1 Hour of Uninterrupted Visualization

Today, on February 19, I decided to take the time to do one-hour of uninterrupted visualization. I was not able to do the one-hour of uninterrupted listening. It would proved to be pointless and almost impossible for me to do. To be honest, I think one-hour of uninterrupted visualization is the more challenging than one-hour of uninterrupted listening.

The location I decided to sit down and “watch” is in a corner of a classroom at David King Hall. It is where my wife and her classmates were working on their assignment for their structure lab class. The teacher and everyone do not mind me being in the classroom because it is a very laid-back environment, unlike my previous classes I’ve taken for finance major. It seems to me that everyone enjoy doing things for their assignments because they actually love geology. I cannot help but look around the room and noticed how chaotic it would seem to someone new to this room. There are rocks, microscopes, textbooks, maps, and pictures of biomes ranging from deserts to rainforest to tundra.

I see people smiling and laughing while busy doing their work. They seem to really love doing their geology work. My wife likes to help people so it was no surprise to me seeing her helping her fellow classmates. She would make a great teacher someday. In fact, that is what she really wants to do is to be a college professor. There was a guy named Joe in the classroom that seems to be the “class clown” and everyone always seem to laugh every time he opens his mouth.

It is interesting to see the students come and go as they please. Some go to get some lunch and bring it back to eat. The teacher is also eating something Chinese from the Johnson Center. Still, people are up and about helping each other and asking questions. After 30 minutes went by, people still seem to not mind that I am here doing my own thing – that is watching them like an anthropologist and taking notes. I just looked around the room scanning for something unusual to happen or something to happen, period. It seems like a normal day in the classroom.

I noticed that, occasionally,, my wife look over to me and smile but only for a brief second because she is busy doing her own work and helping others as well. I could see stuff on the board that has a lot of concepts about striations and degrees and angles for rocks. Pretty intense stuff if you don’t know what you are doing. Nonetheless, I sill feel more at home here than I do in a business class setting. The people are very friendly and enthusiastic about their fields. After an hour went by, I laid my head down and rested my eyes. By this time, I was visually exhausted.