Journal Entry 1

Nate Kenny                 Regarding our Project 4’s I think it’s definitely important to be able to assess problems within a community you’re apart of mainly because you’re the members of the community. You’re the ones it’s actually affecting so you can give the most relevant feedback. In our project regarding the meal swipe situation, we did a couple big compare and contrasts with other public Indiana schools to see how they worked around this obvious problem. In just interviewing a couple friends who went to IU and IUPUI, there’s no feeling of stress or even anger when you miss a meal swipe. Whereas I know people here who revolve their schedule around making sure they can use their meal swipe each and every day, just so they aren’t losing money, which is obviously ridiculous. So, we kind of learned what we already assumed, there’s a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the meal-swipe situation here, whe...

Nate Kenny Journal Entry 8             So for my project 3, no I hadn’t quite written a paper like that before. I have done research papers before of course, but I can’t remember writing a paper 8 pages long before. I think the topic I picked was good for two reasons, firstly because I genuinely interested in it. But also, because your biggest enemy when writing a paper this long can be running out of things to talk about, and with my topic there are almost endless ways you can take it so that was never really an issue for me regarding everything surrounding electric cars. I also don’t want to make it sound like this is the paper to end all papers or anything because I’m sure in two years I’ll be writing something that makes this project look like doodles or notes in comparison. But as far as what I’ve written up to date, yeah, It’s the longest.             As far as str...