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Aventura – Rethinking Education

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Most of the people love the concept of education. It is common knowledge that a good education is linked with a higher quality of life. That is why people who fail to pursues higher education don't do so deliberately. Usually it happens because they have some other restricting factor. This factor can be of financial nature or it can be of methodological nature. While we have recognized the first one, and we are actively providing financial opportunities for more and more people, little or nothing is done for the former. Aventura  is going to be an organization which focuses on developing new methods of teaching. We need this that because there is a big issue with the way we are teaching right now––these methods are not inclusive enough. Everybody has different talents and different ways how to retain information. Nevertheless, since the inception of compulsory schooling, the most common way to teach has been frontal instruction. The teacher stands in front of the class and pass...
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A World We Dare To Imagine

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I want to create a world in which everyone enjoys quality higher education. I am who I am because I had a quality education from my childhood onwards. I learned to appreciate all the opportunities I have and I believe that everybody deserves the same privileges. The value of education has never been higher than today, but the availability is restricted so that many people drop out of school. People who drop out of their education, do not do so because they don't want to study. There are two main reasons for people failing to pursue education––they either cannot afford education, or they cannot deal with the current teaching methods. While there has been an effort in making education financially more approachable, there has been done little or nothing to improve the way we communicate knowledge. With new methods many more people could thrive in education. Since the invention of schooling, there have not been many changes to the style of teaching. The so called "frontal teac...
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San Diego Crew Classic––Random Blog Post

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Past fall I joined the USC Crew team, and this weekend we are going to attend the biggest regatta on the west coast. I am still relatively new to the sport and I realized that I have still much to learn about it. My teammates and the coach have been hyping up this weekend for weeks. Thus, I decided to do some research and to write my random blog post about this upcoming regatta. The History Rowing is the oldest collegiate sport. It started out in 1852 with the race between Harvard and Yale. Ever since, the ivy league schools dominated the landscape of collegiate championships, and most of the talent was concentrated on the east coast. In 1973, they organized the first "San Diego Crew Classic" regatta (SDCC). The idea of a regatta on the west coast was accepted enthusiastically by many collegiate teams. This first race featured 12 races with 300 athletes. An old picture of a rowing boat at one of the first regattas Since then, the competition was organized yearl...
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Debby Dougherty––Predatory Behavior in The Workplace

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Past evening I attended the speaker event of Debby Dougherty at the Marshall school of Business. She is a professor for communication at the University of Missouri. The topic of her presentation was sexual misconduct at the workplace. Her main focus was on what causes this damaging behaviors. When we thing about sexual aggression, we should not only think about only "offender" and "victim", but we have to take into account the surrounding environment. The conclusion of her research is, that such behavior is fueled by the underlying culture of certain organizations, and how these reflect the macro-sociological image of society. To start out the presentation she named a lot of examples of sexual predatory behavior which made  the news recently. Sadly our campus was recently involved in such affairs. Together with us––the audience––she analyzed the environment of the school. We realized that there are many factors on our campus which are favorable to such behaviors. ...
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Born On Third Base––Chapter 1

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In the first chapter of his book, Chuck Collins starts to talk about the 1%––the 1% which owns most of the wealth in this country. Society has very mixed feelings about this wealthy minority. He points out that we admire, hate and want to be part of that group at the same time. At this point, he admits that his very family is part of this controversial group of people. He states that he grew up with many privileges. His grandfather was the founder of Oscar Mayer food corporation. Therefore, his family could rely on the substantial wealth which they inherited to them. Growing up he was able to rely on an endowment which was underwritten in his name. As a privileged child, he went to prep school where he slowly realized that he was living in a bubble. As a result, he decided to explore the "other side" right after high school. He decided to do some simple jobs within a worker-town which was experiencing trouble during the recession fo the 70s. The years after, he went to coll...
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Art Opening at Coagula Curatorial

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Art Opening at Coagula Curatorial This Saturday evening Lorenzo and I decided to visit the Coagula Curatorial. This art gallery was featuring a new collection called "Real Abstraction" by the artists Jennifer Faist, Frederika Roeder and Jane Park Wells. Each artist had a couple of their pictures exposed in this gallery––which is situated in the pedestrian zone of LA's china town. We found the place after a short search and we started our visit. The featured artworks as part of "Real Abstraction" The Curatorial had two rooms which presented the art: a front-room and a backroom. The artworks exposed were pretty similar in both rooms: monochromatic pictures with minor abstract features. These artworks were a little bit too minimalistic to catch my full attention. On the other hand, the other features of the gallery were pretty interesting; especially the Mexican shrine (left) and the bathroom (right) of the place struck my attention. Both were very ...
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AMDP investment Proposal

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