Semester 1 Reflection

Reflection Assignment Prompt:
As we draw to the end of the semester, it's time to evaluate and reflect upon the progress that you've made thus far as a critical thinker in this course. Respond to the prompt below and upload that response to the dropbox.

Organization

     As you may have noticed, the blog has undergone some substantial organization changes recently to make it more aesthetically pleasing and easily navigable (remember those goals of mine?).

Goals

   As it is almost halfway through the school year, our instructors have decided it is time for us to decide on some concrete goals for what we wish to do with our blogs. Here are my three goals-- one for this blog, one for CWatKPCN (with Jasmine, Nate, and Andy), and one for AFaiG (also with the three aforementioned group members).

Quarter 1: Outliers

In-class analysis and applications of the concepts addressed in our first quarter required reading book, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Mission Statement?

The mission of my blog is to get me A's in Critical Thinking Gifted this year. It will accomplish this by allowing me to record my experiences in teaching myself to process and retain new and confusing information beyond its current comprehension capabilities through the learning of non-Euclidean geometry.

About Flowers

     First off, my project isn't about flowers, despite the slightly misleading blog address. Though I'm guessing nobody actually knew what a chincherinchee was before now, so I shall inform you. It's a white, star-shaped flower in the lily family, native to the Cape of Good Hope, with the scientific name ornithogalum thyrsoides. Anywho, the project (and, consequently, this blog) is about non-Euclidean geometry, which I'm sure everybody finds quite fascinating, eh?