So we had a pop quiz Mid Term in my Psych class last week. I love my Psych teacher he can talk just as fast as me. He is very articulate. And he loves ta curse. He even got in trouble by the faculty because a student recorded his first lecture and presented her recording to her parents. HOW LAME!?! He is a man of science but I won't hold that against him. He’s also a man of reason. His father is an Astro Physicist and his mother is something special. Anyways although he has a brilliant brain and works with people at MIT and other prestigious colleges I still stump him in class and make him think. I love it.
Well here is what I wrote for my MIDterm 4 pages in 30 minutes. About the chapters I liked, why I remembered them, and how I apply them to my everyday life:
My first favorite chapter in the class was on consciousness. The reason being because it divides into the human SOUL/Psyche. There are three layers; the ego, ID, and super ego. This phenomenon is so misunderstood and improvable. I learned that with in the human conscious that we develop our moral/ethics. We build who we are and want to become weather good or evil/ right or wrong. We develop the schema s that will lead us through our lives.
I remember this because I’m enthralled with it. I read the material and developed a better understanding of myself and others. It’s a study of the human mind and SOUL that can neither be proven or discredited.
It impacted my daily life by helping me learn to take a step back and realized everybody is different for ill or good. It taught me not to judge on a random occurrence. I learned to dissect peoples actions and made me wonder; Why they are the way they are? & Why they do the things they do?
My second favorite chapter was on development. I never truly understood why I have become the person I am today until I read this chapter.
When I was born they put me in the ICU, not because I was sickly, but because I wouldn’t eat, I wouldn’t sleep, I wouldn’t cry, all I would do is stare off into space and giggle. Soon after they found nothing wrong with me and their silly test. They let me go.
I also grew up like I was raised by a pack of wolves. I grew up moving all over the country on campgrounds. My mom and dad shared a tent and me, my lil sis, a lil bro would share a tent. We would take baths from water jugs in trees, warmed by the sun, or we would bathe in lakes and rivers.
I once had a friend tell me, “You never act homeless.”
That HURT!!!!!!!!@(*O*)@
I told her, “ I was houseless, YES! Homeless, NEVER!!! The home is where the heart is.”
I remembered this chapter on development because it made me remember my childhood. It made me feel my childhood all over again, the good and the bad. This chapter made me understand the fragile things in a babys, childs, kids life are special, and to treat these lil things with care and compassion.
Out of the development chapter I learned a lot. I learned weather you’re a child growing up in the ghettos or a child growing up in suburbia, you are still effected by the struggles of everyday life and the people that influence you. I learned its better at a younger age to start teaching your kid different languages and read them more colorful imaginative books. (Which I ALREADY knew & would have already done given the chance.) I learned why I have always loved my mother and had once loathed my father. I learned a lot.
This chapter again impacted my daily life because it taught me more about myself and others. It showed me how to care and handle an infant’s mind and development. It gave me a better understanding of life, crystallized or fluid. We are all just big balls of energy that can neither be crated nor destroyed.
My third favorite chapter, although it’s a lie I love them all equally, was on perception. I learned not everyone sees things the same. Some people just can’t think outside the box. A line will always be a line never a cube, but always a square or rectangle depending on the width of the object drawing it. The SKYs will never fall, and a maze is just simply a MAZEing. Peoples perceptions on things are skewed on both ends of the spectrum, and reality is that middle area of Grey.
The reason I remembered this chapter is because I’m an artist. I paint,doodle, cook, write, create music, landscape, etc. This chapter made me feel happy for all the things I do, lead a life of mis perception. I’m a befuddled mess of contradictory elements that are arranged in a splendorous and delectable fashion that’s appealing to all senses, or so I like ta think. That is maybe my misperception. ;) But I highly doubt it. I know the TRUTH.
What I learned helped change my daily life by helping create an illusion of who I really am and helped me feel who people/ strangers really are. (Although I've been able to do that ever sense I was born.) It helped me cut through the smoke and mirrors and see the wizard behind the curtain. One of my favorite quotes is by Blaze Pascal “The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.” But I like saying, “The universe is an infinite sphere whose epicenter is knows ? where and its circumference is everywhere.”
I’m glad we had this kind of MIDterm. I loved it.
P.S. I know you are a man of science and I didn’t give many scientific examples but that’s my fault not yours. I just wanted to tell you the best trick the DEVIL ever pulled was making people believe he never existed. And I’m no cheap trick. CHEAP no Trick YES. Some might go as far as saying I’m one of the biggest MAGICtricks ever, Except for JESUS CHRIST. He has me beat by a long shot. And the DEVIL he lost all his magic when he challenged GOD. For ALL of THIS I KNOW because (all of GODs spells)"THE GOSPELS" TOLD ME SO.
I ended up getting a damn good grade on that paper but for my grammatical MISS stylez, and lack of hard scientific data. But I don’t care. That’s the problem with science. They over glorify the use of imagination but still want to keep it confined in a box. How silly!?!?! How are you suppose ta find the center of the human soul in a box. You can’t its everywhere outside that prison of a cube.
AMEN!!!!!!!
PS. I once wrote two papers for a friend in college, when I was still in HIGHschool. One was comparing the COLD WAR to the "UPSIDE DOWN BUTTER TOAST WAR" by DR SEUSS , and the other was comparing "LORD OF THE RINGS" ta WORLD WAR II. He thought I was crazy and I was trying to make him fail. I GOT HIM an A++ on each paper. =)
AMEN!!!!!!!
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