Just a few months until I’m back…
I am so unbelievably excited for college right now.
I’m picking out my Thinking Matters courses right now, and they’re just so fricken’ awesome. I want to learn all of it. It’ll be so much work, but I really think I’m going to love it so much. I want to go there now. I want to be challenged and given the opportunities to do so many new things. And I may have been skeptical about Stanford at first, but just reading all of these things pretty much completely erases all of that. It seems pretty much perfect. I seriously just want to go there now. I’d be okay with skipping summer for this. Aurgh, I’m just so hopeful and happy and thankful that I am so incredibly lucky to have this opportunity.
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If you had in this chair some of the people who developed quantum mechanics back in the 1920s or 1930s, and you said to them, ‘What is this stuff gonna DO for us?’ they’d say ‘Probably not much, we’re trying to understand molecules and atoms, very far from everyday life.’
But the fact that you have a cell phone, the fact that you have a personal computer, the fact that there’s wondrous medical technology that’s saving lives around the world today all relies on the integrated circuit, which comes from quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics are responsible for something like 35% of the Gross National Product. Which is just to say fundamental research at a given moment in time can have big implications when you allow it to mature.
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Cosmologist Brian Greene, in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Investing in basic science must be disconnected from traditional returns, and instead viewed as an investment in the intellectual capital of tomorrow. It’s hard to put a price tag on inspiration, and Goldman Sachs has yet to write an algorithm to predict the science of the future.
Check out his Newsweek cover story “Welcome to the Multiverse” including the rest of the interview.
(via jtotheizzoe)
After four years…
Some things just can’t change. Some barriers just can’t be broken.
Oh well. College will be a fresh start. Yaaayyy for this summer….. ha.
Billy Joel is just fantastic. The Stranger is an amazing album.
That was like the worst night ever and the best night ever crammed into one.
But definitely the longest night ever. But that’s okay.
(and the most expensive night ever, but we don’t need to talk about that)
Well, at the very least, it was an experience.
The tunnel at Chicago O’Hare Airport.
Sick of this.
I honestly can’t see myself having like any fun at all tomorrow. Certainly not like $400 worth, or whatever ridiculous amount it’s going to end up costing. All stress and expectations and failed planning. People seriously should be able to follow simple directions. I just wish I could have two normal weekend days instead at this point.
Oh man, so accurate. This webcomic is fricken’ awesome. Just discovered it.
