After completing this class, I will say that I learned a lot and had some fun to! I especially enjoyed putting together this eportfolio and getting to include some of my own ideas and evidence in this website.

I have been thinking about the problem of feeding 9 billion people for a long time now and thinking about a problem this important and this prevalent has really changed my perspective on a lot of things. The biggest realization I had while thinking about the problem of feeding 9 billion people, was something that hit me really hard and, that was the realization that it’s my generation, and my classmates generation, and everyone at this schools generation who is going to be responsible for solving this problem. Not only are we going to be responsible for solving this problem but, we are going to have to solve a lot of other global issues as well, such as, the environment, war, energy, clean water, health issues, population and resources, education and many, many more. This made me understand that the whole university experience really does go beyond just getting a good paying, white collar job. Its about becoming an educated citizen of the world, who posses the skills that are necessary to deal with complex issues like these and, in that respect, there is not a class that is more important than this one.

That being said, I plan to keep learning as much as I can about this issue because like I said in my final reflective statement, the problem of feeding 9 billion people is very complex and requires very informed and carefully evaluated decisions to be made. I also plan to apply the skills I learned in this class to other classes and areas I’m interested in learning about but, most  importantly, I hope to take these skills and use them to make a meaningful difference in the world.