Oh Man. School.
I got an A in Calculus. Shit, man. That is fucking awesome. It doesn't matter at all as far as I know in affecting my future, but it makes me feel very validated.
Also, my group and I did a really great job at that city planning project, I think, even though we didn't win the theoretical project from the mock city council. Some group named Action Squad won. Which shows you appearance isn't as important as both presentation, and capitalism. They were all dressed in regular summer dresses, very unprofessional. I wore a tie and whatnot. Also the name? The main thing though was that they really realized that the city was their client and that the city wanted to be making the most money off the redevelopment as possible. Disgusting but true.
I think I talked too long, as I went first, but I am happy. They liked the attention we payed to the community, and also "green collar jobs." I also brought the little green thing in all loaded up with pictures and showed them examples of architecture. I also should have made more eye contact. But in the end it came down to the city wanting more return. I tried to explain that community services would give back to the community...
Oh man, I just had a great conversation about morals with the Berkeley independent studies tutor. He said its the sort of thing people in college describe as mental masturbation. We got talking about Buddhism, judgments, decisions, defining objects, then defining whether a raindrop was one or many, then defining blame in water torture, then defining torture, and blame in general, and then government and utilitarian, greater good sort of thinking, at which point I set utilitarianism on a set of axis of utilitarianism verses greatest good, on the y axis. The graph had a maximum. Then I redefined utilitarianism, defining the new perspective as the x axis, saying we were only seeing one plane, and that there was actually a general upwards trend.
The tutor said I wouldn't be able to get away with all that in college. Maybe if I took a class on rhetoric I could pull it off... I said there are two purposes to such a conversation: practicality and interest in making change and creating new Ideas, And just having fun. This is when he brought up mental masturbation. And it is, really.
I'm a little tired and dehydrated from the sun.
Also, my group and I did a really great job at that city planning project, I think, even though we didn't win the theoretical project from the mock city council. Some group named Action Squad won. Which shows you appearance isn't as important as both presentation, and capitalism. They were all dressed in regular summer dresses, very unprofessional. I wore a tie and whatnot. Also the name? The main thing though was that they really realized that the city was their client and that the city wanted to be making the most money off the redevelopment as possible. Disgusting but true.
I think I talked too long, as I went first, but I am happy. They liked the attention we payed to the community, and also "green collar jobs." I also brought the little green thing in all loaded up with pictures and showed them examples of architecture. I also should have made more eye contact. But in the end it came down to the city wanting more return. I tried to explain that community services would give back to the community...
Oh man, I just had a great conversation about morals with the Berkeley independent studies tutor. He said its the sort of thing people in college describe as mental masturbation. We got talking about Buddhism, judgments, decisions, defining objects, then defining whether a raindrop was one or many, then defining blame in water torture, then defining torture, and blame in general, and then government and utilitarian, greater good sort of thinking, at which point I set utilitarianism on a set of axis of utilitarianism verses greatest good, on the y axis. The graph had a maximum. Then I redefined utilitarianism, defining the new perspective as the x axis, saying we were only seeing one plane, and that there was actually a general upwards trend.
The tutor said I wouldn't be able to get away with all that in college. Maybe if I took a class on rhetoric I could pull it off... I said there are two purposes to such a conversation: practicality and interest in making change and creating new Ideas, And just having fun. This is when he brought up mental masturbation. And it is, really.
I'm a little tired and dehydrated from the sun.