Dr. Lubach's presentation really opened my mind to a new freedom. Critical thinking is not just reading and deciding how to interpret a passage or deciding how to format or compose an essay, its much more than that. Critical thinking is simply coming upon my own decisions and making choices for myself. Its, in a way, introspection and deciding what you want to believe and what you want to doubt and finding a compromise between faith and skepticism. Critical thinking, I realized, has been something I never really paid attention to and unconsciously ignored. I've been absent-minded to the way I've simply believed facts that I've read and been told about without considering whether or not I truly believe in these so called facts. Dr. Lubach has brought to my attention something about people, about myself that I have never noticed  and should notice.  With his presentation, I have come to see learning in a new perspective, not just as sitting in a room and listening to a lecture but as thinking about whether the information is true, whether the stories are valid. 

The library visit was another incredibly useful nifty presentation about how to obtain books, articles, PDFs, or whatever information needed online on the UCSB library website and the research databases. In addition to the Career Counseling Building and the Student Resource Center, the resources available at the library simply cover all of the questions and locations where we  can get the resources needed for any assignment or study.