Thoughts & Ramblings of a College Student

For one, I want to say, this was the most relevant and informative presentation we've had all semester, as it relates to our time directly and forces us to look inside at what we are truly doing with our social media intake and how we are using it to impact the world. In terms of Social Media campaigns, the possibilities are pretty endless, and the level of impact they seek to have is also endless. In efforts to bring light to a smaller campaign that seeks to do something simpler but impactful, I will  be talking about the #UNLITTER campaign. Seeking to inspire people to keep the earth clean, for the sake of the environments and its animals, the #UNLITTER campaign looks to rally people and encourage them to help pick up pollution, liter, trash, and any unnatural debris and invite their friends  to do the same by posting on social media about the impact they are making in their communities. The #UNLITTER movement also seeks to bring awareness, and inspire people to live a lif...

1. My initial reaction to the text was aggravation. What was the point of that, if nothing was done. However i realize that that exactly is probably the point of the story, to expose the way things work in a place, and how frustratingly nothing gets done because of the constant interruption of other "forces". In the same manner it was a sort of story inception where there was a story being told about telling a story that was never told, or well, completed. Needless to say the lack of information as to why the sequence happened in that way was frustrating to me, and made me feel slightly aggravated. 2. Being from Venezuela, I could connect to some of the ideas of brute force as the leading method of communication and of getting what you need or want, because similarly this kind of violent actions happen there too. I was also able to connect to the narrator's frustrations of the totally unnecessary situation, and inability to complete a simple task. I also could connect...

I think this course ought to include live music. As an avid concert goer and festival goer, i think its important for people to view and feel the feelings that come with live music. These feelings can range from anywhere in the spectrum from happiness to anger and back again. I believe if anything is the universal language, more than mathematics, music is the universal language. Regardless of lyrics and cultural aspects of music,  music is not just heard but more importantly felt. In the live setting, I believe we receive the energies and the feelings a lot more profoundly and somehow in our subconscious music speaks to us, and allows us to express things we don't have words or images for. It's also interesting to see the kind of culture that live music has developed, specially music festivals as they've become a lot more mainstream and attainable to people, especially in America. Which goes to show universality of it, as many different walks of life, ages, and kinds of ...