For the last blog, I had to fulfill the academic portion of the blogs, so I decided to write about my experience in the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Honestly, I had to go to the museum because we had an assignment for art history and since I went to a museum for another class, might as well use it for another class! To me, everything in the Met was pretty fascinating. I normally don’t go to the museum because I find them boring, but coming to this one has made me realize that not all museums are boring. Coming into the museum, I was pretty amazed already because the stairs are so wide and big that it made it feel like it was calling my name to enter.

In this particular picture, I am standing in front of the painting named Death of Socrates and in this particular painting, it shows the death of a very important Greek philosopher, Socrates. As you can see, he did not die in a bloody scene. He looks like he is reaching out for the cup of poison that another person is holding out extending to him. This painting is very significant because in this painting, it shows that Socrates was willing to die for his beliefs instead of change his beliefs and it can teach us humans who live in the 21st century, to never give up on what we believe in.

I also went to the Egyptian side of the museum with my friend in the Met. On their instagram page, they posted a picture of this place inside the museum and it was beautiful. There was a lot of sun entering in through the huge glass windows with water in the center and people are allowed to sit on the edges of it. I would go there again if another person was willing to go with me, since I only got to see one side of the museum and not the other.