Sociology, Etc.

Well, things are starting to get crazy. I kept meaning to post but whenever I had a spare moment I didn't want to think.

Here, quickly, are a few of the most notable things I've done in the past week or so: Called my mom and thanked her for giving birth to me, went to a lecture on ethnomathematics, got a cable so we can watch Arrested Development, etc. on the lounge TV, went to the Common Ground Fair, had my first real tutoring session at the peer writing center (followed soon after by four more -- it was a busy Sunday night), contemplated dropping physics.

Here are a few things I've thought about:
- Sociology. Theoretical Foundations of Soc continues to delight me. The lecturer on ethnomathematics could have easily been identified as a sociologist, so all his points directly to theories of society that we've been discussing in Theoretical Soc. I'm such a sucker for anything cross-disciplinary. I get to start on a paper for the class this week, which I'm looking forward to at the moment, though I'll probably complaining about it soon.
- The applicability of academic disciplines and the world-classroom relationship: I'm learning & enjoying learning, but does everything apply to things outside the gates of my brain? Sometimes I think yes, like when we talk about Prozac in Personality or the caregiver burden in Health & Illness, but othertimes I'm not so sure. Should I be out there in the world rather than in this classroom/campus that's miniscule in the grand scheme of things?

So I guess that's a tiny sample of what my body & brain have been up to. Weather right now is sunny and mid 60s -- a perfect late summer day. And, today was an admissions day -- they got lucky with that one! Take care everyone...I'm always thinking about you.