6B: Where to Next?

                Over the course of a six week period we have learned many new concepts that seemingly all have their own meaning and what they stand for, but in the same instance all of the concepts we have learned and gone over are somewhat connected in their own way. When I first started taking inquiry, I instantly knew that class could be a general study of literally anything; anything that we’re willing to “inquire” about.

                The class started off at a slower pace and really seemed as if it was just generally explaining us to what college is and what we’re up against for the next four years. Without inquiry and the things I’ve learned about college, I would’ve came into college with the same old high school mindset, and just tried to skate by.. wing everything. I was wrong, so far college is the hardest thing I’ve seemingly had to do in my life; it’s not like high school where teachers were there spoon feeding us information and basically holding our hand through everything.

                Throughout the past week we’ve been discussing grit and persistence, which are the characteristics in which enable someone to work through problems and face conflict head on, because as Margaret Heffernan says, opposition is a good thing and if you’re able to break the fear of conflict you’ll then be able to do your best thinking. Persistence and grit really ties in to one of our previous lessons in motivation. Without motivation and the drive to want to do something, being gritty and persistent is something that can’t really take place. Whatever your motivation is, it is needed to keep pushing forward.

As the half way point through the first semester comes to a close, I’m interested in seeing what else we exactly learn or “inquire” about next. Hopefully they’ll all be useful things I can use in my everyday life at school.