Ken Zeran

1.      What might you have done differently if you were in the position of artist Ken Zeran, mentioned in this chapter?

If I were Zeran I would have tried to take more legal action. I think Zeran’s case is similar to the anti-abortion group case. The anti-abortion group posted personal information like names, addresses, and license plate numbers of doctors who performed abortions on the “Nuremberg Files” website and because “true threats of violence were made with the intent to intimidate” (251) towards doctors on that site, the group was found liable. I know Zeran’s case was different in some manners but some of his personal information was also used (name and phone number) and was used as a hoax; but one where he actually got threatening phone calls. AOL didn’t take immediate action and with the fact that Zeran felt he needed security around his house for that week shows this was a serious matter; one that clearly should have had more legal action take place. I know AOL isn’t a publishing company so they technically didn’t do anything, but I still don’t understand how the anti-abortion group got charged and AOL didn’t. I would have tried to get a lawyer and taken more legal action, or maybe even started a blog like we saw in the cell phone story in Shirky’s book so at least people would see how AOL can be used against them and what the company will and won’t do to help protect you against something like this happening to you personally. A blog could have gotten more people involved so maybe legal action would have been taken against AOL.

UWB Radio

What might you so with access to UWB radio transmissions if you had a receiver in a car?

Ultra Wide Band, or UWB, radio uses very low power and is able to not interfere with any conventional radio receiver. This technology would definitely be very useful and convenient. That would be so cool if you could upload pictures or write emails or download songs straight to your car without having to worry about having a connection to your internet or dealing with your phone's signal to be strong enough to get wifi access. Although I don't completely understand the whole technological side about it completely, this UWB radio sounds very cool and sounds like it could help a lot of people if they were for instance stuck on the side of the road and needed assistantance. It could even save people money because you wouldn't have to worry about buying mp3 players to take along with you in the car or buy a GPS system because you could just simply access it through your radio. Hopefully this whole UWB radio will come along soon or at least soon enough that our generation will be able to use it because I definitely would like to try it!

DRM: Good or Bad?

What is the value of a bit? It seems that going after folks who have traded songs or movies online is a huge expenditure of effort and money. Is DRM-protected content the way to go? If you don’t agree, propose another method for the distribution of digital multimedia so that content creators can still be compensated.

DRM, according to Abelson (2008), stands for digital rights management and DRM-protected content is content that has a wide range of restrictions to keep people from using that information in any way that would be illegal. Reading about DRM in Abelson’s book I learned that just like everything else, DRM has both its advantages and disadvantages.

I think it’s good that someone has come up with a way to help stop those from illegally downloading massive amounts of black market music or those trying to sell copies of illegally downloaded movies, we definitely needed some system to help stop those people since it became so easy with the rise of the internet. On the other hand, DRM and its restrictions may be a little too much, even though it is doing good. I would be disappointed if I wasn’t allowed to go onto a website, like Pandora for example, and just listen to music without having to buy it beforehand just to see if I like the song or the music that I like. I don’t see any problem with this if I don’t plan on somehow illegally stealing those songs, but with DRM in place this wouldn’t be allowed because the restrictions would stop my computer from playing that music. Stuff like that I think has gone too far and where I think the DRM system breaks down. Overall I think DRM is a good thing because without it people have that much of an easier time stealing and copying whatever they want whenever without having any obstacles in the way and that ultimately hurts everyone. I think the only suggestion I would have is to continue working with the DRM system to make positive change that make more restrictions to make it harder for those to encrypt and work around the codes but at the same time have less restrictions on things like not being able to view a video or listen to a song online. The only problem to this suggestion is that I don’t even know if it’s possible because if it is they probably could have come up with that system by now; maybe one day they will.

Prisoner's Dilemma and FOAF

Considering the Prisoner’s Dilemma in this chapter, provide your own insight on how sites such as eBay “work” for most participants of this popular online auction site. Do they really work? Or is there too much risk?

