Brilliant!
Today was pretty grand. In the morning my rhetoric group met Kathleen Hall Jamieson for a one on one session about the current campaign. Not only is she brilliant but she’s absolutely hilarious.
I was signed into my Abnormal Seminar today so I have all the class I want for the Fall. I’ll be taking Personality theory Sem, Abnormal Sem, Social psychology, and for an easy class, intro to statistics.
PT class was awful, while discussing Maslow he inaccurately discussed a critque of Maslow which Maslow himself said was an incorrect interpretation of his work. When I mentioned that it was explicitly stated in the text as so, all he could say was “Ok”.
In my Women’s Issue group we made some pretty rad embroidered pouches. I helped teach some people how and we also discussed collecting more food for the food bank. I’ve volunteered for a few hours this Saturday to sit outside and collect food at a local grocery store. According to how much was gathered last year, it was very successful. The basic gist of it is you offer information about the most needed for at the food bank,the person has a choice on whether or not to pick up the much needed items and then gives us the food item upon leaving the store. Aces.
After that I went to the youth support group and the kids had a great time. We first discussed abuse and respect in relation to dating and family life then we made “Happy Cards” by making collages on little cards and then laminating them. I picked up this idea from my Woman’s issues group when our counselor came up with the idea. The kids loved it, but unfortunatly I had to leave early to attend the Jamieson lecture that was at 7:30pm.
As far as the lecture was concerned, Jamieson is a sharp, sharp cookie. It was so wonderful to listen to what she had to say. She expressed that this election is unlike any other and has the ability to change future campaigns. She also outlined a way for politicians to really make an impact by instead of wasting money on useless 30 second ads, to instead buy time to really discuss issues of importance in order for their arguments to be carried forward. She also mention the rise in youth voting which has gone up to 15% as opposed to 9% previously. Another point she made was the role in which the internet has played in getting more detailed information to voters, and in addition to that, that there is more cross generational discourse in regards to political matter and while before husbands and wives may have before hushed it up when their votes canceled out one another’s, they are now instead working towards bringing their spouse to the other side. This is not just happening with significant others but with mothers, grandmothers, sons and daughters as well.
So overall things were pretty rad.
