Yeas & Nays

A shameless rip-off of the Barometer's weekly editorial of the same name (type in "Yeas and Nays"), sans crassness.

Yea for free food.

Nay for me eating at 1:45 when there was free hot dogs, cookies, vegetables, chips, and soda at 4. How stupid can I be?!?!

Yea for Day 1 away from home.

Nay for Day 60.

Yea to problems that take 7 hours to run on a super-fast computer. That is a lot of computation, complexity, and code!

Nay to problems that take 7 hours to run on a super-fast computer. Imagine if Microsoft Word took that long to start up!

Yea to specialty. In general, the more education you get, the more specialized you become. It's cool, if you enjoy your specialty.

Nay to specialty. With specialization comes boxes. You get stuck in a box. "He's a facilities guy." "She's a process-control expert." With boxes come limitations in job opportunities. Think about it, if you have a high-school diploma, you can work at anything from framing to farming, with a little work and luck (I guess in the case of farming, a lot of luck--or farming parents). If you have a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, you're likely not going to be able to get that Anthropology research grant you've been dreaming of.

Nay to specialty again. Especially if you've lived in a rural setting. If you want to be a part of an organization that is complex enough to require your specific area of expertise, you probably will have to move to the big city.

Yea for mom's cooking.

Yea for the Thai. What a gentle, uplifting people they are, at least from my experience, which is limited, I realize.

More Yeas than Nays, but then, I'm a pretty upbeat guy.

List of things I wish I could do.

-Write for the Barometer
-Sing in the OSU Chamber Choir
-Sing in the LBCC Chamber Choir (which I've decided against, at the moment)

I think I'm capable of any of these things. It comes down to time, mostly. Maybe next term I'll get on the Barometer. That'd be great.

This points to a needed diversification of my life perhaps.