Mazes in life

1. My initial reaction to this assignment was to think that our lives are not governed by one specific timeline. However, after thinking and looking into this on a deeper level, I began to think that our lives are affected more by a stellar time. As I thought about it I could not think of anything that you could do that does not affect or has not affected another person. Life may seem teleological because we all wake up with a purpose in our days, but then your day is bound to eventually shift paths from what you had planned based on another persons actions. While using the “Twitter” experiment I learned that although what everyone had posted may not have affected me directly, had affected someone in some way. Certain posts I could relate to or did affect me. For example, a lot of people posted about how busy there days are between work and school which I can definitely relate to because on days I have to work and go to school it is a 14 hour day or more for me between working, commuting to and from Manhattan from Long Island, and going to class which kind of brightened my day up a little knowing that people are going through the same experience as I am. Also someone posted about calculus and derivatives which made me think about the calculus class that I’m in and having to do my homework for it which made me kind of mad. Being that it snowed on the first day of spring, I do not think that anyone really expected it so much and even though it was not a lot of snow at all it still seemed to make mine and most everyone else’s morning a lousy one based on their posts on twitter.

2. The hypertext activity was very confusing to me. Every path you took in the hypertext lead to a different ending which made it very difficult to follow. To me, this activity symbolizes that in life, every decision you make has an affect on the outcome of your life and I think that the designer intended this activity to show just that. I did find myself running in circles trying to figure out where this all was taking me. I was not necessarily attracted to any words in particular rather I was just lost in a maze it seemed. Maybe this says about me that I am still not entirely sure what I would like to do for the rest of my life, but if I make the right choices and take the correct paths I can become very successful.