Scale
The Liberal Arts creates a way for students to view the world from many different angles. This semester seems to do this more than what I have experienced in my last three years in college. Our college is in a transitional period, so dynamics between the student body is evolving. At the same time my courses are a hodge-podge of different things thrown together and seem completely random, but like anything when you begin to reach a greater understanding of the topics and these seemingly unrelated topics blend together into relevant complements of one another. This is beginning to happen with two of my courses, Microbiology and World Politics and Organization. They initially appear to be at opposite sides of the spectrum, mostly due to the scale difference. Then I realized that the study of microorganisms fits very neatly into the idea of globalization and the future of the world’s political system, the avian flu being a prime example of how theses two disciplines overlap. Interconnectedness between disciplines is something that is always an underlying factor, at the same time overlooked. I find myself trying to separate things in my head and simplifying them, rather than letting them work together to make up the complex design that is the world.