I think overall the sites works in favor of both the buyers and the sellers. You personally know how much you are or aren’t willing to spend for an item so in most cases a person isn’t going to bid more than they can afford. The biggest risk in a site like eBay would be trust; is the seller’s product really up to the standard they say it is and is the buyer really going to pay the price they said they would? This is why eBay has its buyer and seller guarantees and processes both sides have to go through in order to sell and buy on the site to help ensure everyone that no one will lose. People who sell online have ratings from past buyers so that future buyers and everyone else can see whether or not the things they sell and the way they go about their business is trustworthy or not. This helps relieve some of the risk of whether or not you can trust a person to sell you the quality product they claim they are selling. But still, as with everything else, many people are still skeptical because the site is online; anything on the internet will never be a 100% guarantee to some people. Again, this is where the site’s protection codes are enforced to help relieve that Prisoner’s dilemma between both parties. Sellers have ratings and buyers usually are required to pay with credit card or PayPal to ensure they are going to pay, so this again relieves some of the stress that one party is going to lose in the exchange.

I personally haven’t used eBay before but my dad has, and has explained to me some of the features of eBay that help ensure him neither party is going to be less successful than the other; that in most cases the site guarantees satisfaction for everyone. From Googling more about eBay I also found that they still update their protection guides which is a sign that the company continues to try and fix any problems or mistakes that have been made in the past for customers so this helps ensure me that the site can’t be too risk, that and the fact that so many people use it on a daily basis.

What professional benefits do you see by investing some time in a FOAF-style network?

I see a lot of benefits that could come from investing time in a FOAF-style network but the number one would be getting a job. In many ways FOAF-style networks do a lot of the work for you because so many of us are already members of social networks so using them in ways that can automatically connect you to a friend-of-a-friend that could have a major impact in your life. For example a friend-of-a-friend that you get in contact with could be a boss of a big company where you have been trying to get a job, or someone who knows a lot about the field you are interested in pursuing a job in. I’ve learned in so many of my classes that today it’s all about who you and perhaps allowing your name and profile to fall in the hands of the right FOAF. I personally have experienced FOAF-style network, except not on the internet. I’ve gotten one of my jobs through meeting someone my aunt knew who knew the owner of the company and although none of the contact was through the internet it still worked the same way and was helpful and successful for me.  FOAF networks allow those who are driven and motivated but may have not gotten a chance to completely get their foot in the door in a field they are interested in to come across the right person to help them. Overall FOAF is definitely a good tool to invest in because meeting new people can never hurt and in many cases will just help you.

Revolution and New Technologies

Based on the quote from this chapter, "Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies- it happens when society adopts new behaviors," do you agree or disagree? Cite examples to support your position.

I completely agree with Shirky's statement "Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies- it happens when society adopts new behaviors". Chapter 6 of Shirky's Here Comes Everybody talks about how technology has enabled society to communicate more and better than in the past, and new technologies to communicate arise almost daily. The one point Shirky makes, though, is that all of these new inventions of how to communicate more effectively and all the cool new tools we have on our cell phones, etc. are based off our basic need to communicate with others; we've just jazzed them up a little bit. As he says, "It is a curiosity of technology that it creates new characteristics in old institutions," so society being curious on how to send a letter to more than one person and maybe even in a faster way than postal mail ultimately lead us to email and part of the reason for the invention of the telephone was so people could communicate over lengthy distances and faster since mail would take even weeks to reach its destination, and so on. All the technologies that have been discovered today have been based off of many and many people's curiousities put into real life, but ultimately are based off the basic communication skills people are innately born with already. Also as Shirky says, "Seen in that light, social tools don't create collective action- they merely remove the obstacles to it," so again the tools we have to use to communicate today haven't appeared out of nowhere, they are instead useful tools to make it easier to do what humans were made to do- socialize. For these statements above and reading Shirky's chapter is what makes me agree with the quote above. Behaviors of society that are foreign to existant ones are the things that are revolutionary, but new technologies just stem from current or even old practices that already exist in society.

Information Cascades: College Style

Look deeper into the concept of a "information cascade". Can you cite an example of where following the actions of others was a sound idea? Where doing so ended up being a poor choice?

