Book Review : Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Recently, in our literature class, we read a short story called "Dr. Heidegger's experiment." Talking about this story, actually I really enjoyed reading doing the homework questions. The plot of the story   , the characters, and settings were all interesting. Basically this story is about the four friends of Dr. Heidegger, who drink the Fountain of Youth, which made them young. The experiment was promoted by Dr.Heidegger, who just see that how the experiment goes. After the four friends got young, they acted exactly like when they were in young age. Which was not a very good attitude. The shocked part was that in the end of the story, after they turns to their real appearance, the four friend go immediately to florida where the Fountain of Youth was from. 

Even though the four friends,Widow Wycherly, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, spent their young age period, they still wanted to go back. They were not happy about the current appearance and situations. However, as they turned young physically, they stared to act as same as when they are young. At the same time, They could not rewind and recover their mistakes in the past. Also, as they came back to their original appearance , because they could not forget the young, they went to Florida. Why would people could not accept the way they are? I think it is really important to live the life in the current situation and just love what we have now. That way, we will not regret on our present days, when we get old. Even though you can change the things as the past, but you can never ever rewind the time.

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Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR)

Istituto Centrale per il Restauro is a restoration university in Rome, Italy. It does not have different majors, but only the restoration of the artifact.

Unlikely the other major university, the process of education takes 4 years. First year to the third year are focused on the practice and learning theory, and in the senior year, they write the papers. Mostly students are the age of 18 to 30 and it only pick 20 students every year.

The interesting thing about this school is that they never use the fake artifact to practice, but they always use the real artifacts in class. The professor said this was to make students to feel the realistic feelings and let them to feel the sanctity of the artifacts. Of course, the important artifact goes to professors. The Last Judgement by MichaelAngelo was restored by this school.

All the classes are taught in Italian, mostly the restoration goes with one professor and 20 students. Sometimes they include biologists and architects when they need. Also, have outdoor classes when they need to restore the architectures.