My Reflection As A Student At Genesee Community College

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The last time I took a philosophy class, I was in a different situation. At the time, I was not a student at FLCC. I was taking just two courses. It was my very first time in college and I was fifteen. The class was Logic 102 at Genesee Community College with Professor Gayford. I enjoyed the class, but I did not find it challenging. That was when I was just developing the beginning of my interest in philosophy. It was my father 's idea that I take the course. I had become very interested in logic, so my parents thought it would be a good idea to enroll me in a class. Now I do not mean to disrespect Professor Gayford when I say I did not find his class challenging. It really was quite interesting, but I felt like the environment required Professor …show more content…
This was when we were assigned to write about mind body dualism in consideration to three different perspectives. I remember that I did not finish the essay until the day it was due, and it was clearly apparent in my essay. I had been trying to get work done on it all weekend, but I could never bring myself to accomplish anything. I know I was under a lot of stress from my other classes at that time, but I had the option to put more work into that piece. Instead, I decided those nights that it was a better choice to sit on the couch and binge watch my favorite shows. Due to this decision, my essay was raw and unedited. It also dismissed some of the authors far too hastily, and did not give them the respect they …show more content…
The first was the oral presentation I had to give on Barker and Kitcher’s essay “Antiscientism”. My score was deducted because I let the class get off topic, but I think I gave a good perspective on the subject and got other students involved in the discussion. The second assignment where my performance was better was our single test. Half the test was multiple choice questions on logic, and the other portion was a written essay. I did not get a single point deducted on the multiple choice section. I think that I performed very well on the oral presentation because I was nervous to embarrass myself in front of my peers, which caused me to do great amounts of preparation for the assignment. The professor told us that our presentations needed to be a minimum of ten minutes long, while mine lasted for about

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