Dr. Lubach, Reddit, and Crazy Wildlife

This past week my INT 95 class visited the Davidson Library on campus in order to meet with academic librarian Sally Weimer for an informational session. I learned about many useful resources that I was previously unaware of, including a massive database of electronic scholarly articles. Our guest speaker this week was Dr. Lubach. He was a very informed speaker, and by far my favorite this entire summer. He advocated the importance of critical thinking, and various avenues and methodologies through which you can approach the realm of critical thinking. One of my favorite parts of his lecture was the point where he talked about balancing critical thinking in social situations. Sure, you may be able to refute someone else's claim, but that does not mean it is appropriate or kind to do so.

Local raccoon stopping in to say hello

Another thing that Dr. Lubach spoke about was a recently growing social board called Reddit. As an avid "redditor" for almost 3 years, I am happy that Reddit is beginning to accrue the popularity it deserves. This website is divided into several "subreddits," which are essentially sub-forums ranging anywhere from funny jokes, politics, news, religions, any hobby you can imagine, to intense academic discussion. The thing I love about Reddit is that (bar many of the more popular default subreddits) it is an awesome place to learn about anything you have ever been curious about, you just need to know where to look. In conclusion, I would like to include this picture of a raccoon--because as other Gauchos well know, the wildlife can be pretty insane around campus at night. Thankfully, if you leave them alone, they will usually scamper along on their way. I would be lying if I said that many families of raccoons and skunks hadn't accidentally snuck up on me, and of course vice versa.