Over the past forth months I have been apart of a wonderful cluster that left me wanting more out of college. Graduating high school I heard so many things about college and older friends of mine told me about their experiences and how they’ve taken great classes as well as bad ones. Coming in as a freshman last year I expected more out of my classes. I felt that the material was bland and that maybe these teachers were bored of us or what they were teaching. I had the luck of meeting three great professors who loved what they were doing and really opened my eyes to a brand new world that has been starring me dead in the face. I have always been a very active and outspoken person who likes to question and investigate and I was looking for something more and Dr. Lucca & Dr. Smith did just that. Both professors were very passionate about their love for The Matrix and being the computer geeks they were, they got me hooked. I soon began to start blogging in class ( something I’ve never done before). I was becoming more social because of class. I wanted to do everything. I began looking up other websites similar to the ones we used in class. I loved our assignments and having some days off to sign in at home and write essays.
All of the films seen in Dr. Smiths class were amazing and they all related to each other and I began to wonder as the writers wondered in each film whether we are truly living in a “matrix’ or in a fantasy life controlled by technological and robotic devices. The films seen and information obtained in the mass media class blew me away. After watching the film about the NCAA and the how it works, the process made me sick. It’s true on how we believe everything they show us on TV or in our newspapers. I can no longer watch TV the same way. I seem to doubt everything and I begin to research and look up articles about everything. These classes have made me stronger and smarter in every sense. I want to be well rounded and know about current events and I’ve become more in touch with the world by doing as told from class to read articles and newspapers and to get out there. The texts in class were also informative giving another person perspective about the issues and view on the matrix and etc. I will continue to praise these films because they were all the first time I’ve seen them and I have gotten a taste of reality and my search continues to finding out more and more about how we work in the US and how media controls everything and how we may be already living in the matrix. I definitely enjoyed all of the internet searching and blogging and especially when we had to sign in to The Ning and chat and I had the chance to create a blog and we all wrote and responded to each others messages. These were very good classes and I’ve learned a lot.
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