Hey, My name is Jordan, and as this is just an introductory post I'll just tell you bit about myself before I get into any musings. I'm an 18 year old guy in grade 12 and live in a small rural town in southern Ontario Canada. I have always loved history; ever since I can remember, I've always been known as the history guy. I can remember in grade four I wanted to be a history teacher and that still stands. A few more years and that might be a reality.

Anyway, lately I have been enjoying history so much more than I ever have before. The connections and patterns in history have never been more apparent to me then as of late. A lot of this is due to me being in a friggen great history class (Western History-16 Century to the Present). I love that class and ususally at the end of each lesson I turn to my friends and say "Frig, I love history!". I don't know why I love it so much, it has just always fascinated me. In some respects its not the most practical subject to study, but it does have its practical uses.

Even though history is not very practical in the short term I still feel that it's very important to study and learn. By studying history we learn about ourselves, not necessarily our individual person, but ourselves as the group called human kind and thus we can follow the patterns of human nature. Really, human nature hasn't changed very much throughout the ages. We may know much more scientifically, mathematically and intellectually then our predessors did but we are in fact the same beings and as a society we seek after the same general goals as they did. Ok, I was rambling there but whatever, its fun to ramble. That's it for my first post, I want to write some later posts on the patterns of history that I have seen lately. Frig...I love history!

- A History Student