So far, my experience in FSSP has been going quite well. I am enrolled in two classes outside of INT95, Math 4A and Art History 6C. Both classes are progressing well, and I am confident that I will be able to succeed academically in the next few weeks.
Socially, I have not done anything worthy of note - I have only hung out with various people. Other than that, I have used my remaining free time to do homework and explore the campus.
I found Mr. Smith’s lecture to be quite interesting, and that was a surprise. As an engineer, I am more interested in building and creating as opposed to learning about past cultures and digging stuff out of the dirt. However, Mr. Smith did an exceptional job of providing context and showing how relevant the field of archaeology is. That moment when he was talking about how archaeology was about saving lives because it brought people who had faded out of memory back into memory was when everything clicked. Previously I thought that the field was just about digging up some relic and maybe having the findings published someday in some history textbook somewhere, but now everything started to make a little more sense. I’m not saying that archaeology is my new calling in life or anything like that, but I gained a new perspective on something that I had previously paid little attention to.
As I continue onward through FSSP, I can only guess at how many of these experiences I will have, but one thing is certain. Life is far more interesting than I give it credit for.
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