Monday, July 13, 2009

Fellow Bloggers,

I'd like to use this week to discuss the ways we make use of our Interdisciplinary studies in our every day lives. Your work? Your hobbies? Your social life? Your personal life? etc..

I look forward to this week's discussion!

Molly
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  1. AntoniaJuly 14, 2009 at 8:31 AM

    Hmm using IDS in everyday life. I think that I use my health and psychology everyday. I watch teh way people interact with each other and am constantly trying to help people at work. I know alot about the health field and I use that when I am at work and going over the medical records with my clients and co workers.

    How do you use yours?

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  2. Mike July 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM

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  4. AdrenalGirlJuly 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    Hello Bloggers,

    Of Behavioral & Social Science, I use psychology in just dealing with people, my family, friends and outside acquaintances. I probably even use Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior in dealing with my dogs!!! (I have learned a lot from that Discovery show, "The Dog Whisperer" too.) I obviously use writing everyday in every way.

    Also in my free time, I am met with aspects of Public Policy, Political Theory and International Relations to learn about the world and culture in which I live (I'm a current events junkie).

    All of these things are combined and used everyday in my life!

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  5. AdrenalGirlJuly 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    Michael,

    I too also think a lot about past generations and past civilizations. I wonder about how they lived, what they did and the way they thought etc. Of course I have an idea just from school and T.V. programs like The History Channel and Discovery but none of us REALLY knows simply because we weren't alive at that time. I mean imagine living in 562 B.C.???

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  6. MollyJuly 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    Stephanie,
    Good points to make. I look at the stuff we studied in the history classes about the '40's, '50's and '60's, and how much different things are today (and how similar, in some respects), and wonder how people lived, knowing they were only a pushbutton away from catastrophe. The differences in technology from then to now are incredible, as well. Personal computers and internet connections are a wondrous thing!! Just being able to take college classes from home is a major change! I also find myself using some ideas from my psychology classes in dealing with customers at the shop, and I'm occasionally struck by similarities from anthropology in the exchanges we make with customers.
    I think the thing that pleases me most is the applicability I find for my humanities courses, related to everyday things that bring me brief bits of joy throughout the day. Its the little things, like having my dog Frannie nestle next to me while I'm studying, the curve of a guitar body, the sound a flute makes when it's been newly adjusted, the beauty of my greyhound when she runs for the sheer joy of it, the smell of woodsmoke in the backyard, or watching the horses next door as they play; these all bring me pleasure and make life a wondrous experience.

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  7. MollyJuly 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM

    Michael
    I can empathize with you about the irate customers. I have the same problem, daily. It seems that some can never be satisfied, and are still living in the '50's, based upon their expectations for prices. I just breathe deeply and try to stay calm. A little Charles Schultz philosophy ("500 years from now, who'll know the difference?") helps give it some perspective. I guess that's a mix of humanities and history, interdisciplinary studies at its best, yes?

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