Inquiry 101

V) By definition, Inquiry means the act of seeking out information by asking questions. This is a first year learning experience class, where we have a professor and a student mentor who guide us throughout our first semester of college. The purpose of the class is to show first year students the “ropes” to college. We are encouraged to make the most out of this experience as we can, and to become active members of Southern's community. I personally enjoy the class because we are able to get advice from a professor’s point of view of our first year experience, and our peer mentors, who was just previously a freshman at Southern. In my own words, inquiry means to gather outside information from advisors by asking question and listening to lecture. We are taught things that we are unaware of about college, and we learn the basics of being a college student. This class is important because it is our guide to help us through our first year at college. One new important vocabulary word that I have learned is standard deviation. I came across this word in my MAT 107 statistics class on our first class on Wednesday, September 28th.  By definition, it means a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole. In other words, it measures how far values vary from the mean, which is the average of given data. This is related to my class because this is our first topic of study for statistics and is something I never learned before. Another new word I have learned is hindsight. I learned this word from my psychology class and it’s the perception of the significance and nature of events, only after they have occurred. This is related to my study because it’s a common phenomenon and is also known as “I knew it all along” effect, which is something we are faced with on a day-to-day basis.