From People to Ethics and Science.

September 10, 2013

We started out the day by a great activity in our morning meeting lead by Majo. We had two minutes with everyone in the group and in those two minutes we had to try to come up all of the things that we had in common. I really enjoyed this activity, because the first day of MPC I noticed that even though I have shared with my classmates for over a year, there still are some things that I don't know about them. So I enjoyed searching for things in common, and was really surprised by the results: I think I don't have a lot in common with anyone, and the people who I least expected were the ones who share the most with me. The reason why I think that I don't have a lot of things in common with anyone is because my lists of common things didn't pass 13 things. At the beginning I thought maybe I was the weird one, liking very different things; then I realized that this is not so. All of us are so different from one another, and I think that this is why we are such a great group. We all like very different things, have different personalities, and this is what makes the dialogues so much more interesting; we bring different ideas to the table. Well, anyways, I hope I will get the change to know all of my classmates better. Although I do believe that it is impossible to get to know someone 100%.

Today was full of great dialogues. The first dialogue we had was Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I liked the way we handled the whole dialogue; we started our by reading it alone for 20 minutes and then we started discussing it. I found the text to be fascinating and very interesting, and also our dialogue was great, I think we really tried to get to the bottom of things, and even ended up with our own questions. I had a great time, but I do think I should speak more in dialogues. When I started in the MPC, I used to be one of those who talked a bunch, but know barely even talk at all. I don't know why that is. I mean, I have the ideas in my head and I understand things pretty well, but I just don't express myself. I’m going to try to speak more next time.

The next great dialogue we had was on The Way of discovery. Well, this really wasn't a dialogue, it was more like a brainstorm, but I liked it anyways. I liked it because I thought that what we had read was great. I liked how the book presented all of the problems with the world, and even though I didn't understand all of it, I think I got the main part. I had always been curious about Michael Polanyi; our college is named after him and I don't even know who he is or what he did. So I find it great that we are getting to read about him, and so far, I think that it is right for the college to be named after him.