Another tomorrow, shedding the shade we made yesterday...
I managed to squeeze by my spring semester with 3 As and 2 Bs. It really should have been 4 As and a B but I took my State, Society class for granted and didn't do as well on the final as I thought I did. That's what arrogance gets you, right?
Today I started my summer courses. I am taking:
Comparative Latin American Politics
Geography of Latin America
Sustainability
All of the classes seem really interesting and the readings look awesome! However, my Geography course only has 4 people enrolled at the moment and only 3 of us showed up this morning to class. It was a bit awkward at first but the professor seems really interested in our learning, and this was fascinating considering he is teaching a class with only 3 people in it. He really seems to know what he's talking about and to really enjoy it, and I love that in professors. I was afraid this class would be canceled because of the low enrollment, but that wasn't the case. It is also the first time it is being taught, so we're the guinea pigs.
Tonight I went Downtown with the American Medical Student Association and Rock 4 Hunger to feed the homeless in Downtown Orlando. I feel that this is an experience everyone needs to partake in. We're fed images of poverty and destitution in other parts of the world, but we usually downplay or turn a blind eye to the poverty in our own country. What angers me the most is when our homeless are written off as junkies, low-lives, criminals, and treated like they're some sort of disease. While there are some homeless people that exploit their situation by taking unemployment, social security, what have you...but a lot of the time these people have mental or physical handicaps or they're just dealt a bad hand in life and cannot help their circumstances. It was interesting seeing these people laughing and talking where as if you saw them on a corner at night you would be afraid of them.
This summer of mine is going to be spent working on my classes, accumulating research for my thesis project for the Fall, studying for the GRE, making a list of graduate schools, working at Knightstop, interning at Jobs with Justice, and with any luck I might become an Organizer for the Iron Workers Union of Orlando.
Today I started my summer courses. I am taking:
Comparative Latin American Politics
Geography of Latin America
Sustainability
All of the classes seem really interesting and the readings look awesome! However, my Geography course only has 4 people enrolled at the moment and only 3 of us showed up this morning to class. It was a bit awkward at first but the professor seems really interested in our learning, and this was fascinating considering he is teaching a class with only 3 people in it. He really seems to know what he's talking about and to really enjoy it, and I love that in professors. I was afraid this class would be canceled because of the low enrollment, but that wasn't the case. It is also the first time it is being taught, so we're the guinea pigs.
Tonight I went Downtown with the American Medical Student Association and Rock 4 Hunger to feed the homeless in Downtown Orlando. I feel that this is an experience everyone needs to partake in. We're fed images of poverty and destitution in other parts of the world, but we usually downplay or turn a blind eye to the poverty in our own country. What angers me the most is when our homeless are written off as junkies, low-lives, criminals, and treated like they're some sort of disease. While there are some homeless people that exploit their situation by taking unemployment, social security, what have you...but a lot of the time these people have mental or physical handicaps or they're just dealt a bad hand in life and cannot help their circumstances. It was interesting seeing these people laughing and talking where as if you saw them on a corner at night you would be afraid of them.
This summer of mine is going to be spent working on my classes, accumulating research for my thesis project for the Fall, studying for the GRE, making a list of graduate schools, working at Knightstop, interning at Jobs with Justice, and with any luck I might become an Organizer for the Iron Workers Union of Orlando.