Besides studying and attending classes, college life has another side that can be put under the subject of an information cascade: drinking. Many people in college go out to parties every weekend, expecting to drink a lot and have fun with their friends, while others choose to go out and not drink or to partake in other activites; regardless partying exists at many colleges across the country. There's nothing wrong with wanting to have a good time with your friends, but taking it too far can have its consequences. Just as with the Leipzig protests, heavy drinking consumes more and more students, especially freshman. Many kids hear about others going out and getting drunk and having such a good time and think they can do the same. Especially with freshman, college kids go out and drink a lot, trying to keep up with their friends thinking it's a good idea because they see and hear about so many people having such a good time at parties, etc. The problem arises when students drink too much for their body to handle and get themselves into positions they otherwise wouldn't if they were in the right mindset, allow people to take advantage of them, and so on. Some students even go too far to the point of no return; they end up killing themselves because they think they can handle more than they really can.
Obviously peer pressure has a lot to do with binge drinking, especially in young adults, but it's also what many students see and hear for themselves. They hear and see their friends getting away with illegal stuff, such as underage drinking, and having such a good time, and see more and more people doing the same and think that they won't get in trouble and will have as much of a good time, which clearly many times isn't the case. In this example, letting go of your individual thoughts on something and following others can have many personal consequences, and many serious ones. I have personally seen so many people get too drunk and have no idea where they are or what they're doing and it's scary to know that the most likely reason they even got to this point was that they just wanted to have a good time just like everyone else.

Hot-button word

Why is “zero” such a hot-button word?’’

            The word “zero” can have many different meanings, which makes it such an interesting topic/word. Zero, when you hear about it right off the bat, usually brings a negative thought to your brain but when you really think about it and how much you take advantage of things being “zero” it can really be a good thing. We are all about things being free, or costing nothing (zero), so much so that we forget the downsides of taking something that’s free. This is one example of how we don’t stop to think about zero being a good thing; we never hesitate to take something that doesn’t cost anything because we think we don’t have anything to lose from it.  Even though we designate zero as a negative thing, such as when we rate things on a scale from zero-ten, we don’t realize the negative implications zero can have like I said before, taking something you don’t need or settling for something because it’s free, even though it doesn’t completely fit what you want. Sometimes things that don’t cost anything can end up being more a cost or hassle because you could decide later on that you really do want exactly what you had pictured in your mind of the product you wanted, and you now have to go out and buy it, wasting more time and money when you could have just spent the money in the first place. I have had this happen to me, settling for something that my friend gave me because its free, but end up going out to the store anyways to get the same product, but that has more features that match what I needed/wanted. 

Mental Transaction Cost

Explain and give an example of a mental transaction cost.

            A ‘mental transaction cost’ takes place anytime you go to buy something; a thought gets triggered in your head anytime you think about having to pay for something. As we heard in Anderson’s “Free” chapter he says it’s our, “Is it worth it flag?” that pops up in our head. He also says that when there is a price put on something, even if it’s only one cent, we can’t help but hesitate and think if we really want or need it enough to pay the price for it.  One example that comes to my mind when I think of mental transaction cost is when you are going to buy a song on ITunes. I want to get all of these songs on my IPod and seeing a lot of the songs go up from 99 cents to $1.29 makes me hesitate to buy that song more, even though I really want to have it on my IPod. These prices, even though they aren’t necessarily expensive, they have me hesitate to buy them and think more about getting them from a website where they are free, though they are illegal.  I never stopped to think about this whole concept but when I look back on it I completely see how every single time, without, a doubt I see something I want I always think about if I really want it and if the price is worth it. 

Facts about Wikis

Facts about Wikis

1.     The most important fact to name is that a wiki is ultimately a page that can be edited, by anyone.

2.     Wikis allow you to link to pages that don’t even exist yet.

3.     The purpose of having a wiki able to be edited is that people around the world can share their ideas at one place online. Like Cunningham said, it’s in our nature to tell stories and converse with each other, so why not be able to do it on online documents about information people want to know or are interested in.

4.     The world’s most famous wiki is Wikipedia, and contains almost 7 times the amount of documents/articles than the Encyclopedia Britannica which has been published since 1768, even though Wikipedia is only nine years old this year.  Obviously something is working within Wikipedia otherwise the numbers wouldn’t be this high and people wouldn’t use it.

5.     Wikis aren’t just used to share information people on the internet are seeking but also have many more functions. They can be used for documentation, meeting agendas for companies or school projects, and internal blogging.

USA Patriot Act

 Some news reports have suggested that the Bush administration used the USA Patriot Act to look at the e-mails of American citizens without a warrant. What’s your position if this was indeed the case? Should citizens be willing to give up their privacy? Does it bother you to know that your online communications are very potentially semi-private instead of private?

