Update

Well since I almost never give personal updates on here, I decided to break up the academic-oriented posts and update my life (which, oddly enough, primarily consists of academic things).

Winter break was splendid and productive. I was able to hang out with all of my friends quite a bit: continued the tradition of New Year’s Eve at my friend Hugo’s; got a night of bowling in with the crew; watched a few football games with them as well; had a poker night; had two risk nights; played halo with the cousins (thanks Blake for the commentary); had a movie night with Carden; and visited some friends from Ball State who went to Wawasee.

I was also very pleased to spend as much time with my family as I did and really enjoyed drinking coffee with Shawn while he worked on the wireless and I read; we always had a sporadic little side-bar story from our respective work to tell the other person for a good laugh.

Speaking of reading, I was able to read:
- Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling”
- -half of Hick’s “Faith and Knowledge”
- some of Pascal’s “Pensees”
- Sedgwick’s “Epistemology of the Closet”,
- Foucault’s “History of Sexuality”
- Russell’s “Why I am not a Christian” (which had one of the best short essay’s I’ve ever read called ‘The Free Man’s Worship’)
- I am currently ¾ the way through Kojeve’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (by far my favorite overall reading of the break)
- and plan on reading Milton’s “Paradise Lost” before school starts back up.

On to the upcoming semester:

I am the editor-in-chief of Ball State’s undergrad philosophy journal, Stance. We’ve already received the papers and will begin the process to pick out the top papers over the course of the semester.

Like last semester, I’ll be a tutor for Phil100 and will also be a T.A. for an introductory Religious Studies course.

As far as “regular” classes, I will be taking Philosophy or Religion, Feminist Ethics and Epistemology, and Latin (we’ll actually be reading real, not textbook, latin this semester!).


It will be a busy, thought-provoking, exciting, eye-opening, interesting semester to say the least!