Author Archives: Anastasia Alexandrovna Kosykh

Thoughts About Thinking: Contemplative Practices

One of the first ideas that struck me during the first week of this class was the idea of time and how we interact with it in our daily lives. We live lives that are highly scheduled and parcelled. I have found that over the course of my college career, time has been a factor that I have struggled with… Read more »

Nutrition: A Mechanism of the Race Against Time in Society

The lessons that I learned while reading Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food, were extremely eye-opening. From what I have learned, what stands out to me the most are the extreme changes that have taken place in the process of procuring food as an individual. It seems to me, from what I can tell at this point, that the… Read more »