LSS: Filling a Vacuum

Sneha Krishnan, LSS 2007, Chennai

I didn't realize how much the Liberty and Society seminar had actually touched me until I returned to college on the Monday after four days of economics, politics, policy making and debate. I walked into my first class and found that I had to copy stuff off the board. And no, no questions asked, none of the LSS encyclopedic input and none of the debate. We were fed and we ate like happy horses. I began to desperately miss the "why did this happen" analysis which is what LSS is about.

The reason that LSS is so successful I think, is that it fills the vacuum that college education (at least in the arts and sciences) creates. It makes you think and answer questions that you habitually stop asking in the torpor of daily college life. As a student of history, I am beginning to see things in a clearer light and perhaps, contrary to what I thought, I will actually be able to act on some of the principles I have learned at LSS or maybe even do something about the dismal state of school education sometime in the future. Also, for the much closed up person that I always thought I was, I was surprised by the fun I had, sharing a dorm room with five other girls and eating in a noisy mess with everybody else. In fact I was happy also to see that people didn't form the kind of cliques that form in college in less than a day. I don't think I had more than two meals with the same person. I learned a lot from these people (some of whom were scarily intelligent) and now I know students from all over the country, practically.

Like they say at Mc Donald's, I'm lovin' it.

In liberty, Me (Sneha blogs at http://snehakrishnan.blogspot.com/)