"Children like a fine word now and then." ~ Beatrice PotterI shopped two classes today, Complex Molecule Synthesis (previously Natural Products Synthesis) and Literature for Young People. I'm taking both of them and they seem so far apart in subject but they both excite me very much. The Literature for Young People seminar was the fastest I've ever gotten into a seminar and Kelsey and I are taking it together which excites me to no end. We basically had story time today where the professor read us some children's books and we commented on their structures and plots. It was especially interesting to me how many "big words" appeared in Amos and Boris, words like "phosphorescent" and "luminescent" and it reminded me of when I first actually listened to the words in Disney songs, little jokes that are there for the adult viewers. You don't remember not being able to understand the song or the story, but when you look at it again, how could you really at age 6 or 8?
Another theme that really intrigued me was that of loss and death. Many times, the idea of something that went away and never came back popped up in a book otherwise fraught with only a single conflict and had a happy ending. I don't remember by childhood books being that way, though when we read Dr. Seuss, I may be taking a more analytic view toward his literature.
There have been many times during my college career where I have contemplated whether it was right for me to go into chemistry, whether I should have stuck to my eighth grade guns and became a journalism person instead, majoring in English. Were that my university had minors. I think I would have become an English minor for sure.
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In other news, I booked my flight to San Francisco!! SO EXCITED!! (and scared. Wah!)
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Edit: OMG Kelsey got me a Tardis complete with Sonic Screwdriver. ;D
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