---THE LAST BLOG--- TOP TEN!

(Prof Janell:  Sorry for not having posted these last blogs before. I thought that we were not supposed to write during the thanksgiving break. I apologize and hope you understand. J)

So this is the last blog. I have to say that I really enjoyed the experience of blogging.  I realized that when you write about some topic, then is easier for you to express your opinions about it. My first blog talked about my first IS 101 Class. I think that for this one it would be nice to make a general reflection about some nice moments of this course. So I made the TOP TEN of the moments that I enjoyed the most of the IS 101 class:

10 – Orange Exceleration: This was a unique experience. I think that this orientation was a great experience to meet new people and break the ice with some other college students. I enjoyed specially the social ice cream in the house of the president Colson and our first speech about procrastination.

9 – Jurassic Park: this was a funny way to start the year. Watching the movie made think about how much my perception has changed since I first saw that movie when I was kid. I remember the popcorn and writing a first paper.

8 – Credo Assignment: I enjoyed this assignment, especially because it made me think and reorganize my beliefs. I think that I would keep that cardboard circle that I made as a reminder of the things that are important for me.

7 – Portrait myself as a learner: This paper was a big challenge for me, but it helped me a lot to understand why it is important to receive an education and specially, what means to be educated.

6 – Barry Schwartz

The piece by Barry Schwartz was really interesting, because after reading made me wonder what is that I am prioritizing, is just grades or in learning? I made further reading about this psychologist and I am really interested in his theories. For example he says that in our modern society we have extremely high expectative of ourselves and that is responsible of modern diseases like depression and eating disorders

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5 – The Graphic Novel

I loved the Persepolis assignment. I made a comic about the story of my dog Mimi, making this made me not only processed better the death of my doggie, but also made me realize how much I like drawing.

  

4 – The Andromeda Strain

Interesting movie based on the novel of Michael Crichton, we ate pizza courtesy of prof. Wright. Al thought I did not like the ending, I don’t like open endings that much.

3 – The Debate

I enjoyed the debate so much. I loved how we made a good job as a team and I recognize that the opposite group had some strong points too.  And as one of the girls in the other team said: “if the global warming is true at least we going to have warmer winters” haha!

2 – The conference

For my conference about the novel Sphere I decided to make a visual presentation summarizing the plot of the novel. I decided to use paper dolls. I was not sure how that was going to work. But at the end I think people liked it and I feel god for having tried something different. I really enjoyed this experience.

1- New Friends

And of course one of the best things of IS101 is that different from all the other classes this has helped to make new friends  with incredible people.

In conclusion IS101 has being a very special class that came exactly in the moment that I needed.  This has being an amazing semester. And of course thank you to my only reader Prof. Wright!

Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoyed my Blog!