April 2008 Archives

I enjoyed listening to Dr. Wentzels lecture. I felt that he did a good job at speaking on faith and learning and makeing you really think about it and withing your own personal experiences, relate to it. He made his points clear and easy to understand and the examples and stories he shared really added to it.

The topic of faith and learning can sometimes be a tricky one. This has been the case, within my experience at least, with any topic pertaining to religion. I liked his statements about church workers not necessarily needing to work in the church. He made valid points also when speaking of commuting. I have heard from others about how out of touch you can feel when you are a commuter. Also, his point on technology related to what we have talked about in class. About how the advances in technology are "bringing us closer" and all connected with keeping us all apart and the same time. The face to face experience can be so essential and is so different that any conversation had via a text or instant message or e-mail.

The past few weeks in my project have been basically tying up the loose ends and getting everything done and in order. Gabby and I have been working on the brochure for our budgeting class and that has been really neat to learn more about. Other I have been getting last minute details worked on. We extended our deadline until the 21st so we still have a couple weeks left.
The past weeks in my project I learned some interesting facts about budgeting. I learned that more college students end up dropping out due to their financial trouble than due to academic trouble. I found this really interesting yet still very believable when you really think about it. I also learned that the stuff I put off is really easy so it would be so much simpler and less stressful if I just got everything done right away instead of being such a procrastinator.