Integrate! Create!

Tonight I went to a seminar on creativity and education.  We started out by drawing pictures of our "playgrounds" as children and now and then moved on to talk about art as a means for both gathering and expressing information.  One of the things that came up was the idea that we're too often taught to regurgitate information instead of being taught how to create.  It's an interesting concept for me as a science major, especially considering the classes I have this semester.  I've got my organic chemistry, physics, and quantum mechanics on the one hand, and then I have a class on wisdom and a colloquium course on using the body and the "felt sense" to learn and make decisions and navigate the world.  I can see art and creativity playing a role in the wisdom and colloquium classes, but it's a lot harder for me to envision it in my actual field of study.  At this point at least, there's a lot of memorizing and understanding previous knowledge before I can do any real creation or discovery of my own.  But now this question of integration is in my mind again.  It's come up before, like on cross-cultural when I was considering how everything I learned in Guatemala and Mexico would apply to life here.  It comes up when I think about how much I love art and Spanish and building relationships and I question how any of those things could possibly relate to a future career in science.  It comes up when I try to figure out if or how my faith impacts the rest of my life.  It comes up when I get tired of school and wonder if it isn't really the parts of college that seemingly have nothing to do with what I learn in class that are most important.  All that to say I hope to come up with some creative ways to put together the pieces.