July 5th: The Mass Media and Globalization (Ken Mulligan) and The Evolution of Civil Society and the "Not for Profit" Sector (Keith Snavely)
Today I confirmed I was really taking in the lecture contents or some of them at least. I'll try to make this elaboration sound as nice as possible.
Maybe for lack of sleep, skipped breakfast and a late 'last night' (You know, fireworks on 4th of July and a very delayed dinner), I was so moody and sleepy in class. It wasn't to the point of not listening though. In fact, it was 'cause of me listening (by pressure of Dr. Foster's peering eyes) that I grew so impatient.
Some parts of that day's discussions were all too familiar. Previous lectures have already covered some topics of that day. So, you should get where I'm going here right? It was a very tired reflex thinking "I'm so sleepy. I heard that already. Go on to the next topic, and finish faster."
Today I confirmed I was really taking in the lecture contents or some of them at least. I'll try to make this elaboration sound as nice as possible.
Maybe for lack of sleep, skipped breakfast and a late 'last night' (You know, fireworks on 4th of July and a very delayed dinner), I was so moody and sleepy in class. It wasn't to the point of not listening though. In fact, it was 'cause of me listening (by pressure of Dr. Foster's peering eyes) that I grew so impatient.
Some parts of that day's discussions were all too familiar. Previous lectures have already covered some topics of that day. So, you should get where I'm going here right? It was a very tired reflex thinking "I'm so sleepy. I heard that already. Go on to the next topic, and finish faster."
I'm sure or I hope I'm sure that we've all had days like this. Honestly, I'm not one ball of sunshine and enthusiasm for early morning lectures everyday. I'm positive none of you crave for consecutive 9am discussions...right?
Moving on, a good thing I took from that crabby class attitude: I remembered lessons from previous lectures. It's "Listen. Learn. Retain." as opposed to "Listen. Learn. Forget." I hope they all stay in my mind until after I'm home.
Moving on, a good thing I took from that crabby class attitude: I remembered lessons from previous lectures. It's "Listen. Learn. Retain." as opposed to "Listen. Learn. Forget." I hope they all stay in my mind until after I'm home.
Now, I learned new things today too. Cosmopolitan Communication was opened up, but I thought it needed more elaboration. It just seems to cover too many branches of communication and studies (intercultural, interpersonal, psychology, sociology, performance studies, etc.) to be understood in one seating. Fairly enough though, Prof. Ken Mulligan displayed on every slide everything one had to know or refresh knowledge on, on the topic of Cosmopolitan Communication.
As for the Civil Society and the "Not for profit sector", that showed me big differences with American and Filipino policies and corporations. Best manifestation of these divides is in health care services. In Carbondale, not-for-profit hospitals are actually, well, hospitals. As far as I know in my motherland, there are no prominent not-for-profit hospitals. Maybe clinics and practices exist, but I'd like to think people in the rural areas go old school. They call an 'albularyo', which in my interpretation, is a less scientific Filipino version of a Chinese Doctor. :)
So, I still came out feeling more learned from the two discussions. I was just worn out. It's a good thing the afternoon was set for a mild sort of Blogging 101 session with our graduate peer mentors. They gave us so many links to use for better blogging...which I haven't used yet. I'll find time and opportunity to use more blog tools here for your blog-surfing pleasure. Until then, bear with me on sloppy paragraph-writing and photos....pretty please? Haha.
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