While this post has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, I’ve got some complaints about how modern day education sometimes pushes students to be. Everyone values different things about life – I can deal with that. I’m definitely not a flippant youth when it comes to life – I enjoy thinking about my future and to explore different fields from A to Z, and I fail to understand why some of my friends disregard all the opportunities we have in store at this age. This is the biggest shot we can make, the easiest time to become who we want to be. Why waste it (this wasting definitely does not equate to procrastination… ok, maybe it can.)? While life isn’t all about commitments and seriousness, (yes, I do understand that), I do believe that each of us have something to accomplish in life. Whether it be in developing a cancer cure or even building a beautiful family, we have something to do. This whole attitude of There’s only today… well, it’s important to take day by day and not overburden yourself (and I’m not going to lie, I fail at this concept miserably), but the lack of a goal, a curiosity, a desire to celebrate life?
So about the education system… well, it’s just that it’s become a huge market. While knowledge is wealth and it’s the best thing that any community can own besides a sense of community (duh), I feel that this corporate business pushes my generation to be the way we are: materialistic, superficial and distant. Not everyone is this way, but it’s a phenomena more accentuated by our media, our goals, but most important, our reasons for how we act. Since so many are pushed to be “successful” in the eyes of our society, I think amidst all the academic struggle, we lose sight of what we wanted to do, who we want to become and sometimes even who we actually are. Many of my friends in my major, when you ask them why they’re in it, can’t give you anything more than a generic answer… My question is, if you can’t discover a personal bond with the major (whether it be nerdiness-deluge with the material or application of the material itself), why struggle to do something that you don’t love? For the money? For the prestige? For your family? I don’t know, don’t ask me why you want to do whatever you want to do! So that’s it, everyone’s doing someone else’s thing, which pretty much won’t amount to anything, whether you get it or not, because you’re not doing your own thing. Now does the title make sense? You’re doing much about nothing… a. k. a. Much Ado About Nothing.
Bah, don’t worry, I haven’t only been busy and slowly torturing myself. I’ve been running 2-3 times a week 40-50 minutes, and this way I preserve a speck of my sanity (that I never had! ;-)) I definitely don’t get to read as much as I would like to (a. k. a., I don’t read anymore.) , but hey, a girl gotta do what she gotta do.
Here’s something I made on and off – it’s a super duper easy one, but I like the change within the bracelet:
I can wrap the beast thrice around my wrist and twice around my ankle! The red rag bracelet is from Brasil and yes, it is a wish bracelet. It’s been there for almost two years now, so let’s hope that wish comes true when it (Yes, and what you spy in that corner, indeed are anatomy and physiology notes… If you care to know, those notes are on the basics of the neural tissue. Well, that was only a month and a half ago, and now we are on the autonomous system AFTER covering the up to vision and all that jazz. Now I know why if you drink coffee you can’t sleep! It’s because the caffeine binds to the A1 receptors that normally bind Adenosine that induces sleep.. and as caffeine inhibits adenosine binding, sleep is inhibited. You know what the sad part of this all is? I was thinking about this on the night AFTER my third midterm in that brain-drilling class when I couldn’t sleep till past 3 AM despite how tired I was.)
Anyways! Here’s a view on my laptop to show how long it is:
I like how I have mixed methods for this bracelet and how the colours are so vibrant! It makes me happy to look at and occassionally play with at the library.
I think I would like to try this method with a bigger mix of colours – some neon, some pastel, some solid, some changing, some metallic if possible. I’d love to see how the colours complement, contrast, clash and melt into each other!
Here’s my anklet baby that I made back in August.
I’m sorry that picture is a little blurry, but it’s hard to take a picture when you’re a little sleepy… I’ve been good with recycling and reusing. Here at Purdue University, when you print out something from your account from a university computer, prints an extra page indicating your balance. Most people recycle them, which is good, but I use the back of them and then I recycle once I’m done. My Organic Chemistry professor found out about me doing this, and since he’s working on another edition of one of his text books, he just gave me a whole stack of scratch paper. So after I use them, I recycle them, separating coloured and white paper (Sometimes the printer gives me yellow or green or blue… I’ve gotten hot pink once). I’m trying to lessen the amount of trash I create per week. I don’t like squashing my trash since I don’t separate things until I get to a recycling place (my room definitely is not the definition of spacious), so sometimes it seems like I have a lot of trash, but let’s try to downsize that…
And now that this blog post is done, Imma going to finish my NMR spectra analysis and finish reading about opiates… YES!
