Horrified, mortified, upset and confused.
Imagine my chagrin this morning when my usual pre-coffee wikipedia fix was sullied by the news that some deranged gunman murdered 21 students (and that count is up to 28) at the Virginia Tech campus. How can I learn about King George VI after reading a thing like that?
Now, this is the sort of news that upsets any rightly constructed man, male or female. However, I feel a sort of kinship with the good people of Blacksburg, see during the last great college road trip of ought-four, it was our last destination before returning home from sunny Florida. We arrived at the Alpha Pi chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity of North America unannounced. We were hungered and they gave us meat, we were thirsty and they gave us wine, we were strangers and they took us in. Hospitality is next to godliness.
And more generally, we should all feel a kinship to students of the applied sciences. Theirs is a love of mankind which I am not sure everyone can fully appreciate. Whereas i appreciate all forms of education and enlightenment, there's something intrinsically humanist about engineers. Whereas arts, letters, pure sciences, pure mathematics and fine arts are all grand and very important to a complete and thriving society, -the crown jewels of a civilization even- the practical sciences are the muddy feet rooting the construct of society to the mother earth and those who would sacrifice the best years of their lives understanding the machinations of this world that they may improve it, are true servants of humanity.
Length, Time, Mass and Angle but everything else is incomprehensible to me today.
Now, this is the sort of news that upsets any rightly constructed man, male or female. However, I feel a sort of kinship with the good people of Blacksburg, see during the last great college road trip of ought-four, it was our last destination before returning home from sunny Florida. We arrived at the Alpha Pi chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity of North America unannounced. We were hungered and they gave us meat, we were thirsty and they gave us wine, we were strangers and they took us in. Hospitality is next to godliness.
And more generally, we should all feel a kinship to students of the applied sciences. Theirs is a love of mankind which I am not sure everyone can fully appreciate. Whereas i appreciate all forms of education and enlightenment, there's something intrinsically humanist about engineers. Whereas arts, letters, pure sciences, pure mathematics and fine arts are all grand and very important to a complete and thriving society, -the crown jewels of a civilization even- the practical sciences are the muddy feet rooting the construct of society to the mother earth and those who would sacrifice the best years of their lives understanding the machinations of this world that they may improve it, are true servants of humanity.
Length, Time, Mass and Angle but everything else is incomprehensible to me today.