Well ironically enough I am starting my first blog in the last place and at the last time I would have wanted because my powers of observation and skills of deduction seem to be faltering. It is 22:19 on the night before it is due and I really tried to get this done on Friday and Saturday night but of course the instructions on how to do this whole procedure is in the one spot we youthful individuals fail to look every time. Right under our very noses. I like many of my fellow classmates overlooked the little .rtf on the instructions page and was writing on the discussion board that I could not load the link above thinking well has there been some mistake? Or maybe the system was down? It's only Friday and I have until Sunday... And so another semester with procrastination hand in hand with me. But not this time. I was determined to look for this blogging shindig and I found it well enough.
So here goes what did I learn from this mini analytical experience: One: READ all the directions carefully no skipping... Two: If my instructor provides us her personal email and it's based with gmail then chances are the blog site will be on google not twitter. And Three: Next time don't be so quick to assume that the technology has an issue when it was my lazyness that caused this potential screw up to the start of what promises to be a good year.
What does critical thinking mean to me? In my youth it meant pondering about everything, being inquisitive about absolutely everything and not taking "it just does that because it is suppossed to " for an answer. Now the term means thinking about the situaion at hand finding out what I need to know to solve it then coming up with alternatives and other means of resolution. It means being able to look at a situation impartially and consider all the angles. It means trying to figure things out for myself and not take someone else's words for it. Although wisdom is valuable I learn the lesson more intensely if I figure it out for myself, but I do listen to conventional wisdom before I decide something. The result gets burned into my mind for future reference and the scars of what is left behind remind me of what it is I learned. My curiosity is squelched and I have no regrets. Living with no regrets it is such a simple concept yet requires the most sacrifice from ourselves. The what-if always lingers but our decision will remain the same irregardless of whatever regrets we have. I have no regrets taking this English class because I have learned more in a week here than I have in all of my other English classes (excluding basic grammar, writing, and reading).
I think critically in most of the aspects of my life. I only say most and not all because when I think critically in my love live I find that my lover and I tend to fight more often than not and since we are so similar in beliefs and in resolve, neither one of us want to back down. But in school I think critically, when I watch a movie I think critically, when I go to work I think critically, when I play baseball I think critically. Sadly thinking critically in most of my daily activities has its pitfalls. In baseball there is a time to think and a time to react, mix the two up and you are out. No redos, no restarts, no mulligans.
I expect to learn from this class when it is appropriate to think critically and when it time to stop thinking and react. I used to sit and wish for things to happen, to sit and think what-if I could do something. That time is done I am going to experience life and stop waiting and make something happen; this class seems to be helping me get over the fear of what I am missing out on. Looking around at my classmates and how everyone is doing their thing makes me realize I want to go do my own thing, take a chance and don't look back. I want to carve my path out in this world then look back and see what I have accomplished and realize I did it. I have made it to the top. I can retire at the "millionaire estates" and cash in my LIFE bucks...
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