Good afternoon to all my readers! I am here to give you yet another quick rundown of my week and my FYE discussions. This week surely was interesting, but I will try to get to keep it as condensed as possible.
To go over the week from my point of view, we start off with Monday which was filled with interesting changes and surprises in itself. In my Engineering Graphics class, I found out that my professor ended up in the hospital over the weekend. I will not go into detail about what happened to him but he is doing alright and getting physically better as he should be able to return to teaching our class within the next week or two. I participated in the Honors LLC Advisory Board meeting as well where we discussed the plans for our first event in the Honors LLC. Tuesday went relatively smoothly as every class went according to schedule those days. Wednesday and Thursday were mediocre days as I had a Math quiz to deal with early in the morning. I also attended two FYE Success Series in the evening which I will get to later on in this blog. Thursday was a pretty slow day even throughout the two flag football games I played that evening. Friday, Saturday, and today (Sunday) have been the better portion of the week with time for me to relax and catch up on some of the work I did not do throughout the week. Now onto the FYE class and Success Series experiences from last week.
Before Monday's class, we were set with the task to read Chapters 1-18 in the book 'Make Your Home Among Strangers'. Considering it was a book that all freshmen students were required to read, I did not have high expectations about the book to be honest because I thought it would have repetitive information and not tell me much that I do not know. Reading the book was kinda rough because the main character was a confusing person to follow with personality wise. The character, Lizet, has a problem with academic dishonesty in the early stages of the book with plagiarism and wasted money to come home for Thanksgiving during the fall semester even though she should have been saving her money for school. Lizet has a few complicated relationships as she struggles to maintain a relationship with her boyfriend Omar which eventually falls through and a friendship with Ethan which also has problems due to Lizet's personality in not being able to address her problems efficiently throughout the film. Despite the many problems I saw within the book and its main character, the book did a good job highlighting several themes that are important to college freshman like dealing with academics, fitting in at college, and dealing with financial troubles which are all concepts that I can relate to.
We did not have class Wednesday, but I went to the FYE Success Series to listen to the speech of Jennine Capo Crucet who wrote the book 'Make Your Home Among Strangers'. The speech was mainly about the journey of how Crucet became a professor at the college she teaches at and why she does what she does for a living. She also took a good chunk of her speech talking about white privilege in the past and today's society. After her speech, there was a time period dedicated to a Q&A session with the author. This led to a student asking a question regarding to why the author talked about white privilege and 'why she thinks she has the right to come in here and talk about it'. This lead to tensions between the author, the student, and the rest of the audience. After this event, I attended another FYE Success Series called 'Beat the Blame Game' that discussed how victims and people can be viewed in cases of sexual assault.
Thank you for reading this blog once again! Sources relating to the speech, topics, and pictures used are featured below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BJUta-9BsU
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Home-Among-Strangers/dp/1250094550
https://clipartstation.com/quiz-clipart-1-4/
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