Throughout the first semester of my first year as a college student, I have learned a lot. The change from high school to college was definitely an interesting experience. I have become more independent as the weeks went by. I have had to solve issues I never thought I would’ve come across. We have had the chance to get a taste of various disciplines: Christian, communism, music, culture, and psychology. It was a way for us to view the world from different angles.
The first thing we started the year with was the Christian part of the course. Dr. Dresser was the one in charge of this section. I grew up in a Catholic family so this section was comfortable for me. I already knew God but I got to know him better. I also got to notice his miracles more. God is the center of my life. Every time I have a problem, I pray. Prayer is to me a necessity just like breathing is. This class has allowed me to understand life more than I did. After the religious segment of the class, we moved on the next: culture. …show more content…
This allowed us to gain a broader understanding of the world. We got to further get to know each other. This allowed us to respect each other and to be more aware of our surroundings. I also understood one thing. Even though we are all from different backgrounds, we all seek the same thing: success. One of the amazing things is that we all can communicate through one language: English. That is one thing I love about the world we live in today. We find a way to come together despite our difference backgrounds. I have had the opportunity to live in three different continents of the world: Africa, Europe, and North America. These opportunities really aided me to be the person I am today: open-minded. Africans are very welcoming and friendly. We are always trying to make our guests at home. African mothers are very generous when it comes to food. For example, whenever my friends come to visit, she always tries to offer them food. If my friends do accept her offer, she makes sure they eat enough. Everyone we open our homes to become family. Family is also very is very important to us. A third discipline we talked about was music. Music is a whole different world in itself. There are various genres of music nowadays. The topics spoken of in songs are revolutionary. No one dared to sing about topics like women emancipation or politics. Today, the messages coming across in songs have so much than just the lyrics. They are about anything: heartbreaks, hopes, dreams, regrets, etc. Music is so necessary for me. I cannot go a day without listening to it. It is my remedy. Music also helps me focus. I sometimes get lost in my own thoughts as I listen to a specific song because it sometimes relates to what I am experiencing at the time or have experienced. Professor Foss’ lessons aided me in learning about revolutionary songs. She also showed us what people listened to in the 1980s. Psychology was the next section we got a taste of. Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions. We discussed mental illness. Mental illness is a condition affecting a person’s thinking, feeling and mood. There are many multiple types of mental illness. At the end of the section, we had to write a paper on a case study we found interesting. I chose to research the case study of Henry Gustav Molaison. He was famously known as patient HM to protect his identity. Henry was born on February 26th, 1926 in the Manchester Memorial Hospital in Connecticut. When he was 9 years old, a bicycle accident occurs which caused his life to change forever. His brain was damaged and caused him to suffer from seizures. Doctors tried performing surgeries that failed. The neuroscientists actually damaged his brain more than it already was. The mistakes made during the surgeries hindered him from making new memories. Back in the day, they did not know as much as we do now so they were not cautious. Researching this topic taught me a lot about the human brain. The last section of this series of disciplines introduced to us was communism. Communism is a political derived from Karl Marx. This system basically states that
The first thing we started the year with was the Christian part of the course. Dr. Dresser was the one in charge of this section. I grew up in a Catholic family so this section was comfortable for me. I already knew God but I got to know him better. I also got to notice his miracles more. God is the center of my life. Every time I have a problem, I pray. Prayer is to me a necessity just like breathing is. This class has allowed me to understand life more than I did. After the religious segment of the class, we moved on the next: culture. …show more content…
This allowed us to gain a broader understanding of the world. We got to further get to know each other. This allowed us to respect each other and to be more aware of our surroundings. I also understood one thing. Even though we are all from different backgrounds, we all seek the same thing: success. One of the amazing things is that we all can communicate through one language: English. That is one thing I love about the world we live in today. We find a way to come together despite our difference backgrounds. I have had the opportunity to live in three different continents of the world: Africa, Europe, and North America. These opportunities really aided me to be the person I am today: open-minded. Africans are very welcoming and friendly. We are always trying to make our guests at home. African mothers are very generous when it comes to food. For example, whenever my friends come to visit, she always tries to offer them food. If my friends do accept her offer, she makes sure they eat enough. Everyone we open our homes to become family. Family is also very is very important to us. A third discipline we talked about was music. Music is a whole different world in itself. There are various genres of music nowadays. The topics spoken of in songs are revolutionary. No one dared to sing about topics like women emancipation or politics. Today, the messages coming across in songs have so much than just the lyrics. They are about anything: heartbreaks, hopes, dreams, regrets, etc. Music is so necessary for me. I cannot go a day without listening to it. It is my remedy. Music also helps me focus. I sometimes get lost in my own thoughts as I listen to a specific song because it sometimes relates to what I am experiencing at the time or have experienced. Professor Foss’ lessons aided me in learning about revolutionary songs. She also showed us what people listened to in the 1980s. Psychology was the next section we got a taste of. Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions. We discussed mental illness. Mental illness is a condition affecting a person’s thinking, feeling and mood. There are many multiple types of mental illness. At the end of the section, we had to write a paper on a case study we found interesting. I chose to research the case study of Henry Gustav Molaison. He was famously known as patient HM to protect his identity. Henry was born on February 26th, 1926 in the Manchester Memorial Hospital in Connecticut. When he was 9 years old, a bicycle accident occurs which caused his life to change forever. His brain was damaged and caused him to suffer from seizures. Doctors tried performing surgeries that failed. The neuroscientists actually damaged his brain more than it already was. The mistakes made during the surgeries hindered him from making new memories. Back in the day, they did not know as much as we do now so they were not cautious. Researching this topic taught me a lot about the human brain. The last section of this series of disciplines introduced to us was communism. Communism is a political derived from Karl Marx. This system basically states that