Post #7 Reflection

After going to the University of Minnesota, I simply cannot wait to head off to college. As if I wasn't already excited to leave home, going to an actual college lecture with actual college students surrounding me was truly amazing. It is funny, however, the Wiley Hall lecture room we were in, was the exact same one as I went to for my CIS Literature class last year. And so I knew going into the building what to expect of the room size and presentation set up. Before arriving, Ms. Osmundson told us to look for the students who were on Facebook or other social media sites, and there were surprisingly less than I expected. Granted there were the few students checking Facebook, and the annoying group of people behind who would not stop laughing at some video they were watching, but other than that, very little. 

From going to this lecture, I found I will need to sit up more towards the front of the lecture hall and not sit by any of my friends if we are taking the same class. Sitting up in the front will be because, from the man who gave the lecture on Friday, he was very difficult to hear in the back of the hall and so I was straining myself the entire time trying to hear better. As for sitting separately from my friends, I will need to do this because if I don't I will not pay attention at all to the lecture. Sitting by myself will force me to pay attention to the professor and then I will be able to learn better. 

I enjoyed the collegiate feel of the campus, obviously, because at the end there was the video played of the cutting of a corpus collosum, and many students left as it was starting. This was basically because, I felt, they thought they were not going to benefit from the video or that portion of class. Seeing people leave, was a really neat aspect for me because I can almost relate, there are many times I would just like to get up and leave because I feel certain classes are not beneficial to sit in on certain days. 

The lecture itself, I felt did not provide a lot of information however. It seemed to drag on and did not give anything I felt necessary for me to dwell on or look more into. I felt as though he was just covering the basics and his examples took far too long without getting to the actual point. They were rather good examples, but did not need to take up as much time as they did. Overall, I felt the lecture was rather boring and simplistic but the atmosphere was great and it made it all worth while.