One Year and Counting...

It has been one year to the day that I started this blog, so it seemed appropriate to celebrate this annivisary with a new posting. This also marks my first full day home from the quarter. Yes, it is finally over(at least for me). I made it through another quarter without failing any classes, or quitting the whole stupid thing all together. As you might be able to figure out from my previous statement, I don't care too much for school at the moment. I tend to go back and forth between absolute hatred of the thing and a strong dislike of it. I'm at the hatred point at the moment, although this isn't too unusual for the end of a quarter, although I didn't feel that way until Monday morning, just as I was finishing up one of my tests. It wasn't the test that was bad, nor the question I was answering that was bad, but it just made me think. The question was about whether going to a graduate school was "worth it", and we had to look at it from at least two different methods that we had learned this quarter. The first way of course would be too look simply at the financial benefit, and it woudl certainly be worth it from that percepective, I would make way more than I would with simply a college degree. The other way I looked at it was through preference, and this is when the hatred of school started to come out. I realized that even though I would make a lot more money, it simply wasn't worth it to me, having to live through another 3 or so years of school, and that's what I put as my answer, of course I tried to make it sound more economic sounding than that.

Other than renewing my hatred of school, I walked out of this quarter with a new ability to draw graphs of any shape or type, and even more impressivly I can actually explain the graphs too, although that will probably only last another week or so, it seems to be slipping away from me quickly, but the graphs themselves are seared into my mind forever. So if any of you have need of a graph, you know who to come to.

In other news, I made it over the pass without any problem. It was actually a little bit of a disappointment. There was snow and all, but not on the roads, in fact the roads were dry and perfectly clear. I went 70-75 the whole way, except where that rockslide happened, where I went 35. I was glad that I had no problems, but also a little disappointed that it was so easy, I was hoping for some sort of challenge or near-death experience.

I will leave you with a great quote that Matt reminded me of by one of our great founding fathers, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."