LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each, ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. “What human beings can and should do, he wrote, is to conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all things they encounter are transitory, and embrace the beauty and the pleasure of the world.” (pg. 6, para. 3, last sentence).  The quote stuck out to me because it addresses the universal human struggle with fear, particularly the fear of change. Greenblatt suggests that instead of being consumed by fear, we should accept the impermanence of life and focus on appreciating…

Beyond Class Activity: Academic On Friday, September 13, 2024, at 7:00 pm, I attended the play “Anonymous: A Tale of Mary Shelley”. There was two reasons for my attendance. 1) My Effective Public Speaking Professor, Sean Ramey, was playing the Mary Shelley’s “Creature” and I wanted to support him as I know acting is his passion. 2) I really enjoy playwrights and theatre. The first every play I went to was a musical when I was 12, with my mum and aunt. They brought me to see Mamma Mia, as we all shared a love for the movie adaptation. I had the time of my life. When we walked out…

Things I learned and relationships I built:

GOAL DIMENSIONS Near Term Goals (Fall 2024 & 2024-2025) Longer Term Goals (2024-2027+) PERSONAL The three courses—Effective Public Speaking, Intro to Communications, and Elements of Acting—all emphasize communication skills vital to individual success. These courses, aligned with the Core Handbook’s values, focus on improving connections with others, helping me work towards my goal of enhancing my interpersonal skills by combining my knowledge for better outcomes. I aim to further develop a growth mindset, inspired by Carol Dweck’s TED Talk on the power of “not yet.” By embracing challenges and viewing setbacks as opportunities for learning, I wish to start shifting my perspective toward continuous improvement, knowing that progress is ongoing…

A connection–possibly an obvious one to some–I could make between the practices and values I learned in this Handbook, would be the the Core Goals stated in the Environmental Awareness subsection and the assignment we were given on the first day of class: read, annotate, and bring points of discussion on “The Tragedy of the Commons” combined with “Comparative Philosophies on the Conservation of Nature” and U.S. Astronaut Ron Garan’s speech at “Unrig the System” convention in 2018. Both articles and video covered every single item listed in the Core Handbook’s statement on page 5, under Environmental Awareness, “This course emphasizes that humans are part of the ecosystem within interdependent…

The Involvement Fair has been an event wandering around my mind since the “Weeks of Welcome” schedule was published two weeks ago, and it had taken the forefront of my thoughts on Wednesday… In starting this new chapter of my life, I was nervous about meeting new people, and I knew that I wouldn’t have athletics to help guide me through that process, making it a much tougher transition than I initially thought. Athletics have been present in my life since I was a young child, and they helped me grow into the person I am today: kind, engaging, and approachable. Through sports, I was able to grow out of…