2nd Term Critical Thinking

    Critical Thinking is so awesome. I consider it one of my best skills, and I use it early and often, much to the chagrin of most of my professors. I can use this superpower to gauge my actions and the actions of others, and sometimes even predict them, as well as seeing greatly hyped uselessness for what it really is. But I digress, I'm supposed to tell you what I learned about it this term.

    This term, I learned there is a limit to how much critical thinking a person will let you do, and that limit has very much to do with how much criticism comes from your critical thinking. I knew this already, but I guess I had to see if it held true even in college, the palace of ideas and ideals. I think it's good to set limits, even on thinking. If you over think something then it loses it's value. It's like when you repeat a word so many times that it loses it's meaning. Try saying banana 100 times, you'll see what I mean before you get halfway through. Anyway, our class has been the place of some heated discussion, some with me and some without me, but in both cases we have eventually managed to go too far. With critical thinking you do get to the point where the only thing left is criticism, and since they sound so much alike people tend to do both at the same time and call it one or the other. While I'm not saying that great things haven't come out of our class discussion, I am saying that in most of them we, myself included, really need to watch that line between critical thinking and criticism.

    In short, make sure when you begin to break down a thing or an idea you do it to help build it up and make it better, not destroy it. If you do the former great things will come. If you do the latter nothing will come. Remember that we are all here to learn, and if you're not then I feel bad for you because you wandered into a really bad situation. Either way, make sure you wear sunscreen, it saves lives. It's been proven.