Below is an article I wrote for my college newspaper, The Bi-College News, about religion/spirituality and its impact on professors in a liberal arts college environment.  The article was part of a larger pullout section on religion and spirituality in general on Bryn Mawr and Haverford College's campuses. I cannot link to the article because the newspaper's website is being renovated, so I will copy and paste it from a word document. This is the pre-editing version, so it has changed slightly, but the vast majority of it is the same.

“Outside the Classroom: A Look at Professors and Religion”

This page is my own random thought page dedicated to...you guessed it, random thoughts!

I realized that after starting this internship I have caught myself thinking in new perspectives about an array of subjects.

This blog is for all of my (and other's) random thoughts!

Art

• Adventure to the stars: telling tales of science and art, Jessica Foley, Circa, Spring 2009

History

• A continuation of Paul Grobstein's theory of science as story telling and story revising: a discussion of its relevance ot history, Toni Weller, Journal of Research Practice, 2006

We've been distinguishing (or trying to break the distinction) between "science" and "English" minds, assuming that these are the two main categories when it comes to learning and thinking.  Religion has the potential to be lumped into the "English" mind category because it is seen as the opposite of what is traditionally considered "scientific," or logical.  Religion has stereotypcally been considered the antithesis of science, placing beliefs in gods that cannot be readily seen or measured, put under a microscope or processed in a mass spectrometer.  As a religious person the deeper I look, the more I begin to associate religion with the "science" mind.

The concept of "getting it less wrong" is prevalent throughout Serendip, and apparently has been of interest outside this forum's world as well (thank you, jpfeiffer, for the website!).

My name is Kathryn Gould and I am a rising senior majoring in English and minoring in Biology. While prepping for my upcoming thesis and doing work for the Summer Science Institute, I am also working on a few creative side projects, one of which includes writing, drawing, and designing a web comic with a friend. As someone who thoroughly enjoys both science and English, I am troubled to find evidence that there exists any kind of dichotomy between the two subjects. There is no "science mind" and "non-science mind," in my opinion. It's all just a matter of finding the best way to approach the information, to make it interesting, in order to find a comprehensive, unique understanding of the material.