HACKING MY EDUCATION

Today we were asked to reflect on our first semester in the course and exactly what everyone did to make changes in their lifestyles and what information they took form what we learned in the course previously and how we acted upon. No one said anything. And I realized the problem. It is not that we are not learning because we are, the problem is that people are not taking ACTION and that is exactly what we need to do. I know Dr. Preston has encouraged us to do so individually yet, only about 40% of both his zero and first period classes have done so. And why is that? Well we are all a bunch of big babies. We are accustomed to being walked through absolutely everything that we have done on our lives so when we are given the freedom to do as we want, we are blank. Completely clueless. Therefore I was thinking maybe we can start something as a class, kind of like a project or activity that is both interesting to us and educational, and then progress to individual actions, or perhaps both simultaneously. I am just not sure what yet. I know for a fact though that we definitely need to start taking action on everything we talk about rather than to continue simply doing that- talking about it.