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so, this is my fourth semester using serendip, and while i have to admit that i havent been as loyal to posting regularly these past weeks as i have been before, i still think that its a great space to get your thoughts, ideas and emotions out - regardless of whether we are together in a classroom. and i guess that works for me because classes like these are classes that keep you thinking after the typical class hours.

what is really working for me is the fact that i look forward to and love coming to class - i thought that the class size would be an obstruction, but it seems to be doing well - we have so many people with so many different ideas and perspectives. i think this is added to by the fact that the class has a mix of science and humanities oriented people - its made the discussions about evolution more interesting than i anticipated, and has allowed me to look at darwin and what he did in an entirely different manner.

what im excited about is to see how we bring together universal, biological and literary evolution - i see the parallels between them but i also see the boundaries that prevent them from being recognized, and i would love to see what we are faced with and what dimensions we begin to explore when we begin the journey of breaking those down.

the part of the class that i am not enjoying as much as i enjoy the rest is the readings, i agree with rachelr when she says that the readings just dont seem to be captivating me, and i usually depend on the class discussions to bring life to them, when i would much rather come to class excited about something i read. another thing (this is not a problem, just something lead by my curiosity), i cannot help but be curious as to what's happening in anne's thursday small group discussion. while i love ours with professor grobstein, it occurs to me on tuesdays that both the groups talk about different things, and while this is just me being greedy, i would love to know and engage in whats happening in the other room. the forum definitely helps with this though, it allows me to read and keep updated with whats going on a few doors down.

all in all, im curious about where this class will take me, and us, and where we will find ourselves a few months from now. im not looking to be convinced of one argument over another, instead, i want to see how my mind processes everything that we cram into it and what it makes of it at the end.