I am actually really excited at the prospect of taking this course; it may very well be the reason I have not yet dropped out of the honors program. I am very interested in both art and psychology, and as I am trying to graduate in three years, I have very little time to take extra courses for fun. This class certainly allows me to do that. I am reading things in these articles that it had never even occurred to me to think about, and I am fascinated by the way our brains work. I have only read a few articles on the subject so far, but each of them is very intriguing and allows me to think about subjects I have never been able to explore on previous occasions. At first I was not sure exactly what photography and memory had to do with each other, but on the first day it occurred to me that the two are actually rather obviously intertwined, especially considering how photographs can preserve memory in a certain way. Because the reading material is entirely new to me, I am fairly easily confused at times, but I trust that the more I read, the more readily I will understand. I really enjoyed the Proust article, partially because I could understand it easily, and partially because it was fascinating how he was able to discover so much about the human mind and how memory works just by spending time alone, really paying attention to his thoughts and his senses. The mini photo project, too, though perhaps a bit daunting because it is right off the bat, is getting my creative juices going in a way I did not expect inititally. I feel I will be challenged in the best sort of way in this class.
As to my soon-to-be-had interactions with the clients at the Mayflower, I am really excited about that as well. Older people tend to respond well to young ones and I have always had good experiences with the elderly, and I feel I can relate to them fairly well, despite our age differences. My mother is a pastor, and her church is almost entirely full of elderly folks, and they are some of the lovliest people I know. In addition to this, this course will be entirely different from any I've ever had before, because it is a CE course and much of it takes place off campus.
I am looking forward to all of these things, but am a smidge nervous as well, simply because my honors courses thus far have been the hardest I've taken (naturally), and with all the work the students at Rollins get in a semester, this can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning of the semester, but I think the experience will be a good one overall. This course makes me want to be in the honors program and I am understanding better how interdisciplinary courses like this can be very well done. That is very exciting for me.
So yeah, I'm pumped! A little nervous, but pumped! :)
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