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Web Event 4: Ecological Literacy, Fear, and the Horror Genre

Dec 23 2012 - 4:01pm

For my final project, I want to reflect on a big part of the way I think a lot of us think about the environment (occasionally without admitting it to ourselves). To do this, I have to examine something that we haven't touched on so much in class: fear. One thing I kept coming back to this semester but never really found the time to talk about was the fact that I was having a hard time fully embracing the attitude of "love your environment, go...

Web Event: Culture, Class, and Environmental Closeness

Nov 25 2012 - 7:48pm

My hometown recently released a magazine called "Grown." This is a town in which the class differences are extremely visible and most of the people that live here year-round are not really part of the higher ones, but most everything caters to the wealthy tourists and summer home owners. This magazine, apparently, caters to them, too. It discussed summer programs for high school students at sea, fundraisers for health food stores and local...

Web Event: Our College, Environmental Literacy, and Technological Dependence

Nov 5 2012 - 11:16am

In my earlier Thoreauvian walk, my examination of Bryn Mawr's campus was restricted to the literal environmental aspects of the school. I looked at trees, I walked, and I let "nature's compass" guide me. Now that I have read more closely into the idea of ecological literacy and have been able to analyze my personal experiences in the context of ecological schools of thought, my early campus exploration seems limited and too literal in...

A Guided Saunter

Sep 9 2012 - 4:02pm

In order to walk through Bryn Mawr like Thoreau, I began at the center. I felt that as locating the center was an objective of mine, I could not let a predetermined destination interfere with the way nature wanted to take me. Nature was guiding me. Nothing else should be guiding me. Following Thoreau, I wanted to be guided unconsciously by “nature’s subtle magnetism” rather than by an end point. A walk should have no purpose or destination, so I set...

Posts

My Teach-In -- Dec 23 2012 - 3:34pm

Trip Reflection -- Dec 4 2012 - 6:39pm

Plastic? -- Nov 29 2012 - 3:18pm

Hidden in Plain Sight -- Nov 15 2012 - 4:02pm

Tracking Wind: Part Two and Other Observations -- Nov 8 2012 - 4:50pm

Observations and Tracking Wind -- Nov 5 2012 - 11:49am

Hurricane Thoughts -- Oct 28 2012 - 3:18pm

Thursday's observations -- Oct 28 2012 - 2:47pm

A Thoreauvian Fairy Tale? -- Oct 7 2012 - 4:02pm

Injured Animal Seeks Shelter -- Oct 4 2012 - 1:56pm

Revisiting: Pinecones, Pineconing -- Sep 30 2012 - 1:13pm

Spidering Spiders -- Sep 27 2012 - 4:03pm

Italicized Distractions -- Sep 20 2012 - 4:04pm

Our Colorful Planet and our Limited Language -- Sep 16 2012 - 3:53pm

Observing and Hiding -- Sep 13 2012 - 4:00pm

Comfort Zones and Breaking Them -- Sep 6 2012 - 3:59pm

Comments

Blind Shuttle Comments -- Dec 9 2012 - 5:46pm

11/5 -- Dec 2 2012 - 11:25am

4, 5 -- Nov 27 2012 - 7:07pm

field trip reasons -- Nov 11 2012 - 3:14pm

mid-semester evaluation -- Oct 21 2012 - 3:18pm

In both cases you are -- Oct 7 2012 - 4:10pm

Leaving/Leaving -- Sep 30 2012 - 3:59pm

Revisiting: the effects of interaction -- Sep 23 2012 - 4:01pm

Revisiting: The Good and Bad of Anthropocentrism -- Sep 23 2012 - 3:41pm

I like that you chose "see!" -- Sep 16 2012 - 4:09pm

Self Evalution

Refracting: My Self-Evaluation -- Dec 23 2012 - 4:42pm

It's no secret that I had a strange semester this fall. It started out mostly normal, and just as I was getting used to my new schedule, everything changed. I missed a ton of class to the point at which I wasn't even really sure how to make up for it in the long run. I ended up spending the rest of my semester mostly alone, fluctuating between having too much work to see friends and not feeling well enough to do my work. I think this class more than my others was affected by that.

I am a usually introverted person, but when removed, as I was this semester, from social interaction for a long time I tend to get quieter and more apprehensive to participate in discussions. Seeing as this class was a mostly discussion-based class, this was not a good semester to have experienced this. The bare minimum that I ended up successfully accomplishing in all of my classes was really, in retrospect, not enough for this class. The sensation of participating in an out of class online...

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