Essay On First Year Experience

At the third Performing Arts Center (PAC) session for First Year Experience students, the people on the panel related how their majors/fields of interest influenced how they viewed the world around them. They also related the ways in which their fields of expertise could be used to promote and/or understand sustainability. In this essay I will attempt to relate how my own interests influence my world view and how my interests can be applied to sustainability. The PAC session was very thought provoking.
At the PAC session the panel explained how their majors/fields of interest could be related to sustainability. Personally, I have a curiosity in most subjects, however my major interests are in the arts. I am particularly in writing and the visual arts, although I have a passion for music as well. …show more content…
If I am given a relatively straight forwards question, I try to answer it in the most unexpected way—often the opposite of what the question is asking. I like to make people think, to force them to look at things in a completely different way. The people may not agree with the train of thought (sometimes even I do not agree with my own obscure thoughts), but they have to acknowledge it. For example, in the spring I competed in an annual pageant in the village where I live. The competitors were posed the question ‘What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?’ I spent weeks contemplating how best to answer this question. In the end I decide that if I could not fail, I would attempt to fail at anything and everything. If failure was impossible, then it became the greatest challenge. I also disagreed with the notion that failure should be avoided. I did not answer the question in the way the pageant organizers intended it to be answered, but my answer was still valid. When I look at things, I try to see the unexpected, what no one else bothers to