The Historian
I’m currently reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and the more I read it, the more I want to study history. It seems like a boring major but I absolutely love old cultures, civilizations and even religious history, etc., etc. Don’t you wish you can travel back in time just to see how things played out with your own two eyes? Maybe I’d be better off as an archaeologist so I can travel around the world and actually see these things rather than sitting around reading old documents and doing lectures (something that I’d totally dread) but it either would be exciting to me anyway. I sound like a dork but when I’m bored, I go over to Wiki and read up on world history… but then knowledge is beautiful; plus it’s funner learning things on your own rather than sitting through a boring university lecture. But I got lots of time, I’ll just leave this as another guilty pleasure for now.
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It doesn’t seem boring at all!
I’m currently doing a minor in History, and with topics offered that are as diverse as Holocaust history, History of Sexuality, Aboriginal History, Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction, and millions more, I can’t imagine a subject area I’d enjoy studying more for the rest of my life!
I definitely recommend it if you’re planning on further study.
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Melle
April 13th, 2008 |
Oh man! I am so interested in all of the topics you listed for your history discussions! Too bad in my college me taking a history course is such a huge risk. A lot of instructors pull information out of their asses and you can never argue if something they said is factual or not. I had women’s history course that I hated only because she just came to class and spoke randomly about a topic and never had any real structure as to what she taught. No one gave her a hard time about lesson plans because she was a semi-paraplegic. That still didin’t mean she should randomly piece information together as she goes along.
But about Katy’s Post, I would love to go back in time and see how different events occurred for my own eyes. Well, I would just randomly select times like I really want to see how prominent figures in our world grew up and what influenced them to become the people they were. I would love to see how they encountered the issues that are usually common among all beings like a sudden tragedy or something that could be monumental in their lives. To be a little clearer, I would love to see how people develop psychologically and compare results in order to better understand people as a whole through their distinct perceptions of events.
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I absolutely LOVE that book! I read it last year and then made my dad, my boyfriend, and my best friend all read it, too.
Parts of it scared the crap out of me, actually. It was fantastic.
I’m a history major (and my dad’s a history buff, and my boyfriend wants to be a history professor), so I don’t think it’s boring at all, lol.
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I totally can relate! I love history and I study Modern history at school. I wonder about those things as well and going back in time to see how things pan out. It makes me giddy thinking about it, haha! I don’t understand how people can hate history 8D. I surf Wiki as well~
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Oh my word, that was a really long comment. My apologies, Katy! I just got carried away. :p
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Katy
April 14th, 2008 |
I like long comments! ♥
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You got to recommend me some of the books you like. I just got done reading the Harry Potter books a few months ago. i’ve been looking for other exciting books to read
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I would totally love to travel back in time just to watch stuff happen!
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I wouldn’t say history is a boring major. I know I couldn’t study it, because I’m just not too interested in it, but I think it’s a good thing to know (I know I know to less about history – shame on me
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I’d like to travel back in time, sure. I bet it’s pretty interesting.
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I’d love to travel back in time too! I actually loved history and archaeology as a kid. I’d always been glued to National Geographic. LOL! When I did finally take history in university, words cannot express how bored I was. I guess learning something for a grade just takes the fun out of it all. So it’s good to read for fun!
My favorite history has got to be Medieval European history. I don’t really know why… there’s something mystical about that time period.
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Katy
April 14th, 2008 |
I love National Geographic too! I’m also a Discovery Channel geek. =P I love watching Planet Earth series.. I’m gonna buy all the DVD collections soon. I probably won’t have time to watch them but I like owning things. Lol.
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I love historical fiction and non-fiction. I like to learn about the past. But, I don’t find myself wanting to go back. If anything, I wish I was born a century later, lol.
I like to study things on my own as well. I spend most of my time of howstuffworks.com. It feels nice to know how the things we use everyday actually work.
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I was thinking of buying me another domain just for shopping and have other people blog stuff that they bought too
I just found out that aplus.net or something like that has wordpress on there so you can just add it on or something like that. I can’t even think of putting wordpress on my site right now because someone is hosting me :X I just paid for the domain :X
I did tell the auto body about my shit that was missing. I have yet to hear back. I’m calling my insurance tomorrow about that. It makes me so upset! My CD player in my car is screwy and spits out CD’s and plays nothing. I might have to try 25 times to get it to actually start playing. Crazy right? :/*
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