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Paul Gillett
Wild optimist, social activist, a/v artist, creative thinker.
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- Nov 26, 12
I've been self studying Chinese for just over 8 months now. I would like to share my experience with you and a few suggestions that I wish I knew in hindsight.
I've used the MIT Chinese course as my guide. I'm now on semester 3 of the Chinese program, which covers chapters 8 – 10. Chinese I covers chapters 1 – 4, and that is what I will refer to.
I'd especially like to highlight a few things written in the text, that I didn't pay enough attention to in the beginning.
First download all of the material. I suggest downloading the entire book, not section by section, but by chapter. You can do that at: http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-21f-003-learning-chinese-a-foundation-course-in-mandarin-spring-2011/online-textbook/part-i-introduction-units-1-4-character-lessons-1-3/ You can find all related audio there as well.
Also download the material at the companion website: http://yalebooks.com/wheatley/
If you have access to a printer, print the book. I know, I like to save the trees too, but having a tangible book is much easier to study from. I got my book printed and bound in a ring binder for very cheap.
Now, find a Chinese friend. You will need a friend to listen to you and correct your pronunciation. If you don't have any Chinese friends in your area, you can find them online. The best place to look is on QQ. QQ is the Chinese facebook / skype / msn. There are millions of Chinese people on there that want to make friends with people outside of China. I haven't had to do this, so perhaps someone in the OpenStudy community can share their experiences of how to find a Chinese friend online.
Once you have a friend, go through the sounds and symbols section until you can confidently distinguish between and produce the sounds of Chinese. If you are doing this via internet, you could have your partner download the material as well and they can follow along with you as you read the pronunciation. If for time constraints you are unable to have virtual face time with a partner I suggest using www.soundcloud.com to post up audio recordings of your Chinese and send the clips to a friend for corrections. On that service they can post timed comments.
Having good pronunciation (including producing the tones), is very important, as it will allow you to study on your own. Though focusing exclusively on pronunciation would be very boring, so don't get too hung up on the sounds and symbols chapter.
Do the Character lessons! I've met many foreigners that speak Chinese, but can't read more than a dozen characters. Learning to read will help you express yourself in new ways. Learning the characters also gives you important insight into how Chinese words are formed. When you see a new word composed of two characters you know it will give you special insight into how words are composed in Chinese.
Learning to read makes you a more eloquent speaker. Reading in your native language exposes to new ways of expressing ideas. This is the same for any language, including Chinese.
Furthermore, the character sections are designed to review material from the pinyin sections. And in the later chapters the Character lessons introduce some grammar points and vocabulary.
The last thing, practice! Force yourself to sit down and study for 15 minutes each day, once you get past that 15 minute mark, sometimes an hour or two hour study session will follow quite effortlessly.
Good luck!
- May 06, 12I'm no copyright expert, but it seems to me creators have two routes they can take when deciding on what license they can take to publish their creative works. The standard copyright, and the creative commons license. I am proposing a new license, somewhere between the two. Perhaps this already exists, and I just haven't heard of it.My idea is for a creative work to be licensed under a standard copyright, that after a certian time period, or after a pre-deterimined profit margin is reached, would automatically be changed to a creative commons license.But why create such a license when a copyright owner CAN change a standard license to a cc license down the road? I believe comusmers, knowing a work will be released into creative commons, would buy a product with such a license over a standard copyrighted license.For example, I love to remix things. Movies, music, photos, whatever. I would rather buy a film that would be released with such a license, than a film with an ordinary license, because I know eventually I would be able to legally remix the work I bought. I'm sure this sentiment would be shared with academics with regards to textbooks.Just a thought… for now.
- Mar 01, 12
Students, while you are grouping en masse to prevent the rise in tuition, don’t forget about another massive cost of education – Textbooks and educational resources
If students deem striking to prevent tuition increases a worthy cause, then what do they make of the incredibly high cost of educational materials? A full time Quebec students pay about $1,800.00 per semester in tuition. Textbooks can be anywhere from $1000 to $1500 for an academic year. That's nearly 30%!
Do not ignore this cost. It is a big chunk of a student’s yearly budget reserved for educational materials that could be, and in many cases already are, freely available. There is a large amount of freely available textbooks that are being created and openly licensed. That means thier creators made them freely available because they believe in free access to high quality educational materials. Many of these organizations are coming together this week to celebrate and spread the word at the first annual Open Education Week.
