The MET

On October 13th, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my global history class. This was my first ever college trip and it was for extra credit. We were told if we attended the trip we would get an extra 5% on our midterm. I felt like it was necessary for me to go because I needed the extra points due to me doing poorly on the exam. I thought it was gonna be just an easy visit, take a few pictures and that was that but indeed we were all tricked. We had to do an essay for what we saw in the museum about something we didn’t learn in class. We saw cool things from ancient times like the mummies and the relief structures. Even though I felt like some of the art there was so pointless, for that time period it was pretty advanced.   I honestly hate going to museums because they’re so boring and you have to act a certain way and you cant touch anything. They’re just so dull. I got there a lot later than the whole class so I stayed a little longer after the tour to look at other areas in the museum. My professor just talked a lot and showed us around. She also showed us the adorable ancient hippo, William. We visited the Ancient Mesopotamia, Japan, and Egypt sites. As we were doing the essay which was due the following week, she tells us it cannot be based on Ancient Egypt which honestly aggravated me because we had to use something else from the museum which we really didn’t know much about. The whole essay was basically just me trying to make sense but I really didn’t make any sense. Also, I threw away my ticket because I thought her taking a picture with all of us was proof but I guess not. Luckily, however, I had a picture of my ticket.