Brain work-out

So, how is live at the academia? A lot of reading, that's for sure. I begun to read already after Christmas, even though I hadn't paid my fees yet nor classes started. As I read the first book, one that I've known about for a number of years, I thought, "Wow, why haven't I read this book already?", very impressed with the content. After a little more reading I thought, "Geeh, do I really want to know all this?", starting to feel the heat and preassure of advanced studies.

I´m still reading this book, finding that particular one the dull one of the two for this subject. But I've also come to the conclusion that reading the part from the dull one before the more pleasant one gives me a better understanding of the interesting one. What do the English say, "That which doesn´t kill you makes you stronger"? So, if I'm not killed by boredom I will get wiser?

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 23:21

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Clerical errors?

Reading about church history is much like reading an action novel. As I am entering studies for the second semester of the first year I am registered for the second half of western church history. I've been reading the first half so as not to be completely out of it when class starts.

I know bits and pieces of church history, but not much. Now I read it in some sort of continuity. It feels like being lured with a bait as I read on to find out how a situation came to be and how it developed. Some of the events make me chuckle, like a synod Efesus in year 431 where monks of opposing parties showed up in full armour and made such a scene that both groups were arrested. It really makes me smile when I imagine modern clergy in full vestments being put in jail overnight for having a fistfight at the yearly synod. Would anyone bail them out?

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 01:09

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Change of course

Yours truly is now an enrolled student of theology at the University of Iceland. I paid my fees today and class starts in two weeks. I've obtained all the books for the semester and started reading last week.

It felt good to walk the University's grounds.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 23:48

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