Join in, learn and participate at http://www.openeducationweek.org/
(see original press release at http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/community/blog/2012/02/21/press-release-first-annual-open-education-week-march-5-10-2102/)
- Feb 26, 12
Perhaps unlimited surveillance of people's online activity would be accepted by the public if the user's identity was made anonymous and only the activity was monitored.
There would be technical problems with creating such a system, as identity is deeply intertwined with activity. How could we make an email with our digital signature and attachments of CVs with tons of personal information completely anonymous? How could we make the hundreds of online photos anonymous?
If companies providing these services could completely mask the identity of the users, and provide authorities with only the actions matched to users anonymous identification numbers, then authorities could identify crimes without undermining people's privacy. As though authorities could look into a random bedroom, see that people are having sex, and what kinds of sex, but never know which bedroom or which people.
Once authorities identify what they perceive to be a crime, that crime should go to trial – courts vs john doe. If the courts find the activity to be a crime, only then should they lay charges and uncover the true identity of the anonymous user.
- May 15, 11
- Feb 17, 11
In November I suggested the Canadian government make grants available to professors and educators creating open educational resources.
I went as far to join a political party and become a part of my constituency's policy committee so I could prepare a resolution on OER.The final draft of the resolution went as follows:
I have just learned that the U.S. federal government has created a $2 billion grant system for the creating of open educational resources.Post Secondary Education OnlineWHEREAS the online publication of high quality educational materials would be a valuable asset to educators and post secondary students, particularly in remote areas;
WHEREAS Open Courseware is the online publication of entire university courses – including syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets, examples of tests, and audio/video recordings of lectures – available freely online to anyone with an internet connection.
WHEREAS Many students go into post secondary school and drop out within the first two years of study, spending thousands upon thousands of dollars in the proscess and gaining little benefit from an incomplete degree.
WHEREAS course materials created by professors have little monetary value, but enormous social value, and are by default copyrighted, even when put online for public view;
WHEREAS publication of the top courses offered by Canadian universities would cost little in comparison to the benefits received by educators, students and the self-taught;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the next Liberal government of Canada to establish a programme of grants to be awarded to post-secondary educators who create openly licensed educational materials freely available online;
Westmount–Ville-Marie Liberal Association
181 words
I predict Canada will follow suit shortly.
- Feb 06, 11So here is a little video remix I did a while ago, you can find it under the video section of my website as well as on youtube as 'Cab Calloway and Parov Stella', which is exactly what it is, a mashup of the two.Cab Calloway, if you don't already know, is an old time jazz singer that performed with some of jazz legends. I would say he himself is a jazz legend.Parov Stella is an Austrian band that is somewhere in the realm of swing and house.Parov Stella's sounds with the singing of Calloway, accompanied with the Nicholas Brother's dancing, is a great vibe that I stumbled upon when messing about with Ableton.I hope you enjoy this mix as much as I enjoyed making it.
- Jan 23, 11
On January 14th, Ambassador and Mrs. Killion hosted a reception at their residence to announce the creation of the World Library of Science, a joint collaboration between UNESCO and Nature Publishing Group. The World Library of Science is an open and permanent online learning resource that will offer high quality educational materials in the life and physical sciences to secondary and university level students around the world. It is designed to address a critical global problem the world faces in the 21st Century – the lack of scientific literacy, especially in the developing world.
In addition to articles drawn from Nature Publishing Group’s authoritative publications, The World Library of Science will contain over 2,500 learning modules specifically created for this project in life and physical science subjects such as biology, physics, chemistry, nutrition, environmental science, and much more. Each module will be fully customizable and accessible free-of-charge through a web and mobile-based platform.To read on, visit… http://unesco.usmission.gov/wls-reception.html
- Dec 16, 10
Now that I'm done school I can start to focus more on personal projects, especially my sci-fi novel.
