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I thought that I was not going to enjoy this course as I would enjoy the rest of my scientific classes, but when I attended my first class of "the Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories" I realized that I was going to love it! I particularly enjoyed professor Grobstein's lecture on the loopy science. I thought it was captivating and I understood really well this new concept of science in which it consists of constant new observations and deductions. In fact I had heard that humans could never be correct about an assumption but that they had to prove the wrongness of a theory.  For instance, we assumed that Pluto was the ninth planet of our solar system, but after many observations, we discovered that it was orbiting in a different trajectory and due to other observations, we could prove that the first assumption of Pluto being a planet was wrong.  We are now sure that Pluto is not a planet, but we cannot be sure of what Pluto really is!

I thought that this section of the class was fascinating! I guess it was also thanks to the way professor Grobstein talks; I felt like he was narrating a story to us, and since I love listening to stories, I kept myself focused throughout the entire class.