The main reason why I registered for Digital Frontiers was that none of the honors classes seemed interesting/useful to me. Foreign languages are too much work, calc and physics weren’t even fun the first time and magic classes shouldn’t be on the list.
I was surprised with how much material we ultimately covered in the class. While a lot of the materiel overlapped, it was generally new material for me. Compared to all the other classes I’ve taken, Digital Frontiers has been by far the most effective. Problem Solving with Computers took a whole semester to teach me a few shortcuts I could have learned in less than five minutes. Man’s Food and Micro Econ taught me that it is best not to watch lectures because Smokin’Notes will teach you a month worth of material in an hour or two.
Before this class I was a skeptic. I thought Twitter was a completely useless adaptation of the Facebook status update and that social media was a way for people to be unproductive and burn time, kind of like WOW. Now i can see the value of Twitter and how social media can be used for something other than growing crops.
I was most surprised by the quality of the speakers we had. They are all legitimate success stories and some of them are so successful that they were kind of intimidating. A few times I even felt bad that they were there. As if we weren’t worthy of their time. I liked the idea behind Second Life even though it looked really primitive. I think if the developers can make it more visually appealing they will see a lot more growth.
I took Warrington Welcome last semester but I think Nikolai did a better job of explaining to us how to succeed in college and life in general. I started writing down my goals and giving each a deadline and it has helped a lot. Not only is it more difficult for me to procrastinate but now I don’t forget my short term goals either.
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