Dan Mayer's Blog

What rituals does everyone develop. I mean they are useless and dumb, but they are fun and form some sort of wierd bond. My friends and I back home have a ritual of making new years eve the biggest party night where we all go out of our way to see each other. Here after the last of our group is done with finals we all order pizza and start taking shots. Should we really celebrate the end of a section of education by trying to do the dumbest things we possibly can. I think so i mean life can't all be learning and self improvement. Why are we improving ourselves anyways. It is so we can enjoy life and eventually work in a job we will enjoy. So if we aren't enjoying any of the days working towards that goal is there really a point? So yeah i am not alays going to work my hardest. I am not going to try in all the classes that i see no reason to take in the first place. I am not going to work for straight A's. I need a life. I need to have fun shit i will work hard when i have a job I care about. Projects that i care about i will put all the time and effort into. Sometimes we still need to get out and socialize. We are social animals. I see so many of the geeks that forget how to socialize. I am a big geek but i am not going to forget how to talk to my fellow non geek friends. I mean they are still a big part of my life. One day i will meet someone and get married and I hope she isn't a computer geek. I hope we have something much more interesting to talk about and share our opinions on. Computers are wonderfull but in the scheme of the world they aren't that important. So get out there and talk, dance, drink, smoke, and whatever just to get away from your day to day routine for awhile.