This blog is for the growing discussion of things that I don't know. The more that I learn about, the more I know that I don't know. This is probably a very clumsy way of saying it.
I'm a graduate student in Literature and an ongoing student in life (career academic? perhaps). I would like this blog to be a place where I come and discuss the new pieces of information the new ideas etc that I come in contact with. Perhaps also a place where I discuss things I am studying as well, in an attempt to fix things in my mind. As several famous writers and thinkers have observed: I don't know what I think until I write about it. Andrew Sullivan has observed that blogging is a particularly raw, immediate, and vulnerable way to do this (in his article "Why I Blog" for the Atlantic Monthly). Like Sullivan, I think that blogging is not only a good way to get your thoughts out and work/play with them, but also a place where one has a dialogue with one's readers that can facilitate expansive learning.
So there we have a few goals:
1)Discuss the things I learn (whether from school or other sources)
2)Understand and develop my thoughts
3)Engage in dialogue that expands my understanding
Hooray, am I an idealist or what! =) Hopefully, Idealism and/or Steam will not die away leaving this blog as infrequent as my previous attempts.
In searching for a closing word . . . I find "thank you" to be appropriate for the void out beyond my simple, new area.
I'm a graduate student in Literature and an ongoing student in life (career academic? perhaps). I would like this blog to be a place where I come and discuss the new pieces of information the new ideas etc that I come in contact with. Perhaps also a place where I discuss things I am studying as well, in an attempt to fix things in my mind. As several famous writers and thinkers have observed: I don't know what I think until I write about it. Andrew Sullivan has observed that blogging is a particularly raw, immediate, and vulnerable way to do this (in his article "Why I Blog" for the Atlantic Monthly). Like Sullivan, I think that blogging is not only a good way to get your thoughts out and work/play with them, but also a place where one has a dialogue with one's readers that can facilitate expansive learning.
So there we have a few goals:
1)Discuss the things I learn (whether from school or other sources)
2)Understand and develop my thoughts
3)Engage in dialogue that expands my understanding
Hooray, am I an idealist or what! =) Hopefully, Idealism and/or Steam will not die away leaving this blog as infrequent as my previous attempts.
In searching for a closing word . . . I find "thank you" to be appropriate for the void out beyond my simple, new area.
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