I don't watch a lot of TV but when I can I try to catch House. Something was said tonight that got me to thinking. It was an analogy about rooms. That life is a series of rooms, and getting "trapped" in those rooms with different people. It made me think about our conversations while we are "trapped" in the Honors seminar room. The emphasis of Trey forcing us to find a pattern...to find rhythms amongst these interactions. But life really is just random collisions...and this honors seminar a forced collision. I would not have talked to most of these people that I have formed some sort of bond with. Tall Jessica and I have "known" each other for at least 6 years now, and yet this is the first time I have talked to her, and I like her. I have praised her and others before.

Now I look at this forced collision and watch the forced patterns that emerge. We form bonds with one another, group, and re-group depending on the topic. Group in opposition to others, group in relation to shared interests, group in necessity, group in silence, group in outbursts. Form connections, those connections form patterns, and those patterns keep us sane. It is in our nature to want to find order and rhythm to our chaotic universe. But is there really order there, or do we will it so?

What it comes down to, I believe, is that Trey's exercises are just and extension of what we have been forced to do all of our education. We have all been force into a classical education. Which we are made to believe that we are being taught to think outside the box but thats not really the case at all. And the moment we are actually given the freedom to do something outside of the box, we complain and insist on parameters. As honors students I would hope that we could exist without those limitations. We should act like the leaders of tomorrow that we are and make our own rules with common sense and moral decency. But I could be completely wrong.