Connection: Probability

           After talking a great amount about Einstein because of the book we just read, in class, we decided to take a look at a few videos about challenging the adjacent possible. Along with that we checked out a video on entropy. The video reminded me a lot of what we are doing in math, which is mostly on probability.
          The video seemed to discuss a lot of what Einstein discovered in his time. For example, the man in the informational video explained how his i-pod headphones always seem to go into his pocket in a neat pile, but always come out in a different configuration. This is because there are millions of possibilities that the headphones could end up in, but only one of those ways is being completely neat.
           Already knowing the mathematics behind this made it clearer what the man in the video was explaining. It made me realize just how I was jumping into the mind of Einstein and exploring the ideas he created of probability.

metacognition: First Semester Humanities

The first semester in humanities flew by faster than I realized. The books we read and the activities we did in class were extremely effective. I think the main reason they all worked so well was because they seemed to fit in with topics of other classes. In issues and answers we study a lot of philosophy and that is exactly what Sophie’s World taught us. Because I was already familiar with these ideas, it made the book more of a brush up of the information previously learned. All the music activities we did and vertical listening helped and was familiar to me because of my music theory and choir classes. The connection within classes is an effective way of learning. The timing of the topics worked perfectly in this class.