Grace O'Donnell Blog 10

One very important thing I learned from taking this class is that it takes me about 40 minutes to walk from my apartment to PBK. For most of you this would be a 20 minute walk, but my legs are very short and I'm very slow. I was always late because every morning I'd convince myself that it wouldn't actually take me 40 minutes to walk to class, but it invariably would. In all seriousness, I learned a lot more from this class than that. Normally, I'm slow to make decisions about things. I like to take all angles into account, and sometimes that makes it hard to reach definite conclusions. In this class, I came to conclusions about things. We'd watch a movie in class and I'd leave, still wanting to finish the discussion we'd started in class. For instance, I wish we'd had more time to talk about Billionaire. The class was debating if Larry Hillblom had committed a crime in sleeping with those young girls, and if maybe they were lucky he had. I just thought this was crazy. Those girls clearly didn't have a choice when it came to Hillblom, and I was able to definitively come to that conclusion. On that note, another thing this class really emphasized was choice. As a community, we often had the choice of what we wanted to do. That's not something we're used to. As we struggle to come up with final presentations without strict guidelines, we're all confronting choice. And as we leave school and have more freedom in our lives, I think that's going to be one of the most important lessons we got from THEA332.