The Unexpected Life

I know I have been ranting and raving lately about the injustices students endure, not all is doom and gloom though and I certainly don’t want this blog to become all about the negative. These last few days have been especially trying and I felt the need to “vent” about my life and the trials I am facing. I recently ran across a blog that has captured my attention. It is a blog about a woman who found out that after many years of marriage her husband had been running a Ponzi scheme and that their entire life had been…

I am not alone

Today we got our test back for calculus, it wasn’t pretty. But I am not alone the class average was only 1 point above mine. I of course would like to have scored above the average but I didn’t. What does that say about a professor when an entire class fails an exam? It can’t be that an entire class is wrong or rather inadequate. Despite my best efforts I am not going to pass this class unless of course the professor curves the class at the end. It is comforting knowing that there are others that are in the…

Flash Forward

If you could know the future, would you? What about a glimpse? A show called Flash Forward presents just this premise. The entire world blacked out at the exact same time and saw six months in the future. They only saw a few minutes of what their future was and thus it was incomplete. They didn’t know how or why they got there, this certainly leads to a glimpse that doesn’t allow them to see the decisions that lead up to their future. This brings me to my point. No matter what decisions we make, there is no way that…