Response to class 10/25

The class was OK today but not as good as usual. It was cool to see what some other people did for there assignment like the i pumpkin and the website. The discussion about why the one female didn't want to show her project didn't seem important to me. The best thing about class was the moving book until I realized how simple it was and the junk mail or whatever it was annoyed me because I couldn't figure out what it is all about.

Whats Up

For my exercise it was kind of like the walking backwards exercise. What I did was simply look up where there were other people. The point of this was to show how people are curios of what is going on around them. One of the times I was at Camp Atterburry and was looking up for a good while. After a while people came up to me and asked what I was looking at. I didn't say anything for a while and they started to look up to figure it out. I then walked away and one person called me stupid, I think that person realized what I was doing. Another time I was downtown and basically the same thing happened but there was only one person who asked me what I was looking at and I told him up he kept looking and then walked away. This experiment was to just show how people are usually wants to know what is happening around them. I also noticed that some people just looked up for a second and just kept walking so I'm guessing those people were semi curious but didn't really care or just figured I was crazy.

Whats Really Important

Whats really important to me is to become an officer. It is only one thing in order to make me into a better person. The thing that makes me want to do this is so I can help others become better people. After seeing countless people making bad decision and having no clue on what to do, I hope to be a person to show people what they are capable of.

My belief is that are classified because really I find them to be vague and hard to think of. Religion has no part on my beliefs because I'm not a religious person at all. There is no fear in this assignment for me. Me being an atheist might offend someone but I don't care because I'm ok with being one.

Response to class 10/4

Class was pretty interesting today. There were some cool and touching presentations. The snake war really nice, I don't think I have ever had the chance to pick up a snake before so that was cool. I'm pretty excited about peoples opinions for the next class since it will be a touchy subject.

Fear

What makes me fearful is drowning and spiders or worse, drowning in a pool of spiders. Fear to me is something that when I think about I dread it to the point I get freaked out. Fear stops you from being rational and making sound decisions. The purpose of fear is to make sure you stay away from something that could potentially hurt you. Fear doesn’t affect my life to much except for the rare case where there is a big spider and I don’t want to get near it. When it comes to drowning I don’t let that fear affect me when it comes to swimming. I can swim the only problem I have is staying under water for more than about 10 seconds.

My experiment was to light my hand on fire using hand sanitizer and a lighter. I did this because it only makes since to be scared of fire or at least be caught on fire. So I did it in class without warning, and it seemed like only one person was really freaked out by it. Everyone one else seemed to think it was cool. I expected some people to think it was cool but I would have figured more people would be freaked out that a person’s hand was on fire. The only thing I can think of to make the experiment work better is to tell someone to put a little bit of hand sanitizer on then I light there hand on fire and they freak out. I would of course have this person picked out with their approval before class.

The experiment I responded most to was the mouse(not sure what the guy’s name was). I responded to it because I hate mice. There rodents and there nasty. Although I did pick it up I still would have preferred if it wasn’t alive. The thing I would take from his experiment is to get people involved.