Yes, this is procrastination from studying. But it sums up my frustrations with school so succintly.
Don't get me wrong. I love school. I love college. It's been a really really awesome four years, and every day of it, whether I was single, in a relationship, freaking out, drinking copiously, sleeping, it was all great. I love waking up to college, going out to college, and then coming home and making sweet sweet study time with college. I really do.
But I really really hate being in college. As a biomedical engineering undergraduate, a bulk of your upper division courses are spent reading papers. That's right, you're like a science major. You read journal articles, review them, reread them again, memorize the principles of operation, and how every single god damn device out there is the novel-next-generation-save-the-world-end-world-hunger-and-make-you-waffles device.
Which I love! I love reading about how other people have gone out and made cool things. I love that in biomedical engineering, there's no need for a higher purpose - saving lives IS the higher purpose. It's the biggest fucking problem there is in the world. And this is all fine and good for the 1 or 2 years that you study stuff like this. It's perfect timing, because in your last quarter of your 5th year...
(where i'm at)
you really...really...hate it. because everyday is a reminder that instead of going out and throwing yourself haphazardly at really cool problems, and coming up with creative blow-your-mind-all-over-the-barstool solutions. you're stuck in school, bogged down by a midterm (tomorrow) and a thousand other projects that scream incessantly for your attention.
and every article i read these days is a reminder that time is the most precious resource we have.
