Self: You know Self, I need a good way to articulate my thoughts, in a more organized fashion than just journaling perhaps, also, in a way that could encourage discussion and foster intellectual development by reaching out to other people.
Self No. 2: Hey, remember that blogging thing, thats how people in generation do exactly that!
Self: Oh yeah! Now I remember - I'm a hipster!
Hence, this blog. Tonight's brief musings are on: Education Reform
Its the last week of classes where I'm at. And I find myself increasingly frustrated with due dates - most of my papers are heading in late (technically, this is procrastination, but thats besides the point). I find myself questioning the purpose in our writing papers - because if it is to reflect a genuine understanding of the subject material, then when we get it in, so long as its by a final end cut-off point, like, say, the beginning of the next semester of some such, shouldn't matter, so long as we understand the material and our paper reflects this. I hate feeling this immense pressure to get the work done, but to get it done as fast as possible so that I can meet a deadline, even when as little time as an additional day might have made the difference between me remembering and just forgetting what I stressed for days over. I think something should change in this system, though I'm not sure what. So far I'm just not stressing and am basically ignoring most due dates in the strict sense (one paper goes in 13 hours late, another will be late by about a day, etc.). Thoughts? Oh well, back to work.
Josephus - get over yourself.
My Dear Dietrich - I grow increasingly fond of you, though I find some of your ideas antiquated
What I'm reading: Letter & Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Works of Josephus (the classic translation, not the Loeb Classical Library one); Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Spiritual Care by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Alas, to work, to work.
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