Since switching my major to Cultural Studies, I've become increasingly more and more excited about the rest of my education here at Columbia. This class has opened up my mind a lot and taught me about things that I thought I already knew. I now find myself relating various aspects in my life to what we've discussed this semester. Probably the most prevalent idea that we discussed in class that has really made me question things is the idea of context, with a dash of subjectivity.
Another class that I'm in this semester is a seminar on Toni Morrison novels. In all of the books we have read for that class, Morrison plays with the barrier between good and evil. For example, in "Sula" a mother kills her son. In any normal situation, I would think this is a terrible thing. But because of the extremely heavy emphasis on how everything is so context-based in our class, I was able to examine that scene in the novel without a closed mind. I was able to recognize that she killed her son out of love, not because she hated him or anything. She loved him too much to let him live anymore, because he wasn't doing anything in his life besides trying to maintain being a child (at age 34). With that, I am still able to recognize that in another context a mother killing her son really would be an awful thing.
I really appreciate all that I've taken in from this semester and will truly miss this class and all the different minds that made it so involving.
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