Craziness
Currently playing: The General from the album "Bang Bang" by Dispatch
Man, it is crazy sometimes how much my classes overlap. I just got out of my Race and Ethnic Relations class, and I basically spent the whole class period drawing off of my experience in SimSoc (the simulated society that I did over the weekend as part of Social Psych) or talking nonviolent communication (which we recently learned about in Peace Psych).
I really don't think I can convey here how excited and happy this makes me. I don't think there is any high quite like the one you get when a whole bunch of stuff from seemingly disparate classes suddenly connects, and your brain goes, "Ahh, so that's why I have these neurons lying around."
I know that my independent major didn't work out, but my dirty secret is that it actually doesn't matter. I don't think that I can really separate out the stuff I learned in Gender and Society from the stuff I learned in Experiential Psych, even though one counts for my major and the other has nothing to do with it. In all honesty, I think the division of social sciences (particularly sociology, psychology, and anthropology) is incredibly false. Granted, there's some incredibly disparate parts of the disciplines (experimenting on rats versus archeology, anyone?), but at least the classes that I've taken have all really melded together in such a way that I don't think I could really understand sociology without psychology and anthropology.
So now that I've had a great start to my afternoon (walking home being excited about the interconnectedness of my schedule), I think I'll move on to the reading overload part since there's no one home to procrastinate with by being excited at them. Ah well. I suppose insight can't really happen without some sort of less exciting basis.