It is a story that is set in a future where advancements in technology, such as medicine and artificial organs, allow for humans to extend their lives hundreds of years. Just as there is an age gap between rich and poor nations today – Canada's life expectancy of females is 81, in Angola it is less than half at 31 – that gap increases as the technology becomes easily available to those that can afford it. The result: a world divided by wealth and age.There are a number of government policies and breakthrough technologies that fortify the divide. A perceived flaw of capitalism leads to government policy regarding inheritance. Whereas some are born into wealthy families, others are born into disparity. Those that can access capital have the ability to realize their ideas and create businesses that secure their place in the upperclass. In an effort to prevent this inequality, the government places a ban on inheritance. Without the incentive to create family dynasties, business owners invest into their lives instead, widening the age gap.More disturbing still, a number of the wealthy elite are drug designers that have the nations of poor addicted to their reality altering drugs. The hallucinogens are nano-computers that can interact with the mind, and create whatever fantasy the designer intends. Like 'rose coloured glasses', the person taking the drug sees the world through whatever fantasy-lens the designer constructed, hence the drug's street name: rose.Taken insufflatly, rose enters the nose and is delivered directly to the brain. Unbeknownst to the user, rose contains not just the hallucinogen, but two additional ingredients: 1) an imaging device, which uses a technology similar to ultrasound, that monitors brain activity, and 2) a transmitter that relays this information to outside computers. The central computers, owned and operated by a few rotten elite, are used to harness the thoughts of millions of unknowing poor. The rich use their superior financial situation to bring the ideas of the users into fruition before the users even have a chance to seriously consider their thoughts. It is though theft, and it is happening everyday.The is the story of an addict and his battle against the thought pirates.
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- Somewhere between creative commons and standard copyrightI’m no copyright expert, but it seems to me creators have two routes they can take when deciding on what license they can take to publish their creative works. The standard copyright, and the creative commons license. I am proposing a new license, somewhere between the two. Perhaps this already exists, and I just haven’t heard of it.My idea is for a creative work to be licensed under a standard copyright, that after a certian time period, or after a pre-deterimined profit margin is reached, would automatically be changed to a creative commons license.But why create such a license when a copyright owner CAN change a standard license to a cc license down the road? I believe comusmers, knowing a work will be released into creative commons, would buy a product with such a license over a standard copyrighted license.For example, I love to remix things. Movies, music, photos, whatever. I would rather buy a film that would be released with such a license, than a film with an ordinary license, because I know eventually I would be able to legally remix the work I bought. I’m sure this sentiment would be shared with academics with regards to textbooks.Just a thought… for now.
- Students, while you are grouping en masse to prevent the rise in tuition, don’t forget about another massive cost of education – Textbooks and educational resources
Students, while you are grouping en masse to prevent the rise in tuition, don’t forget about another massive cost of education – Textbooks and educational resources
If students deem striking to prevent tuition increases a worthy cause, then what do they make of the incredibly high cost of educational materials? A full time Quebec students pay about $1,800.00 per semester in tuition. Textbooks can be anywhere from $1000 to $1500 for an academic year. That’s nearly 30%!
Do not ignore this cost. It is a big chunk of a student’s yearly budget reserved for educational materials that could be, and in many cases already are, freely available. There is a large amount of freely available textbooks that are being created and openly licensed. That means thier creators made them freely available because they believe in free access to high quality educational materials. Many of these organizations are coming together this week to celebrate and spread the word at the first annual Open Education Week.
Join in, learn and participate at http://www.openeducationweek.org/
(see original press release at http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/community/blog/2012/02/21/press-release-first-annual-open-education-week-march-5-10-2102/)
- Thoughts on Bill C-30 - Online Privacy Bill
Perhaps unlimited surveillance of people’s online activity would be accepted by the public if the user’s identity was made anonymous and only the activity was monitored.
There would be technical problems with creating such a system, as identity is deeply intertwined with activity. How could we make an email with our digital signature and attachments of CVs with tons of personal information completely anonymous? How could we make the hundreds of online photos anonymous?
If companies providing these services could completely mask the identity of the users, and provide authorities with only the actions matched to users anonymous identification numbers, then authorities could identify crimes without undermining people’s privacy. As though authorities could look into a random bedroom, see that people are having sex, and what kinds of sex, but never know which bedroom or which people.
