April 21

We heard the last presentation today. Then we swiftly moved into deciding whose cause was best. No, that's pretty much accurate. We're not allowed the just split the money evenly among the various groups. Some group is or groups are going to get more money than others. We're rating the importance of several huge, important topics that are all problems facing a significant chunk of humanity. So...leadership as in dictators? The money split is also based on how much help the money would be and where it's going and such. Those factors make this a little less horrible. Still. Choose which is more important between...hunger and poverty. Maybe you'd rather choose between education and infrastructure, you know, providing clean drinking water, houses and electricity and such. It just seems a little terrible to me to rank which of these are more important than others. But, hey, we're all going to end up being leaders and need to make these kinds of decisions where we can't just give the same amount to all of them. I understand they want us to think about this issue and that's why we can't just split the money, but it still irks me, obviously. Anyway, next class, we'll be able to see which of these categories is worthy of our consideration and which one(s) we should just ignore. Tune in next week to find out!

How much money will we give to the Humane Society? Oh wait, I forgot... They're not humanitarian enough.

April 20

This week, our homework was making a discussion board post. We're going to debate about which of the organizations brought up in our presentations we would fund if we had a bajillion dollars. Debating leads to leadership? I mean, I suppose it kind of can. By this point, I pretty much don't care what they have us do in the name of leadership, as long as it's something I don't have to think about too much. We're so close to being done with this stupid class forever! Anyway, I know you're dying to see their words about what we needed to do.

There's no grammar mistakes! I'm impressed.

It's a good thing they told us to thoughtfully respond to other posts. That meant I put a little effort into what I was typing. This assignment was less annoying than having to read a kascrillion page article, especially if it was dumb and based on faulty research, but it was still more annoying than reading something short and interesting. Anyway, the whole assignment didn't take me very long, so I suppose I've seen worse for this class.

April 14

The homework for this class was watching videos associated with the group presentations. Since they're TED talks, I have no issue with them. The class was just about the same as the week before. I suppose talking in front of a group and putting a project together is sort of working on our leadership. That doesn't mean I have to like it. This project took me back to high school. Again. Ah well. There's just one more group and then we'll be back to our regularly scheduled ridiculosity. Also, the end of this class is rapidly drawing near. Thank the deity of your choice!

I'm more glad about the end of this class than you are to see this baby elephant.

April 7

Today, we had the first group presentations. Each group is expected to take 25 minutes with their presentation. The suggested (or maybe demanded, I couldn't tell) allotment of time is 10 minutes of the group speaking and 15 discussing. Since there's three or four people in each group, I suppose it's not that bad. I kind of resent having to come up with that much to talk about for this class, but I'll get over it.

Other than that, I had no issues with this class for once.

Maybe I have less to complain about because they were staring me down while I wrote this.