This semester has been the beginning of a yearlong process to get myself ready for the real world. Because of this, I have not been able to experience, as fully as I would like, the intellectual ideas that I really enjoy exploring. Paideia has been incredibly helpful in filling that void. I’ve enjoyed thoroughly the varied topics of discussion, and continuing my liberal arts education even while I gear up to leave that process. I like that everyone in the group was able to offer something they find interesting, capstone-related or not, to the rest of us, and that we were almost always able to have meaningful discussions on a multitude of important issues. I don’t think I can really pinpoint a specific discussion that I enjoyed more than the rest. The spectrum of our topics, from feminism to introversion to animal cruelty, were all so interesting that I appreciated each one as much as the last. I definitely learned things that I didn’t know before, and was exposed to a variety of new opinions and perspectives.
As for my creative project, I have not yet really addressed it, nor will I until next semester and capstone. I have furthered my own academic progress in some exciting ways, including rediscovering my love for International Relations, and realizing that it is the branch of international relations that I am truly passionate about. It has reaffirmed my desire to go to grad school and continue the process of learning.
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