Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Before you start the stupidtom telethon, you need to know that my screwed up college career is one of the bigger crosses that I bear. It is a time that I am wholly ashamed of but it is definitely a defining point that makes the man before you today. When I say ashamed, I mean the fact that I treated school as a necessary evil that would allow me to stay and play with my friends. I would not trade the people I met during those years for ten degrees (one of them being my lovely bride) and the experiences outside of school were equally priceless. There are a number of reasons why structured learning and I weren’t compatible at the time but none of them holds much water in hindsight. The one thing that drives me insane is that some of my best bullshit has come back to bite me in the ass. If a semester looked like it was going down the tubes, I would start my charm campaign with my professors either working out extra credit or sometimes worming my way into an incomplete for the class. Funny thing about all of those incompletes, if you don’t go back and “complete” them in some timeframe that I failed to figure out they all turn magically into Fails. I am disgusted with myself and feel an overwhelming need to fix this but on a number of levels moving on is more important. So this all brings me to my current state of school: I’m currently between two live and one online choice. Yes, I have checked out the online school and it is a real accredited degree but I think I might need some human interaction other than message boards and chat sessions. Being a people person my best work is done face to face and it bothers me that I might not be able to charm my way out of trouble. (this could actually go in the plus column as well) And if there is one thing I’ve learned about myself its that formal learning and me don’t mix. So in an effort to fix some computer problems at the office I have awakened this sleeping monster. As long as I’m doing all of this self improving I think it might be time to revisit Buddhism. Sammy, you in? 12:00:00 AM    says you