Sleepers remorse
I missed most of today, starting my night at around 4 PM. Well, you can Blog when you’re dead, as they say.
This morning, I was on Duke’s West campus at 10 AM teaching with the Techtronics Fellows. I’ve been accepted as a full-fledged participant in Techtronics in all but the fellowship. That’s means I do all the work, and don’t get paid. Which works for me, I guess, I think you should teach because you love to do it.
Duke Journal of Public Affairs (DJOPA) is really coming together. We had a general body meeting at 2:00 PM, which really proved to me both the dedication and intelligence of our small staff. This publication is going to really help Duke make a statement on behalf of its undergraduates.
Yesterday’s AWAAZ celebration struck a perennial theme I can never seem to put to bed. I’m often consumed by the paradox of utility. Watching the performance yesterday, you have to wonder just how many hours of planning and work went into making that show a possibility.
And on most accounts you’d have to be impressed. Indeed, the show was spectacular and entirely student driven.
But if you take a step back, and examine its purpose you have to wonder at exactly what we’re all doing. I’ll admit that at America’s (ostensibly) 5th best university, the people behind the scenes of AWAAZ are some of our societies future leading lights.
I’m consumed by a sort of guilt whenever we indulge ourselves in something that really has no point but to impress. Did we really need AWAAZ more than we needed to help a struggling child succeed?
Most human beings believe happiness, entertainment I should say, to be an essential element of their own lives. I suppose I just disagree – The better the show, the more I think how much time we wasted, when the lives of so many could use our help.
How strange I am…
This morning, I was on Duke’s West campus at 10 AM teaching with the Techtronics Fellows. I’ve been accepted as a full-fledged participant in Techtronics in all but the fellowship. That’s means I do all the work, and don’t get paid. Which works for me, I guess, I think you should teach because you love to do it.
Duke Journal of Public Affairs (DJOPA) is really coming together. We had a general body meeting at 2:00 PM, which really proved to me both the dedication and intelligence of our small staff. This publication is going to really help Duke make a statement on behalf of its undergraduates.
Yesterday’s AWAAZ celebration struck a perennial theme I can never seem to put to bed. I’m often consumed by the paradox of utility. Watching the performance yesterday, you have to wonder just how many hours of planning and work went into making that show a possibility.
And on most accounts you’d have to be impressed. Indeed, the show was spectacular and entirely student driven.
But if you take a step back, and examine its purpose you have to wonder at exactly what we’re all doing. I’ll admit that at America’s (ostensibly) 5th best university, the people behind the scenes of AWAAZ are some of our societies future leading lights.
I’m consumed by a sort of guilt whenever we indulge ourselves in something that really has no point but to impress. Did we really need AWAAZ more than we needed to help a struggling child succeed?
Most human beings believe happiness, entertainment I should say, to be an essential element of their own lives. I suppose I just disagree – The better the show, the more I think how much time we wasted, when the lives of so many could use our help.
How strange I am…
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