User:Agoldman

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This was the first time that I blogged about myself, I found the process interesting. At first I just wrote down what I was thinking in a stream of conscious type method. Upon rereading, I felt I was being too modest, it seems I don’t like talking about myself (another reason why I may have been avoiding blogging). After a couple more drafts, the end product looked more like my MIT college essay than anything else, but I suppose that’s something college essays and blogs have in common, talking about myself and why people should care what I have to say.

1/27

Lost in the old wiki somewhere.

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I think that sobriety plans like Alcohol Edu do help somewhat, but not for the 4 hours that we have to put into them. I think that these programs get a bad reputation solely because they are so long, not because they are telling us not to drink (because they aren’t). Alcohol Edu was very straight forward when it said that its goal wasn’t to just promote no drinking, but rather safe drinking. I think this was a good approach, but it was simply too long. I do here people at parties bringing up things we all learned, especially when figuring out if they can drive. If the course was much shorter and had far less surveys I think it could be a great tool.

The courses I took did delve into the chemical effects, from how alcohol affects the frontal lobe, to MRI scans of a brain under the influence. They talked about the blood stream and how fast your liver can cleanse it. The 4 hour course went into about as much depth as my semester long health class in high school.