Once authorities identify what they perceive to be a crime, that crime should go to trial - courts vs john doe. If the courts find the activity to be a crime, only then should they lay charges and uncover the true identity of the anonymous user. - Photos from ChinaHere are the first few photos I took in China. It is 7:30 AM on my street. On my way to work I usually have breakfast on the street and walk by
all sorts of vendors selling magic beans, lettuce, and other
vegetables and fruits. - A prediction for Canadian government policy in the next yearIn November I suggested the Canadian government make grants available to professors and educators creating open educational resources.I went as far to join a political party and become a part of my constituency’s policy committee so I could prepare a resolution on OER.The final draft of the resolution went as follows:
I have just learned that the U.S. federal government has created a $2 billion grant system for the creating of open educational resources.Post Secondary Education OnlineWHEREAS the online publication of high quality educational materials would be a valuable asset to educators and post secondary students, particularly in remote areas;
WHEREAS Open Courseware is the online publication of entire university courses – including syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets, examples of tests, and audio/video recordings of lectures – available freely online to anyone with an internet connection.
WHEREAS Many students go into post secondary school and drop out within the first two years of study, spending thousands upon thousands of dollars in the proscess and gaining little benefit from an incomplete degree.
WHEREAS course materials created by professors have little monetary value, but enormous social value, and are by default copyrighted, even when put online for public view;
WHEREAS publication of the top courses offered by Canadian universities would cost little in comparison to the benefits received by educators, students and the self-taught;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the next Liberal government of Canada to establish a programme of grants to be awarded to post-secondary educators who create openly licensed educational materials freely available online;
Westmount–Ville-Marie Liberal Association
181 words
I predict Canada will follow suit shortly. - A little video remix I did... let me know what you think!!!So here is a little video remix I did a while ago, you can find it under the video section of my website as well as on youtube as ‘Cab Calloway and Parov Stella’, which is exactly what it is, a mashup of the two.Cab Calloway, if you don’t already know, is an old time jazz singer that performed with some of jazz legends. I would say he himself is a jazz legend.Parov Stella is an Austrian band that is somewhere in the realm of swing and house.Parov Stella’s sounds with the singing of Calloway, accompanied with the Nicholas Brother’s dancing, is a great vibe that I stumbled upon when messing about with Ableton.I hope you enjoy this mix as much as I enjoyed making it.
- The World Library of Science: An Incredible Educational DevelopmentOn January 14th, Ambassador and Mrs. Killion hosted a reception at their residence to announce the creation of the World Library of Science, a joint collaboration between UNESCO and Nature Publishing Group. The World Library of Science is an open and permanent online learning resource that will offer high quality educational materials in the life and physical sciences to secondary and university level students around the world. It is designed to address a critical global problem the world faces in the 21st Century – the lack of scientific literacy, especially in the developing world. In addition to articles drawn from Nature Publishing Group’s authoritative publications, The World Library of Science will contain over 2,500 learning modules specifically created for this project in life and physical science subjects such as biology, physics, chemistry, nutrition, environmental science, and much more. Each module will be fully customizable and accessible free-of-charge through a web and mobile-based platform.To read on, visit…http://unesco.usmission.gov/wls-reception.html
- Wiki leaks releases thousands of Roswell documents confirming existence of intelligent alien life. wikileaks.orgNot.
- Extending human life indefinitely using artificial organs, artificial blood,...Now that I’m done school I can start to focus more on personal projects, especially my sci-fi novel.It is a story that is set in a future where advancements in technology, such as medicine and artificial organs, allow for humans to extend their lives hundreds of years. Just as there is an age gap between rich and poor nations today - Canada’s life expectancy of females is 81, in Angola it is less than half at 31 - that gap increases as the technology becomes easily available to those that can afford it. The result: a world divided by wealth and age.There are a number of government policies and breakthrough technologies that fortify the divide. A perceived flaw of capitalism leads to government policy regarding inheritance. Whereas some are born into wealthy families, others are born into disparity. Those that can access capital have the ability to realize their ideas and create businesses that secure their place in the upperclass. In an effort to prevent this inequality, the government places a ban on inheritance. Without the incentive to create family dynasties, business owners invest into their lives instead, widening the age gap.More disturbing still, a number of the wealthy elite are drug designers that have the nations of poor addicted to their reality altering drugs. The hallucinogens are nano-computers that can interact with the mind, and create whatever fantasy the designer intends. Like ‘rose coloured glasses’, the person taking the drug sees the world through whatever fantasy-lens the designer constructed, hence the drug’s street name: rose.Taken insufflatly, rose enters the nose and is delivered directly to the brain. Unbeknownst to the user, rose contains not just the hallucinogen, but two additional ingredients: 1) an imaging device, which uses a technology similar to ultrasound, that monitors brain activity, and 2) a transmitter that relays this information to outside computers. The central computers, owned and operated by a few rotten elite, are used to harness the thoughts of millions of unknowing poor. The rich use their superior financial situation to bring the ideas of the users into fruition before the users even have a chance to seriously consider their thoughts. It is though theft, and it is happening everyday.The is the story of an addict and his battle against the thought pirates.
