Survey Analysis

I don't think this survey is an accurate representation of our personality.

Initial Theories of Human Relationships

Human Relationships--possibly the most complex part of a humans life. There very complicated. If you over think a relationship, it can get awkward, but if you under think it, one person may not be happy. Not just a friendship, but a love relationship. People often try to conform to fit into a group or relationship. It is not who they really are and many times people are out of their comfort zones. I think a true relationship is where you can be yourself and the other person can be themselves. Where no one is judging you on what you do or say, and you're happy. Everybody wants affirmation, and when their in a relationship, they get that. "Yea I can bag that girl." "Yea me and my friends were at that party last night". Even if it's not beneficial to you, people want to feel important. When I go to my internship on Thursdays, I usually am folding napkins, or washing dishes. Clerical Kitchen work mostly. But the other day he asked if I wanted to help serve the food. It is a much harder and energy consuming job, but I was excited to be moving up in the rankings. Even though its harder, and I don't get paid, I was happy to be doing that.

HW 45 - More Big Thoughts on Schools

E.D. Hirsch Jr: Hirsch was born in the conservative town of Memphis Tennessee. A Yale graduate, he was very interested in how the human mind interpreted information. While most people think that in order to understand a text it must be easy to read, Hirsch argues, you must have sufficient background knowledge in order to really understand the text. In a study that Hirsch did at the University of Virginia, and then again at a Community College, he found out:
" Students at the University of Virginia were able to understand a passage on Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, while students at a community college struggled with it, apparently lacking basic understanding of the American Civil War."

HW 41 - Initial Internet Research on Schooling

Kremer, John. "The College Dropouts Hall of Fame". 2/23/10 .

In this article, John Kremer goes through the successful people that never went through complete schooling. There are celebrities, entrepreneurs. Rich people who are successful.
In my experiment, I want to find out if you can learn how to be successful better through life experiences, or through school. I feel like school doesn't teach you how to be successful, it just teaches you how to move on to the next step, but you have to figure out what to do when you get there. Maybe the elementary school teaching is necessary. Adding, Subtracting, telling time, but maybe not. Can you learn that from just being out in the world? Do you need the social pressure and put down of school? Do you need to constantly stretch your brain to stay focused in class to the point where your completely worn out by the end. School is

HW 40 Interviews

Question: What do you look forward to in school?
Katherine: Seeing my friends. Socializing.

Question: What about learning and getting a higher education for yourself? Does that matter?
Katherine: Well I don't know. Secretly on the inside it matters but I would never show it.

Question: Why would you never show it?
Katherine: Because it's not cool. Its "wack".

In HW 33 I stated that when "there is a hero who's cool, the person is usually who you would not expect to be cool, because he/she is lower class, or different." It's not cool to do well in school. But people need to do it to succeed. I think that school is something that we need to take seriously. I obviously haven't done a good job of that so far, and I realized a little too late, but if you do well in school it gives you opportunities later in life.


Question: Do you think that being couped up in this building for 6,7,8 hours a day in the prime of our lives is a bad thing?
Ian: Yes. From my own experience in school, we're told what to learn but we have no opinion on what we want to learn. Our own curiosity is really thrown to the ground. We're not being taught stuff to know we're being trained stuff to do. My question to your question is this: Would you rather learn about 'Knights and Knaves', or a social problem/having fun like doing things that you want to do. I believe that people -- children really, are really naturally curious, but the curiosity is killed in school.

Question: What do you look forward to in school?
Ian: Really just the people stuck in it. I'm not coming to school, I'm coming to you. I'm coming to the people. not the pen, like I'm talking to you right now fanning can say

HW 33

I think that coolness is a distraction from the reality of life. I also think coolness is a myth. In high school at least. Think about it, all the rich and successful men and women of the world are "cool", but in high school, most of the "cool" kids are not rich, or successful. a lot of them actually are struggling with school, but isn't coolness about making everything look effortless? There are many contradictions in the world of cool. People state that coolness is about having money, but In almost all movies and books etc. where people there is a hero who's cool, the person is usually who you would not expect to be cool, because he/she is lower class, or different. We see that in school too. When we interviewed Chris about his clothing, he had on a 4000 dollar outfit, but he lived in the projects.