Mentor logs

April 10th, 2008
3:30-5:00

When Drew came today I was working on my critical essays section of my noval project. Before she began to help me I explained to her the story of Brave New World. Once I had explained the story to her she read the directions on what I needed to do and began to help me. It helps to have her around because she's good at helping me get my ideas out on paper in a clean cut way. One problem though is it's hard for me to write with someone watching me.

It was pretty funny because even though she was helping me with my noval project we ended up talking about stock markets. When I was talking about how I think the great depression had an infuence on Brave New World it sprung a conversation on stock market crashes and how they affect everything around them. We concluded that we both think the great depression had a big impact in the writing of Brave New World Huxley was experiencing some of the side-affects of seeing the "perfect world" of the 20s go down the drain. When talking to Drew I can tell that she is very interested in the stock market and really knows her stuff.

Other than that we mainly just talked about random stuff. One of the random things we talked about is my college career. She really wants me to jump on it and apply for college and gives me due dates in which I should send in my application and get signed for the tests. This helps me because I'm lazy and sometimes need a little structure to get something done. Drew and I will be meeting again next week at the same time.