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edenfallingI wrote and submitted the fourth and last essay of my economic history class today. (By which I mean Wednesday. It is still Wednesday until I go to bed.) Tomorrow or Friday I need to submit my "learning journal," which is basically a written collection of stuff I thought about during the course; it's part of the participation score. And then I will be done.
I find it amusing that out of four essay topics, I spent one essentially saying, "Your topic question is badly ambiguous, so I will start by defining how I use the two terms under discussion and go from there," and another saying, "A single event that dominated a country's economic history for eighty years? I don't think that's how history and economics work, so I will talk about a policy instead." (The former got me a really good score, incidentally. We shall see about the latter.)
Registration is now open for the March term. I need to look through the course catalog in an organized fashion and pick something to spend my next four months on. Because you know what? Learning is pretty fun.
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On a random note, I have enjoyed one of my current textbooks (The Age of Extremes) so much that I borrowed three other books by the same historian (Eric Hobsbawm) from my dad, who had them around in the basement. I'm not sure if he had them as background reference material for when he taught British history at Drew back before I was born, if he had them as background reference material for the social conditions in which the history of science and technology occurred, or if he had them just because they're a good collective general history of the long 19th century, a concept Hobsbawm seems to have originated.
So that's something I'm going to be reading in the near future. :-)
I find it amusing that out of four essay topics, I spent one essentially saying, "Your topic question is badly ambiguous, so I will start by defining how I use the two terms under discussion and go from there," and another saying, "A single event that dominated a country's economic history for eighty years? I don't think that's how history and economics work, so I will talk about a policy instead." (The former got me a really good score, incidentally. We shall see about the latter.)
Registration is now open for the March term. I need to look through the course catalog in an organized fashion and pick something to spend my next four months on. Because you know what? Learning is pretty fun.
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On a random note, I have enjoyed one of my current textbooks (The Age of Extremes) so much that I borrowed three other books by the same historian (Eric Hobsbawm) from my dad, who had them around in the basement. I'm not sure if he had them as background reference material for when he taught British history at Drew back before I was born, if he had them as background reference material for the social conditions in which the history of science and technology occurred, or if he had them just because they're a good collective general history of the long 19th century, a concept Hobsbawm seems to have originated.
So that's something I'm going to be reading in the near future. :-)
