Ah, the midday blues. Sometimes I get to a point in my day where I have done most of my tasks but there still lays before me the abnormal assignments: research projects, midterm studying, chapter reviews. So I raise my weary head and say “where is the coffee!?” Being in college is a paradoxical condition of being always busy but almost as often having vacuoles of time in our days that we are given the freedom to do whatever we want with. I think this feeling of purposelessness is how we end up jumping off of buildings and scaling walls. These are the choices we make to deal with the Greek tragedy of “boredom”. So like Camus says we strive to rebel against boredom through acts of desperation, even stupidity. Let us use our time wisely and rebel through acts of virtue and prudence.
It is about two pm right now (for my facebook followers you will probably be able to read this about 12 am) and I am contemplating how I wish to spend the rest of my day. The only serious problem I have with quantifying how I spend my time is that I have trouble accounting for extraneous variables, like flying monkeys or super ninjas, which impact my daily routine. Time investment is like a fine balancing act atop a tight wire with a chance that there may be a gust of wind.
Thoughts of the Day:
Latin should be required for science majors.
The problem with Utilitarianism is it isn’t all about me.
Self awareness is a scary conception.
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