What up, NERDS?

I just bought the Kindle version of The Caine Mutiny because I haven’t re-read that book in like a year and I neeeeeeed.

But that’s not the point of today’s blog.

The point of today’s blog is to remind all of you people who started college the same time that I did (2006) that it’s almost been EIGHTEEN YEARS since we began our post-secondary (and beyond!) journeys.

Long time, huh?

Now consider your college experience. Was there a class (or two or three) that really changed your perspective on life? Or changed your academic career?

OR BOTH?????

[I’m really hyper today, sorry]

For me, it’s the following three classes:

1. Tests and Measurements

This was basically the class that 1) got me interested in statistics, 2) showed me that my interest (developing tests for latent constructs like intelligence, personality, and other things like that) actually had a name: psychometrics, and 3) made me fast-track the hell out of my undergrad experience. I ADORED this class. It was easily one of my most interesting, engaging, and life-changing classes I’ve ever taken…and I’ve taken a lot of classes.

2. Literature of Western Civilization II

This is the class that got me interested in philosophy. I don’t think I would have touched that subject with a ten-foot pole had I not taken this class. Reading selections from Descartes, Hume, Camus, and Sartre, among others, and putting those readings into a historical and cultural context really made philosophy sound like an interesting subject to me. I took my first philosophy class the semester after I finished this class.

3. History of Modern Philosophy

One word: Leibniz.

What about y’all?