Well, I certainly haven’t been keeping enough attention focused here. A combination of schoolwork, a computer constantly on the verge of breaking, and some existential crises got in my way. I learned some valuable lessons this term, but the most valuable is probably to never buy anything from Dell.
I’m sure most of you are thinking that’s a lesson I should have learned years ago. I can only wholeheartedly agree.
Fun fact about Dell computers: For the price of four years warranty from Dell, you could just buy another computer. And for the price of calling Dell’s tech support line without warranty twenty times, you could buy a better computer.
To make a long story short, my computer won’t charge due to a flaw in either the power aqdapter, my motherboard or both, and as a result Windows Vista assures me that it will do everything it can to remind me every second of my writing term papers that Dell sold me a faulty product. Their tech support company is requiring me to mail my computer somewhere so they can fix it. The mailing time may go past my warranty and I have no guarantees they’re not going to decide to bill me for anything they do with my computer past the date of December 6th.
Unfortunate. On the other hand, this has been a very productive term. My first year in Coordinated Arts PPE was clearly a mistake; I have no talent for economics. However, now that I’ve switched most of my classes to philosophy I’m enjoying myself a lot more. I ridicule the future job prospects of being a philosophy major a lot, but the discipline really is my passion, so I have to cut it more slack. I mean, when I first learned what philosophy was when I was way younger, I remember thinking how perfect a thing that is to do with your time. Everything else seems kind of worthless in comparison.
Lately, though, I’ve had my frustrations with philosophy. I think a big part of it is that I take the subject matter a lot more seriously than most students do. Lately I’ve been stuck in constant indecision over trying to figure out why one action is preferable to another, and the lack of answers with regards to that I’m experiencing have left me a little out of sorts over the past few weeks. More on that in a bit.
Since both of us acknowledged we’ve been lacking in this blogging thing, me and Sam have both agreed that for the month of December we will write a post every day. That will hopefully turn it into a habit.
As most people realize, last Friday was the end of classes and like most people I’m studying for exams as much as I can. I’m really quite happy with the environment my new place of residence in Fairview provides for this; Totem Park never really gave me the proper study environment, as much as it attempts to. I guess I need to have more of a sense of my own space.
Well, that’s all that comes to mind for now. Assuming I keep up with my commitments, I’ll have more to say tomorrow.
2 replies on “Back just in time for the end of the term”
Oh, great. I have a Dell 🙁 (It arrived broken, by the way. Plus it arrived cloned)
What’s Coordinated Arts PPE? (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics? Just a random guess)
lol. What a coincidence. I just listened to a lecture about somebody getting their phD in philosophy. Are you planning on becoming a prof? Or?
Yeah, Coordinated Arts PPE is a part of UBC’s coordinated arts program. PPE is a combination of philosophy, political science and economics.
I have some hopes of being a philosophy professor, as to me that’s the equivalent of becoming a professional baseball player for someone whose favorite sport it baseball. Officially, though, my plan is to go to law school when I’m done here.