https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x Senior Experience en-us 2018-09-24 21:08:53 UTC 2025-04-10 13:02:31 UTC hello@padlet.com grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287405113 As most of us are just a few short months away from entering the real world we are faced with some exciting yet also scary truths. Where will be move to, where will we work, how will we provide for ourselves and what is our calling. In the novel Why Work we are reminded that our work, whichever career path it is that we decide to take we don’t work to live but that we should live to work.]]> 2018-10-01 00:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287405113 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287405602 2018-10-01 00:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287405602 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287406888 2018-10-01 00:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287406888 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287407273 _{It is important to find what exactly it is that gives us fulfillment and satisfaction rather than just a big paycheck at the end of the week. It should not be the type of jobs we get that define us as people but the degree to which we do that work and for what purpose that shall define us.} ]]> 2018-10-01 00:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287407273 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287407356 2018-10-01 00:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287407356 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287408112 2018-10-01 00:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287408112 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287410322 2018-10-01 01:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287410322 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287410745 2018-10-01 01:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287410745 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287411591 2018-10-01 01:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287411591 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287413385 2018-10-01 01:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287413385 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287414349 2018-10-01 01:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287414349 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287415522 In the short novel of The Undeclared Major we learn of a young man by the name of Walter who has struggled to find his calling. As he has recently turned 21 he thinks he has found the major in which he could make a career out of, yet he doesn’t know for sure what that entails. We suspect that he is a bit ashamed of majoring in English but he feels as if this is something that gives him joy.]]> 2018-10-01 01:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287415522 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416106 2018-10-01 02:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416106 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416266 This is impactful in our lives because we must be reminded that our work will have impact on others. If we choose to not do our work to the best of our ability, then who knows what type of negative impact that could have on others. We should live to work and work to serve others and most importantly God. ]]> 2018-10-01 02:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416266 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416375 “For his work is the measure of his life, and his satisfaction is found in the fulfilment of his own nature, and in contemplation of the perfection of his work. That, in practice, there is this satisfaction, is shown by the mere fact that a man will put loving labour into some hobby which can never bring him in any economically adequate return” (Sayers, 193).]]> 2018-10-01 02:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/287416375 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437434 If we have truly fulfilled our calling in life, then the weekdays will be no worse than the weekends rather just a change of pace. God created all between Heaven and Earth in six days and let the seventh day to be for a day of putting down the tools used the other six days. “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work” (Genesis 2:2). ]]> 2018-10-03 03:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437434 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437465 “The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living” (Heschel, 217). We shouldn’t consume ourselves with obsession over the weekends, we should look forward to work and then be relieved of our tiredness at the week’s end. After all work is a blessing to be able to do, God commended us to be rulers and workers of his vast creation. ]]> 2018-10-03 03:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437465 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437938 2018-10-03 03:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288437938 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288438376 2018-10-03 03:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/288438376 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289762629 Says we neglect certain commitments. This connects to Annie Dillard’s one necessity…"What if you have two?". This applies to many of our lives as students because we often have more than one commitment. Some students have a job and school, some have athletics and school, and often times ones of them is neglected because the other has to be their main focus at a given time. Often when we have conflicting commitments Martha Nussbaum says we go for the one that produces the greatest goodness. Therefore if spending more time on school, than in athletics creates better grades, that's where we spend more of our focus.]]> 2018-10-05 18:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289762629 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289763058 “I would just be myself I guess” Your job shouldn’t be your identity rather only PART of your identity. The farm was their family tradition but the boy used his writing to pour back into the farming community. ]]> 2018-10-05 18:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289763058 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289763520 You may feel strongly about many things and think that it is your calling. For example, I used to believe I was called to be a teacher and work with kids. That has since changed and I am now an ASL Interpreting major and could now never imagine myself as anything else. There are times where you will feel like your life is going many different directions, but you’re always pointing into a certain direction (Your calling). You may never use your major in your life because God may give you a different calling. Vincent Hardy also tells us “When you see an injustice always act on it".]]> 2018-10-05 18:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/289763520 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290090732 2018-10-07 21:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290090732 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290091168 ^{“Whenever I was tempted to feel that the years I should have to sacrifice were too long, I reminded myself that Hamilcar and Hannibal had prepared for their march on Rome by their slow and tedious conquest of Spain” (Schweitzer, 36).} ]]> 2018-10-07 21:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290091168 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290092022 2018-10-07 22:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290092022 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290093908 2018-10-07 22:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290093908 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290093924 2018-10-07 22:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290093924 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290094379 2018-10-07 22:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290094379 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290095338 Do our special talents impose a special obligation on the kind of life I lead? "I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive". Locate your "One necessity" and plug into it. ]]> 2018-10-07 22:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290095338 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290099539 2018-10-07 23:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290099539 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290099927 2018-10-07 23:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290099927 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100257 2018-10-07 23:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100257 delaney_barr https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100569 Stanton discusses the idea of individuals being treated equally. She focuses mainly on the idea that women and men should be treated equally. My favorite part of "Solitude of the Self" was the idea that everyone comes into the world alone and leaves the world alone. This address given by Stanton really effects me because I am a woman.]]> 2018-10-07 23:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100569 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100799 2018-10-07 23:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100799 grantgayler33 https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100941 2018-10-07 23:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290100941 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290499951 "For where your treasure is , there your heart will be also"

Life is intentional. Where we put our most effort and focus our time towards is what ultimately helps create the intentionality of our heart and mind. This verse puts emphasis on how we sometimes neglect to put focus on our relationship with Jesus. If we just put more attention to strengnthening our faith, over time it'll become more intentional, automatic, and be the core of our hearts. ]]> 2018-10-08 21:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290499951 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290501596 The topics of discussion throughout the course, Senior Year Experience, raises many personally reflective questions, as listed in the syllabus.
- Are some lives more meaningful than others?
-What's the connection between work and identity?
-Do my natural talents impose special obligations on the kind of life I lead?
-To whom should I listen?
-Can I control what I'm becoming?
These questions lead to the philosophy behind finding a meaning in your life. What if you go your entire life without feeling some sort of worth? It is important to create a life centered around your passions, your faith, your ambitions, and what you want to achieve in this life. You only get to experience life here on earth once, so better make it count, right? We are all created equally perfect in the image of God, yet we all face such different struggles during our existence on earth. Collectively as a group, we find it important to find pride in yourself, be humble, and achieve greatness by being a good person, glorifying God, and reaching that feeling like "mama I made it". No life is more meaningful than the other, you can control the outcome of your life if you put trust in your faith, with an open heart and an open mind. You will lead by example, and conclusively live out a life that matters. ]]> 2018-10-08 21:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290501596 kennedy_bonwell https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290503026 2018-10-08 21:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/grantgayler33/l1sbkmnf378x/wish/290503026