the Sam Jackson College Experience

After more than a year of work, I finally completed and turned in my senior essay, entitled "Hijacked Dreams: Technological Determinism and the Idea of Progress." You can download all 100 pages here (Sorry - web version coming soon). I am also very proud to say that my essay was named this year's recipient of the Philo [...]

"Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble chain, and are found, from experience as well as reason, to be peculiar to the more polished, and, what are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages."  - - - David Hume, "Refinements in the Arts" Essay II in E. Miller's collection "Essays Moral, Political, and [...]

As you may have been following along, I am in the process of writing a year-long senior essay for Political Science, something akin to a senior thesis. This work is about the philosophy of progress, and is proving to be very interesting to explore. When last we came to this topic, I was in mushy [...]

It is the spring of my junior year, which means it's time to start thinking about senior essays! Importantly, now is the time we decide if we want to write a year long senior essay or not - in political science, at least. Some other majors have mandatory year-long essays, and some have none at [...]