Favorite Blog

The blog that I am probably most influenced by is Rachel's. Rachel never ceases to amaze me in her deep exploration of topics, ideas, and themes. Rachel seems to eloquently explain everything I'm thinking only much more, well, eloquently. Rachel inspired me more than once to pursue through the anguish of reading one more page of The Following Story in hopes of glimmering even a small amount of the fascination and meaning she had found. Because I don't feel I can give a gleaming enough review of Rachel's blog here is a taste of what you've been missing if you have yet to read it.

"Déjà vu is something that for the past semester I have found myself completely preoccupied with in Dr. Sexson’s classes, especially Nabokov and now Emergent. The idea that memories and déjà vu have the power to connect a moment in time with a moment in time from the past.

That is the sense that we have been some place before and it is strangely familiar. It is the only real way we seem as human beings to be able to time travel even if we can only do it for a moment and involuntarily it seems. But as I am sure Dr. Sexson would say we have been there before and we are only then at that instant remembering what we have already forgotten. But then in another moment it is forgotten again until we experience another realization of a past that we have had at another time."

Rachel is an incredible person and writer and I am so thankful for this class and my ability to "creep" on my fellow classmates in order to contemplate and immerse myself in new thoughts and ideas.