Just don't call me crazy
On your mark, get set... school! Winter quarter is upon me and it is time to hit the books again. So many distractions and so little time to feed them. At least my job is incredibly easy. I will miss my personal reading time, my guitar, my skateboard, and will certainly miss sleeping until the sun disappears behind the horizon, leaving me feel as though I have accomplished more from my bed than I could if I got up and was alone. The next 10 weeks will be challenging. Classes: Advanced Microeconomic Theory, Advanced Macroeconomic Theory, Statistics for Economists, and Integrated Calculus with Applied Econometrics. Well at least I have a parking pass to make these winter months a little more bearable... Oh wait! I don't have a parking pass and I have a least a 25 minute walk through freezing temperatures to reach campus. Yet despite all these hurdles I find myself smiling. There are so many people who have it so much worse. Here I am bitching about school when halfway across the world there is someone bitching about how they're going to feed themselves tomorrow. Should I feel guilty for living in a developed, first-world country? Should I be obligated to make certain sacrifices because I was born into a life of comfort and opportunity? I don't think so. It may sound callous but I think my only responsibility is to take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. Life has dealt me an incredible hand of cards and I intend to play them. I also want to help those who haven't been blessed with the same opportunities that I have had, but I don't think that time is now. Whoa, I am really starting to ramble but once I sit down and start writing my mind moves in a million directions at once. Maybe I'm crazy, or perhaps the only sane person I know. Either way school is here and so here I go...