Why I Dislike New Years

Its not the cold. Its not the new years beginning. Its the goals. I dislike goals. I don't like having something in front of me always reminding me of what I need to do in the future. Why do people complain that the present goes to fast, because they are always looking the future. Goals are never for right now, they are always for things in the future. I accomplish everything I need to without writing down a single goal. If fact, it seems that if I write down things I need to do down, I forget them (because they are written somewhere else). People need to stop worrying about the future and enjoy the present. This doesn't apply in all situations of course, but for most of life it does. Goals just suck. Come on, you never accomplish those New Years goals anyway. Stop kidding yourself.

Last Week

Yes, finally the final week of school has arrived. Next week will be the last week before finals. Then all this homework, studying, and test can go out the window or at least until school starts again in the spring. The thing about college which sucks is the burn out factor. You have a nice fuse at the start of the semester and then it dies out about two weeks before schools ends. Then the last couple weeks of the semester are a long drawn out torture session. The funny part about school getting out is that when you have no school work to do, you become really bored. All of the time you just dedicated to getting things done turns into free time. Funny how you hate it while you're in school and then its boring when you're out.

A change is coming

I have been thinking about reorganizing my blog a little, and hopefully have it done before Christmas. I am going to make the blog pages 1024 instead of 800 pixels wide, add book and cd reviews I buy or read, and incorporate some other 'new ideas' into my blog. If you have any suggestions that would add to the page content, let me know. Thanks, Aaron

We underestimate the great minds of the past

As I have read about the great minds of the past in my current book - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - I have come to the conclusion that the people of the past were as intelligent as the great minds of today. Yes, the general public of yesterday is much like the public of today, uneducated, but the accomplishments the intellectual of the past accomplished in math, science, and theory developed were almost breath taking. They calculated the weight of the world, the differences in longitudinal measurements, and the shape and rotation of the earth and planets in our solar system. Their calculations are so close to ours, thats its hard to believe we underestimate them so greatly. If you think about it, we aren't that much different from the world five hundred years ago. There are those who make great leaps and bounds in knowledge and advancement, and they rest of us are just 'here'.