Finishing up our Inquiry Project - Abstracts

This week our group's been finishing up our abstract, and I wanted to put up what I said for my "Personal Reaction".  Here it is!

I learned a lot about the future and the singularity theory in reading these three books.  Before them, I had never even considered what would happen in the future.  Now, I have some very good ideas about what will occur in the distant future.  After reading The Singularity is Near, I got a very good idea of what would occur in the future, as well as the proof behind it, mostly with the Law of Accelerating Returns.  Reading Future Shock showed me that the ideas have been around for a while, only that the ideas have been refined and proven.  Overall, I’m very glad with what I’ve learned from this project.

Back at school full-time!

Now that I've decided where I'm going to college (William & Mary), I am back in school full-time and have a lot more time to work.  I am currently reading Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge for the last book in my Inquiry project.  It's an extremely different book compared to what I'm used to reading, it's not a book that says what might happen in the future, like The Singularity is Near and Future Shock.  Rather, it is a novel about the future, and the future shown in the novel is extremely interesting.  I'm enjoying the book so far, I should finish it over the weekend.

Back From Visiting Colleges - Also, Staging Twelfth Night

I just got back on Thursday from a whirlwind college visit throughout the East Coast, and it's helped me trim my list of colleges I'm considering.  Back at school, Sally and I are working together to stage Act 1, Scene 2, and preform it come Monday.  We picked this scene because it only has two characters:  The Captain and Viola, since we only have two people in our group.  We're keeping to the original script, I think it will turn out well.