236am
So I guess this is what my boredom has caused me to do, post.
I've realized that the people that piss me off the most are the ones with extremely strong opinions. I think awhile back I realized that I know nothing. All my huge arguments about religion, science, and so on are pretty much useless. I mean I think it's good to stand for something but to think you know it all, is just ridiculous. People argue about stem cell research but do people REALLY understand what the fuck they are talking about? probably not. My roommates a biology major and even she has admitted to not knowing much except the different genus and species of random animals. She has a background of subjects but that's about it.
It's sorta weird because now that I guess I actually have a shot of graduating since I made it this far (graduation rate for 5th and 6th years is 100%), people ask me really random questions. Mostly it's the ridiculous 'Can you get me Vicodin?', which the answer is NO, but questions that really make you go back and read your notes. I can be the first to admit, I really do not know a lot. Yes I know some drugs and sort of understand what's going on, but when challenged by a fellow peer of mine about pain medications, I struggled to think what the mechanism of action of aspirin was!!!! We are given so much information, I couldn't even remember aspirin, one of the most fundamental drugs. It's hard though because people generally think of it as a pain medication but it's also an anti-platlet drug and trying to explain WHY to people is close to impossible.
So anyways, I realized I really do not know much about anything. I've become interested in the conflict of Darfur and I called my friend who just received her bachelors in political science and psychology (holla!) and asked her what she knew.
I think it's really ignorant when people think they know it all. I guess I am surrounded by individuals who just graduated (except for me...ugh) and they feel like the know it all now. But I just think it's funny to think once you graduate school, you 'know it all'. Things change everyday and some of the information I learn in school will be completely irrelevant in about a year I'm sure. Shouldn't college teach you to teach yourself? To push yourself to seek new knowledge and information for a lifetime? To never quit learner? To (and do I dare say it..) become a LIFELONG learner?!
I mean what is the point of learning history? You shouldn't learn about Vietnam and go 'aw that's a shame'...You should read it and go 'Wow I can't believe this is happening again, get me a pen and paper, I'm writing Congress'. You shouldn't watch movies of the holocaust and 'my god what a horror, I can't believe that happened, how come people aren't doing anything?', when in Sudan the exact same thing is happening and we just shake our heads and say 'what a shame' and move on worrying about our stupid problems.
I can't say I've done my part because honestly i don't really know much about it. But I think what school has taught me is you have to ask WHY. Everyone gets mad when I study with them because I think I ask 'why?' WAY too much (Am I right Jon?). You can't just tell me 'Thiazides cause hypokalemia'. I want to know why. I want to understand WHY.
it's 2007, why the fuck are these things still happening??
Nospell check too tired.
253am
I've realized that the people that piss me off the most are the ones with extremely strong opinions. I think awhile back I realized that I know nothing. All my huge arguments about religion, science, and so on are pretty much useless. I mean I think it's good to stand for something but to think you know it all, is just ridiculous. People argue about stem cell research but do people REALLY understand what the fuck they are talking about? probably not. My roommates a biology major and even she has admitted to not knowing much except the different genus and species of random animals. She has a background of subjects but that's about it.
It's sorta weird because now that I guess I actually have a shot of graduating since I made it this far (graduation rate for 5th and 6th years is 100%), people ask me really random questions. Mostly it's the ridiculous 'Can you get me Vicodin?', which the answer is NO, but questions that really make you go back and read your notes. I can be the first to admit, I really do not know a lot. Yes I know some drugs and sort of understand what's going on, but when challenged by a fellow peer of mine about pain medications, I struggled to think what the mechanism of action of aspirin was!!!! We are given so much information, I couldn't even remember aspirin, one of the most fundamental drugs. It's hard though because people generally think of it as a pain medication but it's also an anti-platlet drug and trying to explain WHY to people is close to impossible.
So anyways, I realized I really do not know much about anything. I've become interested in the conflict of Darfur and I called my friend who just received her bachelors in political science and psychology (holla!) and asked her what she knew.
I think it's really ignorant when people think they know it all. I guess I am surrounded by individuals who just graduated (except for me...ugh) and they feel like the know it all now. But I just think it's funny to think once you graduate school, you 'know it all'. Things change everyday and some of the information I learn in school will be completely irrelevant in about a year I'm sure. Shouldn't college teach you to teach yourself? To push yourself to seek new knowledge and information for a lifetime? To never quit learner? To (and do I dare say it..) become a LIFELONG learner?!
I mean what is the point of learning history? You shouldn't learn about Vietnam and go 'aw that's a shame'...You should read it and go 'Wow I can't believe this is happening again, get me a pen and paper, I'm writing Congress'. You shouldn't watch movies of the holocaust and 'my god what a horror, I can't believe that happened, how come people aren't doing anything?', when in Sudan the exact same thing is happening and we just shake our heads and say 'what a shame' and move on worrying about our stupid problems.
I can't say I've done my part because honestly i don't really know much about it. But I think what school has taught me is you have to ask WHY. Everyone gets mad when I study with them because I think I ask 'why?' WAY too much (Am I right Jon?). You can't just tell me 'Thiazides cause hypokalemia'. I want to know why. I want to understand WHY.
it's 2007, why the fuck are these things still happening??
Nospell check too tired.
253am