Lab #14

For Lab #14, we pondered over who was someone very different from the three of us. We landed on Dario Calabro, a junior saxophone major here at NCSA. Dario was born in Winston-Salem, but when he was six months old, he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived for nine years before moving back to King, North Carolina. He speaks Spanish as a first language and had many interesting and insightful things to say about how he bridged the wide cultural gap between Argentina and the United States. For one thing, there are fewer large restaurant chains in Argentina, and the family structure is massive, extended, and extremely important (he told me that it is not uncommon to have 50-person family gatherings every weekend!).

The interview (successfully uploaded to Youtube after most of a day...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9vG2eHceVM

Lab #10

In my attempts to complete lab 10, I opted to get a few different perspectives. I asked some adults and 18-year-olds who have already voted what it would take for them to give it up, but I also opted to survey the future, and see how precious the right to vote is to those who will (hopefully) be making use of it soon. The results led me to one conclusion: the right to vote is more precious and dear to the young, especially those who are too young to vote as of today.

The pictures (some chose to be anonymous...)




Some answers were a little bit unexpected... who new your soul was that popular?

Lab #3
My life without media for a week wasn’t too bad overall. The first few days were really rough though. I’m constantly on my computer and I had trouble finding things to do besides get on facebook. I did use my computer once however to write an English essay but I think that should be an exception. I also recently bought an xbox 360 and I had trouble avoiding that especially because my roommate was constantly playing it. I don’t watch too much TV so avoiding that wasn’t a problem. I actually found myself getting my work done earlier and actually getting to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour. During the time that would be taken up with media I practiced more and did my homework. I really should spend less time on the computer and by avoiding it for a week I was definitely more productive and I think I will try to incorporate less media into my life.

Lab # 2
Going without my cell phone for 31 hours wasn’t too bad for me. I wouldn’t consider myself to be someone who texts too frequently and I definitely don’t call people too much. I mostly use my cell phone to find people to hang out and occasionally talk to my parents at home. Consequently when I went without it for 31 hours I found my self mostly in my room by myself. When I wanted to hang out with people I would follow my roommate around campus or wander around looking for people. NCSA campus is so small that its pretty rare to walk around the entire campus without finding someone to hang out with. With my cell phone plans to socialize are often made spontaneously however without it I found myself planning ahead to meet people at certain times of the day and I think I actually structured my day better without my phone. Overall it felt very liberating to go with out my cell phone for 31 hours. I am not too dependent on technology.