Wednesday, March 11, 2015

UW Update Tuesday Mar. 10

a.     UW Update Tuesday Mar. 10
                                                 i.     I’ll keep it short, since I’m acutely aware that during Dead Week (at least this quarter), every second of blogging time comes straight from sleep J Woke up at 6:30 and spent the morning finishing the last mini-paper for Cows.
                                               ii.     After Cows, ate lunch at the HUB, then went to the McMahon music practice room and worked on perfecting a Glee Club song.
                                              iii.     Returned to dorm and did physics hw.
                                              iv.     Went to Glee Club. Dr. Boers is back, and with him, all our songs are sounding quite well indeed.
                                               v.     Grabbed a burrito at the 8 and read more Free to Learn for my unschooling project. Becoming more and more convinced that the entire domain of ideas about structured education is just completely wrong. Originally founded, as Peter Gray argues, in states’ and religions’ need to create deferent citizens and curb “natural rebellion”, compulsory school is broken in terms of motivation, basic psychology, and simple utilitarian happiness calculations.
                                              vi.     Returned to dorm, did more physics homework. Got derailed by trying to solve a differential equation related to the gnarly final postlab; waded through extensive computations on paper and Mathematica, and got nowhere.
                                            vii.     Walked off my frustration, came back, read more Freedom to Learn, figured out how to use my borrowed camera for voice-over recording for Cows, wrote this log, and went to bed.



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