Have you missed me?
What's up? It's Easter! Rupert and I are boycotting Easter not because we hate Jesus, but because we are doing homework instead. One day I will have no school and that makes me excited. Then, I can read all the books I have not read yet and possibly live in another country.
My ideas about grad school is that, yes, I am learning to think. I'm keeping my mind fresh. I love it when i'm sitting in class and my mind gets blown wide open.
But! I also become bored much more easily. I can't sit and watch tv unless I am super tired or we are watching something that I find stimulating (not necessarily a bad thing). Also, I'm becoming unable to relate to the average person. Sure, I get along with people, but people just seem more boring now. It's like, I meet a new person and they are all: "My interests are these douchy bands, I like these dumb movies, and I work." And I just start to think, "And... what else? What makes you unique?"
Please don't think that I'm saying that I'm somehow better than someone else because of my interests, but I haven't met anyone who is really passionate about anything. It's always "Ho hum. I enjoy drinking beer and watching tv." So does everyone else. I just don't get it. What happened to the whole mentality "Go for you dreams!!" "Work hard and reach for the stars!!!" I understand people have to work and sometimes that doesn't give them time to pursue their dreams, but aren't all the success stories about people who did both. Lost a lot of sleep because they were really passionate about something? I don't care what you are passionate about. It could be hammers. I think I'd be really impressed with someone if they were like "I work, but what I really want to do is design a new hammer that makes hammering more efficient." And in their room they had drawings and designs of hammers. It'd be a bit weird, but interesting!!
I just don't understand when complacency became attractive. I understand how people could lead themselves to be complacent, I just don't understand why one would want to stay there for so long.
My ideas about grad school is that, yes, I am learning to think. I'm keeping my mind fresh. I love it when i'm sitting in class and my mind gets blown wide open.
But! I also become bored much more easily. I can't sit and watch tv unless I am super tired or we are watching something that I find stimulating (not necessarily a bad thing). Also, I'm becoming unable to relate to the average person. Sure, I get along with people, but people just seem more boring now. It's like, I meet a new person and they are all: "My interests are these douchy bands, I like these dumb movies, and I work." And I just start to think, "And... what else? What makes you unique?"
Please don't think that I'm saying that I'm somehow better than someone else because of my interests, but I haven't met anyone who is really passionate about anything. It's always "Ho hum. I enjoy drinking beer and watching tv." So does everyone else. I just don't get it. What happened to the whole mentality "Go for you dreams!!" "Work hard and reach for the stars!!!" I understand people have to work and sometimes that doesn't give them time to pursue their dreams, but aren't all the success stories about people who did both. Lost a lot of sleep because they were really passionate about something? I don't care what you are passionate about. It could be hammers. I think I'd be really impressed with someone if they were like "I work, but what I really want to do is design a new hammer that makes hammering more efficient." And in their room they had drawings and designs of hammers. It'd be a bit weird, but interesting!!
I just don't understand when complacency became attractive. I understand how people could lead themselves to be complacent, I just don't understand why one would want to stay there for so long.