this morning, i followed a trail from aaron’s baseball blog to the periodic table of bloggers to the real treasure: how to learn swedish in 1000 difficult lessons. i haven’t actually read any of the guy’s blog yet, but anything with that title has got to be at least decent.
well that’s enough linking for one day.
it sounds like my sister has had a rough morning, with some idiot telling her that her activities aren’t “focused” enough to make her a strong candidate for the truman scholarship. sounds like it’s time for me to go to atlanta and break some knees. well, not really, but that kind of thing totally pisses me off. whoever she talked to obviously has a very narrow-minded view of what a scholarship candidate should be. my sister isn’t president of sga, but who the hell cares? she does more community service than anyone i know. she tutors kids, she is committed to making team buzz a success despite having to deal with some uncooperative and unhelpful people, and she’s been going to mexico building houses for six years now, even spending two months down there last summer. where does this woman get off telling katie that she’s not “focused” enough??
god, i hate that. i hate that you have be involved in the “right” activities at tech to be taken seriously. my first few years of college, i did a lot of random stuff, partly because i was trying to figure out what i really wanted to do, but partly because i was just trying to do what i thought other people would view as the “good” activities. it wasn’t until my last couple years, and my year in grad school, that i finally narrowed my extracurriculars down to just the stuff i cared about–playing the flute, working for the paper, and being involved in the aerospace department. the sad truth is that when i got involved in something i didn’t truly care about, i was pretty lousy at it. (just ask karen, who was infinitely frustrated by my half-hearted involvement in an organization she ran!) it would be far worse for katie to be sga president just to make her scholarship application look good, when doing the other stuff, the unfairly unappreciated stuff, is what really makes her happy.
rant rant rant.
well. when i came in this morning, i had nothing to say, but look what happened.
