Autonomy 

                 For this week’s Inquiry class we went to the Library to learn more about what it has to offer for its students. The Librarian Wendy showed us floors one and two. On the first floor she pointed out some places that a student can go to for help with any homework assignment and these included the Reference desk and the Circulation desk. On the second floor we went to the computer lab while she showed us a tutorial of how to find a book or any journal article on Southern’s Library website.  I learned how to research books on this website and where to find them and overall it showed me finding books in the library are not as hard as it may seem.

                One thing we were instructed to research was autonomy or a form of it. I found a book called “The Property Tax and Local Autonomy.” It proved to be a good resource because it provided many examples within the text of how tax-base sharing undermines the efficiency of the property tax. A journal I found was called “Autopoiesis and Natural Drift: Genetic Information, Reproduction, and Evolution Revisited.” This came up as a result of typing in biological autonomy. The journal proved to be a good resource because it had a list at the beginning of over 10 resources that helped contribute the facts into creating this journal.

                Aside from forms of autonomy, the general meaning of it that I learned today was that it is the right of self- governing, directing freedom, and moral independence.  This applies to me as a first-year student because within the freshman class there are those that are self-motivated and some that are not. Freshmen should try and be autonomous, and set that goal for themselves instead of entering college with a mindset of not even trying. An autonomous freshman will succeed because they are well rounded in the sense that they have self-motivation, independence, and appropriate mindsets.