Thoughts of a sleepy person
So, I pretty much got a minimal amount of sleep last nightmorning, and not a whole much more the day before that. So, I’m running pretty close to empty, but at least I don’t have anything big and wildly unfinished due tomorrow. Dumping core right now probably isn’t the best idea, but like drunk people, I’ll think it’s a good idea at the time and just go with it.
Man, I still can’t believe that we got finalist in the MCM; it’s strange, because you hope that you do well, but you have to grid yourself for an almost inevitable disappointment. The more hope, the bigger the disappointment, so you try to make sure you don’t hope for anything. Well, this time around my hopes got vindicated; we’ll see how all these open applications hold up. Also, maybe I’ll outline the models we used in the MCM. Hmm.
On a completely different subject, I’ve been solicited by two different honor societies in the last week: one a general honor society, and a physics society. Now, while I’m of the opinion that recent xkcd comics have been falling in quality, I do invoke a particular comic http://xkcd.com/703/ that I happen to agree with, which I might embellish with a more explicit statement: honor societies are useless. Many of them are based on grades, and fail to actually say anything about their members that aren’t apparent from the other activities they engage in. The membership fees are not a problem: societies obviously have overhead costs, which the fees need to cover. Rather, their mere existence is annoying. Note that I haven’t actually been an active member of any honor society (if I have, then I’ve forgotten about it), so I may be very wrong in my rant.
With that out of the way, I’m gonna muse a bit on some thoughts I had on someone else’s thoughts.
It’s interesting how people tend to assume that the future will be similar to the present; it’s not hard to see why. America hasn’t undergone a societal restructuring since, oh, maybe the 1970’s? I would say that we’re due for some upheaval or at the very least some major evolution in our physical spaces, but I’ve developed a bit of an aversion to the phrase, and it’s true that we have no idea when social changes will happen at any time. Cars have been the main mode of transportation for a few decades, and it seems that consumerism has been the dominant viewpoint for about as long. With this in mind, it isn’t too surprising that people tend to assume that the near future will be similar to how the world is right now. Well, I’ll have to look into changing that.