Google notebook for US residents only, darn! :(
Yeah, I think I put in my application a little too fast. It is for us residents only.- Just applied for Google notebook operating on Chrome OSI just applied for a notebook from Google running on the Chrome operating system. The future of computing is cloud computing?Lets see. I really hope they accept my application and mail this thing out within the next few weeks. It promises to always be connected to the internet via 3G, power on in less than 10 seconds, return from sleep instantly, be secure, among other things.Check out for the link for more info and to apply for the pilot project.
- Anonymous Film ProjectI have had this idea bouncing around in my head for a while, it is a rough idea. But I want to write it down before I move onto my next idea like I usually do.What I would love to see is a massive archive of stock footage where each shot contains the same character doing different things. If the character were to wear an anonymous disguise - mask, long sleeves, gloves - that was consistent throughout the footage it would enable mass participation to the archive.The character could wear a simple black mask, black long sleeve shirt and black gloves. These items are surely available around the world, and when they are not, they could be ordered online.People could rearrange the footage of the character to create different stories.If you like the idea, write me!
- dj with youtube!Hey, just found out you can dj with youtube, so long as you know the bpm of the track before hand and that that the attack of the first beat of the track is in the first quarter second of the video.Check this vid I posted to youtube for a demonstration of scratching.
I had a virtual sex change to promote my music
Two days ago I started a little experiment on Soundcloud, a website that is part music host part social network. If you are not sure what Soundcloud is, visit www.soundcloud.com. It is basically the youtube of audio. Users can upload audio clips and put them into groups or embed the player into external websites. Like embedding this dj set I made a while back…
dj set - jazz like that by Parapinika
According to Alexa.com soundcloud’s users are mostly males between the ages 18 - 24. I decided to capitalize on this little bit of information.
By changing my profile from a normalish 20 something male dj / producer, to a beautiful 20 something woman, I was able to attract 20 subscribers in less than 48 hours, bringing my followers to a total of 100. The other 80 have gradually added me to their favorites since I created my account over 1 year ago.Yes, I know that this ‘experiment’ isn’t exactly scientific; after all, Soundcloud does have more users today than it did one year ago. If I wanted to get a better understanding of what it means to be a girl DJ vs a guy DJ, I could have created 2 accounts simultaneously, with the exact same music. But I’m not going to bother. I’ll let it ride for a month or two and see I can double, or at this rate likely triple, my listeners simply by changing the gender of my profile. Oh, and I also changed my profile pic to a nice photo of Charlize Theron and changed my name to a far more feminie ’Parapinika’. (see photo above)When it comes to marketing: sex sells. And it looks like gender does too.UPDATEIt is working quite well, over 50 new subscribers in less than 10 days. It took over a year to get the 80 I had before.I’m going to continue with this for a while just to see what happens.- Government policy on Open Educational Resources
Working on a grassroots campaign promoting the use and creation of OpenCourseWare (OCW) [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/] and Open Education Resourses (OERs) - if you are not quite sure what these are, a quick web search will answer your questions.
Last year I contacted my member of parliament to ask about possible grant opportunities for OCW. After sending in my applications for these grants, the responses came back saying things like ’well, its a great idea, but to give you funding, we would like to see some letters of support from your higher administration’. Although I failed to get funding, I did have an opportunity to educate a key person about the benefits of OERs, Margaret Guest, assistant to my MP.
At the time, I was thinking about how it should be government policy, but I was focused on promoting the creation and use of OERs at my university. Now, over a year later, I see Reuven Carlyle’s webinar on OER policy for the state of Washington and how there are government officials making policies about these issues.
