Always start at zero

Dear Jong,

It has been way to long since either of our last posts. I think that the standard of quality may be to high for us to consistently make entries, Or that could be my problem. Potentially we have to lower that standard to ease the burden of potential disappointment to our readers in order to get some entires made.

I am in school right now. I feel pretty committed in a way I never was UofC, to bad it cost so much more. The classes I take are not any more challenging but the end product seems more tangible as a goal and as a tool to walk away with. The graduates of the program are well introduced to the industry by the time they graduate and seem to find placement in a variety of different applications.

I see this perspective where my diploma though grants me access to a new layer of the economy still limits me to a certain sector of it, but this is really only a limitation to someone who isn't willing to ply their learnings outside of the box so easily set up for them by the institution. Similarly, I see many friends, holders of bachelor degrees, who are given their rather broad degree and told the world is their oyster. The institution fails to narrow their career path for them and instead they are left to their own devices to carve something with their new tools. This place forces some to make a decision: more school or work for the man?

Does this kind of describe how you felt after your university experience? Some peoples ultimate goal from their education is essentially becoming a cog in the machine and getting paid well to do it but otherwise where do you go? I probably need to know a greater spectrum of graduates and the twenties are also a very transient decade.

Just came to mind recently.

You know what else came to mind, errors in counting. Let's say you and I have a timed trial, except we have no stop watches and are going to rely on the other counting the seconds. So you line up and I start counting as soon as you take off. 1....2....3....4.... and so on. I reach 28 by the time you finish a lap and we get ready to switch, what do I tell you when you ask "Blair, how long did it take me complete that lap?" I would likely say 28, but I didn't start counting from zero, I started counting from one, so what I should really tell you is that it took you 27 seconds to finish that lap.

Dillon is coming out here soon, I told him I'd start collecting bottles and cans to start a fund to fly you out here for a Bare/Bear Hands show. Plane tickets are expensive though, you may have to start collecting on your end.