Class of 2002? 2003? It sounds like your personal interests could take you on a different path. Thought of changing your major to include or focus on your search for alternative living. (2002) That certainly would be the ideal! The question is, how does one go about pursuing such a divergent interest? Unfortunately, my undergraduate major is locked in....You know what? I think I will spend some time in the coming weeks researching just what is out there in terms of graduate school and potential occupation. My impression is that there is a dearth of opportunity in this area.
Signman, looks like you are getting out of the sign business? What are you going for in college and beyond?
If your grades are average it may be less the student's fault and more the topic's fault to ignite your passions.
Totally! School is such a chore. Especially considering we forget 95% of what we learn after 6 months of graduating (according to Rex Steven Sikes.) University folks are still operating within an educational framework that is hundreds of years old. It's like the difference between Freud and Bandler. It's annoying. I think someone needs to shake them up a bit. They could learn a lot about learning from people like Scheele, Wenger, and especially from the Zen learning mindset.
It is no problem, and indeed, is a joy to spend 10 hours straight reading or writing about altered states of consciousness or philosophy or peak performance, etc. Whereas, it takes all the willpower I can muster to do 1 measily hour of 'schoolwork'.
You know, that kind of reminds of Paul Scheele's voice on the Photoreading Personal Learning Course... On the last cassette, I think, he mentions how he feels when he walks into a library. In the most maniacal voice he says something like, 'I feel like a kid in a candy store, I walk in and see the collected knowledge of mankind and think... IT'S ALL MINE!!!! MUHUHAHAHAHAHA" Okay, so I added the laugther
It's that kind of megaolomaniac attitude--to be absolutely driven toward something--that in my mind, makes life worth living. GANUS!