Do it with your heart wide open
It's so strange to think that a week from now, I'll be packing up my stuff, working a few more shifts at the front desk, shipping my MacBook back to Apple, and getting ready to go home. I've been working non-stop for the last few weeks with research, presentations, and papers. I'm fortunate to be able to write on subjects within my realm of interests, though it's curious that each paper I've written has been religious this semester. Maybe I'll be theologized-out once the semester closes, though I hope not since I'm planning to stick with this track for a number of years to come.
At any rate, this weekend I'm working on a paper asking where religion and spirituality fit in scientific sphere. My professor wants me to direct my attention to the basic human desire to reach for something greater and what that says about our minds. The research is hard to find, but what I have read so far, especially the things on near-death experiences, is fascinating.
I also have a final set of essays to write for POL 356 on the Vatican's role in the world as a state, its relationship to the war in Iraq, and the backlash from Benedict VXI's remarks last fall on Islam as he quoted a Byzantine scholar. I don't think I'll have too much trouble writing the papers, though it'll still take plenty of thought and planning on my part. That's what finals are all about!
So those are the papers I have to crank out. My other two finals are in-class essays that aren't going to be terribly difficult. I should be thankful that the worst is over and that I've gotten really good grades on things this semester. I wonder what I'll be saying about my classes next year at Marquette (fingers crossed)!
At any rate, this weekend I'm working on a paper asking where religion and spirituality fit in scientific sphere. My professor wants me to direct my attention to the basic human desire to reach for something greater and what that says about our minds. The research is hard to find, but what I have read so far, especially the things on near-death experiences, is fascinating.
I also have a final set of essays to write for POL 356 on the Vatican's role in the world as a state, its relationship to the war in Iraq, and the backlash from Benedict VXI's remarks last fall on Islam as he quoted a Byzantine scholar. I don't think I'll have too much trouble writing the papers, though it'll still take plenty of thought and planning on my part. That's what finals are all about!
So those are the papers I have to crank out. My other two finals are in-class essays that aren't going to be terribly difficult. I should be thankful that the worst is over and that I've gotten really good grades on things this semester. I wonder what I'll be saying about my classes next year at Marquette (fingers crossed)!