Infinite Journeys

     For the course, “Journey in Literature” by Prof. Pittmann, we participated in the 2018 UPRRP Literary Contest which this year was the 51 st the university has done. It was a very good experience to write for a contest since I have never been to a literary contest. I was able to enjoy writing and really focus on my idea. I wrote a short story on a previous course and finally, I was able to make a sequel. I have never found a passion for writing until now. I loved writing short stories just as I live them in my head. Mostly I write sci-fi related content. I can really picture all the actions of the story in my head and I   can write paragraphs fluently. I now understand how you can express basically worlds of contents using only words. When the professor told us I felt pumped to do it but also nervous about what I’m was going to write. I learned to let the fingers flow and write. Firstly I just lookup up what was a short story and I found on Google Dictionar...

     In the course “Journey in Literature” we have expanded the meaning of journey and to be able to understand we did various assignments like the journal, life compass, and multigenre project. In the journal assignment, I was able to develop my informal writing, we were given a free space to be able to write our internal thoughts and emotions. The professor always said to “go for the jugular” and to “let go of my hand” which was a different approach to most of the written exercises I have taken. It was difficult for me at the beginning to write about my thoughts, since they were very rapidly changing, and my emotions/feelings. The journal exercise had a learning curve to it. In the start, I was very logical and almost writing like essays but through the exercise, I felt more comfortable and freer to write without any logical format. I now know how much we think and how many unconscious actions our brains keep up doing. Writing directly what I felt and what though...

     In this semester I learned the meaning of a Journey. In the beginning, when I heard this word, I pictured various roads that each takes you to a different place and experiences were we grow, enjoy and make memories. Before I enrolled in this course, I looked at the various literature courses offered and upon reading Journey in Literature I began to think “A journey in literature? What could that be” and got curious so I enrolled? I searched the word at Merriam Webster and it came up as Journey: something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another; the journey from youth to maturity; a journey through time; an act or instance of traveling from one place to another. Upon reading the definition I began to think it was like a history type of class that involved some reading and also some analyzing but It was way better than what I expected. In the course, the thought of my definition of journey changed. From the standard meaning from Merriam Webster ...

     The first day of class was very interesting, the first thing we did was divide into groups. The thought that immediately rushed into my mind was how am I going to choose the group, which person is irresponsible, which is nicer… and at the end the professor assigned to us the group. At the first group meeting, my mind was put to rest. Each of them as the first impression was really friendly and open. Also, group projects are a really nice way to meet new people even though I’m skeptical sometimes because some group projects sometimes don’t go well. But in this case, it did go very well. We chose the name “Holistic Nomads” and my experiences in this group have been amazing. Since the beginning we assigned roles to each one, mine is the Task Manager. Each of us spans from natural Sciences to Social Sciences and in the first assignment, we got to know each other well and immediately clicked. Each assignment we did as a group was fun. Even though we sometimes ha...

This exercise was a little complicated for me. I normally drive or walk without noticing to much detail in my surroundings. I began this exercise thinking I never have walked around the block of my apartment. I have been 4 and a half years living in my apartment and never stopped to look at my surrounds and its details. Makes you think all the places I have been and only scratched the surface of the possible experiences and the details I have missed. In the photo from above I planned the route for this exercise. The red was from when I started and the blue the return of the trip. For the activity, I started exiting my condominium from the back and going to the right, while walking I noticed a lot of people have moved in to the empty houses there where a short time ago. I noticed there was an empty parking lot with only two very old cars. I have seen these cars before but never stopped to think why there where there, and why they were left there. Also I’m v...

REFLECTION ABOUT ON LOOKING BY ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ The reading was a good eye-opener for me. Right at the beginning, she caught your attention. Funny that she caught your attention by explaining the phenomenon of attention and how we express it as human beings. We, as a reader can really connect with her and her experience. She describes her experience of when she went dog walking and noticed some details of her “block”.   Reading this you begin to think all the places you have been and all the details you miss. It’s like looking at a 360 camera but only viewing 150 degrees of it, which is more or less the human eyesight. It’s impossible to view everything at the same time. The attention is also filtered from the point of view of the person, everybody looks at the world differently and multiple people viewing exactly the same thing will have different answers when asked what it is. In the reading, she tells us the same kind of idea “There is a certain bias in every one's per...