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This semester I have actually really enjoyed all of the topics that we talked about. I didnt think i would like this class at all, especially at seven in the morning..Hah! But I actually have! The topic that has stuck with me the most though is reasoning. I did my first paper on reasoning, which made me think about it even more than just what I did in class, and it has just really stuck. I had never thought about how I make decisons and why I make them the way that I do, and ever since we went over that topic I tend to think about Mill's theory of creating the greatest amount of happiness for the greatesst number of people. I always try to do that in my life, I am very much a people pleaser. I think I have always just done that subconsiously though. I never actually thought about it, just did it. But now I tend to think about it more. I do things to please the most people possible. At the same time as that though, I tend to tolerate people. I do things for people because they dont do it when I want them to have it done, or they dont do it good enough for what I want, so instead of asking them to fix it I will just start over, or take over and do it myself. This comes from me being a very punctual person, I always have things done on time if not 20 minutes early, and I always do them as good as I can. 

I am still working on figuring out all the legistics of my debate presentation. I have my topic picked, Inclusion classes for special education students rather than self contained classes. And I am debating for that. I have made a list of all the pros and cons of that and started thinking of ways to debate each thing on my list, and then adding to my list as I research and find other things and as I think of things also. I am also asking questions to the special education and general education teachers that I work with to get their opinions of what they think I should do. 

To prepare for the rest of the semester, I think I need to just keep doing what I have been doing. I feel like I have been doing really well in this course so far and if I just keep up with the readings and coming to class then I will be prepared to take the final, do my debate, and just do well in the rest of the assignments this semester. 

What am I learning? I honestly hate this question. I feel like I am honestly just learning how to think. How to think about things from different points of view and to not be biased about things. Or that if I am biased, it is okay to still think about things from a different point of view, so I can at least try to understand or see what someone else sees about something that we may or may not agree on. So I guess in a way maybe I am learning toleration? I just thought of that. In this class we learn to think of things from different perspectives, and when you tolerate someone thats kind of what you have to do. In the toleration unit someone said, or it was found in the book, I cant remember which... "Toleration is a virtue to behave in a way to be able to co-exist with people or things that you find to believe or do things that are against what you believe to be right." In order to do this, I think that you have to do what I said above, think about things and try to see them from some one else's point of view.