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Tonight’s class seems to be a potential turning point in the semester. As a class, we aired frustrations, were introduced to a model of the brain (i.e. the nervous system), and we seemed to not get stuck on points as much as in previous classes. That is all very positive and exciting.

In the spirit of posting early and often, here a couple thoughts that I feel are post-worthy:

 Firstly, learning about a model of how the brain works is great. An important part of education is engaging other people’s ideas and hypotheses, trying to learn and evaluate those ideas, and then try to continue to build and incorporate into other situations. This brain model is certainly exciting to engage and learn about. 

Secondly, I am very interested in the idea of what happens when we are not explicitly learning, studying, and engaging the copious stimuli in our lives. There is an article that Professor Grobstein posted a link for in the session three forum, which I look forward to reading, and I can share my thoughts once I have read it. 

For the moment, how important is it to try to turn off/disengage from our logical, rational mind and just do things that do not require active thoughts? I think it is very important, and I am curious if anyone feels like sharing his or her own thoughts on this. For me, I think it may be most important for the rest and rejuvenation it provides. Anecdotally, I have found that if I do not take this time and space then I eventually just crash.

Anyway, good session tonight!