Probing Bb Vista

Is Drexel culture making us smarter? I guess in order to answer that it depends on your definition of smarter. My definition of smarter would basically be knowing something you didn't used to know that can be applied to real life situations. I would have to say I have definetely gotten smarter since I've been here. Not because of going to class five days a week, but the independent experiences you are forced to encounter everyday.

Since I've been away at school I have had to use and strengthen my problem solving skills to the extreme. An example of that would be using Drexel's online network system. It was a maze for over a week and now I sit down in my computer chair and navigate through the site with ease. I guess frustration set in first when we had to "register our computer." It took me forever to get logged on to the internet. But once I was on I realized that it wasn't so bad after all and the next time I would have to do something similar to that I would have no problems. How this relates to Johnson's theory this making us smarter is that we aren't used to being so independent. I never had to set up my own internet before. Because I had to do this on my own and pretty much everything done at drexel is alone I now am smarter. I would never have imagined my transfer into this university would go so quickly but becuase of my surroundings and all these introductions to modern technology I am becoming very self reliant and by result, smarter.
I am no more efficiant with the internet and installations, even better at following directions. All qualities that can be applied to everyday life.
I would definetly agree that Johnson does have a point when he talks about access to new things allows our new generations to learn and produce at a much faster pace and all my exposure to new things here so far is evidence of that.