A few months ago I had the idea to review my college education, by reading my class notes over a four-year period. So for instance reading today my notes from September 18, 1985, and then onward.
I don't know if I'll do much publicly with this — probably blog about it periodically but not daily. I guess I'm hoping to find even more nuance and detail in the things I think I rely on from college all the time. And maybe get some insight into what I missed back then within a course. I know my course selection had blind spots and who knows if this will help with that — I didn't take any courses explicitly about most of Asia or the global South, and my science courses were the prototypical "physics for poets" type.
I am proud of the me who did choose courses that continue to serve as portals into a whole lot of things I encounter in life, up close and globally. I got a lot of the topic out lines, and basic tools to get my bearings.
Today 39 years ago (?!) was the first lecture by Prof. Jack Demick in Psychology and Social Relations 1030, Introduction to Human Development. He talked about the nature of psychological theory and research, the strengths and weaknesses of certain terms and metaphors (e.g. growth, development, maturation, learning), the ways different research approaches and questions affect what we learn and what we can and can't perceive about the subject. I remember this as one of the best intro lectures ever, at least one of the handful I remember particularly well. Prof. Demick was an incredibly well-organized and engaging lecturer.
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