Elizabeth J McGrath’s talk titled, “Using Distant Galaxies as Cosmic Time Machines”, provided an area of scientific research and discovery that I personally have absolutely zero background in. In reflection of Dr. McGrath’s talk, I realized that my Colby education has very much provided me with a taste of a multitude of different disciplines. Graduating in two weeks, I feel rather grateful for my liberal arts degree. This seminar has provided a look into the “presence of the past” across many different platforms: literature, biology, history, economics, ecology, sociology, anthropology, anatomy, poetry, physics, and astronomy (to name a few). I have come to know that in order to understand and truly see anything in this world, it is most advantageous to examine it under many different lights and many different concepts of thought.
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