Jesse Gates

Our experience with our first expedition wasn’t completley up to par. There is a difference between knowing a topic well enough that you can have talk about with people and reading information off a piece of paper. Rather than relying on other peoples information, if we researched various subtopics of cancer ourselves the information would sink in better. I think we may have underestimated how much work this was going to be, and how long it would take for students to actually be able to talk in the “casual-conversation” tone rather than the “robotic-reading-off-of-paper” tone. But with just informing people, I think we did well.

There is no cure for cancer and it affects those who watch a loved one suffering as well as the ones suffering themselves. A person with cancer may feel like they only have so long to live, and anticipating it can also mess with ones head. Someone living with cancer may lose ambition and may even become depressed.

I think that as a group we covered a lot of topics branching off of Cancer. If we were to continue our research I think that we should individually be informed and properly too. If we have self-understanding in the topic of cancer rather than relying on other peoples work, work will be more fluent and possibly accurate.

What I found difficult with our expedition was that there were a lot of terms that someone would have to be familiar with while researching in order to fully understand what it was saying. When someone would come across something they do not understand, they may skip it and go on, but then brought up several more times within the chapter or may have been the main idea of the chapter. It makes the reader get frustrated, and just copy information directly out of the book.

I think that this was a valuable learning experience. It raises awareness - I had no idea cancer was so common. Though we may have not learned as much about cancer as we could have, we know a lot of the basics which are enough to scare us into being careful with the choices we make.