So I am postponing today`s planned topic for a few paragraphs. I think you can wait ;).
Today`s topic I can not go into too much detail on. I am about to talk about work, and therefore I have to be general.
Sometimes I really do not understand why so many people get really defensive at work. I mean today for instance all I did was send an email that asked a few questions about a design that I think should change, and I just about got chewed out.
This makes no sense to me as its my JOB to make sure that the product is usable and of good quality for the customer. Why others should get mad with me for trying to do my job is just stupid.
Ok, anyways, enough of that. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt is really cool. There are a lot of good people there.
Now that I have said that, I should also say that there are some "stupid" people there as well. I have that in quotes because everyone there is book smart, but there are some where the intelligence stops after the book has been read. These people just get through school because they have perfected the art of reading a book and listening to a lecture, and perfectly retaining the knowledge from those sources. For those of us who had to read AND understand how things worked because we could not remember verbatim everything that we read or heard, it was a much harder ride.
What this translates to is no parties for J.P. during the middle of the semester. Just too much studying to do.
Oh well, I always tell myself that it paid off in the end.
Sometimes I wonder if there was ever a university that did not have politics at its center. And until my junior year, it seemed that the chancelor was not exactly interested in the education of the students. The chancellor my senior year was very interested in the well being of the students as well as the education at the school. He even flew out here and met with some of the alumni at work. THAT is dedication to the school. The next good thing that could happen at the school is for the economics to change. As it is, most of the money that goes towards tuition goes to the university, and the actual schools (engineering, A&S, music, education) see little of that money. In fact the engineering school would not survive if it were not for donations and grants. This is really sad though when the school has Billions (yes, with a capital b) in the bank. It seems that they could start passing some of the money around to the schools. OR at least give them more out of the tuition that they currently do.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to go to college in someplace where you actually had to interact with the city around you. It was strange going to school in the vanderbubble. The vanderbubble is what we like to call the vanderbilt campus. We call it this because you can pretty much live your entire life in school within the bubble. Anything you need, you can get within the bubble. Hell, my senior year, you could order pizza from your room on the vandy card (doubles as your student ID), and they would deliver. Thats just insane. I was so used to vandy this, and vandy that, that I lost track of the outside world sometimes.
More on vanderbilt later I am sure. I am not sure when though, I am all planned through chapter 13. Stay tuned for tomorrows entry about living life as a single guy.
J.P.
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