One of my favorite classes that I have taken at Cornell was a course about the history of time. It explored how time is a social construct and how society's understanding of it has evolved alongside new work environments and technological change. We studied the invention of mechanical clocks, the creation of time zones, and how the Industrial Revolution reorganized daily life around productivity. The class showed me that the way we measure and value time reflects cultural and economic priorities rather than universal truths. I began to see how structured my own schedule is and how much of that structure is shaped by institutional expectations.