My Tool Kit

I have definitely learned a lot from taking this class. The lessons that I have obtained will definitely help me throughout my final year at IUPUI as well as in my future. I have learned to not care about critics. I learned to do what is in my heart and to not be afraid of failure. I think that with hard work and dedication, one can become very skilled in what they really want to do. I took a seat and remembered why I was in this program and if this was the life that I really wanted to live. I have always been interested in the arts and I feel that I belong here. After watching the movie "Wasteland", I learned that anything can become art, even garbage and dirt. Creativity can come from any source and it is up to the artist to see the vision. I definitely would recommend this class to any New Media student because it was a lot of fun and I learned things about myself as well as received some good pointers as I am set to begin my capstone this fall.

FEAR

My two greatest fears have always been needles and heights. When I was a little kid, my mother said that I never had a fear of getting shots at the doctor. When I got older however, I developed a big fear of needles. I dread getting shots at the doctor and I did have an incident where I became light headed and almost fainted upon receiving one. It is weird though, because on television I can normally watch people getting shots except in one particular area on their arm.The video below illustrates the area that I am talking about. I feel for this girl because this is one reason that I never donate blood, no matter how many free cookies and punch I would receive. Whenever I see someone getting a shot there I normally cringe and can't watch.

My second fear is heights. This fear is quite ironic because I love roller coasters  and I also have a huge desire to go skydiving sometime in my life. I am afraid of being high in the air unrestrained. If I am climbing a ladder for example, I get really nervous when I look down because I am afraid that I will fall down. If I was on top of a tall building and looked down I would probably pee my pants. This would be an example of something that would freak me out.

Oh Shit!

I think that the majority of the class will either share in one or both of the fears that I have or at the most have a somewhat discomfort in the two. I know that there were a few people in the class already that didn't enjoy roller coasters so they may have a fear of heights to accompany that as well. I also figure that no one in the class enjoys getting shots at the doctor, so a few of my classmates may have the same fear as well.


After presenting to the class, my hypothesis was pretty much correct. A few other people in the class had the same fear as I had. I did get a little uncomfortable though when a few people in the class started talking to me about donating blood and things of the like. I became a bit light headed and shaky. All in all though the class didn't make fun of me or anything for having these fears since these two fears are considered pretty common.

class recap

Class was very interesting today. It was really neat to see and observe other people's fears. Two of the best performances in the class were the presentation that dealt with religion and the presentation that dealt with silence. The presentation about religion really intrigued me because I have done alot of my own religious thinking over the years and i have thought about similar things as to what were presented in the graph. The second presentation really intrigued me because the entire time that the classroom was silent, I was trying to think what the presentation was really about. I was wondering if the presentation was about a fear of silence or maybe something else. Overall, I enjoyed class today and am looking forward to others presentations on Wednesday.