Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Science of Procrastination
"Never let schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain
Okay so the quote is a bit overused but it's still true! I feel like I spend a tremendous amount of time during the day learning glorious, perchance useless, things and more often than not those things are interfering with what should be my scholastic study time. Damn well tragic if you ask me. Then I get all flabbergasted/stressed when I don't have my 'real' work done and before anyone can figure out what I'm dealing with I'm shouting out things like, "I hate school!"
For some reason everyone takes this to mean I hate learning; I don't really, to the contrary, I get all giddy when I get to learn something new, be it mundane or otherwise. Twitter? I think yes. It is just that I don't like deadlines and being told what to study and when-the working world is going to absolutely love me.
Is this such a bad thing? It's the 21st century! Information is at our finger tips and all that. Anyone currently studying anything relevant to today will most likely discover that by the time they know what they are doing with whatever it is they are studying it will be outdated; I'm not into that. To make matters worse it seems like most everyone is going to school to secure a job, what happened to knowledge for knowledge's sake? Give me the classics! Useless bits of history, astronomy, Latin! But hey who I am to know either way. I could be on to something or I could just be staging an elaborate procastinatory plot.
Okay so the quote is a bit overused but it's still true! I feel like I spend a tremendous amount of time during the day learning glorious, perchance useless, things and more often than not those things are interfering with what should be my scholastic study time. Damn well tragic if you ask me. Then I get all flabbergasted/stressed when I don't have my 'real' work done and before anyone can figure out what I'm dealing with I'm shouting out things like, "I hate school!"
For some reason everyone takes this to mean I hate learning; I don't really, to the contrary, I get all giddy when I get to learn something new, be it mundane or otherwise. Twitter? I think yes. It is just that I don't like deadlines and being told what to study and when-the working world is going to absolutely love me.
Is this such a bad thing? It's the 21st century! Information is at our finger tips and all that. Anyone currently studying anything relevant to today will most likely discover that by the time they know what they are doing with whatever it is they are studying it will be outdated; I'm not into that. To make matters worse it seems like most everyone is going to school to secure a job, what happened to knowledge for knowledge's sake? Give me the classics! Useless bits of history, astronomy, Latin! But hey who I am to know either way. I could be on to something or I could just be staging an elaborate procastinatory plot.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The trick to spring break is getting so drunk that you forget you're in school, nobody told me that.
My spring break has come to an abrupt, unfortunate, and sadly, unavoidable end. By lunch tomorrow I'll be bumping down the I-10, bound for Prescott and another six weeks of collegiate bliss. As short and oddly scheduled as this break was I feel that I've grown immensely in the last week, reaching to new heights such as Twitter, and my very own blog. Fascinating are the lengths that an optimistic academic travesty will go to in hopes of finding fulfillment in a era of cheap thrills, instant gratification, and cliches. Like my dad always says, if only I'd put all this energy into my studies.
I'm going to say that between now and the end of the quarter I'll burst into tears four times, forget my lunch at home on a Wednesday three times, undertake some bizarre mission involving either live-stock or something too big to fit on top of my car twice, and sound a barbaric yawp to end an argument at least once. All 'n all I think it's going to be a great six weeks!
Considering that I have an eight hour drive looming on the other side of the sunrise I think it best that I adjourn for the night and plan that, in the future, I'll write blogs at a more decent hour.
I'm going to say that between now and the end of the quarter I'll burst into tears four times, forget my lunch at home on a Wednesday three times, undertake some bizarre mission involving either live-stock or something too big to fit on top of my car twice, and sound a barbaric yawp to end an argument at least once. All 'n all I think it's going to be a great six weeks!
Considering that I have an eight hour drive looming on the other side of the sunrise I think it best that I adjourn for the night and plan that, in the future, I'll write blogs at a more decent hour.
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