            I am both against this and for this. It definitely bothers me to know that anyone can potentially see all my conversations I have had with my friends and family, even though I have nothing to hide or anything, I don’t want the world to be able to see everything I am talking about. On the other hand though, events like 9.11 could easily be planned in the U.S. via email and no one would ever know about it if email was completely private. I would ultimately say that I would be against this act because it’s not just my privacy that would be given up but the millions of people that live in the U.S. as well. Email and the internet are such an integrated part of our everyday lives, to say that the things you write on the internet that you only mean for one or a couple of other people’s eyes can be read by the government without you even knowing about it is very invasive and I think they would have a hard time trying to convince the public of it.

WEP and WPA

If your mother uses Wi-Fi at home to send you e-mail, and your home network is not protected by WEP or WPA, what reasons would you suggest to her for enabling one of these two protocols at home if the liability of reading those e-mails still exists once her message leaves your home, on its way to school?

            The reason I would tell her is the simple fact of wanting privacy. Even though its electronic mail, it’s still mail and I would like to know that no one else is going to read the conversation except for the person it’s being sent to. If you are over the age of 18 in the U.S. then it’s illegal for even your parents to read any mail that is sent to you, even if it’s from your doctors; why, then, should virtually anyone in the world who know to hack in or even just be able to browse through your conversations online? Having WEP or WPA would allow for the both of us to have a lot more comfort that we are solely only speaking to each other and no one else. Also, I would tell her that it doesn’t just end with our emails back and forth to each other, but any other email and other things she posts online that she thinks are private.

Drug companies and websites

The official website for the drug Olanzapine probably didn’t mention the fact it might cause diabetic symptoms in patients. Another website obviously did. Commercials on TV now are required to mention possible side effects. Should drug companies be required to come clean about situations like the one with Eli Lilly’s Olanzapine in their commercial websites? Why or why not?

            I think they should have to because I personally know someone who has had a similar situation happen to them in which they were taking medication to help one problem but then ended up getting a specific disease along with thousands of others who had the same thing happen to them. It’s only fair for the companies to admit that they didn’t come outright with all of the possibilities the drug can cause. I think it’s important for it to be mandatory now for drug companies to state the possible side effects and diseases a medicine can cause or lead to but I think it’s just as important for the companies who didn’t have to do so in the past to tell the public now. I personally would want to know if I had been taking a medicine for years not knowing I could develop breast or some other cancer from it and although I’d be upset just to find out today, it’s better than nothing because then I could choose to discontinue taking the medicine if I wanted to. Also, for the company I feel like that is information that would leak onto the internet somehow and I think it looks better and more responsible on the company’s end to put the complete truth of whatever information they withheld before to the public instead of finding out other ways.

Although with a case like Lilly’s one, it can obviously hurt that companies reputation even just beyond that specific product because even if you win a legal battle to take all the stuff and documents people posted about the lawsuit, etc. could and probably will shop up on the internet somehow, it’s ultimately their fault and more importantly their responsibility. It’s only fair that if a drug company or whoever didn’t list all the possible side effects, etc. or at least have them available and open to the public as much as possible that they should come clean about letting the public down in that way because you aren’t talking about just money or anything but people’s health. There could also be the issue of admitting knowing that a drug could cause a certain disease and more people wanting to sue the company, etc. I think if information about a drug causing diabetes or whatever disease is leaked to the public in whatever way and although it’s going to appear as one of a top internet searches for that drug, it’s going to look better on the company if they talk about it themselves first. I think this is the only way to get people to trust using that drug or drug company again.

Community of practice

Consider the concept of a “community of practice.” How can such a community offer opportunities for learning?

            This type of community can offer many types of opportunities for learning. First of all, discussion boards and other types of websites can help with networking and business matters, learning advice from others who have experienced things hands-on. This community as allows for growth in social matters, school, and other areas of life outside of the work field. The internet and the ability to form blog posts, discussion boards, group instant messaging, have made this concept and type of community that much easier to become a part of on an everyday basis. Obviously getting together in groups or business meetings are still very helpful and valuable to people today but the internet has just added that easiness factor and therefore we see many more people participating in putting in their thoughts and experiences for others to read and learn from. I know I personally have learned things whether it comes to ideas on paper topics, job hunting advice or even cooking help online by searching and finding posts with peoples own personal answers.

