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I am a third year Sociology major with hopes of having a minor in film and TV,

and I am also on our school's baseball team. As a North campus student I have interacted

with many free thinking people who are open to ideas and want to communicate with each

other in order to accomplish their goals. I recently traveled down to South campus and had a

stronger feeling of seriousness and individualism, which may be because of the stereotype of

STEM majors being more hardworking than the North campus students. I believe that if North and

South campus students can merge their equally hard working skills and move to more cooperative

work ethics, we as a university can be more unified as one campus. 



As I mentioned earlier I am a member of our baseball team, which takes up a large majority of my

life outside of school. I consider baseball a natural science because hitting/ throwing a baseball requires

timings and physical adjustments to scientifically allow me to hit the ball farther or throw

the ball harder. The culture of literary intellectuals to me are my classmates at UCLA. To me they

are people I can talk to and hangout with while talking about our classes.


For this week's topic of two cultures the YouTube video "RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education

Paradigms” was the most influential for me. In our lecture video "Two Cultures Pt1 '', the two cultures

were described as literary intellectuals and natural sciences. These two ideas are very different worlds

as C.P. Snow says he had two friend groups based on these cultures. Snow could hangout with his

literary friends outside of work, but could not do the same with his fellow scientists as they had ceased

to communicate. I agree with the idea that schools are at fault for creating two cultures, as the video

of "Changing Education Paradigms”. Standardized schools are hurting the stimulated minds of the

youth by teaching boring lessons that don’t appeal to all students, who live in a world of stimulants

like computers. Kids should be excited to learn but are being diagnosed with ADHD because they

don't want to sit through boring classes. This is all true, as I was tested on with a new form of

standardized testing, where some students succeeded and others were placed in lower classes of

sciences and math.





Work Cited

“The Physics Behind Baseball Pitches.” COMSOL, www.comsol.com/blogs/physics-behind-baseball-pitches/#:~:text=After leaving a pitcher's hand, that depends on the pitch.

Snow, Charles Percy. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: the Rede Lecture. Cambridge Univ. P., 1959.

“Standardized Testing Pros and Cons - Does It Improve Education?” Standardized Tests, 17 Feb. 2022, standardizedtests.procon.org/.

Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between.” Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp. 121–125., doi:10.1162/002409401750184672.

Williams, Ted, et al. The Science of Hitting. Simon & Schuster, 2013.





Comments

  1. DJusticeApril 17, 2022 at 9:00 AM

    Hey this is a great blog post. I agree with you on the idea that merging the north and south campus students and their brilliant minds will make us as a campus way more unified. We are already pretty unified which is greta but I agree that we can be even more unified through doing this. I also feel the same way when you talk about baseball because I am on the football team and I can relate to them in the same kind of ways.

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