and came prepared and everyone else didn't.

Later in the day we presented our ideas for documenting. I was amazed, again, at all of our ideas. There are so many great projects that we can do, and that we will actually learn by doing them. I just hope that we actually pursue these projects and make them come true, because many times I have heard us say that we will do certain things and at the end we never end up doing them.  Well, I guess I cant blame everyone for this, I haven’t exactly been pursuing them either.  But as a goal, I want to create at least three things from those lists, even if it is personal and not with the group. I just have to organize myself and start doing them.