Week 10: Degree Engagement

Week 10: Degree Engagement
Image result for Mechanical Engineering at georgia southern              This week in Class we went back to discussing more specific things about college and how to be successful in college rather than the larger social issue in america we had been discussing last week. Although I missed the lively and insightful conversations of last week it was nice to get back into a routine. This week our main topics were Degrees and values; as well as techniques to help us accomplish our goals.
               Doctora started the class Monday by showing us all about the Catalog(List found here). The catalog contains the list of recommended core classes as well as all the requirements to graduate with a specific degree. If you want to change majors, which is a very common occurrence, and want to know the amount of extra work it would take the catalog will outline it for you. Doctora mentioned that about 5,000 students filled out a request to change majors last year alone and it is okay to change majors. College is just as much a time to find out what to do with your life and discover and to cultivate passions as it is to learn about a particular topic and get a degree. Personally I don't see myself changing my major out of engineering. But, who knows? I could defiantly change my mind later down the line.
Image result for Goals                On Wednesday we changed our focus from our majors, to our values and goals in life. The values I choose and think I value the most were: wisdom, love, improvement, open-mindedness, and trust. I choose these values not because I have these traits right now, but because I admire these traits in others and I hope in the future to have them. We also discussed how to think about achieving our goals and watched a ted talk given by a chess grand master about "retrograde analysis" (Found here). Retrograde analysis is a technique of looking at the end goal and working backwards to solve a particular problem. This technique can be used to make big life decisions. If you know what you want out of life and what your goals are you can aptly make decisions to achieve those goals. So the big question is what do you want and who do you want to be. I definitely need to do some personal reflection to discover this and need to think of ways to use the resources I have now in college to make these goals a reality.

Resources

Pictures

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
                                                         Week 15: Final As the first semester ends, I look back at all the interesting and lively discussions this FYE class as had and I think next semester I am really going to miss it. Its funny to think about how I expected so much to dislike this class, but now I want it to continue. In this FYE class we discussed a ton of different issues from asking good inquisitive questions to a two-week long deliberation on the “Make your Home Among Strangers” controversy. This class was unlike many of my other classes because it did not have tests or lectures but instead challenged me to question myself to find the goals I want out of college and how to approach different perspectives. In this class we had three learning objectives which are, develop information literacy skills, engage with my degree program and learn about the resources available to me at Georgia Southern, and lastly discuss diversity and inclusion. For this blog I will be e
Read more

Week One Reflection

Image
Week One Reflection  In Class This weeks topic was Campus engagement and what it means to be engaged. We discussed first in small groups then in the entire class group. We also watched a ted talk ( https://www.youtube.-com/watch?v=29tJAgc54RA ) about why we are here in college and About paving our own paths instead of the ones laid out by others, and if college was for everyone. Class discussion  As I said, in the discussion we talked about the word "engage" and said that inside of college it typically means to get involved in the community, join clubs and community service. But, we also talked about how it means to engage in class like how we ask question and answered questions. I feel that this is especially important because it not only help the class instructor to notice us and began to develop a rapport but also helps us to stay to stay focused because I find it hard to focus and listen for long periods of time without engaging in the class. We also diss
Read more