I have a friend who believes you can't really define a person's worth. I want to agree but I think society already has us, and our worth, defined. For example, I'm a middle white class female who technically counts as part of America's 'poor' because I go college and have accrued tons of debt. So my worth? Not very much. However, my college education is supposed to negate my 'poverty' by getting me a decent paying job in the near future. (Nope, still don't have a job offer.) That doesn't change that I'm poor. So, will I have to work until the day I die? Just to pay off my debt and build a life with more debt to be paid? I see men and women working who look older than my parents. It makes me think about all the future decisions I have to make. I don't want to work forever.

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It is argued that the engineering world isn't always the most conducive to broadening one's social horizons. What it does do, at least as a result of recent projects, is expand one's contacts to the world of industry. Suddenly, I have a million (minus a million and plus, maybe 20/30) accounts with various companies because this semester I've had (and will continue to) to buy multiple components for my semester long project. I'm beginning to feel like I'm spending more time perusing company product websites than hanging with friends. It's almost ridiculous. My social life...isn't really a social life anymore. I'm beginning to make friends with the capacitor drawers at RadioShack. We have a coffee date this weekend. That's how many times I've been there this semester.

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I think every job description should be like this. It would make job searching soooooooooooo much less stressful. Silly vicious job world.

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and fucking stupid, really.

First watch this trailer.


It's bad enough that this movie comes out two days following the anniversary of April 16th. Even worse, it's about losing someone during a similar tragedy. Normally I wouldn't reserve the right to be indignant, but I lost a close friend, and at the time roommate, in the shootings at VT. In fact, I'm still here (at Virginia Tech) and it's hard enough dealing with the approaching date. I'm hardly over my friend's death. I'm certainly not ready to deal with all the media attention and movie/book stuff it has spawned. I think this is just poor taste. Sure, bad shit happens. But you should wait more than a year to make money off of it.

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If you have something other than a cold or flu, would you trust them?

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Mathematicious

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