RamblinPeck
Jolly Good Fellow
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Not Tech related, but quoted from the serialized novel they're running on ESPN page 2 (don't start reading it, its aweful, but I got sucked in and want to know what happens now). Thought it was worth sharing.
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It's funny. You pay $15,000, $25,000, $30,000 -- even $45,000 a year to listen to lectures from the finest minds in the country. You record the most relevant details in a notebook and pay to have more e-mailed to you. You read $100 textbooks, highlighting the most important passages. You go to the library researching additional material. You discuss your thoughts in study groups with your TA. You stay up late for a week reviewing it all several times. You take a test or write a paper to document your thorough knowledge of the subject. You do this for class after class, year after year.
And yet, what stays with you after you graduate? What do you remember even after you have made that final student-loan payment? When everything you learned in college is long forgotten, what remains as clear and vibrant as the day you experienced it?
A very special autumn afternoon in a sold-out football stadium, when you were drunk on beer and friendship and absolutely certain that there was no place you would rather be, no people you would rather be with, no moment that would ever feel so good.
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Sad to see another year of that is almost over.
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It's funny. You pay $15,000, $25,000, $30,000 -- even $45,000 a year to listen to lectures from the finest minds in the country. You record the most relevant details in a notebook and pay to have more e-mailed to you. You read $100 textbooks, highlighting the most important passages. You go to the library researching additional material. You discuss your thoughts in study groups with your TA. You stay up late for a week reviewing it all several times. You take a test or write a paper to document your thorough knowledge of the subject. You do this for class after class, year after year.
And yet, what stays with you after you graduate? What do you remember even after you have made that final student-loan payment? When everything you learned in college is long forgotten, what remains as clear and vibrant as the day you experienced it?
A very special autumn afternoon in a sold-out football stadium, when you were drunk on beer and friendship and absolutely certain that there was no place you would rather be, no people you would rather be with, no moment that would ever feel so good.
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Sad to see another year of that is almost over.
