To be frank, my biggest struggle with this prompt is how to say what i want to say without being totally cheesy & cliche.
I think the best way i can sum up my CSCL 3331 experience is with the comment robin made last class... "the more i know, the more i know i don't know" Applicable in every dimension of the class, from Pinker and Elliot and their interpretations on disorders to sex, through food and ending with Crichton's manipulative masterpiece each stage i'm left with more questions than answers.
At first this bothered me, i spent late nights rereading class notes, sure there was a "right" answer to these questions that i was simply missing. Yet, after futile hours and serious lack of sleep i simply gave up, and when i stopped questioning i began knowing more and more. Opening up my mind to these new theories and ideas some radical (there should be more than 2 sexes!) others less so (we should grow our own food) and yet together they were allowed to just digest and slowly be mulled over in my mind
And thinking about these topics and issues, not trying to SOLVE them but just pondering them in their hybrid nature lead me to complete awareness of my own naivety, each of our topics is so bound up and intertwined within other world topics, with culture and philosophy, government, ideology, politics, literature... it is impossible to fully understand any of these disciplines. Furthermore, according to Latour, we ought question whether we can fully understand anything as our reality is in part created by our own way of seeing. Like imaging infinity, my mind was just left boggled and perplexed.
So what have I learned in science and humanities in Peik room 28? A whole mess of things, but i have also learned that i dont know as much as i thought i did, but i'm okay with that. Thanks for a great semester guys
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