Dr.Turkle

I went to Dr. Turkle’s seminar over “The Effects of Technology on Self”. This seminar emphasized the how people are becoming emotionally and physically attached to their cell phones and other electronic devices. I can personal attest to this because I would not stray far from the comfort of my cell phone. Other electronics that I think are having this same affect on people and especially youth are video games. Instead of seeing young kids enjoy the summer days or even vacation their playing video games. The worse thing is people are no longer doing direct conversation they would rather text than call. This allows people to screen what is said. Emotions aren’t the same with all this technology. People don’t connect with their children and children don’t connect to their parents. Pretty soon the world will have more problems with connecting to what is known as humanity. I have to ask the question is the further advancement of technology god for society. We look to social networks to verify emotions that should only take the approval of one’s own continents. Ask are fellow people to verify our reactions to certain things in our personal live by liking a status. Face book, myspace and the future social network twitter are all the same in taking away from the time we use to spend thinking to our self.    

social media gossipand privacy

Mr. Daniel Solove spoke on social media such as face book and how privacy has been destroyed by social social media people cannot get away from their past because nothing is ever erased when it comes to the internet. Google searching could bring up things that people did in their earlier years. Solove also highlighted several examples of people who have been persecuted over the internet such as the star wars kid, dog pop girl and a very known woman Dr. Schlesinger. Naked photos that she had token for an ex were sold and published on the internet. When she tried to sue them she lost the case because the company had copyrighted the photo giving them legal rights over the photos. Later on the website sued another website because they posted the pictures on their site. This is so wrong because it just seems so inhuman it makes you think that the law is above what is right. Where is the world going? All the legal documentation shouldn’t be held above a person’s well being. While many people point the finger at the person that is in the photo I think we need to stop treating the law as if it shouldn’t make adjustment to situations the photos should be removed. The law doesn’t have feeling people do what happens when people are so embarrassed that they become depressed or began being taunted by others. People can kill themselves over things like this in fact they have. Their blood should  not be forgotten but put on the hands of what we call the judicial system. Oh wait what the government holds most precious is not the people they say they protect but its laws. Sad cold immoral world I would say. I am outraged that people have lost their since of humanity. A   

I was talking to my friend Brianna a fellow Texas Lutheran student  and she had mentioned a lot of thing to me about her stay so far at Texas Lutheran. One of the things that stuck out most to me was that she felt she had gotten less attention from  the opposite sex senses she had been her. While of course in my mind I usually would think this was a normal female insecurity but I couldn’t help but think the same way. Laugh out loud I know right. She was feeling this way because unlike high school and her home town no one talked to her. Which made her feel like she was unattractive.  I started think how many other young ladies where feeling like Brianna. So I began asking the girls I had became friends with at Texas Lutheran and the shocking thing was that not just a lot but most of them felt this way. Me being a man decided to ask more questions. The first question I asked was why don’t you approach the guy instead. And all of their answers were “the girl not suppose to come up to the boy”. I myself think the woman logic is so dam flawed. Excuse me for cursing. As a man when I see a girl I don’t come up to them every time because some girls just don’t look like they would be without a boyfriend. Women are the most complicated in thinking. I say this because it is obvious that if you want someone to talk to you then you have to first actually make it known that you want to be talked to. Personally I don’t want to deal with a girl that has a bad attitude when I simply approach them. Some girls don’t take qurdious courtship the right way. While I’m an advocate for silvery girls act like showing entrust will kill them.   

over done

For our Frex exam all the frex classes were given two essays to write before class. This to me was a waste of time. I don’t mean a waste like I didn’t appreciate what I learned from the handouts but this is finals week and I have more pressing matters. Texas Lutheran has again succeeded in overlooking the work load of their students. I am angry that the University doesn’t understand that adding more thing to be learned and tested over the week of finals is not only daunting but time consuming. This has happened in most of my classes and I think I should speak up. I’m not a part time student that has all the time in the world to study for two classes. I have a full schedule of six classes and adding thing at the last minute doesn’t help me with actually knowing the material. As a student I feel over whelmed with all the studying because unlike everyone else some of my finals are cumulative over several long chapters and the class doesn’t give you reviews. I’m not writing this to complain I’m writing this to point out a flaw that I think this institution is over looking. If my words fall on deaf ears then this university will be seen in my eye’s as one that doesn’t understand its work load on  students. The professors are not only teaching assignments the university wants them to do but also what they want the student to learn. This makes workloads nearly unbearable.

As I have been attending TLU I have learned so much. The IGG's that are talked about by TLU really did come in to play. I wonder if other colleges are as in tuned with the knowing, doing, and becoming concept. with every paper i have written this semester i have gained more knowledge about the world and education. I have also learned about the importance of ethics in a person, which seems to be disappearing in today’s youth. i know I’m not perfect but with the reinforcement of morals and ethics I know I can be true to who I should be. As i look back on this past semester i can truly say i learned about life and its responsibility to others. my Advisor Dr.Leavens taught passionately over the Frex information but went an extra mile to include other things that have instilled wisdom into anyone that cared to listen. His words never fell on def ears when it came to me. One of my favorite things that he quoted was "the unexamined life is not worth living". I would ask around to my fellow TLU students to see if they had learned as much in their Frex class but it was no shock they had not. He himself went the extra mile which meant a lot to me. With everything I have learned I can make smarter ethical dessions about my life and who i hang out with.

sleep deprivation to get your work done

Oh where oh where does the time go.my procrastination has brought me to towel the night away. i question my self ever time i have put off the work that is suppose to be do for weeks. my decisions are always coming back to get me but i seem to never learn a lesson. i pray to god that the procrastination stops. professor Barry has said it more than once that students that think they do better under pressure  often have never done work with out it. I'm afraid I might be one of those people. as i have went though some of the assignments my English professor gave me I've learned good studying habits and time management. this is because this is what we were required to write about. I think it was very smart way of getting freshman students adjusted into the school year. i also read an article titled "the art of resilience" which made me give a harder push in my efforts in college. it attributed a part of resilience to god which made a lot of sense to me. i say that because in order for you to keep striving for your dreams there has to be something greater than oneself.

8 week at TLU

While every one in college has family support it seems like i don't. That is perfectly fine with me where there is a will there is away i have to say. I have to come up with some way to make money in college because not having money isn't going to cut it. this is my 8 week at TLU but i still haven't figured out how the grades are. But i meat with my peer mentor to study for my midterm and I'm pretty sure i destroyed the test and i mean that in a good way.But it seems i have learned more then my friends that went to other schools. Their class they tell me have no individual time with the professor. it makes them seem like they are just a number. I wonder if that is the right kind of education. i feel that if you go to a school like that you can't really become educated to your full potential. many people don't have a desire to obtain knowledge and I think that would make those schools not so sufficient at educating their students.