Things I learned in CSCL3331:
-Michael Crichton did more than just Jurassic Park.
-The origins of soap.
-Germs didn't exist before Louis Pasteur
Living in a world where people carry around pocket sized containers of hand sanitizer and working for a woman who is a germophobe, it's hard to imagine a world where germs don't exist. I was really interested by this idea that was brought up in class. Things don't "exist" until you find them and name them. Or the things down at the bottom of the ocean that don't "exist" as far as I'm concerned. This class made me very intrigued by all of the things that have come into existence and all of the paradigm shifts that have happened throughout history because of them. It's crazy–what a completely different world people were living before DNA existed!
I am also coming away with the idea that people live in different "realities". Like the discussion in class on Thursday about using this idea to help with a stubborn professor, maybe this will help me too in my relationships with my extended family who (good, bad, or otherwise) comes from a different reality than mine.
Thanks for a fun semester!
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