To $ell or Not to $ell....This Book Lover's Delima

It's always good to bring another college course to a close. Add the credits earned to the tally and take just a few more steps closer to the end goal of graduating with your degree of choice. And so it is with this course, One World:Many People, which by the way is so perfectly titled.

Now that the course has reached it's conclusion it is also the appropriate time to list the text books back online to sell to the next student. Ahhh...there lies the problem for me. It is difficult to part with books, even of the text book sort, and especially the texts associated with this class.

What if I want to revisit some of the interesting information from the past several weeks? There may be something that catches my eye within the news, in the newspaper, or online that I may want more foundational information about to be sure I understand it. What if I want to grab a quick reference to locate a part of the world that has made headlines? Hhhhmmm.....sell or don't sell?

The chapter on migration was especially interesting and personally relateable for me. I really hadn't thought about specific reasons behind such migrating factors and patterns such as the economic and cultural push and pull factors. But it made so much sense! And a few weeks later when we explored the similarities and differences of a few religious cultures I was able to connect the journey and challenges of some of these cultures in relation to whether migration may have played a role in the strength and viability of the culture's customs.

I also learned a great deal in a short amount of time from the Readings Projects that were completed. Such a wide variety of topics were covered, and through the discussion board I was challenged as I offered my thoughts and as I was introduced to other ways of looking at a topic by my fellow classmates. You might say my horizons were widen.

So will I sell? I don't know.....not right away for sure. I believe it will be good to have the books handy for at least the next several weeks. I'm a processor.....so I'll be processing this class over and over in my head for at least the next few weeks. My mind will wonder, while I'm at work, on to one of our topics of study and I'll want to flip a few pages when I get home to substantiate or gain a reference point. Yes...I think this one is a "not sell"....at least for awhile.

Thanks for the journey,
~~Teresa~~