June 2011
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Second Week Day 1 at Nerd Camp
Day one: On day one of the second week at Global Ethics and Conflict Resolution Summer Symposium 2011 we first of course like we always do every morning had 9 am morning wake up Activity, where I don’t quite remember what it was about because I was half asleep, haha. So after morning Wake Up, we went to the CMA building and had a very debated not very traditional Make The Case where we...
Day four at Nerd Camp
Day four: On day four we had a speaker that talked about hostage negotiations and being a police officer. I honestly thought I would be bored out of my mind, it was completely the opposite. I was so interested in knowing what makes a person keep hostages and the way they think, I was really involved in asking questions and writing notes on different symptoms and reactions to uneasy people.
Then...
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Day three of Nerd Camp (sorry for no day two, I...
Day Three: Day three we had a speaker on immigration in The U.S., who informed us on how much immigration has changed over the centuries and even merely decades. I had my own ideas on immigration and most of them were negative because all I knew before is that they were coming undocumented and just tearing apart our nation. But once again my opinions were changed, now I know that actually most...
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Day one of Nerd Camp
Day One: I had many expectations of coming to The Global Ethics and Conflict Resolution Summer Symposium at UT. All of them were wrong. I expected to not make new friends, or to be surrounded by people I had nothing in common with. But as it turns out they’re all just like me, and also very unique in their own ways. I have learned already so much just from this one day, and have already...
