"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Know what sounds fun?!

~A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
~Chinese Proverb

Ya know what would be really fun?! Going to college!

I'm serious! I would love to take classes I wanted and focus on learning! The thought crossed my mind a while ago that I might want to go back to school later. Ya, ridiculous since I'm here, right?

But I want to take photography. I want to take ballroom and philosophy and psychology. I want to go to learn, not to memorize. I want to focus on what I think is important for me, not what I can regurgitate on paper.

I'm here in this wonderful university with all these amazing books and classes and teachers and I'm not taking advantage of it. Because I'm busy taking classes I hate for a degree I want. How does that work?

It just seems like kind of a waste, that's all.
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