Thursday, December 1, 2011

Progress...or lack thereof!

I visited my first alma mater tonight...it brought back a lot of memories and I was seriously impressed with how glam it has become...saw a fun film based on a comic about postgraduate life...Piled higher and deeper...it was nice to be in the midst of similarly intellectual people that could relate to the agony only those who have spent a third of their life in tertiary education facilities and the unique problems encountered by devoting so much of your youth to furthering your knowledge...

Meanwhile other people have had three kids ;) relocated to and travelled various continents several times already and even all the divorcees are getting REmarried lol! Shows how time flies...while you're busy with your head stuck in books...

Cannot compare though...furthering knowledge and saving the world as a direct offshoot of what you learn is quite a noble pursuit...haha. Just when people ask so...what's new? There isn't always a whole lot to say when these things can be the same old same old for years!

Or maybe I secretly can't get enough of the student life...in some respects student life is your heyday of fun times and sweet memories...but not so much as you get older and broker...and have student debts reaching for the sky... :P

But yeah for all the lack of visible progress I feel ALOT of things wriggling under the surface...it's even a bit exciting actually...

6 comments:

HappyOrganist said...

Sounds interesting. I haven't been to any of my high school reunions. Well it's 'cause I don't live anywhere near there now and I have no reason to fly back.
And I don't know if our college class even gets together (that seems kind of weird).

Zz... said...

where did you grow up? damn i am trying to learn american accents and now I know you definitely don't have a proper UTAH one! how disappointing.

i hated high school and i don't go to reunions!

HappyOrganist said...

I grew up in Virginia and California ;) No, I don't have a proper Utah accent. Though I did stop saying "ya'll" when I moved out here.

Zz... said...

so is your accent more virginia or california? it's nice...actually dina's is nice too...i'm trying to work out where all the nice ones come from...I also like the TN accent :)

Zz... said...

p.s I'm amazed that you could grow up in California and be so white...hahah

HappyOrganist said...

I don't really know what my accent sounds like (region wise). I guess it is a mix of things (?). I grew up as a young kid in California. Then at age 11 or so moved to VA. I think with moving around a lot (we lived in a few other states as well) and with my language study I just have hodge-podge sort of untraceable accent. I really have no idea. I'm sorry.
Maybe I would label it virginia - but like I said I gave up expressions such as "ya'll."

My brother was very tan when we lived in CA. He nearly didn't look like part of the family ;)
I was more tan than I am now - but that was just a few years there when I was on the swim team.