Feb 16-18

This week I learned not to rely on your group members and to always do your work so that you're not the one that people are looking at and thinking "wow, that girl has done nothing for us." I have learned how frustrating it is to have someone who says they want to be "in charge" not take their responsibility seriously and have that harm the work of other students.

I also learned more about annotated bibliographies, why they are so useful and what we do with them. I learned about the process of picking an event that will be able to make it through a tough inquiry like ours will be, and I learned that if you get the chance to pick a group it is best to go with one that you think will be reliable instead of a group with your best Aquinas buddies or to stick with an event you know you already like and know about.

I learned about voting at the election speeches and how the STUSU president makes decisions for everyone st STU, and how it is a tough decision for me especially because I have never had the chance to vote for anything ever.

I learned about self confidence and respect from the Vagina Monologues occasion, which is important for everyone female or male.

February 9-11

It's nice to know that I know how to do the work that we are doing now for Aquinas. There have been a lot of weeks where I am unsure if what I have done is right or not because I generally don't get any feedback on my work, and there is no real marking system. This week though there have been other people that I have spoken with who have either done the work correctly or swung and missed, and from seeing their work I have learned that I have been doing an alright job.

Other than that I haven't really learned a whole lot this week, and I fear that these good old learning journals are going to be a bit short these next few weeks. Right now we are not really working on the learning process but setting ourselves up to learn, which is a much different approach than I am used to. And this annotated bibliography thing.. totally new to me. Up until this past week I always thought the bibliography was to be done last, or at least while working on the project, but for feasibility studies, I have learned, it is necessary for the bibliography to be done first.

I learned about the few proposals I hadn't heard of before like the Electric Kool-Aid Acid tests, and the Mennonites. I also learned more about the event that I am working on for the feasibility study: Little Rock Nine, but that's about it. Hopefully next week will have some more learning!

February 2-4

The first think I learned this week is that it is five days, NOT five class days for our first posting on occasions, and I would like to thank the people who told me otherwise for me not getting occasions.

I'm not quite sure what I learned this week.. I guess I could say I learned about the process it takes to choose a project, which is kind of cool. I don't quite understand what this will relate to unless I someday teach Truth in Society or something, but that's alright. I guess it just matters that I learned something, right? It is interesting to know how we should go about choosing an event, not a topic, which has enough to it for us to actually do a good project on. I think these will work out a lot better than the pirate projects (no offense to the pirate projects..) and since we are choosing the events it should mean we will stay interested in it. I am excited to see what this turns out to be..

I did not go to any occasions this week, because I hadn't really heard of any that people we going to, but Willy Wonka should be a treat!