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Today in my Lit. class we were discussing furthering your education, and things that go along those lines. The first thing we discussed was knowing where your going. When you are 18 years old, you have many many people asking you what you are going to do with your life, where your going to be in ten, or twenty years, etc, etc. Now think about this, you are 18 years old. Your life isn't even 1/4 over yet, and you have someone asking what your going to be doing for the rest of it. Does this make sense to you? College isn't about perfecting what your going to be doing, its about finding out what you should be doing. College is about self-realization. You can have an idea of what you like, or what you think you may be doing further down the road, but don't set your life in stone just yet. Life gives you some pretty interesting twists and turns, and sometimes the path your on breaks completely, and you have to find a new way to go. But if your worried about how you think your life should be going, then you never get to take the road that is set before you, because your too busy trying to follow your own.

We also talked about learning, and why people hate going to class and learning about things. Now, I am the number one example for this with math and science. I have always hated math and science with a fiery passion. My reasoning was that I wasn't any good at it and that it wasn't interesting, and that it didn't apply to real life situations. This is the view that many people have when it comes to certain educational experiences, and it ruins our learning becuase of it. We're always too focused on how much we hate the subject to actually see the beauty in it. Instead of focusing on the things that we hate about it, we need to try to make it fun. How do we make it fun? Thats up to you! What interests you in life? What makes things fun for you? If you like to read stories then turn what you learning into a story. If you like theater, turn what you learning into a production. I had never thought of this before and the realization was like a light bulb going off! Now when I go to class, I love it!

I dont know if this sounds really dumb, but I thought it was really interesting to discuss in class.

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