Presentation

Nov 5

We have to do a presentation for the Business School about was it the MPC. So we divided the presentation into 6, so that each group could have a part. My group got the part that I wanted: The introduction. I really wanted this part because it is the same thing that I had to write for the handbook.

Here are the 6 parts in which the presentation was divided in:

And this was my slide:

Remember Remember

Nov 5

Javier Parellada lead todays morning meeting. He showed us a couple of videos about the 5th of november. Honestly I had no idea what the fifth of november was about, so I thought his morning meeting was very interesting. I still don't completely get what it is about, but all I know is that some people have the wrong idea about the fifth of november.

The Trivium Discussion

This was a really chaotic and disastrous dialogue for me for many reasons. It was the first time I have actually felt frustrated with people and with the MPC.

So, I worked my butt off this weekend in order to finish the book on time, and when I got here only 4 other people had read the book. I got upset and asked them for their reason or excuse for not reading the book. Their answer, I think, was not a valid one. They answered that they didn't read because they didn't have any time. I really find this ridiculous. We all had more than 2 weeks to read the book, more than enough time, and if they didn't read it then, they could've just done what I did. Last thursday, Bert asked us how far ahead we were in the Trivium and most of the people were way ahead of me, so I decided to sacrifice my week end and just read and catch up on the Trivium. But no, people here give more importance to parties, boyfriends/girlfriends, dinner etcetera, I mean I had other things to do also. This gets me really annoyed, because fist of all, they were not responsible and left thing for the last minute (like me), and secondly because they complain about it. It is their fault and no one else's that they are not up to date.  more than a week has passed since then, and people have still not read the book.

Once in the dialogue I got even more frustrated because we only discussed chapter 1 and 2. So I read the whole book just to discuss 2 chapters and we had already discussed chapter 1. Our conversation was getting way off topic, we had already discussed most of the things we were talking about. I just wanted to leave because I really wasn't feeling productive.

There was a really big turn point for me during the dialogue. At the end the ones who had read actually started talking about the last chapters and we actually we made some great discoveries. I believe only a few of the rest were paying attention, since they hadn't read they didn't follow the conversation.

Here are some of those discoveries:

• Logic is correctness in thinking which is the normal means to reach the truth, which is the conformity of thought with things as they are - with reality. 
• According so Sister Miriam we can also reach the truth by Theology, the "knowledge of God" which is availabe through revelation. 
• Inference comes from deduction in order to conclude the premises which come from induction. 

Philosophy of Capitalism

We went to this conference about the philosophy of capitalism. This was a conference that I really enjoyed, I believe that the guy who gave it talked really well and you could tell he knows about the subject. He started explaining us the basics of capialism and them went on explaining us the basics of socialism. At the end he made a nice comeback to capitalism with Ayn Rand. I really enojeyed this conference for the fact that he didnt only give us one perspective (capitalism), he gave us both perspectives for us to try to understand everything better.

Self Reliance 5

In this discussion we understood better what Emerson is complaining about. He thinks that one of the hardest thing in life is to be vulnerable. Emerson also introduces us to non-conformity. These non-conformists that Emerson explains have sour faces everywhere and we should not respond to these with another sad face, this would only hurt him more because these sour faces have no real cause.

On of my personal conclusions that i learned from this dialogue was that to stand up or to be firm in front of a mob, we need something to help us stay up, for me that is religion. By this I don't mean religion in the sense of church or christianity, I mean religion in the sense of belief. One needs to believe in themselves and be true to oneself and practice your values, this is what I mean by religion.

Another thing I learned was that we, human beings, distrust ourselves when we learn something new or when we change our opinion in something, because we don't want to be inconsistent. Through this 2 of the most common fears appear: to be inconsistent (with a mob) and to be ourselves.

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Greek

We haven't had Greek class for the last couple of weeks and this week we found out that Moris is not coming back. I wonder if he just wasn't up to this new system. The only thing that I didn't like about him leaving was that he did not even come to tell us, or to give us an explanation, he just disappeared. It also makes me believe that he is a quitter. This is purely an assumption though and it might not even be true.

Schedule so far

This is my schedule so far. I will have to change it because I just found out that there have been some changes today.  So I will be posting that later.
If I follow my schedule correctly I wont have any work for the week end and I will be up to date in everything.