Academic Bliss
Somedays I love being in college. I know I bitch about it a lot, but there are times when I love being in this environment. Today for example: Walking to one of my classes I ran across a girl and her boyfriend. I say her boyfriend because he had in his hand a leash leading to her dog-collared neck. I just had to smile at that. I mean, everyone loves kink at home, but who's willing to walk around in public wearing a leash?!? I laughed and chuckled to myself all the way to class...
Later, sitting in my "Senior Seminar" class, we had a really good discussion. As weird as it may sound, this is one of my favorite things in life. Well into the class time our little group argued about concrete particulars and a metaphysical concept of identity. I was especially proud because the on-the-spot theory I came up with amazed my Prof. It seems he had published a paper in the Southern Journal of Philosophy a little while ago using the same theory (and no, I've never read his paper). The look on his face when I was spouting it off...
Still later in my Abnormal Psychology class we were discussing Dissassociative Identity Disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder) when the prof. announced he had brought a special guest for us to meet. An older lady stood up and lectured for probably about thirty minutes about her struggle with DID. I can't tell you how interesting that was. She has re-integrated most of her personalities, but at one time she had over 80 of them. Fascinating stuff. The human mind has so much power it blows me away at times.
So now I'm slightly regretting that I'll be graduating next semester. I'm actually starting to want to stick around just so I can take more classes. More Poli Sci especially...I just haven't taken a lot of them. But life is calling...well, maybe it's only sending a postcard...hmm...it could just be my stomach growling though.
Later, sitting in my "Senior Seminar" class, we had a really good discussion. As weird as it may sound, this is one of my favorite things in life. Well into the class time our little group argued about concrete particulars and a metaphysical concept of identity. I was especially proud because the on-the-spot theory I came up with amazed my Prof. It seems he had published a paper in the Southern Journal of Philosophy a little while ago using the same theory (and no, I've never read his paper). The look on his face when I was spouting it off...
Still later in my Abnormal Psychology class we were discussing Dissassociative Identity Disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder) when the prof. announced he had brought a special guest for us to meet. An older lady stood up and lectured for probably about thirty minutes about her struggle with DID. I can't tell you how interesting that was. She has re-integrated most of her personalities, but at one time she had over 80 of them. Fascinating stuff. The human mind has so much power it blows me away at times.
So now I'm slightly regretting that I'll be graduating next semester. I'm actually starting to want to stick around just so I can take more classes. More Poli Sci especially...I just haven't taken a lot of them. But life is calling...well, maybe it's only sending a postcard...hmm...it could just be my stomach growling though.
