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Thursday, September 12, 2002
I've been doing a lot of two things recently: thinking about my college career and drinking water. Besides the fact that I have the cleanest colon in northern Missouri, and I have to pee every half-hour, I've decided that drinking a lot of water is overrated, and most likely bad for you. But on to more relevent things. . . .
I talked to Ryan Walsh [Two Dollar Prayer Blog] the other day and was complaining about my Calc II class. He told me of his experience with the class: He took two weeks of Calc II, got fed up with it, dropped the class, and switched majors from Computer Science to Psychology. I asked him what he was going to do with a Psychology Major and he replied, "I don't know, but at least I will have read the classics and enjoyed college." That struck me as funny and somewhat irresponsible and frivolous. But I thought about it later on and it made a lot of sense. I don't know what I am going to do with my Comp. Sci. Major any more than Walsh knows what he is going to do with his Psych. Major, and he is going to spend his four years (or more) at Truman doing something he wants to do and enjoys doing; meanwhile, I will spend my time complaining and whining for four (or more) years and come away from Truman with no more direction and many more bad memories.
So, what does all this mean? It means as soon as I can get ahold of my academic advisor, I'm going to drop Calc II and switch to an English Major. Hasty decision, yes. Bad decision, maybe. But I enjoy writing and I enjoy reading literature. I don't, however, enjoy calculus. The saying goes: "The road to success is paved with hardships." But sometimes the path of least resistance is just a detour that leads in the same direction.
| Mr. McBastard | 10:20 PM | | |
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