That's what I realized yesterday.
I had a class yesterday evening – Communication in Business. At first, I thought it was all about communication within the organization. But then, it was slightly different – actually it was about how
businesses and
society communicate each other in past and in present. Anyway, I missed the first lecture as I was out of town. The second lecture I attended yesterday was about evolution of businesses. The lecturer was a German lady. I regret that I did not prepare myself for the lecture as I should have. The subject requires a lot of reading pre-reading articles are provided on our student portal which we can download and read before we come to class, but I didn't. I also should have , at least, scanned the lecture slides. Now, I looked so dumb. Never mind, I was not alone.
Okay, while talking about evolutions in business, the lecturer told us about major incident that had occurred in 1980s. One of them was:
"
Chernobyl"
I did not know what it was, let alone when it happened or how and where it happened. Well, not only me, most of the students, if not all, didn't know about it either. The lecturer seemed disappointed for our lack of knowledge and she started explaining about
Chernobyl. If you also do not have a faintest idea what Chernobyl is, please look up in wiki or follow this
link. But after finding it out when it happened, I was quite relieved from being guilty for not reading enough – it happened in 1986, and I was born in 1987. How am I supposed to know about the incident which happened even before I was born? (Lame, right? .
.. Yea, I know. I have lots of excuses
)
After she finished explaining about Chernobyl, she asked
"But, you all know what Exxon Valdez , right? "Silence.
"Please don't tell me you all don't know this."
She was desperately asking us not to "NOT know" it. Who are we to know it anyway? Historians? Haha .... Then, she had no choice but to explain what is
Exxon Valdez again.
To cite wiki, here's what:
"The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels (41,000 to 119,000 m3) of crude oil. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur in history. As significant as the Valdez spill was — the largest ever in U.S. waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill — it ranks well down on the list of the world's largest oil spills in terms of volume released."
Further reading on wiki, please follow this
link I really really should read more – a zillion times more than what I'm reading now. I should keep up with the latest news. Otherwise, I'm like an idiot who's just listening what the others are talking about.
Comments (1)
It always happened to me in my French class. The teacher kept asking us about many general stuffs and none of us knew, let alone speaking it in French. My problem was to cram everything at the very last minute (a habit from high school). It's not helpful when you get older. We just need to read a lot.