Well, it looks like I'll get the first post. Didn't see that happening, really. But here it is. I'll try to keep my into short, and then jump straight into my week review for you all. Don't want to keep you all waiting ;)
Anyway, me. 17 year old student. Spent my first two years of high school at Holy Cross High School in Latonia, then shifted to the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky at Western Kentucky University (that's a lot of capital letters). So I'd done a year of this college thing already before GSP. I'm a martial artist, who is missing 5 weeks of testing before his black belt testing to go here (I slip into third person every now and then.) I'm from northern Kentucky, from Williamstown in Grant County. Okay, enough about me, now onto what you are here for. GSP.
I can't remember that much of the first few days. I have a bad memory, so I'll leave that to the others. But onto what I do remember.
My focus area is philosophy, which is really awesome. A lot of the old philosophers are interesting to read about, and it's fun to take some of the philosophy quizzes because we normally end up debating for the rest of the class about the questions. The teacher is really open to discussion and our views, so the class has a comfortable atmosphere that makes it really enjoyable.
For general studies, our focus is character and improv. It's a little difficult, because while I can be funny, it's normally just I end up in the situation and it works. Some situations we have I can really work with, some I can't. But it's fun. The teacher is from Western, so it's a bit of common ground there.
Seminar is a great class. It's led by my general studies teacher and an RA, who in my case, happens to be the blog administrator here. But it's a really open class. We are open to discussion and it's great to express your opinions and hear others.
Campus events have been pretty fun, but I'll let the others describe theirs. I'm going to take advantage of being the first post to talk about the weekend.
On Saturday, the first thing I went to was the Game of Life. As I later discovered, the main purpose was to teach us about stereotypes. I ended up being a middle class hispanic lesbian. It was pretty difficult to figure out what I was, but through interactions with other people, I eventually figured it out. But I hit the glass ceiling pretty early. I was stuck with a bachelor's of science and a high school teacher job making 25000 a year. The only bad thing was they couldn't let it go too long, so I ended up not having enough time to buy a house.
The next event was Capture the Flag. This was my time. I had already determined to wear my BDU's (battle dress uniform), and the area I was in had trees near its borders. There was a really huge tree that was really easy to hide in. I surprised people when they tried to run by and I leaped out into their path. It was apparently very scary. And I creeped out some teammates when they walked by and saw me. Some people found it awesome, some were mad. Some called me "over competitive" actually. I enjoyed it though. And I am know well known for that. I got a shout out during seminar about my performance. It was cool.
After this was the campus-wide Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament. I managed to beat my roommate, but I fell in the hall competition. However, a guy from my hall did win the tournament, so it was pretty cool. It was really funny to see people being so interested and pumped up about rock paper scissors.
I'll finish off talking about Sunday. Sunday was the day where we went to two museums we chose, unless our class required any. Mine didn't, so I went to Frazier's and the Louisville Science Center. Great museums, people. Visit them if you ever get the chance. Fraziers had a really impressive weapons collection. And the Survivor Jamestown exhibit was very interesting. And the Louisville Science Center had a load of interesting stuff, though the main thing I learned was I can't build a bridge out of limited parts on my own. I need to work on that apparently. Fortunately, I do not plan on being a civil engineer.
I did buy a medieval helmet at Fraziers by the way. I'll post some pictures of the weekend exploits once I see them. For now, I'll end this, because it's probably too long already. Hope you enjoyed reading this, check for other posts later.
General Studies... exploring music...and making instruments of their own...
General Studies...improv...learning to become a character...
Focus Area...Journalism and The Mass Media... a visit to The Courier Journal
Seminar...team building...working together and creating community
Focus Area...Visual Arts...self portraits
Focus Area...Astronomy...staring at the sun...
General Studies...Physical wellness...yoga time!
RAs facilitated while roommates took each other on and then faced off within their halls to determine floor champions.