Hello blog. I havent written in a while. I’ve had a lot of like kinda eh ideas for blog entrys so I haven’t written them. I put this blog on private for a little bit not too long ago. It’s a hard thing having your written work viewable. I may have a problem with judgement and critisim, and lots of things change too. Opinions change, or you realize that maybe they weren’t right, or you had reasons for having them that werent fully expressed clearly. Plans and ideas change a lot too when you get more information or examine why you wanted to do them in the first place. That’s most of the housekeeping, lets move on to what’s been going on.

I got to alabama not too long ago. It’s ok? IDK, not too much to say about it as a place. I’m living on campus with a roomate and it’s ok so far. Classes are starting to pick up which is getting more challenging. Parties are pretty eh, I dont know, maybe I’ve been spoiled by the parties in Puerto Rico. Ive started to like the quiet more. Being alone and doing whatever you want to do is quite calming.

Playing the game without a full deck of cards is an interesting thing. As I get older I see more of the world and start to understand why things are the way that they are. College starts to make a bit more sense as a consept. I didnt know that you couldnt go to a full four year, or most four year, colleges without graduating highschool. I also dont think I understood how big of a roadblock it is to try to get a job with a high salary without a college degree. Now the younger me may have looked at this and said, that doesnt make sense, I can build anything for anyone right now. Maybe that’s arrogant. There are about 17ish full electrical engineering classes that one must take at alabama to get a major in EE. Maybe that’s at 3-4 or more credit hours each, so that’s 55ish credit hours. A sem is 16ish weeks, say every credit hour is an hour in class, and two hours out of class. About 2500 hours put into electrical engineering alone. If you accept the 10,000 hour to be an expert or master idea, which I’m not sure I do, you have 1/4 of a master level in electrical engineering. That does mean something.

I dont think I have a whole lot to say on the subject other than I realized that it’s hard to get a job with no college degree, there are cool smart people at college, and most people that have not gone to college either would like to, or are not doing much that’s particularly interesting. Are there ecceptions? yes, but I havent met many.

College is quite expensive, and that’s a bit sad. I also think the societal narritive around college is a bit sad, innacurate, and overly cynical. However I may not feel this way if I had $300,000 in debt that was gaining interest that was never able to be expunged by bankrupcy and could be passed on to my partner. I applied to some colleges in boston and they were all quite expensive, even commuter college or community college was 15k/sem and 6k/sem respectively. Not expensive by college standards, but still quite expensive.

Is free college a good idea? I mean, yeah, for public colleges, I’d be ok if my taxes were somewhat higher for that, seems like a net benifit. According to erudea only 35.7 percent of people 25-34 went to college in germany and the EU had an average of 41.2 percent. This suggests that the 44 percent of americans who go to college wouldnt drastically jump if college was free and make the degree “worthless”. This narritive of a bachelors not being worth as much as it once was seems fairly false, but that’s off personal experience and low sample sizes.

Humans have very low sample sizes which is a problem. we conclude things, and make choices off limited data mostly because that’s all we can do. science is good for a remedy, but for social things and what people may call echo chambers, loaded term, it seems like a hurdle. This is somewhat the “you are who you hang with” problem in my belief.

I went and checked out an engineering fraternity, more like a club, which was kinda cool. I also checked out a fraternity fraternity and got a bid which I declined because it was expensive and I wasnt all that into it.

Not a big fan of obligation in general.

Overall I feel pretty happy right now. I feel no need for material posessions really. Engineering drawings are fun.

I’m starting to play with my capo which probobly means I should stop writing and sleep. When I’m writing sometimes I get this stomach feeling when I sense maybe what I have written isnt completely right, and there may be more things to consider or think about, or that maybe I’m biased as most peole are. My reasoning at this moment is that if you worry too much about that you’ll never end up writing anything. David foster wallace put is as such: “You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” This RET License should solve this problem.

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