About Me

Who am I?


I am a freshman at the best Great Books College in the world.  I live in dorms with my classmates and some people who go to a different University that is just down the street.  I enjoy reading stories and write some for my own enjoyment but on occasionally I might post a short one.  I sew, crochet, and have started learning how to knit.  With this talent I have started a shop on Etsy.com in hopes to earn a little bit of money for food.  I also love to bake, mainly cookies and bread but sometimes I spend more money and make a cake or pie.


Great Books College What's That?

The University of Chicago is where the idea of a Great Books curriculum got started.  It was a program started to fill in the gaps left in the education of businessmen.  This education was not to make someone ready for a job but to make the individual more well-rounded and knowledgeable of the ideas of the past three thousand years. Among the first to be given this education was a man named William Benton who later became a US Senator and than the CEO of  Encyclopedia Britannica.  Using his position as CEO in 1952 Encyclopedia Britannica published a set of all the books that had been chosen to be part of the Great Books.  The Great books include fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics.

Since then many colleges have started with a focus on the Great Books.  These colleges tend to be conversation based classes with teachers that are there mainly to encourage the students and help them when asked.

List of Authors I have to read this school year


Fall 2011
 Martin Luther
 John Calvin
 William Shakespeare 
 Rene Descartes
 Thomas Hobbes
 John Locke
 David Hume
 Thomas Reid
 Immanuel Kant
 Voltaire
 Adam Smith
 Thomas Malthus
 Jonathan Edwards
 The Federalists
 De Tocqueville

Winter 2012 
 Edmund Burke
 Jacques Rousseau
 J.S. Mill 
 G.W.H. Hegel
 Arthur Schopenhauer
 Henry David Thoreau
 Mary Shelley
 Auguste Comte
 Karl Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky 
 Charles Darwin
 Sigmund Freud
 Friedrich Nietzsche
 Ludwig Feuerbach
 Friedrich Schliermacher

Spring 2012 
 Henrick Ibsen
 Eric Remarque
 Vladmir Lenin 
 William James
 Friedrich Hayek
 George Orwell
 Albert Einstein
 Thomas Kuhn
 Thomas Wolf
 Francis Schaeffer 
 Alexander Solzenitsyn
 Ludwig Wittgenstein
 Michel Foucault
 Jaques Ellul