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This will probably be my last post (apart from my paper) and so I am taking some more time to reflect on the class as a whole. This class has really given me the chance to think in a way that a lot of other classes don't. Sure, all classes get me to think about our readings, but this class got me thinking about life (of all kinds), myself, the universe. Abby's post reminded me of when we looked at the optical illusions.  Grobstein told us that we can ask our brains to create a new way of looking at things and that stayed with me because I immediately understood that. I realized that the optical illusions were illusions, so when I didn't see it at first, I asked my brain to try to look at it a different way in order to find the illusion.  I felt like knowledge had been opened up to me because I had never realized that I did that before and it occured to me that I might be able to do that in the larger world also.  I think that is a good example of what this class did for me, it gave me new ways of thinking about all kinds of topics. Basically I'm just glad I got to take this class because I know that it will affect my thinking for a long time, certainly during the rest of my time at Bryn Mawr.