Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman

I had no idea what survey courses were until I was enrolled in one. They walk you through fundamental principles and the names of things. They are really very helpful.

When a rented textbook arrived, I flipped right through 5000 years of human history over my morning coffee. It ended in the year 1650. Was there an asteroid or something? Then I saw another book starting where the first one left off. Good!

Like most college freshmen, I know almost everything. The term “epistemology” means the study of knowledge. It isn’t easy to work epistemology in conversations but it does impress people—especially other college freshmen.

Be sure to pronounce it like this: [ē pis′tə mäl′ə jē, i-].

Pat Shiplett

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