The first thing I did was write my Constituency and not long after I got a response that I should write a resolution on OERs for the next policy convention taking place mid December. They asked if I could provide some ideas for text to include in the resolution.
I was thinking of including two main points:
One regarding subsidizing the creation of OERs via a grant system.
And another to encourage the use of OERs for the reasons Carlyle outlined in his webinar.The policy resolution I am working on will be aimed at the federal level of government.
If anyone has any documents / drafts of resolutions about OERs please send it my way.
And for anyone thinking ’you know, there should be some policy about OERs in my province / state / country / etc’, I would say to write to your government, you will be pleasantly surprised to see that they write back.
Here is Carlyle’s webinar…
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/blog/2010/11/22/reuven-carlyles-webinar-video-is-online/ - Article for The Link NewspaperAn article I wrote for Concordia University’s campus newspaper regarding OpenCourseWare.
- Epic Mix ProjectEarlier this year I started a rather ambitous project. I was striving to create what I hoped to be the longest continuous DJ mix ever created. So far I have reached over 120 hours (~ 2000 tracks). At one point I was adding 2 hours a day.I have recently decided to put the project on hold, for a number of reasons. I am undecided whether to call it finished and post it as is. I am farily happy with what I have, but I know there are longer mixes out there, so I am reluctant to call it complete. It is far from… But, I could release the mix I have so far. Undecided about that too…The majority of the art I have been working on recently and switch my focus to audio / visual tracks and interactive arts using Max/MSP Jitter.But outside of the arts, I have a few things I need to pay special attention to first.
- Government policy on Open Educational Resources
Working on a grassroots campaign promoting the use and creation of OpenCourseWare (OCW) [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/] and Open Education Resourses (OERs) - if you are not quite sure what these are, a quick web search will answer your questions.
Last year I contacted my member of parliament to ask about possible grant opportunities for OCW. After sending in my applications for these grants, the responses came back saying things like ’well, its a great idea, but to give you funding, we would like to see some letters of support from your higher administration’. Although I failed to get funding, I did have an opportunity to educate a key person about the benefits of OERs, Margaret Guest, assistant to my MP.
At the time, I was thinking about how it should be government policy, but I was focused on promoting the creation and use of OERs at my university. Now, over a year later, I see Reuven Carlyle’s webinar on OER policy and how there are people in government making policies about these things.
The first thing I did was write my Constituency and not long after I got a response that they will be writing a resolution on OERs for the next policy convention taking place mid December. They asked if I could provide some ideas for text to include in the resolution.
I was thinking of including two main points:
One regarding subsidizing the creation of OERs,
And another to encourage the use of OERs for the reasons Carlyle outlined in his webinar.If anyone has any documents / drafts of resolutions about OERs please send it my way.
And for anyone thinking ’you know, there should be some policy about OERs in my province / state / country / etc’, I would say to write to your government, you will be pleasantly surprised to see that they write back.
Here is Carlyle’s webinar…http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/blog/2010/11/22/reuven-carlyles-webinar-video-is-online/ Considering volunteering in Bangalore…
I recently applied to do a TED talk and just heard back from them, I have an interview on Friday!
For the interview they asked me to come prepared to talk about my favorite TED talk . I’ve watched quite a few, and I’m not sure which one to pick, so I went to TED.com to watch a few more.The first one I found was Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time.Although it wasn’t her intention, Shukla did a great job at making me want to volunteer with her organization. Although there is a great amount going to teachers salaries in Indian slums, many of the teachers do not show up for school. As a result, there is a overwhelming gap in education. To remedy the problem, Shukla started a grassroots organization to teach one child at a time.Check out the website to the organization: http://www.parikrmafoundation.org/I’m coming close to the end of my philosophy studies, and I’m afraid I won’t find a job that I will enjoy due to lack of proper qualifications. I just learned the other day that a former classmate that just graduated from the same philosophy program has moved back to his home town to take up a job in a coffee shop. I know that is far from what I plan on doing, I couldn’t settle for that. Not to knock people that work in coffee shops, I’ve worked hundreds of hours in coffee shops, I’m sick of it and don’t want to do it anymore.I want to make positive contributions to humanity. Shukla’s schools seem like an excellent place to do just that. And have an extraordinary life experience at the same time.Well, off to do some homework, the end of the semester is less than two weeks away!
