Post by andreac on Mar 17, 2016 23:00:28 GMT
1. If you had to live your life over and over again (as given in Nietzsche's myth of eternal recurrence), describe precisely those things that you would change and why?
If I had to live my life over and over again, I would be pretty happy with it. I am still young and have only lived up to 20 years, which really isn’t enough to say that it was fulfilled. I wouldn’t change all of the personal times and hardships I had to face because they have shaped me into the person I am today. I couldn’t imagine myself being any other way personality wise. If I had to change things, it would be to join a sport when I was younger so I could have grown into it. I would have loved team mates and bringing that into my high school and maybe college life. I am very competitive and love to workout. I also would have changes my lazy teenage self to have actually tried in high school. I would have easily gotten A’s instead of B’s. Took me till college to actually realize how easy high school really was. Other than that, I am happy with the life I have lived and would love to live it over and over again.
2. Thinking about your own life (and connecting to the movie, the limits of science), what are the biggest obstacles that you confront in your educational career? More precisely, what limitations do you have that you feel limit your understanding of varying subjects and ideas?
My biggest obstacles in my educational career would probably be myself. I know I can do anything that I put my mind too. I really believe it. I am smart and I love to learn. But, I get easily distracted. I make myself believe that other things in my life are more important than school in the moment. I eventually regret it immediately after. I try to work on this issue. I turn my friends down to study more and try to act on what I preach. I say I need to study but somehow my friends convince me that going out to eat or watching a movie is more important. I know I have the ability to get the grades and learn the content. I just need to set my priorities straight. My educational career is what’s most important to me right now. I will schedule my week better and will probably feel a lot happier.
3. Since the advent of hyper technology, what devices have you become most attached or addicted to? Why? Which ones are your friends most attached to? What are the pros and cons of such devices (connecting, of course, to the movie, "Surfing the User Interface".
The device that I am most attached to is my cellphone. I’m not crazy obsessed with my phone but it does help with the boredom at times. I have learned a lot that I don’t really need my cellphone. So I pretty much just use it when I need it. I don’t have much social media so that’s out of the question. I mostly text my friends or check my emails when I can. Usually I am with my friends or busy studying, so I don’t have time to be on my phone. When I do have some time to myself, I’d much rather watch Netflix on my laptop. Cellphone are distracting and really make people around us so anti-social. I almost hate them. My boyfriend, I could say, loves his videogames. But, he’s not obsessed. Like I said, we don’t really have time to mess around with electronics all day. When were with each other we don’t even touch our phones unless it was important. I love having someone’s full attention. I feel like cellphones and video games really take that away.