Dearest Readers,
It’s been too long since our last chat! I hope you had a pleasant Spring Break that felt longer than mine did;)
My college experience has been atypical in some ways and typical in others. One way it has proved typical is the “senior-itis” diagnosis that comes along with arriving at Senior year, sooner for some students. The myth of senior-itis is characterized by a lack of enthusiastic willingness to complete classwork and attend class sessions due to burnout. One might say I’ve caught the bug.
On the topic of myth, my colleagues and I have spent some time discussing world mythology and how different myths come to be and are studied. We had the opportunity to create our own myths, and getting into the driver seat in this way made the study more fruitful in my opinion because we had to consider how myths worked from the inside out. This is true as well as for our future students, who learn better from hands-on experiences than lecture. Though as my colleagues presented, there was a common thread of pop culture references to the world myths, the mostly implicit representations of mythology are due for further discussion. Opening this kind of discussion up to students could also inspire them to look at the world with more curious eyes and look back to look forward in a culture that is hyper-obsessed with new trends cycling in and out of popularity.
What spoke loudest to me about the world mythology discussion is how innate it is to the human experience to seek answers on how realities came about as a way of exploring and contextualizing the world around us. This pondering and storytelling nature of humanity is a pleasant reminder to remain curious and share ideas. Till next time!
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