Colloquium
To tell you the truth, I was so nervous before I entered this classroom. This was my first honor’s course and on top of that it was one of the first courses that signified I was a junior. Everyone on campus knows that you are almost done with your college years at FGCU when you have taken colloquium. Well that’s the way I think about this course when I think about FGCU. Everyone knew each other in the course because they entered the honors program together and I was just inducted to the program a few months before the course started.
I felt relaxed when we were given the first task and this task could be completed without working in groups. The big question was, what do you think colloquium is. At first I automatically wrote down service learning. As the course progressed, I quickly realized that it is not just about service learning. It is about conserving our environment and learning ways to live a sustainable life without taking drastic measures. The course emphasized what is happening to our environment in our community as well as what is happening to the environment in other parts of the world. Basically this course is about awareness and using the knowledge that we learned to take action.
I have learned so much in a short amount of time and that is incredible to reflect on. I have had the opportunity to explore parts of Fort Myers that I would have never ventured on my own. I probably would have never seen downtown Fort Myers or ECHO or any of the other places we toured on field trips if I was not in this course. This class has opened my eyes and helped me understand our environment and community as something bigger than my regular studies. 
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