Connection: Einsteins Dreams and Titanic

In the one vignette written on May 4th, 1905, Einstein talks about these two couples who are out to eat at their usual table at the usual hotel they have their dinners at. He goes into crazy detail about the setting and their wardrobes and how fancy everything is. It's basically the story of a typical night for typical rich, stuck up people. They talk about things like the weather and the children and fancy shmancy things. Reading this totally made me think of the scene in Titanic when Jack comes to dinner with Rose's family and friends. They are all just so proper and they make the biggest deal about what to wear and they are all smoking cigarettes and drinking brandy. They are literally word for word the same things going on. This connection doesn't really provide insight for me, it just shows me how I DON'T want to be like. It reminds me how annoying rich people are and I'm glad that whole cherade doesnt really exist anymore. Rich people don't really act like anymore it's more of an olden time thing. That's what makes their behaviors so similar. I'm glad it's not like that anymore.

Metacognition: First semester

If I could sum up the whole first semester in one word, it would be dreadful. There was so much work and reading I felt like I never had any spare time. My homework would take about 1-2 hours and most of it was for this class. I guess if we were reading books that I liked then I wouldn't mind all of the reading. But unfortunately I strongly disliked both of the books we read this semester so it made the whole experience more painful. On a good note, I did like all of the videos and documentaries we watched, they were interesting and always connected to the literature somehow. Also I liked the YouTube videos and commercials. I never knew how much meaning could be in these complex yet simple commercials. I do have trouble with thinking philosophically so that's probably why it was so hard to go along with what we talked about in class and relate to it. And that's why I didn't really do so well. So my hopes for next semester are that hopefully we have a little less work and the books get better.