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We live in a world increasingly dominated by science. Since elementary school, I have always _________ subjects like science and math. To me, these subjects, full of discoveries and _________, seem to play more significant role in human progress than humanities. And I always _________ thought of these subjects as more solid and serious than classes like English. If there was no right _________ I thought, why bother? But recently I had an _________ that taught me my academic interests are more flexible than I had thought: I took my first philosophy class.

Before I entered the classroom, I was _________. I waited outside with the other students and wondered what exactly philosophy would involve. I imagined getting into pretty long and boring conversations _________ intended to reflect on the meaning of life. But what I got was something quite _________.

A young man in jeans, Mr. Jones — “but you can call me Rob” — was far from the white-haired, buttoned-up old man I had _________. Rather than pulling us into dull arguments about difficult-to-understand philosophical points, Rob__________ us on our level. To talk free will, we looked at our own __________. To talk morals, we looked at dilemmas we had faced ourselves. By the end of class, I’d discovered that questions with no right answer can turn out to be the most __________ ones.

It __________ me that if I let go of my __________, I can actually get a lot out of the subjects I once thought little of. The class taught me — in more ways than one — to look at things with a(n) __________ mind.