The This I Believe speech seems like an awesome assignment that will help me not only communicate what I believe but help me figure out a little bit of what I believe. I am thinking I might do something with believing in the importance of language and communication and provide an ancedote of when I was younger in kindergarden and didn’t know English. I didn’t know enough English to ask where the bathroom was and communicate I had to go, so I had to go in my pants. Casual. I am also thinking about taking another route and making my essay focus on the Da Vinci quote “Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication”. Although, I do not always live by it, that quote really resonates with me and I think I could write an effective essay explaining why. I think if I used this approach my essay would focus on the time I bought my first car (an 800 piece of junk) and how I immediately fell in love with it. These are just two ideas though.
I definitely think I am going to write about either the environment or education for my civic issues blog. I am very interested in both of these topics. All my major related classes have to do with the environment because I am majoring in Energy Engineering, and even though I’m not too much of a current events person I always find myself interested in the news when the topic is something like Hydraulic Fracturing (which I bullied my group into researching last semester for the history of a public controversy project). For my paradigm shift paper last semester I chose to talk about the overusage of ADHD drugs to make up for sub-par education in urban areas, such as Washington D.C. Topics such as these really intrigue me and later in my life I want to become a high school teacher so I am very interested in learning about the constant changes and adjustments going on in the education world.
I am REALLY confused as to what to write about for my passion blog. I really do want to be passionate about what I write about. Last semester my blog didn’t really have a category, but I think (hope) a lot of my peers found it to be relatively entertaining. I guess my blog last semester was just an honest reflection of my day to day life last year. I could blog about photography and try to replicate some photography that I like and throw in some pictures I’ve taken and take new ones for the blog but I feel like it’s annoying to write about photography when everyone can just see it. Overall, I’m lost.