What have I learned this semester???

What have I learned this semester that I didn't know before???? That is a really hard question to answer. Dr. Sexson's classes aren't like math classes where I can say I have learned how to run statistical analysis but much more intangible than that.

A few things that I can say that I have learned is that:

 I absolutely love  Little, Big and The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. 

I have learned the even though characters annoy the heck out of me, their presence in the novel is most likely to be necessary.

There are always multiple layers to everything. You just have to know how to look for them. And you have to want to see them.

I learned that connections between seemingly unrelated things are almost always possible. I.E. the Eleusinian Mysteries and Little, Big

The true meanings and purposes of initiation rituals. Along with the fact that initiation rituals can be found everywhere.

That you can absolutely despise a book and love it at the same time.

Religion isn't just a structure form of worship to a deity. It is so much more and so much less all at once.

And sometimes the purpose of a story isn't in the moral learned but in the act of telling the story itself.

Looking at this list, it seems so small compared to what I feel like I truly did learn throughout my time spent studying Recursive Structures. I feel like I learned so much more yet I can't seem to articulate what I want to say. I guess the last thing that I can say that I have learned is that I haven't really learned anything. If I were to say that I know anything about any of the books that we read this semester, I would be completely wrong when looking back through the books to prove it. If I was to do this, I would start the learning process to get where I am right now and I would probably write the same summation of this semester, no matter how many times I repeated this process.