I love Michigan.
I lived there as a kid. Some would use the phrase "grew up there", but since that is debatable in my case, I'll refrain from making that claim. I finished fourth grade there, and then did 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in Grand Blanc, MI.
When my family moved back from Brasil to the United States we were able to choose where we lived (well the choices were limited to certain locations). My parents chose Indiana in the end, though I really wanted to move back to MI.
Well Now I Get To!!! OK not really... but my parents are moving back up there. This time a few miles south east of GB to the Waterford/Clarkston area. I love everything about Michigan, and really have enjoyed visiting up there the past few weekends as my parents search for a house to buy. It makes me want to buy a house up there. Once I finish building the basement in the house I just bought in Indy, I might consider moving up there. It would set my schooling back yet again... and that's not cool. I only have 9 more classes!!! I wish it were over! I abhore school. Not learning, but the institution of learning in its current form doesn't jive well with me. I am constantly studying things... but not for school. It has been a long time since I actually learned anything in school that I wouldn't have learned on my own anyways. They aren't teaching me novel things... just regurgitated things that I could read about in Wikipedia. I want to learn how to think better, but they'd rather teach facts and figures. I guess I have a problem with the cookie cutter approach to learning. Schools want perfectly molded, stamped out graduates that come off the press and walk in step to their fight song. Meh. Blehch even.
So why do I have time to update my blog you ask... I went to class and paying attention is out of the question :) We spend 3 or 4 weeks studying how to do something that takes me 20 minutes to do. I guess that's why professional developers shouldn't take beginner's programming courses... but it is on the 'list' of classes I need to take to get a degree (from Purdue at least - I had the req filled at BSU)... so here I sit. So again... meh
Sorry - if my rant sounds like a pompous 'I am better than this' speech... it sounds that way because it is. ;P They don't teach humility in school either though :)
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I couldn't agree more about the school system and that fact that way that it is currently run dose not make sense. But then of course I was home schooled my whole life and I was chiefly taught (but not limited to) how to think for myself instead of what the books and teachers tell me how to.
Imagine that.
That's awesome! That means your parents will either be in my parents' ward, or in my mother-in-law's ward. Woot!
I am completely obsessed with Wikipedia as of late. I can just go on an entire encyclopedic linking journey in there.
amanda (which of the three I have met in MI you are I have no idea :)
I do have positive thoughts about school as well, but I was only venting the negative ones just then. Maybe sometime I'll be prolific on the birtues of school. I wasn't really fair either in what I said. Last semester I had an EXCELLENT biology teacher and he taught me a great deal I never would have learned otherwise, and helped me to think critically about the ideas biologists wrestle with. They are many and great.
Zimm - I know! So cool! Aren't your parents still in Grand Blanc ward? Most of the houses my parents have looked at are in Clarkston ward boundaries, so your wife's Mom's ward. Wikipedia has become my greatest time waster.. though it isn't really wasted, because I learn so much (useful?) stuff!
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