"Invisible"

If Shirky is right, and we’re headed to a period where social media tools like YouTube, Flickr, and social networks like Facebook become “invisible,” what’s the impact on things you spend money on as consumers? Books? Movies? Music?

            I think the impact of the things we spend money on, like books, movies, and music, are in the middle between visible and invisible. I think the tangible things, like clothes and books have become invisible in Shirky’s terms in that they have been around since we have been born so we don’t really think anything of them; they aren’t something new. I think other things like music and movies are a little more invisible just because we can’t touch them and at least for our generation they have been around since we can remember. From what I got from the book, these things become invisible because we don’t take a second to think about them, they are just are an everyday part of our life and we sometimes or a lot of times take them for granted. It’s hard to even think about or get our heads around the fact that once upon a time there wasn’t even electricity to turn a light on, let alone power a whole houseful of technological toys and gadgets. I know I personally take a lot of these things mentioned above, like music, movies, internet, books, etc. for granted because they have been a part of my life for awhile if not since I was born. This, to me, has turned many of these things to become “invisible”.

Selling Stuff

 Have you used a website like Craigslist or EBay to buy or sell something? What was the experience like? Would you use such a service again? If you haven’t, detail how you have sold or bought something outside the environment of a retailer.

I have gone on both Craigslist and EBay looking to buy something but have yet to actually purchase something through these websites. A couple years ago I sold my guitar that I didn’t need any more through a trader newspaper. I put an ad in the newspaper, which was free, and it ran in there for three weeks. Someone called in response to the ad and my dad talked to them and had them come to our house to look at the guitar. We eventually negotiated a price and the customer bought my guitar. I don’t know if I would use this method again but I did like the fact that the person could see the item in person and not just on a screen, or at least I would like to be able to do that. I have used Craigslist to look up stuff online to possibly buy and I like the fact that you can contact the person not just through the website and that many of the sellers have the option of meeting them to look at the product in person. But again, I think websites like EBay are good as well because you don’t have to go out of your way to go to another person’s house but rather you do everything online and from what I hear they have a pretty good guarantee policy that the products sold through this website are legitimate and not scams or anything. It’s nice to actually see and hold what you are going to buy in person but then again it’s also nice to just order something online without having any other hassles of going somewhere or dealing with other people in person, etc.

Important Personal Question

You have an important personal question you’d like answered. Explain the procedure for getting your question answered and why this method appeals to you (you don’t need to get specific, but let’s assume the answer does not require specific expert knowledge, as from a doctor).
           

                Depending on how serious the question, I would probably start looking for answers or explanations on Google and other websites on the internet. If I was still unsure about the information I found or didn’t find what I needed, I would possibly ask my parents or friends or people I would think knew the answer. I would go to the internet first though because it’s what I use for a lot of my research and everyday uses like communicating with friends, etc. Also, it’s the easiest method to choose right off the bat and you can get answers, whether they are reliable or not or what you need, right off the bat. The biggest problem I and others run into is that you can’t guarantee every single website you gather information from is valid and actually factual information because anyone and everyone post things everyday on internet whether they are experts or not. This is why it’s nice to have books and other people to turn to for answers when you question what you find on the internet are true or not.

Group Member

 Describe a group you are a member of and how it is organized. Is there management? How is information distributed within the group?

One group I am currently apart of is my waitressing job at AJ Gators. We have an owner and two general managers, which are the three top people at the restaurant. The two people the rest of the employees look up to for information and guidance are the two general managers. At least once a month we have a meeting before or after hours of work which the managers discuss what has been running smoothly at work, and the things we need to make sure we are doing or things that need to be worked on. This allows everyone to kind of catch up and be on the same page, and all of the information is especially important because it is coming from management; our bosses. They are in charge of telling us when our meetings are and also when we are allowed to leave and end our shifts. If neither of them is there the bartender usually takes place of the “manager” role and assumes all responsibilities for that time being. We also have to go to the bartender if we want to order food during our shifts. We get the most important information directly from our managers, but every once in awhile we will hear some news through the grapevine of other employees about what’s going on. Overall though the management does a good job of keeping everyone informed and on top of things at work, providing us with both positive criticisms on things that need to be worked on but even more importantly always make sure we are having a good time at work and are happy and provide positive feedback.  

Newly Emerging Groups

If managers aren't important anymore towards the formation or control of groups using online tools, what do you consider the main role websites such as MeetUp.com, Facebook, or MySpace have provided newly emerging groups?

