Sunday, April 19, 2009

A golden egg? No wait, it's just made of chocolate

The concept of "Ideal", is irrational. Such a concept cannot exist in a large setting, for each individual has a different view of ideal. On a personal basis, an ideal college would mean short, but educational and entertaining classes held by an ideal professor that inspires meaningful and self enlightening discussions. The class would stay on a class related topic, but not stagnate, and we would come to terms with our topic ourselves. The class would not have homework, because we'd remember the topic due to our revelations, and each class would integrate into the next, to keep our mindset and ingrain the ideas better. We would be able to take all the classes that interest us and none of the classes that have no meaning. Tuition would be free, yet we still somehow get educated and informative professors.
Obviously, this setting could not exist and in the hypothetical situation where it did exist, I would wish it didn't. The school would cause gaps in my knowledge due to lenient curriculum, and several concentrations and majors would be looked over due to the low variety in classes.
Every aspect in the University, along with everything else in the world, has a trade off, and when properly analyzed the current college model, admittedly weak and lackluster, makes sense. The decisions made have always had a low risk, high reward output. Thus the only way to create an ideal college is with even higher reward, from the schools perspective, and that in itself creates a whole slew of problems on its own.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Don't diss the Tee, yo.

I feel that t-shirts show, nothing more than a show of belonging with the concepts or in this case religion. I can't as a person with a religions background, but I feel that the shirts don't make fun of the context. The shirts instead say what the wearer actually feels. it is a form of expression and not a parody. I can understand where the arguments come from as the fell of the shirts have a very light satirical feel. But I think it is only to make the shirt fun and likable and should the visual aspect not exist, the shirt would still have the same meaning.