The true value of a college education

Nov 04, 2009 22:07

When I was getting my hair cut, I remembered a comment made to me when I was a child by a stylist.  She had used a buzzer and I'd flinched away since it hurt a bit.  She told me that was strange because most adults find it pleasant.  This then reminded me of a bit of Freud I read as an undergraduate.  In it, it said the motion of a train upsets adults because it stimulates them sexually and they've been taught to repress such things, but that children tend to enjoy the train's motion because they haven't yet learned that lesson.  This time, I enjoyed the feeling of the buzzer.

4 years at USC:  $120,000
The ability to give a Freudian twist to anything:  Priceless

thoughts, random

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