1 Week Down!

Welcome back!  

Week one at Hillsdale is officially done.  Wednesday was the first day of classes, and they were great!  

Spanish was nice, we all introduced ourselves to each other in Espanol, and the whole lesson was conducted in Spanish as well.  
In Western Theological Tradition, we all received our syllabi and I've already turned in my first homework assignment.  We were given two essays to read (one by G.K Chesterton and the other by Jonathan Edwards) and our task was to write a short piece for the readings.  I found both essays extremely intriguing, G.K's was my favorite.  I also look forward to several debates that will be taking place in that class over the next few months.  The topics we will be discussing are remarkably thought-provoking; I will be making whole posts for these at the end of the semester.

Thursday I had Western Heritage and then Math.  I loved both!  We received our syllabi for those classes as well.  In Western Heritage, we all received an 800-page reader that we are all allowed to keep and annotate; in it, we read about ancient Babylon and some of its judicial laws (which were very interesting...)  
In Math class, we have a writing assignment to explain what we believe mathematics really is.  We got to see some numbers written in hieroglyphics and in ancient Babylonian characters, too!  

On Friday I had Spanish and WTT again, they were still awesome.  I am so pleased with all of my classes and professors!

Here are some copy&paste links to the essays I read for my WTT class, I do highly suggest reading Chesterton's.

Chesterton's:    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm#chap01
Edwards':    https://tinyurl.com/j39catef