Self Awareness and a Cell Phone

I did it. I used my cell phone in class and found myself more self-aware than ever. I'm supposed to be on the team of creepers looking out for people, like me, on their phones or just distracted...I stopped taking my laptop to class because there are waaaay too many things on it to distract me from class. I even deactivated my facebook so that I could be a little more in the world and less of it. But, still, I get distracted.

I touch my phone and find myself pausing to consider how this will effect my learning. Am I distracting others around me? Does my professor know? Is this even important? Did I miss something?

Jesus and the Gospels has taught me a lot about responsibility and focus. If my focus shifts from avoiding failure to gaining knowledge and succeeding in classes, I think that I will do better. I'm a psychology major, so I find myself analyzing how my initial attitudes effect the way a situation plays out...which it completely does...

So, this week I am going to make an attempt to avoid my phone while I'm in class/at work/studying/working on grad school stuff/etc. If you see me distracted...hold me accountable. thanks. :)

Classroom Creepers

I am so stoked to actually be starting a project in class. I keep saying I feel like our Paul class has unfinished business and I LOVE that we are getting the ball rolling on this idea for Jesus and the Gospels! I want to change the world, but I know I cannot do it alone and it will take a long time for it to really happen....but one thing that we learned in Paul was that sometimes it helps to think globally and act locally. Whether locally is with ourselves or our school, I think we're doing an awesome thing to attempt to impact change where we see it needs to happen.


Luke talks a lot about outcasts of society. There are also outcasts of the classroom; people who have learning disabilities, people who learn in different ways, people who never do the assignments :) As Christians, we are called to step out of our comfort zones to reach out to the outcasts, even to become one of them. For this project we are ultimately doing the same thing; we are reaching out to the broken, the poor and the people who don't always get things the first time you tell them.


I'm a part of the group in our class who will be taking pictures of real situations in class rooms when we see learning happening...or not happening. We are the classroom creepers. I am excited to be a part of this group and to get things started on this project. I really believe that we can do good things with this. I cant wait to see the final result!

the class

I think, in a way, our class is a group of Zealots. We have this ideal in mind for how we think Huntingdon should be, and although it is different from what the administration and staff (the Romans) have been doing, the results of what we want are the same. We all want to have a peaceful campus where students are engaging in learning and are equipped for the real world. The means by which we want that, however, is where we differ. We, as a class of Zealots, don't like the way that the Romans of our institution have been running things and we don't think they should have power over us. Huntingdon is our school, we pay the bills and we are the body of inhabitants. Our futures depend on everything that happens here. We want to make Huntingdon's classrooms better learning environments to better prepare us for the world after graduation. After college, very few of us will have to take a test to show the things we know; instead, we will have to be able to put the things that we know into action. If we aren't doing that here, we aren't learning. It's not about overthrowing the government or killing people for us, it's about taking control over what we think should already be ours: learning.

Modern Zealots...