Eleanor Roosevelt said: "You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do". By the time you hit your fourth year of Undergrad, academia has seriously made you question this wisdom, and the grades you receive if you were to take Eleanor's advice indicate you would be more succesful at 7-11.
Looking at photos from childhood. Makes me shake from my inner core and well up. I want to go home. I was never present there ever. I missed it entirely. I am so young and I feel like I missed out on 20 years of my life.
posted by acerbicundergrad @ 1:47 AM
A utopian dreamer, aspiring to save the world through politics and law, and quickly realizing that bitterness, bureaucracy and reality may stop that process.
~"One, don't do that. Two-- you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library".
~What You Know Is Merely a Point of Departure. So Let's Move.
~"So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President".
~We Are Born to Make Manifest the Glory Within Us.
