Well tomorrow is the last day of the of classes. Of course I still have finals, but still. It’s been a pretty interesting year for certain. I liked my classes and I believe I did well. I also have my classes for next semester and I have some really fun classes coming up.
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End of Term Business
Well it’s the time again where things get really busy, a lot of big assignments are due, and things are really busy. It doesn’t help that there is a bug going around campus as well. Ahh the issues of being in a dorm. If one person gets sick everyone gets sick too. Still taking things one step at a time and things will be alright. Also got my classes for next semester. It should be my last semester so that will be nice, and right now I have some good classes, they might change, but so far I have some interesting classes coming up. I’m also excited for a break, but still working hard to get everything done.
Guest Speaker
This week in one of my classes we got visited by one of the teachers I’ve had before. It was great because I really liked the teacher. I was already excited since when i read the reading list I actually saw her name as one of the books on the reading list I got excited to read the book so actually getting a presentation from her was fun.
Interesting or not?
Sorry for not posting in a while. I think I’m going to keep thse to one post a week because I had a lot of school work this week so I didn’t have a lot of time to write.
One thing I’ve found in life is that things are very interesting to people who don’t have to deal with them. What I mean by that is is that people will find some of the technology I have very interesting and cool. Though I agree that some of it is amazing, most of the time it’s more hassle than it’s worth. Still, it’s a conversation starter because a lot of people want to know what it is and how it works. Especially when you’re in school. I suppose it goes off the idea that things are so natural to us that we take them for granted, but when something else comes into the mix we pay attention to it. We take things almost for granted that they’re the way we thin they are. If someone constantly gets coffee from the coffee machine at their work, but suddenly their office bought a new machine they would notice.
My point is that with some of the things I have it’s so unusual to other people that they’re interested in what it is and how it works. They want to test it out and play with it for a bit It’s not that I mid that, but that I don’t see why they’d be so interested in something that for me is a normal thing.
I’ve had plenty of “toys” in the past including computers with cameras so I could see the board or machines that could read the text on the page and make it bigger. So many people wanted to play with them and explore them.
I also had one time a young girl ask what my cane was to her mother while I was walking past them one day. her mother told her and I showed her a bit how it worked.
It’s also interesting to think how sometimes you take tings for granted. I had a program during high school that was set up for blind and visually impaired students and at one point my high school had four blind students (including me), but my girlfriend when she first met me was very curious because she’d never met a person who was visually impaired before.
So I guess we really just assume things are mainstream that we’re used to, but when something is common to us it might not be so common to others.
Why didn’t I know about this before?
Okay, so I just found out that I can get help from an independent living specialist from the CNIB even though I’m still on campus. I wish I knew this four years ago. Guess it’s never tooo late to get started. I’m sure the US has help like this as well so if anyone wants help with independent living and living on a college campus you should really look into getting help from someone even before you get a place of your own.