Has anyone else noticed how awkward homecoming weekend is? Everything seems to be all turned around. What you expect to happen doesn't, and things you never thought would happen do happen. WHY? I think the best example of this happened last night, well... actually... I guess it was this morning. Last night my roomates 12 year old sister was in our dorm for the first time, so she decided she wanted to spend the night. That's fine with me and our other roomate so she brings her stuff. I went to my friends dorm, Robin, my other roomate, went to a haunted house, and Bekah and her little sister Bethany went to bed at 11 ish. No problem right? WRONG!!!! I realize that there were a lot of parties last night, but that doesn't make it okay to come back to the dorm insanely drunk yelling at your boyfriend or your friends @ 4:30 in the morning. This went on for at least an hour before I could fall asleep, and i'm used to dorm life. I can only imagine what Bethany was going through. You would think that the RA would step in at this point, but no. I went outside to try to take care of it myself, but to my surprise it was some of the girls on my floor, their friends and boyfriends, and our RA that were making all the noise. I think that is complete bull crap. I went to bed, eventually, and just dealt with this horrid irony. I was over it until about an hour ago.
Ashley, Katy Shevel, and I are in my room listening to my pandora station and doing our homework, it's not even 8 PM mind you, when my RA knocks on the door and tells us that her and her roomate aren't feeling well, and they would like us to turn our music off so they could sleep. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! What. She wants US to be quieter in our room when the door is closed and we're doing home work @ 8 PM so THEY can sleep. REALLY!!!!! Does this sound wrong to anyone else? THEY were the drunk ones @ 4 in the morning making it extremely difficult for everyone to sleep and now they want my music off so that they can sleep off their hangover. I DON'T THINK SO. I did what she said because she's my RA and I don't really have the desire to be kicked out this early, but you can bet that this will come up at the next floor meeting, once my RA is "feeling better!" (Insert sarcastic tone here)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
hey ya'll
hey it's been a while since i've been on so lets play some catch up. We've discussed Ishmael and wrote our Ishmael response papers on which i got a B. Yay me. That's about all thats happened in IS since i've been gone, now on to my blog assignment. I was supposed to do a random act of kindness, which in itself is somewhat contradictory because if you are assigned to do a random act it's not really random now is it? If you do it just so you can write about it, is it really worth doing? we will come back to this after I talk about my "random" acts this weekend.
I'm not sure what others justify random acts of kindness. How kind does it have to be? I hold doors open for people all tha time does that count? I share my food with everyone on my floor what about that? When my parents came this weekend, we were going to go out for pizza, but i made my dad order extra and eat it here so my friends could came over and have some too. Things like this are random acts of kindness to me, but they don't need to be thought about, it's just something you do. One that after it was done i realized it would be good for this was Friday night after Kastle Kapers.
My parents and brother were here, and it was after 11 and EVERYONE wanted to go home. I was getting ready to go when i looked over and saw my friend Cole Younger putting away 2 drum sets. No one was helping him, he would b there forever. I recruited my roomate Bekah, Ashley, and a couple people from Castle Singers to come with me and help Cole. Instead of Cole being there by himself for at least 30 min. then having to take it all from Neumann to the FAC, which would take at least 4 trips, it took all of us about 10 min to load up and only 1 trip to the FAC. This is a random act of kindness, but shouldn't we all be wired to do this already? this seems like a common courtesy thing to me, but sadly for most people it's not.
Now back to the question I posed earlier. If you have to think about it should it really be done? I'm still not sure about this one. I think things like this should be done out of the goodness of your heart to help people not so you can write about it for IS class. It should happen as a reflex not a conscious effort. I'm torn becasue this is how it should be ideally, but we all know it isn't like this. "random" acts of kindness should happen, but should not do them if we have to think about them first? I'm going to leave that up to you to decide for yourself.
I'm not sure what others justify random acts of kindness. How kind does it have to be? I hold doors open for people all tha time does that count? I share my food with everyone on my floor what about that? When my parents came this weekend, we were going to go out for pizza, but i made my dad order extra and eat it here so my friends could came over and have some too. Things like this are random acts of kindness to me, but they don't need to be thought about, it's just something you do. One that after it was done i realized it would be good for this was Friday night after Kastle Kapers.
My parents and brother were here, and it was after 11 and EVERYONE wanted to go home. I was getting ready to go when i looked over and saw my friend Cole Younger putting away 2 drum sets. No one was helping him, he would b there forever. I recruited my roomate Bekah, Ashley, and a couple people from Castle Singers to come with me and help Cole. Instead of Cole being there by himself for at least 30 min. then having to take it all from Neumann to the FAC, which would take at least 4 trips, it took all of us about 10 min to load up and only 1 trip to the FAC. This is a random act of kindness, but shouldn't we all be wired to do this already? this seems like a common courtesy thing to me, but sadly for most people it's not.
Now back to the question I posed earlier. If you have to think about it should it really be done? I'm still not sure about this one. I think things like this should be done out of the goodness of your heart to help people not so you can write about it for IS class. It should happen as a reflex not a conscious effort. I'm torn becasue this is how it should be ideally, but we all know it isn't like this. "random" acts of kindness should happen, but should not do them if we have to think about them first? I'm going to leave that up to you to decide for yourself.
Friday, October 2, 2009
randomness
SOOOO that little quiz we had to take online said pretty much nothing about how i learn. It said i have a mild tendency toward kinesthetic learnig, but not enough to make much difference. these were my scores
visual 1
aural 2
read/ write 5
kinesthietic 7
see what i mean. All this told me is that i dont learn very well visually or aurally. I already knew that you stupid quiz. You were supposed to tell me which of the other two ways i learn best. They suggest that I do labs/ more hands-on things to learn which i generally have to do anyway. Thats about it.
Now on to Giamatti. I think Giamatti characterizes liberal learnig as "education that can spark a lifelong love of learning." this is a quote taken directly out of the text. I think this means that Liberal learning gives you a type of education that gives you the passion for learning more for the rest of your life. I think this directly mirrors what we have been taught so far about Wartburg's mission. Wartburg tries to give us all a passion for Service, Leadership, Faith and Learning. I think that in Faith and learning comes all the rest, but the type of learning is what sparks the passion for all future learning. Wartburg, in giving us a well- rounded liberal education, gives us that type of learing that is needed to spark that love of learning.
visual 1
aural 2
read/ write 5
kinesthietic 7
see what i mean. All this told me is that i dont learn very well visually or aurally. I already knew that you stupid quiz. You were supposed to tell me which of the other two ways i learn best. They suggest that I do labs/ more hands-on things to learn which i generally have to do anyway. Thats about it.
Now on to Giamatti. I think Giamatti characterizes liberal learnig as "education that can spark a lifelong love of learning." this is a quote taken directly out of the text. I think this means that Liberal learning gives you a type of education that gives you the passion for learning more for the rest of your life. I think this directly mirrors what we have been taught so far about Wartburg's mission. Wartburg tries to give us all a passion for Service, Leadership, Faith and Learning. I think that in Faith and learning comes all the rest, but the type of learning is what sparks the passion for all future learning. Wartburg, in giving us a well- rounded liberal education, gives us that type of learing that is needed to spark that love of learning.
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