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I don't usually use this journal as a journal, but I'm bored.
I've been very busy lately, but it's a good busy. I'm doing better in school right now than I ever have before, 5 classes straight A's. Not that Saddleback is all that challenging. Which brings me to my current dilema, the rest of my life. I've been trying hard in the last few years to own my bad choices, and to distance myself from angry-highschool-John who didn't much care about his future. I went directly into ITT from high school(literally, I think I had two weeks off, fucking summer school... fucking mission... there I go again) which was a horrible idea. It was laughably easy, but I still didn't do all that well, I've forgotten more about electronics than most people will ever know. So, I have been planning on transfering to Fullerton next fall. I would probably major in Religious Studies(which get's the stangest looks from people) or do a double major in Religious Studies/Philosophy. But here's the thing, am I then going to be that guy who has forgotten more about electronics, religion, and philosophy than most people will ever know? I'm destined to be the jack of all trades and master of none, I've made my peace with that, but I want my education to mean something, I don't want to be a repository of facts and dates and worthless technical shit, I want to save the world, or at the very least, help people.
So here it is, I've discovered a school called St. John's, it's not a normal school and it appeals to me in every way possible. They have no majors, and no electives, everyone takes the same curriculum and everyone has to start from the begining. Their program includes 4 years of math, science, language, and something called seminar which is basically literature, history, theology and philisophy, with one year of music(theory, composition and singing). But the thing that makes all this interesting is that they have no text books, all their classes are based on the great books of western civilization, about 150 or so. Their students learn math from reading Euclid and Newton, and philosophy from Plato(in the original no less, everyone takes 2 years of ancient greek) Also, they don't have professors exactly, all their classes are socratic. This may sound like torture to some, but the whole idea does something physically inexplicable to me. I've been thinking it over for a while, and I'm fairly sure I'm going to apply for next fall.
Encourage me, dissuade me, what do you think?
I've been very busy lately, but it's a good busy. I'm doing better in school right now than I ever have before, 5 classes straight A's. Not that Saddleback is all that challenging. Which brings me to my current dilema, the rest of my life. I've been trying hard in the last few years to own my bad choices, and to distance myself from angry-highschool-John who didn't much care about his future. I went directly into ITT from high school(literally, I think I had two weeks off, fucking summer school... fucking mission... there I go again) which was a horrible idea. It was laughably easy, but I still didn't do all that well, I've forgotten more about electronics than most people will ever know. So, I have been planning on transfering to Fullerton next fall. I would probably major in Religious Studies(which get's the stangest looks from people) or do a double major in Religious Studies/Philosophy. But here's the thing, am I then going to be that guy who has forgotten more about electronics, religion, and philosophy than most people will ever know? I'm destined to be the jack of all trades and master of none, I've made my peace with that, but I want my education to mean something, I don't want to be a repository of facts and dates and worthless technical shit, I want to save the world, or at the very least, help people.
So here it is, I've discovered a school called St. John's, it's not a normal school and it appeals to me in every way possible. They have no majors, and no electives, everyone takes the same curriculum and everyone has to start from the begining. Their program includes 4 years of math, science, language, and something called seminar which is basically literature, history, theology and philisophy, with one year of music(theory, composition and singing). But the thing that makes all this interesting is that they have no text books, all their classes are based on the great books of western civilization, about 150 or so. Their students learn math from reading Euclid and Newton, and philosophy from Plato(in the original no less, everyone takes 2 years of ancient greek) Also, they don't have professors exactly, all their classes are socratic. This may sound like torture to some, but the whole idea does something physically inexplicable to me. I've been thinking it over for a while, and I'm fairly sure I'm going to apply for next fall.
Encourage me, dissuade me, what do you think?