In our LIL 120 class Professor Cripps invited our class on a boat ride down the Saco River to look at the fall foliage. It was really nice to be out on the water again, because one of my favorite things is the water and being out on a boat is really soothing. I made …
Marjo, Grace, and I went Christmas shopping with eachother. We went to a few different stores trying to find Christmas presents for our families and other friends. I only ended up buying my mom some tree ornaments because she loves Christmas. Grace got a few small gifts for her brothers and her mom, while Marjo …
The UNE Mens Basketball team had their home opener on a Thursday and it was at midnight. My friends Marjo, Grace, Ben, and Jaidin all went to the game together. It was really exciting because a lot of the school was there and because it was so late everyone was overtired so they were loud …
I am on the UNE varsity softball team and on October 4th we had our play day. It was my first time playing in a game for UNE and I was extremely nervous, but I actually did pretty decent. We had a double header against Saint Joseph’s and I pitched a total of six innings …
On October 26th I flew to Indiana University Bloomington to visit one of my friends who goes there. My friend plays for the club baseball team, and had two games while I was there. The environment was completely different compared to UNE. For example, my friend did not know anyone on his floor except for …
In my rough cut of my College Story Podcast I have all my audio journals input into garage band and they are cut to the points where I talk about the specific goals I had set in the beginning of the semester. I also have my intro recorded and edited, along with my outro of …
Intro: “Hello, my name is Lizzie Brytowski and through my first semester of college we had to record audio journal entries every week to track our progress throughout the semester. I had a few goals in mind for the start of the semester, I wanted to have a good group of friends, I wanted to …
One thing I found interesting about this chapter was the idea of how similar Galileo was to Lucretius. There was one similarity I found the most interesting though, this being “Like Lucretius, he (Galileo) believed that everything in the universe could be understood through the same disciplined use of observation and reason” (Page 254). I …
Since we have been doing these audio journal entries weekly, going back and listening to them has made me realize how much things have changed throughout the school year and shown me what college has really been like. There were a few main points I talked about a few times with what it has been …
One thing I found interesting about this chapter was how people like Ficino didn’t know what to do with the nature of Things. For example, in the text it states “In his twenties, Ficino was deeply shaken by On the Nature of Things and undertook to write a learned commentary on the poet he called …
