Critical Thinking Blog #1

I feel that critical thinking is a process that you may go through on certain things or decisions may be the better word. A situation in which I felt like I thought critically is the decision on whether or not to move out of state to Colorado just three days after my wedding. I did a lot of research and analysis of where we were going and what we planned to do there. A lot of times I feel that I use my best critical thinking skills when I use a pro and con approach to a decision.
As for a situation in which I did not use critical thinking skills is when my wife became pregnant with our son. Let me clear things briefly, I will never say that my son was a mistake because he wasn’t however he wasn’t necessarily planned. I would not change it for all the money in the world, oh wait there is no money left. There might have been a better time for us to grow our family but this is working out just fine.
Intellectualism use to have a good or positive connotation for me but, now that I have begun reading the assigned novel, I am purely disgusted with intellectuals or so they think. I am mortified at the belief of this crazed woman that insists that the word folks should only be used by backwoods, one toothed, f*****n idiots. This is appalling I am a man of western descent or you might say rural lifestyle. I have never met a nicer more hospitable group of people than those who choose the rural or western lifestyle. Frankly the flippin morons she refers to have zero social skills and lack a key survival trait called “common sense.” My grandfather always referred to them as educated idiots. Sorry to be so negative but this book has really gotten under my skin.

Randy's Pre-Writing Blog #1

I am not a traditional student by the standard stereotype. I am 22 years old, I have been married for 3 years and I have an amazing son named Cooper who is getting ready to celebrate his first birthday this coming week. College has been hit and misses for me. I went to college straight from high school mainly to be able to Rodeo for a college team in Casper, WY. After I got hurt (8 months in to the first season) I returned home and before long I married my high school sweetheart. I went to work in the construction industry where I worked as an Underground utilities foreman prior to the economy taking a shit. When the building boom ended our sector of the construction industry was one of the first to go. When I was laid off I decided to go back to school and finish a degree that I started a few years ago. Now I am just about finished with my associate’s degree and have landed a job that is a foot in the door with SMUD the local utility company. This is exciting for me since my dad has been with SMUD for 22 years and I know what kind of opportunity this is for me.

The problem that I face now is whether or not to continue on and complete the original goal of a bachelor’s degree in agriculture or to pursue a career with SMUD?