Monday, May 16, 2011

All done?!

Tomorrow is the last day of classes! What?? Where did the year go? I've been thinking about when I was in elementary school and everyday I would come home and my mom would ask "so what did you learn today?"

So what did I learn during my freshman year of college?

1.How to spell "decision". Goofy, I know but that word always tricked me up (Dad-I know you're reading this and don't worry, I've learned things of much more significance than that). This was honestly the first thing that popped in my head when I started this post.

2.How to learn how to live with someone. I had a "good roommate experience" this year but at times it wasn't always easy to learn how to adjust to another person's living habits.

3.How to use weird things to look at other ideas. I'm thinking specifically of the articles we read on tea last semester

4.A little more on how to write. I still think my writing has a long way to go but I feel like every class I've taken (not just the ones that give us a writing GE) has taught me some new way to write or think about my writing.

5.That lutefisk is pretty gross and lefse is not traditionally eaten with a knife and fork.

6.Our world is so interconnected it's kind of annoying at times. When AmCon lessons are surfacing in math class you know you have a really good problem in your hands.

7.There is always enough time, you just have to find it. It's hard to believe it when you start looking at the mountain of work ahead of you but if you really buckle down you'll get through it.

8.My high school was really weird and life's a little weird but all you can do is accept it and embrace it.

9.A lot of really specific things about America, religion, french, math, psychology, helping people, vocation and courtly love in the Middle Ages that I can't really list because that would be ridiculous.

10.The more I learn the more I realize I don't know much at all. It sounds kind of anticlimactic but it's a really good thing.

2 comments:

  1. Clara,
    Thank you for this wonderful list. You have embraced the St. Olaf College experience whole heartedly. . . and with excellent results.
    LDL

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  2. I love number 7. It is SO TRUE! There is always enough time in a day to get everything done that we need to; we can choose to squeeze every second out of the time that is given to us or we can waste it. Thanks for writing Clara!

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