Well, I certainly haven’t been keeping enough attention focused here.\u00a0 A combination of schoolwork, a computer constantly on the verge of breaking, and some existential crises got in my way.\u00a0 I learned some valuable lessons this term, but the most valuable is probably to never buy anything from Dell.<\/p>\n
I’m sure most of you are thinking that’s a lesson I should have learned years ago.\u00a0 I can only wholeheartedly agree.<\/p>\n
Fun fact about Dell computers:\u00a0 For the price of four years warranty from Dell, you could just buy another computer.\u00a0 And for the price of calling Dell’s tech support line without warranty twenty times, you could buy a better computer.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Their tech support company is requiring me to mail my computer somewhere so they can fix it.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Unfortunate.\u00a0 On the other hand, this has been a very productive term.\u00a0 My first year in Coordinated Arts PPE was clearly a mistake; I have no talent for economics.\u00a0 However, now that I’ve switched most of my classes to philosophy I’m enjoying myself a lot more.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Everything else seems kind of worthless in comparison.<\/p>\n
Lately, though, I’ve had my frustrations with philosophy.\u00a0 I think a big part of it is that I take the subject matter a lot more seriously than most students do.\u00a0 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\u00a0 sorts over the past few weeks.\u00a0 More on that in a bit.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 That will hopefully turn it into a habit.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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\u00a0 study environment, as much as it attempts to.\u00a0 I guess I need to have more\u00a0 of a sense of my own space.<\/p>\n
Well, that’s all that comes to mind for now.\u00a0 Assuming I keep up with my commitments, I’ll have more to say tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, I certainly haven’t been keeping enough attention focused here.\u00a0 A combination of schoolwork, a computer constantly on the verge of breaking, and some existential crises got in my way.\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,250,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-housing","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}