Ignorance v. Stupidity

8-9 pm Kaleidoscope meeting (ran over tonight)
*props for intellectual discussion and stimulation
Class size: fluctuates at times, avg. 20

Discussion topic: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman Halloween Costumes

Two links for it as well:
http://globalgrind.com/2013/10/27/trayvon-martin-black-face-george-zimmerman-halloween-costume-william-filene-greg-cimeno-photos/
and
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/trayvon-zimmerman-halloween-costume_n_4170528.html

We had a great discussion over this photo in our Kaleidoscope club tonight. I love the times when my eyes are opened to what's going on around me more. This case in particular, had so much media attention, I cannot imagine the people dressing up had no idea that what they were doing was bad.
However, I know there are some instances where something is obvious to others but I'm blind to it.

It is the gray ground between ignorance and stupidity.

At my own college, there are many fraternity theme parties. A couple years before I came to school here, there was a "Christmas in the Hood." When I heard that I was like, wow, that is so racist and stereotypical of them. But then a person in the club also brought up that we still have theme parties called 'White Trash, Trailer Bash" and "Protect the Chest." And I went to the 'White Trash' party last year. I was so ignorant. How could I not think that this party is mocking and rude to others? How could I be so ignorant?

Then the subject of dressing up for Halloween comes back up again and a person brings up the point that people still dress up like Native Americans. What will history books say about us?

Ignorance might be bliss, but that's only because we're tuning ourselves out to how we're hurting others.

We turn a blind eye, a deaf ear, and a silent mouth.

This is a THUMBS UP on the club and a thumbs down on the stereotyping and racism.

Extra thoughts: What's your opinion?

Hush Little Baby...

...don't you cry.

Rest time; so essential to the college students' everyday lives. We are overworked with what we're not used to, with the amount of time we're not use to dedicating to one thing for so long a time.

1 pm break til 5 pm
Class size: 1 (myself--i like to enjoy my free time alone...i have friends but i also have homework and naps to take care of) [of course, I'd gladly give up my free time to help a friend in need]

I make sure to eat three meals a day as well. Breakfast and dinner with friends and lunch with boyfriend. And I usually eat lunch after health and fitness (noon) and then go to rest and work on class work.

This is my layout during my break time (different for everybody):

• find an empty room in 3rd floor library or empty room in Classics building (if in library, use the comfy cushions)
• put on earphones and go on Pandora on my laptop*

*right now I'm listening to the "Cayucas" station on Pandora; I heard about this band from an upperclassmen that I respect. I've been listening to them for a month now; I have not changed the station since I've put it to this band:

http://cayucas.com/

• check out email, g mail, Facebook, and my college website for any class information
• take a 20 min nap:  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323932604579050990895301888

• work on homework
• start on English because I want to focus on my English major and later when I take music classes I'll also focus more on those (Music & English MAJOR!!! That's me)
• work on projects
• I should probably focus on my Health & Fitness STD project soon
• prepare for club meetings
• I'm historian for our Kaleidoscope (diversity) club this year

Recommended song for the day:

Rest Rating: Thumbs UP

WARNING!!!! Do not ever wake a person up from a nap unless it's a life or death situation!!!

The Weight-Loss Dilemma

11 am Health & Fitness class with Coach M
Class Size: 27 (good lecture class)

Things I learn in this class:
~diets do not work
        ....without exercise

This class is the perfect class to prove how much we need a health and fitness program. If we could have a class like this every school year of our lives, that would be perfect and could lessen the risk of many bad things...I think. We have a health lecture on Mondays and fitness workouts on Wednesdays. We've figured out our BMI, we've figured out our heart rate, our ability to workout. We're just now learning about everything

If this information was given since elementary school and middle school and high school, if people could know before college that eating disorders were bad, so much could be prevented. Girls and guys would not have gone through period of anorexia or bulimia. If sociology classes were taught in early middle school and late elementary school about fashion images and how messed up airbrushed images can be. Girls and guys wouldn't be so messed up in the head. People wouldn't have self-esteem issues...as much.


http://truprep.com/news/preppers-blog/whats-health-and-fitness-got-to-do-with-prepping/



Quote:

"A lot of what we're talking about here (pause) is HOW MUCH you eat."

~ not about what you eat, it's how much you eat and when you eat


Thumbs Up
***Notes to consider: the professor makes the class

Name the three types of rock: Classic, Punk, Hard

8 am Geology class with Professor W.
Class size: 40 (the biggest class I've had so far)


We're going over chapter 14 from our geology textbook right now. And it seems as if he's trying to make it interesting to the class but I think we're all so jaded from his normal class lessons. . .scratch that. Maybe I'm one of the few not paying attention right now.

It's 20 min since the lecture began and he's just now beginning to talk about today's topic.

Sometimes, half of us sleep and he keeps talking. Sometimes, we ask questions that he doesn't know the answer to such as, what does that picture mean? "Idk" Yet, he was the one who made the power point and the one who put the pictures up.

I would understand the necessity of taking a science class to have the qualities of a well-rounded person. I would love to talk about minerals and fossils. I would like to TALK and be part of a discussion and analyze. Unfortunately, my professor this semester likes to talk more than let others talk. He loves his talking so much he doesn't even need an audience. We sleep and do other homework half the time. He sees us and keeps talking.

...

I'm sorry. I am being rude. He's a person like everybody else.

...The three types of rock are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. But I enjoy the joke better.


http://meetinghousegeology.pbworks.com/w/page/22992333/Geology%20Jokes

For this class, we've had to memorize the names of minerals, the names of different rocks (of all three types), and the names, phylum, and class of fossils. And the only reason I'm passing this class so far is due to sharing this class with my two best friends. We always try to study together. One wants to be a teacher so when we're studying she takes up leadership and helps us remember the names by association. I have no idea what I'd do without her.

EXAMPLE: fossil:: phylum::: mollusca --class::: pelecypoda
                    There are three mollusca in our fossil group.
                    I remember the class 'pelecypoda' because we broke it down to three words.
                   Pele: is of course the famous soccer player. And how do I remember that this specific title is Pele? Because there is a division on one end and it reminds me of two legs. Then 'cy' sounds like 'see' and I want to see Pele. And..I want to take a 'poda' or 'photo' when I see Pele because he is such a famous futbolista.

Class is finished for today children.


This is a thumbs down.