Yesteryear

Remember back in elementary school when you’d get your report card? There’d always be at least two, if not three, columns…one for actual grades, one for effort and/or one for citizenship. But the latter two didn’t get regular grades; they got the special grading scale: O, S, N, U…outstanding, satisfactory, needs help, unsatisfactory. Those grades didn’t affect your GPA nor did they have any real consequence, but if your parents caught an N or, worse yet, a U on your report card, you’d be screwed.

I’m less than two months from graduating college. I’m about to go forward and get my masters degree (one way or another). Looking back on all I’ve faced and accomplished, I’m a bit staggered. As you go through school, you feel “too cool” for it (no pun intended). It often feels like it is all a chore to complete before going into the awesomeness of the working world. But in hindsight, it all kind of combines into a coherent masterpiece of knowledge and skills that in fact has meaning. Taking my last physics course this quarter, I’ve finally found out what means…really not too hard at all, but I know that there is no way in hell that I’d of understood it before years of math dating back to 1+1. Everyone always tells you that “it” will all be useful eventually, and I’m finding that’s mostly true. I guess my point is that, for me, it all makes sense in the end.

So to all my friends and colleagues wasting away in Calculus 3 or Thermodynamic Physics, I want you to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s rather awesome.

Disclaimer: I just finished watching 3 episodes of House MD.