Jess Bansil's Blog

For our project, my group and I met at Starbucks to work on the project and collectively come up with an idea that would meet the parameters of the project. When we first met, we just started talking about where we from and what our majors were, and that led us to taking a more personalized route for the assignment and making it applicable to a more individual level. We first discussed the quote, " “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the  Tannhäuser  Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” When discussing the quote, we took it as people having collective experiences  of living on earth while also leading completely different, individual journeys. Even though we all get rained on at the same time, we're all seeing different things and get hit by entirely different raindrops. We all collectively cry, but we do it at different times fo...

 During class today, we had a debate about The Matrix and whether we would've preferred to take the blue pill or red pill. We all concluded that a strong motif in this movie is free will, and the ability of humans to intrinsically trust each other to make the best decisions for our own being. My group was assigned the red pill, which I was glad about because that was the one I favored more throughout the movie. However, a lot of my classmates made strong arguments towards taking the blue pill, with an argument that stuck with me being "ignorance is bliss." My blue pill classmates made strong points that some people and their physical and mental being cannot handle the level of awareness and sense of danger that is associated with the red pill. They offered examples like high stress jobs in the medical field, like nurses and doctors. They stated that some people couldn't handle the mental and emotional stress that jobs like these put on the individual, with a specific ...