Time traveling through the blogosphere

Lately, I had the revelation that time existed before I was born. This seems like a rather obvious concept. But who really stops and acknowledges that there was a world years ago, one that is just as bustling and busy and wonderful as our world is today? Filled with ordinary people, just going about their day and living their lives, just like we do right now?

Specifically, I had this revelation while reading the CoCreateUMBC blog (one of my favorites). I was going through the old posts and looking at the dates they were written. I reached a point where the blog posts were written before I had started at UMBC and for some reason, I was amazed the campus existed before I got there. Since UMBC didn't exist (for me) until summer 2008 when I started summer bridge, I felt as if it shouldn't have existed for anyone at all either.

Maybe it's been all the Doctor Who I have been watching lately (finished 5 seasons of the new series in the span of a week), but reading the blog posts that pre-date my time here make me feel like I'm time traveling a bit. Like I'm a quiet observer in the history of this school, watching fixed points in time happen before my eyes. In particular, I like the CoCreateUMBC blog because it's not just facts and figures about the school. It's a first-hand account of the things that have happened at UMBC (as well as wonderful insights about life). The personal nature of the blog makes me feel like I really was at campus back then, even though I hadn't heard about UMBC at the time.