My time during Markets and Morals was a lot more fun and interesting than I expected it to be. I’ve never been particularly interested in philosophy as a subject, and only really took this course to fulfill a perspectives requirement. I was very pleasantly surprised to see how interested in this course I was becoming, and I think a large portion of that has to do with how much Markets and Morals focused on our own individual beliefs, rather than simply discussing the philosophical works of people in the past. A great example of this can be seen in the artifact I have chosen. This artifact was one of three self reflections about a given topic. For this topic, we had to write our own individual interpretation on the topic, the purpose of which was to express what we think as an individual. I think that this style of teaching philosophy helped to open the way towards a topic I normally am not gravitated towards, and was the reason why I decided to take a second philosophy course in the spring semester, that being Philosophy and Literature. My experience in this course shows the importance of a well rounded education. Your major is of course important, but that does not mean it should be the only subject you focus on. You may end up finding you enjoy another subject nearly as much as your major topic.