You know you've found the right school when that paper gets you an A, and it's not because your cynical comparison of Maharishi to a Unicorn was taken as genuine praise.
It's decided. Live with life in Fairfield until May of next year and then get the hell out Dodge (...Fairfield). Up until two weeks ago I was enrolled in "Foundations of Physics and Consciousness."
As the instructor, John Hagelin, describes it this physics class is "An introduction to cutting-edge knowledge of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, superstring theory, astronomy, and big bang inflationary cosmology and their relation to human consciousness."
As the dropped-out student, Sam Klinkenborg, describes it this physics class is "A physics class that picks and chooses interesting points from the aforementioned topics, describes them in scrupulous and yet somehow vague ways without any kind of math to be seen and asking students to regurgitate Hagelin's analysis of how these points related to Maharishi Vedic Science."
I cannot tell a lie. I can tell a lie, but right now I have no need to. After missing the first 3 days of the class, I spent some time catching up while ignoring my teacher's insistence that it would be nigh impossible to make up my missed work and still stay on the same page as the rest of class. Quite frankly, I've been into (into in the hobbyist sense of the word) quantum mechanics and superstring theory for a while now and was at least somewhat enjoying the class. So, I did indeed catch up, and did pretty damn well at it too, and only then did I sit back for a minute to review what I had just "learned". I'm not going to go into too many details though, because really all that had been happening is summed up in my earlier post about "jacking off transcendental meditation". For example, my physics class's first night of homework was "Cite evidence, from scientific research and personal experience, that the practical application of the unified field- Total Natural Law- through Transcendental Meditation produces holistic positive benefits, free from negative side-effects." My homework was to back up a statement the teacher had made during his lectures on the first day concerning the product (TM) of the school he works for.
Longer story shorter, I dropped the class on the last day dropping with a "withdrawn" grade was possible and vowed to work my ass off to make holiday money before I return to KC on the 19th of this month. I've been opening the coffee-shop I'm working at up here, which entails waking up at 5:45, working at 6:15, and then spending the last hour before my shift is done trying to curb my urge to disembowel every fucking customer. WOW! I didn't even realize how much ire I held for the customers here til that came out. I'm gonna have to save my description of the customers, most of whom are Ru's, which is a demographic that deserves its own post.
That's pretty much the current situation in nut-shell. I dropped my class, I'm working alot, and I'll be back on the 19th. Actually, I guess that's my current situation in a nut-shell. For one reason or another, I much prefer blogging about the things up here that piss me off than the things I enjoy. So I'll finish once again with the addition of the fact that I actually thoroughly enjoy many things about this town (cold weather and copiuos snow fall aside), there are quite a few cool people to spend my time with, and I've yet to become horribly addicted to World of Warcraft which means that even if I don't consciously realize it there are plenty of things to keep me busy up here.
Remember Spawn?
That shit fuckin ruled!
Lil Edit: I didn't realize it's been almost 2 months since I made a post on here. Reading oldest to newest, it's pretty clear that my initial optimism about MUM has been slowly but surely replaced with brutal resentment which I credit to my mental laundry-list of bull-shit I've had to put up with at this school already. These blogs really don't even scratch the surface and maybe some day I'll actually take the time to write it all out...actually I was supposed to do that about a week ago for some people getting petitions together trying to make some changes to the rules and required classes here.
