December 2011
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"Seeing the Elephant": Basketball
No basketball last Tuesday. Too many “team players” need to finish up their semester work. This is just what it’s like I guess.A reminder: when you don’t take the backwards turn, it hurts your friends.
Also, I was able to go on a nice hour long walk this morning with my dog, because I did not have a care in the world and all of my classes are taken care of (save...
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Literary Underpinnings →
In some way, Bachelder’s “Lessons in Virtual Photography” (Embedded at the bottom of this McSweeney’s link) is at the core of the Backwards Semester. It’s hard to express in words.
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... Starting from the End
In Graduate School as in Life, I tend to ignore the journey in the interests of getting to my objective. The fastest and easiest path from point A to point B. Nothing fancy, just utilitarian. This may spoil the experience, but I maintain it frees my life from the shackles of deadlines, stress and in some ways responsibility. I work on my terms, not the system’s - even if I am admittedly...
