There is curiosity all around me as I begin to familiarize myself with my new home here at Monmouth College. I am interested to know about the history of the school that I have pledged the next four years of my life to. Specifically, I am curious to find out more about the role of women within the history of the college that I now attend. Aside from the fact that I myself am a women, I am inquisitive due to my new role in one of the sororities on campus and because of my spot on the Monmouth College Forensics team. I am now more than ever a liberal arts-minded thinker. This project that is designed to enhance my knowledge of my new surroundings and quench my curiosity will require some of my new attributes that I have gained or enhanced within my short time at my liberal arts institution. There is so much history encompassing Monmouth college and so much of that is surrounded by powerful women wanting to make a difference in a wonderful way. I have recently joined Alpha Xi Delta and am beginning to learn more about the history of my new sorority. I cannot help but be curious as to know how the chapter arrived at Monmouth College. What influential women brought it here? I am very excited that this project is giving me an opportunity to find out answers …show more content…
In a way, I would describe my curiosity as diversive. Diversive curiosity is described within the book Curious by Ian Leslie as, “the desire for new information, sensations, experiences and challenges” (Pg. 30). It is the curiosity to know the “new”. At the same time, it is a wonderful to find out all of this new information about something I am apart of- greek life. This sort of curiosity is epistemic and Leslie describes this type of curiosity as being, “a font of satisfaction and delight” (Pg. 17). Either way, my curiosity is stemmed from the fact that I care. I value the idea of the sororities and respect