Blurbs From Eunee's Mind (and Life)

On my other website where I blog about human rights issues and children rights' issues, I added an entry today after attending a vigil for a slain Ecuadorean man at a train station near my university. While it wasn't the train station that is on the border of our campus, it occurred in a town nearby. See my entry here . I'm glad I attended the vigil today because it reminded me that while I'm griping and trudging reluctantly through my classes, there is a bigger vision for why I am here: social injustice, social change, and social action. And I believe that these all lend themselves to a framework of human rights that should be very evident in the field of social welfare. I guess I'm just not done blogging about my reflection of this incident and some of the remarks made at the vigil this evening. It makes me wonder that if people aren't really concerned about injustice and senseless acts like this happening in their backyard they sure aren't going to be co

It's amazing how despite all the griping I've come this far in the semester. I know it's not of my own doing. I have not been a good student this semester and have griped about all the philosophical round-and-round arguments/discussions we seem to have week after week. I can't believe I don't even turn off my phone anymore during class. I really have to have an attitude adjustment. But I just can't seem to get over the fact that even if our "foundation" of sorts is necessary in some way we are not knee-deep in the issues that face our field as well as our society from a social welfare perspective. Social justice, social change, and social action are largely absent from our discussions and our classes. Research experience is at the periphery and yet we're expected to become good researchers at the end of our program, probably as a result of the struggle we go through when we conduct our dissertation. I think this semester for me has been a challenge