Monday, February 2, 2009

Regular ol' monday

Today was pretty standard. I woke up, biked to Life Science, fell asleep, went to my next class, English, and slept through the movie. Afterward, I had lunch, napped, and went to my last class, Anthro M186. We had our second simulation for the class. I was placed in the competition/games group, which meant that for every decision we made, we had to play a competitive game to determine the winner. We had a difficulty grasping this concept. We attempted a game of capture the flag, but that failed. Instead, we were lazy, and our group glommed onto the all-women's group, which stood for peace, unity, and equality (is this sexist? I wasn't sure. I thought that since we live in such a modern and progressive society, we could overcome these limitations biology has placed on us, and we can all be peace-loving. Clearly not.) Simulations are interesting in theory but dumb in practice. The rules are stupid and there isn't much you can do. I basically stand around, nod in agreement, or say nothing if I don't care/don't agree. Also, I find it really interesting that certain students assume leadership and responsibility. Do they care more about this simulation and want to "win"? Are they natural leaders? Or do they simply want to run rampant with the responsibility and order people around? Not sure, don't care. I'm one of those who stand in the background, indifferent. I'm too tired to actually act out a simulation that was similar to the last one we did. Boooooooring.

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