I think that the main role new websites have provided emerging groups is less limitations to what you can do with and in a meeting. Meeting online instead of face-to-face does have its disadvantages but like Shirky said in her book “Here Comes Everybody” it has taken some of limitations from group meetings, such as how many people can meet at once and including more people in the participation factor, almost completely away. The biggest factor, like the question poses, is how online meetings have changed the fact that you don’t necessarily need a manager or president or whatever to run the meeting; they seem to run just fine without someone in charge 24/7. In my opinion, I think having a meeting online takes away some of the stress of talking in front of people because you aren’t face-to-face so for people who normally are really stressed or intimidated by talking in front of people they can feel more comfortable talking via a computer and have at least some of that stress taken away. Also the fact that you can partake in an online meeting anywhere that provides internet today also relieves some of the stress of trying to get everyone in the group to find a time to meet. Now people can turn on the computer and attend a meeting at the coffee shop, at school or even in their PJ’s in their own home. This also takes away the need for someone to be in charge of figuring out where when and how many people can meet at a certain time for every meeting that needs to be held, people can meet more freely on their own. Like I said before I think online meetings do have disadvantages, like losing some of the personal feeling, etc. but they also allow meetings to run more smoothly perhaps with some of the stress taken away in confronting people, and also it’s easier now to watch a meeting that took place that you might have missed by watching a recording of it. I still think it’s important or at least helpful to have someone that mainly runs the meeting, but it’s less vital to have someone like that in online meetings.

Grocery loyalty cards

I can see the point of using loyalty cards because in some ways they do help out the customer, but I also learned some things in this specific part of the chapter I didn’t realize before. I think it is smart to keep a track of what items are bought the most at each specific store, to make sure they provide deals and coupons for the customers that buy them, as well as making sure to keep in stock those items that do sell a lot. On the other hand, I’m not sure that is all worth the fact that affiliates can then share your information, what you like to buy, etc. with other affiliates. Like the book says once you get one of those loyalty cards, every time you use it, that transaction is recorded and ultimately is a bit that can never be erased. If you are trying to be more private in certain aspects of your life, this is definitely one area that can be avoided by paying a little bit more for keeping certain information to yourself. I personally am not sure where I stand on this issue because I see good and bad in both sides, especially since I do have one of these cards for a local grocery store. When it comes down to it though I don’t know if I am comfortable with sharing everything I buy every time I go to the store with other stores, etc., even if with the fact that I have nothing to hide. It’s interesting to learn and go more in depth of how we reveal more of our personal life in ways you wouldn’t expect, like your grocery shopping list.

Google and Yahoo in China

I agree with censoring search results for search engines like Google and Yahoo in different countries. Every country has their own set of laws and regulations that their citizens follow everyday and I think that should include regulating the social media and networks. I can see how many people would be against this because some countries, like the United States have more control over what they can search and information they can find via the internet, but again I think it comes down to how much freedom the citizens have in other areas of life outside of the technological world. I don’t know all that much about China and the government and the laws that are given to the citizens in that country but I do know that they are more strict in at least some sense to the laws here in the U.S. so I think it only makes sense to be as strict with what people can search on the internet. In my personal opinion I don’t think it’s fair to have those kinds of restrictions on what kind of results pop-up with whatever word a person searches, but once again I probably wouldn’t agree with some of the laws they have in general. Overall I think every country should have their own regulations on the internet and how their citizens use it based on the laws they already have set in place because if not then I would think it would cause more problems to let the people be more free in what they search over the internet and could possibly cause more controversy.

About Myself

1. What name you liked to be called
My name is Britney Myers and the majority of my friends call me either Britney or Brit, either one is fine with me.

2. Your major
I am currently a senior and studying Communications, with a concentration in Public Relations. This past May I finished my first minor in Human Resources Development and just added Educational Media as my second minor this week.

3. Your career plans
I am graduating this upcoming May, but not exactly sure what I want to do. I am considering and applying to graduate school for next year or for sometime soon. In the meantime I am working on getting an internship within the public relations field. I plan on working in the public relations field, or something similar to it, but again have no set plans yet!

4. What you hope to learn from this course
I hope to be able to utilize any information that I learn from my course, especially the information and solving problems part of it, in my future profession, whatever that may be.