Room to Think

So, obviously I'm a little late on the "Tuesday" part of TEDtalk Tuesday, but I don't have followers yet, so I suppose it's not going to matter in the end.  Besides, I haven't gone to bed yet.  In my mind, that means it's still Tuesday. Regardless, I intended to post this while I was in the Atrium today, but I ended up forking up $120 to the rec center all in one go because I decided to be on two intramural teams this quarter, and the line had me occupied for a good portion of my 2 hour break.  By the end, I didn't feel like blogging at all. BUT here is the reflection on my post I put up earlier today.  If you actually watched the nice embedded video I put up in the last blog, congratulations.  I'm happy that 20min video didn't make you feel like you were wasting time.  TED does have much more engaging presentations, I promise!  It also means you can skip most of this blog, down to the only graphic in this mass of words.  If you...

From my experience, the best way to start a new blog is to jump right in.  Today is Tuesday, which means that later today I get to sit by myself for two hours between classes, pretending to do homework while I'm actually watching people in and around the Atrium.  I figure that's as good a time to reflect as any. So, no, this won't be your typical blog from my bed, which means I'm already going outside the parameters of why I established this blog in the first place. BUT, I did start watching the video I'm going to talk about before I went to sleep last night, and finished it when I woke up this morning.  Take that  theme . The video is a TEDtalk--which, if you've never heard of it, this guy gives a fairly short explanation of them, I suppose.  If you'd like to watch more TEDtalks, because you agree that they make you think, there's a link to all twelve-thousand of them over there in the bar to the right. --------------------> or, you can just cli...